The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-20 00:00:00

FERNIOY RACES.

The following is an accorate account of each day's vonain7,
which gave universal satisfaction t every mum present,
and was attended with wore rank and fashion dim any mat-
lag of the liud bcfore is Munster.

MONDAY, OCT. 17.
so guineas fur a and a years old.
Mr. Crawl's Noblesse, 4 dears 014, by Disarmed 1 1
Mr. Edwards's chesaut mare. Miss 801444, by Swindler y
Mr. l'oply's lean, a yrs. by Bangui 3 .1
Mr. iusibliosi's bay mare, Duchess, refused ruuniun dis.
Miss Buses the favourite.

TairSIDAY.
50 gaiters', Wt. fur age.
Mr Etbrania's mare, Miss Bonn I I
Mr. Crord'a Prioress Loyal, 4 ?ears old, by Diesoood s it
)Zr. J. L. Seally's bay boyar, Thrasber, by Comma-
d4re, ti yrs übt 9
Mr. l'azgibbuses satire 4 0
Copt. Asti. Diary-maid

1-I.t r to 4-311 w Bo•ro
WEDNLIDAY

se gaiseas for any borne, 9 stone.
Mr..l. D, ScoH s bss horse, Thrasher
Mr. 1-I.lwarth's brown horse, Wlchlevr, by Augustus,
4 II s. old
Mr. Bleoeshsssetes horse, Venture
31r. horse, Drib
to I against Thrasher.
INIJILSO••.
6o guineas given by the Members of the Camay Cott Nast.
Mr. J. D. Sinai's Lurie rritorose
Mr. Croker's mare refused running ..
bree to s in favour of the oast.

rats e.
Fifty piabaiii,Vrt. for age.
Mr. Creed's Noblesse t i
Mr Edwarea's horse, Wicklow s 4
Mr. FitrgibSou's mare .
)fr. treully`s horse, Tbrasha
I .re to 4—Noblesse sguinst the field.
SATURTUT.
Ladies' Puree.

Mr. Creech bay mare, Pslreessisrsal I I
)Ir. Fargibiren's ntare, Durbess, by Maximum 2 di/
Wed ractuz every slay —Mr. }tryst n's clKanat bane, Savage,
►est Mr. Barrett's Intros., fur zo.l guineas.

BURY, .14 NE 19.

Our Fair, during the past week. has been ho-
noured with more than the usual fashiouable as-
semblage of company ; comprising nearly all the
most distinguished families iu ties and the neigh-
' Louring counties.—The New Assembly Rooms,
which have been greatly embellished since last year,
particularly by a very large mirror placed at the
top of the room, exhibited, on Friday evening, a
spectacle scarcely to be surpassed, there being 387
persons present, among whom the female part. for
youth, beauty. and elegance, might have vied with
the tier-timed routs of the metropolis. The The-
atre, on the preZeding stud follow ing evening, was
also scarcely less fashionably attended. particularly
on the latter night. when the whole of the pit was
laid ioto boxes, Nod the Comedy of " All is Me
Wrung," with the Entertainment of " me Blirtd
Boy;" recemsed Natlt the greatest applause.—The
Ordinaries at the Angel Jun, where both sexes
cheerfully join the festive board, (which was well
se 'Neil with the choicest of viands and the best of
wines), were also fully attended.
The fullowilig we', among the number of Nobi-
lity nod Gentry pouted on Fridey evening, and
there were doubtless many more, whose names we
ore unacquainted with :

The MMoinia and larehiciness Corns allis, Countess of
Ns*bargh, Lord Mountiol, Lard Bruanluv, Lord and Lady
Henn, with Latins Elisalwth and Isabella Fitzroy, Lord ainl
Ladßoll.l anti family, f.adies Gags, Colinas, and Blake,
Sirßobert and Lady Harland, Lady Rowley god W. Row-
ley, Esq. Sir Charles anal lady Banbury, N. L. Acton, Esq.
and L 4.1, sill, hit NCM't i, Lads, said Mils Ryeruft. Admi-
ral and Mrs. Wilasto, Miss Piggott, Sir William and Lady
M otalr too, and William liddletors, 'Egg. Hun. Joshua Van-
seek, Hon. enplane Cos, of the 16th Dragoons, Getteral
(invent asd Lady, General Robinson and faasily, Colonel
Lovelace and fatuity, Coluael Banbury, Colossal
Colonel and Mrs. Murray, Colonel, Mrs. and Misses Cougar,
T S (tomb, Esq. M.P and f.imily, J Paitcson, Fay.
and Rey. H Pantsuits, Ladies, and families ; Mr. Deere,
M.l'. and Lady, Jobs. Verner', Fag. High Sheriff, and 3. T.
Molt, Esq. High sloriff for Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. Rem-
champ, Janus Ctildhant, Laq. and famili, R. Howard, F.sq.
Mr. aud IL,s (rimmins, Res-. Joke. Ciiptaia Cartwright,
and sisters, Mr. and Ifs,. Thaipe, Mr. and Mrs. Jallusou
(Barking,) Mr. and Mi.. to ult ,Garboldrulnini,) Maims, s
boyg, 'frays's., and two Misses Mussel!, T. Mills, Esq.
sad &only, JOlll.lO Miu.ay, Esq. Mr. Gage Rooknood, the
Res. Dr 1.4,15, am! Captain Wuthliatilira, Mr stul Mrs
Rauty, Major Smelt, Captain Ogle. soul several other Of-
fie, of the ktittunt. with many of iseighboaring
Clerr, ke etc.
1 he balls ou the Wednesday end NI outlay area-
lugs were also very respectaLly atteudcd.

ireetertisy forenoon the shop window of Alen.
NV•intont: and t• IN.. buoktellerF, at Cianng-
croiw. was attacked by • drunken +roman of the
town, who aueveerled in heeak.n; tiN large ,ytt..rer
of kiwis luefurt she Ws. grcurcd.

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~. . _.•,/ ' ••'...." Horse-Guards, - 1 eth Oct. tea.
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aalirnlic' oreßans of the '.:d Sonse.sea Regiusen: of it i.
litia, bmiseurs tried hy a General Court !Hattori, at Win,.
chests:v.:on Ocean/airing Charge, name, --o
" For •hehariog la a scanduloue and infamous niatmer,
such as is unbecoming the character of au Wheel. anti a gnu-
thtlolllo, in Davin sold t., one ittitard Davis, at lillasingien.
iii the enmity of- SIIItrINIM, in or about the 1 ttli of January,
tuoit, several 'ewes of cowl-M.llml :(iirits, eleeh taid casts
Lad been betted by the said Ensign Heavy Bee ; and after-
wards at Cuektuere, on the maid iitb of Jueriary him taken
into the custody of "Ibuoiai Alliseirtli, nal oilier afirentof
the castings belonging to the pint of Newhaven, iu the
county of Sivineice
Units a Lich the Court mom to the fl4llll/10: tieri,4oll
"The Court Letitia take. litre consuirrat.ou the evidasee
brought forward to 1,1114119 MA .1i the Charge preferred apierst
the Prisouer, Ensigis Hem) Ball, of the .d &emeriti lthg.-
meet of Militia, as also what he had offered iii ive der coca,
leo( opinion, that he is Rot znity of the crime preferred
against hint, and it does therefore hoeureiity urrit hint of
the sane."
llis lajcsty having been plaised to approve andcoafient
the senteuce of the COW t, thetefore his iloyel Highness rho
Commander-in. Chief directs, that the. foregoiag (,'Margo,
hemline with the decision of the Camel, shall be in:cited iia
the orderly Mule of every Corps.
(Signed) HARRY CA IN FitT 4
Adjutant-Gems al at dais lariats.
POLICE. ..'
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GIVILDISALL, 003..10.
A middle aged woman of the town was charged by ammo(
the hall), of Due ell, with havingraideed Lim of three guineas
and a half, and four shallot's and • uprose. He stetect,' that
consine along Ladgate-ho; lest night, the Prisoner et the
bar had picked him up ; that he treated bar to some ()risk,
and that, in a lane off the street, thecuntsfirmi is cat &packet
balm • sasuckfrocit be had oa, in wide& was hia -PucLei-
boot, containino the above sum • epos missing it, lie se-
cured her, and tweed die pockseimik on the ironed, list the
nesse, was gone. •
The Constable, who came to his suirtanee, stated, that be
searched herein the spot, bat (mint uotbing on her, shoepil a
pocketbook of her own coutaining uue shdlieg, and a coun-
terfeit serenadrilliegs piece. ..
She was ordered to herd 'shone in Briclewell fur one
mantis. -
Put Gibbon, was charged by Juba White with taking from
bins one guinea.
The Prosecutor, who ass in a state of intoxieation at the
time of his deposition stated, he went into a pantie-hosse,
last night, where the irisouer aad others were drinking, tad
that a quarrel ensuing, he offered is tight him for a guinea,
which hr laid down as •stake, but which the Preemie had
seized and pot in his packet.
The Prisoner denied all teenier* of the pines, .alining
that the Prosecutor woven drank, and wanted to fight with
every perms in the Damns.
A little girt. who was present, declared, that the prima
was thrown down off the. table in the tonfusiuu ; that stir
pinked it en, and was going to give it to the Prosecutor try
diem lion cit the Prisoner, a hen another mut took it "tom
,- bee, nod, stooping down, slipped it into his shot.
The Cs/astable also 'puke to the drunken and quenteleeme
state of the Prosecutor.
The Primmer was dischsrgeil.
love-flenner.
BANK NOTEii.
• great number of shopkeepers in and about thili **Mir
pole, have, for a comuderalele time psiat, here dettaelledoe
gouda and marry by a numerous gang of miscreants, bath
men and women, who have gene neat, utti :Ora notes of a
Southampton aol Hampiddre Rank, and !raids stairfietr-
folk, swede payable iii tom', bet witieh hanks Veiled
mouths ago ; their esietence, however, burin Mai, 1m 4
mimeo attached to them met being fictitiems, au resentryeim
made use of, and the specious means 1160.41.4 the • parties
potting thews off gearrally kept them el. as. of being guilty
of a fraud ; and, Gum the very incautious manner is which
the paths base liken asoli notes, these depredator; Lave
hitherto ensaped punishment: het lie Tuesday' a women
wall lottigiit to Ibis OWiceion a ()large of atterint amictal
notes of the above description.
, • A shopkeeper at Deptford appearril ambprodneed a fire
1
pound note of a Southampton said 11,onnsUire Flaok, which
had been taken of the Prisoner in irlynient for a shawl of
the value of fusr shillings, and airkk MAC ass mark pay-
able in tout, ; but ow presenting it at the place dimmed, Ike
&Limier of Ito (frets was giver.
Auot her shopkeeper at Dept f int proved, that the Prisoner
tendered hint the same mote, a few 'Mind.: before, is
for eunie gnats; hat he baring- been before cheated by
a two pound lade of tha-rime Bank, told the Prisoner it
was bad, and cautioued the Primmer against attempting to
pass it.
Mr. Res o, the Magistrate; was clearly of opinion, that
form this eireusastance the Prisoners knowledge Of the .Me
below bad, when she altered it, was evident ; and that there-
fore she had been guilty of a fraud. •
The parties were accordingly Wend over to prosecute her
at the next General Quarter Seusious far the County of
best.

&owl Hiariv, a Jew, was chergtd with plc la itrtan's
in the one•abilling gantry at Drury-hos Theatre, 1011
onday night. • ••
The Prisoner being detected in the fact, rap down. the
stairs, endeavouring to escape, and put the money in a
emus by the *indoor. •
Them, a Constable, produced three guineas, two seven
shilling pieces endwise siker, he fund by tilt elll4oll an
the stairs, and which the Prose:Astor desenlied to Ice the
num he lost, and Identified one of the *eves shilhis; pieces.
The Primmer was ftillv committed fur trial.

Yesterday. the prisoners standing folly com-
mitted in the several prison's in the .county of
:Middlesex and tlve city of Loudon, on variants
charges of felony, were -removed to Newgate, _to
take their trials at the ensuing Seveious, which will
commence, on. Wednesday next, at Justice Hall, in
the Old Bailey.
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In Lord EILSKINE'S 7arden at Ilatripsteitil, there
are twenty-two !scotch fir-trees, the 11%trage height
of each of which is 32 feet. They were about eight
ytars ago carried by Lady Emmet., wrapped up as
young plants, iu a newspaper, front Kew Oar&as
to liampatead.
Sunday sennight a circumrtanceof an unpleasant
nature, and which might have tersoluattd most fa-
tally, took place in the Rev. Mr. llottes's chapel.
to Limerick. The congregation, amounting to
about two thousaud, had assembled to celebrate
the second nuts, when en alarm was sp cad, that
the gaLlicry. was giving way, sad the house falba%
us. The information was electric, and produe,al
a scene of confusion and distress, which, as it can
scarcely lie itnagined, cannot well be deseritied.—
The first initialer, of course, was escape at the
doors; but the exertions to effect this deli:sted Inc
and litindreels precipitated themselves
Corn the windows of the galleries, a height of twenty
feet. while others anew themselves into the ai•-le
below. The windows above and below, and the
deers, were at length burst open, and the di.tracte I
congregation rushed in wild dismay into the sti ect.
bewildered and astounded. and mcapablc of an-
swering the inquiries of the thronging tnialtitude.
who had docked to the spot from all pert: or the
town. Of the immense concourse id pe.-son en-
gaged in their religious duties in the chapel, mot owe
teas materially iqured, and in about fifteen minittes
peace and eadyr were so far restored, that the COIN
gregation returned into the chapel, and bent thse
knee before their Merciful Prot....lie. in hunable
gratitude and aditrat on.

IN IN PORVICAL.

HEADING, OCT. 18.
Pursuant to a requisition, signed by a Dumber
of the Freeholders of our county, and an order
issued in colirequence thereof by the High Sheriff,
* most numerous and respectable Meeting of the
Nobility, Clergy, and Freeholders, was this day
held in the Town-Hall, fur the purpose of taking
into their consideration the termeot the late Con-
vention in Portugal, which has been acceded to by
the British General Officers commanding in that
country, and for expressing to His Mujerty their
sentiments on the occasion. After the usual form of
opening the Court, it war moved and seconded,
" That an humble and dutiful A,Wrese be pre-
sented to His Majesty, praying that he way be gra-
ciously pleased to order that un linjuiry should be in:
stituted with respect to the cause of the late dis-
graceful Convention in Portugal, and also beseech.
lug llis Majesty that he may be graciously pleased
to order that such steps may be taken, as will is.
sure the puturinueut of the guilty person or persons
iu that disgraceful. transaction, however high his
rank in society m..y be." This was supported
by G. MITFORP, Esq. Lord FOLKESTONE, and se-
veral other Gentlemen It was opposed by Mr.
Serjesnt SHEPHERD and seine other (lerstlemen....-
The opposition rested not oily on the idea that
judgment- would by this motion be pronounced
before trial, but also on the principle of its being
improper to offend the ltoyul ear by a subject
presuming to give his itilvice iu a manner which
was known to be contrary to the declared senti-
ments of the Royal mind. In reply to both these
points, It was aixued by Lord Fut.'. tArresiE, and
the Gentlemen who signed the requisition, that He
iialt;ridual was implicated, either by the wools or
tenor of the motion ; it pointedly, ne doubt, cen-
sured the thing ; but it, at the seine tirne, called
for inquiry as to who may be the guilty person,
and expressing the anxious hope of the Free-
holders, that exemplary puilislimei t may follow his
trial and convictive. With respect to the second
point, which had been advauctd by some of :he
opposers of the motion, it hail been so repeatedly
urged, and refuted in the most able manner, that
it was thought hardly worth a comment ; it was
a fact which was notorions to every Englishman
who ever consulted a page of his own history, that
however .correct the motives of the Gentlemen
who opposed the present motion 'night possibly
lie, and most probably were, yet it was a most
unquestionable fact, that the " danger of offend-
ing the Royal car" has been urged by the most
abject slaver, and most tiums•serviirg 16.c..plasiiti, in
the wont periods of our history. On the other
hand, the fact was as !earl► ascertained, and as
generally known, that sit periods of our history
which excited the universal admiration of the
world, the constitutional langeage of Britoil. was
held to be this--that every subject, however hum-
ble his station in his might be, had by the pecu-
liarly inestimable files:mugs of the pritiat Cuusti-
tutien. a most unque.stio ath:e right, and that, in
rail, it was hie bounden duty, to ,pproach the
Throw, on osr, great public emergency, by which
the iiationul Ammeter, interest, smooths, may
appear to him to have beeqgomproanired, and ptiai
his sentiments thereon in .reimectful•but in wanly
terms ; it ass his duty to ;10 en, in coke that the
parental attention ex the 49vrreign inglit be more
immediately, but with humility, galled to ,a Swint
in plaid% bad advisers had. prev.iousti hod Amiga'
to the Royid ear.
Thossotion -
usajosity.

was thcu put si" carried by r large

OtT. Is.

Weybill fair eounneutsal on Mooday, and was
very fully attended on that.enid the three fellowing
devil. Numerous pleasure parties flocked to the
Hill on itlionslay and Traday, am/ the ehops and
,booths bad a peat run of business on those days.
A.lioar-shear-of hops, bath in onannty and qua-
lity, has beldora been Peen, evenatthis:grtat mart
fur that article. The karnhain
shove sold briskly
on Wednesday ; tbe highest price, as well WI .we
could •lesta, was 71. knot. .vcr cwt. ; many sold at
111.• tis. per cwt. The sale of country hops, such as
Ctondall, Alton,
,e4c. was chiefly on Thursday,
which brought from 31. to Al. 13s. per cwt.
Leather was formerly an article of considerable
tragic atthisiair, bust for some yalri the quantity
brought has bean gradually lessening. Only one
manufacturer now attended, with .0m
price of which we could not learn.
There was a very large she. of horses, of every
description, and a brisk sale, .those of fashion and
Agure commanding very high prices ; and even the
most scrubby hacks brought more money than is
annals- Meer' at this fair forcattleof that do scription.
On *Friday the Hill was 110 Arly dose ted ; and
prom literi a i.erfect contrast to the bust a of the
fear preen ding days. Saturday there was no other
*wine* than clearing off the shops and booths.
Saturday, Jolts Mttcheli, Collector of the t.ll at
the turnpike ga.e a: Andover, was bound over to
simplest &SIMMS to answer for a most outrageous
assaalt, committed Ly bitu sm Thursday mot g.
This man was emplo)cd by the Renter of the Toffs
SO collect toll on the turnpike road, and at the cross
nods which kid from Red Rice•to Abbott's-Ann,
and Weylnll, during the fair at the latter place.-
4.lta Thursday morning a gentleman's carriage with
four betas ass pasMog the turnpike rood where
teem Mildew is erected. when Mitchell. with a large
oak bledgeon coder his aria, run up to the near
leading horse. seised it violently by the bridle, and
turning its head towards the carriage, procipitated
the lour horses instantly to the ground, the poet-
boys were buried nnder the horses, as well as the
man who committed the outrage, hut all nun.
culously escaped unhurt.

On Monday, a large bull-dog, belonging to one
of the Sum• Fire men, was seized with canine mod-
arse, in the Strand, near Exeter 'Change. The
animal foamed, and exhibited the usual s) mptoms
of isriroplsobia. Fortunately the passengers re-
ceived no injury. The fireman, on perceiving the
t isation,of his dog, made signs to the spectators to
stand aside; -ha then seized the dog, in the must re-
solute manner, by the neck; and dragged it to the
sloop of Mr. St ittows, tivhinotiger, *bore he pro-
cured a hstonter, and the dog. was dt,etrapred. The
carcase, which was throwas deou the Savoy, has been
.zamiued, and pessons acquainted with canine
ruhdaess were cou‘ mead tliqt the ejatelat was mad.

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