The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-16 00:00:00

TRENE.VDOUS LEAP.

Five fat oxen, the property of Mr. William Dawson, Go-
gar, near Blair Logic, which had been grazing on his farm,
by the bank■ of the Devoe., early on Wednisday morning, the
lilt inst. left the lowly plain for • more elevated and romantic
spot, tin the brow of the lowa rung Geldls, which they gained,
with some difficulty, by a circuitous winding slope on the
side of a deep glen. Plca•ed with the beauty of their newly
explored situation, and giddy with the grandeur of the wide
extruded plain below, they hied them on till they had nearly
reached _ _

"Those towering elifkaahleh, Atlas like.
High on their shoulder+ bear the misty clouds."

But here their footing became rather precarious, having got
upon a bed of loose gravel. Every step now set off with
reckless speed ••d thundering noise, a shower of earth and
stones to the foot uf the mountain; to return was danger-
on.; to proceed was more so; sod what was to be done'
Back they turned in •ITiighted dismay, asd forgetting the
seces•ary precaution they bad used in their , redoubled
their speed as the danger tuctessed, till they could foot it no
longer, when one by one they cut the knot, by taking a sport-
ing leap over the lofty 'linguae, and landing at once at the
foul of the mountain. The spectators below were lost in
wonder and astonishment at the Herculean fete, sad more so
when, ineveclibilo dialog, two of them started to their feet
again, •nd lied from their three less fortunate companions,
one of which was dashed to pieces, another escaped with a
few bruises and • fractured limb, •nd the third received so
severe • contusion as to be unable to fullow.—(Stirlinp
Journal.)

THE FUNDL—The market steadily improves;
Consuls yesterday were 804, buyers fur Money
and the Account; Reduced, 804 k; 4 per Cents.
9942 ; New . 4 per Cents. 991 i; Long Annu-
ities, 20 15.16 21. Foreign Securities : Spanish
Old Rum's; 64; New ditto, 6344; Fruniao, 89
884; Nripolitso, 744.

the Lite MARQUIS of LONl)olVbiffißr.

01111,CRAT.
TuescLey night, after the Coroner and 'Ns Jill'bid.
retired, the corpse—which had temsiuriLnutuucli-
ed on the door of the dressing-room, exactly as it
had fallen from the arms of Ur. Banbitted—was
removed by the undertaker and his assistants, and,
having been deposited in a shell, it was 'Arced sou
tressels, in the study on the ground door.
Mr. Dykes, the King's Messenger, arrived shoot
nine o'rloizk, from the Foreign Office ; and soon
slier eleven lie set forward on his journey to Vienna,
with dispatches for Lord Stewart, from Lord Cho-
ws:ll*in and Mr. l'lsirta, the late Marquis's Secre-
taries, who still remain here.

In the course of the evening Lady Emma Edg-
cumbe took her leave of the offlicted Marchioness,
and rrlurued to town.

The Marchioneps still remain' inconsolable, and
continues to seclude herself from all society (rx.
rept that of her sister, Lady Suffield), in the bed-
chamber adjoining the fatal dressteig-room, men-
tioned in the evidence before the Coroner. She
even declines hitherto seeing Lord Ellenborougb,
who arrived post this morning from the Isle of
Wight; which place his Lordship left she instant
he received intelligence of the Marquis's death, and
travelled night and day till he reached here.
No time or place has yet been mentioned with re.
specs to the funeral, nor is it certain whether the
ceremony of lying in state will be complied with.
It was 1111 Lordship's wish, we believe, to be in-
terred in she little church of North Cray.
The late Lady Elle:thorough (his sister) was in-
terred there ; and when the vault fur the re►
ception of her remains was shout to be made,
Lord Ellenborough gave directions that it should
be made large enough for two coffins ; but the
late Marquis requested that it might he made suf-
ficiently capac ttttt a so receive four—aniiripaiing, no
doubt, that it should someday or other become the
depositary of himself:lnd the %faichioness ; and it is
the almost general oilinion here that. this implied
wish will be attended to. Some are of opinion
shat his remains will be conveyed to Mount Siewiit,
in the county of Down, and entombed with those
of his father.

It has been officially communicated to the house-
hold of the late Marquis, that lie has left a' will.
wherein he has made provision for every person on
his establishment, even to the lowest helper in his
stables : s circumstance perfectly in unison with the
whole tenor of his private life.