The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-08-09 00:00:00

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CR .1. V rsr NO, A tic; CIT 7.--Arrived the !listen, TAUgh-
fsm, frolin ; tlritwuuie, Whltearrt, from Gibraltar ;
uimick, from Claarlestuu ; Ike r, Rome, from
Cadiz; 5..1.11.,wer, 11•Gleintr, from l.i.liuu ; utirl fume, Dun-
bar, from l'lola.b.lphia the Lavinia, hicrounn, for
St. ; Pothyrtgru,a, tor ; Prpc y,
1,.1" 310g3.1.11'e ; Duke of l'urk, &tea, for Yrivirtati ;
TI a% for Sierra Le.sne ; Lord Culliiipstiort, Sal-
ttitt I• • ; SaraKoraa, )16kimikk, fur Cathr; Betty.
Ilconslie ; tool Sparklyr, Drown, Lir Oporto.

The Brunswick, tititeeii)N, tutu Loude' for
hasloacidere I utf the Banks of Newt,.laud-
laud.
An tetrad unate accident happened. Monday
se'imight, at the guinivwcker-tailla.lately ereCtegt
Cowmen ilfood; near L'euryn. (Meat the earl ea-
ters wee directed 'Nuke a sonsll alteiution in the
machine that works the. Nieves, and. the man who
had the care of die Willie ere& preparing to remove
all the poi: der alder procesis,.but sus prevailed nu
to let it re: nun, upon au assiiriroce fr the cat-
treater, that he should only use a wooden
Soot' after,however, the neighbourhood was alarm-
ed by an explosion, :old the manager of the works,
approachimr the spot, found the carpenter and the
other work:Juan, with too women, blown about YO
yards from the ruin, and tire:virally wounded.
The men cod one woman :galleon only a few
hours; the other woman languished till next were-
ing. Another man and a girl, who were at work
in an adjoiniug {Moo., carillon! unbolt,. altlunigli
they were,d4 a. Ire yards from lie place where
the expliisi64l liatrin nett. The other buildin4s and
mills, !smug alliegatid in a vane}, about so yards
fends each other, with a mauiud of earth between..
eaeh, received' no ittainayai, the force of the expio-
Ilioll necessorily ventigig itself upwards. Whether
the itecideut nas occasioned by the unfortunate cat--
print r axe, which eras found afterward, it;
It tiehl of oats at, a 14111411 listener, or. I.y a tObleCCUlre
1111141 couirealcvi In his picket, cation, he ascertain-
ed; but. front his coliresiion before he died, it is sup-
posed from die latter.
The thunder-storm of the i7tli ult. which wr.s par-
tially felt sit- Leeds, was 11104 tremendous about
seven miles to-the South-Est. Various accounts
of the erects of the, storm have reocherl us, and
f nut them we extract the following particulors:—
Seeerol. limises at Ourforth weeostrock with the
g, and, aentingst others, the hooey- of-
Mr. Collett ; the electric fluid struck the iihimney,
atilt ascot through the wall, which it damaged it' se-
veral places ;sit then loon another.direction, broke
a chair and some Chine, lend again penetrated
the wall '('he house of Thomas Webster was
also much shattered, and two cows killed ; tune the
property of the liicar,.the Rev. Mr. Whitaker. and
the other belonging to•a poor maul, who had had
enisfortmie to lose another vow six weeks IS'
fore ; animals hail Hu Litt or lonise, b-it their
bodies were much runnel, and seemed stroegly
impregnated with suligur. At lierwir k-in-Eltnei,
the bootee of Mr. Thomas Stoner was greatly
shattered, and a collier stamliiig in his house
hod his shoe-string berut by the electric spark..--
the midst of this war of elements. Me 1411i11'7111
holding care of that Being oho raie is die sdeel-
wind and directs the storm;' is; strikingly display-
ed. Mr. Milli Mrs. Collett had scarcely monied
the room, w whirls they had both. been sit-
dog, when the lightning entered the apartment,
and averwlolaied every thing ill its destinetive
course. Mrs. Stoner had engaged a party to tea
the same afternoon, but had reversed her invitations,
at the rarest% of out. of her friends, and gone to
visit 14 neighlotor, when • the room in %%loch her
party would have sat was...shattered with the light-
mng. A tree, guider which• a iitimher of hay-
makers had imprudently placed theloselve, was
shivered utmost the very moment after they hail
quitted their shelter ; and a inan cud his w ife, at
kippax, sitting at opposite sides of the lire, hail a
dog killed betwixt them, though they both 'seeped
ailliiirt.

We regret to henr th:d in the sortie from Floats.
Colonel P.IICII has been Willy %entitled in the
chow, and islikely to lose an arm.
The death of the late Aldernsau Fr.rmi NG. of
MAIM. which we lately mentio.te.l, was Weft% din-
ed lay at melancholy accident : 11., was preparinz to
make a summer exceirsiost to %Voxfoni, And was
examiiiing liis travelling pistols, previous to his
setting out, wheal one of them went off, era the
ball entered below his nostril, penetrated his brain,
and jived aced i mused i te: death.
We understand that the profits of the first night's
representation at the New Theatr.., in Covent-U:lr-
den, are to he approprint.-el to the relief of the
families of the fireineo arid others, who perished in
the ruins of tile old one. This is a very just and
proper act, tor the Proprietors must recoil, ct, that,
to the ',Misers-et art of cutting and altering, for tlst-
sake o esiltiricisig,, the erasy old Wilding. the cala-
mity to the weir olfferers was chiefly to be ascribed.
The horse which Gen. JUNOT presented to Lord
Pacer, as of the lies( bred horses in France,
and fur whir Is lists Lordship gave a very line English
horse in retail..., is now at Heandesert, near Lich-
neld, and Is au 111-41nspeil. shabby animal, not
worth 1(4.
A youth of 13 years of age, the only 143111 of Sir
Enwslin ['germ. Kart, of Brook-I-Lyme, in the
minty or Sol:rivet, WWI rsf•Westmorlainflllinuse,
1...n0t0n, has hero ever• since the 17th ultimo mis-
isi.ig fromthe sesiden e or his dislrinsolatrrarelits.
The Young ire-it;eatiros will, no his attaining the ic,;e
of t i yew, l‘e,eints possessed of • fortune of
30,0001. tar *anon'.