The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 11.

The duty of the soldiers belonging to the Bth regiment
now in barracks in the Citadel, has been, since the fatal
storm of the SKiti ult. considerably increased, in watching
the wrecks, &c. and mutt have been very fatiguing. The
officers and men merit the thanks of every one tor their
exertions.

We feel great pleasure in observing, that the Right Hon.
the Fart Mount Edgeumbe has generously contritintri4ol.
towards the subscription raising Terleviding the dbtress
of the inhabitants of Kingsantl an,! Cawsand.
ice regret to state That Mr. W. W. 'Win:ford, brother
to Mr. IVinsfonl, of this town, unfortunately met with an
untimely end at IVeymouth, his place of residence, ou
Tuesday the 23d ult., during the awful storm of that day.
The following me the particulars of this melancholy af-
fair:—Oa the morning of the fatal storm the deceased was
attracted to the road between the esplanade and the row of
houses facing it by the cries and distresses of a lady, who
resided in a house beyond the esplanade, situated near the
turnpike, on the beach, close to the sea ; the waves were
breaking with tremendous violeneibat and near the house;
Mr. Winstond then, with a perseverance that reflects credit
on his humanity, crowd the narrows and made way to the
house, took the lady from her perilous situation from her
window, and conveyed her, enveloped in a blanket, to a
place of safety, after which deceased again attempted to
return across for the purpose of bringing away from the
lady's house an article of value, and which she was desir-
ous of securing. In this attempt he was unfortunately
washed off' the road by a tremendous wave, and driven with
great violence into what is termed the back-waters ; it was
of no avail for any one to attempt to rescue him ; indeed,
he was not seen after the fatal wave overwhelmed him.
Notwithstant:Mg the greatest search, the body was not dis-
covered till las:- Tuesday. Deceased has left a wife and
two children, ttlio, with a numerous circle of friends and
acquaintance, regret his Ismi.

Some of the prize cattle la the present exhibition at Sad-
ler's Yard, Boswell-stre.t, ate estimated, by good judges,
at two hundred and forte, and by others, at even two
hundred and fifty stone. Takeo altogether, the show this
year is thought to corpses all former years. Several artists
are daily employed in taking likenesses of those that are
considered the most perfect in all their points.
IVO:VDERFCL COW.—There has been exhibiting, since
Thursday, in the Ilorse-shoe-yard,Csewell-street, a Sussex
cow of exceedingly great beauty and fatness, whose superior
qualities are mush and highly spoken of by peelers, &c.
who have seen her, by many of whom she is estimatA at
the weight of Ino stones, of oars. The handbills p.tsted
in the streets, state she was bred by Mr. John Itutiand
of 11'illingdon, Sums., and fed by Mr. Robert Todd, of
Beddengliam, in the sante county ; and obtained a prize at
the Lewes cattle-show November 20 ; and previously one
at the same place in April 1522, when she was shown
lean. It seems to be the opinion of many graziers, &c.
that exhibitions of lean cattle for prizes are productive of
much more general good Lll3ll the showing of them when
fat ; this not only tending to promote, if it possibly can
be promoted, superiority of breeding, but affording many,
who are yet unacquainted with them, an opportunity of
learning to select cattle by what is technically termed their
points, which conaist of their hips, loins, chines, batoms,
Ste. the whole of which are almost entirely hidden in those
bracts that 11:0 made sufficiently fat to be shown for a fat
cattle prize. Hence it is raid to he the intention of many
agriculturists to use their exertions to establish mar Smith-
field a lean attle show, to take place annually :u the month
of April.
1-tt.'rs here Lien received at Penzance, containing the
melees beet intelligeoce that the schooner Shamrock, Jor-
dan ma ;ter, lt..longing to that place, was wrecked to the
wrstrrril of Dartmouth, daring time dreadful storm of the
241 and yid of last toonth. The whole of the crew, in-
cluding the master and his two 110:16, have perished.
Among the thousand and one Joint Stock projects of
wit'cli we have heard, not the least curious is that of a
' capitalist ice a highland Royal borough, who last week,
to the great amusement of uisay, was very busy in can-
vassing aiming persons of wealth, few the purpose of set-
ting up an op:tositien post-otfice. Besides the most obvious
oljectioa to the worthy capitalist's propose', namely, the
law, other pretty strong reasons might be urged against
it. If we may judge from what has happened to ourselves
in attempting to despatch newspapers by coaches, we be-
lieve a private company would have veer little chance of
success in competition with an establiihment under the
masterly cuperint,ndencc of Mr. Freelinv,. In the cases to
which we have alluded, as coming within our own es,e-
rience, our papers are very al t to go astray whenever t:.ey
contained any ittipertant'ucws.—Olesgew L'Ar;r:L•l4..

• A volume of Poem by Mr. Lich Hunt. The reader, who
may be desirous of referring tis the t.rtizle, will f.nd it in the 113th
voL of the Qmorterfg Revir.r.
In the Przfaer. to :is 3lonody ou K.-ate„ Sheller. as I hare
been informed. asserts that I was the author of the criticism in the
Qoarlerly trpno that ruing man's poems, and that his
death was °era:tuned by it. There was a degree of meanness in
this (especially eoniddering this temper and tenour of out corre-
spondence) which I was not then prepared to expect from Shelley.
for that he um to be the author of that paper I eertamle
do not believe. lie ass once. for • short time. my noighhintr. I
met him upon terms, sot of friendship indeed., but, certain's.
of mutual good will. I admired his talents; thauseht that he
would outgrow his errors peri :Law as they were), and trusted that,
meantime, a kind mil generous heart would resist the effect of
fat_l opinions which he Isial takes up in ignorance sad boyhood.
Herein I was mistaken. Hat when I ceased to nitwit hint with
hope, he breathe to me an object for sorrow and as nil ownimisera-
tau, sot of any injurious o: nakind fseiirly ; and when I tire/lied
myself with just severity coacnniag it was as larct coanta.
:acacias to 12.4aself.