The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-08 00:00:00

TM: ROYAL JEWELS.

We understand that Mr. BRIDGE, of the Grm of
RUN DELI. and BRIDGE, who has been for some
time past engaged in valuing the jewels, &c. of the
late QuEvrit, at Buckingham House, yesterday
afternoon discovered the missing jewels of the Butt;
in a box, covered by some papers.

IMPENETRABLE HAT.

CA f., DECEMBER 23.

A hat-maker of this city, named Maulich, bas discovered
a method of manufacturing felt, so as to mike it impene-
trable to the stroke of a sabre in the hands of the strongest
cuirassier, and even to a musket ball. This fact has been
proved by numerous trials. He offered to discover the se-
cret to our Government for a suitable recompence, but no
attention was paid to it. A report of this invention, how-
ever, reached St. Petersburgh, and Mr. Manila was in-
sited to present himself to the Emperor of Russia at Aix-la-
Chapelle. The. Russian Generals being satisfied of the truth
of Ins assertions, he has been invited to establish in Russia
a manufactory of this felt, upon the most liberal
( Nuremberg Correspondent.)

Her Royal Highness the Princess ELIZABETH,
aunt of the King of SAXONY, died nn the 24th
December, in the iii3d year of her age.

The Earl of Mt LTOWN is the Irish Peer whom
rumour has reported the fortunate suitor of Miss
STEPHENS. Ills Lordship is a fine looking young
man, but suffer', from an unfortunate accident in
childhood.

Mr. BOOTH is now playing at Whitehaven, not
a little vexed at the eclat thut his doable, Mr.
KERN, has received in his name, in the character
of Lucius Junius Brutus, the Christian name of
Mr. BOOTH.

Lady BROWNLOW presented a pair of colours to
the Native Militia lately raised in Ceylon, on the
7th of August.
A Brussels Paper, of the 4th instant, says—
" Madame CATALAN' left this city yesterday for
Ghent, where she will give a concert swat %Vednes..
day : she will then proceed to England, having
given up for this year her intended journey to the
north."

A duel was fought yesterday morning on Finch-
ley Conaniun, between Mr. H —E—Y, a Surgeon.
and Captain E—N—sr, which arose in consequence
°fa dispute about Mrs. C—E, a celebrated dashing
beauty, in high life. The Captain was slightly
wounded in the pi►tol arm, and the affair ended.
On the 24th December, as two young Gentle-
men were amusing themselves in snipe-shooting, by
the Trent-side, in the neighbourhood of Sawley, one
of them discovered a large fish near the edge of the
water, which he immediately shot at, and wounded
it so severely about the head that it died almost
directly. It proved to be a fine salmon of Ifilbs.
and a half.

Some time ago, the out-houses and cattle of two
of his Grace the Duke of krnoLL's tenants, in
Athol', were totally consumed by fire. His Grace
immediately ordered twenty guineas to he sent to
them, and us much timber as requisite to rebuild
their houses, to he carried almost to their door
gratis. It is a curious fact, that the only ani-
mals which escaped the fury of the flames were
the hens ; how they escaped untouched, when
every fragment of the houses but the stones wrs
consumed, is unaccountable.

_
It is stated in accounts from Petersburgh of the
Sth of November, that in the village of Kat►cha-
uowka, in the district of Liskiiish, a peasant woman
was lately delivered of a child, having four hands
and four feet. Its hotly, from the breast, was di-
vided into two parts joined to each other. The
child was baptised, atria lived two days ; the mother
was in no danger whatever. In pursuance of a law
of Peter I. relative to these -kind of phenumenm, the
body is to be sent to Petervburgh, to he deposited in
the cabinet of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
A stati.tical ehtituate has been published of the
population of Prussia, with its incidental topics. It
thence appears, that the number of inhabitants was
iii 1817, above 10,500.000, making 2,106 to each
spuare league of territory. The males between 15
and (id years of ur were upwards of 3,000,009.