The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-03-28 00:00:00

TIM TURF.

MALTON SPAING MEETING'.
For the haltbred Stakes, a huhveription of crill 6e. we um
deratand Mr. Knowsley 's and Mr. Dales horses are tie fa-
ourites For the Warnaer's Stpher, whirl rommts of a
:erg es mlrte, assembled of ail the tinfbi trusty% that have
been tumbled thrtmila the ouches of half the country, " in
the must dash:a' style--no man can kmor sus thins about
them.

The following are sine -Tit the qtiliicatiurt. The
heron must Leveller' regularity hucted the pn.cedlng reason
with Mr. Warts sad bar Sirrk Sy!.'.. FeekbGm-oil', A:il' have
sever started balls the day of nanong. A certlAcge
prudeeed f.van the huutarnsii befne :carting, of thew bastioi
bets fairly sod duLatigly revte up tio bounds ten rinses fa the
heat. Any loan 1,0.1,tag or 10:;t1,1111: a bound to Le d:struaii-
God ,to carry 14 ...tune each to he roar by fanners. Are fs-
ler certificate from the himkr of their being half bred to be
produced before alai hex, uudtr rd. of .I.m...aifiemies.
The WICGer to be sold fur a 7d, guises. within a irrtrter of es
Lour after the race; the owing of the wood bone Leif
brat eutirted.

SECOND DAY OF YORK SPRING MEETING, 1•08.

Acceptance for thr Oatlaufr's Stakes of 3ogs. garb, h. R. for
4-.)r ulds. The last mile and ball
Lord Darlington's b. c. by Archduke, out of Bentagbroughs
sister, 7st. nib.
Sr Jahn Lou,..'. b. e. Presentation, by Star, data by Drove,
751. ulb.
Lard liarhogtoirs hr. c. brother to Expectation, by Sr Peter,
7st. db.
Mr. Heinle's b. c. brother to *reamer, by Star, fist.-61b.
Str M. M. flkes's b. f. Harriet, by Preripitats, Om.
Mr. Wentworth's p. f Innsa, by Zachsriah, 1111. lan).
Lord Searbarungle• kr. e. Hoapadar, by it Samoa. oat of
Panay Pasky's dans, 54.
Lord Srarborougb's br. e. by Sir Salomon, dam by Jupiter,
ist.

The C'eactur, Sic SAmuEL HOOD, is arrived in
the Downs.

The Thetis frigate, Capt. Wfutta, gives con-
voy intstructioni to blipb bound to Newfoundland,
Halifax, and Canada. The convey is appointed to
sail en le gist inst. The Vnlontesire frigate, Capt.
Butyric, was on Saturday morning appointed
convoy for the Mediter-ailean from Portasnouth.
StBASTIANI lately sent to France twenty-one
cumsf valuable articles, which he has extorted as
presents front the Grind Signior. To secure them
from capture by the English, he sent them by
Odessa, Lemberg, Brody, -Vienna, and Strasbourg.
This treasure was accompanied by the einbalin:A
body of his wife. Hi has also sent his infant daugh-
ter from Constantinople to Paris..
The Orion, 74, Sir ARCHIBALD DICKSON ; And
the Soliette frigate. Capt. BATIICKST, are fitting at
Portsmouth for a foreign station.
Captain James BaissiisE is appointed to Le
Belle Peale; and Captain CARTHEW to L Cleire
Lieutenant Sir Gssaas KEITH, Bart. to the Red-
breast goo-vessel.
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Extract of a Letter from the Secretary of State
to the President of the Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce, dated Janna 7 12, 1608 ;
" The PrMident of the Limited Stains aethorien.me to
inform you, that it is is cotterrplatiso to dill/etch to Eu-
rope, far public parpores, a ,easel or curet*, from time to
Wme,
during the period , the embargo; and teat precious
notice of the time sad place of departure will to. prat with
• slew to the accommodation of merchants earl others la •
thee foroiro correspondence"
Wedoesday eftertioo.i a melancholy accident hap.
peeved at Dover : A airman of the name of llso-
hews, having a fsmily of four children, left the%
playing in the room while she went to it neighbour-
mg shop, daring which it aNsears, thee ;he 'ldes`,
a girl about fix years old, had contrii ed to shat out
the other three into a passegt, aid bolt the
door. Finding some matches in a cupboard, she
threw them tut* he fire, which eemuswrccated to
her clothes, and on the return of her mother, the
(I,or bent' burst open, the ebild was found lying
before the fire, burnt to death. Toe husband, who
is a boat-builder, was front homiest the time, on hit
business, when the accident happened.
About a quarter of an hour before twelve o'clock
on Thursday night, a fire broke out in the lower
part of an unfinished lodging-house, ktelon4ng to
D. Mends, Esq. on Marl borongh
about throe hundred yards to the north of the
Prince's Pavilion. and Carole-home, the property
af the Duke of Marlborough. The e•teat et the
damage does not exceed 8 tlr POOL
" Gusting," says a New-York Paper, " weed to
be eo. nitro. in a great mensure, to a particular
class of sot it ty, but now it has perva&d every
rank ; there are but few families, at this time, who
are not nightly d:s.ipai tug the jircitinc hours of a
short ese.teisee in gar/Sing and dealers., caraisi; ic-
deed it ia arm altoo,t the uhircrsal prOCtiVe tO begin
and close an evening with a baud at Whist or