The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-09-02 00:00:00

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LIPERPOOL.:Arcusr 36.

Oa Monday last, tha finerdy of men, the First
Regiment of Royal Liverpool Volunteers, tinder the
command of Lieut -Colonel Bolton. were a:stranded,
and their arms delivered to the Commanding 0:S-
-eer. This respeetable rtgionent was formed imme-
diately on the breaking nut of the present war, at a
considerable expence, by Colonel B. and had attain-
ed a state of discipline, which, we may venture to
say, was not surpassed by arty other volunteer corps
in the kingdom. Its dissolution, in all probability,
is only a prelude to the breaking up of the other
Volunteer; in this town. In the present situation of
our country, we feel some anxiety to prevent the
public from supposing that our patriotic and gallant
defenders have been induced to this measure by any
abatement of their seal in the noble cause in which
they had embarked, and which liar conferred on
them immortal honour : nothing, we are sure, could
be further from the truth than such a supposition.
Before they were dismissed, Colonel Bolton ad-
dressed them in a very manly and appropriate
speech, of which the following is the substance:
" Aneciated awe were, at the commencement of the pre-
sent war, for the defence of our country, and at • mores sit
when our services seem,4 to he imperiously demanded, it af-
fords me the greatest satinaesion to witneta the high state of
discipline to which the Firit Regiment of Royal Live.puol Ye.
lunteers has bean brought: this has been effected by the at-
y anal exertion of the C•lllolllSik.lithi and Nen-commis-
sioned Officers, and by the patient cud assidueueattention of the
prisates of the corps.
" The recent AA of Parliament, fur the regulation of Vo-
lunteer COT" not allowing pay except fur a leech less num-
ber of clays thee we beret:Menu bee,, in the habit of assem-
bling, it would be found improsib:e to preserve, under such cir-
cumstances, the p'esent high state of discipline, and it has
therefore been deemed advis,alde, by myself and the talkeq of
the corps, to tender our resignation to C;overninent, which hav-
ing been accepted, you Cr? new assembled for the purpose of
delivering to me your arms. Permit me, th.refose, on this
occasion, to thank you, collectively aid indivolti.illv, for the
teal and ard..ur wilt erhieli you have pursued your military du-
ties; and to add, that it will always be my highest pride and
(ratification to be able to be of awake to any individual of my
late companions in arms.
" It now only resales for me to mention, that, by & com-
munication from Head-Quarters, His lh,ghneo. the Com-
nuoder in-Chief of this Lltstrill has been pleased to express
the satisfaction he has Meats experienced in having iii his
district so fine • regiment, and Is& recta that tangle( cir-
commences present bun from Mishits any !Anger that high
gratification."
The Officers of the Regiment afterwards dined
with their 'Colonel, by whom the privates were also
ruined, and the day was spent in the most con-

vivid and harmonious manner.
Two young gentlemen. brothers, final the neigh-
bourhood of Cheadle, near Manchester, went last
year to one of the adjoining counties. to shoot moor
game, and. in two days, were so far successful as to
kill 107 birds. The elder, attended by a younger
brother, went last week to the same place, and in
the same time, killed 82 ; a circumstance unparal-
leled in that neighbourhood.
On Saturday se'nnight a very singular and most
melancholy accident happened at Kippax, near Fer-
, rybridge, Yorkshire, on the premises formerly occu-
pied by Mr. M EMI user, the unhappy gentleman who
destroyed his wife in a fit of lunacy;—Mr. SIM?.
ISO, the present occupier of these premises, having
frequently, of late, had his garden plundered, pro-
pie d to his servant, about eleven o'clock on Satur-
day night, to take the gun and go with him to search
%bit garden ; but the young man having occasion to
gootoa little distance for his hat, his master took the
4= himself, and was immediately followed by bis
servant; they agreed to take each an opposite walk,
and meet at the hotline of the garden. When they
approached within two or three yards of each other,
near the place agreed on, Mr. Si m emu was seized
with an unaccountable panic, and supposing the
young man was another person that was about to
attack him, he unfortunately levelled the gun, and
discharged its contents into the breast of his faithful
servant, who tell and expired almost immediately,
The distress of Mr. Siatesota, when he discovered
his fatal mistake, is not to be described ; he hastened
into the house for assistance, exclaiming, “ Good
God! I am afraid I have killed poor Gistains."—
All human assistance Was, however, too late, this
unfortunate young matt had breathed his last. :nuts
has perished, by an accident almost unprecedented,
a young man w:-.0 adorned the humble station in
which Providence had placed him, with virtues which
are often sought for in vain in the more elevated
ranks of life. He had lived seven years with the
gentleman who was the unfortunate cause of his
death, and by none was he more esteemed or more
deeply lamented. On Monday an inquest was held
upon the body by Mr. CA II HST r. Coroner for the
Honour of Pontefract, when, after a minute investi-
gation of all the circumstances of the case, of
which the/tanning statement is a brief but correct
outline, the Jury returned a verdict of—Chanee Med-
ley. This is a very unusual and rather ambiguous
verdict, as it is not agreed whether the term Chance
Medley means homicide by misadventure, or man-
slaughter; the latter is felony, the former. a misde-
meanour punishable by fine.
An inquisition was held, a few days since, on a
seaman of the Satrarik 4/ Mendel, of 112 guns, at
Plymouth, for killing and slaying his menmats in
fighting with him, by which means his ribs were
so injured. that the poor man languished and
died: verdict of the dory, Manilaughter venni
the °fender ; who is committed to Exeter Gaol, to
take his trial next Assizes at the Castle there.
We hear, that on the 3d instant, the stone Church
at Port Tobacco, was blown down, by the most
violent wind ever experienced at that place. Hun-
dreds of large trees were also levelled to the ground,
and several houses totally destroyed. A canoe,
with a man fishing, was taken up out of the water,
and carried upwards of 100 yards, without hurting
the man, to the plantation of a gentleman.--4 *rub-
angles Fed July 14).
We understand that the following changes of
quarters, among some of the regiments in Ireland,
are immediately expected as likely to take
place, after the different 2J battalions of the line
and regiments of Militia have given their quota of
Volunteers '24 battalion 47th are to be re-
moved from Aughnacloy ; together with the fld
battalion of the 30th from Strabane to Cork,
i.s order to replace the 50. h and 8241 regiments.
ordered upon foreign service ; The Antrim Militia
are to proceed to Londondeiry, to replace the
Weterford Militia, who go to Naas;_ the Limerick
Militia go to Aughnacloy, and the City of Dublin
proceed from Newry to Armagh.