The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-07 00:00:00

FASTIVITIAS AT SPILSBY.

On Thursday last Lord and Lady Owydyrsr-
rived at Spihrby, and were drawn round the town by
the populace. who took the horses from the car-
nage; the procession was accompanied by an ex-
cellent bead of music, which preceded the carrnur,
and hilarity and good humour were every while
conspicnons. Indeed the urbanity which ma,ke.l
his Lordship's conduct diffused that ardour of feel-
ing which took every opportunity of showing itself.
In the universal happiness of the stelae his Lord-
ship'. poorer friends were not neglected. Three
hogsheads of ale were distributed ananngat the
populace, and many shouts of joy marked the in.
fbresice of his Lordship's gift.
On Friday his Lordship invited a ',arty of about
100, consisting of his tenants and friends, to meet
him and partake of a sumptuous dinner at the
Town Hell. Every word which was uttered at
table spoke plainly of inward satisfaction ; festivity
was the order of the day, and the smiles of the
guests no doubt added to the content of their host.
The following are some of the toasts which were
given after d rut the Hall :

Lord Gsrydyr first gsve—', The King"—" The
Doke of York and the Army"—" Thy Navy."
Mr. Krouedy (Lord G.'s steward) gave--" Lady
Goydyr," three times three.

Joseph Breekenbury, Esq. gave-4, Lord Orry-
rlyr, with thanks to him for merlin us here." This
toast yes drank with four times four.

Lord Gwydyr then returned thanks, and addreu-
ed the party for a few minutes, regretting the pre-
sent distressed state of agriculture, and expressing
his intention of lowering his rents to meet the aver-
ages of the farming and grazing markets. He said
he could not are that me elm have any scut and per.
Ituateat relief without • great redaction of the taxes,
and • dimiarstion of the public debt !
The !widths of the different members that coin-
pose his Lordship's family were drank with enthu-
siasm ; nor in the universal kindness of the hour
was Captain Franklin, their townsman, forgotten.
While they remembered his past perils they also re-
collected that the voice of welcome and congrstula-
non was doe from his countrymen, and nine hearty
cheers marked these feelings to the heirs.
To close the festive season, Lady Gwydyr pre-
sided in the evening at • bull, where beauty abed
sweet influence wound, and the " light fantastic
toe" continued to trip to an early hour in 11w
morning. The d g and ball rooms were appro-
priately decorated with uncommon elegsnce, hav-
ing orange trees, emblems of industry, drapery.,
and pavilions, placed in suitable situations. The
country fleeces and reels were kept up with much
spirit. An excellent band contributed harmony to
the occasion. The day and the night were truly
those of memorable pleasure.
Lord Gwydyr attended the South Wold Sob-
acription Hunt on Saturday morning, and after-
wards repaired fur Grimathorp Castle.
The Stuff Ball on Wednesday night was attend.
ed by about 250 of the gentry of the county, which
is scarcely so many as last yea►. Several families
were kept away by recent deaths. The stuff was
more griirrally worn than usual, and being white,
admitted of an elegant display of trimmings.--
( Boston Gazette.)

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock. the Duke
of CAIIIIIIRIDGE arrived at Buckingham
from B.r+hy
The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCKSTIIt rutin d
in town front Bagshot on Monday.
Wransoa, Nominal' S.—This day the Duke
of Sussex arriirad at Frogtnore, and paid a visit to
the Princess AUGUSTA.—The Princess AccusTs
1,44 Frogmore soon atter twelve o'clock for
Park, where her Ilto)al Highness is expected to
dine.

Lord FA RDLEY entertained a dirtingivirihed party
of friend's at dinner yettei day, ■t hop teat, 11th Mere,
Kew.

E. L. CHARLTON. E.fl. is rote,' g a large
pnity of friends on a tihout tog PICUT6IOII, at his
Lod ford NA. S•lnin

Captain FRANKLIN arrived in town un Tor-41.1
night from his frirsmis ■t Ilorucssile. to I.mr,•lo-
•hne. mud is •heut to !fileted on a vis 4 to Eat!
BATHURST, NI Cirencester.
The Ex-Empr,ss of HAYTI, with her family, ire
now re-idetit at Ild.tings, mostl mach rtorctril by
the disiinguisletti vsbilLems to that place.
gegietous merchant at Rita hes rriessed this
year 325 venous confined fur thin.

't It Alt ;.t,s,
THE trigs.
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DRURi:LANO.
The 1;14 0te6,1.... Its wirv,med 1.. t, mgt., at
this Theatre, slier which was s•-presented • new.
'Belo-drams, called The Title Galley Moves, whirh
)0, we understand, an importation from one G.llic
peighbonrs, with Cettilin Alto...tinily to make it suit
the English paste. The ontlitie of the plot
briefly this :

Yung Detwilit is eseend clothier in the banking knew of
hi( U 0414 at Purls ; his 'Oder heather, who in the chief
tallier, to indulge his passion for play, embezzles a large
ram el mosey ; but sespocioe falling on the younger brother,
bets takes pp, tried, convicted upon strong apparent proof'
gi pat, aid *assent/4mi to the vatic., being gene hemided
se the shoulder with the letters C F .ignifying convicted'
Idea. UnwilFing to stigmati.e h•s lie,n het, he herr tileheee
opt been the punishment with iteit.sc... From the galliea
Mutate his escape with moodier slave, from whom, how.
me, he soon separates, most einceals himself Cons the re•
starchts of the police in the neightiouitmosi of Auvergne,
where, under the assnmed name of Francois, lie gain. the
erections of Clara, a rich young widow. mid the cotingence-
meat of the piece is the day appointed foe the wedding.
toast Defiant has slodieorly pointed the secret of his ad.
setinsres from his bride sod her erletioss; but is the midst
of t►e festivities consequent on the marriage, it is in daager
of being disclosed by the sudden appearance of the galley
sites who had escaped in company with young Definite, nut
sho wow ►riegehased by the police, takes shelter i■ the hefts
ofClars, whereat lamed lately weevil/tem the peeterded Frs.-
cm, sod is only prevailed on not In betray him by 4 large soul
„mosey w►ici he receives, but afterwards swill way to the
mitre •illaiay of his character, he breaks opus a casket in
the chamber where he hurl been concealed, and is about to
mope with his plunder, het in discovered by Blaine, the
•reset of Clara, who gives the alarm to the guests 144P10.
bled is celeiseste the wedding Young Delville meet, hint
'loom shortly alter, sad offers to facilitate ht. escape on his
restotiog what be had molest, hot he refuses to part with hie
'Moder. Young Delville, enraged, attacks him vnth a
• hot t►e ,u as drawee pistol• *herb he fires, wounds
"bug Dawdle in the shoulder, and escapee. Young Divine
Awing fainted from the lust of blood, us operisg his coat
the ignominious mark of the rallies is discovered on his
shudder, and the second set then elates. In t►e t►ird act she
denouement is brought about by the ruses of the uncle of
yoling Delville, who arrives jut as the •illainous galley
Ware, aegis in the toils of the rolice, is denonnciog you's(
Dahill' ass coammed felon. The node discovers him in
►e the wretch whore perjury procured the sentence against
yinteg Weill', but his inaocetoce having bees subsequently
mods appears', his sentence had be►n reversed, mud he is
reslared as hoe Mallon is society ; whilst the villain who had
Wee so octave its euelosvouriug his ruin is delivered over to
the etriseg arm of the law.

Out of these material* the author has managed
to construct ■ moot interesting piece, which WWI re-
ceNrii throughout with the highei.t approbation.
larked The exertions ..f WIG. W. West as Clara,
Mr. Tem in the Galky Mare, and Mr. Cooesa
as Young Dekille, in the serious part of the piece,
lightened by the comic humour of Mr. f>lAKum and
Mr. KNIGHT, the former as Pillage Pasimitster,atid
the latter as servant to Clara, would have insured
success to ■ mach itrierior production. There was
some excellent dancing introduced in the second
act. The piece was given out fur a second repre-
sentation without a stogie dissentient voice. The
house was well attended at lull price, and was
crowded to an overflow ■t the commencement or
the sfterpiece.

COWIT-G•111DIN.
The comedy of The Soldie►'s Dan gliter per-
formed loot night, in which Miss COMER appeared
for the first tome in the character or the Widow
Cheerly. She arrayed herself in some of her
sweetest smiles for the occasion, and was, so soual,
successful to obtaining those of her auditors. The
gaiety with which she roiliest her lover, and the
good-humoured animation with which she won tl e
heat of the old Governor, were to her happiest
style. Mr. W. FAILIM hit off the peculation of
Governor Hearted, with good effect, and Mr. CHAP.
VAN important considerable effect to the closing
acne of Ferret's career. The other characters
(particularly Mr. Jones's Fronk Henna!) were
well sostaioed, and the performauce of the comedy
seemed to make a very favourable impression.
A new meld-drame, entitled %he Two Galley
Slaves, er 'The Mill If M. Aldervon, was pro-
duced with the most decided success. It is derived
tram the French, and abounds in the qualities which
chiefly recommend pieces of this dem.ription. The
following is am outline of the story:—

Henry (Mr. T. P. Croke) has succeeded is gaining the
afectiout of • fair widow, Louisa (Mrs. Chatterky), sod a
Jay having been appointed for the marriage ceremony, they
pruned to the village church to consecrate sheer vows. Due.
lag their absence, • person whose paternal &preseason, de-
bates hint to lielopg to the Mont clam of society. unveo at
the house of Louisa, fanning from hosier sad weakness. lie
le 'Witted, sod fib recruit his stiesgth by reasiairg
sore time Nader the hospilabk roof ere he raved' on his
join'''. He encounters Hemp on his rotor., sod the letter
endrisily apposes surprised sad agitated. The COW* of dies
ammo arises from an •ppreheasion lest this fugitive from
the talkie should discover that Henry had bens his comps.
aim in disgrace, awl so destroy all his new-horn ImeMiltrak
A taiga sum of mosey at the moment, with the proweite of
a Contuse @apply, however. inducts him to depart. His
roesisle propensities not Irving bens ersolioeteil by hard
shear, be remoras and phseder• the house. Being per
wed jest at she time he is about to mote his
escape, Henry wises and resolves to deliver him up to jus-
tice. la ihe smile he wowed* Hoary in the arm, sad the
fatal beard is discovered. limey is obsessed as a guilty
penes, sail determines to heave ibe smile of him misery.
hones; to his departure, be declare* his immerse' to ins
•ife, chat he hod heroically devoted himself for his brother,
•leo had misapplied mosey Mutated to him. This assertion
follYnsaAemcd by Major De Liele,the sane of Hegel, who
Weaves that his brother, oh, his death bead, had coutessed hie
melt, and the happiest.* of all those parties, who are best
twilled to erio)neest, is perfectly pe.established.
The ackiwolpilged stabiles of Mr. T. I'. Cooke
ia.p.iited n liegter of integral to the chuructrr of
y, VIII" it would call to excite in other hands.
Mr. FAWCETT, as Bonhontme, bother to Louisa,
,xpressed the blunt 'Merrily sf a warm heart with
truth and fidelity. Mr. FA !ILLY. who is excellent
)0 a isielo-drome. looked rod spoke an the Via-
Omen fugitive, with List reckless u ftrontery of
rh it " tread-mill" society may he supposed a
sourer. Mrs. CUATTERLEY. us Latrine.
1....ked very interesting; her appeal to Major 11e
Lute israimit the intention which, clue imagines he
,iitertains of delivering Henry op to punishment,
ass pathetic and impressive.
The icenety is extremely pretty, and the roar-
tr ye •Iforded an opportunity fur the nitro-
thiction of some joyous groups of pretty children.
ai,o danced with selairient grace to accord with the
of a rural entertainment. The piece was
un-
bounced fur repetition loud plaudits born a
numerous and elegnnt audience.

The Rey. Mr. Mali. Vicar of Debeishom, in
Suffolk, hos resigned his liviug. anti sectifill from
Edoblished Church.—(Bolton Gazette.)

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F.. • g gir RRI4GE: ACT.

• Among the *we Indicrotia
.spo•iwtonteof
Operation of the Mew Marriage Act la the lAA ►e.
sorted to for mitigating the offensiveness of being
posted un a Church door provision which seems
to have been framed with sovereign contetnpt for
delicacy that rann•t he paid her. Close underneath
the cornice of the arch, no the door of • church not
• hundred miles from Bury, 011 a narrow strip of
paper, the names of the onforttinatea are stuck up;
and some, who perhaps have found flyour in the
eyes of the 'lntim', enjoy the comparative happiness
of being placarded the wrong way upwards!! If it
be possible that so absurd a statute can be suffered
to remain iiiirepraled. we 41311 expect such is piece
of legislat as the folloaing at au early period in
the ensuing Session:—

A■ Art to •mead an Act entitled ea Act tq ..end the
'Erwin Acts, ay.

IWhereas it hail, been represented to ■s that divers per-
toss, lostigated by the vice of modesty, and loving darkiii se
better Asa light, have conspired to bring the laws how con-
tempt by evading the provirions of the Art aforesaid; sad it
being erisseliest 'bat what little of the said vice females,
not eithstaoding the events of the past two years, should be
don toughly and Powell eradicated; be it therefore enacted,
that no marriage shall be dreamed and taken to be properly
announced melees the paper on t►e door of the Cbsrch iu doe
Parish or Parishes where the parties shell dwell, sojourn, or
tob!cle, shall be of the fall and true width of ---- inches, and
of the leugtls of lathe.; nor unless t►e said paper shall
be posted,. or asoproded, at the height of -- feet
from the grimed, and feet front the arch or lintel (pro-
•ided always that if the said door shall sot contain so satiny
fret by adomeasorement, thee that a doe est irate of the pro.
portion shall be made by the Chuochwaodess or °echoer, of
the place), oar unless the tails of the letters shall be turned
towards the grosod and the tops towards the arch or lintel
of the door, &c. as.
Provided always, in this as in all other caeca, that no
marriage ronsommated by mesas of sorb fraud, or any other
fraud obstsoever, shall be void or voidable; but that the
parties offending shall he subject and liable to be hansported
beyond NM, &c. sod that in case the hothand shall be the
offender, the property which may have accrued to him by
means of such fraodsleot mairisge shall be forfeit to the
Crows, amt his wife shall maintain soy child or children
which may have been of her born to the said offender, unless
the parish officers of her place of settlement t►ink proper to
maintain them, and that she shall not marry apis with the
wicked design of obtaining to subsistaace for the said chil-
dreu ; but shall tootinose to have sad to hold, to love,
cherish, sad obey till death, her husband so seat beyond Bells
as aforesaid, dc. &c.
There are consequences of the Act more seriously
to be deplored. A countryman walked up to •
clergyman not far from hence, and asked if he
could marry him ? " Yes, certainly," was the 'tidy.
st Aye," rejoined the man, " but without our names
being stuck on the church door ?"..." That is
im-
possible."—" Well then," exclaimed the loving
" bygone we'll take one another's wilds for's,"
and, without farther remark, he went sway.—A
similar circumstance has occurred neer Devizes,
and the couple •re at p►eaent living happtly to-
gether. We shall get back to the days of " marry-
ing with a rush ring," as D'Avenatit has it.

A letter from Leghorn of the Nil ult. says—
" The English here have just had a great loss ; the
Governor of this town is dead, with whom the Eng-
lish were great favourites, and he stodi,cl every
mesas of being useful to them. When • boy, he
livd been • Midshipman in the British navy, loud
had ever sinee retained • high esteem and love to
every thing belonging to our nation; he delighted
in serving the metchants here, and rendering them
comfortable. He w•s buried to-flay with military
honours. Another oouree of his liking to the Eng-
lish was, that his wife's parents were English. though
she was born here. The whole British rectory at-
tended his funeral."

The Moscow Committee of the Bible Maoris-
lion has sold in the last quarter 4,866 copies of the
New Testament, and to the amount of 18,315
roubles of copies of the Psalms in various. languages.
A letter from Coirstantinople, written by an agent
of the British Bible Society, states that a distill.
guisheil and learned Turk, who was formerly Am-
bassador at one of the principal Earope.ru Courts,
is employed in translattaig the New Testament Irvin
the Arabic into the Turkish language. Iu order to
devote himself entirely to the difficult task, he has
withdrawn from public life.
A duel took place in the parlour of a public-
house. last Friday evening, in the neighbourhood of
Covent-garden, between a Mr. H. and a Mr. L.,
owing to a divot,. respecting the Dutch language.
The latter fired first, and missed his untagonist ;
immediately after he received Mr. H.'s ball on the
aide of his cheek, part of which was carried away
by the ball. Surgical assistance was procured, and
Mr. L is doing well. Mr. 11. was obligated to quit
the house by the window, as the officers had come
in pursuit of him.—( Everting Paper.)
The death of the Jew broker happen.' eery op-
portunely for the present LORD MAYOR, who roes
out of office to-morrow. The circumstance will
remind some or our readers of a pleasant anecdote
related of WI LILES. During his mayoralty one of
these brokers was seriously ill, and WILKES wea
reported to be reek gWI the advantage of the
disposal of the probable v.caisey. The son of the
looker meeting his Lordship, reproached I with
wishing her father dead. " dear fellow," said
WILKES, with great promptitude, "you are com-
pletely au error : I would rather that ull the dew
brokers were dead than your father."
At the sale of a lady's property in Bury St. Etl-
missals uo Monday se' •bld„ a person who was look-
ing at a cabinet before it was submitted to the ham-
mer, found a secret drawer containing a quantity of
gold row and jewel., which, it is supposed, had
torn coocraled from all knowledge for s.oumber of
team At the recent auction at Kirthirg, near
Newmarket, • similar discovery was made in ■
bureau, after it had been knocked down for • tri-
fling • of r qoantity of half-crowns sod °titre
coin of George 11. carefully perked, with paper be-
tween each layer.

• •
?BB FORK 'RIG CLUB.
ii."•.
TLe I dimmer of IN. truly ryspewable Mad
throe! body um elven et the Asteuthly-r .00t, fa that eat,. nu
Marsala, s.t. E. Chrlouer, Eq. ftl P. in the albeeller of .r
George Cayley, hook the Chair. The rampam, reromalm to
bmwee• Iwo and three bradawl, tuclu.litt Lord .%Itltuu,
Mr Larebtom, &c.
Mr. Fawkea'. Reform Committee met at York em the game
day. Mr. Parker Basted at Y•art ea Sunday with', hot oa•
seeable (mar Morse ro attend the Cummiltee or the Willi/
Club dormer, ea Monday.