The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-12-13 00:00:00

- ALCV4:IIESTER 7.1111,4 TAR.
I film Manchester Theere opened: on Monday
se'nnight, under the doreenon of Mr. lidleaton. •
IVTIOOeCTORT •DbMll:9l, f de TMII ore Arlon
MT Ma. LLLISTOM, •T TMs. T:lt •TRE•toY.,L, M•M•
OMTSTEII. Farr/mg my on. ausky.
Drawnby your taste and geteroos lov, of art,
Of II that graces lift, adorns teL he.vit
The Pituss's off'rings to your singe I bri..g,
Aud sue the covert of your fir.vt'i tog wing.
Where tr,affic's stimulating soul rcoirles,
• Mere spirit urges, sail wherit lioriouv Sued,
There active virtue kindles all her heat,

There labour rears her independent seat.
• Your town, what Briton views, and dues nut fed
A Briton's pride scrum kis bosom steal
The basy street that opulence displays,
'l h. dater:de loom that courts the stranger's gaze;
The Portico, the Mart, the copious stoles,
Ingenious industry around you pow
Tkeie strike th' exulting eye, soil quack impart,
A patriot trainpurt to the swelling heart.
Hest charity erects her shelt`ringfinse,
Where pain, nor waist, prefer their sighs in vain ;
Here Science eery useful form assumes,
Here sop Philosophy her tench
illunles—
N'hilc Commerce and the Muse their wreaths unite,
Arad toil is crowu'il with elegant delight.
This editiee—all worthy of its place—
Augments the spleudur, lends Its added Knee.
TlacArauseir beauties u a beauteous
On that Melpomene herself might smile ;
For tears of grief, a tear of joy might
And yield a transient respite from her woe.
Where late—by action to depict the heart—.
And to the spierrhles. scene new force impart—.
1 dm'd to paint, from Nature's tiv'rite Bard ;
Aspied to please, and twat the whiled reward—
It :/,ere, appisor'd the Warthog, our I plied,
Kept up my bark, and gain'd upon the tide ;
I.'cir where my ardour feels its %routed scope,
New prospects opening to expanded-hope—
/ r, where her flaw the soul iu language gives,
And on the lip the hording passion Ines;
//ire candour will forgive prvsum'd success,
Nur fervour's fund felicity repress.
Joyful my hammed visit here I pay,
And bet regret my transitory stay
ti'irriii my intent, this' circurnscrib'd my date ;
If .port the race, esrrtiou shall be great :
In duty's cause, I'll every nerve engage ;
Zeal like your oa.a shall energize your. stage :
• YOU, taste I'll copy, emulate gout spirit,
And grate through you my humble palm of merit.

IN.

THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION.
ON TIM C0N7.1., T OF A CtRIAIN BARILISTVIt, IN NHS
PIT 11.01/ EN T-GAILlit3 TIll:AIIt C, Ulf Ip AIDA Y

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Teo Centuries sea • Shakespeare VOW,

To impeuve mankind and to &dor') t sine;
Aoother Shakccipeare modem times

The slugs disgracing by sink sad wage. N. P.

ZPIGILAN UPON ♦ CLUlrillr VIDDLOR.
Timutlieuso in ancient fame,
Steads Lost hesour'd same.
To none each pas. inn's rage;
Yet, that 'tis easier, ►ll conrt,ii,
• . To raise tlic pinions, than re prom—.
To auger than aabliage.
Hence, greater fame attimila the ilia, '
DearJoltilay, of thy violin,.

TLw t'ether's notes e amid reap ;
For Lis could uuly make n riot,
While your's, oar worst cominotious quiet, -

By .4 i tins um a .lerp.

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A holyhock, in it gonlen near Brompton. was
lately cut down, hich had attained the surprising
height of ?mare,* feet and a half.

A melancholy accident happened at Aberdeen on
Monday see-might :—Mr. FRactI:HARSOIR, one of
the Dailies of that city, • most amiable and be.
nevolent matt, went into one of his warehouser; to
examine gunpowder, when, having • lighted cradle
in his hand, a spark flew into the powder, and it
blew up, carried off the roof, and forced one of the
clerk*. vibe was writing at • desk, through the win-
dow into the street. Mr. FRlatt MARSON. when
found, was so dreadfully tanned as to baffle all in,-
shod aid, and he expired on Wednesday last, to the
regret of the whole town.
The Anchor and V iue public-house, wt Charing.
('ross, and the two public-houses adjat It, in
lliockingharn.cortrt, have been lately pulirci down;
they were purchased by Government for upwards
of 10,000 f. fur the purpose of enlarging the Lords
of the Admiralty's house adjoining ; mud also for
haring • priming-office built for the use of the
Admiralty.
Ott Monday se'nnight, a shocking spectacle
was presented to the inhabitants of Carmarthen.
The master of a trading vessel belonging to that
port, accompanied by u female. had gone on board
his ship the preceding evening, both in a state of
inebriety, as is supposed, and the vessel having just
undergone furn;gation to destroy thp rats, they
were both suffocated in the cabin; their bodies were
brought s-hore in the morning, when their distorted
features appalled every beholder, and showed the
extreme severity of their sufferings previously to the
vital spark being extinguished.
On Monday. the 27th ult. about 11 o'clock at
night. R most alarming fire broke out in the newly.
erected mill, at Longholme, in Russendale, Lair '
cashire, belonging to Messrs. • HOLT and Asti-
WORTHS, which, in a few hours, entirely consumed
that handsome edifice; not so much as a door or a
window was left of the building. Messrs. G. and
J. ASIIWORTHS were not insured. and, as the whale
of their property Willrisked in the mill,the immense
loss which they have sustained has reduced them
to a most distressing. simation. Such • dreadful
fire was never before witnessed in that part of the
country. To see that extrusive bulldog:, erected
at such )an enormous enetisc, together with the
machinery (of such wonderful invention and elabo-
rate locclisinsits) with which it was stocked, con-
sumed ill a few hours by the ravages of the tire,
emild not fail to excite a tear of pity, or a sigh of
4 ummiaerstion fur the unfrirtimate sufferers, from
ell oho witnessed the &At-ening scene.