The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-10 00:00:00

THE TELEGRAPH.

Mr. Bran, pupil of the' Polytechnic's' School,
formerly belonging to the Imperial corps of marine,
sad residing at Chamberry, has joist resolved, in
a very satisfactory manner, the following problem :
.‘ To find the means of giving to the telegraphic
correspondence, the same secunty as that by can-
ners, without regoiring, on the part of the corre-
spondents, much more labour and time than is ne-
cessary for writing the dispatches; and without the
merely mechanical Agents being able to decypher
them. He proposes a brass wheel with • hundred
teeth in its circumference. Each of these teeth is
at the same time a letter of the alphabet, and a
numercial sign of a given amount. This wheel,
whidh the correspondent turns vertically upon its
arcs, has two spring supports, by means of which
he presses at his pleasure a tangent point which will
print the letter wanted upon different papers ap-
p:ted, the one upon the other, round the cylinder.
As the alphabet does not contain a hundred letters,
it is augmented, by giving a number to the different
sorts of E. sad even to whole syllables, which oc-
cur the most fregoently, such u pronouns, &c.
Thus the telegraph will successively present the
printed 'lumber', and the last to whom the dis-
pah:h will be intrusted (who is also supposed to be
only • mechanical agent) will read the words in a
sense inverse to the first ; be will find only uncen-
sleeted signs, of which the Functionary, to whom
the dispatch is addressed, will alone have the key ;
because several of the representative numbers, in-
terspersed among those which have a common ac-
ceptation, will be only mere hieroglyphics for the
mechanical agents.
Mr. Brun himself inentions nose very serious
objections, which he resolves in a very satisfactory
manner; and if his method do not attain the
wished for lierfection, it may lie safely said, that it
is capable of inspiring the most ingenious ideas into
those who might wish to pay their attention to such
au important object.—(Paris Asper.)

The Formidable WWI of war arrived with the fleet
from Malts, at Gibraltar, on the 1,3 d ult., and in-
tended to sail fur England on th 25th.
Sunday afterntiou. !between six sad seven o'clock.
the premises of a Grocer, in Old-otreet, during the
absence of the family. were entered and robbed of
ai soaatity of plate, and upwards of sixty pseuds
weight of tits, with which the thieves eseapad.

NAVAL nvritiLleipta.

roitiswortu. Wow. IL
Arrived the Serpedow, tfi guns, Capt. Green, and
Surly cutter, frog a cruise ' • the Growler. Lieut.
Cmssiwan frets Lisbon ; thed6inidassce store-ship.
from Woolwich—which ship is to be conveyed to
the Cape by the Breepholus. 36. Capt. Pelly, and
will sail in a few days; and the Sprightly cutter,
Lieut. Gordon, from Waicheren. . _

Sailed the Alfred, of 74 guns ; and the Seeptre,
of 74 rum, for the Wert Indies ; the Firm gum-
IrrilT, with a convoy for Guernsey ; the Crocus sloop
of war, with a convoy for Plymouth; and Trowel,
to the Eastward.

PLIMOUTH-DOCK.NOT. 7.

Sailed the Defiance, 74 guns, Capt. Rothman, to
Cruise off L'Onent; also the Dolphin, 44 guns,
Capt. C. Watson, for the Downs.
Le Seiriox, 74, and York, 74, are expected to
sail, ou '1 hursday, for Basque-Roads.

PLYNOLITN. NOV. 7.

Arrived the American brig Adam, Capt. Mason,
from New York, last front Penzance; sailed 2d
September, was captured on the 11th of October
by the French privateer I.e Charles, belonging to
Bourdeadx, from Rochelle, and recaptured by the
Christian VII. on the 30th of October, Ave miles
front Ualiant.—Sailed the Lion, Drew, for Malta ;
and the Doyfance man of war, for L'Orient.
FALMOUTH, NOV. 6.
Sailed the Windsur Castle packet, fur Barbadoes
end Jamaica.

DRAL. NOV. S.

Arrived the Harlequin armed sloop, from the
westward, with a convoy. Caine down Alm the
River, and *tided to the westward, the Amelia. Bar-
rel, for Kin Janeiro. Arrived the Speer/mar lugger,
front Flushing.—Wind E.N.E.