The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-08-26 00:00:00

IVORTHINO. Aims? 2s.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of
Wales, atm:l:led by 1...,+y de Clifford, came mi the
sands at hale-past ten this morning, to Lathe. Her
R•ral I liOntert WAS in her carriage, with two see.
irons behind. As soon a• the carriage arrived near
the maciine, all the comp :ny that were walking
out on the sands surrounded the Royal carriage.
ani saluted her Royal Highne•., who returned it
ati,lvlitv. Her Royal Highness,
afrer I:tithing, returned 0 Warwick HOW,. The
bathers were eery nurn mous, the deligh,ful sands e.f
Worthirg being in inviting. The Licli..s .ere
enjoy the pleasure of the briny deep more than at
any ether watering place upon the coast. 6v/oral
el Cheat are expert swimmers ; one of them, in-
deed. a very fine woman, so completely an adept in
the art. site rs called loamy Direr. This morning
sire swam en her hick, and beat water, &c. with
die agility of a dolphin. Several might be Inn
alto daiic;ng about, as much at their ease as 04
krrq Pyle
A wire party went out in a pleasure boat. bat
wet ohl•grd to return. on secount of the rain. Lord
and Lily Dud'ey and W ird arrived, at twelve
o'clock, in their travelling earring and lone. at
their moist, near grarfOrd'S Library.
Amongst our company at this place ate. the
Duchess of hlanctie•ter, Earl and Countess Chnl-
'at rideity, the Earl ni 1) .rchester, Viscount Mi-
llen, Lewd Montague, Dowager Laxly Petrel
Ladies Meudaent, Harroveby. and W. Hamilton;
lA4miral Douglas, General Johnston. and Dr.
Sampson.

Oitr late arrivals are, Me. duggin, Mrs Shel-
don, Mn. Custmicr, Mr. Hose, ‘irs- March. Miss
Cavanagh. Lady (,instead, Mrs. S' aer y, Mrlb.
Halsey, Mr. and Mis. Sh-phard, Mrs. Trylis,
Mr and Mrs. Gmrtinn, Madam Bianchi, Majqr
Thrirrtnn, And Mr. who sports an elegant
curricle and pair of greys, and is attracted here by
We lovely CIIAIMS of a West India Merchant's
daughter. . _

sriv co. i-us fi,ll was caught here, last Friday.
is a v ; it cAlled, the Creek, or Man Blood-
Jae if,. It is of the shape of a toad in the body.
ev.tly :he same size, with a head five times
lasger than the body, a mouth like a puree, and
eyes in the poll of the neck. with eight tait.s e.ch
I v, .uskers, with which, it it slusuld fasten
spots .ny p.vt cf a man's body, the fishermen toy
it would suck him to (loath, bi fore he could es-
ulcers. himself. Whim alive, it is of ir.if lu"S CO.
Ilke the cameleon, acci,rding to the lit in
thick it is seen.

g pl
uea y;4lifs it evening
o. is,
or,
Trip
dliees ir e
Beth
gni f ; o.
in ;.wclh rci
rs. H Siddons plays yrdia ; buy, by Miss De
a:: p; to conclude with 7ie War iv- Winds°, , ". 6
ti> *.ir. 0 xberry ; and Joba Lamp, by Mr Pui-
• Hob gieat source of Itere. in the course
th d,y. is Mr. Stiff,' Unary. which
viiiited by the Fashionable:. Mr. Stafford has
rovided a hand. which plays in the evening. There
ill lie a /Lai and Concert, to-morrow, at Mrs. Ba-
n's, New lon, under the patronage of the Countess
which Master Pio Cianchettini, a
y serer >nal-. and a hall old, will perforna,with
osistance of Nl:s Dusi. k. The afternoon has
:and out fine, .nd the numerals Eferialcs are now
' io their carriages.
He* Loyal Highaess the Princess of Wales will
re Worthing, meet Monday, for London.

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U. Narth Hants Militia. at-Gosport, no Steur-
I'l leiteareig commer.ced volunteering to serve in
Le Ltr.e.
r AAAAeT RION Tn. PIPVIPIICTUS 01 AN Aut.
!can Winne A eta : —As to Foreign Intelligence. we
hall aat imitate some of the Lendow Prints in their
rofessions m this 'aide. Some of them do not
t:irt,le to emi.mitnit.ate that they receive their
utiles Mies by M A NOW Celt PirinJ —that they
Iv- Inner! out F.rtariatues
iitris4Ang :: . p--and that
Inv tt,no. pn,ntlents on the Coutin-nt are in po.-
-.nn ..1 e •kmg of Gyg-e., by *hich they can
VK" them-el./es sweisilde, and penetrate into all
iri% of 11. t CAttlfstu—thir they have engage.'
rulfb,r of 1..% cches in Lapland. kelporilic "^ broom.
ks, aad outstrip the velocity t f air-balloons...
't Inv, have engaged a ntimber of woodcocks to
g II" "' intelligence rutin the Northern COllOll ici
L. billeatrg el winter, kc itc.

POLICE.

Ye terday Evan Evans was brought before Jon
Ni a es, Esq for re•examination, charged with steel-
ing gold seals, to the value of nine guineas, from
'Mr. Rogers, a goldemith, of Charing-cross, under
pretence that he was a Messenger belonging to the
Secretary of State's Office, arid that he was sent by
Mr. Nepean, the WTI of Sir Evan Nepean.
Molyneux Hyde Nepean, of Fig-Tree-court,
Temple, attended, and said he was Sir Evan Ne-
pean's son, and knew the Prisoner ; lie positively
swore he never sent the Prisoner to the strop of Mr.
Rogers for any seals, or direfted him to come to the
Seeretaryof State'soffiee with any, from Mr. Rogers
or any other person; and further said, that he had not
seen the Prisoner for five or six years part.
• The Prisoner was committed for further examina-
tion, when it is expeaed several other charges will
be preferred against 'giro.
It turns nut that this fellow, since his dismiesel
from the Admiralty as a Messenger, has worn his
medal, and passed for a Messenger in London, and
variods parts of the country, and obtained goods by
this means. He travelled in post-cbaises without
paying, borrowed great caAti, &C. &c. e-
queerly assuming the name of Mr. Shaw, and other
respeflable Messengers. When he belonged to the
Admiralty, his extravagant dress and mode of lay.
ing were the subject of conversation. He was asked,
once, how he managed to afford se many new
clothes? He very compo edly answered, that he
did not pay for them, and never intended it.
His introduftion to ti e employment of a spy upon
the Corresponding Society, arosef from his being a
prisoner in the King's Bench, and a c..mpaniwn of
Martin, the Attorney, who drew up toe Resoiuta
passed at Chalk Farm, at a rneLiang tat the Csi re-
spon. i g Sueirty ; at this time the Piisnnees wile
went to Sir Evan Nepean, at the Secretary of
State's Office, to give information of the political
cabals held in the prison. and what passed at them;
the Prisonet fret nding to he a zealous fraud of
whit was passing In the Corresponding Society.
lie has been a baeltrupt since he was di►missed
from the Admiralty by Earl Spencer. '
Joseph Slant ey, a boy about eleven years of age,
was charged with feloniously stealing a watch. the
property it James Cronin, of Lumorr-court, Seven
Dials. fif.monger ; and John arantry, the father of
the boy, was charged with receiving the same,
Wowing it to be stolen.
Lydia, the wife of ri e Prosecutor, said, that on
Thursday se'nnight, between seven and eight
o'clock in tne everting, the saw the boy coining out
of her hack parlour; she asked him what he wanted ?
he replied, her hnshascl had desired him to get bins
some tobacco. In a short time after this, a watch
was missed from the room.

Ge-rge Donaldson, the Constable, said, that on
Mon;Jay rrt..rning he went to the boy, and asked
Ens where tt• • tishrnonfter's watch was The boy
denied any ki.owledge of it; but on bein4 trireatened
by the officer, he acknowledged that h;s Whirr had
it. The officer then went to the father, and on
switching him, found LOC watch in his lob.
• Tl:c Prosecutor denied having sent the boy into
the /3"711 where the watch was, for tobacco. The
boy and hi fatter we: e both committed for trial
Mown 1V,,'.,, a Kew m.ige Coachman, was
brought up for re-enminarion, charged with strafing
B ink Notes to the amount of Ga. ti,e property of
William Lingard, of the Roebuck Inn, .l'urnham
Green, from a box in a draws; in the Bar
Tt.e box which con' .ined the Bank Notes was
found, soon atter the robbery, near Kew Bridge,
where the Prisoner was seen ti go der- 414 after he
Mt the Prosecutor's house, and several other suspi-
cious circumstances being proved against him, he
was sully committed for trial.
41111ILDil&LL.
AUCTION FRACAS.
Yesterday, two respeßOie looking ram, between
♦0 and 50 years of age. of the names of Page a•nd
Prearbare, were brought its custody, before the Pre-
siding Magistrate, upon a charge of rict and asau it.
It appeared that the Complainant, oi,e klar
wood, kept a wart-room, in Skioner-street, where
he sold goods, on commission; and in the evening
bad an auelion, by candle I,ght. Mo7iday night,
while he was in the ad of se-Ling moslins, and ntner
article■, by auftion, in his sale room, in Sk.nner.
street, as usual, the Prisoners came in. and after one
of them (Page) had bid for a piece of muslin, and
it was knocked down to him, he refused to take it,
and abused the aultioneer in a most gross manner ;
saying he was in the service of Government, and
had authority to stop the sale if he pleased—they
were a parcel of swindlers, and they shonld sell no
goods there." The other man (l'erthshore) also
abused the auftioneer. called him " a swindling
rascal—lie would knock his jewish eyes out," and
wing other like abusive expressions ; and upon a re-
monstrance, they both ass suite.' the auctioneer
and his wife (a pretty your.g woman) and
struck every one who attempted to interfere. In
consequence of which, the aulion was put an end
to for the night, and some goods materially da-
maged in the course of the riot. The Prisoners
were, with much difficulty, and after some hz.rd
blows on both sides, secured by the persons present,
and lodged in the watch-house.
The Chimers, in their defence, denied that they
bad struck a blow until they bad been previously as-
saulted by the aucti 'neer, his wife, and some other
persons present. One of them (Page) had bid (or
the muslin. which was knocked down to him, wit -
out his intending to buy ; and when he wished to
return it, tire auctioneer abused him. lie turned
eat to be a Clerk in the Sick and Hurt Office. and
was a very respeßable looking man, about titty years
of age. They both declared they could produce a
number of witnesses to prove the fallacy of the
statement made on the clher side ; but no persons
appearing cu their behalf, and several persons cor-
roborating the statement of the andioneer and his
wife, as to the violent and outrageous condo./ of the
Prisoners. the Presiding Magistrate, Sir Wm.
&out 4 u, Knight, said, bat a case at more =pro.
yoked violeoce and outrage never came before hint ;
be, tteretnre, ordered the parties to be bound over
to prosecute, and the PrUotters to be committed to
ga•tl until they sh:mld find bag to attend and take
their trial the east Sessions.
warroawriaatteti.
Wit's,.. Stanton, alias Plrferd, a private in the
West London Mititia, was brought before the Ma.

• e
gistrates, yesterday, Charged witfastealioß ahere.'
pewter MI, the property of Neal, M'Penteton,;
pui,:a:an, in the neighbourhood of Maorfielals.—
The d;sh was foond in the Prisoner's pearassios,
doubled up together.
The only novelty in this case wan, the Publican
refusing to be bound over ti prosecute, after he had I
given positive testi:nony of the felony having been
consmatted in his house. Kea an hour elapsol, be-
fore he wnald consent, after repeated remonstrances ,
by the Magistrates, who urged the consequences of
his refusal. Their Worships were about to eamosit
him,for contempt, when he at last complied, with
the greatest apparent reluflance. The Prisoner
was fully committed for trial.
..hh,s Ealing, a boy about nine years of age, was
brought before the Magistrates, cLarged by one of ,
the Masters of the work-house, with cutting and de-
moping :he web of some carpets, which wet, in the I
loom, In the aft of manufafturing, at the work.
house to which the belonged; while the work-
people were at dinner, he having previontly hid
behind a water-cask, took the opport Joky of cut-
ting all the webs 'iltitriVi'not only thereby. destroy-
ing them, but creating a delay of near a fortnight,
before the loom can be set to rights again. This
was the third time the same boy had been before the
Magistrates for similar offences. When asked
wha' was his motive for doing so ? the boy answered,
that be wasted a holiday, and he knew by cutting
the web, he should be some days without any work.
After a severe reprimand from the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, he was ordered to be sent to Bridewell for
fourteen days.

Y•NIION•NOO$L.
FORGERY.

This day, • yneng man, about eighteen years old,
was finally examined under a charge of surgery,
tortnre the LOtD MAY on. His real name is Joie
Cents, but he used the name of Poled at the tim:
of presenting the check for forty-nine pounds, by
him produced and uttered, knowing the same to be
forged, to the banking-house of -)lessrs. Prescott
and Company, Threadneedle-s:reet. Iniadon. The
At of Parliament enafts, that the uttering any of
the negotiable instruments or securities herein de-
scribed, knowing the same to be forged, is a capital
felony, without benefit of clergy, equally with the
aged commission of the crime of forging itself. This
unfortunate young mat had represented himself at
the Banking-house, as then the menial servant of a
Mr. Soane, is John-street ; whereas he was at that '
time the servant of a Mr. Ridley, 0:1-roncbant,
in Lawrence-lane, London. 'lle C:e;:t of Mess s.
Prescott and Co. a Mr. Grease, detained the Pri-
soner, and called one of the servants or porters of
thanbeibse, tsmil he had sent to John-street, where
Mr. Sean, lives, and learned that the Prisoner was
not his servant ; on which be was taken into caw
tody. The Prisoner being this day called up :o
account for the manner in which he cone by this
check, on the back of which the name of John
Phillips (as far as we could observe) had been in-
doned, stated, that he had obtained it from the
person indorsing the check, but that he neither
knew his name, nor where he resided.
Mr. Boone being called, swore ice Prisoner never
was his servant.
Mr. Ridley, the real master, was called, and
swore that the Prisoner ha;, for the last 18 months,
lived in his Service ; bet, SA being shown the ift•
Jorstnen: nn the check, said, he never MIN the Pri-
soner wine, and, of course, could not depose that
the i“dinsine t was his hand-writing.
A Mr C iffiins being called, swore, that this
check; piirplrtiog to he his draft on the Bank of
Messrs Prescott and Co. was nit of his hand-writ-
ing, n n of •:•y pe,son connefted in his business,
as he nnily believed.
Theto,in Maros, after a long and mature de-
liberation upon this examination, and after herring
the master of the Prisoner, upon oath, as to the
charafter and good condu!l of his servant, whom
he admitted to nave sent a few times for checks to
the Banking-house of Mes.rs. Prescott and Co.
wine his had kept money heretofore, toll the pri-
soner that he must produce or find out t se person
who indorsed and delivered the check to him ; and
the Prlioner ref itiing to describe and aecount for
his perfeit knowledge of the person who io toned
and delivered the check to him. his Lordship ordered
hint tots. finally committed for trial at the next emu-
ing Seislons.

A finir evenings tinoe, as Mr. RtcattaN, of New
Palace Yard, Wettmiaster, was coming out of Sad-
lrr's Well:, he wa, hustled by a gang of nine daring
• pickpocket+, and robbed of his pocket-book, con-
taining a 101. Note, and some valuable papers.
About four o'clock iu the afternoon of Monday
last, a most daring robbery was committed in the
stables of T. Leann, Esq. one of the Divisional
Magistrates at Hampstead. The depredators broke
into the stable, and carded off saddles, br;dles, and
every other portable article of value they could
find- They were afterwards seen on the Hampstead
road, carrying their booty openly in a sack.
Last night's Gazette states," that on the night of
the lath inst. the guard-boat, commanded by Lieut.
CAM , belonging to Its MAJESTY S ship
?Plate 11 If Orange, then lying in the Downs, in
endeavouring to take possession of a large smug-
gling ten-cared galley, the crew of which were in
the aft of landing goods, without payment of duties,
on the beach, near the town of Deal, was fe-
loniously tired upon from muskets and motketoons.
by the crew of the galley. and also from several
persons assembled on ilselduch, who were assisting
in landing the goods, whereby Mica ail. Timis-
rots, Coxswain of-tint guard-boat, was killed, and
two seamen dangesously wounded ; and on the Co-
m:mile, inquisition. taken on the batty of Mtenaas
Tutsaaron. a verditt of Wolfe! Murder has been
' found by them against persons unknown; His Ma•
J egT v, for thebetter discovieing and bringing toots-
tire the persons concerned in this murder, promises
his most gracious pardon to any one or more .if the
offenders (except the person or persons who &easily
fired) who shall discover his or their accomplices, so
that any ono or more of them may be apprehended
and convieted of the offence. And as ■ further en-
couragement, the Commissioners of His MAJssr v's
Customs offer a reward of listen Hundred Pounds
to any one of the offenders (except as before ex-
cepted). or us any other person who shall appre.
bend, or cause to be apprehended. any one or mote
of the said offenders, to be paid by the ReceiverGe•
natal of His biiu us T's Cutouts upon conviaion."

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TO THE fplroß OP.Tfig BRIT/Sil PRESS.
Walser, nlar D•tl. Agra& 2R, 1114.
Alt—Some Of the .Nearspapers havitg give* It
very pullet re?re:entatinu of A tranvia:ow lOWA
took place in this et4igbhnurh,tod last vr-4 Ifm
induced Sprsand the-LAl:swing p trtied wraith Ara
striely true:— A FAIR TRAIlt*
Abort Koski ek, is the night of tessolip the itth leo a
row-galley, I aded w:th coot &bald g r ids, WA.% eta dyke
Deer Deal Ca.(l.„ by ■ blot lAtlatirl Ig t. Ad oi.al moin's
thigistain, the l',inees of Change, Captain Herten go tip
boast meting the • 1404 a mob of Orley * s..strbittleth
and eel/ the beach. t.. oppose. Vie awe sw the I-Sof etieuitihs
of his duty; maly of theee rekle wire armee *lib Miregellitil
and ponds.
Some toesgueinom were first p at the P,inens of
OrAvago's boy*, and then a risat:sar of vastrgoets, th • whole of
were diseliair I later h..r, when the ercwari, an fic-
tive and valuable 11..11•(•• vr•a Abet dead, and three eeessen
woo-last to eors.eguthice of being thul oveyowved, tlaie
hoet's eves were rosayellrd to retreat, end the smoggier. pro.
•••dfi in rIIUISIII4 the 4/Alg...rely on shore.
Tilue• beareateman of 'he IC:ne's ivy bee been mnniatovel,
while sepperting the last of hie country, avd lit the execution
of hi. duty, by men call' tg themselves Pictish yearn .5,1 .4 up-
ward. of one those ind of whom am exes,terl tom serving its
the i4.ry, in the town of Dolt on!y, by the eery fareeseeesest
tilos outraged and int.ilt•el
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1181 32"11:1L8' L 440 r

We menti'wed in a fornyr paper, that in rental.,
ing the earth, some ruins were lately discovered
the heights at the back Diver. They are situate,
on one of the highest spots of ground, near di&
centre, between the Eistern and Western heights.,
No traces can be fou id in history of the original
streture, and of cease there are various conies..
turn respe&ng what it has been, T. at foun4aa.
lion is of a circular form. about twenty feet
diameter, with a piece adjoining, at the East end,
nl twelve feet square. Some persons, broce, infer,
that they are the ruins of an old minaret, or watche •
tower ; others, foucding their opinion epon soma
bones and coffins that have been dug up, ear
ceive that they are the ruins of an old chinch. Olt
Sunday last great numbers from Dover and its viola,
nity being attracted•to the spot, the military dam*,
fit to erect a paring round the place, to keep Arabia!
inquisitive. This has ea.::ted sonar disco :tent awes
the people, as no ptiol:c works are carryeag OS
immediately upon the spot where the rains are
situste, and r.o cause has been assigned for this re-
fusel to gratify the innocent curiosity of the
people.
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FIRS AT COITif4IOI DoCK-FARD.

• t.
The SOSticiflos circumstances tinder which share
at the hemp warehouse is Chatham Duil-yer6ll.
pened, induced Lord Hawkesbury, as Secretariallir•
State for the Home Depaitosont, oldireet Mr. ant, )
.the Magistrate. iselongtog.-to o..o.artett, to go iii•
Chatham to iniestigaie the Susine.s in a a. rypartfelleir
lar merinos.; ace!' in coarquen;e the 'shrivel,. Mlle
Mr. Staff..,rd, the Princ:pal Clerk at Bow-street,
off for Chatham. CM ...N,Velinesd.y evening, io a ',:OK
chaise. They proceeded in' the.r os.rnanatiee
noonday and rtiJay. with the wriest:um, wore.
houseman. and other persons who had any know.
ledge of the breaking nut of the fire. They lea-ned
that no petson had been in the svarehou,e for wee.
rah days previous to the fire, ear had she deer been
o;iened. riol7l a 3 the information they could obo
lain, there is no doubt bet the warehouse was wilfully
set on fire. -The whole of the investigation is before
Lord Hawkesbury. Every measure that vigilance
could suggest has hitherto been exerted in vain to
discover the perpetrators of this diabolical attempt.
In order more elfeetually to prevent the recarreacs e
a similar attempt. the Gouda have been d rubled.
A go ird-boat rows from one end of the dock-yard
to the other, during the night—all egress from the
lower gate of the dock-yard is denied to any per.
son of whatever situation—and no person. not even
those belonging to the yard, will be admitted into
it after nine o'clock.
The Ges,ite of last night contains a Proclarna.
tine, relative to the above fire. It states, •• fiat
from tie investigation which has since taken
place, there is great reason to soaped that the said
bedding was wilfully and maliciously set on fire
by some evil disposed parson or persons, at pre-
sent unknown ; and that His Martyr v, for the
better eppreheriding and bringing to justice the
perpetrators of the auociou. ire, is pleased to pro-
nose his mast gracious puJon to iy-iy one or mote
of tho offenders (except such as aaually set fire to
the said building). who shall discover hi, or their
accomplice or !accomplices, so that they, or any of
them. may be apprehended and co-miffed. And
the Lords Commossiotiers of the Admiralty offer a
reward of 500 L t) any person (except such as were
eifuslly concerned in the off:nce). who shall ay..
prebend, or cause to be apprehended, any of toe
said offenders, to La pad on the eonsidbee of any
one or more of them, by the Treasurer of His
Mai UT it's Navy."

Arrived, at tS'atatfortl, on Friday se'anight. the
Wallis end Mery p=eitet. from the Down., with a
detachment of the titith regiment. under the C•fD.
man,' of Captain MILL.. She enennt•rvd a very
severe gale. in whi:ls the Seasael, of Ikli.ford
was steady lost, having shipped a he Avy era wu.ch
threw her on her beam enl6; another vessel yaks
also in the same pale nearly lost upon the Welsh
COI 44.

Yesterday the LORD M•YOR ordered the Price
of Breed to be reclined Half an Atsise. wlii,h wi.l
CONNO-111:0 tomorrow, When Ole Quattern Loaf
Maass will be sold for illd. and kiouvhold 9 d.
A person in the neighbournood of Lewes, who
`reps bees, and derives much amesement hear life
mode of massaging thers, on watching their mo-
tions. a tow weeks since. observed. th it they made
freepost returns to their hire. very heav:l; lateen
with the fruits snit indu,rey . and. in order to fa-
cilitate their ears ice, placed • sloping from
the ground to its apertures but saris akerwarde
found that bit stock gradually diminished, w;th.ret
beteg able to accuuat for the diminiat.on until at
length, by keeping a tenting( Almost conataiitir nen
the have, he discovered the enemy, wlrch pr..ved
to be a large TuaD than hast mar:fled ap the aecii-
city. Jed uy taking socenvand at the mouth or the
hire. devoured many r.t the busy swarm as thee ap-
proached it. '1 be dee-roaster. of coruye, in• kme
revenge ut th • itwy aa.ailA..t. arid has sure na4 so
same to complain of the reduttion o. his -

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