The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-16 00:00:00

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lIILIXMAM, OCT. 11.
Put into Torbay the bate Alelrdle armed ship,
for a new fore yard, and sailed again this afternoon
'with the Vide de Paris, Pla-,tng.a t, Sox Joseph,
Prince VeJege,Temerai,e, Prince, and Glue, men of
war, undo the command of Admiral Cornwallis, to
resume their station off Bret.—Wind, W.N.W.

etvisouta, OCT. 13.
Arrived the Providtiont cutter from Scilly, and
the Lord Nr,'sun, Howe, from WAterford. Sailed
the Hero nun of wer, /Awls, frigate. Ninood, and
Rosario on a cruise.—Wind, W.N.W.

DEAL. OCT. 12.
Sailed yesterday, after post, the Conraneur man
of war, and put bAck this morning, with the Grey.
hound frigate.
Arrived the KAI man of wars with a convoy from
Portsmouth, which are sailed fur the River, with
the 16.1 d, Wilson, from I I induras. Also sailed the
Kent man of war, And Jig/ airs frigate, for Sheer-
mess.

Remain in the Downs a large fleet of ships of
war, the defence ships. the coppered armed trans-
ports, and a fleet of outward-bound vessels.

TROM LL' Y ITS LIST.

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Goankseirst, Gee. Id.—Pasted by rho !fairly's., Glass.
pool, from the South Sass' Smsoattio, stetrittasac (rem me
rifts; Lady Parker, Wog; and tbo Valiant G.4/1.1% cat, CC. I
80.11frell M•••••M. frank G.brallta, I:nadttn, SAley
ChaaltPl", L.Wr j rtel&W n y ranter' Simmonds; Pitt,
Smith; Rose !Imes.; London, Kerr; Ann, Atkins; Cores,
Warren R4ttnn Harnett, Stamper; and rho Lord
Thudowl. Ma'tig. rims* Jamaica. Sailed the Gatffin, Flap
weed, for G.b altar; Jan:, laartdmo; and the packet,
Wekbatn, tor Ttawittyst • Argo, Scarf, for Junge,
Rarria; and the Tye (.;••tieCol rs, Si.-n, for Embdeq.

The hull of a vessel was driven on shore the 3th
inst at Ballymurry, county of Welion% no poem
nn ho trel ton her stern was marked, Msneree, of
Cardigan," and on a boat whicii was %castled on
shire, " James Williams." She is supposed to have
been laden wills wheat, some being washed on shork
The vessel is full of water.
On Thursday the 4,th inst. the schooner 7... a Bee-
fier,. of Sunderland, in turning out of the Bay of
Wick, the wind blowing S S.k . refused stays, and
was necesitated to bring up in the face of rocks.
where none could give assistance. About one
o'clock iu the morning, she drove on the rock,
where she became a mere wreck. and all the hands,
being four in number, and duce passengers, petish-
ed ; the body c,l a lady passenger was next morning
found. and mangled limbs of some of the men.
On Eaturday, the Portinstack ferry.boat, having
two ferry-met-4 a passenger. and eleven head of
black cattle on board, in crossing t Gowrocke was
upset in a heavy squall. and the whole perished.
By accounts received from the Neteen cutter,
which arrived Sunday evening's tide, at Dokilin. a
large ship, name unknown. :apposed to be from the
West Indies, snuck on Arklow Bank, nn Saturday
evening, near five o'clock. She fired sever al guns,
but it blowing a storm, the cutter could nut give
Ler assistance.

Capt. CooKe AC appointed to the St-lent/or del
Mend,; Capt Moastsos to the L.lij; Captain Ja
Bei.tits to the Fencibles, at Lynn.
Mr. R. clerk in the Ordnance Office, at
Portsmouth, is Appointed Stott-keeper of the Ord-
:lance at'North Yarmouth.
The P. "arts of Wart, CAMP2ZT.L, from Jamaica
I for Clyde, is totally lost on Wicklow Bank, only
one man savel

I'h, Ceres, Penelope, Thres, and Specale.or, four
stout Letters of Marque, sailed from Cork harbour
for Cie West Indies. without convoy. on yesterday
se'rmiglit They are well appointed tine sh;ps, and
fully ale to give the enemy's privateers a warm re-
cept i in.
Several new slops and gun-brigs have arrived in
Cie Mt. ' a) . ditri ug the last week, to be coppered,
preilaratory Illtheir being commissioned.
The brig Ciriefam, of Greenock. JONS Watesitv
(14te master). laden with coffee from Kingston, is.
=arca, which place they left on the 25th July la'r,
aad bon tul to Liverpool, was driven into Whitehaven
fily stress of weather, on Monday the 3d inst. but
; the crew being all strangers to the port, and a heavy
sea rolling, the vessel drove behind the North
'' Wall, wh. re, fir the safety of the ship and cargo,
it bteame immediate's' ne..essary to discharge her.
The Captain was washed overboard on Thursday
the 4th incr. and a passenger in the ship swam to the
shore with the ship's papers, &c. which were taken
care of by Messrs. T. and M. HARTLEY, Furs.
merchants, of %Vhitehaven, who took immediate
steps for the discharge of the vessel. The drnms
beat to arms, and the Volunteers, with an alacrity
which refl.•ds the higheu h snout (both upon them
and their fellow townsmen), immediately turned
out. ar.l kept watch the whole of the tempestuous
' night, end part of the next dry, until the whole
cargo was discharged and carried away, oh ch
' they proteded with the utmost watchfulness.—
' Great praise is al.o due to Mr. Wst. ICRICUT, and
Captain 30,1,1 BA/MISR, bywhose ULIIARAZIed dill.
gence and activity, in the short space of three hours
and an half, upwards of 240 casks of cr.ffcc were
discharged, and conveyed beyond the tide mark.—
'rue vessel, by being lightened 50 soon, has received
comparatively littl: damage. and no dcobrs are en-
tertained but that on the putting up of the tides, it
will be got off.
Seven huudred and nineteen of the Air:exit corps
.rrived at Portsmouth on Friday, in the EP:a and
rttransports, from Aldemey, to wait 101' a c a-
• o the island of Gore*.
Two women have been committed to Portsmouth
jail. for concerting the escape of several coas las,
whilst at wor',; on the fortifications at Gosport. The
men. at their leisure, took out the rivets which
fasten the shackles of their fetters, and put others
in, which were supplied by these women, made
with screws at the end. which, at a fAVOUTAtIC mo- '
meat, took of, and the letter fell from their logs.
Two men effeded their escape by this artful method.
Considerable numbers of locnus Lave lately been
discovere3 in the neighbourhood pf Bridiang:Ln,
where they are committing devaeations on what-
ever the advanced se: ern of the ?ear has left to their
rapacity. They are alsoa: two inches in leng:lt, of '
a green colour, with a brown spot upon the back,
and are supposed t' hare been brought thither by
the late equinasial gales. N 'ne of these destrac- '
tive inset's have been known in any rut of England,
during a period of many years.