The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-08 00:00:00

FROM I.Loyri. LIST.

Nov. 6 —Passed by the Vrow Messing, Casrow,
fminAmstridAm ; Youtherkand, JACOjii.ll, from Norw,” ; Pro-
vidence, Murttick, front Lotmesttd; Atlas, Hirris, and the
Silvers, Winteringhare. from Pet...burgh . Sailel the Atlas,
Richards, for 114,bettA4t.: Mary, Hurdle, for Gib sitar ; and
the Tye G..brodris, Hacker, for Rotterdam.
AC 1111•Itt)
In the Riser—The Pats. Ustl.r, Venus, Willis, and the
COMM We, from Pillau ; Venus, Johnum, from 1'0..-
'airmen, ftrlla, Iris, MoyJronv, Jamaison, "Avant, Drvd,n,
and British Volunteer, from Dantaic ; James, Allen,
and the lin4l.d, Davis, (non Memel ; Thalia, J..hstasin. Re
ehacl, IF.liietalll, Mentor, Hoye, Ncily, Reid, Christopher,
rures,, British Asderson, and the lielena. Harr, front
-burgh.
At Rochester—the Castor, ensiling, from Petershurph.
At Poitsrnouth--rhe Ann, 131141.1 (mm Venice; Aid,
Toyinr, from hinsuia • Edam, Bets; iSetty and Susan,--;
and the Maria, Consellsw,. from Ihintere.

1 At Mitt ~,,, ith--the Bee, Da‘nev, (tom Paletnra
i. At PinA..-..the Prtinvi.lla, —, ftom Palermo.
At Leith—thr 1kf1n.,,02, Walk,r, from Riga ; and the Wi-
t zanl, Davidson, i',olll P:teraburgh.
At 1-laiorlch—lw. Lotion PaLket, Black, film Petersbti-gh
At liavich--tln• E,tt% . !Tot, (tom ditto,
At Hull.—lhr N•licv, Itioninvqn, from Iklemel.
At Koninpberg—the Orb, Andorran, trom London.
At. Jamaica—the Lincoln, Bruton, and Huard, .---, fr,p)
ditto.
At Earbadocv--the Chant, Crook, Aom Rooted.

Last week, a saver cup, presented by )out Ws
Las, Esq. was fired for by the Dulwich Company
of Camberwell Volunteers, when the prize was ad-
judged to Mr. BL AILEV , a private of the company.
The good condu& and dexterity of this well-disci.
plined - upon this occasion, rewarded n ith
Arks of favour from the liberal do•
presenting the cup, with an appto-
• elegant villa, invited the ofil,ers
together with the principal ladies
elegant entertainment, and or-
supper for the company, at the

. ever noel ieneed so complete a re
fashionable carriages. Twenty years
coach was built by the first trades-
:Oat and the standard weight in
ited to 23001 b. Since that perii,d
, been decreasing yearly. l'he car-
e present day cost from 130 to eon gui-
...id their weight seldom exceeds 10001 b. and
...e are some built which weigh considerably less.
A French family has just arrived in town from
rdsaux. From their report it appears, that the
t tyrannica/ and vexatious arrests have lately
en place in that city, and likewise at Naar.—
i less than five hundred pairs ins, most of whom
A
ye merchants, and even waggoners, have be.in taken
up and imprisoned in those towns. The *sad rea-
son of these oppressive measures they are at a Boa to
explain ; but the terror impressed by them has oc-
casioned their precipitate flight from a plase e hire
innocent and guilty are confounded, and v.-here even
industrious poverty endeavours in vain to ply its
useful labours.
According to a private letter from Hanitnirgh, it
was the Hanoverian Counsellor Vow NI cots c,
who was sent by General Beefs A DOT rl4 to iequire
the loan of 400.000 dollars upon the Saltmines.
near Lunenburgh. his requisition was backed by
the French Minister, liaise ae ni, ne Sc 4 ~milt Of /A,
Empire, Nepalis/. Before the Senate deliberated on
the subject of this new extortion, a deputation of
its members conferred with the Austrian, Russian,
and Prussian Ambaroadors, who snit immediately
Couriers to their respedive Courts. The Counsellor
V;.)N MEDIM: afterwards left that city for l.u!wck,
, to t:ie Senate of which he delivered letters from
. Rix ii ADOTTi and RkII4IIARD, on the 1 7 th, demand-
ng. upon the same security, another loan of two
. hunched thousand dollars. The Lubeck Senate had,
it consequence, been convoked on the 18th, but
their determination was not known when the last
nail left liamburgh.
A letter from Spain, of which the following is
en extract, unfolds the plans of Burt APART L against
that kingdom —" When Louisiana was ceded
to F.-ance. it was generally understood that the
cession was absolute;; nor could it be imagined
that the Spanish Government would have taken
any exception to whatever disposition might be
atirrivards made of it. It is to the grand Inn iguer,
the Disturber of Europe, than all the mischief which
has been 'mile is to be traced. BOVAYAILIE
• save the Cabinet of Madrid to understand, that be
accepted of Louisiana, only to enable him to pro-
led more effedually the Spanish Colonies against
the Heretic: of England and North America. and
is strengthen the alliance between the two great
' c•lttlniie Powers of Europe, to whom be was in
. hopes shortly to be able to' add the kingdom of
i Trelaod. 1-k bad scarcely obtained the cession,
than, on purpose to disconcert and distress the
i Spanish Government. he entered into negoc...ifions
• for its sale with the American agents. As soon as
he had Ritually transferred the property to the Arne.
ricans. he set his spies and creatures at work to
instil je.duusies into the Spanish Government. re-
speding the designs of America. Even forged letter
were submitted to certain per 'ins in Spain. as have
ing been intercepted; acJ some persons of very high
rank were persuaded that the mines of Mexico were
the real object of the Heretics/ while they prces.i
ell to negotiate for Louisiana."
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FROM THE AM RICAN PAPERc.

NATCHEZ. AUGUST 14.
By a Gentleman arrived here yesterday from the
neighbourhood of Payau Sarah, we have been fa-
voured with the kollowing information That
Mr. Nathan Kemper, with a party of about thirty
cilleurs Hying and horns sounding, mirchcd
ti tin the neiZabourhood of the line of demarcation,
brtseten this territory and West Florida, on the
7th instant, against the Fort of Baton Rouge. On
their way they made prisoners of John ('Con-
ner, Esq. (nor Aleade), and Captains Pintedn
and Terry. They arrived on the following morn-
ing, about day-light, near the fort. The Spanish
Commandant, apprised of their intention, had
posted a picquet of eighteen or twenty men, who
hailed the party as they approached. They imme-
diately answered by a volley from their rifles, which
dispersed the Spaniards, two of whom were observed
to fall. Kemper returned on the following day,
with his party, to the tiayau Sarah; he has establish-
ed his head-quarters near the house of Mr. William
Cobb. The following is an exatl copy of a paper
which is posted up at the quarters of Kemper, and
at several other places through the country :
" For a People to be free it i, sufficient they will it. We, the
Undersigned, Citians of Wet Florida, send these pre-
sent greeting
Whereas the despotism under which we have long groaned
has g. iv; oi to such a ourtheit, and it is so long sine...Arrow:a
our men are bora with equal rights, we, the dzos,gued
calledinhabitants of that part of the dominion West Fluid-.,
have resolved to throw off the galluog yoke of tyranny, and 'ic-
e-one tree men, by derlarine ourselves a fine and independent
peopie, and by supporting wish our lives ail properly that Sect,
ration ; and we do, by thew presents, invite our tei,ow sinter.
ms, through the province aforesaid, to repair to the omidar
to ad in the efeettiog our C011)111011 emancipation. We pled..
ourselves solemnly to cacti other, .and to • or fellow-m. 1i 1.• -
noted cat the event, to nimbi. as tar as practicable, the Mt 51,11
of hi-sod Ore that of oar conintuit immenty ); and in all cases
shall private property be held sacral. So soon as our einaisei-
pation shall bit effected, we will oder oursalves to some harem.
mein accustomed in freedom 'llhoe who set up in opposition
to our o:rerations, for the purpree aforesa.rt, will roe deemed our
common enemy, the enemy of mankind, and of liberty, and
will .e treated accordingly.
at Gireu under oar hands, nn the Sowh-side of the Line
of Demaocation in the Province atorcuid, this first day
of Floe artion Freedom, August ?, I SO4 "

PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES•

ROYAL SOCIETY.
Dr. Yoe:lg lately laid before this learned body a
valuable paper, containing experiments and calcula-
tions relative to physical optics. The proposition
which he intended to establish was, " that fringes of
colour are produced by the interference of two pnr-
tions of light ;" in defence of which, his experi-
ments are so simple as to lie repeated with great
ease whenever the sun chines, and without the inter-
vention of any other apparatus than is at hand to
every one. It is not in our power to follow Dr.
Young in his calculations and inductions ; but we lay
before the reader what he calls an argumentative in-
ference respelling the nature of light.
" From the experiments and calculations (say he)
which have been premised, we may be allowed to
infer, that homogeneous light, at certain equal dis-
tances in the direction of its motion, is possessed of
opposite qualities, capable of neutralising and de-
stroying each other; and of extinguishing the light,
where they happen to be united ; that those qualities
succeed each other alternately in successive concen-
tric supetficies, at distances which are constant, for
the same light, passing through the same medium.
From the agreement of the measures, and from the
similarity of the phenomena, we may conclude that
these intervals are the same as arc concerned in the
produdian of the colours of thin plates ; but these
arc shown, by the experiments of Newton, to be
the smaller the denser the medium ; and since it
may necessarily be presumed that their number
must ternain 'mattered in a given quantity of light,
it follows of course, that light moves more slowly in
a denser than in a rarer medium: and, this being
grouted, it must be allowed that refraction is not
the effeft of an attractive force direfted to a denser
medium. The advocates for the projectile hypo-
thesis of must consider which link, in this
chain of reasoning, they niay judge to he the most
feeble; for, hitherto, I have advanced, in this pa-
per, no general hypothesis whatever. But, since
we know that sound diverges in concentric superfi-
cies, and that musical sounds comist of opposite
qualities capable of neutralising each other, and
succeeding at certain equal intervals, which are dif-
ferent according to the difference of the note, we
are fully authorised to conclude, that there must be
some strong resemblance between the nature of sound
and that of light."
Mr. Anthony Carlisle presented to this society in
the year I saio. through the medium of his friend.
Mr. Symmons. an account of a peculiarity in the
distribution of the arteries sent to the limbs of slow-
moving animals. Since that time he has endca-
voured to coiled farther illustrations to shew the
connection between the disposition of the blood-
vessels and the actions of the muscles. He ,
gines that the rete mirakik. in ruminating and car-
nivorous animals, is a contrivance intended to re-
strain that velocity of the blood which their habits
and figures would otherwise produce, in its passage
to the brain. The circuitous course of aU the ar-
teries which supply the human brain. and their con-
finement in long passages, is obviously for a similar
purpose.
In seeking for examples in other diredions, he
found in the human body two small arteries arise
from the upper part of the abdominal aorta ; and,
in men, they descend from thence to the testicles.
They are called the spermatic arteries, and are the
longest arterial cylinders in the body. The neat in
resemblance are the intercostal arteries, and, lastly,
those of the diaphragm.
'the iris in man, and in animals. is furnished with
cylindrical arteries. which pierce the posterior part
of the globe of the eye, and finally enter that mus-
cle by a circuitous course. The pipit of the eye
contrads slowly, and is occasionaUy required to
continue long in that state.—The instance of an op-
posite mode of distribution is to be found in the. co-
ronary arteries which supply the heart, a muscle
whole actions are more rapid than those of any
other; at the same time it is observable, that the
coronary arteries arc more quickly sub-divided than
the arteries of muscles generally. The alteration
which the blood undergoes duting the supply of this
muscle only is, that the coronary veins return venous
blood, apparently as much changed from the arte-
rial state, as if it had passed through the remotest
organs cf the body.
Any impediment to the accustomed course of the
blood flow;ag through muscles, induces a cone-
spondirg diminution in their powers of aftioa.
When the principal arterial trunk which supplies
the muscles of the leg is obliterated by ligature.
for the cure of an aneurism. the leg remains weak-
ened in i:s muscular strength, until the circuitous
vesse's have again restored a ♦igorous supply ..f
blood.
To be cot,'

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dared a sumptuous st
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materials amounted
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