The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-04-19 00:00:00

fur France.

IRELAND.

KILKENNY, APRIL 11, 1803.

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44 Our Assizes ended yesterday. There were ei*ht
records in the County, none in the City. They were
all mete Jury questions. There was only one of
any weight, BRYAN L. LORD CALLAN, for mane
rates. It was supposed that it would last the whole
day ; but after examining two or three witnesses, a
verdiet was taken by consent for 15001. Little cri-
minal business, and all conduCted without much gar-
rulity on the one hand, or intemperance on the other.

" An Address to his Majesty, congratulating him
on his escape, with a tender of our l►ves and for-
tunes to support and defend uur King and Constitu-
tion against domestic or foreign enemies, was nnani_
mously agreed to last Monday,~►t a meeting of all.
the inhabitants convened by the Mayor for the pur-
pose. An Address from a General Meeting way
preferred to one from the Corporation of the City.
The.same day a similar Address was agreed to at a
County Meeting.

gi A person was fired at and wounded on the 25th
of March, near Webbsborough, in seeking posses-
sion of some lands, and it was considered as suffi-
cient grounds for passing presentments under the
White Boy Aa, that the County was in a state of
disturbance.
" Subscriptions were entered into at the Assizes to
a large amount for races here in the summer.• They
are fixed for the latter end of June.

"h is very surprising that at this very critical time.
the Fgeshire Fencibles, a very Ene regiment, should
be disbanded here.—This town, for a fortnight past,
has been in a constant state of terror and aLir:a•
from the continued scenes of riot and drunkenness.
occasioned by above twenty recruiting parties sent
here to pick up these disbanded men. There was
no stirring out at night, and very little safety in the
day ; however, we are now tolerably quiet. The
skeleton of the Fifeshire regiment remains.
" I do not know whether in the new equalizations
between England and Ireland, the different sizes of
the respeaive gallons of each country- has been at-
tended to. The English spirit and wino gallon
contains 13 1 cubic inches, the Irish but 117 six-
tenths, which makes a great difference in the calcu-
lation of duties. Though I have formerly made
very minute inquiries on this subject, I could find-
no law for our short =sure, but found that it wa:
established by the farmers of our revenue, in thL.
reign: of Charles 11. by their own authority, wher:.
Parliaments were seldom called."

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On the 4th last. t. duel was-fought at Ragh, near
Tralee, b9tWeCTI RICHARD MASON, of Castle-island,.
Esq. and Coro,:or.i.v Hassr. sr, of Dingle, Esq. whet
after firing two shots each without injury, their.
friends interfered, which occasioned a reconciliation.
and the parties returned' to town in perfeect amity.
At the Queen's. County meeting, held at Mary-
borough, on Saturday last, a congratulatory ad-
dress was voted to his MAJESTY on his late happy
escape- from assassination: the address was moved
by the Earl of PORTA RLINGTON, and second!d by
Lori essrt. E-C 00-T E. An Address, moved by the
Hod. R 0 BF.RT MOORE, and secondedby -the Hon.
W. W. POLE and Sir Ever Coort, K. B. was also
voted to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.
Within these few days, several ads of suicide have
again taken place in the city of Vienna, the cause
of which is the more diificult to develope, as the ur.,
fortunate vidlims of their own folly are persons who
have lived in splendour, and still had the means of
maintaining their rank.
A man who calls i;imself Captain SMITH, and
pretends to have been the Master and Owner of a
merchant ship from New York, has been lately
levying contributions on the pdblic, by asserting lie
had' sustained a loss of 30001. by the destru&iun
of his ship in a violent tempest, of which he prc.
duced certificates in writing, and has obtained seve-
ral sums from Sir JAMES I LANKA M, Bart. W:
Wrisl/11 AM, F.sq. T. WELD, Esq. PETER BECK-,
FORT), Esq. \VILEIAM Sruaitisß, Esq. (Mayor of
Poole) the Rev. Mr. GROVE, Rev. Mr. Bt.sca:-
ston 1., and many other Gentlemen in the counties
of Hants, Wilts, and Dorset; but on applying to
the Mayor of Dorchester, he discovered the whole
aaeonnt to be false, and has committed this daring.
impostor to the House of Corredion as a rogue and
vagabond.
Several forged. Bank of England Notes for 51.
and 101. have been passed lat?ly in the neighbour-
hood of Christchurch ; and a person resident there
being suspected to have assisted in circulating them,
the Rev. Mr. Wit. Lis, of Sopley, issued warrants on
Thursday for apprehending him, .and for searching
his house. Three forged Notes were found. in the
house, which the man confessed to have received
from one Svtvr.sra R, alias ioNes, in exchange for
smuggled goods. Sv LYESTER is a suspicious cha-
racter, well known at fairs, &c. where he passes for
a horse-dealer, but was. originally a button-maker at
Birmingham : he his resided some time near (.;litist-
church, Hants, ar.d occasionally at Meer.