The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-03-20 00:00:00

[Ratner from from " TAB Btisfol llir►or."]

(ram • Coianorownaiv.)—This has bees a busy week
le Pimp Laid. Great interest was excited os Monday
leortalig by a report that the renowned Hickman had ar-
rived; aid is the course of the following day, the fritesda,
patrons, aid professors of the "accomplished Wieser," were
Melted to the Tailors'-Hall, Broad-street, to witsess a dis-
play of Dynoissfics. Accordingly, is the evening, a appalls
compeay' assembled at the app•iNted place, when obey
foaled the two great inaster.gealseses of pugilism' Neal and
Mamas, the eseqseror sad the conquered, with Cy Davis,
Neynatde, Cabbage, sad other, of sitter mote. Those were
several eemit•., but the sports attracted little interest, staid
the resowsed Gas
" entered the
" Aid, twinkling like meteors, be flooriahed his lists."
He was received with a gemerourborst of applause, and ia a
meek esenuater with Parsons, goon convinced the audience,
that, coasideriag his site aid weight, the country has so such
isweller.

[Our Correspondent was not present et the Tailors'-Hall on
Thursday tworisnig, when thew sports were renewed; but we
owdersiated that one hero had his loose split, and that anrither
was Bossed by a blow on the kidaies—to the infinite delight
of the spectators !J
Or Thursday eveniog Hickman again chewed at the As.
aembly-Room, when be entered she ring with the amenities.
Their set-to enabled the amateurs to form a tolerably correct
idea of the Masher in which the great battle was lust and woo,
as it displayed the varioos characteristics of both. The style
of Neatit (says *or Reporter) exhibits the perfection of this
mete art,—it is the citations, the skillful„.the sabiliwe !—that
of Gas, is the dal iog, the showy, the flatcar, style of bogie,.
'l lie room was full, ,red the audience highly gratified.
[[Matey wise men contend, tbet hosing, with its sister arts,
bell baiting, badger-boating, cock-fighting, wrestling, sad
ahla.kicking, are necessary to keep op the genuine spirit of
Erhglishiuen; and that this opiniori is entertained is our owa
city, is svideut from the patronage which (thanks to the pen.
geese of rejlasseent) pugilism receives from iedividnals in the
superior rankeuf life, who, from their education, their polished
habits, sad tbie bright example they afford to their ioferium
cannot be iappmed to err. The philosophic observer of
bonne *atom may possibly think otherwiee. Bat we bate
oothiteg to d? with Phileeophets--our business in to record
frets; and we have to style, that these weeders were 'Wad-
ed by all classes, high'and low ; and that (is these hard
ttioss) the soots received at the d.ors probably .acceded 12414.]

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YORE Assize BALL AND Cozczrzza.—On Mon-
day se'onight the Assize Ball in the Assembly
Rooms was attended by nearly 300 persona, and the
ball was opened by the Lady of the High Sheriff,
Oa Wednesday the first Anise Concert, at the
same place, was attended by a most numerous and
btilliant assemblage of remit and fashion, amount-
ing to upward, of 600 Ladies and Gentlemen.
About half-past twelve dancing commenced, the
ball being opened by 411111. BATIN ILL, the High
Sheriff's Lade, and Mr. ihmasox, of Doncaster,
and continued between three and four the fol-
lowing morning.

Ma. WALLACK.—We sincerely regret to observe
that this gentletnasi's recovery proceeds but slowly.
By a letter received at Philadelphia, noticed in the
AJessoeratie Press of Wednesday. it appears that a
!second operation has bee. perlonued on his kg,
and a portion of bone extracted ; and that he is not
yet so fur recovered u to be allowed the use of
crotches. He cherishes an expectation, however, '
that he will be stile to pedals in May. His gene-
nal health end spirits are excellent, and every wound
OP his leg is healed; the perfect union of the hones
limo* the great desideratum. Whenever he-cwt
vision so far with safety, he intends to visit
delphia, where his brother and sister now reside.—
• (New York rapt.) '
As Mr. Sono,' the Illictiereetr, 'of the Borough
of Southwark, was going in his gig to his hn.tree.st
Setts*: oa SettirJey"eVening; the hone becume
noise. sod-1111rt Seitilt,taisithrtiwn iiitt of the gig'
ris Lipp., rireeeitig;!*inel!ltilklll on the poi by the
rseven kithist .of the • lowa,' *hid fractdied
sitoilv. •

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Early •0° 5•14r4.F 1!/°?fdllgsftil• WI . illtiklits 4sol al Sie
W. Rush's hook, in Pall-mao, idler a severe and painful
illness, the Rev. E. D. Clarity, LLD. Professor of Miele.
eulogy, nod Libreria, of this University, fairsietly: F• 1111; (4
Jesus C4liege, and 114olir of Hadlen.ta this veep. aid of
Greet Veldt's., in ~ 4i is ' .iissiimlstiks of AO
deepest regret, that we sandertZe the hove intellieeoce; opt'
hove
we trust to thelerdiolienee of oar ma ere, if or Irk.** b 5.
goad our usual limits ow sack as missiten, mod lased a feei
tributary words to the memory of this highiplenented sad
must distinguished todividool. We should fail jaded is trilr
respect for thegeoreal sympathy which tildes@ of Dr. Clarke
han ezeited, were we to content ourselves with the bare notice
of his death. In the following paragraph It irl'not intended
to draw the character of the tale.Fraissor, and to delineate
his varied excellencies—they will heveaftet be tested by the
biographer; but the betty skrtethWhich has bees enoveped to
us by one of his numerous Greeds will. we truss. prove not
citable. Perhaps' no peewit ever poosessed 113 a more
eminent degree than Dr. Choke the delightful faculty of
wheat", the hearts sad rivettieg the erections of those into
whore society be emend. Fries the first nomad his otio
*eremite excited ea interest that never sided. Those gibs
knew him once felt that thes mast love him always.. Tide
kindness of his arsenide, the anxiety he expressed for ,thd
welfare of others, his eageraire to make them 'feel happy
sad pleased with themselves, when unit. d to the charms If
him languor, were irresistible. Stich was Dr. Clarke in
private life; within the clerk of his Sore . immedisse
friends, in the midst of his family...there he might bie
seen as the indolgent palest,' the *frictional,. hall-
hew!, the warm, zealous, and sincere friend. Of his
public life the presets( moment will only admit of au either.
Spots after taking his degree, Dr. Clarke sceompaaled the
present Lodi Berwick airoad, and remained for some time
in Italy. The classic scenes he there met with, and Itiooorn
inquisitive grail's, stimulated him to enter into a wider
field of research ; and shortly after his return to England,
he embarked on those travels which hive rendered his name
so celebrated throughout Europe ; indeed, we may add, in
every quarter oldie civilised world. To eater into say de-
scription of them is needless--they see before the pohlie.
They have been, and will continue is be, the delight, end
the solace of those who have bees stable to visit other
countries; and they hang excited the dormant spirit of curi-
osity in many • resident of this University, who has followed
eagerly Ike steps of Dr. Clarke, sad he. invariably horse
testimony to the accuracy and fidelity of his narrative. Dr.
Clarke has somewhere mentioned all the excellencies which
mist unite to form • perfect trpvelkr—he must have lbepeucil
of Hordes, the pen of Yolney, the learning of Pococke, the
Prseveranee of Bruce, the eathuslasm of Savory. Of all these
e. Clarke united in his 01,11 person by far the greater share.
No difficulties in his progress were ever *Bowed to be iron..
perable; and upon all occesioos be imparted to ethers a
portion of his own enthusiasm. It was upop the return from
this extensive tour during which be bad visited nearly the
whole of Enrope, and parts of Asia and Africa, that Dr.
Clarke presented to the Uoiverity those memorials of his
travels which now decorated the vestibule of the library;
sad as some relent for the apleadour which his name
had reflected upon the University, he was complimented
is full Smoak with the degree of LL.D. From that mo-
ment the resideace of the traveller was confined to Cam.
bridge, and he dimity after commenced those public lee-
lures in mineralogy, which, it possible, have made:his same
more Immure sail honoured, both ia this and in foreign
constries, them even his lent sad interesting troiels. Natu-
re' History was his earliest and mod farmwife *lady; and
that peculiar breech of it which refers to the mineral king.
dom. eons engrossed the whole of his attestlese. In the de.
livery of his.celebrated lectures, Clarkson". without •riest....
Meeloquesce was inferior to none (in native eloquence. pro
haps, few have ever equalled him in this eouetry); his homy.
ledge of his subject was extensive; his elucidation ricer and
simple ; and in the 'Roared's', which were priktically
afforded by the various end beautiful specimen of his alio&
rate„ ha IMO pendia'', happy. Must of those iheeimeas he
had himself collected, and they edition failed to give rise to
the must pleasing associations by their isdividual locality.
We may justly apply to him le the delivery of his lectures
what is coerce,. ow the monument of Goldsmith, " NAM,
gra kelpie, con orsaril—.^ Of the higher qualities of
his mind, of his force and energy as • Christie@ preacher, of
the sublimity and excellence of his discourses, we might
tell in any other place than Cambridge • but here all NMI'
don of them is unnecessary, his crowded congregations are
testimony suffieiest. Of the estimation in which Dr. Clarke
was held by foreigners, we may in the same manner refer
our readers to the serious hunogary Rocklin in which
his name stands enrolled; we may safely my, that to so
one person has the Usiversity of Cambridge been more
indebted for celebrity abroad during the last twenty years,
than to her laie Librarian, Doctor Choke. He has fallen
a victim indeed to his generous ardour in the pursuit of
science—he looked only to the fame of the University; end
is his honest endeavours to exult her reputation, he mishap-
pity neglected leis own invaluable health. He bas thus left
to his afflicted family and to his survivisig triads the most
prolare and bitter regrets ; whilst to the University itself be
bee bequeathed a debt of gratitude, which we doubt sot will
hereafter he amply aad liberally discharged.
Dr. Clarke was in the bath year of his age, aad proceeded
to the degree of B.A. 1790, M.*. 1794.
The candidates fur the office of Librarian to the University
are--Henry Gunning, Esq. of Christ College ; the Rev. John
Lodge, Fellow of Magdaleme • the Rev. J. C. Franks, Chap.
lain of Trinity College; mod liege Barges, Eq. of Trinity
College.
.1. S. Heoslow, Esq. of St. John's College, is candidate for
the Professorship of Mineralogy.
It is gewerally supposed that the University intend to offer
a liberal price fur the splended collection of minerals which
adorned the late Profess/es lecture-room.

The detachments of the 15th regiment, destined
fur Pendeanis Castle and Milford Haven, embarked
on Tuee,day—the former 041 board the Awe barge,
and the latter in the Haagoase lighter. The de-
tachment of the 10th, which was relieved at Pen-
dennis, disembarked from the Awe yesterday morn-
ing. The four companies of the 10th, ordered for
Deptford, will be disembarked at Woolwich, Har-
wich, and Landgward Fort—head-quarters Wool.
wich.—(Plymolith Paper.)

It is rumoured that the Corn Committee intend
to recommend that permission be granted to the
proprietors of wheat now under the Kuser's lock, to
convert the wheat into flour. with a view to facili-
tate its exportation to the West Indies or to south
America.

On hlonday, at half-past two o'clock, Mr. Mae,
the Chief Cushier of the Bank, gave notice to the
members of the Stock Exclienge, in the names of
the FIRST LORD of the TRIBASORT,and the CUM'.
cat Lon of the Excitztsusa, that all those Immo'', •
holders "of 5 per cent. stock, who hose dissented,
from the plan for the reduction of the intero6
um. on giving notice on or before the 30th instait„
receive the *mount of their stock, et par, in ipossol;
on the sth of April, with the quarter interest thin
due. Mr. HAM also stated, that those
.pere.ios
who have dissented, end who decline receiving the
amount on the sth of April, will be paid off 9u llst
sth of July. Thole persona who have theestepded;
priiilege of declaring their dissent till the lit.
June, will likewise be paid off 011 the sth of %417.
It is understood that the payenents in siitictpalln
will be matte by the Commissioners of the Shifting
Fend, into whine names the stack so paid' wili,
is the lint initance, be trostetred.

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