The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-10-16 00:00:00

PLY I,IOt!TH, UCT,

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Sailed the Wi./4Aor store-ship, to join the haogriee
and Seraph. wailing in the Offing.
Arrived the ferofoir a.;ci Adder gun-brigs, RriNis
ant frigate, 36 guns, Captain Vincent, from Ireland;
Racehorse brig. Captain Forbes, from Guernsey ;
and the Dispatch brig, Captain Hawkins and !Anita.
SO, Captain Buller, from Admiral Louis'. squadron.
The Delight, new brig, Capt. Ilandfield, is gone
into the Sound. and will proceed, when the wind
permits, with French prisoners to Portsmouth.
CALMOVTH, OCT. 12.
The Caebineers, the 6th Foot, as also the 8111;-,
whirls sailed from Spithead en Friday, joined the
rest of the fleet here, last night. Brigadier General
Craufurd is hourly expefted, when the whole will
sail.
DEAL, OCT. 14.
Cam* down from Sheerness the Aim a frigate,
and remains in the Downs with the. Regulut. Prin.-est
of Orange, and Agamemnon, men of war ; Sng,fire
sloop of war ; Prospero. Tur f.r, Zebra, and Devas-
tation bombs ; Valorous PIAAM ; PhosPAOrW.
/Adios*, and Thresher fire vessels ; ffartpoiie viltualler ;
444 and Gererone Maine, bomb tenders; and se-•
veral gun-brigs.—Mind Easterly.
DOVER, OCT. 14.
Sailed the brig Whiting., Huichinson, of And for
Sunderland, light ; the brig Draper, Fife. of Dover,
for ditto t and the brig Dore, Adamson, of and
for Sunderland, light.
SHEERNESS, OCT. 14.
SaiieJ from the Noce this morning, the Star sloop
of war, with the trade under convoy for the Baltic,
with a fine breeze at S.W.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
At Lieerpoo,-othe Mary, Mainlau, from Archangel.
Sc-l• —Now, —, from Vrrgmia.
At airchec—.Hinde, ClArkr. from Plymouth.
At Plvinmith--the Clark, from Quebec.
Olf Peternead.oikulora, Thompien, from d tto.
tr Int,s.o.Actere, Slaker, from Petenburg.
cOoorto-Orlicidade, and PineEmenro, Felix, from
d,tecua Thonty, MAW)! ; and the Aurora, Chritchc.ll, (tom
adobe/E.

HULL, Oar. IS.
The Syrtis and Revanche French frigates, con-
sorts of t►e Giderrier (which was captured in the
North Sias by the Blanche frigate), have made their
appearance to the Eastward of the Banks of New-
foundland, where they have captured the Achlyslene.
Capt. Barmen, and the Sarah. Capt. Mittman, from
Quebec. bound to London, valuably laden with
Curs. The Frenchmen took out a number of furs
from this Laysions, and several valuaLle articles
from the Sarah, which vessel they burnt. The
ES/prone was recaptured by the Collar brig, and
is arrived at Plymouth.

The tic:Lots/ass AND JILISINCIIA, DAVIS'S
STRSIGIITSSACN, or hout.s•
Extrad of a letter from Plymouth, dated 9th
°defier, 1606:—" I have received your letter, and
agreeable thereto, have been on board the tadusioas,
where I found the mate of her, and two boys ; she
was bound from Quebec to London, and captured
by the frigate which had been on the coast of Green-
land. The mate, Ayre, says, that the property
taken out of the Fdtlyriorte, was carried away by
beats used in the Greenland fishery, and he and
both the boys remember seeing the name Blen4elin
painted on the bows of one of the boats : this they
are most positive of, and the mate is almost certaia
that one of the boats was also marked Swan, on the
bows, but of this he is not certain ;—hut that one
was marked Blenheini he is convinced of. The Cd-
reo9R, which re-captured the E.4lJy.tose, is Not ar-
rived ; I will endeavour to get more information,
and advise you."
Another convoy is appointed to sail from hence,
for the Baltic, the 16th instant, instead of the loth,
as at first intended.

The Oflokser Meeting. of the Nowhere Shooting
Club, commenced at Aberdeen, last week. Her
Grace the Duchess of GOILDOPI was expefted there
Irons Perth; as is His Excellency Lieutenant-General
Lord CATHCA it, Commander in Chief in Scotland,
to review the troops of thardistrid.
On Saturday last, as lona Cuing, a lad about 14
years of age, was descending a well at Birches, near
Stroud. in which some foul air had colleEted, lie
was suffocated. and'fell to the bottom. His father,
who had let him down, descended to rescue hiM,
whilst yet alive ; but, before he gained the top with
his son, he was also overcome by the noxious
vapour ; a•id the unfortunate lad was precipitated
' again into the well, from which he was taken out
dead.
On Stinclay se'nnight some daring villains beset the
dwelling-house of Mr. KIRK v, at Fineshade, near
Stamford, but, upon being fired at, decamped with-
out &zing any mischief, flie tat.x: day, whilst Mr.
Keeney was at work in his grounds, a fellow fired
A gun at him out of Chffe-wood. Fortunately Mr.
Kilmer was not hurt, although the bullet passed
through the crown of his bat. rhe neighbourhood
was immediately alarmed, but the offender escaped,
in despite of the most diligent search. We are con-
cerned to state, that a poor man of Du.-Islington,
%sirs jnired in the hue and Cr!, armed with an old
'rusty-sword, unfortunately fell down, and the point
I of the sword running into his body, lie was so se-
t verely wounded, that he died Mut day.

rirft .9CTS
FRO*! THE PORT-Fout) .)F A MAN OF LETruns.

Among the furniture of our old colleges, truckle
beds are very frequently enumerated. Shskspeare.
painting, it is presumed, the mariners of his over.
times, makes the truckle bed part of the furniture
his facetious knight—( Llerry Irmo etf. Windsor. Azt
iv. Sc. 5.) : and Hall, who wrote 1)97, satirising a
" gentle squire" and a domestic tutor, represents it
as the first condition requisite in the latter :

Th.bt he sleep upon the Buckle Led,
Wilde his young master lath o'er iIJ held.
8 ii. S. 6.

There was a high be.. and truckle bed at Wood-
stock Manor, in 1649-41'4dt Oil. ch. viii.. sec. 41,
42) In Henry time (July 9, 1529), Sir
Th,,mas Neville, by letter, requested John Hales,
Baron of the Exchequer, to accept Mr. Attorney-
Gel eral, Sir Cinistopher Hales, to be his bed-fellow
in his chamber in Gray's Inn—(Dwlg. Orig. Joric
p. '275). And Holinshtd, in his Chrenic.li, tells us,
of that Lard Semple who was one of the conspirators
against King Henry V.:—•' The said Lord Scrope
WAS in such favour with the King, that lie admitted
him sometimes to be his bed-fellow ; in whose fide-
lity the King reposed trust."

HENRY FLKINZ, BISHOP OP CHESTER.
Bishop Ferne was a Fellow of Trit.ity College
and Chaplain to king Charles I. He was the first
who ventured to prim in favour ..1' that unfortunate
Monarch, whose cause he warmly espoused in his
C. of Conscience teerciinz Keint/ien. During the
violence of the civil war, he retired to Oxford for
shelter, where he constantly preached. Whsa the
King was in the Isle of Wight, he sent for Dr.
Ferne, se!' re he was the last person that preached
before him. He was Archdeacon of Leicester,
Dean of Ely. Vice-Chancellor of Carnbri.fge in
1660. and appointed Bishop of Chester in 1661,
which preferment he enjoyed but a shout time, dy-
ir in Wet. He was extremely devout and pious.
His temper was sweet; harmless, and ingenuous ;
and it is said, that if he had a fault, it was, that lie
could not be angry. During his whole life he
never censured any one either in public or private.
lie was celebrated for his clear resolutir ns of the
differences between the King and the Parliament,
and between the Churches of England, Geneva, and
Rome, which he performed with such strength and
perspicuity, that his adversaries confessed that the
Church of England's cause never looked so clearly
or devoutly in any writings as in those of Dr. Ferne.
COMMITTER !OR PLUNDRIEPO MINSSTERS.
In the books of the Committee for plundered
Ministers, under the date of the nth of July, 1645,
is the following entry:
•• Whereas the reflory of the parish of Little
Gransden, in the county of Cambridge, being void
by death, and, as the Committee were informed, was
in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, it was accordingly
sequestered by the Committee to the use of I'homas
Perry. a godly and orthodox divine ; and whereas
John Polley, Master of Arts, hath sinse pretended some
right to the said church, by some other title, which
said John Tolley bath been since, upon articles exhi-
bited against him, and examinations therein taken on
both sides, discovered to be a very stri& pralliser of
the late illegal innovations, of bowing at the name
of Jesus to the altar and to the east, and to have
furnished one of his chamhets at Peter House Col-
lege' in Cambridge, where he was sometime Fellow
and President, with divers popish ornaments, and in
particular with a Crucifix, and an altar at the east
end thereof, with an owed upon the wall over it, with
stripes of gold round about it, representing a glory, I j
and a cross within it, and other superstitious trim-
ming, and to have assisted in die conveying away
of the college and university plate of the King, for
which his fellowship had been sequestered horn him.
It is ordered, that the said reetory and the profits
thereof shall continue sequestered to the use of the
said ['homes Perry, and that the said John Tolley
be not permitted to officiate the cure of the said
church, but that the said Thomas Perry shall con-
tinue to aficiate in the same, and eni,,y the profits of
the said rectory, until further order shall be made."
ARCHBISHOP PARKER.
The treatment which the remains of this learned
Prolate met with, chews the violence of the times.
His body was taken from the place wherein he WAS
buried, the leaden coffin sold, the corps buried in a
dunghill, and his tombstone converted into a table.

The following persons, who are of the Gipsey
tribe, and appeared to claim some thstinfliro, from
the singularity of their christiati names, viz. Char-
lotte SMITH, Pherbe SMITH, Claraney SMITH, Car-
nation SMITH, Hop SMITH, Chrulmaz SMITH, and
la,th SssITH, were sentenced to a month's imprison-
ment, at the last Lewes Quarter Sessions, AS
grants.
'rhe foundation-stone of the new western pier
belonging to the Cara arthenshire C4lllb
pany, wac laid last week. Several proptietors at-
tended the cerenmay, assisted by their &tinier
and Dock Master, as usual, upon such occasions,
and a liberal sum was given to the workmen. This
new pier will extend 153 yards, end form one of
I the most complete boons and safe places of shelter
in the Principality,'

A. shocking accilent happened on Mondry even-
ing, on the road to Kilburn, in consequence of the
v.l:tullhattention of the driver of a sewn chaise to
Edgware. Mrs. HALL, of the Bedford Nursery,
was riding in a one-horse cha;se, with her daughter,
attended by a man servant, on her way to town;
she was driving on the right side of the road, when
the post-boy crossed, and coming in coma& with
Mrs. Hat s chaise, upset it and broke it to pieces.
Mrs. H. was, of course, thrown out by she concus-
sion, and was so much hurt that her life is despaired
of. Miss H. providentially was not hurt. The
post-boy was much intoxicated.
Tuesday nineteen Chinese and Lamars were
brought to the Public-cffice, Shaslssell, in coaches
from the House of Corredion, for examination, for
the tumult they excited a tew days since in Ratcliffe
Highway, when fifteen wounded persons were taken
to tee London Hospital. who are in a pedal state of
recovery ; 14 were. in consequence, discharged, after
a suitable admonition from the Magistrate, and five
were trasandvd back to the House of Corredlivn, as
being principal leaders of the riot. .

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CORN-LXCHANCE, Oct. 15.

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The feei.li arrivals of Wheat to day ore very few, and not
•isuch ientaining; sales. of winch arii dull, and Hearty it
our
..t quote prices. There are 'err Al liiither arrival. of 8.1
at lew psieo; lait likewise thaing to the
particular scarcity of White Peas c:eatera 'Luther advance un
of 4. and ha ter rla.rrre Data a:c le conaida,abio
•umileus, and el raver, but few of first qiivPitr at hand. Flour
< sot currency. Fi..o A rhearan, 446, tu 48a. per barrel
and other articles it no particular variation.
CURRENT PRICE OF GRAIN.
vheat.....,..57i 824.• Beans. 424 as Od.
Fine An 93s 92s flaL Tick Beans .....34. 42.. Oa,
dr, new 411 a 41;s. tit Oats ..2ta 261..1h.
Itaoey Ms. 44/. il. Polanes • 325. XS. a.
Mait . 7Ca. 76.. Od Rape heel 231. 211, 0.,
Ware Priaa.....tidt. 7G. 0.1. Fine Flour .70s. 7Sa Ott,
Grey Pear....., 46a. Od. seconds bas 70a Od.

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COAL.OIAOKET. OCT. If.
Ships at Market. Surd. Peke.
41 ..Netraastla
lerlausl 3 4011 04 • 47s 04
1 "Cinders

rRicE OF S rOCKS. YEST'ERDAY• ,
Rink 5,......c 2114
3 per C.,ii. Re4ice4
3 per Cent Consols
4 iter Cents 7/1 31
b per Cent. Nary
I.osit Annuities
0 arvum
India Bonds • l. Si. pun-
Exeheqms, Bilk
Biliu.lll..tterry Tickets
Cim...ils cut ..
T BISH, Stack-broker,
No. 4, Cunihill, and 9, Charing-cwt.

MPH STOCKS, OCT. 9.
GuTeromont Debentotio, 34 par C0ut...111 701
Govt. Stock 5 yr; CCM.
Grand C,a.r4 Lo.n, 6 per Cent. 9?

tIIRTH
Saturday se`noight, at hw house at Ilernbill, the lady cf
Lieutenant-Colonel Gusts, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
Thunday, at Dunstan's chinch, Canterbury, Mt. N. MI.
ton' thud Iwo of Ti 10.1114 Baton, Ebq of Selling, to ma
th4man, of St. Dunstan's.
Last fursday, at Dohlin, the Res. J Richard., or Null, so
Miss Cilarlotte Donovan' da Ighter of the late LitsaM 11.14-
van, Eq. Countsllopat Law, of Dublin.

DE ATHS.
On Tuesday morning, at M. Wattles, Palate-street, Can.
teruuty, aged 9J, Mrs. Mania, who formerly kept a school
It Knightabradge.
Os Monday, the 30th ult. at Margate, in his 63i1 yea,
greatly and deNeivedly I.manted, H.th.onei Hodges, 11. N. late
of Greenlawl-duel, Surrey.
Lately, at Ms house, at Lewisham, in Kant, aged 80,
Samuel Hadley, Esq. lota first Magist.atai of the city of West-

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m Miter.
Oii Tueiday, at Lambeth Cottage, the lion. Mu. Thomas
Coventry.
On the 10th of March, at Ja'ratt, in Ceylon, Lieutenant.
Colonel Samuel Jeatinerm, of the HonouraSle East Indus Coot-
pany's Service.
Suddenly, on M .nday last, at his house in town, Heal
Eggers, Esq. of Woodford, Essex, one of the Directors of the
Phenix Insurance Company, in the 6Rth year of his age.
HIGH WATER, THIS DAY, AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Horn— . lb min. after S f Even ....011 min. after S.

IVJORS.
Ey M.NM. KIM( and LOCREF,
At their Grew 1t0,04 Ki.,e-street. Covutat,:arden, on mom,
DAY, Uttober •47, anti I,llcnrivg Dar it Terelvo o'Cluck,
A MISCELLANEOUS CObLECTION of
A ECIPuKs l among tains are, Dam-la Rural Snort., 5
rot —t...:,bauris Roman Lava% 11 sot —Latham's 11,rdt.
not -.4Seu..nebroke's Work., S vat Co.—Nara Sbakat.wetc.
20 vol.-1-1 sroire daa HOMIN4III, 32 tout.mePtiatartue, par
Amyot, Qi tom
May be tweed on Saturday previous to the Sale, and Cata-
logues had

LAW I.IIRARY.
Hy Meters KING and LooTrE,
At their Greet Room, VI, King-street, Covent-garden. no
Noversilier 7. and follogrung bay, at Twelve,
►I•HE valuable LIBRARY of LAW BOOKS.
the property of a Gentleman, deceased; including aLI
the be-t Keporu.
May be skewed on ThunLiay previous to the Sale, and Caa •
hagues haft

BOOKS.
By Means. KING and LOCHEE,
At their Great Room, King street, Cevent.garden, on TIIIJS-
DAY, tio,emerear 13, at Twelve o'Clock,
AL COLLECIIONT of RARE ald VALUABLE
BOOKS; arnqng Orin 'c. 1410,..“'""•
piatei by Holler, Latin and English t.d.toins, i rot
Uri, nag lidietales--Ilursley's Antiquities, L. P.
Battle of the Frogs ; I' strait by Pais--Sevarel of Hearie's
Pieces, 1.. P.—lreland's Tours, i rot —Together with a cill.,'*
Asseniasge of ihstuncal. Poetical, and ether 'Fraals.
May be tiew:d on Wednesday presiour to the Sale, al d
Cat.l..gura bad.

RARE 01.1) ENGLISH LITLRITURS.
By \t is:. KING and LOCGEL.
At their Gat E.ngstreet, C:lscit-garden, on
MONDAY, Noirendscr 17, sad h tie Iniiiinitig
Tsetse, by Order of the Executor.,
' HE eurmus LIBRARY. late the property at
IL Mr. RICHARD FORSTER, of Richmond
Mewed; comprising a e-ry and valuable aaaabol•ge
at (MI Play., Reelitec •,. English Chronicles, Voyages ~4
Tract t, Poetry-4sanv id* them rare; together With 3
of Prints bad Piat.asts; three Mahi.Keny Rooltemes, Sr—
Me, be 'bewails 'thumb', November 13, and CalB"4t'
tabs Wyk prime tio.

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BOOR S
Br hitters. KING and LOCHEE,
Al their Clem kkeoru. Kung.stn,t Cument.g Hien, is the
coun,A December,
IN.Very valuable Oral curious COLLECTION
of SOURS in the ENGLISH LANGUAGL
t. 4 then. etsl y pnrateti, and is al.ei letter.
Timely Nistext of the Days of Sees nal be risen.

Nuon ,—pn.ikie U DAviosoti, No. 11, f)'/".1
t'..•on, Bow-street, Ca•ent-Ganiloo, and puhlisheel at the
°thee, No la, hack of St. (lament's Church, Strand, by
W. STUCK, of No 7, Na. liheitnn-ortest, Loin Acre
()Mors, ire toe th tent to toe (Jae* (pt•rpaA
*IN be Ogee ettrnded