The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-07 00:00:00

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NAPAL INTELLIGEATB.

poßTsst o.2_r H. xoy. S.

A transport, which arrived on Saturday from
1371w:1171r, has 21 passengers on board, with a foul
hi 1 i health. The most circurnsii..ei attention is
lc% 1,11 the officers of the custom, to ships from
th. Mediterranean, which are ordir..l to the Mother.
4'. k. without bringing to at Spit'oead. We are'
.govet-cd to say, that Gen. Bstmett, and many officers
Of his mite, have fallen vietims to the fever at Cib.
raltar Sir T. Trip,g.,. bad e:nbarked for England;
but ihe death of this officer °lilted him to dis-
culla k. and resume the command of the garrison.
Lady Trigge is come home passenger in one of the
%hips the Motherb.ull.
10 Arrived the Pluto sloop, with a conv.ly from the
Downs ; the E,tr,prenante cutter, from a cruise ;
and the Fdei, sloops horn off Havre.
The-Mediterranean mistily are detained, by the
wilds blowing so fresh, mat troops which are to be
temoved from one transport to another, are pre-
vented.
The Wur lively, and Beagle, to join Sir John
Orde's squadron, cannot get their anchors up, from
its blowing strong.
Renamed to St Helen's the Wyman/ of 50 guns,
Capt. Burkon, bound to join the Boulogne squadron.
WALINOU EH, NOV. 4.
Sailed the Penner (?!.' if packet, Capt. Todd,
with Mails for Lisbon.

DIAL, NINV. 5.
Early this morning, in a hard gale of wind, the
armed defence ship Dile-het of 13e,!fiv,d, Capt.
Thwaites, of the Royal Navy, after breaking an
anchor, drove on shore between Sandanen Castle
and the North Battery : the ship lost her rudders,
but if the weather moderates, it is hoped she will
Ix saved, as every assistance for her preservation is
given.
Remain in the Downs the rest of the ships as
pa Wt.

FROM LLOYD'. LIST.
6.11119.838 D. Nov. 3.-wtssed ii' the Ranger, Onent ; Trent,
Pan". I sad the 'sinless, dna Pmeneurgh ; Nancy, Gdes ;
Dag** Rstn; hatter, 401ersoit; hell, Shorter; ens! the
Renorea. WO .guAt, turn Isnot; New Fair Trsdr-r, Wright ;
and alie Gond Agosment, --s, from Riga; Elusb‘All,
Weeps; and the Adv,sture, Mullanny, from 114evnel; Ro-
berti unison; tows. Eminent' ; Juan .nd Robert, Grin;
Bee cad Mary, Gomm; Sprightly, Nd!; and the George, Ca-
iledale. from Dentate.
dennmEnendosime
The Bred &et was rgpoaadßred on the 29th ult.
by one qf our frigates. WWtt to watch the motioos of
the enemy during Admiral Coeww•esis's short trip
to 'forbay. In the outer harbour were discovered
19 sail of the line, five frigates, one corvette, and
two brigs.—Ws are iaforined, that our in-shore
squadroo on the above *mien, is, in future, to be
composed only of frigates and smaller vessels; and
that Admiral Conswe t Lis has been uncoated to
repair to Torbay on the commencement of blowing
weather.
By the Sfreadasel4 RA v w as, from Jamaica, arrive.[
at Liverpool, we have received accounts from that
,Island of the 14th of September. and it is with great
satisfattion we can say, that no damage has been
sustained in that quartet term the late hurricane,
the effeds of which have been so severely felt in the
Leeward Islands.
Capt. M az% r to. is appointed to the command of l
Cortese of 74 guns, is the West-Indies.
The -Iks;tre and Golloot gust-brigs are ordered is
im ely ;skated for sea at Chatham.
, off' gun-, is to be fitted for the re-
'' tfolifillsrison at Pl mouth, immediately.
A squadron of fifteen :tout privateet s are fitting
, out at Liverpool, omit, the ditto:lion et Captain
Cocoa I. to to cruise against the Spaniards. should
hostilities be declared.
An English frigate arrived at Elsineur on the
27th ult. on a special Commission She %s a. to pro-
ce
! ed immediately to Cronstadt, with impin tont 614-
1 , rwi7, as it was supposed, fur the Court of Peters-
Americans
ins their differences with fripoli. The tot mei have
maw thirteen ships on that stotion, with which they
have of late twice bombarded the town, but with
very little efieff ; and so desirous are they of putting
an end to the unofitable warfare in which they are
engaged, that they have lately offered 1.50,nw do!-
,
11 Lon to procure a peace, which, however, is stated
to have been promptly rejeifted.
‘ I The Senses of the University of Glasgow have
ed the honorary degree of Dodor of Laws
i :111IrDuke of Moser moss Lord Chancellor of the
• University—and on the Marquis Wet test. ev, Go-
: venter General of India.
'lite new St. Pancras Association, Lieutenant-
Colonel 140 n room, mustered on Monday in Harley
Yields, from whence they marched to Kentish
Town. They were there joined by the Highgate
and Hampstead Corps, and they had a grand field.
day together. They were after isards dismissed for
the season, unless when called upon to assemble, by
special orders for that purpose.
hileaday, at Marlborough-street. Wie.a,l ilawhin
was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding
Sumas a a RIG• 11, 00 Saturday last, in Broad-street,
It. Giles's. The prisoner was fully committed for
iiii ofoice, and he was ordered to he brought up
In Friday, on the oath of Low err, the officer, as
hag the accomplice of Ifavireed, now under sen-
tence of death, for wounding Mrs. Witsom, in
Thayer-street.
*today, about owe o'clock in the afternoon, a
sharper of a venerable appearance, with grey hairs,
1,1 accosted a country farmer in Holborn, and addres-
sing him very fantiliarly as a townsman of his, soon
persuaded him that he not only was so, but well
acquainted with all his neighbours. As it was too
cold to talk in the street, they retired to a public-
house in Bream's Buildings, Fetter-lane, where, after
a little conversation, a second sharper came in, who,
it was stated, was an old Gentkmaa troubled with
Att. hit fond of sporting his money, of which he
had plenty. The first sharper and the farmer agreed
to be par MM. as Met, we aarr to :JIM ; and another
sharper, who by this time dropped in. was partner
with the old Gentleman troubled with fits. At length
the old farmer's stock of '7ol. was produced, and
was taken up by his partner to stake for the bet ;
but be being taken suddenly ill, was obliged to go
into the air nigh the money in his hand ; thither toe
others, one by one followed him, and marched off,
leaving the poor credulous man to lanwilt the loss
incasioued he bis own folly.