The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-20 00:00:00

RlO7 AT ro,,K.

A fearer of rather a serious nat-re took r.: •e in
York last oaturday at 'nnight A par. yof the ...Ws
Volunteers had been sopping out wit s.one .:t thin
friends, and were retur..ing to their Tracers about
two &clack in the morning, when they wee- met
by a number of fel ows, principally dressed as
sailors, aed armed witn bludgeons, upon Ouse-
Bridge, who, without any provocation, commenced
• furious attack tor-n the Voluntees. 'I he assail-
ants bid greatly t..e adva Rag* in point of numbers.
and a man, with his face smeared with blood, ran up
to the offi..ers' mess-house, which he entered.
crying. "Far God's sake come to the assistance of
year men, or they'll be murdered." Captain
lacasoe, who happened to be down stairs,
rushed nut immediately, and was followed by
several others ot the officers. T:-e Captain disarmed
two of the hiudgena-men. but a third struck him os
the hued, and taltded a.severe contusion, mad a
foorlis gave hint .o violent a blew. as to breek his
sitfirdiitin. • Whiltothi; was pvssiny. several of the
essoinsits vete brandishing We :e-a•rn. lids they
ihad taken from the voluateers,and one ut them ;sago
m thrust at Lietr. Ler atm which'. prevented free
takiogisfieft, by receiving the point of the borrow
wit% the hilt of t•is seised. By this time the
.silors found that they were lilt-Jo/to meet with a
warmer reception tha t' ey fort "anticipated, a d
very prudently decamped; but not till many .f
them had received sue'. a lesion of ealtrary chasth •
ment, .11 will probably improve their future mate-
nets Almost from the first day that the Volunteer
moved York, fellow* of the above description •
fered them insults, and when the drums went they
ori.ola it night. they err, .• always to be found
roaring +tier them 111: :1 hie - ! They nese
class of men much Itaimpaished by the same cro
during the York city And couety elections. air{
senile dressed lore sailors, are k..s. so to hare just
as much of the British tar in them, as the vago.
bonds who infest the count•y wi.h their arms a d
legs tied up, imploring pu charity by d .y,
and committing depredators by night. One of
the above desperate gang wa, exotothert at the ..las-
sion-house in York. last ..looday, charged with art
attempt to fire a gistol at the Loan M•voa while in
the execto ion of his office. Lhe powder only flished
in the pan, and the pistol did not explode. Oct
mining the contents, it was found that the pistol did
not contain a ball. but a cartrifge securely made up
ha been substituted lhe man was reruaoded tpe
lui ther examination.— ( Leeds Mel, airy )

Dispatches were sent off; last night. to Potts•
=swim° be forwarded to Newfoundland.
The bets between Captain BA RCL A Y and WOOD,
we understand, Lave Leen settled at Newmarket ;
in London the leviers have refused to pay.
WOOD, last Friday, rec:•svrd rather rough usage
at a public-hou,e, at t atouridge. Sonic of the
company put out the lights, and kicked him out of
the room.
The lifemarc4. Gamma:a, from Malta. for Gib-
ralt a and Lisbon, is captured in the Meditcria-
nt a•.
On Saturday morning, passed through Winches-
ter, two hundred French prisoners, on their way to
Fortran prior:,.
Winchester barracks are under repairs for the re-
eeptioii of two or three hundred troops ; the 62d
Reg ment, will be the first to enter ; the
Reginseut and others will come in the course of next
week.
Since the late fires at St. Thomas's the houses
and stores which have been built are of stone ;
and conteraplating that a supply of lumber slaty at
some tune hereafter be withheld from the Unl•ed
States. the people of several of the West India
Islands intend building with brick or stone.
Yesterday afternoon, a G=•tleman's beroucho
landau, with two Ladies inside, was standing at •
shop in Band street, near the top of Oxford-streets
the off-horse got rea.tt•e and frightened the other
horse, when they set of towards Blenheim-street.
and rah over the post at the corner of the shr•-
and the coachman and footman were thrown ff
with great violence on the pavement ; the foots ass
was very much injirted in the head. .•.d the coach-.
moo In the leg; they !soda received instant medical
assistance. The Ladies was so much alarmed t
they WOW.

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IRELAND.

DUSLIW, OCT. 16.
The irregular transmission of newspapers through
the Country, frotn the respettive plac.ts of puhf ca-
tion, by t;te P"s•-Ulifee.rs. hating been made • sub-
js.& of remonstrance and complaint to the Postmae-
ters-Genet al, tilt', have, with an attention to the pro-
pri.• erg. and the public, highly creditable bi them-
see s, is.teetl the following circular letter to prevent
thc cnnune•ii,u of the injurious praClices which
Elite b-to reprewnted to them e
ound 5,19,:t0ber, 1837.

The complaints merle to the Postinasters-fieneral,uf the
rod, in many instances, the total lit- of
W,l4;rltrt, Lave of late been so rev frequent at to oh:iire
Lo.d.hip. to adosi the most decisive measures for the
d:ofi us end puendiment of such of their servant% at by he-
r!, cr w of letter., may contribute to the ezten.iiin of a trier-
once, that is ire•.' ce,r-rally felt throughout the kingdom—and
as their Lards, r s have reason to apprehend, that the irregu-
larities r ormihrited or, have in some Instance. been occanotted
by improper conduct .1 deputies, suffering improper
per -airs t o ',ate amens to Nawspapet• that .to not belong to
th.ort..o.d that sit most eases they have SMOG lons want of
doe "lidertil on the part of their deputies, In delivering the
pao... t.. .erydri and other permits who may demand, but
Woo really In,. no antherity to obtain them--I am command
ed a. desire that you will not, undo, any pretence, suffer any
to ammo front the cov,r, a Newspaper that i• not mi-
dmosd to them.-!hat without an Aathor.ty is Writing from
the .nmer of the Paper, you will not deliver to any perm,' the
fana,,of Walla Mr the purpom of immediately dria•
err., It l') oatty to whom it may be addressed—and in
this pad cidai
your ran al ...mind. the mecum of imitating§ And filially
the P..tmasta.i...Gettertal desire, that every effort will be made
ilr y ()flee to aid them 101 their exertions to secure to the
pubtre :F: due &livery of all Newspapers, wothuitt. injury or
delay-ador that in any instance *lime it shall be found that
a Newspaper has been either delayed or lost, Injured or other-
wise tartorri.d with in yew delivery, your ionu:diate disou*-
1, a frost (Mee will en .ue. lam, &c.
Tha Pastmoter of

Tit A I EL, OCT. 9.

We hire heard, with extreme regret, that :time
irregillatities have been committed in f:-.e neighbour-
hood nt Listnwel ; we will not, however, j ist now,
remark upo.• any information which we ace pos.
sesi-ed of, having 'meow hopes that we rimy not be
compelled, by a repetition of the mistotiduct h re
slat eel at, to m ike further allusion to proceedings
which, it continued, would tarnish the fair fame of
a county. hitSerto in rernaik Ode for its loyalty and
peace. We I. me too strong a reliance on the jest
influence, the determined spirit and rise rompt vier•
two: of the highly respettable gentry in that neigh-
bourhood, to sup.ose that a few misguided wretcht,
will be suffertd t, persevere in giving the slight. st
oppost ion Wale law, or offering any an'• yance to
VI. • well affe.9ed of the community It e uneer-
stand tbat an application has, already, been made
to government for a party of soldiers to assist in le-
storing that gond order, which, amid general con-
fusion, it was our particular boast to have main-
ta.keela and an impudent, but partial and una-
taint's, v•:•lation of which is now attemp.e.l to be
mads.—(X.rty Cc. Post I
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LIIITTICIC. OCT 13.

This day the Galway Regiment, ciarrnanded by
CeLitel, the Eatl or Clancaity, cempleted their
pii-nner v lunteers to the line: their quota was
Sl7, which. ion, the strength of their establishment,
was the Greatestniimher in be furnished by any mi-
litia rerment in tt.i. k:ngdnm. It is a circurnsmare
hiphl, c editable, that the men of this regiment have
turned out so liberally on all occasions ; within the
last two years and a half; it has contributed no less
than 700 men towards the service of the line.
COAK, OCT. 10.
Yesterday, the Earl of Harrington, Commander
io Chief ot the Forces in this Kingdom, arrived at
Ocietal Flnyd's, Camden place. It is said, he is
on a tour of inspeOion, through the maritime coun-
ties, to see that the military stations on the coat are
in a proper state of defence.
The late visit of Sir John Newpott to our city, the
only Irishman, perhaps, who ever preserved his pa-
triotism wish hi, office, was not marked with any of
those circumstances which attended him or. a former
occasion. He was then decked with all the honours
ot office, and public dinners ani levies of merchants
nwa ted him. On this visit, even the cotemporary
joirnalicrs are silent. Sir John had not forgotten
lri I Ind in the hour of general aystacy, nor will
Ise land forget him in the day of her prosperity.—
(Seeabeen ileprorr )

CLONMPL, OCT. 7.

Some d tys ago an inquest was held in this co,inty,
on the body of James Conn. a sub constable, for she
apprehension of whose murderers a liberal reward
bus been offered 21) Lord Donoughtnnre. This maa
•as inhumanly butchered ion his return fr..m the
last fair of Cahir. and his arms taken away. Lend
D. attended the inquest, and has been ur.remitting
in his endeavours to bring the perpetrators of this
murder to justice. On Monday se'nnight his Lord-
ship, attended by an escort of the 1 lth Light Dra-
goons, unexpededly scoured an extensive distridt of
the country, arcund Knocklotty. His Lordship and
the party remained eleven hours that night in search
of persons against whom his Lordship had informa-
tion for various offences. Seven persons, charged
with murder, and other capital offences, were se-
cured and committed by his Lordship to the gaol
of elpnmel. Among these were tome farmers of
the higher ot,'er. Much good hiss already resulted,
and much more is still likely to result from the spi-
t;ted r zettinns of Lord Donoughmore. His Lord.
s'op's firmness and decision render him peculiarly
well sale elated to overawe and keep down that dis-
positino to outrage, which, but for his Lordship's
timely interposition, would probably, ere this, have
been more strongly manifested in this county.

L TTTTT /NOM SA LLINAILOIL. OCT. $ 1807.

Our great cattle fair commenced on Monday
the 5111 inst. with sheep, of which there were
bald 72,025—Un501d 4,Bo3—Total 76,02'5.
The prices were nearly the same as last year, but
were rather looking up. The general stock were
admitted by every one to be greatly improved within
the•e few years lv,th in form and size, by the intro-
duition of Newleicestedtams. Such breeders as have
ameliorated the coa•seness and uathriftiness or the
large t -ep. by a moderate addition of Ness Lei.
mmand the highest prices at this fair.
"se who NMI substituted thorou4h-
-r ewes in the place of their Irish
to have materially injured tncir
iseg &e Wool has suffered, and it
me wires will be taken to resume
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for supplying Ole markets -Ms young Mutton; but
the fault is in the consumers themselves, who will
not give a farthing per pound more for four than
two-year old Sheep, and, at the present high rents.
the Grazier cannot afford to sacrifice all his profits
to please their palates. In London, South Down
Merton uniformly sells for one penny per pound
more than the large young Mutton, and the Gra-
ziers are paid for keeping those Sheep over, till they
are aged, by the superior value of the fleece, and
the low rent of the land which will maintain them.--a
great number of this breed have lately been im-
ported into Ireland, and promise to be the gentle-
man's mutton of the country.
l'he Hotse Fair was, on Tuesday, and a more
wretched exhibition never wasseen; excepting a very
few, the horses exposed to sale were fit neither for
the road, the cart, or the plough, for no one purpose
either of pleasure or profit.—There has been a rapid
degeneracy within she last fifty yeast in the horses of
this island, which is attributed to a mixture of the
heavy black or Flanders Draft Horse, and the
dwindled Racer, with the original valuable breed of
the country, which has produced disproportion.
weakness, and inataivity. It should seem that
King's Plates were originally intended to encourage
the breeding of a useful description of horse; and
still if Gentlemen of the Turf could be induced to
keep the strongest of their horses over till four years
old, and then use them at high weights, they might
essentially serve their country. How far the Suffolk
Punch Breed. which are so much approved of in
England, and ate certainly excellent for the purpo.e
of draft, will answer as a cross for our common
mares, can be proved only by the most accurate ex-
periments.
The bullock fair was on Wednesday. There were
sold, 6659 Unsold. 3069-I'otal, 8728.

A gentleman. who purchases eight hundred
annually at this fair, is decidedly of opinion, that a
manifest improvement has taken place in out bul-
locks within these few years. It is to be lamented,
that there has been a serious fall in the beet stock,
which were at least 15 per cen•. lower than last
year. This is impisted by the graziers to • col-
lusion between the Navy Contra tors and persons
concerned in the provision trade; to counteras
whic;). a company was lately formed, who tined
pen aps with much more zeal than discretion.—
projeft has failed, and the graz'ers are now
more at the mercy of the contra/tors than before.—
In a superficial observer, it would seem that the low
prices vise from the great stipply, particularly as
beet is an aril, le which ca: ries Est-If to market, the
price would sown be equalised. if scarcity created de-
mand. There ts a constant difluation in the pro..
duce of land; when butchers' :mat is cheap, butter
and milk are pr.portionatily Mglin, and rice versa,
if all neclitie in price, Lands must fall ; if they in-
crease, lands must rise. Any attempt to controul
these elfecis of commerce will prove abortive, and
will generally be attended with consequences the re-
verse of th :se intended. Upon the whole, the pro.
vision trade is a sithj.-..% of great difficulty ; if the
ennui/ids were div,ded so as to be within the reach
of a greater Lumber of competitors, it is supposed
Government would be supplied on better terms. and
the graziers would be better paid.
I litipe, in a few days, to send you a statement of
the annual 'ales of neat cattle and sleep at this fair,
fur the hut forty years, which, I think, will be very
acceptable to your agricultural readers.

On Saturday morning, a shocking accident hap-
pened in Queen-street, near the Royal Oak, Portsea,
to a lad going to ►choi.l, who, standing en the fore-
wheel of a waggon, to reach some hay, the waggon
went on, when, dreadful to relate, the hind wheel
went over him, broke his thigh, and otherwise much
bruised him. It was not long since a brother of this
lad, whose name is Massaatool, was rode over.
and much him by alight horseman.
A matteillo tower, upon a very extraordinary
scale, is now building at Esst Bourne. It has an
advanced circular wall, of considerable thickness.
behind which is another support. consisting en-
tirely of beach timber; and the walls of the tower
irself will be so strong, as to render it impregnable
in every point. These towers are supplied with
cisterns, upon a very commodious and economical
cnnstreion: they consist of squales of oak timber,
lined with lead, the nrh part of an inch in thickness
A wicked attempt was made by a patty of armed
ruffian:, early on Tuesday morning List. to desany
by fire the woollen faßory lately established at
Bradford, Wilts, by Messrs. Diver r, Price, dace-
SON, and Cn. An alarm being given, the villains
fled, leaving in their haste two large bags, and two
glass bottles, which had contained combustibles, a
loaded pistol. and two ladders.—We are informed
that staire measures are taking by the Magistrates
to bring to condign punishment the offenders, and
to protect the persons and properties of the clothiers,
in case of further riotous proceedings amongst the
workmen, whn stell continue, under the grossesterror.
to oppose the use of machinery in the woellen ma-
nufattories.

On Wednesday morning, Lieutenant &IMO',
of the Sussex Militia, son of Sir CLITHSLKT StiAr-
Toe, threw himself out if the chamber-window, at
his lodgings in French Gardens at Hall, and in
consequence of the bruises he received, died a short
time alter. He had been left behind the regiment,
in consequence of heing *lifted with a bowel com-
plaint, which brought on delirium, and thus led to
this unhappy catastrophe.
Captain Sr A a K. of the Jelilee, of London, arrived
at Leith, has deposed before the proper Officers of
Customs at that port, that some time previous to
his departure from l.iebau on the 28th August. a
report prevailed that a great mortality existed at
Wand, Pollan, and Koningsberg, occasioned by a
diarrhua or flux, which carried off those of iated
with it in three days. In the small town of Pillau
alone, it was reported that fifty people died daily ;
and that, to his knowledge, merchants, who had
gone from Liebau to attend the annual fair at Me-
mel, about the middle of August, returned without
entering the town, when they had procured infor-
mation of the mortality in the place. This infection
was attributed to the heat of the weather, the num-
ber of the wounded Reuians, and the graves of
those slain in the late battles not having hems made
deep enough. In consequence of this information,
the Commissioners of Custonts have given ceders
that the proper precautions be the ease
of any Truth arriving front airrhs; in •
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lidrAL INTFMGENCZ.
TORTSIIOVTO, OCT. Is.

Arrived His Majesty's ships Redkerse and Molar
ie., from the Downs; also the Canaperdm packet,
Capt. Beeville, bound to the East inches.
The Spanish brig Nottra Senora de I. Las, laden
with bides, Sec. captured on the 28th of July, off
Vera Cruz, by the Diana, Capt. Maling, is arrived
here. Also the At, ibis's's, laden with a valuable
cargo of Spanish wool, from Bilboa, bound to Ton-
ningen, detained by the Success; and the St. Haw
(a Dane), laden with brandy and wine, sent in by
the Brilliant, Capt. Smyth.
'fbe For sad Segall revenue cotters. on Friday
morning, captured the Friedland French lugger, of
2 guns, and 311 men, which sailed from Cherbourg
the day before, and had not captured any thing.
Notice is given at this port, that all vessels bound
to the Mediterranean should join the Dec,de frigate.

in Yarmouth, which takes them to Falmouth ; and
the masters of all vessels bound to Lisbon, are re-
quested to call at the Admiral's office.
The AlAgnee, a new sloop of war, was launched
Nat ortham, on Saturday last.

LYMOUTN. OCT. 17.

Yesterday, a Court Martial was held on board
His Majesty's ship So/wader del Moth, in Hamsraze,
to try Mr. Thomas Forest, Master of His Majesty's
ship I,'Adolle, 36, Capt. Wolfe, for disobedience *1
orders and cmtempt ; both charges being hilly
proved, the Prisoner was sentenced to be dismissed
from his situation as Master in His Majesty's navy,
and rendered incapable of serving in ►uch situation
in future, and to serve before the mast in His Ma-
jesty's navy on board suck ship as the Commander-
in-Chief at this port shah please to dire&
Arrived the Agisne tender from DuShn ; Sharp.
shoder grin.hrig. Lieut. Goldie, from Guernsey ;
and the liaelquirs hired armed ship, Lieut. An-
struther, with a new file ship, built at Topsham, to
be commissioned and fitted here.
TORBAY. OCT. IS.
Sailed, on Thursday evening, after post. un-
der command of Admiral Lord Gardner, to cruise
oil Ushant, the Ville de Pans, St. Unser,
I enders, l)►.asLoagkt, Poudeugant, Cesar, Conqueror,
Colossus, Plonlvesset, Rolsigh, and Ana.
Arrived, on Thursday. from Portsmouth, acid
still remains, the Bulwark, of 74 guns.
Sailed, on Friday, the AiNrod cutter, with letters
for Lord Gardner ; and this day, the Betby cutter,
also fur Lord Gardner's fleet.
171LMOOTH, OCT. 16.

SaileJ, yesterday, the Auckland packer, Schuyler,
with mails for Lisbon. of the Bth and 13th instant ;
the Pr; Lltsabeth packet. Earrtadale, with mails
of the lis,l instant, far Gibraltar, Malta, and Mes-
sina ; the Duke Af Kent packet. Coatesworth, with
ditto for Barbatioirs, Crooked Island, and Jamaica;
AraiScila packet, Porteous, with ditto for New
York and Halifax.

The outward-bound Lisbon and Gibraltar vessels,
under convoy of the Alessi's!, stall remain by con-
trary winds.
An express was this morning received from Ad-
miral Young, from Plymouth, ordering the 4thiso
cutter to hold herself in readiness to sad at five mi-
nutes notice, supposed fur Lisbon.

OVAL, OCT. IS.
Remain in the Downs His Majesty's stops as per
last, and a fleet of outward-bound ♦ess-ls,

His Majesty's ships Honsber ud We:mouth have
signals flying for a convoy to the Westward.—
Wind W.N.W.

LIST OF SHIPS OF WAR.
L'ftWO tee tun T•ous (Lissom,) is slps. 1607.
.....11111111. •—•
Miners. Omni. Their Stoic.
Principe Keel
r Lower masts rigged, and the
Frinciire de Waral . B4
ards are across.
Rainna de Portugal 74 i lower y
Aifunau de Albuquerque 74) Lower matte
rifted, top.manta
P eee geese de A.lellll 64
tell mid down the lower
Infante de Kan) 74
niasts,jilrarrotos on thebow-
Mrduse . 74
sprit, eabk bent to the spare
Selma"...
anchors; aopear In have
Mann Principe...
their ballait on board.
ht. Seeastute 74
Name unknown...
Name rinknown... 74
74 i Ditto, dittn, ditto.
Santa Antonia 7O In dock 7 years and 3 months.
P,iii,:e Rigout 74 Sanding.
Ther Ma '
Gulsinia...... 44 t boom on the lauw•apre I
Ammonia Do just caulked
Penile be Lower masts rigged, and the
Active 56 topmasts up and Anon the
Poncesa di Abiena 56 111.0 U; anchors on Dowd,
A Wallahs 341 and one c..ble bent.
%mut 36 Repa:ring, and preparing to
Vilu.e. 36 heave down.
Real Punsor RS luit repaired, and fitting.
Ron Ventura ..... ...• l6 Cau.king.
Serpents
belegente.... nt
and rabic. on hoard.
Gaivots... 2k
Real Fonts... l6
Pereta (Schooner) I Fitting for ma (new).
Itessjamins•. 22 Corvette (Punch).
i Cower limits rigged, top
Tilton
( just caulked.
*Jest undergone a good repair, and afloat.
N.S. Use 74 gun .hip sailed the latter sod of August, sod
the Kalish& Portugal arrived.

Two lions, male and female, Eve months old.
were landed on Friday from the So,alas, at Ports-
mouth, and sent to London. Tney came from
Tunis.

The son of Admiral Limo's. now a prisoner in
this country, has received permission to proceed
to Plymouth, and thence to France, an exchange
for this gentleman havmg been agreed on. We
hail this as a favourable omen to those who have
relatives prisoners in France, as it holds out a hope
that other exchanges will soon follow. The Admiral
himself is now in Rath, where he is much respeded,
and where he has been permitted to remain for the
benefit of his health ; now greatly amender!.
fhe Emperor A AAAAA Ina had a narrow escape
lately, but the nature of it is not mentioped ; the
circumstance is noticed in the Hamburgh Papers in
the following terms:—" By a letter from Lubec, it
appears that a report had reached thence from
Russia, that the Emperor A t. nAND ea had been saved
from imminent danger, through the intrepidity of
the Grand Duke C ?tee."

His Majesty. Louis XVIII. is hourly expefleil at
Yaamoutb, either in the 4,iadae, or in a Swedish
frigate. His removal from the Russian dwainitins
WAS one of the disgraceful stipulAtions imposed Oa
the Lavesot ALexemaze by the treaty of

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