The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-29 00:00:00

ZAV4L 13'TELLICENt, E.

roorfiltrilTS, DEC. 27.
Carne into harhotir the Valhi fiiiate, Capt
I,e tevairetl.
The Ltritumart it, appointed ' convoy for the
Dowils.—tt iud N.E.

VALMOUTII, DFC. Z 5.

The Orestes bloop of our iv arrived front COMMA
in eight tiv)i., and ./1'.11g5 all of the British
artily le:.‘itig johieti, and that Madrid mas mot im
the •4• t he French en the 4th.
l'he Jul/Parr rum Of ar and a transport are lost
in Igo Bai.
The Lady P diets packet hes beau 'dispatched
from C.'failllJ for Lisbon.

PLEIMIUUTiIe DEC. 26.
Yesterday arrived the Harkrimia, with a eaurey
from the Eastward.

This day sailed the Indefatigable. Al guns. Capt.
Itodd, far the coast of Fratsiee ; sod Gambier cotter,
for the Channel Fleet.

Arrived the Betsey cutter.--Miod E. S. E.

DOAt., DEC. 27.
Remain in the Downs His Hejesty's shiptt as
per latt.—Wind

CMATHATA, DEC. W.

The brigade of Guards at this place, last uight
received orders to march iu three divisions. The
tirat marched this morning for Sittitigbouro and
Fevershani ; the rest will follow in succession. The
second battalion of the 117th reginieut marched
through this town on Kridoy and tiotunlay lest. on
their runte to Canterliury, there to wait WI trans-
ports are resat;• fur the r embarkation.

OrDli UST:
•
Gie A vir.a. ND, Gee. *7.46P.reedisit tie Mare, Csiebosee,
Aunt Prune Etl.aree tile Betsey. Bilwp,
't cikerslie ; the Lord lraldllti Ti'.. Briton, &aka)
Cusitlitilaitd, mot ailed* tor tut*.

Letters from iltockliolos mention, that fib BWE-
-01011 *a.anrrtt has prohibited the introduction of
&Kiwi newspapers into his dominions; not from
a spirit of hostility, bin became thuy hare of late
spoken in a tooe'of 'despondency when diseisming
the affairs of threderi, which he eout.i.lers •nsay
have u had eifect upon the minds of fats people.

. .
A trumpeter frmu the Swedish army won lately
shot nn 'tearing a message to the Norwegians, not-
withstanding he *omitted the instrument twice.—
The Swedish Commander iii Chief hnul sent a re-
monstrance to the Daises on the subject, but they
returned hits uo astiofactory answer.
Thursday a detachment of the 50th regiment,
consisting of eight officers and 150 turn,o
Itythe, on their route to Portsmouth, to rm.
hark for Spain, to join the Ist battalion of that re-
giment, now on service there.
Letters received on Tuesday from Dover men-
tion, that a very heavy tiring was k; pt up on tile
Fretieh coast nearly the whole of Monday, but par-
ticularly from two till four o'clock in the afternoon.
It was conjectured there, that it was to celebrate
seine great victory, er other important event.
The Belivne, 'i'IIJMPSON, arrived at Plymouth,
sailed front Jamaica one the ,2tith of (Molter,
with four odic r iessels, under convoy of His Al*-
!Mar's ship Famerite, and parted about a week
iterwarct.
The Friendship, PALMER. from Fowey, fo• Lon-
don, toundered at sea on the lath instant—crew
saved.

The Pete►, WZISILIN, from Stockholm, for
Lundou, is sapturad and curried into (:hristian.
mind.
TI c Jupiter, HALSTIIAN. fruin Yarmouth, for
Guth, abiligh, is *reeked on the co:pa of Nor% ay.
NeriNts, ‘lll.som, from Quebec, for Lon•
don, is on shore in the Orkneys. •
The Previaleace, VI LION, from Gibraltar, is lost
near Lisbon.

On Thursday afternoon. as a servant of Mr. Tit-
. silvers h, of Bury St. Edmund's, was
emptying a phial, she I•honk the contents over the
tire, wheu the powder therein gave a mast dreadful
explo►ionn. and carried off' the thumb and two first
fiii4ers of her left hand at the second joint, the
hones of winch were so much shattered, that it be-
came immediately necessary to amputate them
above the injury sustained. Her face and neck
were also much injured, and her cap was blown off
her head. Tile powder that produced the eaplo-
sion is supposed to have been pulverised mercury.
No part of the itigers could afterwards be found,
notwithstanding the strictest search..

The fall of snow, on Saturday week, in the neigh-
bourhood of Prinbrokeehire, was so great, that
the roods were hitirely iinpasable. Tile oldest ill•
habit:mt. does not recollect so great a fall iti those
parts—iii some places it drifted near twenty feet
in depth.
nu the evening of Thursday selinight, as Mrs.
C. Wearon was returning home to home. Nor-
folk, attend eight &clod', the coachman, be some
ucciilinit, was thrown from the box. near &shop-
gate Bridge. and the horses going at a very
brisk trot, had nearly reached the Half-way-house.
alien they were providentially met by a poor man
passing along the road—due bearing a shriek of t. r-
rnr issuing Irmo the carnage, instantly pursued the
horses, and succeeded, after ni tttt some war,
in shipping their memo, aid holding them, till,
by the arrival of another carriage. limper assiesteriee
was given. and Mrs. WESTON, almost senseless
with alarm, rem sandy rescued`from her perilous
situation.

Ttie second battalions of the sad and Path regi-
ments are embarking at Cork with the Ist (or
Royal) Dragoons.
Au inquisition was taken, an Tuesday. on the
hod) of a woman named N /AA awl
formerly a daiii•er arsenic euii.sellet, Who woukburnt
■t • cottage, at Paddington. on Sunday ...a-Sloe
lived alone in twie room, which took Are by souse
unknown accident, and was burnt is her beg.—
ircidental death.

A ni:mit daring robbery was committed early nu
TavelaV wonting last, in the shop of 'Mr. W. RSA 0,
silversmith, High-street, Portsmouth. The vil-
lains cut through the shutter, and • furred the iron
with which the shutter was lined thrtaigh the win-
dow, and stole therefrom valuable urtielvs to the
amount of nearly 5001. The principal property
stolen consisted in gold and silver watches, gold
chains, ■nd brooches, Ike. Every exertion, no
doubt, will he made by the Police of the metropo-
lis, to apprehend die °Benders.

OLD ENGLISH MANNE;IXg (VS rOMS

•
PUSS: PlGJlTitail 'ARID rvictits.
It is but a few years sitiesrlt tort of prize fighter,
were to be seen about i.,•udoti, iu their iihtrts, •to
the hulls, with their slecves titek.:d up, With swords
in their hoods, and a drum heating before them.--
W When a match was wade, the venoms eoilver,,eg paid
so Luch a bead. Tie edges of these swords were
nittit4 dull, sad the ohjvct of the lighters was not
to hurt each other. However, as it urea indispensa-
ble that blood should be drawn, or to returti the
motiei , I have seen a wound given mach longer
and deeper thin' was inteuded ; but there have been
very feu of these conflicts for their eight or ten
years past.