The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-05-18 00:00:00

VIRTUES OF PoTIEEN.

The fuilowing abstract from the second chapter
of fidistsfird's Chronicles, mg amuse our readers :
" The 'toile is low and water's'', including diverse little
Wanda, tuviroued with lakes amid ; logheat little
hare staudiug pules in their types. Inhabitants, especially
saiw come, are subject to di.iillstious, rbenmes, mid
Asses; for remrdie whereof, they use an urdinarie
&hike of Aquarthe !smog so qualified in the making
that it drift\ more, and also inflauisch lease, than other but
coufectiona du. thie Tlseiscritua wrote * proper treatise of
Aqumvitie, wherein he praised it kilo the ninth dreier: he
distinguished three soils thereof—Simplex, Composita, and
Perfeerferfroa. He derlarrlb the iimples and lapilli.
comes thereto belonging; he wishes it to be taken as well
before meat as after—it ilnetti up the breaking out of hands,
and killeth the flesh worento, if you wash your hands there.
with; it monied' all seurfr and smells from the head, being
therewith &Ilse washt before mealca. kti lug muderaielie
taken (soak hi), it sluweth Nee, it atrengtheuelli youth, it
lielpeth digestion, it cositelh derive, it •haisdusictb melts-
eholie, it rehalieth the heart, it lightetseth the mind, it
quo kenetii the spirits, it eareth the hydrupsie, it liealeth
the straneurie, it pouherth the alone, it expelletb graven,
it puffeth away all ; it keeps th and prcrerveth
the head from whisliug, the ries hoot dazeliug, the lung
from lisping, 16e mouth from Bleating, the teeth trap
chattering, and the throte from 'Anhui; ; it keepeth the
weasois from the stomach hum wambling, and the
beam from swelling; the belly burn winching, she guts front
rumbling, the bands (rum vhiveilng, .ud the sitieua front
shrinking; the reins Goon crumpling, the busies from akiug,
and the marrow from soaking. Vistrititis, also, ascribeth
intro° a singular praise, and would have it to burin., been
kindled, which he tsketh to be a tubes. to know the gooduems
thereof; sod truly it ion ativireivie liquor, of it he orderlie
taken"—(A Treatise on Aqtas.ritir,or Whiskey, by Theo-
crats's. Bishop of Iternmicnsis, in Itornansilss, juafa Duna.
nixie, as it is written in Me second chapter if the second
robins of huphael liolinshed's Description of Ireland—
from flu:death of King Ilswry VIII. to the year 1366.;

LYNN, MAY 7.
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The stupendous drainage of the F.su Brink, extending
over some hued's ds of thousands. of serfs, and olitch lea
been so usauy years is contemplation, is at length rapidly
drawing towards its completion. The Emu Brink Cut, about
two miles and three-quarters in length, is 111111 y eumpleto d,
as is also the at w bridge across it, which is to be a draw-
bridge fur the admission of ships to pass •eil se•psss through
it up to Si. Germans. The new bridge i■ of timber, with
which great ingenuity is combined to produce strrngth and
durability. Its length is about n2O feet ; the ver►ed-sine ue
spring of the aids is three feet 111 inches; consequently it
forms a segment of a circle whose diameter is right miles,
and its circumference upwards of 25 miles! On this graud
canal and its •ppendeneits there will in all probability, be.
fore the works are finally completed, be expended nearly
half a million sterling !—We ape informed that it is the in-
tention of the Commissioners to epee the cut, or new river,
in June Next.

Yellerday--Quctx CAROLINIC soßpro—Lioliclay lil •ll Ibe
Public 016oes.

bIsTRESSING SIIIPWRECT
OF THE HENRY, CAPTAIN THO3I/13 NEWPORT.'
Melancholy loss of the brig Henry, Capita, Titoism
Newport, of Dublin, on her passage from St. Joke's, New
Brunswick, towards Dublin, which vessel railed on the 3d
of December from St. John's
On the 13th, scudding before the wind, in a tremendous
storm, the sails blew fount the yards, mid in a short time the
ship broached to, in consegnence el which she 'prang a leak.
To prevent the ship from being water•logged every exertion
was made, both with the pumps mid by bailitse from the
cabin scuttle, until the 17th, when the water wit two feet
above the cabin-deck. We then curleavouted to save some
water and the provisions, and the most valnatile property,
which was no sooner got on deck than washed from our
Bross, and the holders likely to be taken with it overboard.
At tea p.r. the main &Ink blew up The decks cleared of
every thing but the bower snicking and cables, and she sea
'making a free pit:sage over her, we a xperted every
moment to be our last, although the ship swam perfectly
on her k. el, front Isairitsg fifty tons of black birch In her
buttum, sod bluets tons of ballast.

Consisnt gales until the 19th and 211th, when we searched
for water that had been s. cured in the forecastle to one of
the breast-hooks; hart to no effect, as we found the casks
staved. Part of the new then gave up all hopes of exist.
cure, bud thernselses down on the cable tier on the quarter.
deck, and there exp.red fur the want of water, w►ich sons
of them had la.ted since the 15th. Thursday, the 21st,
Wong gales and very call ; the Captain esorlaiswiwg he was
.a dead man, the tears flowing down his the, ks, NM nothing
but death in every countenance; but, sins the assistance of
the steaatd and boatswain, I got his, Captain.flheisport,
hauled on the main-top by 11w end of a rope, there expect-
ing him not to exist river night. Constant gates until the
Slat, when, at day.bresk, saw a ship on our larboard rpsar-
ter, with high spiaster-rkck and yellow sides; light winds,
all from the S.E.

Same day, at 4 p.m the brig Endeavour, orSalem, Capt.
Halton Breed, hove in sight and made to our aassataure,
and same evening took the surviving six of Ui off the n reek.
The ship that was in right f r llw morning wax wisilde
still, and the American Caimans mated, did the ship that was
is sight pass us? the MILUS•Cf was, " Yes, she was in sight
•f us all day ;" his reply was, .• He twist be a some sinfreling
brute." Nos in lat. 47. 14. N. lout. 28 by lunar ',Werra-
tints. Froin his reckoning, we had drifted 14 degrees,
nearly slue FAA, and water-logged. There is one thing iu
particular—l roust give my sincere thanks K. Capt Breed
for his anxious attention to Captain Newport at his dying
wouturnte, which was on the Ist January, 1811 and like-
wise for the due aitenti paid to the four that survived.
The Nautilus, Capt. Tripe, was spoken by the Endea-
vour, of Salem, in list 35. 50. N. twig. 31. and informed, that
the Endeavour had taken from the wreck of the Henry, of
Dublin, BM of the crew, and that Capt. Newport and one
man 18441 died in twenty-four hours afire being taken from
the wreck, and that Ike remaining four would lie thankful
fur a passage home, offering water and protiorrici al the
same time; but be still continued on his course, nos giving
any isosittve answer. Rat, thank God! the American Cap-
tain took very particular care of us on board; mid when we
were put ou board the Mary, Captain Billing', of liverricul,
Ull the 2451. January, 1821, lie gave u. provistoi a, and pat
Ins own crew on ailowmice, which .very offierr mid tom
voliinterreil to do sooner than we should be exposed to a
wanting sitnation again, the Mary being abort of every re.
Pourer, and having had a lung passage.
Amuses of the surrirors:—Juseph A iLinsou, mate, Work-
ington ; Pat. Moran, steward, Dublin; Wm. Gaffney, sea-
man, Dublin ; and James balloter, seaman, Liverpool.
Nantes of the Demised:—Captain Thomas Newport, of
Waterford; Wan. Thomson, Julio Thompson, and Wm.
Morrcy, seamen, Glasgow, Dr nis Gallagher, seaman, lime-
rick; James Make, boy, Waleifordi %Vol. Scully, buy, Dub.
lin ; Motion Jeml.on, boy, Troon ; Julio Hives, carpenter,
Whitby; Thomaa Murray, seaman, IYublin.
Doing the whole of this melancholy affair no one had
any thing to manual on • only when it rained, to suck the
MUM' awl slisouds, and even their own twine. When some
of thesis took to thinking salt water, they died wills a tramp
in the bluets. 1 ant sorry to ms, the Captain look to drink-
ticz salt wafer, which I have every reason to believe was the
instigation of his death.
(Sigurd)

JOSEPH ATKINSON,
Mate of the Ileury. •

NAVAL I.V I'ELLIGENCE.

M•RGiYY. MAY 16.
Arrived the James and Sarah, C.,u , (ruin Sou I heinous
for Locdoo„ with hrr chain irvir'r broken.

A •ti oft Margate the Ti 1011144 Cuutto, 3fisiiiribanks,
(min China fur Conduit. with lues of auchur and e.bler auj
sailed nein ihisCorruoun.

RARKICH,INAY ii.

Arrived dee Reauf17 packet with • mail from Naftali!.

.iled Ihr Lady NeP:3II packet I wltuthiud, and Pr:ucesa
Charlotte packet fur l:uxhave■—each with a mail.

DEAL, May 111.

Came down from the River and remain the Nepus, Col-
line, fur Philadelphia; Uniaa, Lain, fur Sierra Leone; Mar.
g act, Itl'Mair, fur Virginia; Ytgilutt, White, fur Cadiz, &c.;
and the steam parketa Lightning and Meteor fur Holyhead.
Arrived and sailed fur ibe River the Marquis of Anglesey,
Gum folk; St. Pairiek, Cru►by; arid Catharine,
Payton, hum BetlLrt ; John, Pritchard, (rum Jruaaica; mud
stveral mule, names aukuuan.

Sailed fJr Ilia River the Catharine Stewart, Fort" from
Bombay.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.

On Thursday last so inquest was held before Mr. &A-
nson, Coroner, no the body of Nandi.: Lewis, la►e wag-
goner to Mr. Collins, of Upper Horton, racer this town. The
eiretsmstauces of this rase furnish a melancholy and ewtra-
. ordinary instance of the disastrous eousequeures of negli-
gence, sod rt is hoped will operate as a warning to all ser-
vants alto may hear of them. It appeared from the rei-
deore taken before the Coroner, that on Wednesday lasi the
deceased and a little bay (as his driver) were at plough wilb
five Itui sew. in a field where there was a deep pit, out of whirl,
marl had heen gotten, and wk.( h was til:ed with water to the
depth of 'Mee yards al the farther extremity, hut gradisally
diniiiiiabing towards the month, as is venal in pits of this us.
lure. Between eleven and twelve u'elut k, when the deceased
had baited hi► horses, he took them to this pit to give them
water, without using the peecaution of loosing their chains
from each otlivc. The leader soon got beyoutl his depth,
and, endeavouring to climb the stet p side of the pit, fell
backsaida into *llll deeper water, dragging the other
horses towards him ; the boy, peree:viog what was about to
happen, with great pieseisce of mind, plunged into the
water will ouhooked the last horse (being the wily our ha
could reach) from ibe others, and saved him ; the unfor•
twilit. igen also plutiged 1,110 the water, will laying hold of
the bridles of two of the horse*, endeavoured to turn them
into shallow ester, but failing in this and keeping his hold,
the horses, which were litrunie unruly and entsagled in
their chaios, dragged Lint into deep water with them, suit
before assistance could hr procured, the 111111 and four very
valuable horses were unto' tomtit-1y drowited.—(Stoford-
shire Advertiser )