The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-10-13 00:00:00

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ft still, we doubt nOt, be generally ack-ncwteag.s.-4,
that evert in death, the most isuarsating (Akre, at
-this time, is the late Mr. Secretary Fox. Whin we
consider his great talent-3, his superior eloquence,
his bleih situation, the vast capacity with which he
filled it, the weighty olijeCt which engru.ssed his lest
thoughts, and the irreparable loss tne nation has
sustained by his death, it would manifest a strange
insensibility to what is great and illustrious in the
human charafter, it, while the eyes and the regret
at the people are direfted to his tomb. we were to
:Ors over any circumstance that might reflea ho-
'spur on himself of his ancestry. ‘he have. there-
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fire, selected the following particniar from his ge-
m-4BITt as related in LI-beets': Presmis, and which
proves,
.that how, ver great the obtigations of his
country to Mr. Fox so ty be. he is nut the first of
his family who has conferred them.
Sir Stephen Fox, grandfather to the late Mr.
Fox, and ancestor of the ands of Ilchester and the
Lords Hoiland, was A Mill of the greatest aboities,
and most accomp:ished manners. th. ri.'elity to his
Sovereign was provetbial ; and thong.) the reigning
powers at that time tried their utmost to make him
withdraw his allegiance from his exile.l Master,
King Charles IL they fouad him incorruptible.
But what will eodear nis memory ti the latest pos-
terity is, fis being the first projector of the noble
design of t hel•ea Hospital, having contributed to
the expence of it above 130.3001. His motive to it
was known from his own words he said, "he
roma not dear to Ni the common soldiers. who had spent

their strength in e.r service, lir: at our doors." He
therefore did what be could to remove such a =AU.
dal from the kingdom. He first purchased some
gram& near tkr t)iiiCoilege lit Chelsea. which had
nren escheated to the Crown in the reign of James

I. and on these grounds the present Cairn' is erect•
ed. Numerous were hi.. public and private chari-
ties. He lived to see his ruble design take riled,
and died Oditober 28, ►7IG, aged 89, universally re-
gretted.
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evening, but dors not enntain any intelligence of an
interesting nature.
At a late hour, o i Friday night, Baron Jacost ar-
t'ved in town. He came from Hamburgh in the
Donee packet, Capt. MACDONALD, which had sailed
up the Elbe for the purpose of receiving him.
Another French spy has been arrested at Keseel-
dorff, in Saxony. Maps, and plans ef the c aunt: y
end fortificetini s, were found in his poesetsion.
The Queen of Perssta has been thingermusly
bat at the dine of the last accounts, was in a state of
convalescence. and at the head-quintets in Mer-
saburg.
Oct Saturday, the Lottery Wheels were removed
Irmo Somerset House into the city, uuder the usual
escort.
Tile Commissioners, under Daniels' bankruptcy.
sat at Guildhall, on Sate. day, bat nothing particular
,transpired. tu
The nffire of ne New/ Yea Gist was wally
destroyed by fire, with ail Ms ansterials, on the lie
ult. It is singular that. for sante days previews to
mis calamity, a series of essays had appeared in the
paper, on the ptecauvons to be tken against fires,
ant the propriety of insisting.
• 'Clan Kies has hnn pleased w censtiture and ap-
,pnint WILLtAeI MACEWustill Paslsai Seliesant at
'Gan; Sir CH•littl Wittiest Rotas BuOONTON,
*am ; is PenCIT•L ELIOP. Rate nen Dew,
Lunai.es Moose, Jame Snootier, ions
Anstalt. Jowl Wintsitaw, PHILIP Deese, and
Lewis Jen ties, Ent's. to be His Maim' v's Com-
Missioners ter ascliting the Public Aseounts.--
fGezettef.
The Kayo has been graciously pleased to grant
Onto the Hight Hon. Wit tt•ts Earl Netsoos, Doc- •
for in Divinity, &c. stt•n Hastairoors,
and Dame Este 1 HA micron, (widow of the late
Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM H•stiaron, K. B. de
erased,) en behalf of Ho s eri• Neason I:nosan.
sous (an inf an:), his royal licence and authority, that
she the said 1-1011ATia NtLsON Titoism may as-
tume and me the surname of Neinost only, in com-
pliance with an injunction contained in a codicil all-
owed to the last will and testament of the late Right
Hon. Hoe ATM Viscount and Baron Netson of the
Nits, and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of
Norfolk, Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Hilbo-
rough in the said County, Knight of the Most Hon.
Military Order of the Bath, Vice-Admiral of the
White Squadron, Doke of Biome, in the kingthsm
of Farmer Sicily, &c. diceesed.
A ship, called the tteie ie Jane, was lost on the
24th'of August. off New York. She had on beard
between 40 And SO pet sons, mostly passengers ; and
the fate of some of them will excite commiseration.
General MAclortillSON, and a young lady, his
deughter,weie washed overboard, when the General.
king an excellent swimmer, made the quarter rail.
kg, the ship being on her beam ends ; bat pereeiv•
lag his daughter sinking, he plunged an again after
her, and succeeded in bringing her to the wreck. He
was, however. washed off a second time, and his
strength being exhausted, he was drowned. Mr.
Bootsnanotiler passenger, had the astonishing pre-
sence
of mind to make his way through the water to
the after-cabin, in which were his wife and son, to
push up th.• dead light, force them both into the
water, and jnmp in after them • bet both the wo-
man and child were drowned. vessel was pre-
served from sinking by having en board .50 bales of
cotton ; and the nest day 'l7 persons were rescued,
after rsnianning lashed to the wreck a day and a
night. The number of persons drowned amounted
toll.
The running match, which has been spoken of
a length of tune, between Messrs. SA Lase and
omr, took place Satuniey morning on Hamp-
ton Common. The competitors were to run three
measured miles on turf. and the above spot was
fixed on by one of the empires, who caused flag
posts vi be fixed as a boundary. SA T.Tall was she
favourite. and led his opponent, for the Kin mile,.
at which distance h was twenty-five yards a head ;
be slackened his pace, sag Be•ussone came up
with him ; they kept together at an easy pate un-
til within half a ot-le of ***tanning poet. when .
Bs AU MOS r mad; plan,, and, tank appearen:e. had
the best of the =fah ; but when within three hun-''
Bred yarns of she decisive apet, &area passed htisy
adversary with Mee, and undyed thither tweet"
peed, The match was for too guineas. •