The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-01-01 00:00:00

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TIM nu; :
CONSEQUENCES OF ITS DISPERSION.
• The 1.0111) CitsScsti.ort has got rid of theiiont,
and susiden!y imbibed a taste fur shooting. He has,
for the first lime, denounced poachers upon his pre-
sent.* in Dorsetshire.
Lord CASTLZRE4OII lOIS got the gout and the
ague, and has fellow(' Mr. Pers.'s prescription...-
that retirement was necessary for lis• health.
Mr. CANNING has found out the outllor or the
Letter coniusenting upon his speech respecting the
treatment of OGDEN sod other State Prisooers ;
hut as the author was its some respects a brother
poet, he has withdrawn his celebrated challenge,
and facetiously observed, that he saw no reason why
poets, like statesmen, should not forget their quar-
rels, even those whirls led to the field, and after
the example of the i3ocToo, Lord CASTLEREAGH,
and himself, sit down together in amicable con-
ference, and leagued for. mutual defence.
Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST IS looking shout him,
and busily occupied in preparing 'Pr Sir .losrrii
BANE., As Essny oa th• Second Crop of Goose.
berries in Gloucestershire. lie has also assisted
.llr CROK Ell 111 lilarliyariiii; the red snow brought
from the Arctic regions, and Mr. BAnitowl in
dressing the red wool on the Is:isquimaux dogs.
Ile has contradicted the report, that he meant to
follow up and improve 11r. ..AYTER'S process for
uniolliug the Herculaneum M souscripta in the
Prince's Library. Ile has declined interferring
in this respect with the lahnsirs of Lord BINNING.
Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, restored
to excellent health, has prepared a new plate for
a Property TR% assessment. It is not to be is gene-
ral s ix, but mende to operate upois the rich—di.-
banded soldiers and sailors, whatever he their in-
• mess from the South America') Patriot., unem-
ployed mechanics, and refractory cotton-spisiners,
ot a t hossiailnig their club allowances, are to be
exempt. Whete no :recounts are kept, inspection
.if hooks to not to he reltsired, and a liberal die-
croilit is to be allowed on all payments in advance.
M. WELLESLEY Pot. 2 is engaged in superin-
it min% the coinage of a new Farthing. It wall
be struck upon tin, and to prevent the possibility
of commits's% more than one mistake, tile tile
will make oily one insorestion, as from the corn-
positio.. of the itietui, the impressed mark at one
side wall cri s a raised ornament upon the other.
The mortar in the park has furnished a subject for
this coinage. Ile is determined that .no pert of the
new coinage shell be without a dragon of some
►art.

Sir GEORGE ‘VARRENDER has set a good exam•
pie to the other lay Lords of the Admiralty. He
lies been en; in waking experiments to extir-
pate the dry rot from the vessels now laid up in
oidioary. Ile is about so take nut u patent for los
rat Irv, which has dime such execution in the
Dock-)arils. It is now inipo•sible even for a rat
to creep in unobserved into any or our 'Rival ar•
sunak.

It iti said that the VICE-CHANCELLOR has re-
commended that this trap be set its Wastusinster
Hall, us the old one laid down in his time hur be-
come, flout repeated snappintr. unserviceable.

A hosing match will take place this day, thirty
milts from London. between au herculean stair,
from %Vairwickallire, and a Gloucestershire wars ur
priuni!.e, for 100 guineas ovule.

The Loup CIIANCELLOR bus declared his inten-
tion to ►it in the Court of Chitheery on Friday, the
14th of January, to bear bankrupt petitions. Sir
JOHN LEAcII, the Virr-Chancellor, will i.ot Nit till
Saturday, the iriiti of January, that being the first
seal before liilury Term.

Thu►whv la.t, n remediable tradesman in the
parch of Brewton next Machina, Norfolk, under-
took, fora billing wager of I!., to curry 1424. of
flour the throatier of trill miles, in sir hours, which
Herculean task he perfumed in tier hours and a
quarter, toeing three-quarters of an hour within the
given time. The odds at auntie% were three to one
against

DttowN .4 te. —A Lout foor o'clock on Wednesel
afternoon, the dead body of et young woman, ;wpm-
Trolly 19 or L2O year. of age, genteelly drew-rd, Hon
of very inieresting apitearinice, wa. found in the
Serprotitie river, Ilyt4r-Park, near the intended Iva-
lethal. Sin' w., niruord in H blur
black 14,4 gown, black 'draw hoonet, and blut-k
jean half-boot.. The hotly was taken to the work-
hou‘e to be identified.

JAMES MAUVES'. • labourer. employed at St.
Jolnes Church, Glasgow, GII from the toner, A
height of 100 feet, and got himself must shockingly
hurt ; several of his bones were broken. and hot hotly
dreioifully brtowd. lir was i iiiii iediately taken to
the Royal Infirmary, where he died on Weilitesday
fort-gloom l'his ha the second accident at the &aloe
Wart'.
A FRUITLESS WARNING.—On Monday morn.
ing, the 2lst instant, a person come to a Magistrate,
a few miles from the city of Norwich, and told him
he had something to communicate, if be would he
pleased to conceal Ins game and place of residence;
he wur desired 'to proceed ,:—fle said, " List night
(Sunday) there was our of the 'Protest gang at an
pare.ll, who bail laid a plan for ateirling
all the farmer's fat geese and tinkles iiitended for .
the Christmas market ; but lets compnwous not
coming at curiLng to appointment, it was put off
For that flight, but stupid assuredly happen
oigG2 or two " The Magistrate considered the in-
formation so well 11/I.flh attending to, that in the
evening. he sent a servant with • tatire.fally opprisieg
the I. rosier of what was likely to happen, and to put
histi,elf and servants upon the watch ; this advice, ,
however. Oa, wholly neglected ; the gang cause,
ane caroled off Cie whole of his poultry, slid stitb
Chem his plop-[rap.-41Verwiciii Poor./
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