The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-04-08 00:00:00

ROY ,L CIRCUS.

This Theatre, connpktely rebuilt, opened last
elgbt. The toll(oemg is a short sketch of the de-
sign : The form comprehends lour segments of a
circle, affording tbree elevations e ich side., cf equal
symmetry, t'ar Freovaaaw embracing thelourth ;
the w!-.ple supported by elegant pillars, and li-,•hted
up by splendid chandeliers. The ciebng is deco-
rated with lattice work, through which are appro.
priate figures and devices : a broad margin star,.
rounds it ; the compartments of which are embel-
lished in alto retireire, with variegated colours. The
boxes, c nsiating of two tiers, are (over an' elegant
open lattice work) richly ornamented witb tao:cat
a l'anlique, &c. the proof-wawa magnificently cor-
responds with the superb decorative's of the front,
and is rendered particularly staika-g, by a pleasing
frontikp4ce, and an handsome painting of His Maw
jesty's Aims.

THE. AQUATIC TIMATRE.
Last night, this old and favourite place of amuse-
ment, opened for the season. The house had been
completely beautified in the recess; and Mr. Din-
DIN, whose ezertioas for the amusement of the pub-
lic, increase with his success, presented a variety
of entertainments to his friends. The Pantomime
was beautiful.
The musical piece of The Ri:al Pah i.O received
great applause. The great novelty of the evening,
was the unparalleled performance of flue. Nlicu AL-
LETO SANCHES, who perfcrmed in the most won.
dertul manner on the Slack Rope ; among other
uncommon feats, he was suspended by his heels
from the rope, and in that situation balanced a real
horse. The entertainments concluded with a repre-
sentation of ne Haute of Tegfalga,, on real water :
the management of the ships, and the whole ar-
rangement, displayed uncommon skill and exerti, n,
and was rewarded with reiterated plaudits from the
most crowded house we ever witnessed. fhe very
stage was filled with speCtators.

DRURY-LANZ Tasarat re-opened last night
with Mr. Cueatv's much admired Operancal
Dr..ma of The Trim/ler:, and the Circe of The ;Yew-
ihrrc•ch. The house was crowded with fashion.

COVLMTCARDCR Tits AAAAre-opened last night
with the Tragedy of Orconsko, and the Pantomime
of thrleqssia Abend. In the Tragedy, Master
Beta. sr and Mr. C. KEMBLL again contended for
the kiys in ()rapid' and Moan : where so much ex-
ceiler,ce was displayed, it would be invidious to
withhold the most decided approbation. The, house
displayed much fashion—the Countess of Ea.',
Lady G. SEYMOLL, and Lady Bsaast.en, were
amongst the brilliant assemblage.
A great number of recruits arrived at Portsmouth
on Saturday, from the cavalry dept at Maidstone,
to embark for the East Indies.

Two trovs of dismounted cavalry, drafted from
different regime-its, Arrived in Winchester on Thurs-
day, on their route to Southampton, destined for
the East Indies.

Telegraphs are shortly to be ereffed nn Tonthi:l,
near Roussel, and on Townhill, fr,m whence it is
said, signals can be conveyed to l'ort•d,iwn-hill,
and from thence to London, its the short space of
ten minutes.

A few (la) . ago, a man of the name of Roseau.
died at Preston, and has left near 10001. to a blind
man, who begged in the streets, led by a little dog.
The York Ileatrieals have this season begun
their
er. and Pieces, than usual. In the list of &hats are
Mr. and Mrs. SIDLIII. Mi. Lewis, Mr. D'Aecir,
Mr. Ascae, and Mrs. Oa AM WLLL.

Mrs. 1.61 u s %T OM did rea elope with Lient. HARM,
Ai stated in some (.1 tl.e Papers; but, after recinest-
ing Colon,' l'uottoto: to a9i-fit by the opimo.i nt
A professional Gentleman she named, and to which
the Colonel assented t she was with delicacy told,
that all compati AU.S .na'.l/e4; and evety compiimrnt
was paid to tEe Colonel for his tenderness, gene-
rosity, and honour, in the traranaion.

MR. t.ITCII..

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It V'?s generally reported, yesterday, that :this
wretched man had contested the murder of Mr.
Blight. Such a c.-cifcssi.n ...mild give much saris-
fadion to the pt:hlic mind, and we have, accord-
ingly. taken pains to ascertain the fact. We car.
positively state, that the report is untrue, and that
he had made no confession so late as nine
o'clock last night. Considerable pains had been
taken, in the course of the morning, to in-
duce him to acknowledge his guilt. Mr. Gra-
ham, and the Chaplain, were with him in his
cell for nearly two hours, but all their exhorta-
tions could extort nothing from him ; and he ob-
served, during the whole time, a determined silence.
The apparatus was fixed up yesterday in the bor.:
of the prison, Air his execution this morning at ten
o'clock, with that of Hering and wife, the two
persons found guilty of coining, at the Kingston
assr•.cs. Thi.u,ands of people attended at an early
hour yesterday, not being 4ware that the execution
was respited until this day. Some of Mr. Patch's
fiiends visited him yesterday. He attended
.the
Condemned Sermon on Sunday, and conduFled
himself with his usual propriety.

SPURTING INTELLIGLAVE.

Slaveley, who has ten engagements this year, commenced
his first, yesterday, at Newmaiket, spina Ilmioworin, to"
w Loin lie allows 9th. and his ',ear, over Abingdon Mile, for
leOgs.; the second, 011 Tuesday, (or the secyied Class of du
Oatlands' Stakes; and the third, on rhursday,
,against Me-
teor:l, to wheat he allows rib. across tberflal., 201 gs.
Mr. teufinth as 'mid Flora to Mr. Thomas Kirby, of Yor!t.
She was got by King Fergus, nut of Atalanta, the darn of
Faith, that bred Marcia, &C. Flora is now big in Iwi to
Hyactlittrus
Mr. Ici-inson, of Mahon, has sold 1,11171.' 3 to Mr. of
Hull, tit go abroad. SY,e was got hy Semocbr-osyla,,ont of
Bede Vie and Belle Fiber Alain, by Yourig Musk; graradatii
by Amara:lons. •
Mr Bailey has also purchased' Mr. T. Richardann's ches.
filly, that ran at Malton last week, to go ahrearl. She was got
Beriingbrough, out of Cockfeeder's dam; by Windlestone.
In March last, the Earl of Dartington purchased liarciscile,
of Sir W ilium G'rrard, for BiMys. He *as. got by Domino,
out of Mary Alin (Ashton and Young Chariot's dam), by Sir
Peter Teazle
In S.;.tember, 1605, died, at Berries, Staolk, Experiment,
the pro:•erty of Messrs. Morland and Emden. His t.e.th was
occasioned be p"111 ging al; the stable, and drawing away the
manger sod rack with his from which tie received seve-
ral briews Ile was got by Arolinniu, darn by Seagull. •
The Stalin.,, Ruler, deed, at Wyton, in Hold,reest, on the
4th of IF,-bruary last, aged :28. Ha was gat by Young Marsk,
out of Flora, .by L'itlf •
On Thursday, March IS, died of an inflammation in his
bowel, at Mr Modand\, Sat-en, Surrey, the St3llton,
agenistes, agel 8. About a week before his dea'h, he was
s :A to the Earl of Fgrentord, end a;;,ecable to purchase was
el he delivered at Petworth. Sussex, and Mr. Mor.and herd
proviled a :machine to convey him thither, bat on t,,e mooting
appointed, he was taken ill, and died in a few hnurs after.—
He was got by Sir Peter Teazle; his dam, Wren, by Wood-
pecker, out of Pap illon (Sir Peter Teazle'. dam) by Snap.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, a :nab, of cocks, of 9c sub-
sc-ihers, at six guilt's. each, 01:4 fought at Doncaster, for a
fat nx, fed by sir. Thomas Foster, tit ScAssby. The beast is
soppra.ed is be the bored slid neaviest nn the kingdom, weigh-
ing nearly ..04 stone, of 141 b. to the slime. He measures six
yards soda half from his nese to the tip .1 his tail, anal ytaiida
4111 feet tour ii.ches high. Mr. Chippendale, of York, wa• the
tortunate adventurer; he won five battles; Mr. T. Foster, of
Duncaster, four; arid Mr. Yearley, of York, three.
Yesterday morning, Lieutenant STEPHENS was
t *ken by Mr. KATE, the Messenger, b-Fare Lord
I,i.Leetsoaoocll, at his house in Blooms!'Any-square,
and discharged. He was bcund over in a rt•cogr.
nizance of 51:01. to give eviJence against Lieut.
RUTHERFORD, when taken ; Mr. Boa a: reefs, the sur-
geon, in 3001. and the rest of the witnesses in 100 i.
each.

A cause of considerable interest was expelled to
have come on at the assizes for Tralee. in which
Wt cm A M TODD JONlif, EN. W2ll Plaintiff, and the
supposed proprietor of The Cork 4g/wetter was
Detendam ; but, on account of the Judge. it was
postponed.
Oa Monday last was opened, at Abingdon, by a
deputation from Oxford, the Club of Odd hellowa ;
when a very numerous and reTeelable attendance
took place ; a number of excellent songs ware sung
ninon the occasion, and the utmost harmony
glee presided till the time of breaking up. la short,
this truly excell,nt and loyal order promises to re-
ceive a great addition from the support it is likely to
receive in that town.

On Wednesd iy morning, Mr. Groaos °civet,
many years stage-keeper to Mr. Solaxectan, manager
of the Theatre, Salisbury', suddenly dropped down
dead, immediately after he had risen from bed, and
put un his clothet. He appeared a remarkably
stout, healthy man, and had previously no .indispo-
sition, till about four o'clock on the morning of his
death, when he complained of a pain in his sto-
mach, which soon went off, and he was converting
cheerfully with his wife, almost at the very moment
Ice fell on the floor a lifeless corpse 1 He was an
honest, irdtiorious Irma, and besides his widows has
left three children, the eldest only six years old, to-
ally deiktute of support.
The Namoi, of Shields, a brig, picked up some
time ago, between Ostend and Dunkirk, and n t
into 1) aver, coal-loaded, with no person on board,
and of which no account could be traced till lately,
now appears, Com eccentrics recently received, to
have been taken by a French privateer. The crew,
except one man, were taken our, and six French-
men were put on board to carry her into port ; soon
after which, seeing one of our cruizers. they took
to the small boat, and left her. The privateer was
afterwards nearly wrecked going into Calais, and,
it is reported, some of the Frenchmen wets lost.
An order has been obtained to land her cargo at
Dover
Oa Thursday se'nnight a cause came on to be
tried at Waterford assizes. in whis.h CHARLES
M'Caaysio, Esq. was Plaintiff, and Mr. WAT..
SOH, Defendant, to recover the sum of 63'21. paid by
Mr. bliCaits sir, at the desire and by the direc-
tion of Mr. WATSON, in discharge of an ex:cution
which had been isoird, at the suit of Colonel BAH.
WELL, against Mr. Powea, of Clonrnel, who had
been proprietor of a paper in that town, and against
whom Colonel BAGwr.Lr. had obtained a verdift for
4101. for certain libels published in his paper, re-
fl-fling on the Colonel's condu.ft as Commander of
the Tipperary Militia. The trial commenced at ten
in the morning, and lasted until ten at night. The
Jury were locked up until Friday morning, when
not agreeing, a Juror was withdrawn, and another
trial will probably take place.

POLla. •
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ver-st erre'.
•
On Satmilay, .7301184$ Baere, alias :gui/er. al;',
Be,eAArrl. Etc. &c. was brought befit Sir R one • to
Forms, charged on suspicion of hotting eostitpitted
various ads of swindling in L .ndoo and in disfeoe.ic
pans of the country.
Tatottini, the officer; stsid, that havtog received
information apit.st the prisoner. he troded him to
the Golden Cross Inn, Charing.cross, wh.te hy
leatned the prisoner principally resided, although he
had private lodgings. Oa I.llarsdoy ev.ming, he
tee,.t to the Inn, when /4 was informed the pri-
souter was gone to Dartford, in Kent, in a P'.ll.';
chaise, and was rap-rasa/ shortly rr) return. After
wading some time, the prisoner entered the C ffee-
room, whet' he todc him into custody. On search-!
ing hi.a, he found a letter directed to Thom a Sad-
ler, Esq. purporting to' be writoto by the Bankers
in Newport, in the Isle of Wight, swing that they '
had transferred his cash account, amaze' ing
19.731. 19s. 101 d. to ISiddulph and Cox, Range's.,
Chorine-cross. The letter proves to he mantiLe-
tureJ for the purpose of committing dp~d ttio I
ne
upon the credulous. lire Neop.ot post-moil: was;
likewise forged.
Daniel Bayley sold. on Tuesday evening the prh.
goner came to his licher's shop in Holborn, and re-
presented himself as Lieut. Huller, and agreed for a •
numher of ironmongery goods, saying they sere.,
for Cspiaiu Berea-old, who WAS fittiog cat the
Lootwieg.
Wallows Bayley, sets. said. when his sou hod
agreed with the prismer for the goods, he sent for
loin to take a draft, which the pri;ent.r tendered in
payment for the goods. lie enquired of the pri-
soner, whether Capt. Buresford, for whom he Wanted
the gnotto resided at Walthattistow. I. !tidied lie
did ? T:,e ptia.ner Von tendered a draft fir
11. 4s. purporting to be drawn by Captain B-res-
ford upon Sir Robert lien ies, arid inclosel in a
letter to the prisoner, from Shrewsbury.
The prisoner told him to add a small bill, which
was owing by Captain fiereslord, to the amount of
the present bill, and give bum the iitfterence .tf the
drat, which Ire did, amounting to Os I.ls. On the
draft being sent the next day f payntent to air
Robert Henies' Banking-house, it indeed to be 4
forgery.
The prisoner Wig dressed in cite first style`of
fashion. He was nom:noted for further eternisa-
tion.
Last night, a footman in the emr!oy of the
Duke of Northumberland, was charged before Sir
Ricu•al) FOIL with feloniously stealing a piece of
the family plate helonging to his Grace Tue Pr-
isoner was Litt:tiled by offettrg it for tale to a silver-
smith, in Newport-street. He was committed for
further examination.
oavvon-oseosts.
Rater, linggertten was broozht up for'esom t -
tion, upon a charge brought against him by Mr.
Maynard, partner in the tirm of Olayoard and
Newhrrly, Vinegar-nsakers, St. Join-sweet It
appeared by the statement of Mr. Maynard. that
the prisoner, who had acted in the capac,ty ot on.
yeller fur the firm, from the mouth of June 1801.
to February 1804, had secreted, embezzled, or c
a-
verted to his own use, various sums of money
Richard Masan, cf St. Alison's. vas cah d up-on,
who stated, that in November ISOS, he paid the
said Hsggerstno, for the account of Maynard 'oust
Cs. the sum of. 14L the baldness of aecomst b dorm
them. Mrs. Anti Rotten, cf the same place, %SAL
also called, who said that, in June 1802, she Tool
the sum of C. loi. to him, on account ot May mod
and Newberry.

.6unday, eight vessels arrived in the River liv.m
Hamburgh. TheT torm part of a fleet of 24 sail of
British vessels, which were lying at that plact.-.011
Sanday, the 30th ult. shout four o'clock in the af.
ternoon, a sudden and peremptory order was C 071).
monicated from the British V,ce-C...sisol. desiring
them to qnit th it place in toeive home, and the
Elbe without delay. This intimation was given ia
consequence'oLan official rote by the PI assian
sal, declaring, that all the pests of the ProssMs
dominions, and ail other prim in the North of Eu-
rope, where His Prussian Majesty possesses any
controul, wore to he shut against British vessels and
, British manufaaures.
The consternation which this intilli.tenoe excised
at Hambuoith may he conceived. Th. - nom. wi.ch
used every
.tliftliAT hgolosed, was, on this occash,o,
left open. Noingehips sailed in ballast orly, he
without ballast ; pease with all the cargoes they had
carried out, others half unladen. So pr. sing anal
the order, that the officer cf. His Majesty's slom,
Spy, which, in cumpatiy with a brig cutter, lad
gone up the Elbe, as far as Stadt, to pruteift the
shipping coming down, declared that he must buts
any ve,sel left behind a.ter the given time.
0 ,e of the ships coming don n. got on shore or
the Danish side of the river. and was detain.-if mu
account of some dispute about salvage. T..rea
large Russian ships were left behind, having beer
completely unrigged, and thertf re to able to ge
off. In a storm, some time ago, reveral mops, fiv,
of them Britoil, w re driven on shore. mad there
fore must be lett behind.
Heligoland WAS the place appointed for the ren-
dezvous, and there the eight vessels that have as
rived, waited some time for the .Say and brig, wit,
the rest of the convoy ; but rot being joined h
them, they made the best of their way home. Th.
rest are hourly espeaed.
On Mon Jay last. two troops of that excehent re
giment, the Royal Heise Guards Blue, arrive.
at Reading. where they art ezpstied to remain is
quarters fur some time.
Captain HALL, of the Army, died on Sunda
last, at Portsmouth, in the 91st sear of his ave.—
He was surgeon's mate cf the eentertae, and nes
round the world with Lord Amos, in the year 174 C
when the Manilla galeon Nostra .Sigetsess de Ca&
dengue was taken. She was the richest I sox- eve
taken, having near a mirdon ai.d a half • f dAlars o
board, and Was larger and of more force than th
Centurion. Mr. HALL came home surgeoii gat he.
It was atter this voyage. which lasted three year
and nine months. that Lord Amos/, when he lar:de
on the point at Portsmouth. fell u;*on his knees, ar.
offered an ejaculatory prayer t Hon who ha prt
served him from such imm:nent (Litters I Cap 41
Foarascur is the only person living srPo want
Via: voyage.

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