The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-06 00:00:00

VORIt ASSIZES.

Italie* Mr. saws wows.
SPORTIKG CAIIL
siltrrasses P. sioLusel.
nhi tem so wiles lo mover • son of der • <mas-
tiff a Oats sold sad delivered by lbe Ingialien to the De-
frsdast lb. parties reside et Leeds. Eridesce beteg pm.
dared es the pert (a the Millie/ so estaidials the deemed,
the Deksdaet was called open to strew that the wieweg had
bees paid, se the claim otberwise to lolled.
Tbe Detelbdant proved, that prior to last Detroiter ewes,
the Plated, had bet him 160 goitres' to It epeeist Jett!
Npiara whining the St. Leger, sad that the elan wen deli-
vered to him op account of the aster.
The Litiout tip Jv ins charged the Jury, that tt all COMP
where mosey, or ary commodity, is delivered is metafiction
of a wager, it cianot be recovered bosh again.
Then belag some mortis' men es the Joey, It is hardly
secessary to state, that • verdict was given for the De.
Midas*.

MOAT, AUGUST 3.

WISI AND 0111611 N. 11•RKH•11.
This was an Issue from lbe Court of Eackwaluer, to try
mhetber of Ito( the Mods, &e. at Mess:, Huideruess, were
'abject 10 tithes.
Verdiet for the Plaintiff,. The Jury were unanimously of
opinion that there was as absolute exemption.
WATSON v. TINIELND.
The Ptaiatiff is this ram was Hugh Watson, who formerly
Mild bats is theCoffer.mird in ibis city; sod the !Mendota,
W. Tink ler, batter, or Hull. The actiou was brought for
libels published by the Defesidant, which stated that the hats
sold by the Plaintiff were nude of the very worst materials;
that he charged to double their real value; and that Om
Plaintiff was • hawking pedlar, • notorious importer,
The libels kiwis( bees proud, tzt. the Jog found • ver-
dict for Ibe Plaint iff.—Damages, SOL

THE OLD EERPENT IT LAST.

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There was a rumour afloat last evening, that the sea ser-
pent, or some other marine saintsl skin to that crooked
family, bad been caught to the waters of New Jersey. Mr.
Noah has coo eeeee d with a Mr. John Beers, a resideet of
Middletown, county of Moonsouth (N. J.) who arrived i■
this city on Wednesday sight last, and states, that a moo.
•boos ereatere, between thirty and forty feet in length
and eighteen feet round, was captured en Moseley last,
is a cove, at Brown's Point, near Middletown Point. The
emanate, was discovered fur two or three days pervioesly,
having the appearance of a tarp log Molting, with two
bunches, which afterwards proved to be Inn. Two men shot
balls into bim from muskets, which had so effect. He
contlsued fbuncing about, bet was Isolable, from the *hal-
loo/Deis of the water, to get off Five or sib heats were
then rigged and massed, aid went in pursuit, sod succeeded
in petting Ave harpoons into him, which drove him on
the shore, where they 'aimed aid killed hiss. The crea-
ture bas been skinned, sad it required two hones and six
'nee to drag the ski* about two hundred yards, w►ith is to
be stared, aid will be brought to this city.. Tuesday next.
A number of old whalers sad other seamen ►ave bee. to
view it, sod they all declare that they never have sees any
SIMMSI of the same kind, and, from the description given of
a sea serpent, they consider it use of that species. That
he had no flotilla", no heart, but a liver which produced fuse
barrels of oil, had six rows of small sharp white teet►. The
upper part of the tail is plsisst sere* f let, and lower about
three feet; the skis Is of a leadiab eolssr, and will sharpest
s knife like a singe. The throat large maistigh to passe large
man.—(Nere York Paper,Jime IS.)
Further particulars concerning the hop fish taken near New
York, sod sow exhibited in Broadway, from a memo-
randa's' by Dr. Mitchell, June 20, 1822.
This lab, growing Gewalt, to the length of mere than
t►irty feet, is the largest inhabitant of the ices. that boa
ever visited the waters of New York, except the larger species
of whale. When it is readier led that our an shore extrude
from Ralter's Island beyond ilioatock Poiass, almost to Saody
Hook, an animal of such sertgoitode, bale( par the surface,
could ►ardly have escaped observatioe.
The mama of his rare appointor* probably is, that Whig
s basking abaft be usually jellabas the mallows parts of the
Atlantic OrstaO, sod ftry seldom 'mimes as far south as the
latitude of 41. or 40. It le probable he may have bees
transiently observed aloeg t►e coast towards the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, by fishermen and eavigature, sod have furl
sighed materials by his' figure and fitroiri is r•u sa ►i.
mapitede, to sore of the stories that ►ave bees told of the
sea serpeul•• The elevatioes of the back just behind the
seek, the bench on which the lest il"rmIl 01, It !Heeled, she
second dorsal 6,. itself, and the upper secti6u of the • caudal
1., might very naturally give rise to as opisiuu of bumps 00
his back.

It is •orth the while to p.e•erve all the information e:.
tail concerning this strange tither. Win. G. Reynolds, M.D.
of Middletown, bag collected • mother of valuable facts,
which he stated is his letter of Jose 11th. " The mossier
was Bayed, all but its head, when I Arse saw it. The mouth
from angle to angle wasted a very small fraction of Shies
feet. The eeseentrie circles forming the jaws, which are
new pointed lake the Asarao arch or the Greek delta, were
then Nearly simicircular, cad all margined with rows of reed.
lag, mostly double, of which 1 send you a well preserved
specimen.
" I could perceive nothing that answered the purpose of •
tongue • but on opening the mouth, at the distance of nearly
three feet back, a structure nearly resembling the auteriur
half arch of the hamsa faucet, presented itself to the tier.
" The digestive apparatus was very simple, though too
much mutilated when I arrived to afford a very accurate
kuowkdge of its precise organisation. A stomach not half
the size of a common cow, of aa oblong shape, and shrink-
ing gradually into an intestine, attached by a meseutery,
Atiel running a straight course about tea or twelve feel,
constituted the whole rhyloparetic viscera. The liver
already cut Into pieces, the meta assured me, was 10 or 12
feet long, with a gall bladder or something like it, about
20 inches lung and 0 inches in diameter.

Whateirer may be the opinion concerning the large op-
pe•dages from the bases of the ventral flux, I. the males
of this family, I am pretty certain that in addition to
their sexes! 'earliest, the creature uses thews while
crawling on the bottom is quest of food, or wh.o left on
• bar with too little water to float him; as the bottoms
of the extremities as far back as the little °ocelots
had the appearance of being much worn, aid less so from
that point back lit=e4 hare joint, oe bead, about the
middle of each ap
" The pectoral is weie 6 rest and a half long tad t feet
6 incites wide near the body, and diminishing toward the
points. Their articulation was by ball sad socket admit.
dug of free &alum, extension and rolatiou. Th 2 socket was
nearly the 'neat a small pint bowl.
it There was am bone, tare the two aim tacit and the
tettA. Ewes the jaws sod apise were composed of cartage,
much like the sturgeon's sun.
it A large quantity of medullary substance, which must be
supposed to be brain, was taken from the bead a few days
after the first attempt at preservation.
" The diameter of the televise was se inch and • half, or
• little mom, and it contained only • little semi-fluid sub.
stance somewhat resembling enulasses in colour. and coo-
sistesce.

" ! could perceive no muscular fibres whatever. The flesh
resembled flesh slaughtered pork, and seemed to be altoge-
ther of a paienchymatous texture, from which, and other
circumstances, I am led to conclude the animal bad but little
'marabou, strength, or celerity of motion.
" On costemplating the whole structure' we are struck
with singularities, the must obvious 01 which is the disparity
between suth an enormous mouth, and such inconsiderable
organs of digestion." .." .

it la to be regretted that fte fish was not immedi-
ately brought to the thy for dissection. it is a matter of sa-
tisfaetiou that D►. K. has brew eoa►kd to ascertain aid prr.
ofroe so much of the iutelligeace that would otherwise hats
bona lust.

Mr. Jsator has declined the contest for the of-
fice of County Corouer of Emu; Mr. GIBSON hull
therefore the prospect of beiug returued.

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