The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-08-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

roartm. 'T9, suo..,
Yesterday arrived the Diunt:b, and Leval,
gun vessels, from the Downs ; and the Amphitrite
frigate, from the Mediterranean, with a convoy
Cinic into harbour the Piot, 0,:op, Captain
Sauraicrs.
Arrived the iffocaft gun-br;;,, from a cruise, ansi
tl%e I:rhkr transport, Capt. Lee, from
Westerly.

nest, AUG. 5.
Admiral Lerd.Keith has shifted his d. 1,7 om the
So. Thaq's to the iffilerovcs man of war ; the former
has since sa3ed for Sheerness.
Arrived the john Bei/cutter, frr.m the Westward,
with a convoy, which are sailed for the River. 'the
Jebn At!: remains.
Arrived bornortolii. and IL I: Dileorer,
bomb, Pincher aqd levy al ~:tier grit, bi iiSs, from (if
the French coast, ..nd remain in the Downs with the
rest of the ships as per last.
vasmorra. .IIrOUST 5.
The Deeser packet, Captain Hammond, is arrived
from linsum, and landed her mails and pas•engers
here. The Ebert. se-, Christianson, from I..mbden,
for Antwerp, is de ained, and sent in by the
Ametbr.t ftigate. Several:icon vessels are de-
tained, and van into :his pon by His Majesty's
cmi..ers co this station, in consequence of a late
order.—bind W.
CORK, JULY 29.
Arrived the Lady Beide, or Cork, Haye., from
rbA,loes, with sugar, kc.; G,.dens of co. Long,
do. dn. ; .61i:a, of do. Pesky, do. do. ; Lspe.,t, of
do. Gllms 4-e, d0...d0.
Sailed his Aajesty's chip Topa:e, Captain Lake,
for Plymouth ; Jo. sloop Baena, Capt Losack, on a
cruise ; Jane, of Weymouth, Jenkins, for London,
with provisions; Nelson, of and for Jersey, Lang-
dard. spirits, &c.; Constant Tra,ler, of Barmouth,
pf &tbs. to, London, with provisions; Bakst., of
rishgrprd, Williams, for Plymouth. do.; Steers.
of and for Liverpool, Way, butter, kc.; Coercive.
PiPon, of Greenock, Ritchie, for Trinidad, with
merchants' goods; Stag, of Newport, Jenkins, for
Cardiff, with ballast ; Napen, of Clay, Triselan,
as. do.; Juba, of Carmarthen, Evans, Milford, do.;
relaidade, of St. Übes, Janquero, Lisbon, butter.
JULY 31.
Yesterday morning, .His Majesty's ship rears,
Capt. Matson, sailed from our harbour on a cruise.
Capt. Gage is appointed to the command of the
Thetas frigate.
The encumpmeut in the neighbourhood of this
city is for the present abandoned. the principal
strength of which it was to have been composed,
consisting of the 71st, 72d, 93J. and 24th Regiments,
laying embhrked at Cove. Sir David Baird is ea.
tined here it a v•ry• few days to take the sornetiond.
'The regiments above named, together with the Rth
god 93 f. which have relit:tired on board the trans-
'pits, are! it is said, to for:n an expedition against
the Cape of. Good Hope; bet there is no expefitation
that this expedition has soy niore determinate ~j,•ft
*in }*y, of those others which, after SO many ern-
latplial.ioni and di:embarkaticns, march;or and
cb.; -s of quarters, have at last ended as they were

Larsaußr, AUGUST i.

The business of the Wilts Assizes began here en
-slonday, before Mr. Justice Le. Beene and Mr.
Itron Gr AH A SI, the former of whom presided at the
Crown Bar, and the latter at Nii Prirct.
The caure which had excited the greatest interest:
was the trial for an information from the Court of
King's Bench against Gorges Lowther, Esq. of Tils-
head Lodze. The information cnneiined various
—wants, in substance charging the Defendant with
:miring vet itien a letter to John Thomas Batt, Esq.
which was intended to convey a challenge to that
Gentleman; with having written the said letter with
intent to provoke a challenge; and with having
written and published a libel on Mr. Batt, as a Ma-
gistrate.
Mr. Bolinouoit, for the prosecution, stated the
circumstances from whence this case bad arisen, and
read the letters written by Mr Lowther on the oc-
casion (all of which have been already laid before
die public). He then argued on the necessity of
proteding those gentlemen who gratuitously bestow
their time arid exert their talents, in executing the
arduous and important duties of Justit e of the Peace ;
and pointed out where, in his opinion, the Defend-
ant has used very unwarrantable insinuations re-
spelling Mr. Batt, in a letter addressed to him, which
he had afterw ads published to the world at large,
and had thereby cornmile I offences which required
the interposition of the laws in proteetion of the Me.
gistracy. He called witnesses to substantiat: the
Path.
Mr. JFICV Li.. for the Defendant, argued that his
Client had been more sinned against than sinning.
Descended from an illustrious line of ancestry in the
sister island, he had worn the robe of Magistracy in
that part of the United Kingdom, therefore it could
not be his wish to degrade or insult, the Magistracy
here. Honoured in this part of the country with the
command of a most distinguished corps of cavalry
(the Fawley Lieht Dragoons), when the flames tit
r '.ellion burst forth in Ir land, he had nevertheless
flown to assist in protea;ng his native land from the
• rrors of anarchy, had di iwn his sword, and bled
in defence of the laws. Such a matt could not wish
to do any thing which might bring the laws into
contempt. Tee Irish, he admitted, possessed a
wernith of temper equal to their bravery; end his
Client, under the sr: se of what he conceive ! to be
alt injury, had written, perhaps, in the spirit of his
county, but not with the views stated by his Learn.
ed Frtena. In regard to tee after publication of his
letters in the provincial Journal, the purpose was
expressly stated : it was ton etify a very erroneous
account which had appeared in tie Londe t Papers,
end was not dor,e with • hat malicious intent winch
constituted the publics,. ..n f 3 libel He remirited
the Jury, that by the efforts of an iliusteious Senator,
whose compteheireve mind embraced the principles
of jerispruciettee, with an accuracy that gave his opi-
nions the starry of the first legal authority, they were
declared to be the judges of the taw and th, fait of
this point of the case ; it rested with them to say'
wheeeir the publication of the letters was direfted
by such a disposition as constituted a malicious
libel.
Mr Baron Ca eirtN, in summing up, declared
that lie had always considered the law of libels to be
stated by the Declaratory Ad, and he wished for no
grea'er power u.an that Ad give him. Under it
he was not only •su hurised, but required to state his
opinion of the case; and such a Jury as he had to
address would give .t the weight which from his sta-
tion he merited. His Lordship professed Neat he
could see nothing in the condnn or the Magistrates,
which called for the adimadversions the Defendan.
had hes owed on it. It was true that Mr. Hatt could
' not he injured oy it, h cal e the treneeCtions had
passed wilere his chariteter was too well known and
respelled for any attack on him !,) have that effect
Indeed that Geetleman had the adow 'cage of a well.
spent life, from whim 1w would have been at home
in any part of the kingdom. But it was not there-
fore to be inferred, that such men might be assailed
with impunity. On the contrary, the public was pe-
culiarly interested in their protettion.
The Jury, which was Special, returned the follow-
ing verdia We find the Defendant Not Guilty
of endeavouring to preveke Mr. Batt to a challenge;
but we find him Grotty of writing and publishing a
libel on him as a Magistrate."
'The Court observed, that is, Guilty of the Fourth
Count.
'leic were several other interesting causes; but
it might be premantre to report them, as in most of
them cos, s were reserved on points of nice legal dis-
inei i.

lievconin Crocker, alias Collins, 'vas tried and capi-
tally convieteil, fur forging and cnooterfeiting a pro-
missary note for 701. in tt? name of Willi:.m Tuc-
ker. payable to himself; on .vhich note he had all,.
indorsed the re. c,pt of a year's interest ; hut it was
clearly prt.ved in evidence that nn such interest was
ever paid. Bills were found against him for two
other forgeries. in the names of the Rev. F. J. H.
Festing, and Mr. William Capper ; but, being con-
vided on the first, he was not tried on the other in-
dilment. Judgment was respited till The 3d De-
cember, that the opinion of the Judges may be taken
on the legality of his convidlion, when, as is alleged,
the crime was not Completed by the ailual attempt
to obtain money on the nr res.

FAO3I LAST NtGIFTS GAZATTE.

Admiralty-0117re, A mpg 5, 1803.
Copy of a Letter from Sir Robert Calder, hurt Vice-Admiral
of the Wee, to thu Honourable William Corms& Ad•
mirsl of thy White, hr. dated on board Ilia Sdejesty's shit,
the Prince or Wales, the 119th of Juiy, 1805.
SI R.—l ant induced to and, by the Windsor Castle, a tr;vli-
cate of my dispatch of the IV lost ut, owMig to a tyre great
omission of Inv cretarv, who, from indisposition, and an in-
terlineation in my First letter, itegletted to insert the name of
Rear Ad!airal Charles Stirling in my public thanks; I am
therefore to reqii,st you will be pleased to cause the mistake to
be correvkit as early as possible.
I have the honour to be,',tc.

:10H. CALDER.

MILITARY I'IMMOTIONS.

Irdr•Offire, Aoeort 6, 1605.
lit it Gement of Rragoini Gtni;&•••••Veterinary Surgeon Wit•
ham Oark,oir, from the King': German Legion, to be Vete-
rinary Surgeon, vice Cordeaux, appointed to the Ordnance
Service
sth Ditt,,--Cetrnet Stephen Moore to be Lieutenant, without

iirelrase.
Cornet Edward Kellett to be ditto.
6th ditto—A.l66l.mi Sweeny tie age It. Callow, from the sth

root, to br Amount quieuti.
4th Regiment of root —Lietnenant.Col met Henry William
Evittafte, from the Itith Fot, to be Lietnenant.Colonel,
vk • Rnnley, appo iu the Nova Scotia Feacitallee.
Ditto—Lieutenant.Colonel Lionel Smith, from th• Nova
S otia F.,ileiblet, to Ir. Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Espinamt ,
appounte+l to the Ch Foot.
Bth Royal Veteran elottalion—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Reoh;!rt Walker to he I.;etit-nant Clonel.
9th ditto—'revel IVilliarn Osborn Ha
milton, from the Royal., to be Licutenagt•Colonel, vice

Campbell, decease,
Nora Sootir Feneibl^s--Colonel Thomas Brinier, from the 4th
Foot. t.. bt Lieutet:aot Colonel, ♦ice S,a..tit, appointed to
. the 18th Foot _ .

STAFF.
John Murray. fan. from halt pav, to latt, a Deputy C.,.,.mi-tary
General of Stores, Pr•tvi,ions, tort Faragroo th F.. ,s
To be Atvivtant Commisvarim of Stores, Provitionc. and Pit-
rap to the Force.- Aohert Hill, Gent.---Charlus Pratt,
Gent. _ .

Enos,
Three

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TABLEY P.llZlf, CITESITIRS.

EXTRACT Of A LETTER Tutor istaLtsroao„ TIA;.I,
A U4a'sl 3.
" Sir John Leicester, who is Colonel of the Eel
of Chester's Gentlemen and Yeomanry Caval:
(which he himself raised), iu order to cause emala.
don among them, and to promote discipli .e,
gave a Cup, value ten guineas, as a prize to t'ar
nest swordsman in the regiment ; and a handsome
sword, which cost six guineas, to the second bet.
They were to perform the 3d and kh divisions or
the sword exercise, full spend, singly, in n.le
hundred and fifty 'ands in the front of the bile,
the Adjutant to decide which was the hesr.....
This was done by twenty as fine fellows as I relieve
could be selefted from any regular regiment, and
the contest was so equal, that, after performing the
exercise several times, they were obliged to draw
lots for the first prize, when the cup fell to the
lot of Corporal Lewes, of the Ashton [jr.;.,
Troop, and the sword to J. Dean, a private in ihr
Kantsford troop, amidst the acclamations of A nv,
merous cmleourge of gentry of the first re 7e:!.,
lity assembled in Tabley Park, and who
the greatest satisfaftion on the occasion ; I!: ,
in short, was enchanting. The morning wo:
fine, and the exhibition each day on the moat Ix atri.
Ell part of the Park, direEtly opposite Sir John's ti-
.;trce of water. Nine or ten boats decorated with the
flags of all n ttions, and several others, sailed about
during the whole time. The whole was highly flat•
tering to Sir John, who received the congratulations
of air !resent, for the admirable performance of his
fi- are -iment. The guns were fired on the lawn in
hoto.a• of the late naval elEfory."

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BR TI I ra
On the 7th ult. at Large, Scotland, Mrs. Macdonald Loeb.
hart, of a Sen.
At I.e Ile, Ayrshire, SLotland, ,in the 28th ult Mrs.
Coningliaiii, of Enterkine, a a .0u and heir.
111 AERIAGFS.
On the 29th ult at Atezhadiswn Church. county of Cork, be
the Iles Mr. WTI It, flew), Belcher, of Ifollybroult, Esq
MI Jerniyn, on.y daughter and heiress of Unary Je.:ns 1.
E.o. of Aughado-sii.
Giihert Plit tttttt er, Esq. of Little Curt, county of Duliitu,
to Miss is situ Meredith. of Tons,.lc-str.ra, llublun, daughter
of Sir J din Meredith, /La. r minty of Meath.
Latch, at Doceader, the Rev. Peter Lowe, of Oaten, N*
ti ghatrishire to Miss Ellen Probe, second daughter std •
Rev. Regial Pyndar, of I larisor Moro, Worcestrush'lre, tod
fremetly Fellow of ut g's College, Cambridge.

On Sunday last, in Mount-in evt,

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Lately, the iiifant son of Colonel Prohyn, of Rigseeare, fut
Gluuceite,ihirr,
M••nday ..e•oiaght, in Gloure,ter, Miss Anne Gerges, fifth
fia.lghtor of the at. Richer,l Gorges, Eel. of Eye Conn, to list'
fotes,ty of llerefoid, Reptesentative in Parliament fur the ber
roll(, of Lemaiiiister.
Same day, at its latherll house, in Gloireetter, In the 27th
.r of his age, Lieutenant Adey, of the Royal South C. Ai-
crater Militia.
Un Ti• utoday, at Ilill H,rrse, near Stmul, iu the 19s:• yin
of hit age, Li 'ill Preen). A rundell, of the South Gl.u.:4ter
ride ',us of Same* krundell, El.
On Friday last, at his lodgings, St .Auguatinea-balt,
Rein:mi. Rowe, Esq. late Lieut.-Colonel of the !nth Regi-
ment of Foot,
Suntlu miming, at eight o'clock. Miss Mary Clark,
d.“iittiter George earl:, F.. 14. Ra:iker in Lombard •
Un Soi:slay morning, Mrs. Barber, wife of M •
Barbel, Printer, of Fleeteattetaa,

won WATER TWA DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE.
54 Wes. alber 11. I Even... .g enilter
SALES 1W AUCTION.

Mews. FYFF.. DUFFIN, and CO.
At their Cnenteiottoti Rooms, No. it, Stanhope street, of•
• VO-MORROW, Aligud 8, at Twigs. o'Cluck,
A Quantity of 1-10USE11()LD FURNITURE
LA. and other Eff,Fis, Tempered there for contenienes, and
wilt be 501 without reseren, consisting of an tinant 'nfa and
chairs, a handsome secretary and bookcase, beaureaus, tn•
ble., feather beds, bertatestla, blankets, plated candlesticka, a
number of tea beards, between twenty and thirty dusen
of
cotton and worsted stockings, sorted, Jtc &c. with some brau-
tiful print. and painting., framed and glazed, a barometer,
thermometer, and t,nie.piece,• for grace of small gilt buttons,
and twenty pieces of Irish linen, warray.ted sound.
• Gaul, iv. auction in town or country at the tor&
commiatioie ; money advanced ettivdd