The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-19 00:00:00

COMMON PLE.4N SITTINGS.

Sittings appointed in Middlon and London, before the Rik
lion. Sir Kohert IliSimi, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his Ma-
jesty's esturt of Conn:ion Plow, at iVestniinster, in and Aar Hi-
lary Term, 162.1 :

IX TERN.

MIDDIESEY.
Saturday, January 24.
Saturday. January SI.
Friday, February t;.

I LONDON.
!dontlay, January a
Monday, February I.
Saturday, February /.
TEI
Saturday, February I
eke; Jan. 26, at the ; and Feb.
line O'clock.

AFTER

Friday, February I.
To sit Jan. .21 and 31, at Tye
42, U, 7, 13, and 11, at Halt-past Ni

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAW. 17.—Wolneeday last, the Brat day of Lint
Tenn, the following Decrees were contirvmst
:MASTERS OF .tRTll.—Rvv. George Parkes Cleether, E/LIDRf
I ; Rev. Henry .144111% StTfillOn Atwood, Queen's College;
Rev. Joseph IVeld, anti the Rev. William Burkitt, Si. Edmund's

Baciticaoas or Aare—Edward Millard, Exeter Collar;
Thomas Vezey flavor. Scholar of Jeau• Collage Mazlini tan
Genoste, Clerk of Queen's l'ollepre John Edward Jalhers, sod
Auguatua Page Saunders, Students of l'hriat Chored

Mrs. Brown, now a prisoner in St. Alban's gaol, charged
with being concerned in the death of tirainge, the con-
stable, at Itabley-house, is daughter to Colonel Suckling,
barrack-master of Windsor. first cousin to the late Lord
Nelson, and her mother Is iVybrow Suckling, daughter of
the late Duke of l'utuboland, by a person in humble'

THE GENERAL PALMER.

We are happy in observing by the following letter a just
tribute of acknowledgment to Captain Truscott, by the
passengers of the tteneral Palmer:—

January 3, 1824.
DEAR Sin—We, the passengers on board the General Palmer,
under your command, on the occasion of quitting the ship, beg to
return you our best thanks for your kind and unremitting attention
to us. by which the voyage has been rendered so agreeable; and
we request that you will accept of • piece of plate, as a small mark
d our esteem.
Our fellow-pmeenger, Colonel Stewart, will present you with the
piece cf plate on your arrival in London.
We am, dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
Tito MAN STRIP/ART, Lieutenant-Colonel of the
21tli Regiment of the Madras Army.
THOMAS litcare, Colonel of the 23d Regi-
mem of the Madras Army.
E. Ills ni.er, Major of the sth Regiment of
Madras Cavalry.
S. S. Gym MEIII, Major of the 23d Regiment of
Madras Native Infantry.
P. N. Itare•tir, Captain of the Ikb Regiment
of Madras Cavalry.
It. %V. Itrusvv, Captain of his Majesty's 41st
Regiment.
G. 11. DACIR. lieutenant of the Royal Navy.
G. W. MATOILE, Lieutenant of the Koval Navy.
Mow Ann DOWSER, Lieutenant of the. 2tl Regi-
ment of Madras Infantry.
EDWIN DT ea, Lieutenant of the 234 Regiment
of Intantry.
J. P. PAUET, Lieutenant of the Madras Euro-
pean Regiment.
C. 'fut. Karr. Ensign of the 4th Regiment of
the Madras Army.
To the Captain of the General Palmer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
--.000....-
CtrSTOM-HOU?E, JAW. 17.

• ricortit InwAino.
(lord. Nertragang, Drastic ()lohnon, broker), from Amsterdam.
Julfer Jantje, I hWer (Hofntan broker), from Brussels.
No/Astern, Wetter (Wiwelle., t;loksrl, frown Dantele.
Defer Titsa. lkoseling (Simon, broker), from Antwerp.
San Antonios Lange (Sinn,broker), from Antwerp.
Amity, Dray IChapnian, broker), from Batavia.
Hottentot, (R'illcoa, broker), from Havannab.
Britannia, I,ibston (Eastman, broker), from Faro.
Flora, Schafiler (It. Foster, broker), front MenieL
bill. Matbilda, Jaeger (Castendieck, broker), from WoVuht.
Petrick Henry, Kennison (Wader, broker). from .Amste
l'ommeree, Whitway (iVilliniett, broker), from Oporto.
Elizabeth, Cameron (Knit!, broker), front
(lope, Knowles, (I)oilfield. broker), front Dunkirk.
Jane, Lewis (Bueldand, broken, from Charente.
btonebouse (Smith, broker), IMUI St. Petersburgh.

JAXITAIIir.
el.r.Alll/40 OITTIVANDS.—The Marina, for Zante ; Arundel.
for Trinidad ; and Mary, for Oporto.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALMOUTH, J•N. ill—Arrival the Robert and Mary, Slade;
and Commerce, 'tacky, from London.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. l'._-Arrivetl the Albion, and Vine, from
Newport ; and flood Intent, from Liverpool.
POILTSOWTH, J AN .16.—Arrived the Erin, Allen, from Water.
ford ; and London, —, from Plymouth. Saiied the Fortitude,
Martin, for Jamaica.
RAMSOATE, JAN. 16.—The Cornelius, ‘Vardel, from Sunder-
land to Portsmouth, will not be got oil the Goodwin Sand, the
crew having abandoned her.
liov ea, JAN. 16.—Arrived the George, Stedina, from Rouen,
leaky, and with loss of two anchors and cables.
DIAL, JAN. 16.—Arrived from London the David Lyon, for
Jamaica; Marianne, for the Cape of flood Hope; also the Hen-
riot, from Lisbon; and Speculator, from Faro; the two former
sailed for their destinations, the latter remain. The collier we re.
ported yesterday on shore on the Goodwin Sands still remains, and
will be km.
t• AAA r A END, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Britannia, Kroft, frorn
Auntie; Uuatave, Gan, from ,Memel; Elisabeth, Cameron, from
Lisbon; Essex, Astell. from Bordeaux; June, Newly, from Cho-
fame; Commuoick Whitway, from Oporto; Britannia, Simpson,
from Faro; Hope, Know's- front Dunkirk ; Commerce, —,
from Dundalk. Sailed the Mcqueen, Walker, and Castle Hunt-
ley, Drummond, for China; Marianne, Coulson, foe the Cape of
Good Hope; James. Pustlethwai•e, for Alexandria; Britannia,
Lawton, for the booth Whale Fishery ; Fairy Queen, Sexton, for
Bilbao; Verwagging. DeVries, for Harlingen; Augment, Grandes,
for Hone; Crawford, Thomas, for Ililbos.
Live:m.o*x. Jay. I.l.—isailed the Arab, fee Valporoiso; In.
defatipbk. for Pernambuco; Stapleton, for Buenos Apses; Su-
perior, Illather, and Jubilee, fort Bermantals; Canabrien,Lax Jae
Cape of Good hope; Burnett sad torts, forjanmica ;
for Si. DoeniOV t Elmore. far ; ftlidaode. fO7-Ww
Orleans; Isaa, for !Baltimore; Trident, for New York;
Elizabeth, Wilma, foe Savannah; Thaanna, for diaggai and Ida!,
14.—Panad Debtelor
a • • and the lads,
Glasgow, Hunter, for Jamaica;

Lyar, fer Sitannab:
lirt,rneT, JAN. IL-Arrived the Jane, Moochy, from Wo-
ke; and Jaime bare, (loran, from Charkilo°.

There are no men of war at Spithead. In harbour-44min
Charlotte, Albion, Jupiter, Phaeton, Tweed, Hanger, Menai,
Pa/44u, Grasshopper, Amebae, Sparrowhawk, Arrow, Cygnet,
and Plover.
Lieutenant J. Bennet, Mr. 0. Pinto, and :dr. W. Shoveller,
oarsmen &reappointed to the Ramifies, to be employed on the
Come Blockade Service. Lieut. John Adams (a), to the Grass-1
hopper ; Lieutenant A. 11. Kellett, to the Arachne.
e Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has arlininled 144r1111/eal
Illaedonell, Inspector of Fisheries, for the District of Drogheda.
A smuggling boat, with 140 tubs of brandy and genera, was
Imbed on Thursday last of the mist of SUM%eI, by the !Anne, ten-
der to the Queen Charlotte, and brought to the Custom-house at
Portsinout h.
The Fabius, —, from Bremen to St. Übes, has been aban-
doned at sea. _

The llelharn, Beurs, from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, vu
spoken with the 17th ult., by the Hugh Crawford, arrived in the
giver.
Ana avtu—At Jamaica, the Trial, Harvey, from London ;
Liverpool, Jennings, from Cork ; Thalia, Shand, from Halifax ;
and NIL Vincent, I)unamulse, from Newfoundland. At Itio Ja.
twit°, 0 ltesart ; Hero, Jenkins Minor, lierrerd ; and Aledi-
terraaean, Dare, froni London t and Isabella. Agnew, fermi Liver.
pool. At Cuxhaven, Sarah Alargaret, Sheadcr, from London.

A letter from an officer on board the Harlequin sloop of
war, gates the following circumstance, as giving rise to the
report of that vessel having foundered off the western coast
of Ireland. It seems that the last time the ship was in
company with the Arab sloop, one of the crew exchanged
his hat, on which was painted the word " Harlequin,"
with one belonging to the Arab, and on the loss of the
latter this identical hat was washed on shore, with several
pieces of wreck.
We regret to hear, that among the midshipmen of the
unfortunate Arab, who perished in that ship, were sons of
Captains F. Mason, Harper, Gore, and Tetley ; and ofl
Lieutenant Vosper, of the royal navy.
It is expected that all the guardships at the ports will gel
on cruises of exercise in the ensuing summer. The Vic-
tory, 100, will be commissioned in about a fortnight, as
the Sag-ship at this port, in the mom of the Queen Char-
lotte, which ship, being in a defective state, will he paid or
The gentleman whose tuysterions dies h frame.
Bristol we noticed last week, bat mot yet e 6 en hoovered,
annsequently the affair continuos ti excite a very extreme-
ordinary sensation. A rumour was current in Bath this
morning, that he had been found murdered under • hay-
rick at Stokes Croft; this proves to be incomes, ; for up
to eleven o'clock to-day no tidings had been heard of him.
—4Path

MYOTBRIOUS DI NC! OP Ma. Planes, OW
BILISTOL.--Fw several days pact ;denude have been posted In va.
rims ports of the metropolis, and advertisements in the public
papers, describing the sudden disappearance of the abfre gentle-
men, and tiering a reward of one -hundred guineas for lOW satir
fbeary information relative to him. The followineireunritsnes
may probably throw some light on the came of his absence, and
!lard same indirect assurance to his friends that nothing has hap-
pened Whim. A man of the name of Hare, who is employed by
the proprietors of the SI enagerie, Exeter 'Change, and who, in the
early pert of the morning, occupies himself in cleaning die
bents and brushing the clothes of gentlemen who lodge at the tiff-
firem homes in the neighbourhood of the Adelphi, was sent Mr on
Wednesday morning last, to clean the boots and brash the clothes
' of a new lodger, at No. IS, Buckinghanrstreet, Strand, and on
entering the g ntlemen's apartment. be wee immediately struck
with the description he read of Mr. Pierce in the hand-bills. He
however made no remelt, but shortly after called at another gen-
tlemen's In the same street, to whom he mentioned his suspicions,
having the stranger's boots in his hands at the time; this gentle-
man took the boots, and on examination saw the maker's name
and Bristol marked on them. This cirettnistancegiving strength .
to the suspicions of Hare, this gentleman advised as soon as he
had cleaned the boots, to go to the respectable solicitor in
lane, to whom reference was directed to be made in the b(2l3ltreZs,
which Hare accordingly did, and in consequence one of the clerks,
who knew the person of Mr. Pierce, was sent with him to the
lodging to ascertain the truth of what he suspected; but to come
at this object the mode adopted by the clerk was not the most ju-
dicious one, for the door being opened to bins he Inquired if .11r.
Pierce of Bristol lodged there. The servant answered that there
was a Mr. Pierce lodging there, but that he came from Worcester
and not from Bristol, anti that he was not then at bone; with
this answer the clerk departed. On the dart morning, when Han,
came to attend the strange gentleman, be found he had left the,
house the night before, and gone OM where they knew not. Since
which the ownerof the house, No. !S. has upraised his displeasure
,in very angry ter.ns to Hare at inteiftimu with hit loktis.