The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-07-25 00:00:00

LINCOLNSHIRE ASSIZES.

Mr. Jostle, Ho'fold arrived ■t Lincoln or Sidardly even-
ing, as five o'clock, and was met a mil* from the town by
the Sheriff, Sir John Hayfiird Th..ruld, Hart. in prucessiuti,
preceded by the public °Seers of the county and city of
Lincoln, and a numerous retinue of javelin men. On Sun.
day the Judge attended divine service at the Catbedsal,
where the customary solemnity of tolling Great Tom previ-
previously sionounced the morning service.
The business of the Avsiaes is conducted in the Chapter
Horse of the C‘thedisl instead of making tieu of the unsafe
Mei Prins Court in Iles Castle-yird. There are this teen
prisoners for trial at them Assizes.

Thetford wool fair, held lot Saturday, was bet-
ter auended than had been expected. About Fin
persona sat down to dinner, including I'. W.
COILS. E-q. the Chairman, the Hon. General
WA LPOII.II, Sir THOMAS BEEVOR, ke. Mr. COKE,
in the course of the evening, said, he believed it
would be admitted by the Gentlemen from York-
shire, that the woollen Inanuractories iu general
were in full employment.; but there was a great
difference between I:Aug empliiyed and flou-
rishing, and he did not believe them to be in a
flourishing state. The best price generally given for
wool last year was 314. and this year it had sold
as high as 41 shillings. After some conversation,
the company adjourned to the yard; but it does
not appear that any sales were effected, though
it is considered by the dealers that wool of the first
quality was in request at rather inure than last year's
prices. but that of an inferior description was lower.
11re aie assured that the fallowing is an accurate
account of the state of the wool trade:—

" The best Honks of Roathdown etre and hogget, whet*
there to asivrtalloantity of each, are selling hum 38.. to
dig. per Sod (owing to too Onuses at Bradford, that are
row baying to this cowry, one agaiust the other, to owe
which ear make the best yarn fur Norwich market) when
they are out worth more than fur tinotbdown ewe 284. to
30s. sod the Sonthtiown bog 32,. to 335. Norfolk ewe sod
hog tie. to 2111. The belt bred Leicester ■nd hug 33.. to
35.. fur Ike very best coos, by the Southdown ewe and Lei.
vigor hip. The shearliag wither *is. to 275. and Leicester
ewe and hog i■ out with more than 21..—(80rp Paper.)

Sunday se'nnight Mrs. THOMPSON, of Burivash.
Sussex, ow her return from church with part of her
family. received at dreadful shock on tilidiug her
husband deed in his choir, et a table whereon he
had been writing a letter. When she left him to
attend divine service be was apparently io good
health. The Jury, oo view of the body, returned
their verdict t• the Coroner. T. BATON,
" Died by the viaitatios of Gad."

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SiltilWilECK 0P THE Admix.

(From the National Gazette of Jose 11 )

According to the accounts receiveitst Norfolk, the greater
part of the voyage was prosperous sail pleasant; the nu-
merous Paefellgrra were thus rendered the more secure, end
their spirits Mare budynni. fh the 'Midst of their reliance,
as they approached the haven they felt certain of reathise.
▪ tremendous stores arose and soon &then their coati...lice,
though it did sal, probably, riiFtNe the tone of thcr
eninds—the vessel laboured, shipped a heavy-sea, sad was
thrown .ots her Antis enil., lire 'itainnian going by the
board—then au agniy of terror and a paroxysm of despair.
We may imagine the situation of she tenants of the cabin,
the telltales with their hiesbaeds and chtlifireh—when they
experienced the enneension, and fell the waters rushing in
upon them': ibirafter recovering from the shock. Ivies they
finned that they had lost bee of their member, that must of
them were 'Verret, iljured, that eve of she seames had dis-
appeared, and that the implements were guise which were
necessary to enable the Captain to disencumber his deck.
and manage his shattered anise'. Theo, she drifting of
the ffnmentgesble hull in shore until midnight ; the
storm raging with unabated fury, in the midst of the
darkness—a sight truly of usiutterrable honois. At the
dawning .of the day, instead of ever a eticsienstary relief,
fresh and more intense despair—a clearer manifests.
lion of the extreme dange►—the serf seer, with cliffs of one
ktesdred and fifty feet almost perpentienlar—ehe voice of
the Captain, a men of the stoutest heart end utmost skill,
heard proclaiming that all was lost ; the no hope was left
inemedeite striking and dierwption of the vessel us the
pointed rocks—the crowd of spectators upon the eliffs, un-
able to afford succour, but witnessing the extended arms,
Ike Imploring Goalie gestures, the streaming locks of the
females oo she wreck, and Amon heartog their shrieks and
laneentatios in t►e rode of the tempest and the surge. The
whole knee Must he present to every imagination; aid the
relleetion cannot fail to occur as an hog lea of -its
wretchedness, that must of the cake■ and steerage pas-
Mager, were, so doubt, persons of delicate and reined
habits, of exuensive connexion*, and otherwise ►o circus".
stars-d se to cheri.ti the funniest bops of future nejoysteal
and welfare in life.

The Americans bn board deshattderl and have received the
Mat add largest tribute of compassion sod regret from their
countrymen; but our attention is pow particularly fixed
upon the memory of t►e stranger, whose name is oar of
greater note than that of any of hts fellow sufferers—we meta
General Lefebvre Desourseitem. Hering a long series of year•
be had heaved death is the Geld, lighting is the most gallant
manner, and escaped, to perish at last in this catastrophe,
when his mind was perhaps lens thou at any ether period of
his life reconciled to the stroke of fate. HIS siltation was
every way peculiar. It is well known t►at he bad bees one
of the favourite and moat distinguished of Napoleon's mili-
tary comrades—that be took part is the combination agonise
Louis XVIII. on the landing of his old Commander from
the island of Elba ; joined the latter with headlong roe
tbes4sma in his last campaign, and being lastly pro.
scribed by the Royal Government, took refuge as as exile ia
the [hailed States. Hire his misfortunes, reputation, in-
telligence and manly, unexceptionable deportment res.
dered him an object of g I esteem and attesticro.
To escape, u be teed to remark, pity sad curiosity, to
couuterset memory, and to gratify the natural activity of
his mie!, be retired to the French grant in Alabama, where
be laboured in the Gelds under. burning sun, with a reckless
exertion width proved very injurious to his health lied
struggle. His wife, as amiable and accomplished Immo,
remained behind in France to watch over his in ttt there
He himself, after Wrist begun his agricultural toil,
quitted it until Its final departure, except to visit Wash-
ington on business cosoected with his affairs as • plaster.
Fatigue and chagrin crested at length in his wiled an
utoropportable disgust with his situation, and be resolved at
all hazards to return to bis native country. He addressed a
petition to Louis XVIII. praying to be allowed to go back
to be tried, sod to 4H, if his jokes so decided, nod &chino;
that he did not mean to attempt • defence before any tribute!.
The strain of ►is very brief petition was such as became the
elevated spirit of an honest soldier, inespahle of a■ abject
or
a whining supplicatiosi. lie claimed, as a respectful
subject, to be suffered to sceoter ►is country and revisit
his family, leaving his ulterior fate to the justice of the
King. The French Ambassador is t►is country, Mr.
Hyde de Newville, not only forwarded his appticatiou to the
ministry at Paris, but seconded it to 11,0 tenets of his own, ulie
addressed to them, and another directed to the kung, io which
be urged is the strongest terms the general merits of the
exile, and bore testimony to the propriety of his deport.
meet is the United States. The warm and lib. ral moues.
tallow of Mr.de Neuritic, sod the iirsiances of the Gest.
ral's wife at Paris, prevailed with the Government so far,
that it invited him to proceed to the Nethetlaody there to
await a speedy compliance with all big wishes, and instructed
the Minister of France is that country to give the kindest
welcome sad the fullest protection. He availed himself
as soon as possible of this indulgence, and was on his way
.to Holland by Liverpool, confident of soon being isdelsoified
for all the eufferiegs of his exile, in a tranquil raisteore iu
the bosom of his country and family, whet he found a
eatery grave ou the Irish coast. We have eutered into these
details concerning him, not only to explain his situation
and render his loss more impressive, but to awa►en those
feelings is favour of the cudgel of M. de Neuville sad the
French Ministry towards him, to which it is eutitled. We
know that he expressed the liveliest sem imrota apatite&
for their prompt and delicate generosity, awl gave, sponta-
neously, she most solemn assurance of never again med-
dling with politics. The Freuch Anibssaador de a,
in foci, all credit for the aid of every kind which he has
extended to several of those exiles whom meal anon.
us. ignnraal of his real character sod proceeding., may
believe him to have beeu rather &spiv-it to persecute sad
oppress. He has skew. a keen seusib.li,y to their personal
welfare, and iu mole instances than that of General Lefebvre
Desunuet UPI, has contributed with similar earuestotss to their
restoration to their country.