The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-21 00:00:00

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f a W.., k to be execute./ et Outetb.,for the complete accom-
ur:dattou of the bublin 11/41stfleuel and to Luneutt.

EY THE HON.,AHO Rev. W. D AWSQN.

All that is necessary tor strengthening Howth-
hill, which resembles, in many re ,peffs, Gibraltar, as
a small military post, for the s'curity of His Ma-
jesty's Mail, is, that it slrolld have a small battery
and small barrack close east of the Danish Fort of
Howth Town, just above tie proposed quay, to
command the harbour, which must have a pier emit
of it, for landing and embarking at, having fiftee❑
feet water always within it—that it should have an
east and west square signal tower, with due south,
north, east, and west sides, and having their test
side built the strongest, and grouted, the east tower
fifty yards high—and that it should be made an
island, and have a fort, with a depositary, where
there is fresh water, at the quarry, half way between
Howth Town and Bahloyle, viz. onemilc from each
place, to command the gate going into and out of
Howth Hill and the ditch or fosse, to be made from
sea to sea. The sea, at high' water, would .run
through this fosse, about one mile long, from Bal.
iloyle channel to Sutton creek channel, and the water
would be kept up in it by means of two sluices.
No ground could command this fort, which
should be large enough to accommodate a cons:-
der#ble military force, which might come from
Dublin or England. Liverpool is opposite to Howth
Town, :This fort, six miles from Dublin, would be
the station for the mail coach horse guard, which
would have occasion to ride with the coach all the
way only between Dublin and this fort, as from this
fort to Howth 1 own harbour would be in the island
of liswth, consequently all would be safe.
The Mail Coach will run from Howth Town to
the Post office in Dublin, seven miles, in one hour,
%then a road, about a mile long. shall be made for
it, straight, from Kilbarrack ruined Church, on the
Strand, to Rabeny Town.
Howth-hill could not be fortified with cannos
along the sea-side, close to the water, as Gibraltar
is. except at an immense and useless expellee; nor
defended, except with an immense body of men.
Gibraltar is fortified to prevent the enemy from
getting into it; but what is here proposed for
Ilowth-hill, would, if executed, prevent the enemy
from getting into it or out of it, except with the
leave of the fort and battery. . .

11th battery, fosse, and fOrt, are alluded to in Mr.
Dawson's publication, with his plan of Howth-hill,
dated February, 1603.
A very important fart seems to have escaped
attention ; it is, that the Island of Anglesea is the
centre of the population, and of the kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, if that small angle o:
Scotland, north of 'Murray Firth, is excluded.
Dublin is only 60 miles sail from this centre, and
Howth Town only 50.
If this pier, at the east of Howth Town, waa
executed, the fishery from it would be more lucra-
tile and useful than that from the Isle of Man, and
shipwrecks in Dublin Bay, as much as possible,
prevented.
If the mail packet boat sailed from Holyhead to
Howth Town and back, instead of from Holyhead
to Dublin and back, she would save twelve hours at
sea in every twenty-four she now passes there. If
the London mail came to Dublin through Coventry,
Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Capel Cerig, new Welds
road, Holyhead, and flnwth Town, instead of
coming, as it dues, it would he generally one day
sooner in Dublin than it is at present.

The above r. Li is ninet,-.-n nii'c•s 'hurter than that
which this mail goes at present from London to
Holyhead, and thirteen miles the shortest roadirem
London to Holyhead, and as flat and easy a road as
any in Great Britain, for such a distance.
Duer'in, 16th "'tine, 1804.

A very singular instance of affedion has recently
talc, n place at the lodge entering Ickworth park,
near Bury, where a cot has .suckled and brought up
four squirrels, for which she evinced the greater
CAW and tenderness.

About ten days since a very singular animal,
called a Wild Dog, was caught. in a steel trap, and
afterwards killed, in the neighbourhood of Bal-
comb, in Sussex, where he had of late proved
extremely injurious to the flocks, by killing a great
number of lambs, and tearing the flash front
the bones of others, which he lift in a very
tortured state alive. Ile was in size larger than
a fox, pug-headed, and clothed with long reJ
hair, essentially like that of a badger. He had
been frequently beard to give tongue whilst hunt-
ing rabbits, and was extremely shy of being seen.
This animal, from the account we have received of
him, appears to have been a nondescript, and might
have added something new to the class of quadrupeds,
had i. fallen into the-hands of a naturalist.

Tito fn lowing daring piece of villainy occurred in
I.iverp,,)l on Tuesday the 12th inst. A person, gen-
teelly dresceel, called at the shop of Mr. Yarns,
goldmith and jeweller, at the bottom of Lord.
street, and after examining, for some time, a gold
watch, and enquiring the price of it, went away,
saying, that if he could not meet with one more
.to
his liking, he would return and purchase it. After
come time h^ came back, and having agreed with
Mr. YATES for the price, requested it might be sent
to him, No. 17, Tarleten-street, in about fifteen
minutes, as he was desirous of having the opinion of
his mother on it, and saying, that if it pleased her,
he would tenon the money by the person who
brought it. The watch was accordingly sent by
Mr. YATES'S nephew, with a bill arid receipt.—Tlic
gentleman waited to receive it from the boy, and
requested him to step into the parlour while he took
it up stairs to chew to his mother. After waiting
about an hour and a half, and the boy not returning,
Mt. Y. began to grow uneasy, and therefore pro-
ceeded to Tarleton.street, to know what was bnorne
of him, when, upon enquiry, it was found, that in-
stead of going up stairs with the watch, as he pro-
posed, he shut the boy in the parlour, and imme-
diately left the house with his booty. It appears he
had called about two hours before, and en; ged the
lodgings for three weeks, as he said, for his mt.thrl
and himself, having given instruetinns to the rn:s-
tress of the house to receive his portmanteaus, which,
however, never made their ap;.earance. He was
dressed in a dark coat, boil waistcoat, dark kcrscy-
mere small clothes, and vrns pitted with the small
pa. All the appendaes to the watch—the chain,
seal, and key, were gold.