The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-01 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY.

As harvest is so near beginning, a tolerably correct state-
ment of the crop: may be given. On the stroog lanes, the
grain of all descriptions is best; but even here a ern great
failure in the wheat w;11 be experienced. IV.: hardly OM
knew so much mildew and so much Lind
.arld to w:.ich. the
heavy thunder .torms have so much 14161 it Alt t canse very
considerable injury.--itariey on site mn of sail is about an
average crop. (AL-, the same —Rana, much better than
was expeled, but far Lou a great crop: on light pUls,
the crop, with vet y few exceptions, is bad.---The Seed Cloven
urunsise but indifferently for crop, a. it Lilmms very UheqUi:l7.
The early sowed Turnips have bmn fleshy all d.otroy. it by _
Vat fly; many farmers have been o'4 cell to sow them the
third time.—The scion has been favnuralile for the
which are in gen,ral in a very forward state of tillage, and give
hope of goal Wheat sots'ilg.—The average price ,af Cure
throughout England and Walt, is, for Wheat, 534.9 d —Rye,
345. id —Barley, 28s. 8..1 —.Oats, 245. I 3;s. 5d -.-
Pr ee, 59s gd.

The liay has been all carried in. and in end eider and
quantity —ln the Fens, the Hay is not yet all g it up, though
it is aii cut, the cr.nv goof.—Oats ar.: good—Wheat much
m.;dew-si and sinotty.—/Sirley ppd.—A cousnlerah'e Tian-
t.ty of Culeseed hai been sowed, but them it aill some laml
burning.
Livestock ii ...lady the same as last
market, K.,..11 hum es. 64 to S. lid —Mimeo, 4i .0
ss. 44 4.. ed. to 6, s.. 1.1 411. !W.—Laub,
ss. ti 6i.

STATEMENT of the DISTRIBUTII
NAVAL FORCE, to till

In Port and fitting .
Guards.dps. '
In the English and Irish Chin-

nets .
On the Downs and North Sea sta-

Lions .
At the West hulls islands, and on
the Passage
On the Jams. y stdion
American and Newfoundland stn

tion4
C. of G. Hope, East Inner, and Le
the Passage
Coast of Africa 0
Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltst.• • 4
Mediterranean an♦ on Passage l2
Hospital and P;isou Ships.. lt

lON of the SRI VIM
as DAY.

Total in Commirrion 106 2/
Receiving Shios.
Serrirraill and repairing for Sere lO 3
In Ordinary
Bedding.... ' l5 6

Total

17$ 3i

I. IS
1 3

19
411

STATI OF THI ORDINARY AT IA
Lt.e. s;is
Portsmouth 2l
P:ymouth
Cnothaos 22 14
I
Sheerness
River. 1 41 I

41
b 7
$

:,9~

I )114 I 4.1. 841
LCII poaT.

trig
In 5I • „
Is 4 _s
7 1 n 3;
101 71 13
t• ry

Total... • 66 1 16 1 54 I 2. I IvJ

Yestnclay morning, a tire bri,k,: out in Denmark
Court in the Strand, which did much d .-n17,! be-
fore the engines were able to subdue the if, ,tes.
Yesterday, about two o'clock in the at .e n ion, as
a horse wis standing in a c.trt in Petttc.i.. -line,
Whitechapel, a chili playing in the street walked
under the belly of the horse, which not being ob-
served by the carter, he drove on the hone, whO
unfortunately trod on the child's arm, which was
broken to pieces, besides its head being much hurt.
It was taken to the hospital, without any signs c.f
life.

Yesterday, a singular circumstance occurred at
the house of Mr. Bkowx, the sign of the Bear in
Lambeth-street, Whitechapel: in his back-yard, wham
he kept some ducks, he heard an unusual noise: Fd
went to the place,where he obs-rve.l the neck of one of
the ducks, between the bars of an iron grating over
the common sewer, strugdtrg to disengage its.l4
when he perceived that an un:ommonly Large rat,
nearly as big as a full grown Cat, was endeavnurirg
to pull the creature through. Mr. BNOWPI endeA-
vowed to pull it alive from the rapacious Animal,
but in vain, for he held it fast by t to thrrlat,
though he saw Mr. Bowser+ over Lb+ grating, en-
deavouring to save the duck. Mr. Baows cut the
neck fr ins the body, when the voracious animal
plunged into the soul, with the head and p in of the
neck.

Monday mn•ning, the Edifystone
boat And a traul boat ran foul (f eacii of Lrs
near the Pier I-1-ad, Bristol. by whi:h Atchient uae
of the lien keepers. coming Asilre, Iva,. muck s 4
violently on the breast by the tiu-k of the b.nesprit.
as to occa.inn immediate dea•h

'I he tempest, on 'f uesiay last, fell very heavy in
some parts of Susses, and particularly at Lox wood.
where the houses were shaken by the violence of the
thunder, and a poor boy struck dead by th-
ning. The decea..ed, with a man, his comparison.
were at plough together in a field IrAirigitig to Mr.
Kis°, and, to avoid the pel Ings of the storm, left
their work, aul ran to two n, ighbouring ter, s, under
wlich they were.'wth struck d.ovn by the vivid fluid
but the man, received no material injury.
soon recovered, and perceiving the situation of tile
boy, hastened to his assistance, but to no prirpos.,
as he found him quite lifeless. with the hair of his
head burnt to a crust, and his clothes 4.n fire. The
above fatal catastrophe furnishes anothir instance to
canfirm the truth of what we have repeatedly s at. .d,
that there is extrem., danger in seeking shifter !rum
lieitning under trees, whose power of attraftion it
made manifest by almost every Unities'. that hap.
pens. _ _

The Ccroner's Inquest sat on the body of Captain
Smith, the gentleman who, in a fit uf insa ity,
made away with himself in so dreadful a manre-, at
Gloucester, last week, and returned a verdiCt
of—
Lr 'cry. For several weeks, previous to the la bae
which terminated his existence, he had been i dispos-
ed with a nervous cornplaintr• once in partic,ilar late-
ly having felt the effeSs of this disorder very severely,
he told his valet the next morning. that he ought to
have slept in his room, for that he had tre..n haunt.
ed with devils all night. From that time he grow
daily y :•-se ; and not having resorted to med ca As.
sistance, the influence of the disorder became so
strong upon him as to produce an aft of insanity by
which he so prematurely felh He was a very worthy
and much respelled Gentleman. The Saturd. y
previous to his decease he made his will, leaving
whole of a very ample fortune to his two sisters, ex-
cept a legacy of 10001. which he bequeathed to his
atturney in London, whom he has left executor.
The redurt of a disappointment in love having in.
duced the unfortunate state of mind of tt.is Gentor-
man, aiTears totally void of foundation.