The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-09-07 00:00:00

('.4P FAUN LYONS.

De. William Lyons, who woe elevated to the
Bishopiick of Cork, Cloyne. and Rn's, towards
the latter end of Queen Elitibeill's reign, was
origitial4 a Captain of a ship. He hail distin-
guished himself so gallantly, in several actions
with the Spaniards, that the Queea, on ben.*
introduced to her, toil him he should have
" the first vacancy that offered." The holiest
Captain, who understood use Quetta literally, soon
after hearing of a vacancy its the See of Cork,
immediately set out for Court, and donned the
Royal Promise. The Queen, sstomalied at the re-
quest, fur a time remonstrated against the iwipro-
priety of it. as she could never think it was an
office suitable to hint. It was, however, in vain.—
be said the Royal word was passed, and he relied
°nit. Her Majesty then replied, that she would
take a few days to consider of it ; whin, ex.
ing into his character. and boding him a sober,
moral man. as well as an intrepid Comrnainler,
she sent for Lyons. end gave him the rosimprick;
saying, at the statue time, she hoped he would take
as good care of the Church. as he hail done of the
State. Lyons immediately set out for in. Ilishoprick,
which he enjoyed for about Uwe:ay years, with
great reputation to himself; to err. lin. , at-
tempt* to preach but once, and that was on tile
death of the Queen. On that in.l sin choly occa-
sion. he thought it his dory to pay the last ho-
nours to his Royal Mistress, and Acearilingly he
mounted the pulpit in Christ's Church, Cork :
when. after giving a good discourse nn the uncer-
tainty of life. ant the great and amiable qualities
of the Q•seen, eriscluded is. tire billowing
warm. but whimsical manner :--a" Let those %ilia
feel this loss dep:ore with me on this melancholy
occasion : but, .1 there be ally that hear me. who
hair secretly wished foe this ertot, as, perhaps.
there may have got their wish, and the
Devil du men KoOsi with IL" The Ma:loV' name,
and the elate Or his eppointioent (15:13), are cm re-
cord in the Cousistorial Court of Cusk ; alba his
picture, I• 4 11:* Caption's uniform. the left hand
N.ltati,,g a .lll4er, Nto be seen in the 13:ah01).‘ Pa-
lace et Curk.

About seven year. ago, a donation of one hundred
p.wud• sterling was presented to the !Arm try of
Dundee, from :t besievuleut person iiiikitow:i ; and
about three year* afterwoils, the Kolio,csa;un re-
ceived oue hundred pounds sterling in a molder
Mauuer. Thes:. usuniticeut acts iit ei►anty
were each recorded at the tune they happened; and
the only iuforinatioo wives the &te:r eho.e to give
re•pectiug ii:daseif • 4.. that he had bests burn in
Ulindee, and, though lung &lomat from it, wished
prosp..6,y to the town, and to ever,- useful arid be-
neeoleht tn•t[rntWUCO:nsrcled oath it. Nl.tkor Sy L.
eLsraa It sus sy, a native of boat tuvon. lon 4iu the
service ut tie 11...tottrible Kist I.•it'ACoth p.any , sited
lately, ;and in ht, repsroi, r t. and
piteloced, aitaole evittritee, that I.c
getit:t:h .•t to wth..sr t
lice Itcra •0 ..izi.ly i..deLttil.

lIIISSEVC INDIA SHIPS.

Tilt LADY JANE DUNDAA-AND JANtDUCII MSS
OF Gt hrt Dm,

Beiov: in the It.trit of receiving a •egulsr supply
of pain rs from lodta with every arrivat,
ti,i. 'ego Metilrac Caroler Lztraordinary,
dated felnusty lit, itoliiing out No tope of tile
arty of the illiuVr IWO esluahle vessels. We tire
awry however to fiud. from the following :wide,
that iii,s hope was without foundation :
(Bo übiy Courier, February 17.)
" A report was prevalent i,t the rally part of the
week, that two of the homeward-hound East India
ships, wltizh have for some time horn rat rd..,1 as
missing ships, h arrived sile:y at Ito de Jaaeiro.
We most vitiverely hope that this report m my ulti-
mately prove well-founded. It is tti,eit, on the
au-
-01.'61y of a letter received at Madras from Gus.
It appeared first in a Madras Courier extra, of
the Ist of February, and was repeated in the
snore day in an extra Government Gamic.—
Toe Madras papers which have shire that rate
Homed from the press, make no further mention
of it, either lid way of repetition or comment.—
The dawk frnin Goa to Madras goes in shout nine
days; so that this intelligence must have liven
known at (.o so far back as the 2241 of January ;
and yet, between th it date the lath of Fe-
bruary, the day on which the news was first re-
ceived here from NI:Id118, tin such information liwl
arrived direct from Goa to this Presidency, al-
though the dawk only takes eight or nine days in
coming umfrom Goa to Bombay.
" Eveilioquiry which we have made hasservorl .o
convince us. that this report, as it stands at present,
has nn foundation in 11111 h. No Ur .zil ship hart,
at the time ollteiled to, arrived st Gus, nor had any
arrived therein; the yth toetant.
" Tta• too' ire for an extraordinary a fthrteation we
are st s lota t., eiwk•etlite ; sod we hope that the
permit, who has thus wantonly sported with the
feeling, of others, may be exposed to the reprolsa.
tion his cooduet rrrrr es."