The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-01-20 00:00:00

ST. MES'S-STH F.T.

CULL A 11114,eonfeetaWne7 Their
Dot.im am, Hatter to Their blireavits, the ST.
.1 A MeS'S COTTCE-rinse, the Twarcaroosousc,
NI ri RVOh'.. 001‘ VS'S, BOODLIVi, WniTeS•
and the Cocoa TN tie, all appeared tit vie with each
(abet in the variety of their devices, and the splen-
dour of their decorations, which were too aumerous
fur our limits to permit us to give in detail.
PICCADILLY.
His Grace the Duke of POILTIAND'e was Ulu-
mitterkby a number of Rarnbeaus along the top of
the_ g. ateway.
Mr. Havcrs ars, Bookseller to Her M•JZSTT.—
An elegant display of variegated lamps, in festoons,
With other decorations, making a brilliant display.
Mr. 11awics; Hatter to His kfaassrv, and
Fi.icur and Ban; Cliina.manufadurers, were
equ,dly brilliant.
Among many others of Their Mat elites trades-
men, we noticed: Mt out.aron. Pocket-book-maker,
and Ba or.r , Un.breda maker, in ti.e Strand,
HATCiIeTT and Co. Lnog-Acre ; LYANA and OAK-
Lr, Bond-street; Caannut v Conduit-street,
dee tee.
On the warehouse, at Charing• Cross, near the
Admiralty, appoireed by the Diratorr of the Insti-
tution to secure H -alth, and prevent Pestilential
Diseases in hot climates (by the distribution of the
Y. flow Fever Remedy), were displayed some very
appropriate deviceuthat esltibited much taste. and
-afire beautifully and snperlo.y illuminated with se-
veral hundred variegated lamps.
FLEET-II rREEr.
Pataves, Clover.—C. It. plain lamps.
LUUGA l'E MLL.
BLADE,. Glass Manufriurer.—C. R. in plain
tamps, w:th a must sup. Of crown en in brilliant
%larks, w:.ich had a heautiful eXat.
Rut: nt.e. and tan Dan.—C. k. in coloured lamps,
encircled wry: wreaths of lawn I branches ; in the
eletAS' a crown, surmounted by a must brilliant

Her. .
ST. P%ULS CIiU•RCII•YARD.
MALI and BA IL It —C ft. in coloured lamps,
with star and crown. entwined with a circle of
variegated lamps, which had a very neat cff Q.
P t and Gassm—Noarly VA same as the
abuse. • •

CHEtriIDE.
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CLEMENT! and Co.—C. R. in largo pl,t;n Limps.
M•sassols-House visa isestottfolly
illuminat-
ed. C. R. on each stile. in plain A d col-ured
lamps. enc sclod by olive branches ; in Lie Genus, a
crown and bsilli.int star.
CORM'IILL.
Got.onsts. Perfumer.—C. R. on each siJt, with
crown and inar i❑ the centre, iu coloured lamps.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

!.,0 NOON,
TUESDAY, JANCIri 10.

We promised, yesterday, to give the Twins Re-
roar of the Commissioners of Military Irsuiry, at
full length, and male snme progress in it, with in-
tent to resume the sujed this day. We regret that
the pressure at temporary matter obliges as to defer
our farther erra& until to-morrow s the document
being one of great public interest, that deserves to be
written in letters of gold. We feel it, however,
our duty, in the mean time, to the public, and an
ad of justice to Mr. A ill anota Davisote. the
principal, if not the only figure is the Report, to
give a sketch of the remainder of the Article, without
farther delay. Alluding to the stores su2nlied by
Mr. Davison, as stated in the cured which we
gave yestetday, the Commissioners thus exp-ess
themselves: "We learn from the examination of the
dealers, who sold the Barrack articles to Mr. Davi-
son, that they would hare sold them immediately
to the Barrack-Office, 02 the same terms As they
sold them to him, could they have been assured of
the same regular and pro:npt payment. With the
condition of prompt and regular payment, there.
fare, it seems that the Commission paid to Mr.
Davison, and some pat: of his contingent charges.
I might have been saved to the pit'Atc, and the public
w moreover, not have lost the use of their own

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money in ,he advances which were made
The C,minissinn was 2i per Cent maki
average, with contingent eiruces,
year. Tae &•part tbessroceeds to investii
cow. tan, for toAls,supplied by Mr. DA1.1501
article, .Goneral De La ocev," , says the
origina::y intend-d should be provided
missipn, tl,e same as the other articles ; but
visntt, in a letter of th- 31st March, 17'
stated that depth, and their accumpanyin,
meats, w ,ul.l in such case be necessary
Satutck-Master-General very properly

the exprnce, and to the difficulty of

abuse*, if was arrangement* were made,

that some other mode might be adopted.
the coals should be aSually delivered into the
Berrack.yards. and the receipts of the Barrack-
Isla-ties be the vouchers for the peymenis."
Th. Report then proceeds to quote a letter from
Mr. Davison, in which he proposes to supply
any Barracks, with the best coals, at the r4:ei
charged by the whole-deekrs. at the several
places where the barracks are situate, which offer was
accepted; and Mr. Devisees accordingly supplie
coals to the barre ks in Great Brims, and that
i,leuds of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, from
April 1793, to Septemher 1804, fno which he has
been paid, by the late Barrack Metter General,
nearly 447,00e1. The Report then enters into hie
mode of conJuWng the supply of this article. He
received early notice that the coals shoeld be laid in
at the most favourable se:aeons; but, from an inspec-
tion of the accounts, the Report states, that the le-
livery in the winter months of:en bore a very con-
siderable propnrtion to the wholedelivery of the years
front whence the Commissioners infer. that if Le
purchased, as was his duty, money having been ad-
vanced is him for the purpose, at a favourable
season, his profits must have been great, es the ter.
tificates always steel the price of the a: ticle on the
day of delivery, and farther, did not spesey the
quality. The certificates also stated the Rice of
coals by the cheldion, whereas Mr. Devoe* made
his entree by the bushel, thereby refusing to allow
I:.e ingrain; as, by the breaking of the coals, on dee
livery, they would measure more bushels thee the
number contained in the invoices. L'eore this last
point, a cue was submitted to the Attosney and
Solicitor G.neral, who gave it as their oeinion,
that this prastise, under all the circamstences of the
case, surmounted to a ft mid. The Repiet, after
stating that the certificates were net always signed
by persons of the desesipsioti .osigisselle-esepieted.
proceeds to state three several instances in which
Mr. DAV:SON ell3rZe..l eCA:S at a higher price than
he Fre tee:l them. Upon aLe of coals sup-
plied at illightun, in 1799. it states. that he
bad a profit of Ile per chaldi on ; upna another lot
of coals supplied at Deal in the Sa"le year, a profit
of 11. Os. 61. per chaldrna ; and upon an. t er lot of
coals in the same year aii.l 2 see, a profit of 11.362 d.
per chaldron. The Report states, that to the first of
these cases, Mr. Deveos gave an answer tot per.
feCtiy satisfaSory, but that neitherhe nor his lateclerk.
Mr. Desist. I‘. Le I Netts, to whom he referred the
Commissioners, attempted to explain the two lest
transaSiiins. It is added, that ueors the coals sup.
plied in Jersey and Geernsey, its the year 1;99, the
prices charged by Mr. Deimos exceeded, from tee
to lets. a chaldron, the prices paid by hies ; but as
this rests upon the ledger of one NV *leek, iormerly
a dealer in coals, and agent of .jr. De se so to, in tee
islands of Jersey and Guernsey, we do not lay much
stress up in it, because the said Weettsa has been
capitally convieled at the Oid Bailey of forging a
will, and executed accordingly. At the same time,
however, we must observe, that the certificates of the
pekes in these Wendt; are stated in the Report to
have bete gcnerelly signed by the said I.Vatetta
Aker some detail. the Report proceeds to state
the system introduced since Lieutenant General
Hewers was appointed Barrack Master General,
as preferable t ) the former, the whole expence of
it amounting only to 6381. les. a-year, whereas that
of the former system, amounted to '&4;31 a-year.
te A saying," the Report all, " therefere, arises to
the public, on this heed alone, of about Leen!.
a-year. and the calculation of the present expenze
includes the toppl, of coals, which the other does
not." The Oerumissionere cor.clade with
" that the duty of inspetieg the stores might be
executed by soma nee of the ordinary oificers of
the establishment, with little or n; allitional ex-
pence ;" and laseiy, they recommend, " that pat-
terns of all the articles fitrnithed, sealed op by the
Barrack Master Getearal, be deposited in all the
Barracks, for the
.especial use cf the officers woo
shall command in each barrack."
Such are tie charges made against Mr. Aesx-
Lentil Davison, and the evidence adduced by the
Commissioners is their support. Upon the al-
leged delinquency of that gentleman, it would not
be.cotue us. in this stage of the besintes, to speak
positively. Mr. thy tso se we understand. is a ntao
of wealth, he possesses a fute bleu*, is S:. James's*

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de to him."
king on 411
120 i)(41.
tl:e
sou. '•
the tepnyt.
d on Can.!
,ut Mr DA. •
X 95, having
ig
; estahlisr-
th late
Gbjeded to
prrrenting
and desired.
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Adneiralty-081ce,Jinulry 18, 1807.

(Soused) " T. GRENVILLE."
Te t►e Right Hon. Lord Mayor.

off Cadis, Jan. I, Iro7.

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square, at►d a mot valaable c7,lldtion of paintings.
It, then, he has &handed tl.e public, it is pleasing
to think, that he has tae somas of making restitu-
tion.

We gave, yesterday, in a Second Edition of THE
PRESS, a letter from Falmouth, stating that

Lord Cott.tsowoon had warned all British vessels,
within his range, of the recapture cf Buenos Ayres.
His Lordship's intelligence was colltaed from a
Spanish schooner taken by the Beagle ; and Go-
vernment having reason to doubt its authenticity, as
well as that of the other reports upon the subjen,
transmitted, on Sunday night, to the I.oaD MA oa,
the following Bulletin, containing all the informa-
tion which they had received of the alleged re-
capture, aad which his Lordship communicated to
the City yesterday

MY LORD—I have the honour to trauma to your
L0r.!...., an Extract of a Letter receivel, this morning, from
>r,' ~nlimp►oud, and al>o au Extact of a letter from Capt.
from Portsmouth, describing the Information (hen to
bins by the Matto of the Spanish schooner, El Cupid°, cap-
tured by the Colpoys schooler, on the 27th ult.

Zftset a a Letter from Admiral Collingawid, ciatel

" I beg you will be pleased to my Lords Com-
missirmers of the Admiralty, that the Beagle has just joined
w.th s Spanish schooner she capturel yeller 17. from Monte
Video, which she kft on the 17th September. 1 ant sorry to
Worm thoir Lordships, she bongs the account of Buenos
Ayres being mecapturod on ette;ll2th of August, and that Gen.
Sereetuld and the whole of the trovs, a.nounting to about
1400, wets made prisoners of VW', and marched into the tn.
brie:."

Extract of a Low from Capt. Muir, of 114 Majesty's ship
)bean::, to Walton% Nlarylon, dated Si.ithead, Jan. 12,
1107.

" The it Cupidn, a small merchant vessel, taken by the Col.
ley t, tailed 'oho Mints Video en the 13th of September last
bou.:3 in St Se'sestaan's. in Old Spain, but lost her naieeo.
Oust about ten days after the put 11110 RIO Janeiro, wheat
they ow the Mane, of a vests!, that reported Bu.n•,e Ayres to
haw.. beta retaken on the 12th of Aug.ist, one usontl .ar
le Ins satiate; but as the distance from Buenos ewes to
woo vuiso, is only 107 ni.les, sod not haring held any
Wing on the aula;eet, he (the Matter of the vessel did not
eiirda the report."

The New York Papers also contain a report of
the re-capture, which is said to have taken place n• 1
the Bth of August; hilt, from the whole of the
we may entertain kopea that the colony is StaU in
our possession.

We received, yesterdry, a series of New York
Papers, from the 13th, the date of our last set, to
the 21)*h of December, t .clusive.—Ttul contain the
prrc;e•dings of Congress to the :21h, at which time
the Bit for sagpen ling the British Merchandise
Non-Importation Aft, had been re-committed in
the Senate, and ordered to be minted, with a clause,
previously aT.reed to, vesting the PRESIDENT with
a discretionary power to suspend the Aft for
such further time, after the Ist June, as the
public interest may require. There has been
no other subjel of any interest introduced or agi-
tated in Congress since its opening. The House of
Representatives was occupied several days in de-
bating, whether it should not adj,,urn until the
ceiling should be repaired, one of the Members
having asserted, that the plaister was loose, and
that a piece of it had fallen upon his head.--
Finaikial Report, signed by Mr. GALLZTIN,
se_lt• try to the Treasury, an article corresponding
vrim our Budget, alluded to in the Peestoent's
sp:cal, is given at length in these Papers, but it is
of too great event far insertion this day.

A paragraph in one of the New York Tapers
states. that the Empire of Hayti ic to asinine a re-
publican fortis, of pear& liberty and equality.

The cruse, Capt. Noma, belonging to Hatton,
passed Dover on the 17th. She left Ito -:iefort on
the 14th. Cwt. Nome says, that before he sailed,
intelligence was said to be received that the French
had obtained a viaory over the Russians. but from
tl,e manner in which the report was circulated. and
there ►eing no public rejnicings, he is inclined to
Iwlitve, as were a great many people in Rochefurt,
that it an anion had been fought. the Fteecb ►ad
nor she ad eftntagr.
The Pas-.is laisaieth packet, which arrived on
nerds'', a. Falmouth. from Malta, brings no
sews from Sicily. We have, however, received by
it :ewers and papers from Gibraltar, to the 31st Dec.
Durieg the three last days of teat month, the Spa-
nish glin boats and cruisers were uncommonly ac-
tive, acid car tied every vessel that came in their way
into Algesnae. This condutl is attributed to Bo!
AAAAA a's orr.:er for the blockade of England.—
The winter rains had net set in at Gibraltar when
the packet left tiiat place.
An Evening Paper, ni 'ester lay, pinning its
faith upon the sleeve of a Suniay Print. states, that
Bills for t'lool. dated the 13th or Oetober, have
Made their appearance at the Vidualling
drawn for wine, spirits. pork, and otiier pin-
visions, furnished for the supply of His MA.
Jur v's slops and vessels in Cie river Plata. We
have authority to stare, that there is no foun-
dation for this stater:tent. The latest biiis from
south America, which have made their appearance
at the Vidualling Odice, are dated Rio Janeiro, the
• 3‘.1 of September, and for rums very tar short of
the above amount. They are drawn, we believe,
for supplies tot the /4**,0E64.

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