The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-20 00:00:00

7'llE ARMY.

Detachments belonging to the 31, 14th, 30th, 40th, 44th
49th, and tnid Regiments of Infantry marched yesterday
from Westminster for Chatham.

Detachments of the 4th and 11th Regiments of Light
Dragoons marched yesterday from Westminster, for the
Cavalry Depot at Maidstone.
A Detachment of the 2d Regiment of Foot marched
yesterday morning from Westminster for Canterbury. '
Detachments belonging to the 96th and 70th Regi-
ments of Foot marched yesterday from Westminster for
IVinchester.

Detachments of the 5341 and 00th Regiments of Infantry
marched yesterday from Westminster for Portsmouth.
A Detachment of the 3Sth Regiment of Foot marched
yesterday from Westminster for the Isle of Wight.
A Detachment of the 68th Regiment of Infantry
marched yesterday from Westminster for Chichester.
Detachments belonging to the 16th and 83.1 Regiments
of Infantry marched yesterday from IVeatminster for
Harwich.

Detachments lielonging to the 30th, 59th, 45th, 82d,
14th, 41st, and 3d Regiments of Foot, arrived on the 17th
instant in Westminster, from Bristol, and marched yester-
day, un route to Chatham.
A Detachment belonging to the 7th Fusileers marched
yesterday from Westminster for Dover.

Lord Gifford and his Lady have been here for some days
past ' His Lordship visited the libraries, Parliament
House, &C. in company with the Lord Chief Baron, Mr.
Solicitor-General, &e.—Edinburgh Paper.
Ma. Faantii AL—According to accounts this gentleman
is worth three millions sterling, and is growing richer
daily. lie is, they say, " the chief proprietor of Wlkit-
bread's brewery. He is also a considerable partner in the
firm of Bazett, Colvin, and Co. East India merchants. A.
bank in the city also claims Mr. F. for one of the firm. He
is also the proprietor of" Fonthill„ the estate contiguous,
purchased of Mt. Bennett, and he liaise) a great proprietor
of houses near the New-road and Portman-square.—
Erening Paper.
On Tuesday night last, as three men were returning
with their sand carts from this town (Macclesfield) to
Rushton, they were met by a number of Irishmen, when a
general fray took place, and one of the Irishmen was dtead-
fully cut by a blow from an axe, and others were severely
wounded. The main were also much beaten. The
Irishmen were, by thk.constable of Rushton, locked up in
a hovel for the night, but they contrived to effect their
escape; and, on their way to Macclesfield, as it iesupposed,
they met a young gentleman, named Broadhurst; the gang
attacked and attempted to rob him, but he made a spirited
n sistancc, and defended himself courageously with a cane
and beat them oIF, but one of the villains returned and
struck him a violent blow on the stomach, and then hft
him—it being nearly dark. Mr. Broadhurst effected his
retreat. Jle had at the time a (remity of dents and other
valuable *ruing, about him, with some money—the latter
appears to have been the object of this distantly attack.
The miscreants eveq in Macclesfield the next morning, and
some who had been most beaten went to a person to be bled
with leech es.. This excited suspicion, and from the unsatis-
factory account they gave of themselves, three were appre-
hended. Two of them have since been discharged, as
their persons could not be identified; but one fellow (lie
that was cut with the axe) remains still in a very dangerous
state in our warkhottre.-.-41/acciesfie/d fir raid.

LITERARY GLEANING &
xxxit.

FRANCES, DUCHISS or RICHNOND.—AITHUI
son's History of the life and reign' of King James 1. was
printed in London 16319, folio. Archdeacon Ecuauo says
of it that, "though written not without some prejudices
and rancour, in respect to some persons, and too much
with the air of a romance,•is thought to be the best of the
kind extant." The pictnre of the Duchess of' RICHMOND
was in possession of Hoe Act Watroes, anti added one to
the many interenting curiosities of Strawberry hill.—
Pointing the attention of one of his Mends to her portrait,
he writes thus in his Walponiant :
" That curious whole-length portrait of Feaxces,
Duchess of Itteuronn and Lit NNOX, came from Easton-
Heston. the seat of the Earl of Po it PI tr. We alga sif down
here bes7,re her, and read the egnally eteriaur portrait of
her by WILSON, in his "reign of James 1." One feature
he does not mention—that her eyes, as you see, bear some
resemblance to those of a cat.
" That morning the Parliament Was to begin (12th Feb.
1623), the KING missed the Duke of lttenseown's attend-
ance, who, being a constant observer of him at all times,
the King, as it were, wanted one of his limbs, to support
the grandeur of Majesty at the first solemn meeting of a
Parliament ; and calling for him with earnestness, a mes-
senger was despatched to his lodgings in haste ; when the
Kr No's commands, and the messenger's importunity made
the DUCHESS his wife, somewhat unwillingly, go to the
Duke's bed-side to awake him • who, drawing the curtains,
found him dead in hi, bed. The suddenness of the affright
struck her with so much consternation that shs was scarce
sensible of the horror of it • and it was carried with that
violence to the King that he would not adorn himself that
day to ride in hisglories to the Parliament, but put it off to
the 19th of February following; dedicating some part of
that time to the memory of his dead servant, who might
serve as a forerunner to the King, and an emblem to all
his people, that in the dark caverns of man's body death
often lurks, which no human prudence or providence is
able to discover: for the Duchess, to some of her intimates,
confessed afterwards that she found the effects of his full
veins that night, that he was found dead the nett
morning.

" This lady was one of the greatest, both fur birth and
bean, y, in her time ; but at first,she went a step backwards,
as it were, to fetch a career, to make her mount the higher.
She was daughter to Thomas, Viscount Bindon, second son
to Thomas, Duke of NORFOLK ; and her mother was eldest
daughter to EDW•RD, Duke OF HU CK I NGHA M ; both
which Dukes, striving to become kings, lost their heads.
Her extraction wax high, fit for her great mind ; yet she
descended so low as to marry one PRA NNE L, a vintner's son
in London, having a good estate; who dying, left her
childless, a young and beautiful widow. Upon whom Sir
GEORGE ROON b:Y, a gentleman in the west (suitable to
her for person and fortune), fixing his love, had good hopes
from her to reap the fruits of it. But EDWARD, Earl of
H b:RTIORD, being entangled with her fair eyes, and she
having a twang of her grandfather's ambition, left Rodney,
and married Me Earl.
" Ronan, having drunk in too much affection, and not
being able with his reason to digest it, summoned up his I
scattered spirits to a most desperate attempt; and coming
to Amesbury in Wiltshire (where the Earl and his Lady
were then resident), to act it, be retired to an inn in the,
town, shut himself up in a chamber, and wrote a large ,
paper nit:tell-composed verses to the CouuTess in his own!
blood (strange kind of composedness), wherein he bewails
and laments his own unhappiness. And when he had sent
them to her, as a sad catastrophe to all his miseries, he ran
himself upon his sword, and so ended that life which he
thought death to enjoy, leaving the Countess to a strict
remembrance of her inconstancy, and himself a desperate
and sad spectacle of frailty; but she easily passed this
' over ; and so wrought upon the good nature of the Earl
her husband, that he settled above five thousand pounds
a year jointure upon her for life.
" In his time she was often courted by the Dent of
LENNOX, who presented many a fair offering to her, as
an humble suppliant, sometimes in a blue coat, with a
basket-hilt sword, making his addresses in such odd dis-
guises; yet she carried a fair. fame during the Earl's
time. After his decease, LaNNO/ and RI cit MO xn, with the
great title of DUCH uss, gave period to her honour which
could not arrive at her mind, she having the most glorious
and transcendent heights in speculation; for, finding the
KING a widower, she vowed, after so great prince as
Richmond, " never to be blown with the kisses, nor ear at
the table of a subject • and this vow must be spread abroad,
that the King may take notice of the bravery of her spirit.
But this bait would not catch Me old king,so that she missed
her aim; and, to make good her resolution, she speciously
observed her vow to the last.
"When she was Countess of Ilseeroan, and found ad-
mirers about her, she would often discourse of her two
grandfathers, the Dukes of NORFOLK and Bt eei se n•se ;
recounting the time since one of her grandfathers did this,
'the other did that. But if the Earl her husband came in pre-
sence, she would quickly desist; for when he found her in
those exaltations, to take her down, he would say, "Frank,
Frank, how long. is it since thou writ married to NAN EL ?"
which would damp the wings of her spirit, and make her
look after her feet, as well as gaudy plumes.
"One little vanity of this great Duchess (with your
patience) may yet crowd in this little story. She was
a woman greedy of fame, and loved to keep great
state with little cost. For, being much visited by all
the great ones, she had her formality of officers and
gentlemen, that gave attendance, and the advantK.r•
that none ever ate with her. Yet all the tables in the ball
were spread, as if there had been meat and men to furnish
them ; but before eating time (the house being voided), the
linen returned into their folds again, and all her people,
grazed on some few dishes. Yet, whether her actions came
into fame's fingering, her gifts were .sitable to the great-,
ness of her mind. For the Queen of BOHEMIA (to the,
christening of whose child she was a witness) had some
taste nf them. And being blown up by admiration for
this bounty, eitkr by her own design to magnify her
merit, or by others in iltockery to magnify her vanity,
huge inventories of mussy plate went up and down, from
hand to hand, that she had given that queen ; and most
believed it. Yet they were but paper presents; those in-
ventories had tz won est invents, at the Hague ; they saw
the shell, the inventory; but never found the kernel, the
plate. Such difference there is between solid worth and
airy paper greatness. And it is hoped these slight inter-
mixtures will be no great transgression, because long serious
things do dull the fancy."—Wilson's History,