The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-10-15 00:00:00

DIJIDSTONE, Ot TOBLR 12.

Last Friday evening, Mr. Henry Collis, builder,
of this town, received an intimation that a design
was entertained by some of his workmen, to break
into and rob his house that night—Mr. Collis in-
stantly assembled a guard, consisting of some of his
principal friends, five in number, ready prepared
to secure the assailants, who, bOOll after one o'clock,
made their attempt, by forcibly entering his count-
ing-house ; having so far accompliseed their pur-
pose, Mr. C. and his friends sallied forth out of an
adjacent room, and secured two of the miscreants
out of those who entered; a third made Ida escape.
They then proceeded to a bouge in Union-street ;
when, after a long starch, they secured another.
who ran out oldie said house aiid concealed himself
in an adjoining privy. This last %v.:s the person
who planned the robbery. Two of these despera-
doeshad worked for Mr. C. a shorttime, as sawyers,
their name'. are Thomas Jut...twin and John Mos«,
lately from London ; the third is a NViltliam Cleo.
ments, late from Canterbury: the other, who es.
caped, is unfortunately unknown at present. Thus
we consider the town and neighbourhood much in-
debted to Mr. Collis and his friends for their vigil-
ant c in having so completely annihilated this &et-
pt.r..te rotirederac.y. which. if they had succeeded in
this instance, might have carried on their villainy
undiscovered throughout a long winter, to the great
dread and terror of the inhabitants.

I:regson and C'rilo are the topic of conservation
among the amateurs of the pugilistic art.—Last
night, bits upon the grand battle betwixt them
on the instant were equal.
The James, BRADSHAW ; and the Lightfoot,
W *Trios, from Jansanas, for LIVCIVOUI. acre all
well on Saturday Wit,
A Philadelphia Newspaper, of the 13th August,
contains a spirited article, accusing the l'aestorsiT
of' the UNITED STATUS with continuing to inter-
dict the entrance of a Bntish ship of war into the
American waters, while a Treoch frigate is allowed
to take in water and provisions of every demeans-
tom, asthma the slightest reproof.
The smile paper aunounces the arrival of a ship,
fully laden, from the Isles of France. in !is days, the
Captain of which reported, that the French frigates
Seasillaate and Careline were, at her departure,
at Isle Bourbon. Th.• former had recently return-
ed from a cruise, having iu Bengal Bay had
a severe action aith an English frigate. whirls heat
her otr% tli great dainage, and killed 11,1. Captain.
She escaped by her superior sailing. The French
frigate La Manche hart sailed from th.. Ink of
France on a erni!e, it was thought agaiust the Por-
tuguese in the Rio de Janeiro.
Tuesday moniingollsont two o'clock, n fire broke
out at a house in Ilehlasoil....y..tieet, who h greatly
alarmed the neighbourhood. The whole of the ii;-
terise, with the furniture, was destroyed : Isut Lc
the early arrival of the firemen mid veinier the
Baines were subdued, and the fire homely extin-
guished without eloi.r,r, farther dams,,..
A tire broke ont ou %% eiliirmtay night at a chan-
dlery shop in Hampstead-road, oil..ital.-4 by a
lodger lensing some wet before a
good tire after she had gone to 'mil. The %MOM.
w/10.4: faith is Mao, seas first uLtrtnrll, mid the
UMW' tiClr e•tisignidied sifter they had ele.irn...l
the rimin. Mr.. liveo was setiou,ly hurht is her
eudeabotus to pat oat tL rite.

POLIC.r. •

.1 ay !Lon ta.. oat.
(Aeon", tr,lttl *to wlllifilstvritay Enslaved to be i:eirtred 14
a Ittersitioe Serieost, flw Nevin stolen too roost fowls, Mid
a ',mud of art*, from the Fortuna lon Cellar, to ll.lbon:.'
was brought tali, he haat mat for snit ie. he woe resnasds,
•eal ontil to.iaiwiow,- bud outset war unheard to he rawest to the
Pirsarottlor to altr•od.
Harper, l'uentoon-C.senrilMar, and foi.i .Hier re.
sireistile inhabitants of Fut.:is:it. i, elsoiorti. a it' ...also If
' tS•prialis' *mar the I'sgi ant Act. .:tb fr. I it,
titeevt, istid ;is neigitimurtioud, a: ni:11, and u=.:roUilst 114
.palmate Ilit
-Thr Geottrinco slated, they lad often ai!inuoished zed •
worued the Prironcia, bit: to no purpose 11n number
permits of the Prisoners' tkicriptiuis were .lightly in the
habit of ioti-sting that issiestunii hood L..i male it damp -
rota for it dect si itinale, or ,nett a mole, to wall: floe structs.
They, the Calif/lamina bud formed thews/ Ira 1511., a so.
tidy, and sit se iisulvcci to elms the ornzhteserhoutl.
The It •iiswita'rs said, Ilwr moidurt of Mr. HIUTCT sod
hr colleugum,was biobly ineriturious.
'flu Prisoners wets etiotoillral W Ilcidessill.

LAl'k STOII,II.
tits enroot., OCT. 12.
Early on Saturday morning last cause on a mos.t
remendous gale of wind, sr lipids continued thirioe:
die *hole of the day, and r hief part of the -
ing slight. Moist of the iiesuds its the r.r,.r parted.
their cables or dragged their anchors.
Nis Nlajesty's ship the l'rinress, wa, drives, front,
her .tation, but brought up above the Slyne, where
nice v.& out the storm no safety.
The Arid. Borroadaile ; George, Plektlitin
rptuar, !tart ; tied Ualea, gut on shore, but
were afterwards gat off with little damage, and are
110 W in dock. The iinsack, Lightly, got on shore
near Jackson's mill, awl tilled with water, err"
saved. The Primer's Woks, Kennedy, is on shore
near the north battery, her mini and wizen mte.ts
cut away, and the ship a wreck—three of the
narrowly vaulted a watery grave. The Alexander,
Wade, that sailed on Friday, put luck, broke her • ,
cables near the Slync, and is totally lost, nail is to-'
tally lost, about live miles up the river—crew saved. -
The Apollo, lielliu, is lost upon the N.W. Spit of !
Hoyle; Capt. Benin arid t%“, Iwys tirowne.s, the
remainder of the crew (11 in uinnberl were floated
on shore ou the musts and rigging. and sailed.
A brig, with crates on board, is towed lute Iltn- •
lake by a fishing boat; her flame is unknown, Sup
per-on found ou board, except one dead notly lashed
to the rigging.
A Swedish, brig is washed up to liighwater Mark.
near lloylake; all hands perished : lath anchors to
her bows, amid a new cable. suppoied to be the
Bruilers. front Callum. Tire Juno, —,
hence to Loudon. is oil shore above Garstuti, with
all her musts gone.
The Philipsburg, Liffiugwell. htace to New
York, was driven on shone on Saturday, with hoe of
anchors and cables, but is now in the King's Dock ;
cargo not damaged, but wilt be lauded to hare the
ship repaired.
The Crakarine, Davies, from F•ligo to this port, is
on shire at tlibitellaveu, mud full of water—cargo
landing.
During the gale, a host with two men in her.
was upset in the river; oar of them was saved, the
other unfortunately drowned.
These are the only parnesilare we have hem aids
'ln dellert ; but as no intelligetice is arrived halt Val' •
Welch coast, and from ether parts of the Weed.
ire fear we shall have the p.sinful task to locoed
keel) disasters iu our nest.
asnes=vae
SINGLE STICK. •
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gaud match at back-sword playing, took place
at Swindon, 011 Friday and Satonlay, the 113 d wed
241.11 ult. arid it may with truth be said, that a
match in which more good play, skill. sad true'
courage were @hewn. was never witnessed in that
nor any other country. The gamesters consisted'
chiefly of the Swindon and Devizes parties. Os
the first day there were eight single-head tierts--...5,
four on esich, side ; two couple played cut the tie,
each side siouing a head ; the other two tiers 6f
the Devizes side, nemely Glass mud Palmer, re-
fusing to face their opponents, when called
.upon
by the umpires, they declared their heads forfeited,
coosetpieutly the Swindon party became entitled to
the prise.
On the second day a reinforcement of sit fresh
men, on the Devizes side, anived in a satiable and
four horses. There were, on this day, eleven sin-
gle-head tiers—viz. seven of the Devizes, and
tour of the Swindon ; four couple played out the tie,
each party winning two heads ; the two two-lii ad
tiers ou the S.Viodon sido then contended against
two other of the single-head tiers on the Deviees
side; the first head being gained on the Dena..
side, mid the remaining tier on the Swindon aide
having four left to contend with, it was mutually
agreed that the play should cease, and that the a -
rises party should take the prize. s•alneet to an al-
lowance to the last Swiedue tier, OM hu coiseentiag
I to withdraw.
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Tuesday, some bricklayers repairing a hone, in
Titchbortie-drest, Piccadit i, tbrou;ii etrelesue-s,
let fall • spade or shovel, which unfortunately tell
on the head of a poor boy who happened to be paw-
ing at the time, and cut him iu an dreadful a maa•
liar, that lie was sent to St. Geo. it's llospital wch
little hopes of his recovery.
Wednesday se'nnight SIIELTOAU Btowst.t. q.
was elect‘d Mayor of Thetford for the year (to-
otling, on which occa.inn the usual entertai ttttt eot
to the Corporation and most reTectable inh
ant. was given ; the sources from whence it ..t-
-(as usual) derived, are not unworthy of record ;
/lust beef is provided by the Town Clerk ;
SCOW beef by the Tenant of the Tolls of the
' vigatiou ; the geese by the Truant of the unit ..i
Tolls ; the game and wine are prodded by Cat
Mayor elect ; and the keeper of the Tavern
cent to the Guildhall finds the plum pudding.. •
On Toe...lay. the 37th u:t. a violent outrage '.7311
commitcommitttii usi the pet•Ost of a 1111:84 Vionl.lo, at
wan cosina-:.froin Edinburgh on a a..t to her
irefFire. She tnivelled from Pettyc.:r with a to.u. •
who erormed the ferry in the wane hoot.
who Iva. totally unknown to het-f, till they cane to
the vroo;Is on the road triii?.t Gallowtt cod,
NVintiyvite, where the vil •• Crier using her lit,
the wort barbarous left her I)itig tot 14..,
ride of the hijistiry

terwards by Nome
place of ,ufety.
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where ihr w ;as found sou:s •
palwesswelk, qnd enntlmiell to
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L INTELLIGENCE.
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iwitTS3ILOCTII, OCT. 13.
Arrived the Pinto bloop;.Cal.tiiiii Junverin, from
Cralis and I.imbon-Ll4O passeiTers came home in

her Irons Lisbon, one the.son idthe Earl of %Vest-
neorland, and the other the Captain of Marines of
Sir Charles Cotton's ship ; dal strut to London
insincrliately. All the news that eau be karat
flow her is, that the whole of the French, .25,000
persons, had sailed for France about a fortnight
since.
Staid the Diomede, of 50 guns, for Guernsey.

It is reported that the E‘peditioit will tealai a at
St. Helena till more cavalry are embarked.—
Wind N.V.

PLYMOUTH!, OCT. 12.

Arrived the IC:Arvid cutter, Lieutenant Car-
penter, from Cadiz and Gibraltar ; left the latter
place iu charge of Dispatcher. front Rear Alillllllii
Purvis, on the ioth alutuo, on which day upwards
of 50 vessels sailed for Englaud, under convoy of
the names and Nik cutter.

The Cheerful bnngs 110 news. Lord I:oiling-
wood left Gibraltar for Touluu, about the ht
The Fame was to rail on the -2 tit, to join his Lord-
ship. The Cheerful, on her passage, spoke Hie
;ILiJesty's ship Pluto, front Lisboa, hound to l'orto-
mouth.

Arrived al'n the Mike of lient, mastship, with
'mots, Ste. for the dock-yard ; the flandliro ship
../Aunno, Larson, from °pert°, with %vine for Li-
merick ; and the Gentle flotaiag, Muni, from
London.

Sailed the Comet tire ship, for L'Orient; Ls Fkehr,
of 16 guns, Capt. Buchanan, on a cruise; and the
Lily, of 1:4 !4*lllss, Capt. Sherd!. lOr the coast of
Alries.—Witad N.

Doren. or?. 13.
This forenoon the Jamaica Beet, near twenty sail,
came into the roads, where thec now remain, the
wind at present being to the north. They are en-
der convoy of two sloops of war, which are also in
the Roads.