The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-28 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 25.--Arrived the Fame, Valantyoc, totally
disrnasted.
FALMOUTH. MAY 25.--The John and Robert, Evan■, from
'Bristol to Montreal, which put in here 18th inst. with damage, is
discharging her cargo.
PORTSMOUTH. MAY 26.—Arrived the Finsbury transport,
front the Eastward, bound to ('ape Coast Castle.
DEAL, MAY 26.—Passed through front the River, the IVilton,
Barker, for Genoa t Effort. 514Lueltie, for Palermo; Christiana
Maria, Busk, for St. Übe's; Cornwall, Bunyan, hw Madras;
snd Pyramus, Brodie, for India.—Arrived and sailed fur the
River, the (Batton, Lawton, from Honduras. The llonourable
Company's ship Rose, and Henry William, Worts, remain for
°niers.

a AV ESE w n, MAY ?G.—Arrived, the Alanhal Blucher, Collins,
from Rotterdam; and Vigilant* Andes, from Rotterdam.—
Sailed, the fleece, Po pin, for Teseritre; Unicorn, Talbot, for
Havannah ; lktrey and Sophia, Goodlad, for Elsineur ; Pluenix,
Lindsay. for Canhagena; Ann, Spence, for Pillars ; Lion,
Wetherell, for New Orleans; Cameron, Rayner, for Berbice ;
Prince of Wales, Gibbs, for Antwerp ; and Eliza, Etherdon, for
Rotterdam. _ _ _ .

CIIIIIALTAIL. MAY 6.—The vessel set fire to by the lode.
pendent privateer, war reported at (Naha to have been a Spanish
pobere, with a cargo of bullocks. A steam packet, from Cadis
to San Lucre, was taken by an Insurgent privateer; the pas-
sengers searched and plundered; after which the vessel was re-
leased.

Off Dover, the Magniis, Hager; from New York.
The Syren, Tailor, from Trieste, wax released from quarantine
at Plymouth on 2.111 i inst. •
The Hopewell, Gallium, from London to Quebec, was spoken
with on the 241 inst., with loss of main-yard, topmasts, bulwarks,
and sails, liming been struck by lightning daring a tremendous
gale on the 2:ld lilt.
The Thetis, Taylor, from Antigua, which she left on the 7th
ultimo, arrived at Whitehavrn am Monday morning, with loss of
anchor and cable, cabin, kedge-anchors, bulwarks, staunehions,
and deck-lumber. Ott 'lie 27th ult. she fell in with a boat, con-1
taining the remaining pan of the crew of the ship Hannibal, Capt.
Low, bound to Livmsord (consisting of thirteen crew, and one
passenger) which vessel had been .truck by lightning on the 22d,
at ten, A. lbf. The crew remained by her till ten, r. at. on the
25th. Three of them were killed by lightning, one suffocated, and
one passenger, Mr. John Taylor, of Norfolk, Virginia, who bad
his thigh broken, died before the crew left.
VESSELS RPOREN wurn.—Lune, Young, on 26th April, all
well; 28th. Lady Sheriwoke, and Bellona. of Shields; 27th,
Amethyst. Thompson, of London ; May 3d, Ilarring, of Sun.
derland ; 6th, Union, of Poole. from Lisbon, for Newfoundland,
by the Fame, put back to Plymouth. Guide, from Haire, 6tb
inst. ; Ann. of- London, 12th ; Aurora, of New York, 17th ;
Fsetor, of Salem. Ismail to Falmouth, 16th; Hercules, of Sun-
derland, for Plymouth to St. John's, New Brunswick, 4th inst.;
Heart of Oak, front Poole to Newfoundland, 13th, by the Han-
nah. Cullen.

The members of the Samaritan Society held their Tri-
ennial Festival yesterday at the City of London Tavern.
This Institution is an appendage to the London Hospital.l
A very Tempi etable party dined together, and zealously
promoted the objects of the Society.
His Royal fliglinisa the Duke of Gloucester, among
many other persons of distinction, yesterday visited the
Naturorama, and was pleased to express himself at diffe-
rent times highly delighted with the ingenuity displayed,
and the effect produced, in several of the inimitable views
and models of which it is composed, and its superiority
over the exhibitions to which it is sometimes compared, by
those who are not connissicurs in either paintings, models,
or any other imitations of nature.