The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-14 00:00:00

THE DEPLIZATE.

yesterday received the following letter, and
tike the liberty of publishing it, conceiving by that
touts: we will best answer the purpose of the !
writer :
His Majesty's Rrig Desperate, Downs,
SIR, Sept. 12, 180 S.
In Your Paper of the 9th, there appears a letter from Dover,
dated the 7th of September, stating, that • French privateer
of 18 gum +tool in b.!tween the Desperate and the there. I
beg Inv. to inturm you, that the Desperate left Dover Wiads
-on the trimness of the ith ; and, at this false report might
11.4 to injure my character a, cornonsittling her, 1 deare you
will tako a very early opportunity of eu.itradicting it.
EVC7f .rson who it not aequ.i.titel with ,nv charaeler,
Iseult naturally conceive 1 either kept a very iteelogent look
nut, or that 1 did Dot wish to bring the privateer in questio.i
to action, had there really been mile, which 1 very much doubt ;
yt. any rule. I ant einivoiced no vessel of that azstription e.ame
while Om Desperate lay in Dover Roads. 1 sin, Sir,
your M. 41 nitdiPnt Ito mble cervani,
J. M. HANCIIETT, Lieut. and Commander.

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Yesterday, at two o'clock, the third Regiment of
Royal East India Volunteers marched into town
from Maidstone, at which place they relieved the
ist Regiment, on pet manent ditty, fur twelve days.
The steady and soldier-like conduet of the men ex-
cited the admiration of the inhabitants of the town
of Maidstone; and the attention of the Officers to
the discipline and comforts of their men, refleOs on
them the highest credir. One circumstance oc-
curred, we are sorry to say, which tinged the cha-
ratter of this fine body of men. A private in the
irst company was yesterday tried by a Court Mar.
tial, while on the march, for uttering improper ex-
Pressi.,,,s. Ile was found 'stilly, and sentenced to
.5e lashes ; 33 of which was infE!led on the gun-
c4rriage at blackheath.

DOVER , Sr:PT. 12.

Last eveniag, the Diligence sloop of war, which l,.td
detained a ship bound for flamlottgii, as mentioned
in my letter of yesterday. ptoceede f to the I Oswes
with her price ; the latter was last from Beneal,
and I suppo c her to be the ship .Itil;ana, mentioned
in your Plymouth letter of the 6th lest as having
passed op Chariot!. Her parers, I anderstand, have
been sent up to London for investigation.
At a e hour last night, a Vest lndi imam passed
up Channel to the Ea.' ward. supposed to be one
of the shies missing (loin the fleet.
Capt. Hillock. of the ship Hannah, belonging to
the port of London, was landed from a Dover pilot-
hoot yesterdn y evening,which took him up at Beachy
Ii• ad. The If ?Noah has been thirty-two months
since she left the pint of London. She sailed with
conviets for Botany Bay, from whence she pro-
ceeded to the South Seas, and lastly to the coast
of Peru. Thil ship had been given over as lost,
long since; the Captain never having had an op-
portunity of advising his owners of her safety; she
had not half the complement of hands returning,
with which sho had gone out ; some of them having
ran away at the different places she touched at; and,
what is very singular in so long a voyage, she did
not meet a single ship, of any description, during
the course of it home, until she got into the English
Channel. When off Beachy Head, she was hoarded
by the Autumn sloop of war, which pressed four of
her men, and put four Greenlanders on board in
their place : these last the Antrum had pressed from
a whaler, when off the coast of Scotland. When
passing the Needles, the Hannah spoke two home.
ward-bound Wes► Indiamen, whom she knew to be
Jamaica ships t, they were heavy sailors, and were
steering Eastwards ; these ships are expeCted off
this pert in the course of the evening ; and, together
with the one which passed last night, accounts for
three of those ships which had been mising, and
supposed to have been captured by some of the
rutnerous Spanish privateers which hover about the
Gulph of Florida. Having taken a pilot on board
from this port, the Hannah proceeded on her voyage
to London.
The Trusty sloop of war, belonging to the Bon-
logne flotilla, passed at some distance from the
Downs to Dungeness.
The ofthenieone of erli guns, and the Mediator
frigate, two of the East India convoy, and a sloop
of war, also passed down front the Downs, on their
wa•r to Portsmouth, whence they are going to refit.
The Flirt cutter, from a cruise, came into this
harbour on the morning's tide to rest ; also several
coasting vessels from the Westward.
Six o'Clerk, p.
One of the Jamaica ships, mentioned in the for-
mer part of my letter, is just passed to the East-
ward, and the other is in sight, at about two leagues
distant, with a f.ne breeze from the S. W.
The evening has been so hazy we could not see
any thing of the French coast ; nor have we had
any intelligence from that quarter for some days.

EXETER, Sm. 11.

TESINIE SWINDLER.
A finale, pretending to be a lady of genteel con-
nenions, has lately beets very troublesome to this
city and neighbourhood ; she has occasionally as-
sumed the names of. Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. Beau-
champ, kc. but being at length discovered to be an
impostor, she was last week apprehended at Chad-
leigh, as a vagrant, and committed to the house of
correflinn for the county. Since her commitment,
various letters have been received, stating her impn.
skims nn the public, in London, Brighton, Bath,
Cheltenham. Gloucester, Bristol, ice. under the
charafters of daughter to Gen. England,Gen. Beau-
champ, Gen. Robinson, as wife of a Mr. Wilkinson,
a Gentleman in India, who had deserted her, v. ith
three and sometimes five children; she has a singn-
lar mode of impressing her distress on the minds of
the benevolent, by taking a phial of laudanum, or
leaping into a river, where she knew there was no
danger, in the presence of many speaatoss, and
stating herself to have lately escaped from a lunatic
asylum. A particular description of her is, we
understand, to be inserted in the next line and Cry,
a d P4lite Gazef!r. This is the second extraordi-
nary imposture dete,9ed in this neighbourhood,
within these few months, much to the credit of the
(-minty Magistrates ; the first was the pretended
Rev. John Augustus Polygreen Bridgetower, other-
wise Lieutenant-General Mentor, lately serving
under Touissaint L'Overture, otherwise the Black
Prince, idoo. this person speaks fluently the English,
French, German, Italian, and Polish languages, is
a man of colour, fine figure, and about forty years
of age ; he is also in confinement in the county
bridetvell.

The Right Worshipful the Mayor and Chamber
having resolved to present the freedom of this city to
Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. B.
" in testimony of their high respet for the eminent
services which he has rendered to his country," the
Vice-Admiral attended yesterday at the Guildhall,
when the resolution having been read to him by the
Town-Clerk, he replied as follows :
Gentlemen...As the hi;liest gratification an efficer can re•
twive for his smyices, is the approlsation of his king and Coun-
try ; the testimony you have this day hanaiired me with, by en-
rolling me among yourselves as a fmiluiais of this ancient and
loyal City. is truly flattering to my feelings: and I hone the
happy unanimity that prevails by land and sea, will render the
machinations of our enemies alsortiye, and preserve to us the
birthright of Engliehmen—sear liberty !"
After which, a superb dinner was given on the n-
eaten, by the Right Worshipful the Mayor, to which
the Lord Bishop of Exeter. Vice-Admiral Sir J. T.
Duckworth, K. B. most of the Naval Officers in this
city and neighbourhood, and a large number of Gen-
tlemen, were invited.

s so Tt "4 E.—The Public are mnch indebted
to the Cow raflors of the Lottery which will begin
Drawing this Mon•h ; for, by their wise arrange-
ment of the Scheme, a purchaser of a Ticket or
Share may Gail either of the three Prizes of 20,0001.
three of 100001. three of 5,0001. and numerous
other Prizes. for little more than half the usual
price, As fret' Twkrt drawn within a certain period,
will he entitled ro some bencfit,from a 20,0001. down
to a 291. or a 10i. ; and all Shares will receiv their
respfdive proportions .1 suck Prices.

SPOICriAi. INTELLIGENCE.

PONTEFRACT RACES.

TUESDAY. SEPT. 10.
;wcapatakes of 10es each. woth 20g. adder% for all aim; thre,-
year olds, 21b. F..u•-year olds, 7-t. 10Th. For •..year
elbla, xct. !.lb. Six-year nlds and era, Ad. 121 b M ,reti
al-
-514.; and a winner of a Plate, Sweepst•lt K, Of Sub-
scrti&on, this year, to carry Slb. extra. Four Moles.
Those marked • to carry fith. extra.
Mr. N. It Holrion's f Pri villa, 4en nld . • •
• Mr. Peirse's b h. Vergutoo, by ICog Fergus, 5 yr;

9tol on Ferrisvm A rocxl Race.
SAUL DAY.

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The Membere Plate of 501-rior4iiit.n three end fare-year
olds; three-year olds, 7st Vila. and f...'-veor olds, list. 21b.
fillies to be allowed llb. Three.nide Heats
Sir R. Winn's b. c. Mariner, by Precipitate,
5 yrs old . . . . . . 6 1 I
Mr. Richardson's bay mare,Wooribine, 3.yrs old 5 4 3
I Lan. I. Saville's ch, fby Patriot, 3 yrs nld . 3 2 dr
Mr. Wilson's be. f. by Sir Peter, out of Violet,
3 yrs old
Mr Flint's b, c.Scam,ston, by Screieton, 3 yrs
old . . . . . . . 1 3 2
Mr. Hotham's b. c. Bonnet, by Traveller, 3 yes
old . . .. - ... . 2 dr
sto 1 against Precipitate. 7to 4 again t Sir Peter. F..isy.
'MINIMA", !BUT. 11.
Sweepstakes of Sngs each, 10es forfeit, for three year old colts,
est. 21h. fillies, 7st. rdlb. The last 'rile and three quarter;.
Sir R. Winn's ch. c. Sound lodgment. by Rutstarrl . 2
Sir W. Gerard's bl e. &Touche, by Overton, out of Young
Charlotte's dam . . • . . . 1
Three to one o■ Rarouche-eery easy.
SAMI DAY.
Sweepstakes of 20gs each, with 20g, added, fir three years old
fillies, 84. A winner of a Plate, Sweepstakes, or Suloscrip-
lion, this year, to carry 31b. and of two, 41b. extra. The last
rode and three quarters. Those marked • to carry 31b. extra.
Sir R. Winn's bey, Hypocrite, safer to Ann ioneer . . . 4
Lord Strathmore's grey, by Overton, dam by belpiai . . 2
Mr. E. L. Hodgson's bay, by Monrcork,oist of Mi.s Mitst,,n S
s Sir T. Gascoigne's ch by Pre. irritate, oat of O,lelvnioci, s 1
Sir E. Smith's grey, by Overton, dam by Yonne Mark . 3
Two to nne apt Lord Strathroore's grey, and five to too asst
Sir T. Gascoigne's chesmit—half a head.

%ARIZ DAY.
The Cold Can, valtte leng; a Sith,ctint:on of lolv. esah
with Mrs. added, for three.year olds, fist. :fa). tour-year olds,
101 b. 4vz-year nl4s, d.t. 514. air-year ttlo,
and ages, gAt. Mare 4 and 17...1di0r to be allowed ilb. ITV
a winner of the great Strhacription or Sweeisstakt4 at York,
this year, 51b extra. Four Milta....Those 'narked t to
carry 51b. extra.
Mr. Dent's b. c Sir Charles. by Selim, 4 yrs old
t Mr. Nine's b. h Ferguson, 5 vet old
2 to 1 and 5 to t on Ferg.tinn, easy.

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