The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-08-26 00:00:00

ISMIIICA.

..Mew 'OM JULY 14.
" On Tuesday arrived at l'inlaJelphia. the sloop
Sirsanaah. Captain Gerbish, from Richmond, who
says, that on Friday evening last. white lying at an-
chor in Hampton Roads, he heard a voice hailing
him, wiien altar a search he found a man holding
himself by the sloop's cable. Captain 0 with hie
perif,le flot him on board, so exhausted that he could'
not .tends when revived, he informed Captain G.
that his name was William Winfield ; that he was
vetted Irmo the ship Fair Tr, idifr. sit Philadolphia,
some tim- .ince, wsien she wis n and sent to
}l.-ifaa t that hasi: g striop d himself that sore ll i 66 g,
be had swam from or. of the fkitish ships of war,
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their mkt of water, that tl.e slip he belonged to
had wit more than one month's water on board,
though 'bey ha I all •ix to.tothti 'other provi,imis.
ante t',at it was said, on kr' int the shi -s of war, this.
it their demand was refined. they would destiny
Hampton; for which purpose. he Ar; they had Iry
a thirty-two pounder on board each of the two riot-
moats they had torn • time since Purehavd ; they had
also fined a number of fle-i• boa's and barges, w•th
Cm,. a •cl five pn livers and swivels. and hat ordered
,e number of
.p-cked men to hr reedy to man them
on the signal to be wyen, which he under:mod
w-itald be that Jay. 0.1 Saturday, the 4th instant.
C pt. G. left Hampton Roads, and,
&bow eleven nr t,v lye o'clock, being then af. -or
thirty miles tr H impion he heard several heavy
gum-, but cane •• say they were from Hampton,
though they wet e in that direelion.
" Captain is further informs, that the five Bri-
tish shies were lying if our twn miles from Hamp-
ton, heing the n Ntest distance they could come to
it ; that the people on share were on the alert, and
should the British he mat enough to land, it is
hoped they wig pay for their temerity.
" The ahow•-myntinited sat'or says. the Briti.h
so Ain d ter-mined to lake eve y America vessel they
could met 1K11:1. 01.,t they had tak-'n several. and
sent them to H ilitar, and that they had then in
company a ship and brig from the West Indies,
bound in.
"Oa Monday next. Mr. Fulton will exhibit the
pow.rs of his Sub• Marine Engine, on a hri of 200
tons: we prom-v. ourselves great u• ility lions the in-
vention. or rather improvement, pa ticularly by the
aid that may be given fr-.m o •t, of the Members of
cur late Corpti- Mon. who was so well satisfild of
i-s utility in 1797, t at it N troorteci from high au-
thority. it the Rev elution try Giver potent of F, W.V.!
had ronsidered the opervion honourable. ne would
himself oave ilea! If enni -dated Xl!utfi-itish wavy.
and v itticur d •ust have amass...A.4 large sum ;
which latter, hr the aye, was not elessilliderc,l 164 d
Ing ni•stive."

Extati tram a privet* let,ort 410.4 Norfolk. (V. 16.6)•
%Mt July. •
" Two y Eng) -Is thficers, and three searnen,
have been taken non custody I .r besot, taund on
shore at Cape H-nry. the letters st..te, that this
party of five hat heeo &must ir themselves no a •
fibhing party. end °ring. in want of 'some ref Nib.,
men., had put stun Cape Heary for the prsipose
merely nt artisfying tiwir wants. They we.e Dui-
m-alately, .eurrooncle.d by a pew wt cavalry,
a..d mare prisoners waiter the, President'. einda•
!nation. :end sent to mer.d whew.. who
immediately dispatched a M ..s.ngvr to Mr Jeffer-
son It wets alit- wards int•mated to the two bofq,
anJ their three etimpariiims, that lig w sit to con.
tunic in caerndy, until the .pleasoni el tne Govern.
meat of the Uni.e4 karts r.ould be ascertarned, but
that in the meas. rime they would be treated with
ev ry respna Anther letter, on the same sehjeet,
states, that the five prisoners ha.. Wes remove a to
the a ijoining Attie, wnere they were treated with
the gree est humanity "

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDW,
WEDNESDAY, ACQUIT 2G.

Mr. DON•LD:010 a d Mr. Fusee. the Messen-
gets, arrived in woo, in the course of Monday
night. from the Continent. with great secrecy. The
contents of their dispatches. and from wit m they
were brought, were not known at a Ire hour lint
night. Mr. Paotosssa, another Mess'nger, arrived
between eight and nine o'cl sck, yesterday morning,
at the Admiraity, front Alton*. It is said. that as
they were detained long at HehgAand, t'.eir
patches do no• contain any inteli gene Of a late
date; but that it %VAS confiJr.tly resseerod. and gene-
rally believed, before they came away. that Copen-
hagen, and the whole of the Danish Navy, had sur-
rendered to Ado:hat Cla 14 sits, without resistance
According to toaies. r epos t. some slight resistance
was made by one battery. which fired upon the
Bcglish fortes. an! oec 'sinned some little loss ; but
all the reports iu the City, yesterday. agreed in
representing us in posseseilm of Copenhagen and the
Danish Navy.
A Cahinet Council was held at half past two
o'clock, yesterday, upon Mr. PROUDIA a tell dispatches,
and at fire an express was sent by Lord Woos/tea
to the Logo Mayne. From this latter circum-
stance, it was inferred. that the contents ►elated to
the dispatches. and that they brought some intelli-
gence of importance ; bat as the letter to the Loan
Mayne was not made public, and his Lordship sent
an answer, at eight o'clock, to Lord MOLGIAVZ,
we may presume it was of a private nature. The
report of the surrender of Copenhagen and the Da-
nish fleet, therefore, remains without official con-
firmation. Mr. Eoswoar it, the Messenger, set of
at two o'clock this mwoitsg with dispatches for St.
Petersburgh. We understand that Lord FITZH A 11..
%IS is in readiness to set out on a m's'ioa to that
I Court.

The L.d,r Nyco., Captain Want, and the Lori
i Nth's, Capt. arew•a D, with Mem:cotters, arrived on
Monday at Yarmouth from Tonningen. The Lady

tilep,d4 was chafed by a Danish gun-brig. and re-
ceived fifteen ahot-holes in h •r side, but escaped by
sups rior sailing. On the arrival of the Messenger
ak Yarmouth, .! r..port ws very generally circu-
lated that Copc:il,.ig•n was iu our possession. It
was also reported at Yarnytuth, that the Qifriec fri-
gate had detained six sail of Danish Greenland
ships, and seat thcm lot Hull.
Two outmatd-bound Danish vessels vrerc boarded

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on Monday in the Downs, by some boatmen from
Danish vessels had passed through ou
fleet in the Sound. The Masters vita, that th•
Danes had heen frr some time in elongation of tin
arrival of one Expedition, and, had made even
frissihle preparation (or defence hefore and tinee
teaehed 'Zealand. MI the trmms w.-r•' called flu
and distrihtred in the most jud•cious manner. The;
also speak .if a %my lartze body of volunteers, and
assert tha: their countrymen were determined to
flitht to the last extremity.

We have received Americah Paners to the 29
last. The fleliege. Commodiire Dom' A 1 had pre
vionslisailed for Halifax, taking with h ir the lout sea
men who were the cause of the rencontre between t'i•
/..armed and risinfreake. The damages sustained by
the latter were nearly repaired, and the trial of Corn.
mo.lore BA ICION Wis immediately t• take place on
hoard her. Atthe time of the departure of the tiliejc. 'J.
the Revenge, which is expelled to bring the disritches
to Mr. M °snot, had not sailed. It was reported
that a Midshipman and three seamen, belong.
ing to the British squadron in the Chesapeake,
had landed on the Nin ilk coast, on the 18th
of July, for the purpose of procuring water, but
were taken into cust itly, and marched to the town
of Norfolk.

We have rereiv.-1 Dat, it Papers to the 20th, and
Kris to the 14th inst. che farmer are wholly de-
stitive of interest. fife latter contain the Address
of the Protestant Cnosistory to Bon A ass, and his
answer.—ln it h- Fs:omits to the Protestants perfect
freedrien and Inviolability-in
°the firtiON df their
w w'hiPs a as farther evidence of •hes
lilxra-
lity. that he does all this, -thefigh he is not of that
religion. The lift of flosi AAAAAA has shorn that he
sin he of any r.-ligion that L. at suits his ambition
T...e Mona/ear orates. under the head of Coustan..
ti sople, that the DIVAN have resolved to listen to
no overtures, and to receive noAmbastaJor front
this country, till Egypt is evacuated, end oat
crui%ers withdrawn from the neighbourhood of the
Dardanelles.

His Mame?. ship 1- &playa. with about 63 sal
of vessel' under convoy. arrived in the Downs yes-
terday morning, (per Tel. graph ')
The flarkyro,t, Slists A • o, from London. for
Jamaica, j toted the opt,' archbound fleet which put
into Torhey on Sunday last..
A 1 tier from Monte Video, dated April U. says,
" Lunt. BLATNsT, ot the Praetor. Lieut.
Tatecala, of the Debra. and Lieut. Sxcwaar,
of the Staunch, while carrying some released Spa-
niards to Martin Chico, were, on their retu-n,•in-
vited to a shooting party, decoyed up the country,
and carried prisoners to Buenos Ayres."
On Sunday, about 180.• f the 32d re.tirnentof foot
•embarked at Harwich on board tsvo transports, to
join the Ist battallin, now with the expedition
lately sailed to the Baltic ; tney are under the wra-
. meal ot Colonel P 4) WIC
The Moreterrot t-e Sth of August contains the
following paragraph Large quantities of oak
hark having for some time past been purchased in
the territories of Westphalia, Brunswick. and 01-
denlsurgh, for the use of the tanners in England.
in coaseq rence of which the price has risen beyond
what the tanners in those distriSs can afford to pay
for that article, the letter have lodged serious corn
plaints on this particolar with the French Imperial
Government ; the retch of which is, the stri.llest
probibition to export oak hark, at least of what lit-
tle remains. from the above and other territories
under its influence, if even applied for by neutrals."
Private letters of the 40th instant, from Holland.
state, that direftions had again bean issued to pro-
hibit the landing of any goods of British manufac.
ture. This new order was to be enforced by new
Commissioners from France, who had been ap
pointed to the management of the Customs, and
who had expressed a determination to prevent, by
all means in their power, the future introdultion
into Holland of all English goods. By the
same letters it appears, that the Danish Consul
had issued an order, by which he requested that
all vest Is in the Dutch ports. under the Danish Sig,
should remain. and not under any pretence what-
ever put to sea. until the objea of the British expe-
dition to the Baltic should be fully ascertained.
The LIMO has been gracion.ly incased, by War-
rant under his Royal oignet and Siyn Manual, to
give and pant unto Sir WILLIAM SIDNIY SMITH,
nigot, Commander and Grand Cross of t..e Royal
Swedish Military Order of the bwed, and gear-
Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's
Fleet, his Royal License and permission that he
may, in compliance with the dente ot His Majesty.
Feaorm•sio the Fourth, Kiog of the l'wo breams,
accept and wear the Grand Cross of the Order of
St. Ferdinand, and of Merit, conferred upon him
by that Sovereign.
Memorandum relative to the Amount of the Sums
voted by Parliament, to defray the Expense of
the new Military Measures, established from the
25th June, 1110S:-
14m annturit or sum. voted by Parliament, for the half year,
frontalsth 1411 V, le 114th D^CIDIDI.V. 1656, nn account of The
New Military Arrangements (comprehended wide, the sevinal
heeds ot augmeniat,iin of Pay .4 (Seers and Men, mouse
of the Ch-isea Pam., and Masons ot Widows' Pomona),
was 515,4131, las 541.

raw amouut of the sums included ie the Estimates of 1507,
for the rid services, cannot be stated troth acersey ; as tile
odium's' charges are n t distinguished on the face of the
E.tiiriatessut nearly as eau be judgi.d, the total of the
said summit 450,0u01.

The story of an intended pugilistic contest be.
tween M4jer in the Army, and a Gentleman of
equal rank in the vicinity of Bristol," is f jubilees
origin, and entitled to no credit. It appeared 61‘:
in a certain London Horning Print, notorious for
its extensive dealing in the article of felon, end
celebrated foe the falsehood and absurdity of its
diurnal " Mks y estastirr."-•lbrirfel Morewry.)

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On Tueed 47 evening. Mod ime Catalan;
promised &Gar at th Ro•unds. Ihe Cory .rt
under t) e dir, !lion t t Mr M. Ke ly, of Dia ~
Lino Theatre, why, intr Ida -ed the fair
conduaed her to her pl.4n in the Orctestra, duo
the admiring and expefling crowd. At t
clusisin of th:• beautiti 1 ar •• NZ.I /*Riad,"
ti,gallo, the rapturous -epplairses which Est final
every (pi errer, and the reiterated excarnotio is of
• &aro! Bravo !•' through the morn, shewej tiat
th•• Irish Audience neither er soled to.te nor un:iite
nest. I•Ier s ecnd song a 0 grunt* Ainret,"
Maier, was not less astonishing than the t 'n,,
she was rep-e•edly applauded at every ens t
a general rocure f -Rowed at ittcmiclusirtn,wLekin
the most facinaring manner, she complied oith.
But in the last Grand Ari 4 " Fres. porrer y L*j-..,•
.he cAwilr:Ated h t hearers by the grace with %LA
she dieployed her feelings. All the fine peer{ le Ivies
were pt, sent. _

To-motrow the second Concert wdl Ise
wli;ch sill tie a ern 1. Mr. Kedy ripens it with
Moire's Poe ere',/ tissue+ men, a to. as 4,
OR Wednesday, Lady Cecilia Lit 'hche, Cll2
to Colonel Latouche, a.id daughte. GI Li c Earl
of Miltown, giv • a grand de jlllltt at trie
ful seat of Mu i iv, to their G. IWgis the 11e.r4 Lieu.
tenant and Duchess of !two:11-nd, ar..l a i the
fashion in and near Dublin..- tlarlay it one of these
places to wh ch N -Lure has been it nipgar t,
owes all its beauttec to art and iinm nse w oath._
Formerly a twirl, flat, at the hott,:ni of a n./r1:1:aio,
it now boasts a, ta:l4l :ieers. cati4l% mourns, >limb-
bales, and the tn gaid•ns and pieasor,..
grounds. all fount d under the diredion of Mrs. Ls-
touihe. the ColoWl's mother. whose maiden thane the
RIACC bears. After her decease, Mr. Latoache%
leel.ngs would not permit him to live were. aad
he gave the ~eat to his eldest son.
The Chat stable Repository established in New
Sackville street: fur the relief iit Indigent Females.
by the sale of the pro.iunions of their industry, is
peculi trig deceiving of public aid at,cl counm
I'he Duchess of Richindmi honoured the Rep
'aitoef etittll her presence on Tuesday last, and wu
pleased to espress Ler approbation of (ha muter
to which it' is condufted, .50 terms the most gratify-
ing to the Ladies wuo superintend it, and to all
she wish for its prosperity.

Arrivals at Swante.l:
Sir William. L,dv, Mr. and Niiii Chattrrten, Mean,
Mi 4 A ltateKt, Mne... W. and J Mardian, Mr. aid M:.
Bevan. Mr. Culip•r, Mr. E Galva% Mr C. W thawed, Mr.
and el•:. ulnae, and Wady, Mr. Cambridge, Mira Entwine.
Wes Metion. Mtr: Staphensnn. Mr. a al Mho Lunt. Mr sni
Mrs. Mortimer. Mr. Lumen an.l i intik'. Mr. E•wn Ur.
Mrs and two Ni EMS Watic,.l., Mr. Mums. Hoe.. Cap:aip f.
F. Gradatr, fie

then lemg **nu* (ur miles at. He lutte; ;W. thip
of, that the Beitiah air bad own up to damask* 1
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