The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-23 00:00:00

we bare- extracted the following peregrapij
f..uni the Eclinlsnrgh l'epernrThurattay hunt-- •
(In Wednesday night, at the mi,i,,,rgh The.
Mrs, as soon as the' curtain lied dranDe.fi at-the east
(*Stile play, it eel inuawliqtely.tirawn•up again.
when Mr. Racal came forward with a letter 6114
bawl, saying it gave hire heartfelt satisfactioe to
have the hotioac of giving a piece of inteltigeoce
which he knzer woghl be highly. grittifying to teary
911,, present : be then reed the letter, sehi4 trr
this eirecti That en °Ewer bad just arrived at
Leith FrOilt Gottenhargli, who brought intelligence
that :shoat 11,500 Spaniard, who toad been a eon-
sideraule time pest in Holstein, bad sent a depu-
tation to Admiral Sir JAMES SAWA AKET, reef renting
that he would et them conveyed to join their bre-
thren in Spain, to assist in their present glorious
streggle against the tens it of France, and that Sir
JAKE' SAUMAREA was taking measures accord-
ingly.' The news were, of course, received with the
mast rwaturmis approbation. Immediately after
which the whole of the gerfhrisiers came on the
egge and sang The Atithent and Rile Bei-
tanaia, the whole audience (which was one of the
throng( et this season) enthusiastically joined in the
chlrus."

The /M.* t:f Kent Imt is arrived at Fal-
month from New-Ynrit anti Halifax, after a pass
scze Irma the hitter place of 19 days. Tim Norton
is ako arrived froip Jainaira.—The Siratiish Island
of Culla has deellved against the Fregeh.

• Yesterday leavening His Msawnn, Priiires.ies
SnPlllAs AUGCSTA, and AMILTA, accompanied by
Lady Nicarase;aparl GenAndo CARTWRIGHT and
LIMY, rode in Windsor Park, and returned to
• the Palace at twelve.
His Royal Highness the DIAL! of CLAREXCS'S
tradesman' displayed brilliant illiminutiviss, last
night, in hoinsur of his !top) Highness's birth-
day. The gala at Vaushaa, last alight, given in
honour of his Royal iiigitnosis birth-day, displayed
the most brilliant and ippropriate illuminations i
• the patens ware croetale.d to an excess.
Lord Vise t Joceren set our, yeeterdaYa from
B tres lintel, in lamps-street, with important
dispatches to the Junta of Seville. His Lordatiiti
Isla embark at l'orisintauth, on iso.a,d a•ss
frigate.

The importation of Portuguese and Spaniali vines
. less of lute been very considerable; upwards of
ninety vessels have arrived from 0,43,in :Lace the
expulsion of the French from thence. Agent
15,000 gnilonti sf wine were entered at thc Cus-
tom-house during the tut week, and there are now
upwards of forty vesicle on our Cuadt*, prOtattAilig
to the Hirer.
The Primes qf Asiurins, from Dublin to
Barhadoes, was taken by the nenoramee privateer.
sail carried into Martinique; the Captain slightly
wounded ; the whole of the crew (save the Captain)
duetted quarters.
The Sapphire is arrived from the Cape of Good
Hope; the .lciire, from thieStreits; and the. Ner-
tikrus frivtr from Oporto. When the Narcissist,
left ()port.), the people were in the highest spirits,
expecting the siwedy eurpswler of Justin% Gen.
bras:cote landed at Marra, a point more southerly
than Sir A. Wet tn.st.cv ; Gen••ral Axseauvium
has also 14ndsst, but not till the l 2tli.
The Atierlttere, BARNt!, of Shields, is lost in
Sterightt.
We are ittformed that en additional allowance of
te. per day is is he given to Volunteer Adjutants,
a ineasnre we highly improve, as most of them have
been long itt the serile and at present they have
no I hlgitig money, and lint in few instances forage
for a horse, which the iudivitlual is compelled to
keep for the public service. This reduces hat pay
to about 13a. per week. It is to be loped that the
grant will he retrospective to the date of their coin-
missions, a.; a partial indemnification for the tits
pence they have already been at.
The Neptune, Mu:taxis, from Liverpool, ar-
tired at OH Calabar the 30th April, and wart ex-
pected to leave there for Camaroons in cheat a
mouth. Captain Marton is, on his outward-
hound plumage, in latitude 6. deg. 22. yin. N. about
twenty leagues front Cape Mount, spoke the Ame-
rican vessel Daphne, slave laden, which
had sailed front Cebensta on the 14th January,
hotind to Charleston ; she hid buried the Ctipt
Doctor, all the officers, and 30 slaves, and had
many sick ; they were in great &Ares% and at their
very earnest request, Capt. ,NIAG/lINIS spared them
his Aecood taste to ooiuluct the vessel to Charleston.
A Paper of yesterday stater, that an order has just
been issued.by the CONWANDSE-1,4-CHtElt to sus-
pend the embarkation of the Fourth Expedition,
under the einntnanti of General Be no. Whether
the order arises from the intended adoption of some
offieial refutation, or from a new destination of
the Expedition, we are not prepared to say : we
rhotild rather incline. however, to the latter °pl-
uton,

The Dahlia Everting Pest, received yesterday,
contradict* an account which appeared in some of
the Papers respecting Sir JOHN Pisa!, in the fol-
lowing terms e are inithrorised to contradict'.
a paragraph which appeared in the London Papers'
of Friday. respecting the death of Sir JOHN p.m's.
in the Isle of Man, under eireninstances truly
shocking. We understand the Captein of an Isle
of Man vessel, who arrived yesterday morniug,
states, that he saw Sir On NlOndliY last,
in good health, in the island, and that the whole ac.
orient must have been a fabrication." The para.
rapt) alluded to was copied frog; a London Morn-
ing Paper.
On Sunday, a boy, twelve or thirteen years old.
fell nut of a boat into the river, about 10Q yards e:i
the west side of filackfriane-tridge ; and, notwith-
standing the utmost exertion,' toeing ;mule by se-
veral persons to rescue him, he was unfortunately
drowieed. It is supposed he was socked tinder
some coal•barges which were stationed in the mid-
dle of the river. near the place where he fell in ;
but although the men who attended with the drags
to recover the body, tried that and other parts of
the riser, sod used their utmost eodprours, they
ware unitkole to rind it.

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