The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-02 00:00:00

LI fTER TO 111$ LICLLLENCY.

" Slit, ." Spiney, New South wa,,,
Sept. 9, 130;:o
" I have to inform you of my arrival here, yes-
terday, in a six-oared cutter, belonging to I Its Ma-
jesty's armed vessel, Purpoile, commanded by Lie Liz.
Fowler, which ship, l am sorry ro state to your Ex-
cellency, I left on shore, on a coral reef, without
any prospeft of her being saved, in lat. 22 deg. 11
min. and long, 15:5 deg. 3.5 min. E. being 208 miles
to the N. 42 deg. E. from Sandy Cape, and 735
miles from this port. The ship Can, which was in
company, is entirely lost upon the same reef, and
broken to pieces, without any thing having been
saved from her, but the crew, with the exception of
three.

" There are, with the whole of the Officers, crew,
and passengers of the Porpoise, upon a small sand-
bank, near the wrecks, with sufficient provisions
and water, saved from the Porpoise, to subsist the
whole, amounting to 83 men, for three months.
" Accompanied by the Commander of the Cato,
Mr. John Park, and 12 men, I left Wreck Reef in
the cutter with three weeks provisions, on Friday,
August 26th, in the morning, and on the 28th, in the
evening, made the land near Indian Head, from
whence I kept the Coast on board to this place.
" I cannot state the extent of Wreck Reef to the
Eastward, but a bank as visible in that diredion six
or seven miles from the wrecks in a West
We rowed along the reef twelve mile; but saw no,
other dangers in the passage towards Sandy Cape.
"There are several passages through the reef and
anchorage, in from 15 to 22 fathoms, upon a sandy
bottom. The flag staff upon Wreck Reef Bank,
bearing S. E. to S. S. W. distant from three quar-
ters to one and a quarter mile.
" After the above statement, it is unnecessary for
me to make application to your Excellency to fur-
nish me with the means of relieving the crews of
the two ships from the precarious situation in which
they are placed, since your humanity, and former
unremitting attention to the Inve.tigator and Ps:-
poise are sureties that the ea.liest and most effe'tual
means will be taken either to hung them back to
this port, or to send them and myself onwards to-
wards Engiand.
" I incluse to your Excellence a letter from Lieut.
Fo*ler, upon the occasion ; and as he refers to me
for the particulars of the wreck, an, account thereof
is inclosed.

" I think it proper to notice to your Excellency,
that the great exertions of Lieut. Fowler, and his
officers, ani ship's company, as well as the passen-
gers belonging to the Investigator, in saving His
Majesty's stores, have been very praise-w-nthy ; and
I judge, that the precautions that were taken, will
exonerate the Commander of the Porpoise, from the
blame that might otherwise be attached to the loss
of His Majesty's armed er.sel.
" 1 have the honour to be,
Your Excellency's obedient humble servant,
MATTPIIW FLIIINDERS."

STATEMENT of the DISTRIBUTN
NAVAL FORCE, to tliL
Lint

In Port arid fitting
GuArdo!iips
In the Englon and Milt Chao
nels
On tise Downs and Nutti. Sea AY

Clone .
At the West India Wands, and on
the Pasuge
On the J ICS 64tten.
American and Newfound!and sta

C. of G. finite, East Indies, sod on

-
the Pager.
Coale of Africa 0
Pertupl and Gehl-altar 9
Mediterranean and on Pusage••• • 13
Hubpital and P.noti Ships.

Total in Commission 10J
Receiving Ship'.
Serviceable and 7epairiog for tiecv 8
lit Ordinary
Sodding.

lON of tie
DA Y.
50's Fri.
2I 21 1

19
4
9
49
Vz

Total 157 I 37 1 196 1
IL STATE Of THY •DINAIY AT ZACIf Pi
L. ra. Frig.
Portsmouth 2l 2 17
Plymouth 2O 4 10
Chatham. 24 3 8
Sheerness 2 I 1 3
MVO.. I 2 19

277
0
4
16
35

330
)OT.
SPA

Tot.
82
2$

4.5
38
38
12
24

T0ta1.... 68 12 I b 7 123 115"

The Ist division of the Royal Lancashire regi-
ment of Militia has marched from Woodbridge
to Chelmsford; the 2d division from thence to
Colchester, where they have halted a few days, el-
petting soon to be followed by the Sd and 4th divi-
sions, in order to proceed to Portsmouth, the ex-
tent of their route.

On Monday and Tuesday last, the 9th regiment
of Light Dragoons marched from Woodbridge to
Colchester, and on the following days arrived at
Chelmsford, on their route to Kingston-upon-
Thames, in Surrey.
About six o'clock on Monday morning, a p4inter
of the name of Joan Mortals. went to the house of
Mr. Climaxes LLOYD, in Broad-street, Birmingham,
falsely saying he was ordered to paint some-furni-
ture in the butler's pantry : as he had worked in
the family before, no suspicions were entertained,
and he began to paint, but was observed to go away
in a quarter of an hour; soon after which the foot-
man missing several articles of plate, an alarm was
given, handbills immediately printed, describing
his person with 201. reward for his apprehension,
and pursuit being made after him, he was over-
taken in the evening at Coventry, in company with
three notorious offenders, two of whom and Mor-
ris were apprehended; but we are sorry to learn the
plate is not recovered. It consisted of a coffee-
pot and stand, two small waiters, a tankard, a tea.
pot stand, six large table spoons, and t.vo desert
ditto. As Mo a ass took some of his painting imple-
ments in a bag, it is supposed he used it for convey-
ing away the plate.

Oatmeal

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LAW

COURT OF ZING'S /3:LW:IL lA•Es rMiNSTSII,Juss
This b&ng the first day of Trinity Term, the
,Court met in the usual form, issued out a dif-
latent writs, attended to dr•pscification of bailcaml
then proceeded to hear motions. Ito
CIIALLLIGR. •
Mr. G k;tROW mined for :so information against,
Mr. Thoin.ts Butcher, a Lieutenant in the Surrey
Militia, fur endeavouring to provoke a Mr. Fuller
to fight a dud. The motion was grounded upon
the atfulavits of Mr. Fuller, who was a private be--
longing to the North Arundale Voliiiitearsi and
Mr. Dixon, who was a Captain of the same corps.
Mr. Fuller, on his return from exercise, met
Mr. Butcher in the street, who asked him, "how
he came to say Miss went to drink ten with
hire, and that he was going to be married to her
the morning." Ile then insisted he should
him the next day, and bring Captain Malin satirist,
with him, whereby he would prevent the necestity,
of his posting him as a coward. Captain Dixon.
called on Mr. Butcher the next morning to linos,
what he meant, who answered, that he meant
Mr Fuller should give him the satisfaction of a
gentleman.
Court—" Take a rule to shew cause."
COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, Mr. Justice HEATH, and
Mr. Justice Rooxe, took their seats in ordinary
form.
The only business -attended to was swearing in
bail, and the accustomed proceedings on the first
day of term ; after which the Court rose atm=
early hour.

asowsmsestw
co v,,y LAWS.
The following is an Abstract teem the Sehetitilept Disk, and

Regteatiou:annexed to the Report upon the (:ortt Law.:
ALTEILATIONS ♦S SUGGISTED SY THIL SCHLOVLAS

ANNEXED TO TILE ILEORT.
Present Rates, at which im-
port of Gram 14 aduaisrmble
iota Great grita.:t. Propose.' Rates.
s. s. d.
What 49 per quarter at second duty it 2t! duty
5: low dim,. 6O love do.
It, 2d duty :4O 2d
17 low Jac, 2l low
24 2d4iutv
26 low ditta. J.: 6 low
R ye, Pease .-4 -
2,1 duty 4J 2d
an: Sean. : ditto
IS -
pet boll of 1401 b
16 low ditto. 2O low •
The illaterfild Mirror, received :his morning, c.yu-
tains the following observations Upon this subi.agt :
" Our readers will perceive with astonishment, it not
with indignation (for we shall not adopt dainty ex-
pressions or mincing pin aces on the occasion), the
enormous and inconceivable difference betwOill the
existing and proposed rates—and they will also ob-
serve with the same feelings, the impossibility of
our reaping the minutest advantage fri.m such re-
,,ulations—as this counts y, by Alp present corn laws,
would be precluded from exporting grain when it
would alone, according to the present rates, be aimi;-
sible into Great Britain. In this point of view (if we 411
are corre& and if not, we shall rejoice in being set
right), the proposed alteration, if passed into alaw,
must, by preventing all exportation, one, ly ruin our
commerce, beggar our peasantry, already, from k -
variety of causes, sufficiently wretched, and wholly
destroy that confidence which, at the time of the
Union, we were taught to believe might be pieced
in the tostei ing care and attachment of the doer
Kingdom ; for it is a well-known and general-
ly-admitted principle, that corn is the regulat-
ing commodity by which the real value of all
other commodities must be finally measured and
determined. There is another part of the report in
question pretending to give Irish some advant: ge
over ji,reige corn, which, indeed, is scarcely wroth
noticing, as the first objetion, if valid, precludes
competition. We are, it seems, to be allowed two
shillings per quarter premium on the high duty on
wheat, and one shilling on the low duty ; this al-
leged preference is however rendered nugatory, by
its extreme disproportion to the quality of the corn ;
tor it is confessed by all who ate conversant in grain,
that the generality of foreign wheat is worth front
7s. to Bs. per quarter more than Irish wheat, so that
the supposed advantage is a mere bubble, an unsub-
stantial, empty boon. We do, therefore, in the most
serious manner, call upon every man of talent, cha-
rafter, c umeetion, and property in the country, by all
possible constitutional methods, to oppose the ad)p-
tion of a measure, in our bumble app: cl:ension, de-
cidedly hostile to our commerce and prospcti .y, in.
calculably misehieviius, from its tendency to promote
discontent, and impoverish the low:r order. of se.
ciety, and utterly subversive of the agricultural in-
terests of Ireland."

The Annual She; T-o
Stock forpreiniiims and for
sale was held in the lair Fir d. in Chelmsford, on
the t4th ult.—The extreme v.etness of the &ay was
most unfavourable to the exhibition, and prevented
many people attending; there was, however, a con-
siderable meeting, and some vei y capital stock
thew:- The Suffolk stallion, the prop. rty of Mr.
WESTERN, had no competition, but he was con..
sidered one of the des: specimens of the breed, which
is now in the highest request in every part of the
kingdom. Besides the stock for which premiums
were given, there was a very handsome cow, belong-
ing to Messrs. Woorrcocc and Ho noxs, arid a very
good one of Mr. SMITE'S ; some good South-down
tups and ewe honks, of Nit.. By aoovrix's ; an ex-
traordinary handsome half-bred Marino and South-
down ewe, of Mr. Wasrzan's, greatly admired; and
Sir Wzr.tr.s:.; Rowtyr exhibited three year-old
South-down t ups, which, for size and beauty, exceeded
say thing of the breed we hare yet seen on any for-
mer occasion ; Mr. Hon vwo OD had several fide fat
we:hers fnr strew only; Mr. young stal.
Loa. by Hollyhock, was strewn upon the ground, and
excited a considerable share of notice. l'he judges
for the sheep, atc. were Mr. Masoe and Mr. .ra s -
roa—for the horses, Sec. Mr. SMITH. On the
round we noticed Lord Par as, Lord Atasissai.s,
sir WILLIAM IioWLIT, Mr. Hasse, Mr. DA ItTAL
PLII, Mr. MOPELLII, Mr. WILSTRIS, Mr BURGOYNE,
3:c A dimmer was provided at du Shire-Hallo at
which Lord Pates presided.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
POKTSMOVIN, MAY Si.
Sailed last evening, the Orp,bits frigate, to cruise
off !lawn de Grace.
Thisday, sailed the Reuntati;a:•nat,,, frigate, Capt.
}Latham, for Ireland; and His Majesty's ship, Ex-
periment, for Lymington.
Came up from St. Helen's, the Meteor bomb.
The whole of the outv..ard.bound India ships are
dropped down to St. Helen's, to be in readiness to
sail at a short notice.

DCAL, MAY 3r).
Sailed the Af..rintr gun-1)67,, Autumn and Lie&
sloops of war, /L. i., and 5u1,7440. bombs, on a cruise
off Boulogne.
,Jlcmain in the Downs the ships as per last.
Early this morning the B,;,it/JA gun.htig ran on
shore, on the off part of the Goodn in Sand, but
was got off without much damage, and is gone to
Margate-Roads.
BtIIHAM QUAY, TORBAY, MAY 30.
Sailed the Nemesis frigate, and Pheeima sloop of
war, on a cruise,
COW, MAY 31.
Arrived the ship Newton, of Philadelphia, John
Silty, master, from Hambro', with 200 men, wo-
men. and children passengers, bound to Philadelphia.
Put in by distress. Wind S. W.

FROM LLOYD's LIST.
Mt Antrim, MAT 31.Paised by the Sarah, Dowiiity,
from Messms ; Oldegentia. Holmes, from St. Michael's.; and
the Francis de Poole, Reeves, from Cadiz.—Sailed the
Vrow Rohe, for N'arells ; Overhand ;and
GooditJaccks,l--, for Emlxien.

I

EXTRACT
•
PROM MIIFUTia OF EV/13ZNC1
Taken hefiwe the Committee appointed to enquire into the
State of Ireland, at, to in Circulating Paper ; its Specie and
Curr:nt Coin; and, the Exchart;re between that pan of the
United Kw:llona and Great Britain.
The Celt Hon. JOHN FOSTER, in the than..
—wataw--

Pin B. Wirithmp'. Examination, continued from oar Paper of
Yesteolay.]
Would not the increasing the exports of Ireland
have a similar eff.tet ?—Cet tainly.
Do you know whether there is any depreciation
of paper in Ireland ?—1 undersilltd there is, or a
premium fo: guineas, which, in effea, is the same
lilting. •
What do 7c- .1 attribute' that depreciation to i —To
!he restri.aion in the. issue of specie, as I appre-

. - .
land. .
' !las the effett of that restriSion been the cause
1 of a goeat increase of paper in lreland?—Yes ; and
I. th:ak there ii mare paper both in England and
Ireland than is beneficial to the public.
DA* apprehend there is any ether cause in
Ireland that creates or encourages the too great
issue of paper ?-11ie number of inconsiderable
ha Ikon in the countty parts of Ireland ; and I think,
if specie was in circulation. paper would not be
taken, sitch paper as I have been describing.
Do you think thAt if there was an over issue of
' paper by the Bank of Ireland, it would tend at all
to encourage the over issue of paper which you
I mention in the country Banks ?—1 am not compe-
tent to answer that question ; I have not been in
Ireland many years.
Do you think the depreciation arises from any
other cause than what you have mentioned. namely,
1 the quantity of paper ?—I know of no other.
Do you conceive that the existence of private
bankers in Dublin issuing paper in considerable
quantities, does not tend to the depreciation of pa-
w!---I understand the bankers in Dublin are pm-
t.'s?. high credit, and likewise the paper is in high
audit; but I am not so intimately acquainted with
circumstances of this sort.
May not that high credit tend to facilitate an over
issue of paper. and of course to depreciate it ?—lt
li
possibly may ; it is very likely.
Does not the paper of those inconsiderable coun-
try Banks of Ireland. of which you have spoken,
pass in the same manner, and at the same price,
with paper of the private Dublin Banks and the
Sank of Ireland ?.--I do not know.
Do you not understand that the paper of all the
country Banks of Ireland is exchangeable for Bank
of Ireland paper ?.—I understand that any man hold-
ing the paper of any country banker, may demand
payment of it in paper of the Bank of Ireland : but
I understand there are bankers in the country who
issue silver notes.
Are not those silver notes also exchangeable for
'Bank of Ireland owes, when th.sse in the hands of
r one person amount to a sufficient quantity to be Ca-
pable of such exchange ?..-I should suppose so. The
persons who issue them are bound to pay them, and
they can only pay them is Bask of Ireland paper,
I should suppose. .
Does not then the whole paper cirenlatron of fre-
en d necessarily conform itself to whatever is the
I current ValtZe in exchange for goods of the paper Of
'' the Bank of Ireland ?...-I cannot answer that question.
Ds you not conceive that an augmentation of the
circulating medium of Ireland necessarily tends to
the augmentation of the nominal price of commo-
dities ?--11 believe so.
Is not the nominal price of commodities in Ire-
land, at this time, that is to say, the price of spin-
modities. as compared with Irish Bank peer,
'higher than the nominal price of commodities in
Great Britain. that is to say, of commodities in
exchange for English Bank paper ?--.I do nut know.
Must it not necessarily be the case, since there is
a diffcrence of shunt in per cent. in the exchange ?--
I apprehend the: a man in Ireland holding an Eng-
lish Bank Note mu" submit to nearly the loss in the
exchange that Le would by negotiating a bill : the
Rank Note being payable at sight, may be nego-
tiable a: I per cent. higher than a aill that is payable
at thirty-one days.
Cannot the owner of a Rank of England ,note for
1001. boy with it 'note golds in En7l4t,d than the
owner of a Bank Note in Ireland can buy in :rebid

. •

with a Bank Note of Traand araounti to
1081.65. sd. which is the par of exchange ?--[can-
not answer.

Supposing a man to be able to bny the same
quantity of goods in England for 1001. English,
which he can buy iu behind for 1061. (is. Bd. Irish,
must there rot he an extra profit of 10 per cent, on
the exportation of British goods to Ireland, inasmuch
as the proprietor of 1001. English bank-note, can
buy with that note a bill for about 1181. in Ireland?
There is no doubt but the importer of English goods
in Ireland, mug increase his price in proportion to
the rate of exchange at whici be pays file them.
Do you then consider the 10 per cent. rise, which
has lately existed in the exchange between England
and Ireland, an indication that there may have been
a general augmentation in the nominal price of com-
modities in Ireland of about 10 per cent. con-
ceive there must, on commodities imported from
England.
May it not be presumed that there must have been
the same rise on all that class of commodities which
are exported from Ireland to England, inasmuch as
there must otherwise have been an extra gain of 10
per cent. on such exportation ?—lt seems probable
there must be a proportionable rise on the goods ex-
ported from Ireland..

It is presumable that there has been a rice equal
to the rise in exchange in the hiAi pike of all goads
exported both from England to Ireland, and from
Ireland to England, may ►t not also be presumed
that there has been nearly a sintilai rise on ankles
produced in Ireland, and Luca for borne consump•
non ?—I think not.

Do you not think there must have been such a
rise, if by the term rise is mesnt a higher price than
would have subsisted if there had been no augmen-
tation of paper, and no rise in the exchange ?.—I am
unable to an►wcr that question; but, on reflection.
with respect to goods exported to England from
•Ireland, I apprehend the exporter may sell the
goods exported at a lower price in England,
on account of the high exchange he obtains for
his bill, than he would if he negociated at a mode-
rate one.

Supposing, as you conjeaured to be the case, that
the price of Irish goods is raised in the Irish mar.
ket by the augmentation of paper, will there not be
a new temptation to impui t from England the kind
of goods which are so raised in Ireland, and will
there not be a new obstruaion to the exportation ef
the goods which are so raised in 1-eland, which will
lead to an augmentati,n anports into Ireland,
and to a diminution of its exisorzs, supp,sing th.? ex-
change to remain as before ?—I feel 111 sclt incom-
petent to answer the question.

Must not an augment.ttion in the Irish pricemf
corn, for example, as exchanged tar Irish paper,
produce a disposition to import corn from England,
supposing the exchange to remain the same as at was
before the rise conceive so, if the exchange re-
mained at par.
Must not the same augmentation in the Irish
prices produce an indisposition to export Irish ar-
ticks, supposing the exchange to remain the same as
before ?-.-No doubt ; as g.lrn is the objed of every
man, either in exporting or importing, if the objed
is taken away, the pradice would not be continued.
Must not such disposition to import, and indis-
position to export, supposing it to be followed by an
aettral increase of import.;, and an actual de-
crease in exports, produce what is commonly
called an unfaysurable balance of trade, and must
it not lead t.- she creation of a greater number
of Englis'n dray , • s of bills upon Ireland than there
are of English rer,-.,tterst--If imports are increased,
and the exports minished, no doubt it must pro-
duce an unfavourable "alancet there cannot be a
greater amount of biLa dtawn than there are remit-
ters to take.

rot such disproportion 'ortwcc:. • amount
of bills which there is a disposition to ciraw, and the
amount of bills which there is a disposition to • lit,
produce a rise in the exchange with Ireland ? . the
bills to be drawn exceed the money to be remitted,
the exchange naturally will rise.
Will not that rise in the exchange operate as such
a bounty on the exports from Ireland, and as such t
tax upon the imports, as to count-era& the I. •
price of Irish goods in Ireland, which the excessive
issue of paper in Ireland has bee supposed to have
created ?—A rise in the exchange above what it is
now or has been, would tend to reduce the inter-
course between the two countries, rather than to
operate as a bounty.
Must it not, in proportion to its magnitul-, ope-
rate as a bounty on exports, and as .4 tax ..0 im-
ports?—lt must; in the manufattures exported from
Ireland there are a number of foreign materials,
which it would operate as a tax on.
Supposing this bounty on ex?orts, and tax on
imports, to be exanly countervailed by the rise in
the price of commodities in Ireland, will not the
relative situation of Ireland, with resped to its trade
with miser countries, remain exaely the same ?—t
do not know that; there woidd•be-a greater capital
neccssari'l imp! eyed.
Will not the capital be the same, W computed in fo-
reign trovey, though it would be greater in Irish
money. if computed according to the price of cur-
rencv as Ireland ?--I apprehend net. lam giving
conclusions upon matters which I did not feel my-
self competent to. .
Would not therefore the redaltion of the quantity
of paper in Ireland be the means cf. improving the
state of the exchange ?--If the Bank vic.c ••• elimi-
n;sh their disconets, people would be obliged to
draw i n this country far me•o•y, •vhich they can
now obtain without doing so, and the exchange
would probably decline.
Do you know whether the usual articles of im-
portation from Ireland into tne port of London are
increased or diminished in value of their respeCtive
commodities. within the Lox twelve months ?--I
know nothing about linen ; as to provisions, within
the la.t !ew months, they have been unsaleable, and
have diminished in price in a very alarming degree.
Do yon know whether the usual articles of exports
to Ireland from theyort of London, are .inc r- s!d
in value within the last twelve months?-1. :Aber
thin/ they are diminished in value.

COAL EXCIIINGE.MAT 26.

Ant Cm.% in the Pntsi, per Children 445. Mi.
Delirc,e.l to li4tvek,.sers at 60% Cd.
S.sndertristd, y r Chaldroa 4''s,
Heitvend to I I.u.Aireireis at .545. Cd.