The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1525.

SURREY, SUSSEX, and SOUTHWARK FIRE and
LIFE ASSURsANCE COMPANY.
Capital One Million, in Shares of One Hundred Pounds each.

CILAIRISAN.
CHABIWiS CALVERT, Esq. M.P.

DI PUT 'I-CHAIRMAN.
JAMES HORNE, Esc.
DIRECTOBS.
Thomas B. Burbidge, Esq. Jacob liag.n, Esq.
Thomas Christy, jun. Esq. Robert Kirby, Esq.
Jesse Curling. Esq. W. Woodbridge Nash, Esq.
William Conch, Esq. Richard Price, Esq.
Joseph Ellis, Esq. T. Allen Shuter' Esq.
Thomas Famcornb, Esq. Daniel Watney, Esq.
Charles Francis, Esq. Benjamin Wood, Esq.
AuDignait—F Young, Esq., Thomas Bush, Esq., Emanuel
Silva Esq.
STANDIXO CounsEi—Alfred Perkins, Esq.
SOLICITORS-3Lessrs. klarson and Son.
PLITSICIAX—Thomas Wahhman, Esq. M.D.
Stramnon.--Thoinas Callaway, Esq. •
ACTUARY W. Wilson.
Su argron—Joseph Walker, Esq.
Bea=rer—Mewts: Weston, Young, and Bostoek.
irta Company has been formed upon principles combining the
most perfect security, with advantagestsqaal to, if net greater than,
those offered br any similar institution.
The Fire and Liti Departments are kept distinct; thus affording
the same advantages as if the Assurances were effected at separate
Ogees.
Persons assured either „against loss by Fire, or upon Lives, will
Periodically participate lo two-thirds of the profits, without env
liability on their part to contribute towards losses.
The Company's Proepectuses, containiug Rata and Conditions,
whit*
_art put..UlsetAl scale.. leap be had- Oa apytiataigie iweauril;
efficie, W. 'Margarcea.bel, Southwark.

qc HE ALLIANCE BRITISH and FOREIGN LIFE
and FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
4, MR-COURT, ST. 6wrirwrw's-Lawn.
Established by Act of Parliament.
Capital £&,000,000 sterling.
PRESIDNTS.
John Irving, Esq. M.P. IN. M. Rothschild, Esq.
Francis Baring, Esq. Moses Montctiore, Esq.
Samuel Gurney, Esq.
DINCCTORS.
J. A lexand er, Esq. M.P. C. Oreenwood, Esq.
O. H. Barnett, Esq. J. Heygnte, jun. Esq.
Charles Bevan, Ern. Wm. Howard, Esq.
John Bowden, Esq. J. Inns., Esq. M.P.
Archibald Campbell, Esq. Wm. Kay, Fsq.
IVilliam Crawford, Esq. Oswald Sn.ith, Esq.
Timothy A. Curtis. Esq. H. M. Thornton, Esq.
Francis Croswell, jun. Esq. Thomas Wilson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
T. Fowell Buxton, Esq. M.P. IT. Alastcnnan, Esq.
C. Campbell, Esq. I
Batigno—Messra. Smith, Payne, and Smiths; Hoare,
Harnett, and CO.
ACTUARY—Benjamin Honipsitz, Dm. F.A.S. •
SIICRITAIY—Andrew Hamilton, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—John R. Hume. M.D. Curzon-street.
Connors. —Lancelot hhadwell, Esq.
SoLiciron—John Al: Pearce, Esq.
Suav99oß--Thos. Allason, Esq. Percy-street. Bedford-square.
REDUCTION OF PRE:IIIUM.
The Company havetssolved to make the following Reduction in
the Hates of Premium hitherto chased on the Three Common
Classes of Fire Assurances. This Reduction will equally apply to
Assurances in London,• and throughout the country, except in
Special Casa.
let Class is reduced from 2s. to Is. Gd. per. cent.
9d Ditto Es. to 2s. Gd. Ditto
3i. Ditto Zs. to 4s. Gd. Ditto •
• Warder of the Board.
A. HAMILTON, Sec.

ItRANDE'S PHARMACY.
This day is published. in Cvn. price lb.
MANUAL of PHARMACY.—By WILLIAM
THOMAS BRAN!, p. F..sq.
Professor of Chymistry and Msleria Medica to the Society of
Apothecaries of the City of London.
Printed for T. and Q. Undrorrootl, LI, Fleet-street.
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NEW and ImpentawilkinKB Printsi fof Ksdght
and !my, pnailiebets et ewts anthected vita tyre Vadhl
Ana, at the Janka Watt, in rater:later-row.

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The SESSION of PARLIAMENT for M.DeCC.XXV., ex-
hibiting the Suite of Parties. and Interests, the Debates and Enact-
ments and the whole Proceedings of both !louses of the British
Legislature during that Period.
" We tind it executed in a manner which does credit to the in-
dustry, candour, and talents, of the writer."—Times, Sept. 7.
" A clear, well written, and well arranged history of the whole
proceedings of the British Legislature during the last Session of
Parliament."—Literary Chronicle, Sept. 10.

Second FAtion. in two Volumes,

THE TWENTY-NINTH OF MAY—Raft Doings at the
Restoration. By Ephraim Hardcaide, Author of •• Wine and
Walnuts."

M.

To Builders, Masons, Carpenters, ece.; In one handsome quarto
Volume, price 21. 10s. in boards, i➢ustrated by 150 copper-plates,
and 450 Diagrams on wood, NICHOLSON'S BUILDER and
WORKMAN'S NEW DIRECTORS comprehending Defini.
tions of the component Parts of Building, the Principles of Con.
struetion, and the Geometrical Development of the principal
difficulties that usually occur in the diffischt Branches of Mecha-
nical professions employed in the formation of Eclillecs.

IV.
On Saturday the Eighth of October,
No. XVI., price Sixpence,
And the following Number on each succeeding Saturday,
A DICTION.IRY of ARCHITECTURE, historical, D -
scriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical,
with beautiful Engravings, by the first Artists.
This Work is published with the view of presenting to Opera-
tive Builders, and the other classes of Artisans connected with
Building, a complete System of Genteel, Classical, Scientific, and
Practical Architecture ; treated in a manner adapted to the com-
prehension of workmen, and sold at a price which will bring a
within the reach of them all.

limits. Knight and Lacy apprise the numerous Subscribers to
this Walt, and the Public )(nattily, that No. 16 will be published
on Saturday October the Eighth ; and that, having obtained impor.
tent assistance hi the Editorial Department, they are enabled to pro.
wise the remaining numbers regUlArly, one on each succeeding Ba.
nudity, until the whole be completed.
Paternoster-row, September 15,1825.

SCUIWY, SCROFULA. KING'S EVIL, 4c.e.
FREENIANI ANTI-SCORBUTIC DROPS. Thew
dreedful disorders, in their most inveterate rages, whether
occasioned by acrimonious matter retained In the habit, or intro-
duced by 'attain indiscretions, intemperance, er injudicious use of
Mercury, conic particularly under the influence of this tnedicine
the reputation of which was firmly established in the successhil and
extensive practise of the hue Dr. Freeman, for a period of more
than forty years. Por all diseases originating in obstructed per-
spiration or imp:shy of the blood, these Drops will be found a ao.
vertigo remedy, at the tame time the safest medicine that can be
resorted to; they are also an excellent purifier of the blood, and are
oaken with great benefit in the Spring and Autumn.
Sold is Bottles, at 21. sid.. 44. tkL, lls., and 225., by Bulk,
Chemist, 4, Cheapside, Sr. Paul's; Savory and Co., 136, New
Bond street, London ; and by the principal Medicine Venders
throughout the United Kingdola.
Of whom may be had, MORRIS'S BRUNSWICK CORN
PLASTER, an excellent remedy for eradicating COMlN'Boatioaa,
Ste. In Boxes, at ls. lid. and 2s. flrl

SUPERIOR SEIDLITZ POWDERS.

THERE Powder* produce, when used as directed,
Water, exactly of the same quality as that found at the
celebrated Seidlits Spring. The Water impregnated with them
becomes, in an instant, sparkling and effervescent, and forms an
alterative Saline Aperient, as pleasant as Soda Watts. They
remain unimpaired by time or climate.
Prepared and sold by the Proprietors, Messrs. G. MARSHALL
and Co. Chemists, Brewer-street, Golden-square, in Boxes, 4s. id.
each, and in Bottles at 225. dety included.
N.11..-The Public arc cautioned against imitations, and are re-
quested to observe thewords, "Prepared by G. Marshall and Co."
will be printed upon every label, with etch box and bottle ; all
other Preparations, under the same name, advertised fur making the
Seidlits Water, are spurious.

To be bad as above :
The Oxygenated Soda Powders havent:er Weer
Cheltenham Salts In crystals Ditto, Perfumed
Ditto ditto in efflorescence Ditto, Milk Fleur
finest Calcined Magnum* Vegetable Exuma
Pectoral Gough Drops Espeits—various
Mimetic Vinegar San de Cologne
Lavender Vinegar Arquebtuade Water
Camphor Tooth Powder Vegetable Tooth Powder, lie.
And every genuine Drug and Medicine, of the finest quality, in
home and for exportation.

Mei Wine Cheats, of all priers, eaaapietely Buie ice every elloata.
N.B. AU other advatised Preparations for making the !tale an
Waters. under the above names, are spurious.
PS. ihnbaats, 4c, pipped ea &at taing,

SIX TWENTY THOUSANDS IN ONE DAY, AND NO
MORE LOTTERIES AFTER THESE DRAWINGS.
I_IAZAHO and CO., the Contractors, solicit attention
to the present BRILLIANT SCHEME, which not only
matins eat the late popular attractions, but embraces for the flot
tine since the eatablishinont of Lotteries, and before their final
conclusion,
811

110;0011 _ _
£20.000
130,000 .t 20,000
.C 20,000 A:20,000
ec.c. &c. exceeding
One-Fourth of a Million cf Money,
ALL IN ONE DAY, THE Hirst OF OCTOBER.
A gre,at variety of Numbers are on sale at Huard and Co.'a old-
established Offices, Royal Exchange Gate ; 26, Cotnhill t and 324
Oxford-street, end of Regent-street, Loudon • where they have
been most successful in rolling Capital Prizes, in one Lot-
tery sold all the Thirty Thousand Puund Prises—in the last year's
Lotteries alone they sold five Prizes of 30 0001. and 20,0001. ; and
in the- Lottery drawn Wednesday, the 91st August, /Laur add
Co. shared and sold
0111 a Prise of £25,000,
pal Prise of XE5,000.

The Ist Division of the 39th (I)oraetehire) Regiment of Foot
embarked on the 19th instant, on board the Hope transport, at
Cork, for t 'hatham.

The 99th Regiment of Infantry will embark at Porumouth,
when transports are ready to receive it, for the Mauritius.
The 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot will, on being re-
lieved by the Pith Regitutzt at the Mauritius, return to England.
trek Tnun silaigFe tio.

Wind N.W. blowing hard.—High Water. IR m. p. R.
Arrived the Emulous, Humble, from St. Vincent's; Paragon,
Thompson, ftom Savannah ; Lancashire Witch, Neale, from Lis-
bon, sailed Uhl, inst.; Eclipse. Htixtable, from tlontego Bay, Ja-
maws ; and Chelsea, Stanwood, from New Orleans.
Off the port. six o'clock—one ship, nine brigs and two snows.
The Trial, Flockliart, from London for Nassau, New Provi-
dence, was wrecked Vlth July on Egg Island reef ; crew and part
of the cargo in • damaged state saved.
The Ruchdale, Chapman, front Oporto. has arrived at Hoylake
in six days.
The Paragon, from Savannah, buried three of her crew on the
passage. riio died of fever. _ _

• 0u; British Plantation Sugar Market ii.gctiing up, and will no
doubt be dearer before the end of the year.
The Captain of the New A stley, from Cadiz, states that city that
isjunder the control of the French, and that they keep the keys of
the gates. All the best water is taken care of for the troops and
French vessels of war ; others are obliged to put tlp with what they
can obtain, which is generally very brackish.

THC COTTON Maturrf.—Otir Cotton Market has been very
steady in prices, and a fair demand by the trade.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE. SEPT. T. 2.
Snips ENTERED INWARDS.—The OpsTIO, Covey, from Fi.
guera ; Isabella' Munn, from Belize; 'Ganges, Lloyd, from
Madras and Mauritius; Arethusa, Clements, from Quebec;
Freundschaft, Gencke, from Dantric ' • Avon, Dempster, Madeira
and Grenada ; Eliza, Lea, from Pillau ; Eleonora, Zimmerman,
from Konigsberg and Pillau ; Ellen. 111`lver, from Tobago ;
Ruth, Hove, from St. Kitt's ; Glory, Pope, from Palermo ; and
Ketelboter, from Danteic.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Marshal Bennett, M‘Arthar,
for Yucatan ; Britannia, Garth, for Cadiz ; Julie, Praeger, fur
Calais; Union, Hedde. for Calais ; Tranby, Smith, fur Gotten-
burgh ; and Minerva, Kuiper,
_ for Antwerp.
CLEARED OUTWARDS FINALLY AT GRAVESEND.—The
Johanna, Kermit for Elsinore and Copenhagen ; Augusta,
Scherlane, for Stettin ; Commerce, Fournier, for Calais ;
Prince Frederick, Atherden, for Rotterdam; Glen Bernie, Wood,
for flarnburgh ; and Fame, Stoakley, fur Palau, Konigsberg.
and Elbing.
• CLEARING OCTWARDL—The Windlust, Engelman, for Am-
atavism : Wemyse, Kennedy, for Elsinore and Copenhagen ;
Ward, Bare, for St. Julia's, New Brunswick; Olmida, Bell, for
Bahia, Pernambuco, and Maranham; Frederick, Curtis, for Sierra
Leone ; Emma, Reed, for Genus and Leghorn ; Auguste, Sap,
far Antwetp; Vriendsduip, Bakker, for ..ittu; and Speculation,
Mills, for Faro.
t'rca.arrgrOt wara::De t pl.- 1. Blue, aark,
for Linatrielt •

.111441► 1.1• G :D'

LIST.

•
rAI.MOTITTI, SKr's'. Z.—Arrived the Camden packet from Js-
mates ; sidled the 11th August. Sailed the Hope, —, for
London.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT.2I.--Arrir..d the Renew', I)awney, from
31eniel 4 and the Albion, Cunningham,_ from Chinni.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Adder, the Came.
leon, sad the Rose cutters, from a cruise. Sailed the Alexan-
der, Al•Kenzie, for Riga; and the Nassau, Tremayne, for
London.
DE At., SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Elizabeth. Walker, from Gre-
nada ; the Providence, —, and the Edward, lioaakin„ from Bil.
boa ; the Amy, Bloomfield, from Leghorn ; and the Nclly, Dale,
i from Quebec ; sailed Aug. 12. The greater part of the outward.
bound, which sailed yesterday, have put back.
GRAVESEHD. SEPT. 22.—Arrived, the Jane, Crauford, from
Memel ; Good Intent. Kelly, tram ditto ; Louisa Sophia,. —,
from ditto; Georfie, Lawson, from Petenburgh ; Thetis, Otto,
from Dantric; l ork, Baker, from New York ; Ruth, Hare,
from St. Kites ; Sisters, Hayes, from Demerara ; and Edward,
Bosnian, from Bilbao. Sailed, the Saxony, Palmer, for Vigo ;
regular packet, fur Pernambuco ; Eliza, Faith, for Tene-
rife ; Harrier, Brown, for Hamburgh ; Bee, Nicholls, for ditto ;
Aurora, Hollett, for Halifax; Eden, Anthony, forCarthagena.j
and Orestes, -, for Metric.
BRISTOL; SEPT. 22.—Arrived the Hodgkinson. Cherry% from
Antigua : Trinidad, 111`Symson, from Trinidad; Maria, Kepple,
from St. Vincent; Christian, Hogarth' from Demerara; Experiment,
' Chapman, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Frederica, Rim.
oar, from Bilbn ; Sarah, Aysh, from Montreal ; Achilles, War-
, ren, horn Trinidad. The Achilles, Mandrel, has arrived at
Nantes ; Charlotte, Whitewav ; Earl of Liverpool, Stone, at New
Yoik ; Barbadoes, Lee. at gotbee ; Mary, Adams, at Lisbon ;
Harriet, Emmerson, at Demerara, all from hence.
GALWAY, SEPT. 29.—The Provost, Lloyd, sailed from hence
the 14th inst. for London, and put back yesterday, with loss of
masts, sails. boats, sainchnins, &c. having experienced a gale on
the 17th retire Mutat' ; cargo partly damaged, and must be
discharged.
AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 19.—The Vriendschap, Stuit, from
Christlansand to Harlingen, was abandoned on the 13th inst. being
in a sinking state.
PHILADELPHIA, Ara M.—Arrived the Julius CMS!
French, from Liverpool; saw a large ship or bark, 3tl inst. Ist. 48,
long. 38, with all her masts gone • she had onewthe or yellow
streak, and a narrow one, and no head.:

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KINGSTON (JAMAICA), JULY 30.—The Oporto packet. Miles,
was lying at St. Jago de Culls on the 24th in leaded ; tLe whole
of the crew dead, and the master dangerously ill.

The log book of the Elias, Stokkeby, from Liverpool for Copen.
bagel), has been picked up at the Wood of CoU.
The Thomas Grenville, from London to Bengal, was spoken
with on the 22d July, an lat. 4, S. long. 21 W. ; and the De Kook,
from Genoa to Buenos Apo, the same day ; the latter had been
attacked by a pints. -

ALARMING Fit. NEAR TEMPLE-Bat—At about a
quarter put nine o'clock yesterdayikvening, the smell of fire was
perceived in Palsgrave.place, Temple-bar, and the alarm was ac-
cordingly given. Soon afterwards flames were observed to issue
from the back-room on the first floor of a house tenanted by Mr.
Harris, a taylor, No. 222, in the Strand, between Messes. Snow
and Paul's, bankers, and Mr. Essex, the silversmith. The Barnes
soon communicated to the frontage, where they continued to
blaze with aingular beauty of appearance, though most de-
structive in effect, till nearly ten o'clock. Goods were seen
removing in all directions. The fire engines came in succession to
the spot, and played with such alacrity and effect, both from
the rear and front, that this otherwise destructive conflagration
was speedily got under, so as to Tenors the apprehensions of the
greater part of the neighbourhood. It was rumoured that screams
of children were at first heard, and that lives were eventually lost,
but we ascertained by after inquiry that the alarm was unfounded,
ate that fortunately no person was musing. Harris's house (which
wis stated to have Seen before on fire) war calmly burnt, and great
damage was otherwise done, but the tire happened so early as to
preclude the occurrence of fatal aceiderts, which might otherwise
have occurred. At ten o'clock the roof of Mr. Harris's house fell
in with &considerable noise, and contributed to overlay the power
of the flames. Nl'ater was wanting at first, but great praise to due
to the firemen, who worked with energy and suede. s. We under-
stand that Mr. Essex's house suffered much, and also that the
flames communicated to the house occupied by Mr. Woods ; but
all danger was subdued at cloven o'clock, at which hour the crowd
had dispercsit.
Mr. Meredith, the wealthy stable keeper. who is in the
65th year of his age, and rides 13 stone, undertook yesterday morn-
ing to ride four horses from Ills country reridence. Sheafieto am-
nion, smile front Reading, to Knightatuidge Park Limes, calcu-
lated at 36 miles by the Windsor Forest road, in two bouts and
a-quarter. lie started upon Bacchanalian, • fleet and stroog bun_
tar, and performed ten miles to the beginning of Brachnel, Berke,'
in 35 min. 10 sec. Ile rode the second horse eight miles to the top
of the hill at Virginia Water in 27 min. IS sec., when the sporting
Milton found horses. The third horse brought the equestrian 11
miles, through Hounslow, is 40 min. 12 see. and the remaining
seven miles fn 24min. 24 sea winning well. Total 2 WWI 0 SAM
aOK Tits watcli us fist 100.10TeitiPM

MBLANCLIOLY DEATH OF JOhN SPOTTIS-
WOODE, ESQ.

Yesterday an Inquisition was taken before Richard Carter, Esq.
the Coroner for Surrey. and a highly respectable Jury, at the Hol-
land Arms Tercel:, Suencer's-plam, on the Brieton-toad, en view
of the body of Mr. John Spottiewoode, an attorney at lay, who
died sudden;y at his residence at North Brixton.
Martha Fuller sworn—l have been in the service of the deceased
gentleman for theisst two years. On Tuesday I waited upon him
at his dinner, it was about nine o'clock in the evening, he having
been out during the day. Soon after eleven o'clock, the deceased,
Mrs. Spottiswoode, and myself, with another female, all ',enlist!)
to bed ; the deceased then appeared to be in as good health eabe
had for some time past enjoyed. About three o'clock in the morn.
dog my mistress rang the bell which bangs at the bed-side. I in.
stoutly said to the young woman, " 0 dear ! 0 dear ! I am afraid
some one has entered the house, and are murdering my master and
mistress." On opening the door I heard my mistress scream out,
and I then thought she was in a fit. She soon called out again
and said, " Martha, come to me, for your muter is dying." 1-
itimedirtely procured a light, and repaired to my mistress's bed-
room, on entering which I observed my muter, now deceased, ly-
ing with with his heed on my mistress's arm ; they were both m'
bed. My mistress told me to fetch a doctor, sad I procured the Re-
sistance of Mr. Christie, who ram. in about ten minutes. Pre-
vious to going for medical assistance, I observed my master to.
breathe, but on entering the room again with the doctor, he was
lying's' corpse. There was no blood about the bed, nor do I know
the cause of his death.
Juror.--You are not certain that your muter was alive when you
lint entered the room ?
iVitness.—No Sir ; I only thought I saw him breathe.
Juror—Did your master eat heartily at his dinner ?
Witness.—Yes, and smoked a pope afterwards, and appeared
cheerful.
Mr. Adolphus Christie sworn—l am a surgeon, residing at
North Brixton. On Wednesday morning, about half-pest three
1 o'clock, the lost witness called upon me to attend the deceased
gentleman. I went immediately, end on entering the bed-room,
saw Mr. Spottlswood lying in bed. I momently examined him,
but the powers of life were totally extinct ' • and it is my opinion
that he died in consequence of a sudden effusion of blood on the
brain, occasioned by appoplexy. There was no mark of violence
whatever about his person.
Juror—Did you attempt to bleed the deceased gentleman ?
WitnessNo; on examination I found all pulsation had ceased,
and during my stay I also perceived that his extremities Were
rapidly getting cold ; I therefore considered it unneoesaary.
'line Jury having viewed the body at the deceased's dwelling, on
their return, they unanimously pronounced their verdict—" Died
by the Visitation of God."