The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-11 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

THE DISCOVERY SIIIPS.
We feel much pleasure en stating that favourable intel-
ligence has been received of the Discovery Ships. They
hare passed through the middle ice with a good prospect
of proceeding, as the weather was fine, and the coast re-
markably free from ire. This gratifying intelligence is
commuMeattil in the following extract of a letter from the
Agent to Lloyd's, at !lull, dated 9etoher I:
"'The Mary, Frances, Capt. Wilkinson. has arrived
from Daris's Straits, and reports that she saw the Diseo-
very Ships beset in the middle ies, on the 17th July, in
latitude 70. S. 17apt. Wilkinson entered the ice on the fol-
Wowing day, in latitude 66. 20, and penetrated to the west
land on die 9tit'a, win re he remained until the 9th Sept.,
when he bore away for England, having taken thirteen
shales. He was nearly as high as lquicaster Sound, and
states that the prospect for ti.le lEscovcry Shipc was very
favourable, as the weather wv. fine, and the roast miusally
free from ice. .1s he now m• .t tlwin after lw got through
die harrier of ice, there can be no doubt of their having
had an equally farourabk pa-sage. The Mary, Frances,
and the William and Aim, were the only ships which got
through the harrier in the :north of July; the remainder
of the fishing ressels haring attempted the passage in a
higher latitude. did not succeed until August ; there had
lie m no losses, but one of the ships (tlieJime, of this port),
Lad sustained considerable damage."

I'D UPS., I MTH, Ce r. 9.
STr Godfrey Webster 's yacht arrived yesterday, with
Captain Young, from Bordeaux, last from Hastings.—
Sir Godfrey returned here this erentag, from Battle Abbey
and Chichester.

The new sloops of war, Champion, Orestes and Pyladcs,
are ordered to proceed on an experimental cruise, to the
westward of Scilly, aecimipataitti ley the Niemen, 2s, ('apt.
Wallis, and Algerine, ('aptain lion. Aluatagu Stopford.
('aptain Graham Eden Ilateord. C.B. (of the Wellesley)
and Lord Yarborough, intend being witnesses of the com-
petition Between these ships.
The Blonde, 4G, Lord Byron, was (tweed into Fal-
mouth en Thursday by strong south-nest gait's.
The 1,1114, 46, Commoiore Chas. Grant, C. 11.; Larne,
H. ('apt. Frederick Alaryatt ; Slaney, IN, Captain Charles
Mitchell; and the Sophie, 18, C.tpt. G. F. Rogers. sailed
from Madras on the 16th of April, on an expedition to
take possession of Rangoon and the other Burmese sea-
ports.
The Eclair sailed from the Cape of Good 111;,^ on the
1 als of July, fur Rio; the Surinam, from Ikirbadoes, for
Jamaica; the Itingdove, fur Trinidad, on the Ist of August.
The Marquis of flintily transport, Lieut. Lev:ck, will
sail when the wind is fair, with 1:10 troops, and ordnance
stint b. for Cape Coast Castle and Age( nsion.
The Atlas, for 31adeira and Bengal ; and the Charlotte,
for Bombay, direct, have pot into this port with contrary
nicds. Tlic Ganges, for Madras and Bengal, is to call here
to embark tiasiwitgeni.

YesterJaY, theriteilwing returned to her station.
This afternoon his 31ajesty's surveying sloop Adventure,
('apt. W. th. returned from the Jlediterram•:mt,
n here Capt. Smyth has been employed upward. of throe
yeara, Lurveying the coasts and posts.
Remain at Spithead—Cambrian, Champion, l'y lades,
Orystis, Adventure, .Uge•rine, and Calliope.

MONUMENT TO TILE NAM

Tilt III:MIME PETITION OF SOME JACK TARS

OF
Sheweth—That in the hist war we sailed under Nelson, and a
braver fellow net cr stept on hatchway, anti we fought with him fur
the good olf our country in the battles oil' CulvertMyren, the Nile,
and Trafalgar, where we evpioed our heel, and shed our blood,
and had our limbs shot off, and warty of our finest comrade, were
killed ; and by our valour we helped to pull down Roney, and to
establiah the liberty and independence, the power and the peace of
Old England, and yet we Kiva% got one public monument to tell
of our services ; we barn's got one public mark of our bravery.
Now the army have. We only wont a clear stage and no favour.
But we don't think we have had fair play. Why can't we have
our bridge as well as they ? 'Pon% we deserve it as well as they ?
We have heard many a poor fellow, Kou ipping abt on his stumps,grumble about It, and say, that at the people of ge.ality can quietly
think their grog, they don't care much shout us. rother day we
oveilteerd some of our officers say, that If they had got the manage
-
merit of it, it should he done; and it could h: done easily, and it
wouldn't asst a farthing of money, if they would but change the
name of 141111 C bridge which the laindone:a talk of building, into
Trafalgar bridge; and thcy said as how King George wrote a let.
ter, and Raked then, to do it fur us ; if he has, we likes him for it
now as we did old laeorge, and will light fur him again and for our
country. 'We heard'em say, too, there were sonic didn't like to
give up the old name of London bridge for the new name; when
are of tin said, you might at cell tut my grandmother's fusty old
night-cap upon my young squealer a bird, al rut an old name on
a new bridge. Foe it is a new bridge, bemuse it is to he built of
new stone end In a new place. tool a new bridge should have a new
name; and what name would amend better to a Briton's or a sai-
Ioe. car than Tratabtar bridge? for all the bridges are Von.
don bridges. Anti, iiesolcs, if these Londoners would consider
how many fleets their merchant vessels and ships we eon.
voyed and protected, how much we ,oiled through the roughest
weather to protect their Colo3liol, 67111 their wealth and commerce,
and to keep up their home trade, anti how much as we said before
we helped to pull 'limn Boner. and to keep up the liberty and the
independence, and to estaidisit the power and the peace of Ohl
England, we think they would give up these faire pre_utlices. and
:diouldn't be long without our public monunit nt as well as the
army. For we have deserved it quite as well. And we don't think
we have been at !I used. Englund impala every man to do his
duty—and every man expects Old England todo her duty.
(7‘gtelasa.

Sltl ewnt ex.—ln the gale of wind on Thursday night
last, the paling Two Brothers, of Liverpool, Jonathan
Lveos, master, laden with wheat and oats, bound from
I ;Odin to Liverpool, was driven on shore upon the Block-
House Island, tit the entrance of this harbour. Notwith-
standing the prompt am.istance and esti- ' sof Mr. Leonard
Watson, of Warren-poitit, agent. to 1:10 Liverpool Under-
writers, the vessol lh.etnne nearly a total wreck ; and a very
trithig portion of the cargo was anvil, with part of the
mat, baps. We undeistand that one of t:io crew died
from t xectuivo ratirte.—Xctrry r.
A CI ovvr ny A STEM!' J.:NU! NE.-0111
11311111 Cowley, engineer at slut Manganese Winks, of
Mesdrs..los. Burley and Co. in Oldissill-street, Liverpool,
was caught in the cog of the wheel, itiitl before he cauld be
extrirated one of him thighs was dreadfully lacerated; he'
now lie.; in a v..ry dangerous state. Two brothers of the
soft :rot met with similar accidents within the last four
wi

On Friday craning, last, as some boys were amusing
tb.„„sety,.s on the feed Qoay, by firing an old rusty pistol
hared, fixed in a block of wod, it bursted. and a piece en-
tia Mg the orbit. destroyed dr.! eye. anal petioratu a the skull
of one of thent. Mows! I 'harks Trump, about 15 years of
age, son of a porter on the Quay ; he was i 1111 l tediately
taken to the Devon and Ex( ter I lospital, and the excellent
triclinial advice of that invaluable institution was pmmptly
rendered, but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
--E.retee raper.
Rossi SS OF THE 111:CSINtIlIAM ('OACII.—One of the
provincial notes taken out of tit: Itank?r's parcel which ITJS I
stolen front the l'airkingliarn coach was presented at the
Ranker's anal paid, Ix fore notice of the robbery had been
received. Since that time acu 1111111 l in manicuvre has le.ien
tried. Al. !ter with the Cambridge port-mart: leis been
sent to the Bankers, prep...Mg to realm the parcel, on con-
ut;tium Of rue, iving. as a remuneration for trouble. the sum
of :II Ili. The Made in which the robbery was etreeta d has
hitherta btion rathor incorrectly stated. 'l he buck of the
Isis, (an oak board, three-quark no of an inch thick,) in
which the parcel bad !wen deposited, miller the coach-
malt's seat. but ImTn nicely taken out before the mach
had started from Km:tory. The amual roblEry was. pro-
babli, not .iatiipleteut until the coach stopped at the I ;men
A! in and Still. in t /sforil-street. The cottelatiu.n 31i:ft:tell
there, and staid several minutes to arrange some business.
Il In his return to the conelt he titi,:ed tare tit. the „„t,i,t,
pas-er.gers who had sat itionediately behind him. alt.!
fiiand on a seat a great coat wticla haul been left by one 0:
them, w`,l9 leaned terward tin account of a viol. lit 1);m1.
arbe when he, a: rived in Loudon. 'Fitts coat loin); over
the back of the eoneb-box, and eumccalett a cut which Wa 4
f; 14 IT want' perm ived to have keit made through tha lea-
ther. The robbery was not ultaeov. red till the madman.
on Iris arrival 't the Bell I :Mt. i . 'riv.voi in lioilboril, untwists!
the box under his seat to 5,...k !suur th.• parcel in question.
The robbery is, on gush! rii ,is, S "...O'Neil t.' have be, n
lort:t premeditated ; and ev.•muistauces, witieli it might de-
feat the ends of...justice to pit'.',:s..i, are now likely to lead to
the detection of the pyrites II: U ;WA! it V SS IWIT.:::•atel and
p!anitc:l.. -i.:...-t's t" • 'l.. '::•