The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-31 00:00:00

xtraL INTELLIGENCE.

posTss,nern, cm 29.
This morning, at day-light, Vice Admiral Sir
John Orde hoisted :Us flag on board the Swittsnre,
of 74 guns, Capt. Robinson. Sir John will sail to-
morrow morning with ten men of war under his
command,. It is said, thatalis force is to accom-
plish sc.me ohje& before Sir John takes the com-
mand of the Mediterranean fleet. Lord Nelson,
who is very ill, is coming home. The Agamemnon,
Pohmitnc.:, and Wan, are to be of this sou idron.
Yesterday the Vcteree, of 64 guns, Capt. New.
man, sailed for Torbay, and this afternoon she re-
turned to Spithead again.
Arrived the (hoary, Capt. Fre-mantle, fiom off
Ferrol; Regnlns, of 4t guns, Capt. Boys, from off
Havre ; and the Plantn.renct. Capt. Pendet, from the
Channel &et, which had just regained their ration,
when she sailed. The fl,doen;a, Lord Northesk, had
joined from Plymon-h.
The offices-. sv:t.o have arrived from Sff Ferrol,
state the improlsahility of war with Spain. from that
unfortunate country being divided between famine,
the plague, and internal commotion.
Arrived the Minerva cutter, with the
Pion, and the Reliance, transports, from Guern-
sey ; and the galliot Yee ny Miter, Brack, from Am-
st,:rdam, detained by His Majesty's brig Sprainaett.
Several transports sailed from Cowes this morn-
ing for Cork, to take troops to the West Indies.
Arrived the Noir, at St. Helen's, from the Downs.
Bailed the I'. fin. gun vessel.
Went out of Irarbout the Cliegate.
DZAL,
Arrived yesterday evening the Cockatrice sloop of
war, with a convoy from Piymostlakwhich has sail-
ed for the River.
This morning sailed the Raven sloop of war for
Portsmouth.
Remain in the Downs the Monarch. Utrecht,
and the fniferittie men of war; Antelope and the
Castor frigates ; Ct niter and the Cockatrice sloops of
war; Lae:l( r. Erpt'sion, and the Prospero bombs;
and a fleet of armed defence ships and transports.
astanssr-ottar, OCT. 2&
Arrived the Ne,ne,is frigate from a cruise; and
the I ~ brig of war, driven from her station off
the Isle of Bass.
Pot nack the Eirtfpfienne frigate in consequence of
a g:tle of wind being destined to join the Channel
Wind, W.S.W.
YAIMOOTII, OCT. 29.
The fret-x!T cotter has detained and sent into this
port the De Tem, Lllzahrtn,--, from Riga, ly,und
to Fenol : the Cre/breedesno, --, from Hull
bound to Y.ilbra, is Also detained and sent in here by
the firm gun brig.

•R R !VIP

to %modesty Creek—the L•mant, from Gaßipooly.
Off filovertp.'he !U.N. Cottle, from Viremm
At CAY-itystto—t!ty from
At Ptyrnmsett..—the Gmrt Intemr, Cobble. from Quebec;
Sad the &VOW at.in, fr ,ni
At Prassat..e—.tbe Twe GeSrude.s, from St. Aodero,
for Hrmtol

At krad—the Anna Maria, fmm St Andero.
At Li‘bo..—the David, W,lkinmo, from ;
Libe.taa, from Datitrr ; Leonard, Halts ; and the
*rand Duk. , Nickolas, from kip.
At Othlia-a+l.i. IC.ip Ire, t aid tt. Door., from
Nod; Antt. F yeinse ; • and the Par
JUSSWI A from Liverpool; Magdalena, Ce NiAtte, from
1.. r 4folottlertri Friend., Kay ; width& Patriot,--.--.., Gum
Cork
At PlAr.,•lorna... he Orion. G:eenlan I, from London.
At H.vp, from Loud at.
At \' mem: —.the We...Tr and Polly, Elklred. train London;
and rho Brutus, Hruee, from Limmool.

Ocr. 27.

The phernmeni n of the Aurora Borealis (or
utrhern lights), whose appearance ia this southern
extremity of the kingdom is much less frequent than
in its more northern parts. displayed its beauties on
Monday night last to the inhabitants of this county.
It mai, its appearance about the end of tuihght,
when the sky was quite clear and serene, in columns
of clear light, issuing at First from a common centre,
and shooting up from the htirison eastward. At
in minutes after seer i n clock, one of the columns,

or luminous rays, had passed the ymitti, emitting in
the northern sky numerous cmatscatior, and gra-
dually extending itself into the western horizon.
Nearly at the same time, there broke out in the
south east, where bet i re it had the appearance of
a very dense black cloud, nebula., consisting of
em.ll clouds brilliantly illuminated, and disappear-
ing as instantaneously as the eye could catch them.
On the northern limb of the western column, gat-
tiet-colonred flashes, without intermission, dartialup.
wards from the horizon, difiving their colour along
the white beams, nearly at times to the zenith.
Those appearances continued for neatly two hours,
when the rays became less lumnious, much broad. r,

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and more disper,ed, till they gradually disappeared.
The weather on the two fot lowing days was serene
•tiJ mild, with a very light brcrae at about N.V..—
On 1 Luis Jay, the wind ch.tngeJ to the S.S.E. wit!
blew a sto: tr. all da7, and, at night it thundered
anJ lighteneJ for some hours; the dashes of lighi
n:ng following rah whet in very ,quick sncce sion,
though with less vivilleu than we bare sometimes
seen it.

The stormy we.i.ht-r, it is featrd, h.is rut an end
to the rnack rel fi,h,r% for the season. There hare
been but very fee• caript during the lau fortnight.

Thy following melancholy event took place in a
atop in the N. w ['own, Cl isgow, on Wednesday
afterionn :—A young boy, about l I years of age,
was diverting himself, which he was frequ ntl)
kLown •o do, with riding on a stool as a horse, with
it piece of sm all cord suspended tiom the wall, about
Iris head. Tile stool, from the posture in which he
was found, had lost its balance, and was proje.fled
forward ; he, to Lire himself from. a fall, it is sup.
posed, had either hastily taken hold of the cord, or
-attempted to get hold of she stool, by which means
the cord slipped over his head, and, melancholy to
relate, he was found in that state, and quite mo-
sionle,s, when his master came in. Ilk master had
pot Wan out above ten minutes. Medical assistance
was immediately procured, and the medical gentle-
men continued for several hours using every me-
thod for his recovery, but without effeet. He wa,
a boy of very promising talents, and for the short
time he had been in the shop, had givea very great
arAc
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Limas, ocT.-19.

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'rho troops encamped at Lut-Bourn, we tinder-
stand. are to strike their tents on the tint ut Nu-

vemlber.

Last Saturday evening, the Ofnceri of the two
*nrigales stationed at Last-Bourne. performed, at
the Theatre, at that place, the play of fbegiqs, and
the Farce of Mrs. Wiggins, with great eclat, which
produced the Manager a bumper.
On Tuesday morning, an I..scise-Officer, named
Little John, was found dead in a vat of strong. beer,
in a state of fermentation, in the brewhouse of Mr.
Chornton, at Ho: sham. It came out in ev;dence
before the Coroner's Jury, on a view of the body,
that the deceased went to the brcwhoits.! on Monday
night to make his accustomed survey, and that, is
leaning over the vessel, the agotic gas arising from
beer in such a sate. might suffocate him, and cause
him to fall into tne liqaor, they therefore teturned a
verdi. Avridenhi.i beath. The vessel contained
ab .ut 16 barrels of beer, which. by Mr. "Fitornties
dire ions, was thrown into the common sewer.
Last Thursday a snipe, probably pursued by a
hawk, sought shelter in a house in Southove, near
this town, where it was taken alive.

Capt. COOK, of the Vaiture cruiser, stationed at
Rye, some days since seized, entering the harbour
of that pLice, a very fine lugger, laden with a "lin
1,200 parcels, containing contraband goods, which
he delivered into the custody of the warehous,-kerp.T
of the above port. The seizure is supposed to be
worth, at least, 1,0001.

The Auroral3;sresdis, nr N irthern I.ieht, which
appeared in divers parts semi After sun set, on last
Monday evening, attraßed the n..tice of a great
number of persons in this town. A considerable
part of the hemisphere exhibited a blood red colour,
which, however, as the moon rose, grew more faint,
and at seven c'clock entirely vanished. At eight it
again appeared, as first observed in some places, a•,d
in others b autifirll, variegated. The light streaks,
at the extremities 11 the ruddy hue, presented in mi
nute observers, flash-like appearances, occasioned by
the refleftion of the moon.

One dAy last week, the little village of Chailey,
near this town, was visited by a violent storm of
thunder and lightning, accompanied by very heavy
showers of hail I but we have out heard that it pro-
duced any mischievous consequences.
One day List week, a vessel belonging to Mr.
Brown, merchant, at Newhaven. was erected off
Bexhill, when the crew, consisting of two men and
a boy, unfortunately perished.
Last Thursday evening as Mrs. Wildish, of the
White Hart Inn. in this town, was returning in a
post-chaise from Uckfield, the horses took fright at
a rocket, that was improperly off, as they were
passing, and in going dawn a hill, came in conta.l
with a cart, by which the post buy was thrown from
his seat, when Mrs. Weldish, to escape her perilous
situation (the hoses Loring gallopped off at full
speed), jumped out of the carnage, and had the mis-
fortune to dislocate one of her elb,.ws.