The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-22 00:00:00

NATAL iirrEarGOtit.'

romrssirourn. Dec. 20.
It blew so exceedingly hard last night and this
morning, that the Gres/wand frigate was obliged to
return o. Spithead.
Arrived the Mir sloop from the Downs, and the
Ilariersin armed ship from Plymouth.
The Mediterranean convoy are unmoored ; and.
should the wind moderate, which now blows a se-
vere gale, they will sail to-morrow morning.
Arrived the Eugenie sloop, with a convoy from
the Downs.
Came into Harbour. the Aurora frigate. Capt.
Nlalbon ; the Arethrue frigate is gone out under jttry
masts, to proceed for the River, to be repaired.
PENZANCE. DEC 18.
Arrived the Spanish ship Ado, --, fiom the.
River de la Plata; Ind the schooner Li Lia,
—, from Curacoa, both detained by thi Karol*,
frigate, which. has detained thirteen other Spanit)x.
vessels. Wind, E.N.E. Wows hard.
nee. 20.
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Remain in the Downs a lair Aeet of ships .4 war..
names Of which c.ton..t learn, they haying .to
ned.on with the shore, owing to the tempeitamis-
ness of the weather. The Dasher armed ship !iis'
parted her cables, and gone to the Westward the
American ship Ilar,,toty, Capt. Wickhant.4ladenl,
with pepper, &c. from the East Indies, booed to
flamburgh, ran on shore on Deal Beach, and It is
feared will be lost. Wind E.N.L blows hard. '
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A 111 yap,
In the River—The Flhodtalanb, from Writ ten
Carrittxt.in,—. ,he ti,mculationt from Unatile.
At C.we.—The Gokkit 'Grove. Penet, hoof
bounito Lorvlin, with great damage.

Off fl‘ner—The At-ortoria, fmm DnSlir, Wale
to Lot4lotT, with the In of anchors and cable'. •
• At Dartmouth—The :141‘nervi, Bet!, from Newfoundland.
At Penzance--; int Hind, Miley, truth Ssr;nnavi
damage. •
At Liverpool—The Hunter, WNW% horn Claalaiton.
At Clyde—The itotanota, fonu Grettiall
very, lio4g, from Cia,t,ec ; and the Hero,' 33uniefe,
Nevsfoo.•dLi:.d.
At Kmval•--The Swirt, Roberts..', from Haoannells:

At '..atettan—The PkAtinw.ats, aod the tiaviostilmai,
Evan*, from Loudon.
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At Virate,hrd—Tn.... Neptune, Palk, ditto. t
At Cork—The Harmony, Wat.ots, :yen Oporto_
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At DuJiiii—Ma,tita, Band, fromVirsit,..a. 1
At MAlta—The Punt. rliengen, --.., keno G6lRattat jitil
tit,..t, Ko,kt; Let Ant, Mager; Stirling, 81.4111; • 4 sou,
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—, from London. • 1

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Our letters of yesterday, from various gaso
the Northern and Eastern Counties. state, third
had experienced a deep fall of snow : most' 06
rands in North Wales were, on Sunday last;
passable for heavy carriages.
At a late Review in Scotland. a small pat"
the Highlanders were charged by a body of
valry, and it WAS intended they should
and take up another position, as not hi
stand the charge; but when ordered
they refused, and calling out. 4g Sae/ •
kept firing in the faces of the mew-.
the horses with the butts of their
yeomanry thought proper to retire.
AN SCOOTS or YOUNG RPSCIIIIJS.—.
Anted 'Se of the Yeang Rgstia, and
questionable, proves that the ,lot
is equal to the other rare qualities
clawed him with :—After completing
anent with the Liverpool Managers, is
he performed 15 nigtts, and being told •
of the pr.alts amounted toff:rem "mai
ponds. hr luoLed stedfastly on his infant
in hi. mother's arms, and exclaimed. "
vicissitudes of life, who can tell, my,
may be thy fate? It I can help it. ,
pro, root therefore, I insist, that the
be settled upon my sister, and pot
for her benefit till she comes of age.
day the necessary steps were takes,
Law is and K ewes were nominated
to see the wishes of our young hero f
the smallest intimation bf Mr. or Mrs
been previously mad* upon the soh jea
spoataneous effusion of his own heart,
suit of refleaions entirely his own,
with a lad of his years.
The hue justly revered and
Alderman Boenesi.. must have.
his decease, much satisfadion from
every "ticket, in his valuable Lotto
gerly sought after, and disposed of.
holders, indeed, of its mots capital p
seas a lasting monument of his gnat
desert, and public spirit, in Promoting
and fame of the Graphic Art. which
bright a !awe and honour on his country.
while we pay this ttibutc of dud respect to the
story of a man so highly esteemed, and record -..!•„,
Laudable zeal of the Public to attain works of nest
a pre.emineat description, it would be injustice to
to obstrre, that the present State Lottorris one
the most important foe intrinsic richness of Saber
and attraOive from its superior interest, that
bore a first-rate distinfkion in the asenals
rung's Wiest. ►
The grand artificial Aquedae.
the Vale of Ponte-Cassykas
perfei the Inniftion Canal, from
river Dee, it is thought, will be
summer next. It is one of the
efforts of human art. It consists
of conicalpillars, fifty-two feet r
of which are one hundred and
height ; each pair of pinks support
liptical bridge of cast iron, the •
horizontal base, on the summa
sheen of cast iron are rivetted a
Cher, so as to form an aquedua
to pars each other, viz. about
and six feet in height ; a moiety
already perfofted ; it is proposed
croft an iron platform and faille
for the towing path for chokers
be attended with a prodigious
and would. in some measure,
woe*, there is reason to hope,
may be devised for ' sae
gether unnecessary. It stri
that the barges may be towed
considering the extreme depth
powers of gravitation at each
*Wed along so smooth a surface
simple mechanism with which •
torontou meat-lack are every cts‘

, on Sunday last: ,lard
land. a small past;
iced by a body of ars
d they amid review&
• as not being Wile*
am ordered to • •
It. k goisirek
yanmerny. and
their muskeu testa
retire.
,scsus.—Tbe • I "
and the fail'
goo.inese of hie
amities Names
ompkting leis e
masers. To *lids
being told that
Issuarril asaJ
ni bid imam sister.
claimed. " Animist
ell, my deer Warr
help it. it shall am
that the 1.5nU1.
end pot out to i •
nes of age." 'five
era takes, and hi
weninated the T
Log hero (abated..
Kr. or Mrs. BITTY •
the sehjea ; it we*
awn heart, and the'
Isis own, so • •
od celebrated • -
hate fols. pyritous
ion from ketressz •
le Lottery, had irk
mad of. ' e
r capital penes. will
f his great • • •
promoting the •
Art. win& raids
1. on his country. Dui
dud respell to the we,

in Pthe arenas of
Awn re,
in Denbighshue,
ios Clwintr a
se completed by
e most estramdiner
sists of nineteen
et amulet. the
ad twenty.sia fist
pupport a kind of
re who
forming
mit. en which
and cememed
I for the canal
twenty feet in
ty of this aquednet
sad by the Engineer
ing on the South
ries ; buts all this
a additional
, weaken the
sopa. that Waft
such towing-pads
is a common
d with windlasses;
for the manic
ch end. they may
face of water. by
h the operations of
day pert-mined.

MIDDLESEX EaCTION.
TRIMS FOR PERJURY. •
On Wednesday a Meeting of the friends of Mr
lain tearing WAS held At the Crnsyn and Anchor. It
onsisted int Ivztween 15n and ton freeholders.

HENRY Titortvrat:, Esq. M P. him called to
!ie chair, he .tiegan his address by alluding to what
ad passed at the artcced.•nt meetiag, in sshich he
ad endeavour.-d, as plainly and Lirly as possible, to
rl.oc the history of the two Middlesex Elenions up
a that period. He had C.en stated the grounds
risk!' had at that time appeared for supposing the
ante system of perjury. which the House of Com-
mons had declared to prevail at the first eleftinn, to
lave prevailed also at the second, though restrained
n ;fume degree by the last Sheriff.; of Middlesex, and
iy the attive exertions of the friends of Mr Mainvra-
ing, to pr-vent false votes from being admitted on
he Poll, exertions, indeed, of shish Sir Francis
i!lurdett's party had veliemPntly complained. Since
he last Meeting at e Freemason's Tavern, in
mrsitance of the genzral intention then expressed,
hirty bills of indi•Rment had been found against
voters for Sir Francis Berdett, two of which bills

be-r. tri%d. Ind in each case a concinion had

ken place-. Mr. Thornton then proceeded briefly
w explain the gerecil 'Louie of each of these cases
'Mew had heen hrou,tht to trial ; and he detailed a
actsiderahle part of the evidence which was given
n the trial,, tor which we. have not room to report ;
n omission which ve the less regret, as we winder-
land the whole of these Inv-resting trials will shortly
e published. Mr. Thornton consmected very ahly
II this evidence, and deduced from it the fa& that

most extxtssive system of perjury was praCtised at
Ile last elcaion in favour of Sir Francis Burdett
celled upon theFreehnlders, and upon all who
Turd th- Constitution, to contribute, by a joint
ffoct. to suppress that system ; observing, that if
Ise public m•irals were not maintained, it was in
'ain to tall• of liberty.
Mr. bleu isH then moved several resolutions,
►hick were seconded by
Mr. Bowles. who observed, that the evidence
Ton the trials of Price and Crewe fully inured that
mina extensive and complicated system of perjury
misted at the last Elef I-k called upon the

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reeholders to follow rip the advantages tbev had
fined. a 0,4, instead of stopping with the punishment
If the low and deluded wretches who had been in-
tigated acid saberneri t. commit per jury, to bring to
iv.tice those who had instigated and suborned them.
dr. B. denied that the cause was local or partial; and
ontended, that every county in the United Kingdom
vas as deeply intarested in it as Middlesex, and all
he inhabitants of the kingdom as the Freeholders of
he latter county. He said, that bribery had long
seen justly deemed a mortal sin against the Consta-
ntino; but, that at the two last ele,ltions for Middle-
ea, perjury had stalked hand in hand with bribery ;
rod, he observed, that if periat V were suffered to he-
iome familiar, the laws would lose their proteeing
orce, and no man's life or property would be safe.
• Mr. BENNET having suggested that the prosects-
ions ought to be taken up by the Attorney General ;
krir Bowles said, that they would be attended: in his
!pinion, with more effea, if they resulted from the
pirit of the County, which he considered as hound
p vindicate its own rights. Much had been said
11 the outraged rights of the Freeholders of Mid.
Passel ; the late trials proved, that those rights
%ad, indeed, be-n grossly outraged ; but this had
seen done by the party complaining. Ilse poor in-
'accent lamps who had made the outcry were them-
yes the criminals, furnishing thereby a curious
rimer of ytroAin Modell,/ !—Mr. B. then tug-
ted, that the objell of the meeting (a liberal sub-
ivy ion ) would be best obtained by moderate sub-
criptions of five or tea guin^as, or ti one to ten
twin-as. which, as the (arose was universal, might be
tatpes to furnish a competent supply for all pur-

The mminns were then unanimously agreed to ;
Id the thanks of the Meeting voted to the Chairman.

ITN AND wrsroF ENG 1,.1ND Socl Err,
E.' the F11,1111,4•cfllerlt of
ARICULTURE, ARTS, M‘SUFACIURFs, NND
COM M F. IZCE.

to hate. ci•rn some pott.al ft,co of int•rstint{
to.t. and •rc hq•yt lu Mtn roma ablc to (Ire a full
and complete• Nei crt

At the aromal meeting of this Society. holden at
heir renm., Hetling-house. Bath. Decunber the
lith, 1e04:
t Brat. HOPtle,u;E, E.q. M. P. I' R.S.
Vice. President. in the Chair.
jMany lots of neat cattle and swine, both fat and
heeding stock, being exhibited for the premiums,
rpropii.ce commit ecs were appointed for the pur-
...se of insreaion, and returning to the Chairman
:Torts or. the respeCtive and rel.itive claims to me-
t. Suitable committees were also chosen f7r in-
beftion of agricultural implements of machinery,
rid of wool and cloth, the specimens of which La-
w were much more numerous than the exhihitions
n any lot mer occasion, and decidedly indicative of
Ingress and rapid improvement.
After these arrangements, the further business of
Anniversary commenced with the prepar.uory
seiftion of Officers and of Gentlemen to fill lip ea-
ancies in the perniansot Committees of Honorary
Umbers, &c. when his Grace the Duke 01 Bed-
ord was unanimously re-chosen President rf this
ociety ; Sir John Com Hippisley, Bart M. P.
lac.' to the office of Vice President ; .1. W. Smith,
:sq. the Rev. B. Wood, E. Ludlow, B Butter, J.
canes, .1. Heaven, and T. Poole. Esqrs. to be •
limbers of the Committee on Agriculture and
laming; F. Naish, G. Austin, W. Stocidart, and
L. Haynes. Esqrs. of the Committee of Manilla:-
arcs and Commerce ; Dr. Archer, Dr. Gibbes, L.
'ugwell, .1. Norman, and J. W. Smith, &qrs. of
Se Committee of Mechanics and Useful Arts; and
)r. Atchcr, Dr. Oiblies, the Rev. Mr. Townsend,
s.Okenden, F..q. the Rev. I'. Falconer, and the
ter. B. Wood, on the Committee of Correspondence
nd Inquiry.
•Itt TULLOWINfif Gt4TIAMCK WCUC ZIACTLD MO.
1.01t•ItV Ml:MatitS, VIZ.
Dr. Currie, UW1111)111), Davy. Esq. Chemical
'rufeasor of the ltoyal institution,. nd Teyoninho.
etA'wen. a Chief of the Mohawk nation, near the
ills of the Niagard, wh., having been introduced to
aittings of the Anniveesarb by his iatimate

friend, R. Barclay, Esq. rose and delivered a most
appropriate address on the occasion. in reply to
which, the Chairman was pleased to return him the
politest expre,sions of p, 'sone' thanks.
John Billingsley, Esq. C. Gordon Grey, Esq. Dr.
Cogan, Mr. Lessin Tugwell, and Mr. IVAliarn Mat-
thew, the Committee of Superintendence, delivered
general report of their transaftions *during the past
year, received the thanks of the society for their
services. and were re-appointed for tile ensuing
year.