The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-31 00:00:00

PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET.

aces v. *slaty.
Mr. Rees, the celebrated imitator, late of Covent
Garden Theatre, has been engaged at Sadler's
Wells Theatre, for some time pot, to give his imi-
tations of the m.sst celebrated Lenders performers ;
and on the tint night of his pei lures:ince, he gave
imitations of Mr. Amity. Sen. in his exhibition of
some Monkeys at his Amphitheatre some year,
since, likewise of his made of conJuning the.
Horsemanship, his Dialogue with Mr. Merryman,
Ste. Sec. He gave it in such a very ludicrous style.
that it was received with unbounded applaus-.
Former imitations of Mr. Astley having been
the sulrjea of a violent dispute begetters Mr Aide',
and Mr. Rees some years since, which ended in a
prosecution ; Mr. Thomas Dibdin, one of the
proprietors of Sadler, Wells, thinking this would be
reviving old grievances, and that a might be the
cause of enmity betwasn the two Theatres, as
it would be supposed the imitations had she
Maatger's sandion, restricled Mr. Rees front'
giving any more imitations of Mr. Astley,
his engag ment with them ; and sent a very hen&
some letter, with an apology, to Mr. Astler, dist
owning the imitations to have bee 'Oven weds MA
approbation, a id that he had restnaed Mr. Ravi
from
.giving them any more; as he did not eon.
sider it a fair subjek for imitation, but an attack
upon the min. It being part of the engagenient of
Mr. Rees, :hat he was to have a benefit, which was
fixed for Wednesday night last, and it was gene.
rally understood among Nlr. Reels friends that is.
would repeat the imitations of Mr. Astley on that
night ; on Tuesday afternoon Mr. Aldey, josh
met Mr. Rees in cberns-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
and complained to him of his illiberal endue
towards ins father ; and assured him, if he repeated
his imitations of his father, at his benefit on Wed-
nesday •ig ht, he would certainly attend and horse-,
whip him. In consequence of this threat, Mr. Rees
applied to the above office on Wednes !ay anorniers
and obtained A peace warrant against Mr. Astley, jun..
Mr. Astley was not taken is the course of the day.
In the evenir.g, Mr. Rees's benefit took place.
and in consequence of a recommendation of
the Managers, and the advice of some particular
friends, he relinquished the giving any imam:sons of
MI. Astley, sen. ; and an apology was made pros
vious to the commencement of his imitations, that
part of them WAS iinavaida'ily obliged to he omit-
ted. This wa, • nost vialetrly oppa.el by a gnat
pin of the au.';e ice; numbest havi.3 come to ti.st
Fireatre for the express purpose of hearizlmt
imitations Of Mr. Autry, sea. and a most
ate riot ensued. It was expelted violence would bet
offered to the Theatre; and it was with the peat.
est difficulty, the performances were suliered to
proceed.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the parties sp.
pared beioie JANUS READ. Esq. the sitting Ma.
gistrate, when, in addition to the circumstances
above stated, Mr. Rees said, he, as well as several'
others, saw Mr. Ast!ey, jun. in the boxes, and
that he was A principal in instigating the riot.
Mr. Asley acknowledged he was in the boxes, but
denied that he Was siaive in making a rice.
The evidence failing to prove that Mr. Astley was
a principal in the riot, the Magistrates only held hint
to comrntm bail, to keep the peace towards Mr. Rees.
Mr. Astley assured Mr. Rees, that if he attempted
to ridicule his father on the stage any more, bo
would prosecute him under a particular Alf of
Parliament, against holding up individuals to ridie
cu'e upon the stage; under which, for every offence,
he would be subjed to SQL penaliy.

NA PAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTS'4OUTI!, ♦CIO.

Arrived the Rau 1.. r, Bel mon 1, 1 nm l4;nJoit, bound
to Jamaica. and sailed for Cork t., join ceavoy.
Sailed the SI figai,i, eni, man of v to join the
Channel fleet. Wind, SE.

V.V.Ant'roi. 417. N.
Arrived the incirfetipb/e tr:g4te, and the Naer,/us
sloop of war, fro*: a cruise.

swasseass, AUG. 29.
S.ti!ed the Lisa *met, ship with 42 s.:11 of vessels
conv,ly for the Baltic. .

.hived 11:e 7nno, Enterprise,
and the irrnw under Prussi co-
lours. detained by the North Sea squadron going into
Entbden.

BRISTOL, AUG. U.
CAM* ia. Susanla ; If/keels,
Gimore. from Cork ; and Sopty. Ballard, from
Pmersburgh. •
Arrived. at Atrica. Gordon, from
Bristol.
The Ce,ndii,• Bliss. was sem% the elh of August.
in latitude 46 dee. 3 S min. tong. Al, her main and
strizen masts gone. the ship wit.i-logged, and no
person on beard.

PE•L, ALIGVIT £9.
Sailed yesterday evening, the 'Mar armed ship
for Portsmouth, and the ticringcpctese, Beard, for
the South Sew..
Arrived and sailed for the R;ver, the Ca.:tiro,

Smith, from
Sailed th.s morning, d:e Oran; sloop of war.
with the Rrhger. Perseus, and !N.., armed defence
ships. P 4461.5.1/, Pri,:reu &knot, and Int4lat,,a,Sle
armed transports, to join the squadr..n off Bo:tlogne.
Remain In the Downs, the rest of the ships as
per last.
A very heavy firing ;s now dictinetly heard from
the direition of Boulogne, supposed to be an ep.
gagement between the enemy's flotilla and the lit i•
ush squadron.

PROM LLOYD'. LIST.

we, Aria .19 —40.1.. rd by the htatilda, Drink-
water, (om the Ewe Robim, Caiter, (rein Jeney ;
)largwet, Barclay. from Stockholm , Good Hope, fro,)
Dantaic ; Goats ptestiu, Limlo, from Memel Rising Sun,
tticklim, Sophia, Lambe. Ebenezir, Nerburgh, and thr Grrde
nuffin, fmm Norway; Speculation, Viiron, tom
eltrualana ; Catharine, Cuulion, Two Brothers, and the
Young Elizabeth, from Embden. Sailed the Actrv•,,
Jones, from Philad •Iphia ; SAM:, ----., for Tonningen ;
and the Jonge Ann, --, for Embden.

The whole of the Hull Greenland whalers, to the
amount of no less than forty sail, have reached that
port in safety. They have had one of the most suc-
cessful seasons ever experienced. Not a single ship
returned without a tolerable cargo. Several of them
had on board nineteen fish, and three hundred and
thirty-seven was the amount of the fish brought by
the fleet. The Newcastle whalers have also arrived,
and their success has' nearly eqtitl. %shale
fishery, by the retui as trom all the ports, has been
snore successful this season, than almost any one
ever rememl-.ered.
Saturday, arrived in Leith Roads, the Repair re-
venue cutter, from the Downs, convoy to the
Mae and Edgar West-Indiamen.
Sunday, sailed from Leith Roads, the Baltic and
Tonningen fleets, under convoy of the Lync sloop
of war, lick and Thames armed ships.
Monday, arrived in Leith Roads, the Prince's
Royal revenue cutter, with a fleet from the llaluc
also, the Prinee of /!/ales cutter, Capt. Meat av,
from a cruise.
The grape vines, ii is observed by gardeners, are
more produltive this season, than they have been for
some years past. The weather, however, has not
hitherto been very favourable to their perfection.
The favourable weather of last week has proved
of immense service. Amongst other instances, on
Saturday last, Mr. Wi I LIAM NICHOLSON, of Wed-
dicar 11.d1, near Whitehaven, fini,hed the cutting,
stooki^:-, and thatching of .513 stooks of tine wheat.
0:. Muulay last, Mr. WOODS began to cut a very
fine field of wheat, of about five acres, cut the farm
of Burnton, in the parish of Ayr. It is calculated
that the produce of this field will be twenty boils
per acre. A hundred pounds were offered for the
whole crop, and refused.
Wednesday se'nnight, the Hexham Volunteers of-
feted t ieir services for any part of England.
The offer of the Hull and Sculcnates Volumecrs,
to go again upon permanent duty, for three weeks,
is, we understand, accepted of ; and the corps is
expelled to march for Scarborough, on Thursday
next. On this day the above corps will he pie-
sensed with a pair of colours, :it the garrison.
On Friday, the Glasgow Light Horse were re-
viewed in the Green by Nlajor-General %sr YaS,
and Colonel BA iLLrE.
His Maaesr v's First Regiment of Life Guards
hada Grand Review and sham battle= Wednesday,
in Hyde Park, under the command of General the
Earl of Ilene INGTUN. The soldier who received a

severe fall about a week since, when that regiment
was reviewed, is nearly recovered, And will soon he
n'4e to do duty again, though his life was then de-
sp tired of by some.
We find that meetings are beginning to be col,
wised in different parts of the counts), fur the pm-
-pose of ascertaining the camber of waggons and
calk/ex of every description, which, in the event
' of invasion, could be a►sembled in each JistriCt lor
the speedy conveyance of troops. A general in-
speftion and classification ~f carriages took place at
Woodhouse Moor, near Leeds, on Prida) 1.411, Ind
the same steps are immediately to be tak,•n through-
out all she distrifts of Yorkshire.
The several corps of Lisa.' pool by
order of His Royal Highness Prince Witt' an FM l-
otatoc, Commander in Chief of that distria, as-
sembled at their respe3ive alarm posts, at seven
o'clock, on Monday morning, together with the
carts, that had been offered by the proprietors, for
the purpose of conve)ing them, Ili case of invasion:
and, after a short excursion of about two hours, re-
turned.
The Ladv of General 211 siaiosts n, %slb had
been ill a long time at Aix-la-Chapelle, left that
city upon the bat for Paris. The Earetss made
her a visit, accompanied by the principal attend-
dants of her Court, and :hewed her every mark of
the litbest moped and esteem.