The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-01-27 00:00:00

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pleat, irislelt. at arrt Nee iteprelsentled, we rolled it
into the as leas* it continual to burn under Ira..
ter,- a black pitchy eabstanoe eluding front it till
why Az iron skeleton of. shell_ vet:milted. The
whole had boss monfallY crustlisl over with a sub-
stance theism'', it the oppnwante of a perfect shell.
Oa twain ire to the freer of she other, which was
diterently marked, it burst into many pieces ;
tboeigh.ipornewbat alasmed, fortunately none of us
were hurt.
" People =coma differently for the fire that hap 7
paned Cu board the trench Admiral; but why may
it not have arisen from some•of these fireballs left,
perhaps, catelessly on the poop or cabin where it
first broke out? and what confirms my opinion on
this head is, that several pieces of such shells were
found sticking in the Bellerophons which she most
probably received from the first fire of l'Orient."

The following notice has bcen issued by Mr.
Eavirla, the American Consul, and sent to the Ame-
rican Coffee-houses in the City :

NOTICE, TO THE MASTERS OF AMERICAN VESSELS.
Anacrisau Consulate, Landon, Jew. 24, 1003.
Oficial information (from Tunis) has just been received,
that the •fripebtan Admiral, Lisle, having two zebecks and a
k rum:lsle und,r bit command, is ready fur sea, and intends
Laving the Straights, to cratze in the Atlantic. It is probable
tn..: he may be ioined by a st.bec which has area& sailed, and
by another sebee, a polacre, and a kirlaughie, which arc nearly
sea With a view of decoying such vusels as may tut-
f.-tun .tely fall in his way, he has clothed his crews in h:ue
ask •ts, overalls and hats.
Oa Tuesday was launched at Messrs. PERRY'S
Dock-yard, Blackwall, a new East-Indiaman, of
ROD thns, called the Eurote, of which Messrs. P. and
W. are owners. A grand entertainment
was given on the occasion.
A aew door-way has lately been opened into the
Treasury, from the street called Whitehall, a few
feet to the northward of the arched passage which
leads through into the Park, arid a very elegant
door-case in the Gothic style is now executing in
plaister in imitation of %torte ;
.great. thicknesses of
the plaister or composition were laid on and finished
but the day before the ;ate shitp frost commenced,
yet we do not observe that the thaw has yet proinced
any visible effrets upon it; plaister or artificial un-
baked stone has seldom if ever before been executed
and exposed to the weather at such a season cif the
year, and if this door-case staials the test vf time,
tilt: credit of this kind of woik must hereafter be
established ; but should it fail, a discouragement
may, from its public situation, be given to more
of the same nature.
Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, a cu-
rious circumstance took place, on the spire Of Bow.
church, Clieapside, which attracted the attention of
passengers.—A hawk having caught a pigeon, flew
with it to the steeple of the church, and, at a small
distance below the vane, found a resting-place,
where it tore it to pieces and eagerly devoured it,
the feathers of the pigeon flying about in the air.
Had this happened before Christmas, it might have
served as a pretence for the high price of poultry.
A few days since, -early in the morning, the body
of Mr. James Elias Carpenter, aged 42 years, school-
master, ax Cheddingly, Sussex, was found on the
highsvay in the said parish, quite dead. Mr Car-
penter is supposed to have died through fatigue and
the inclemency of the weather.
One day last week, James Iferriot, game-keeper
to George Shiftier, Esq. of Comb Place, near
Lewes, discovered in the river, a small distance above
Barcomb Mill, tightly jammed between a widow
stump and the shore, a dead pike, of an extraordinary
size. It measured in length, from eye to fork, four
feet, was one foot thick across the hack, and weighed
in its wasted state, 401hs. Its centined situation is,'
• attributed to the rapidity of the current, during the
late flood, when, to stem the torrent, it is supposed,
this enormous fresh-water fish sought a lodgment,
from which it could not afterwards extricate itself,
and consequently, there remained until it was lite-
rally starved to death.
On Monday se'nnight two men broke into the
house of Mrs. Faulconer, at Dincten, near Petworiii,
and stoic therein a little box, containing writings,
bonds, money, spoons, two watches, two gold rings,
and several other articles of value. Mrs. Faulconer
was in bed with her maid when the villains entered
the room in which she slept, where, to prevent her
knowing them, they placed the curtains of the bed
before her, assuring her at the same time that they
would not hurt her if she made no noise.
The man ssho stole a horse from Chichester, be-
longing to the Prince's regiment, as mentioned in a
former paper, seas a gunner-driver in the artillery,
and deserted from Plymouth, a few weeks since,
with a horse belonging to that corps. He was ap-
prehended at Telscornb, near Lewes, where he was
suspected on account of his having olfemed the dra-
goon horse for sale, at about half its value, and, on
Ewing taken before a Magistrate, was committed.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday
last, a lad, named Juhn Mason, was picked out of
the River, near London Bride, and carried to the
Bell public house, at Fresh \s hart-, apparently in a
lifeless state, but owing to the greatest humanity of
Mr. and Mrs. Priest, was recur erect in the space of
four hours.

A party of children was, some evenings since,
formed at a gentleman's in Worcester, when one of
them took up a gun, which had been negligently leis
in a corner of the room, and discharged it amongst
his playmates, when the greater part of its contents
lodged in the breast and arms of a Miss Williams ;
upwards of one hundred shot have been extracted,
and the child was on Thursday pronounced out of

danger.
The country house of Mr. J. B. Lambert, of Hull,
at Kirkella, has been three times Attempted to be
broke into, in the space of five weeks. The last at-
tempt was made in the night of Monday se'nnight
between twelve and one o'clock, at a time when Air.
Lambert was absent, and when only one man ser-
vant was in the house. A short time aims- the fa-
mily had gone to rest that evening, they were a-
larmed by the noise of some• persons endeavouring
to break in. The man servant immediately rose,
and having previously loaded his gun with, a hand•
ful of shot, attempted to open the window of his
room, the noise occasioned by which alarmed the
robbers, and two of them made off ; a third the
servant tired at as he was turning the corner, and it
appears had wounded him, as the iuljciaing.wall was
in the morning found• covered with bluud, which
also traced from thence along the road as tar as
%Nest Ellin about thrse•gaarters of v., mils dicta t.