The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-10-03 00:00:00

SLPT. 30.

Friday last, the lion. 1)r. George Pelham, Lnrd
Bishop of this Diocese, made his first entry into this
city, since his translation. On his arrival in the
suburbs, be was met at St. At. Anne's chapel by the
thildrea who are clothed and educated in the four
charity schools, established by Bishop Black..ll,
when the senior boy delivered. faith an audible
voice, an appropriate address, wiiciting bib Lordship
to continue to them that patronage mid protettion
which they had experienced from his Lordship's
predec..ssiri.
Oil his Lordship's entering the city, he was met
by the right worshipful the Mayor and Chamber,
attended by the several Bodies Corporate, with
their banners and music. The Mayor having con-
hratulated his Lordship on his arrival, concluded
im to the Cathedral. The Bishop then took leave
of his conduSer, and went to the Chapter•house.
where having climbed and received the compliments
of the arty, he returned to the great western
door of the Cathedral, preceded by the Choristers,
Lay-vicars, and the other officers of the church. As
soon as the procession entered the great western
aisle, the full organ opened with the ff le Dem
'galena's," which was must charmingly chaented
by the whole choir, whilst they coodatzu his Lord-
ship to she episcopal throne. After which, the
Laval service of the day condoled the ceremony.
1n immense caLcourse of spergators attended.
aesday lasts the Rev. William Charles
.Cjachv
Civilian, was instituted by the Bishop of lizeieroo
" -or). rf Moretonhampstead,in Devoo. so the
.ion of the Hight Hon. (William Lotri Vises
iurteney. o Powderham Castle, in the
reen„, void by the resignation of the'
irge Crowther.

SIR JOUR BORL4SII WARREN.

(Iron The Manna Negating.)
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It has been the praftice in every age to hold up
the 'Blom and charaeter of the worthies of the
country to the admiration and imitation of others.
It has been said, with tespeet to pourtraying the
life of those who are no more, u De morteis ail nest
denim;" with the substitution of the word swam
for b..toint, the maxim would be more consonant to
the °teen and views of history; and such a reserve
adhered to in the depieking of contemporary charac-
ters would render their histories, whether short or
long, less fulsome, as being less adulatory and more
useful, as having the good of the country, and not
the praise of the individual, for the motive. Men
eminent in the arts and sciences, whether wielding
a spear, or holding a pencil, ate entitled to the no-
tice of the country for saving or adorning it. Such
persons, indeed, have ito occasion, no more than
they have the desire, to write their own lives. The
eye of Fame will discover them, and she will raise the
trumpet to her mouth; nor ought the diffidence or
the parties themselves, nor the gross flattery we
sometimes see poured on the presumptuous and un-
deseneees stop its commendable and wide-spread-
ing sound.
IVar is considered as the first of arts. It is by
war that countries are often gained ; and, we last, it
is by this cruel art that we are called upon to in e-
serve our own. The warrior then by tee course of
things, or, as many insist upon it, by the cendul of
a few men, is necessarily made a prumment charac-
ter in the history of the present times. In turisteg
our eyes toweld' the pieiure of m ,dery Europe, we
naturally fix them on milita.y men; and the Co-
bourgs, the Pichegrus, the eklases, and toe Des-
seizes, offer themselves to our notice, toter wonder,
and our grief. Tim measures of one of our reputed
great men, have awakened a belligerent spirit in
our enemy, which might long have lain quiet.
These measures, while tney flattered the pride and
exalted the fortunes of a sew, have brought a dan-
ger on use whole. lit watching the !datum of an
empire, whether in its progression to spleedour or to
decay, we cannot but notice bow much the devo-
tion or atittnlion of a few persona contributes to its
prosperity or rain. Never was this truth so illus-
trated a, Ili our own country. Even atter the
wound, occasioned by the American war, and the
pertinacity of Lori North to his nom .ievous opi-
ninns, the nation recovered • vigour beyond may
thing ever witeessed by its • Idest 14141,k:set. 'll lee
trade fluutistred by its extension; the steces rose ler
their credit, insomuch that an eloquent Minister
promised the listening Senate to urea the tore* per
cets-s. to par in a short time; anal to place the coca-
menial and political glory of Great Untala OR a
basis never to be shaken. is a very little while
alter this tenteritig beast, the affairs of a neighhou,-
ing state give le,e to questions and emoideretrons
At home, w nich affeseed the personal pr;de and feel-
ings of this modern Cicero. more titan they con-
cerned the Itnnoer and safety of his cousory, and
which, under ssis eloquence and in/lee:ice, to idle.la
war, which, by itseentieuance. has at leegth in-
volved the prosperity sad eale•y of the empire.
It is here. huweve . boa u,ekeisc.d u.i4easonable
to discuss the ceressisy or expetive y of the *en
either in its commencement in 179.3, or in the re-
newel of it in 1 8 .3. The enemy, fleshed with sue-
criiive vineries, threatens us sea extinetion of
liberty. sl• he Gent is of Bream represents to i.s sons
the value of the °seed to be delmided. and the ex-
tent of the power to be restated in its preservAti u.
The regular nsiluaty ate powerfully arrayed, the
citizens at large ready to errn for we sniped:ire
occasion ; but, before all, the navy of England. high
in diseipline, and animated be its wonted towage
and utunainpled stICCeaS, is ever oa the alert, to
frustrate the design of the enemy:- before he ap-
proaches our shores, thereby depriving him of tbat
chance in the conetel, wherein Saimaa has ais se-
nuakabey favoured him.
It has been the fashion to say, 'that Trance has
long threAteued us with invas ou. but not having
executed liar purpose, hitherto. we have nothing to
fear. The sense. however, which the government
entertaies of our danger. is manifested by its recent
condua towards &neutral power. being constrained
to declare that the plea of justice must yield
to that of policy and necessity. We must
then prepare fur a struggle I a terrible strag-
gle 1 The contest is toe the unlimited sove-
reignty ef Europe on the one band, en the ether for
obtaiaing security by considerable cessions oc semi-
ices. Tile. whole world appears interested in the
result. Our appeal is not made to the civilians of
Europe. It (Jets not rest with the Grotiuses, the
Puffeninifs, and the Vaud/. we have can ied it be-
yond their jurisdietion. Neither the code of the
.7es-
Ceeetieer, nor the prateice founded upon the opi-
*non' of mankind arc here consulted, but the resolu-
tion is formed of resorting to every expedient which
self preservation can devise.
Our defenclos want no stimulus. they stand not 1
in need cf etch examples- If they doubt of the skill
atreneth of t se hands which may be destined to
guide the helm of the state.let them be told that
great e • • awakens new energies; that great events
being new and great men to notice ; that the substi-
tution of a system of economy in the room of attune.
ful extravagance.will be loudly called fur. and that
the sums which have been lavished on the less dee
serving will be applied to a better purpose.
Let us then not conceal the difficulty of our si-
tuation. The solemn declaration that the country
is in danger, will be enough to make the hardy war-
rior to leave those Cepees repasts with which oar
country abounds, and which the venal and time-
serving prints announce and expatiate upon with
more pomp and cestbelaceney than would be re-
vered in detailing a signal Matsu.
The Hero glean short memoir is neither indolent
nor Epicurein. Lem Cyres, he can quit. without
reluflance, at his country's call, the comforts he is
entitled to on kW, (oath° privations he must neces-
sarily endure when at sea. The Admiral is de-
scended trout the Earls of Warenne, who traced
their origin up to the Plantagentts. The family in
Clunhire is of the same stock, being of Norman ex-
tras:ties. His more immediate ancestor was John
Berkey, Newbrine, in Corneall. being one
branch of the•ButlAcys. Another was Dr. Rudest,
the botorian of that county ; while a third ioceuded
Humphrey Cuslase, created Lord Boehm, by King
James IL after big atidiefatiea• VAS one we allude

to removed into Buckinghamshire, where it ob-
tained considerable estates. Sir William Borlase
founded a charity school for boys at Great Marlow,
in consideration of his son being eleaed the repre-
sentative of that place. The trustees for this cha-
rity are the ir.habitants of Marlow, subject to the
approval of the head of the Warren family. Great
Marlow sends twenty buys, Little Marlow and
Medminham two each. This List menticned place
has been rendered remarkable for containing the ab-
bey. in which the late celebrated John Wilkes and
Lord Le Derpenser were two of its pima monks.
Sir John derives the name of &rlace from his great
grandmother, who was the daughter and heire-s of
Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart. of Bockmore, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of Lord Vere's regiment, to famous
in the war of the Palatinate for the protection of the
King of Bohemia, and which afterwards served un-
der tire Niece of Orange in the Low Countries.
We are told that Sir John can shew the boots and
spurs of his ancestor, the first Earl of Warenne, as
well as his sword, upon the hilt of which, he is said
to have put his hand, on being interrogated by his
jealous Sovereign how he acquired his large estate ?
this I acquired it," answered he, and
by this I will maintain it." An ancestor of our
hero was distinguished in his time by the appella-
tion of Beau Warren. He was a man of eccentric
taste in his table as well as in his dress.
Sir John was put to sch-ol by his uncle, the Rev.
Mr. Warren, of Stratton Audley, to Mr. Princeps,
at Muster. in Oxfordshire, from whom he was re-
moved to Winchester, where he had been but a short
time matriculated, when he testified so strong a pas-
,ion for the sea, that his friends did not think it wise
to endeavour further to restrain it. Lord errors,
upon being made acquainted with young Warren's
determination, carried him on board the Ald,reey
sloop of war, Captain O'Hara. In this ship he
made his first voyage testis, North Seas, for the pro-
teaion of the fisheries. Thence he was appointed
to die Marlharorgb, under the immediate patronage
of Lord Howe. After about tour years service. Ire
was urged by his friends to resume those studies
which he had prematurely abandoned. He was em
weed of Emanuel College. Cambe Wife ; and, having
taken his de?ree of Master of Arts, left the Univere
city to make A trill' on the Continent.
Upon his siceeeding to the estates of Little Mar-
low and Medmaultarn, he returned home, and en-
tered rreo the fashionable dissipation of the times.
His fortune, we believe, was hurt. but not materi-
al's', by e 1 ,y. From this annuensent he turned to
one ulgerms, and more compatible with the
prole-own he had adopted. He fitted up a yacht
mt the S- var.., and purchased Lundy Island in that
rivet . tot the convenience of a pan and refreshments
for fits clew.

flavie., mentioned the foible to which, like many
miler you..ig men of fnahion, he had inclined, it is in-
cumbent :on ns to relate two noble attions which
have particularly distinguished him for his nsunifi-
ceace. `•{eeting with Frederick, grandson of I'h:e-
-nure, K.ng of Corsica, in company with Mr. 'Fur-
ner, afterwards Sir John Dryden, then an afficer in
the Guards. and learning that he was as destitute
of the f mine as of the other attribuies of a royal
desceecl . It, he purchased a commission for him in
a march ng regiment, and obtained him a recom-
mendation to the Commander-in-Chief in America.
where or fell in aSion, a Lieutenant. On the ur-
gent necessity for increasing our force during the
Wit with the colonies. Sir John visited the Fleet and
King's Bench Prisons, where he r leased, by his own
fortune alone, all the nary ofEce.s confined for debt.
Sir John sat for Marlow twice ; and, upon his
first eleSion, had but sox votes against him, in such
popular esteem was be held at that place. While
he VIAS a member of the House of Commons. his
teal for tl,c service occasioned him to go on board
the ►ernes. then Captain (afterwards Admiral) Wil-
liams. He nest served in the Aps/1.., Captain Pow.
nal/. and in this ship completed his service. and
wasiappointed 4th Li-zutenant of the A ensued, 64iguns.
Conimodtse Griffith, and was in the engagement
with Lord Howe against Comte D'Estaing.
Early in the year 1779, Lieutenant Warren was
appointed first of the Fitiary, with Sir Chat. Hardy's
flag on board. as Commander-in• Chief of the west-
ern ignadron, and in this situation he had the fa-
vour and inittudlion of that excellent seaman Ad-
mit al Kempentelt. In the same year, he was ad-
vanced to the rank of C ommander, and hail the
H. fella slo.op of war, lately captured front the
French. lii 1781, he was made post, and had the
comm Ind of the Ariadae.

Soon after lie had attained the rank of Post Cap-
trin, he had an engagement with a French frigate,
L' Aisle, of 44 guns and 400 men. The actioo
lasted near an hour, when the frigate hauled her
wind from the .4. Woe (of only 2u guns), and by
superior sailing made N. Haloes. The Admiralty
now gave him the command of the frirerhehers fri-
gate. 31 guns, attached to the fleet of Sir John
Loekart Ross, in the North Seas. The last service
Captain Warren performed, before the peace of
133, was that of watching the Duch feet off the
'reset, where be tonk three privateers.
The American war being at as end, Sir John
bad as opportunity of enjoying that society in which
he was so deservedly esteemed. He married the
youngest daughter of General Sir John Deeming,
K.B. whose lady was a daughter of Eett Delawarr.
He made two .-ruises in the interval of peace, one
as a volunteer in a squadron of evolution, composed
of six ships of the line and three frigates, under
Commodore Leveson Gower. About this time he
was appointed a Groom of the Bedchamber to his
Royal Highoess the Duke of Clarence, with whom
be saved en board the raliarf, of 74 isms.
(To be e.wrihaira.)

The Clerk of the works Oflir. Hater WOOO,
&raked, at Merthyr:lsmer, Shropshire, the intended
new seat of S.r JUNN bitset., was folly committed
to Cardif gaol, on t. ride!, by Hater Kamer.
Esq. charged with embezzling the sum of 1931. the
property of his master, and also with making seve-
ral false entries in his pay-book, thereby deft auding
his employer.
On the t3th last, there was cut in the kitchen
garden at Muncaster-house, a cucumber, which was
14 inches in lenger, 271 inches in circumference,
and weighed 16ilb. On account of the frost, it
was cut before it was either at its full growth, or
ripe. It was raised by Mr. Hans vCa • M an:, gar-
diner to Lord hluscasses. Thae ate several
others, frontal to 13lb. weight.

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