The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-10 00:00:00

SOWHEIVD, SLIT. 6.

The day before yesterday, a very serious accident
s,""sts likely to have occurred hum : —His Majesty's
ship •t rim, of 64 guns, which had been lately re-
paired au .".4 refitted at Northfieet, having her guns
aid stores on !sward, while proceeding to the Noire,
eitt..er from the tp.,;-..4 failing short, or some other
cause, came so do e `.;Sauthend, about 8 o'clock
in the evening, as to be it: inimnent danger of run-
ning cn shore am wigs' the 041 lows It was with
extreme difficulty that she got in the
on the flowing is of the tide, withnzt any other da-
mage tan that of being obliged to cui her cable,
which, .ogenher wth her anchor, were p.e.:41 up a
few hours alter by one of His Mijesty's
There is a considerable niimlvr of snips of the l;de
win the river, all of which are repairi-g, with a
de:tree of aaivity which, I tinders:and, to be tan,
equalled at any former period.
Several of • ur visi• ors have 141 this place within
the last week or ten days ; ITIWTSt whom are, Mrs.
BlLLimotot., Lady Low.* Haav, av, 'Mrs C.
M, WARD. Llocstor And Miss Mosectr. /Ike. They
have since been replaced by LOT and Miss Keels'.
Mrs. and Miss CIIAUNCEY. Mrs. and Miss Btt.-
tAesv, Mrs. V* its, and a groat number of
others ; but all gaiety appears to have taken flight
after the departuie of Lady I-i a tis li.TON.

THE pria:six ANo MDON.

41STRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER PROM ON 110ARD
HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP PHOENIX, DATED Pl.lll4olTil

SOUND, StPT. 7. 1805.

" My fait to you was an the lath June, when off file Wade
Rorke, than watching the motions of the *mem. TOM, have
strengthe.ed its v minity,by erecting batter.esnoevety prominent
part, much to the an inyance of nor recinite.iteling ships; they
have recesithr eitseied au immense hatter,/ in tit, west part of
Rcrtheaun.e Road, which will effect. a.iy inuteet their chips
when at anchor there Ithnuld not be surprised, after this, if
they con Willy keep a squadron, or fleet, in tint Rita., to
he in resAirtess I'm a turf.

" On thedUt.hOfifuTit-ere left that infernal place, having the
Indefatigable, Maui, and Santa Margarine, with Sousa giiii•
/Wigs at which time the Freach had two lin,- of battle slit,e
ard two frig nes, par itng about, and went in quest of some
iv deers uut of ISterleanx : in er-is ing the Bay, Almost 1,
.lutalnetf and rent in, an American ..chuoilsr, with be tone
tngat on the 'ltt, d.edroved two Spanish brigs in ballast,
rcum. N.,. On the morning of the tenth we descried
a string, sail on the lee bow, made all p.isoble sail, and
4.111.i51e1; it was /OM. time before we could make hi r nut,
it being very hazy weather ; at length she hoisted French
Wolfs, and fired a gun to lei- ditto& stutfyiug, she meant
to dispute the point. We hoisted tour colours, and nailed
the ileirm jack to the crust jack yard. At s-vi n minutes
pest nine she commenced the action, be firing and grape
shot; still we had our ,loubts of et atteutpfing to tp.t away,
bet were much deceive}, in which cow we foug •t under a go at
disadvantage, for *nine time. The action Le ted near this
hems, the major part of the time within haif v std shut, and,
fee upwards of half an hour, we were on board of eac ott.er,
maltase sad hav"e with the tnuekrtry, at which hoar
brave letlovrs fell on both stein. For Mir one how and forty
Minutes ol the action, I did not see any apparent adva.o.tre,
Until her maintop-mast was snot away ; sown after, we lost • iir
garland maintop yard, and the whole of our rigging was cut to
&Owns ; at length, her foonsost was a ot away, aunts Rase us
decidedly the advantage. Siie•KKMlaltet Wont', but not ti Iwe
had totally Oilotosttd tor. H r naine is l.a Onion, of vei guio.,
sad .390 chioseii men, commanded by Capt P. ter Musses, a
Man of great notoriety in France. She had tiownd•
suld:crs on board, twe•itc-t wo of whom were Swim. The Ph net •is
Mounted 44 gnus, of ouch em.,tler r; !lore. h icing T 47 s use
men aid 511, s We l..st in the nil us It killed, ash 2S sw,ould
; La puton 27 killed, and 44 wounded; many. nu both
idea, dangerously, sonic of whom are since dead. I bare to
lament t' hew of tau. nite.matm, who frtl at flora ccasion,
Li•mt Boonton, ni the Navy, and Lieut Steel, of the Rio al
Marne,. We mek &min....not of her, s'inted the prisinieo.,
sad took lief in tow. La Didun is a mart liautiful hive,
Lud to be the fa,test sailer out of Frans; this re the •;1,11,:
fitate which was with the Combined Fleet in the West holly.,
which destieyed luau, of our West India ships Knocking
up a pest of Mr kiwi, I trust, will not give displeasure to our
Itietide at home."

The Bishop of Cmtust.e, on Sunday se'nn;g'st,
preached an excellent sermon, in the Cathedral cf.
Carlisle, to a es °sealed and elegant congregative
ansor.gs: glom was the Earl of ST. VlNCtler.

DOVER, Sart. O.

The whole of yesterday evening, last night, and
this morning, it blew a strong gale of wind from
the S.W. with a very heavy sea, so that no beats
could venture out. This day's tide the weather is
more moderate. The S's//y, one of the Dover fish-
ing smacks, is lost come into the harbour, with an
American gentleman, a passenger, whom she took
out of a homeward-bound Swede, this morning, to
the Westward, last from Cherbourg t after a mi-
nute examination of this gentleman's papers, by the
proper officer, he was permitted to come on shore.'
—The crew of the Se//e state, that early on Friday
morning last, as they lay at anchor, within half a
mile of Dungeness, they perceived a French lugger
privateer bearing down upon them ; they immedi-
ately slipped their cahl., and crowded all sail ; the
Frenchman fired seven or eight musket shots at
them, but they all fell short. While she was in
chase, a large merchantman, from the westward,
hove in sight, which the crew nt the Sails suppose
to have been one of the homeward-bound West
India Fleet; the Frenchman hauled his wind, and
bore down upon her immediately ; the merchant-
man appeared to port her helm ; the Frenchman
boarded her, and both bore away together for the
French coast. This is the second of the enemy's
privateers, which has appeared close in shore, on
this part of the coast, since the late heavy gales
from the westward prevailed.

A French schooner was sent in here on Thoradav
night last, by on. of HisiMajesty's cutters, she was
bound from Boulogne to Dieppe, or Havre de
Grace, and belonged to a Mr. l'eter Carey, of Bou-
logne, but formerly of this town; she was laden with
wine in casks, and had a quantity of clothes on
board, supposed to belong to the soldiers encamped
at Boulogne, besides several letters from them to their
wives; some of them state, that they are all iii the
greatest hurry and confusion, preparing to march to
the interior; 100,000 have received orders to march
immediately towards the Rhine, and the rest are to
follow as fast as possible. The accounts given by
the prisoners themselves, strongly corroborate these
statements: they say, the camps are all struck, some
of the flotilla dismantled, and every preparation
making for removing the troops to distant quarters.
On Thursday last, the 11th dragoons. quartered
at Deal, and the troop of the 11th dragoons, quar-
tered in this town, received orders to hold them-
selves in readiness for foreign service. They expea
to receive their route every day.

. -
This morning, soon after day-light, the soundins
of a bugle in the different qu oleos of the town, Sum-
moned the Freemen to the rid:tints of a Mayor to:
the ensuing year; at two o'clock this day, the corpc-
ration met in St. James's chnrch, when a severe
cobtest was erpreted to take place, as it was gene-
rally understood that the Freemen intended setting
up a candidate in opposition to the one nominates
by the Corporation, but no such event took place,
and Mr. Kennet, was unanimously chosen as Mayor
fur the eusuing year.