The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-20 00:00:00

6HIPPING 12VTELLIGEXCE.

CUSTO3I-110. SEPT. 17.
SHIPS ENTERED INWARDS-411e Witham. fmm
Ocraz. Vine. and Hannah. from retenburgh; Live!). from liven ; Julies Andel, from Antwerp ; Maim, {mei ;j . •
from Archangel ; John Esdalle, frvm New Brunswick ;JamaLti.., Christian. Eliza, and Expre,s. frct.• Rotterdam}
E.hered, farm Jamaica; it-as!:ingtonr New fah; aa„tjm.,
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Oporto.
ENTERED Orrwaun I.—The Thee Sisters, for Rli omiztat
Intrepid, and Hartnonie. for Elsinclr ; Rolla, for ;
Riot,mu I Apllllo, for Smiler ; M'ateloo, far
Africa-me for Sierra Leone ; rclizan. for Antsorp ; L:
Bu Ayres ; and Wow Jannet:o. for Ohms.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALNOVTIL. SEPT. Id.—No arrival' or Sailing,
PLEMOUTIt, SEPT. lE.—Of the Port, the Attires,
for Custine. Sailed his Majesty's sh:1) JUCI?, tot Bc4
Amy Susan iVilhelmina, for Dantric.
Ships in 11.unoaze.—Britannia. Genus, Valmont, Mete,
rier. Gannet, Catneleon. Chanticleer. Brat. ale, HehlosZ•plia.
and alorquisof Salisbury. ID Barn Pool—Dar:l,l,4oy Eft,;".
Nand and 31.iin.—Parthian Partrieze. In the ("'
Active.

PORTSMOUTH. SEPT. U.—Arrived the Felicitss,
from the DOltreS, fl India ; Caroline, Johns, iron' L.:no; Ek,r4
Predictor. from Demerara—landed passengers prmedt
Channel ; and Jean, Brown. from Petersburgh, :be 18th A
spoke his majesty's yacht Herald, in the Gulf of Finland. au,, to
Croons& Sailed the Heuqua, Nash, for Chive. V:./1 Jans, •
3lat:hews, bound to Naples, has stopped her leak, act,
to-morrow.
DEAL. SEPT. 17.—We have had a dense fog throughout Ue
day, during which we hare trot been able to observe any of the kila
in the Downs. Half-past sia t the fog still continues.
GRAVESEND, SEPT. M.—Arrived the Ireoltha. flora De.
mararn ; Bliss, Hall, from Baltimore ; Two Brothers. Hart. sra
Harlingen • Advice, Clark, Cultimptart, Mills Mvdalen, Rob::.
son. Leeds: Marsh, and Rebecca, Scott, from Petourgh ,• samh.
Bell; Ritchie], ; and Bee, Hudson, from Darnburgh;
Huruney, Turner, from Archangel ; at.dseveralo:has, name,
known. Sailed the Globe, Bryant, for Elsinore.
Conn, SE PT. 14.—Arrived the hpeke taansport, to take part tt
the 47th regiment to Chatham.
WEXFORD, DEPT. 15...—The Generous Planter, Chamber. ct
Londsn, from St. John's, N. B. fur Liverpool, WAS stratued
more, near this port, lith inst.

The Generous Planter, Chambers, from &John's, New &us&
wick, to Liverpool, was stranded at Kilmer; near IVezford on
the 14th inst.
The Margaret and Ann, Williamson, of Leith, foundoed cf
the Yorkshire Coast, on the 9th inst.—claw saved.
The Rose Virginia Is totally lost at Senegal—crew saved.
Saturday morning last, the Aigle Russian frigate, at P.
fn.' a salute of 23 guns, and in the afternoon a salute of It pri,
in commemoration of the binh-day of some of the Royal Fan..:y
of Ruvaia. She sailed en Sunday for Petersburg'',
The Chanticleer, 10, Captain 31`Namara, au paid oiTot :..c.
day, at Plymouth, and Ksoininissioned.
31r. Breay, late Clerk of the Ordinary at Plymouth, is apprzted
to be Purser of the Chanticle.r.
3lr. Burke, .Slacc Rigger, is appointed Boatswain of Cat Dc-A•
yard at Plymouth. vice. Ireland, superannuated ; sod Mr. loci,
Boatswain of the Britannia. 31aster Rigger, vice Burke.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TUERING.

Langan says he will fight Shelton in three mosth, !wit' t:
London on the Ist of °ember, at Mr. Randall's, to F.:: cort
or 1001. to make the match.

Maurice Delay is ready to enter the list with any WIC. Ne.: pin
titular about weight.
1 A NEW CUSTOMER FOll LAROAX..-011 Sunday Lana ttesh
candidate for the honours of the called at Josh Hudson's to
inquire the boa made of getting an answer frost Langan, I.anrg
already publiblicil a challenge to him without dim The John
gull tighter. of course, being in training, was not at home. lb.
appointed of the counsel and assistance of Josh in this =emery,
the " fresh ntan"—feerti in fame, nut in liquor—wrote the A:limn
note, and lett it for publiattion 1, John Brown, late cf Barc.
field, in the county of Essex, will tight Langan any day witnin teas
mouths for two hundred pounds."
I)unn. the Irish pugilist, of light weight, has ehallenzed to eztt
Tom Reynoila, on the Currant of Kildare, for Inti sovareqp
as,ele. Reynolds beat him in a sonnee contest, and says, that tf"
Irishmen is really in earnest, he will aoss the watec to nerJr.Zro
date him.

Friendship is often shown in an odd way. Tom Oliver. a ahccl
time before he wu matched wish the late Dan Damelly, desmibel
Dan as one of the moat friendly men he had ever met with;
says Tom, "he will toii.w me trAf a mile to make me dr!ait aria
blow my dicky, if I don't like hint as well as my own brealne,anl
would sooner tight him than any min in the country."
Jack Johnson (Shrewsbury Jack) wishes to try his luck
Saran= (the Drunicnag,m ta outh) for ZrOL or lON. aside.

Roitgo.—On Monday la.t • bude nick plea sew DMA, n
Saddieworth, for 4W.. between Rough Robin. a maa of :ones
fame, and Jack Manning, a Birmingham hero, who hel m.
guished himself in the London P. R. The Munches:es =stem
had laid their bets pretty thick upon Robin, from his weL-klakva
good qualities, and on coming to the watch he was dedledl7
favourite. Manning, however, was not wily disposed or; and
scientific, and excelrently-contested tight of forty minutes war MIL:.
mined, with alternate advantage. In the event Robin son it, Cid
not until be had mycelium of pepper from his genic oppuemt.,
FOOT Race.—The match for one hundred sovereigns. between
Bennet, the Suffolk runner, and Durtenshaw, from Bulk:ism, tort
piste on Saturday, over a mile of I. helmeted race course The
distance was ten miles, and the start took place at different mdi.
Burtenshaw was dead beat in the last half mile, sal until then toe
race was admirably contested. Bennet did the ten miles is Yfl mi.
nuts &A seconds.

ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident occurred on Tutus.
day last, in working a stone quarry, parallel with this city
(Carnarvon). In rolling a large stone from the summit, it
unfortunately split in its passage, and one part deviating
from the line of descent nearly forty yards, came in co*
tact with a little boy about seven years old, who, scud
on the steps of a stile, was nursing an infant—the later
was killed upon the spot—the former was cut scrow the
abdomen, but is likely to recover. What adds to this se-
etre calamity is, the distressed mother, about twelve mit
since, witnessed the premature Its, of her husband, tt i:.
duatrious man, who was drowned whilst in the at cf rr
pairing the fish weir at Gorad Gyt, near this city—tins
haring two inquests in her house in the abort wan of ti=rw
mouths.—Norg.i Wales Gaulle.
SAIDDIEN DE•111, OCCASIONED BY EATING Pernia
SALT Fun.—On Thursday night, Mrs. fiirriancl, the
wife of; Waterman of that name, residing in Sing's-h:ad.
court, Lambeth, and mother of Maynard, who lately won
the Lambeth prise wherry, ate heartily of" salt fish at sar-
per ; befora six o'clock the next morning she barn; o
as to require medical assistance. Doctor Young was sent
for, but in a vain, in a short space of time she ber-oN 6
corpse. It is supposed the fish was putrid, as two other
women, who also partook of it, though not so !ardly is
Mrs. Maynard, were for some hours very much affect
Awr4L INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DL•TII.-Os Mac*:
diy last, IL Baker, Esq. a gentleman of great propertyr_
ding at Bonham Wood, near Elstree, came to town In rued
health and spirits, by Mr. Bryaut's St. Alban's ccechstna
arrived in Oxford-street, at eleven o'clock. He left his
great coat on the box, requestin,g Mr. Bryant, jun. to take
care of it, and keep the box for him, as it was his inuntion
to return home to dinner the same day. Being, buwecel,
a little too late for the coach in the afternoon, be called s
hackney-coach, and desired to be driven fa't to overn.k. e the
other. When he arrived at the Gloucester Coffee-1100i
corner of Park-lane, he paid the hackney coachman, 04
was speaking to Mr. Hall, who was then on the box, when
he instantly fell, and life was extinct in one minute. The
body was taken into the Gloucester Coffee-house, anl
geons procured immediately, hut to no avail.

111 HT /IS.
On Tuesday, at I' per lionterton, the lady of Thomas PAM
jun. Esq. M.P. N. a daughter.
On 'Monday. the 13th mat. at Talton Park, the Lily
of ""
kali= Egerton, Esq. M.P. of a daugt•.

MARRIED.
Or. the 13th inst. at Rear-Admiral MOT's, in lisrley-terott
Lard Ellenhorough, to Jane Elisabeth Digby, only daegblet "
Herr-Admiral Digby and Viscountess Andover.
On Monday week, at Bridlington, Richard llctcher. elle
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known rhyming and eccentric town-cricr of that place. lo
Smith. Their united apes amount to upwanls of yore. ""'
is the bridegroom's third, and the hride'sloarth matrinionialspeett-
lation. Au immense crowd west collected on the occasion-
On Thursday last, at Odle Pypard, James. &hit IlOn Of Jorriase
Bedford, Esq. of Swindon. to Annie& IV...rdon, ,iaughtef
Rev. E. Goddard, of thee House,

DIED.
At Caney, on Thursday last, aged 100 years, Grizil 601Ith• PO W(
of the late George Candy, 'Fla', for n:at.l yeas prevails 1°
death, was employed as an operative gardener there.
In London, on Tuesday last, Mrs. Cape. wife of Mr. Matthew
Cape, fur many years a respectable baker at Wineheste:.

HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT lA)NDON BRIS.
Morning min. 0 loin. obest2-

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