The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-15 00:00:00

TALE OF .4 TUB.

The rieliculogs partiality of the multitude for relics 11.. s
recently found a grand opportunity for displaying hull
in connection with the name of Lord Byron. The pipe
or puncheon in which the remains of the deceased Pot:
weie brought to England, on being discharged from lb,
use to which it was destined for a time, by his premature
death, was sold by some of the people connected with the
ship-se a easoper of the name of Davey, who resides in We:-
street. lie considered it a curiosity, and set a high value
on his bargain, but had not enjoyed it long, when the Cap-
tain or owner of the vessel in which it held been conveyed
to this country, waited upon him, and demanded the sur-
render of the tub, asserting that the parties by whom it
had been hold had no fight to dispose of it. The trail(
man, with blunt John Bull-like rudeness, refused to g;e
up his prize. Ile cared nothing about the right of tl.e
parties to sell, of whom he had bought it. It was in It's
power to prove that he had given a fair price fur the sr-
tide ; and, confident that lie had done nothing wrong. he
set the claimants dt defiance. The latter threatened, lin
eventually found that they could do no more ; and ti.,,
cooper hoisted the Union Jack over the object in divine,
at one, to celebra'e the triumph he had achieved. at:,!
to proclaim to the world the treasure of which he had
become the envied possessor.
The contentions, thus terminated, attracted considerable
notice. To the friends of the kik., !titres, in the North-
eastern district, it appeared no ordinary occurrence that a
puncheon which had been used for so memorable a purpose
as that of carrying the mortal remains of the departed
poet front Greece to England, should be exhibited in their
neighbourhood; and hundreds repaired to Old-street to get
a sight of it. The cooper gave his treasure a conspicuow;
place at one corner of a quadrangle which includes hi;
out-of-door stock. The words " Lord Byron" have been
painted in large white letters on it, that the gazers may
,not waste their attention on a less distinguished vessel.
Some of the staves, we hear, have been abstracted from
the pipe, and manufactured into various small attichs.
One of the persons to whom a pe r:ion of it was transferre,!,
has had it made into a box ; and another, still more emi-
nently to display his lath', has given to his prize the form
of a spoon. But the puncheon, nearly entire, still retaL i
its place, ::td will doubtless prove a very profitable
to the cooper.

CALEDONIAN CAN AI .—ln the Inverness Journal of Ft i
day last, we notice a list of the vessels which have navi-
gated the Caledonian ('anal during last mouth. Th.-
number is lin, of all descriptions. several of they., w:
observe, are carrying off wool to Hull and Liverpool.
Others pass with lime, slates, stones for buildings, anti a
very great number with salt, herrings, staves, deals, dr.:.
&c. to and from Dumfries, Belfast, Londonderry, Liver-
pool, Newcastle, &c. Three steatmvcssels are advertised
as plying on the Canal between Inverness and this city.
'fhis great national undertaking will, we have nut the
smallest doubt, daily increase in prosperity, and add Esti-
' hues to the trade of this country. As soon as the Canal is
eighteen feet deep, which will be next summer, large
merchantmen will be able to pass through from the eastern
to the western sea, and rice verse, and then the Canal will
certainly be frequented by a great number of ships engaged
in the foreign tratle of this country.
CANAL FILOIN CARLISLE TO NI.WCASTI L.—A ITlAtin,..:
has been held of the county of Northumberland, to etaisiiier
of the expediency of establishing a railway between New
castle and Carlisle. ('ol. Coulson said it was nearly !:t
a century since- it had been first proposed to cut a rmel f,
unite the eastern and western seas, but he cunsida:ll the
expedient impracticable from the great experrie. lie had
little doubt that a railway would be of great advaratz!-,e t,
the county, both in an agricultural and commercial point
of view, and be proposed a resolution for carrying that iih-
Lie into t get. U'. Armstrong, Esq. implored the cell:-
p to reproposition
ject the spiritless of a railway, which
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I deprive them of the incalculable advantages of a
Ca 1. Already eleven 'Mica of the work had bon • x.-
et etl, at about 7,oita a mile; but supposing the ro-
nraintier might be t 4,000/. from the increase of leeks, it
`would make the aggregate expense only half a mili-nt, a
sum which, there was no doubt, it would be practicoble is
il raise for so imporsunt an object as the formation of a ship
canal iron sea to sea. At the conclusion, a committer '
was appointed to consider which of the two is the most ,i
convenient mode of conitnutticatian.

Accounts from fiarwich yesterday state, that on Sunday
evening a large lugger was observed hovering off that place
and Land;uard fort, supposed with an intention of Lind-
s ing some stunggled goot's. A sharp look-out being kept.
she sailed in a dircctiot 'or the Dutch coast.
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