The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-04 00:00:00

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Letters have
Hull, dated December
Maas of that port is captured, and that it is feared
eleven other v,sstls have shared the same fate.
We are cgocerned to alinotsace the loss of the
Barre+, of 21. guns, Capt. Scuvr, on the Jersey sta-
tion. She ran upon a sunken rock, nem- that island,
and sunk immediately. The Captain, Officers, and
crew, all perished, except two Offizerav and be-
tween forty and f•ty risen.

On Wednesday. previous to the communication
being sent by Mr. Catarina to the LORD NIA root,
Of the circlaratron of war by Russia. a Messenger
WAS iiiispatchedto His Kok •rat Windsor, with
the intormatiun, who arrived there about 4 o'clock.

Cotonel I AVt.olt being, on a visit to the Duke and
Dnchess Of YOK K, at OAtlands, was sent for express
to attend His MA.I CST y, while returning answers to
the dispatches.
Extra& of a letter from Hull, dated Wednesday
morning, December 2, 1807. (By Express).
15, yell, Ktrby ; and the friends' Goo4wtllt Anderenn,
(tons the /Wile, ate in the Humber. 'the following
mode sailetl in eurapii,r with them (tom Heltingtung, oil the
110th ult. vie the Symmetry Aeteott, ;
Mu tent, ; ; Cox ; enereble• 1).a4-
11141; Weill Sinop ; ; end the Boynton,
tie ITS. Hiisemnbe, CA1...1.r; Traveller,
Wtiherfotert. awl the Lord to ;wenn, for London.
Ti e efoteson, Br az Lev. frcrm Petersburg for Ply-
mouth, has been raptured by two Freoch privateers.
oft the Isle of Wight, tutisken by His MAJESTY'S
ship Gclimene, and arrived at Pottertmeth.
'the s'opihia, WA USER, from New Soath Wales
for I.6ndon, is los: off the Cape of Good Hope.
The Bar/ere. 14.1 E AV. from Aberdeen, was lost
on the 20th ult. near that place ; crew saved.
The Mary rho, Hoer, of Wbisehaven, is lost
near
The Ha:crd. Jontssov, of Maryport, and the
firirnd.hip, Woon, of and for Whitehaven horn
Dithho, are lost near the Isle of Man.
The Pawrll, Holsoussrorix, of and from Wl.ite-
haven, was lost on the 20th ult.
'l'be fleet which sailed from Cork, on the 1 Ith
inst. for the IVest Indies, was all well on the 14+,
in hit 45. long 14. having been joined by the John
13 11. —, the Laasaatsr, —, and another vessel.
The Juno, --, horn Lima, is captured by the
Ptrserrrassre South &ermau, Capt. &TAPIRS, and is

arrived at Portsmouth.
It 1,41 been soh./ of the late Earl Gear, that he
was the only surviving °dicer who fought with Ge-
neral WOLlg At Quebec. This statement is errone-
ous. Ensign CHARMS BURPETT. of Aberd en-
shire, then in the Fraser Highlanders, was in the
battle in which W °tea fen. and is still alive in
Aberdeen, upon the halt-pay of that corps. At
the vet y advanced age of nearly 90 years, he re-
mains without any other provision than the miser-
able pittance above-mentioned, which has been his.
sole support since the peace of 1763.
'foe whole cause of the river logos, we under-
stand, is now fortified from Lisbon to the See. The
batteries on this line ale mounted alas 1300
piece.i of heavy ordnance.
A letter from Port-an-Prince. dated the 15. h of
September last, states, that Pa a sort had a force these
of 11,3t3 men, and char the city was stv.ngly Sco-
t fled. CHIttSTOPtIC is stated to have mad.: two at
tempts to match again.t him, but his forces became
so elntinished by desertion, tht he was glad to re-
turn, The utmost confidence is expressed, that
Ps.rtos would ulnas .t ly succeed in ohiaining the
sole Government ..1 t..e island. The Proclamation
of Co a storm e, ststing. that the British Govern-
ment had acknowledged him as Chief of St. Do-
ming°, is created pith gnat ridicide. and the state-
ment co,sisfered as unte
At a meeting of the Jute ices of the Pease for the
enonty of Somer. e:, at Langford Inn, en Monday,
eh, 16:h November, Mt. Jost,ll Mae, son of Mr.
WILLI** Hyper, of East HATIVIT, Yeoman, on the
Att 1 Geo. I. c p 13, sec. 29. subjealag Roman
Catholics who ref use or neglett tot three months, to
take the Oaths of Suhreruavy, Abjuration, and Al-
legiance, to certain dui. b lities and penaltieejn case
- they ester or serve, even as commoicsoldien or
svi:ors. in His WILI.TY'S armies or navy, played
the Hoopla/dr!: B itch, that, being • Roman Ca-
thnl:c. he might be exempted from being bal-
lotted fOr the Omni y Milli ia i.whereupon the re-
speaable Magistrates, leaning some fraud sr deceir,
first required of the Pit nailer to bring a certificate
from the Raman Catholic Priest whom be attends,
of his being of that religious persuasion ; hut on
Mr. Jo . Huor's declaring that he, his father, and
mother, were all well known Roman Catholics,
without fur.her demurrer they erased his name
from those who are liable to be ballotted, as being
forbidden by the laws of the realm, es they now
used, es serve His Manner in such capacity
Thtre has not been so much snow in the Isle of
Mann, in the memory of any person living, as at
the present period. The roads from Douglas to
Castletown and Peshoown were completely blocked
up for several dap, and were not thornighly open
on Tuesday last. From Douglas to Ramsay. the
wow did not lie so thick, except at Laney, where
it was drifted to an astonishing depth. and effean-
idly cut off all communisation between the two
towns. The Isle of Mann is lane incommoded
by snou-,norms; the snow rarely lying upon the
ground more than twenty-four hems, except near
the summits of the mountains ; this is, therefore,
n very remarkable epoclia with the inhabitants of
that Isle.

On 'nuts lay se'nnight, between seven and eight
o'clock, while a elidi,e was going from Belfast to
Donaghadee, with a gentl:man and his servant in
it, owing to the gri:und being deeply covered with
snow, they mi•sed the road when within about three
miles of Donnghader, and the whole fell into a deep
moss-pit. Tile gentleman and his servant fortu-
nately got out at the windows of the chaise. but the
driver and horses unfortunately perished, notwith-
standing every ma Wen made by the geatlemsn for
tbeir pi eservatioss.