The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PUSS.

Me. Ezirroa—Observing in your paper Dr
Olbers's account of a ncw.chscorered planet, which
he has named Hercules, without the orbit of
Herschel!, and somewhat more than three m;sons
of millions of miles from the sun. and to which Cie
sun appears bet as a small star. From the last cir-
cumstance, I certainly collet, that even granting
that to Hercules the sun appears no larger than
Sirius at an incalculable, while the sun is at
calculable distance, 1 say, that I thence cone& that
the sun is evidently a small and minute body, in
comparison of Sirius or any visible hand sows
which, the reduaion of objets according to tber
squares of the distances considered, becomes. if pew
Bible, still more certain. According to Dr. Olbers.
Hercules would probably be invisible at twice its
distance from the sun, while probably every visible
fixed star is a hundred or a thousand times ar far of,
which multiplies their nsagnitude indefinitely, not to
say infinitely, beyond every idea of calculation.

ImvsstioATeit

In the mue of Tow sa. Tovresmso•
in this Paper on Wednesday, no witness Mintlez.
amined. Our account was of course only the bare
statement of the plaintiff's counsel, unsupported by
evident e, nor did it contain any reflection upon .he
char:liter of the defendant, a gentlemen of the
most honourable and upright conduit.

Lnrd Mat.v: LLs has direiled a most particular
survey of the several signal stations and sea fenobla
establishmenu on the coast to be immrd del,' under.
taken.

A g ett portion of the plunder of St. Domingo,
which had been deposited an Surinam by the agents
of Bo N A PARTS, has fallen into the possession of uur
army! _

This day the Surrey, Southwark, awl other Vo..
lunteers, amounting to upwards of 5000 in number,
will have a Sham Fight between Dulwich and
Sydenham : the Earl of HARILINf+TON commands
one party, and General Fox the other. A military
spelacle is expelled to take place upon this occasion,
exceeding any yet witnewd in the Volunteer 1),..
partment.

Tee Uwe'. Aars.—Among the various disco-
veries that have enriched the preseat age, none seems
to be more wonderful than that of illubsinatiniter t
wholle Stage and Theatrewith common Smoke.
is indeed so much ingenuity in the invention, that the
audience would hardly believe their own senses a,
the possibility, if the whole process of up I
the Theatre did tales place before them,_ previous to
the commencement of the Lefler... The 'tamed
in Physics and Chemistry will know how to appro.
ciate such a surprising discovery in their Philosopbbi
cal pursuits ; but to every common observer, the
great saving of coals, oil, and candles, this invention
must ultimately produce in all private families, as
well as public business, is obviously skiking ; and
seems by far to excel all the improvements whirl"
the ingenious Baron HA Alt, General C
DU/SOUSA LD, Count RUMFORD, and other cello.
braced charaaers, published to the world withiu the
last thirty years. We know- of no place of enter-
tainment. or exhibition, where such useful and pro.
fitable instruftion can be derived by the speftators.•
The young man who was so barbarously treated
in Hanging Wood, near Woolwich, was alive on
Wednesday, and likely to recover.
Yesterday morning, a boy, about eight years of
age, was run over by one of the Chelsea stages,
near Chelsea bridge. He was taken up with one of
his arms broke, and his body shockingly bruised*
various parts. He was taken to St. George's Hos-
pital, with very little hopes of his recovery. The
catastrophe was rendered truly distressing by the
mother of the infant, who is far advanced in her
pregnancy. being a witness of the accident. •
Wednesday afternoon, a gentleman was found in
Queen-Anne-street East, us a state of insensibility,
and conveyed to the Middleses.H.)spitail. Upon
inquiry, we find he is Mr CL Ana, a 'striker
of the Inner Temple. His relations, nn leirniug
his unhappy state, took immecEate steps to ag
ford him assistance; and yesterday morning he was
t +ken from the hospital in a carriage to his chain.
hers. It appears be was seized Situ a fit of apo-
plexy, whic:i deprived him of speech and • r.sation s
on leaving the hospital, he erns, however, mesh re.
cs.oer:i.l, and able to articular).