The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-30 00:00:00

SHAM FIGHT AT DULWICH.

The grand military speetacle expeaed yesterday
at Sydenham and its vicinity, bei.ig postponed for a
reason assigned in another part of this paper, a suh-
stitute was resorted to, to make up the deficiency ;
and, c•insequAntly, the day did not end in a com-
plete disai.pointment. A sham fight was planned
by Lieutenaut-Coil•mel Gaitskill, Lieutenant-Colonel
Edwards, and the Officers of other Corps; which,
in its movements, evinced much military skill and
eifed. At ten o'cloek, the First Surrey, and St.
Olave's corps, mustered at their ground at Mont-
pelier Gard as. This corps, under the command
of Lieute taut-Colonel Gaitskill, wis to alt as
a battalion of Englts:l. The Lambeth, Lieutenant-
Colonel Edwards, the Christ Clurch (Surrey),
the St. John's and St. Saviour's, Southwark : a
party of the Artillery Company, with three field
pieces, and a detachment of Cavalry, constituted
the enemy's force, who pursued their route through
Camberwell, towards Champimt Hill, in order to
take possession of Dulwich. Soon after eleven, the
Englis't party marched from ‘lontnelier Gardens,
an l having come up with the enemy', rear in Cam-
berwell, the Light Infantry and Sharp Shooters
commenced ari incessant skirmishing a;ong the pri-
vate road lea ling to Champion Hill, the Lambeth
continued firing their field pieces, while they ad-
vaaced towards Ihilwich, by the Turnpike
road, and their Light Infantry were clo.ed,
skirmishing among the trees and adjoining
fields The English, having advanced in good
order to Dulwich, by the same route which
the enemy to )It, a smart firing ensued mar the
village, which ensl4 with forcing the Lambeth,
Chrischurch, an 1 th. adverse Corps, to retreat tr.
D ilwich C immon, where they formed in line Ihe
villag • b .ing taken poss•sston .if, the 7.nglish drew up
in a b ttt dinn, lac ng th • enemy, an•l sent out sharp_
shies:ors to hatrass their wings ; the eneNy then.
with their cavalry i front, and fiel.l-piec•:s on the
right, made several rapid charte,. which w •re wet:
received, and the French were driven back in all
direllions The Voltutteers, after the s tun fizlit,
sat down on the cowling, and partout of refresh-
ments, with which they had previously furnished their
havresacks : from the fiat nets of the day and num*:
of spoliators, the ings•t was uncommonly interesting.
heir bands played while the company were r:galing
In the evening the ores passed in review. anii
marched back to Montpelier and their respraiv,
drill grounds. Several accidents happened, but al
of a trivial nature. One of the privates helcogiokt
to the First Surrey, owing to fat*. ani the h a. o'
the day, fell down insensible, and was car. ied it.
that situation to the house of airs. Mosconi°, a
Lady residing at Champion Hill, where every at-
tention was paid to him, and he was soon so much
recovered, as to be able to march back to town witi
his Corps.

THE BIRTH, PAITEN [AGE AN3 EDUCATION, LAS I
DYING SPEIiCH AND CONTF•sIoN, OF
THE SOLAR HYPOTHESIS.

I am of Heathen extradion, begotten by the vain
and idolatrous imagination of Pythagoras, a famett,
Athenian Philosopher. and was born of his proliF,
brain; but my form being contrary to nature, I w..,
educate in vie ate. notwithstanding my father tang'
in jiti tlic the Ptnlomaic sy'.tem of astronomy. u•
dining his life was introduced only to • few t
h s -tiost intimate acquaintance. Af et my father
dec.-ase, I as ushered into the world as 'he min.
of ..stronorn- ; ut I soon got into disrepu•e. and la •
in obscurity u ards of ath nisand years, until t.i.
pernicus, a renowned Po.ish pltilos-phe•-, revive.
anti agail torn Juice I me to t!,e worll, yet he grew
ash ma I .a ' fors If PT% G tide°, a celebrate.
Frene's s ' • her, afterward.; introduced me to bit
learned friends. sum • of whom ••atrmised and coun-
tenanced met sr Galileo suffe'ed perse:tition fo•
my sake, a d renounced me. Las: of a:I
toe ;eat bit !s.ia Ne espou ed me, and exert
ed Ail his abilities ....d learning to dignity and em.
ls,•llish my form with a sumptuous and elegant gash
and the followers of Sir Isaac Newton absolutely
deified me; this is an honour I never expelled. But
I have enjoyed gr:itt felicity, having out-shore al
my competitors in splendour and admiration, and
ever since I have been investe I with the imperial
diadem, my subjects, the learned philosophers, have
evd tvoured to out-vie each otlivr m elucidation, am
ruination, and alskit adulatim. But alas! alas!
bow uncertain and short-lived are earthly power
and grandeur; for I am co:An-allied to ac.
knowledge and ctnfess, I have held up false and
onnantral principles, ant that I have deceived
all those philosophers who vainly and foolien.y
pinned their faith upon my splendid and delusive
ecripage. 4. modern magi:iaa having deo& d
and publicly *spored my ttauds and impositions, I
can no I otger sit on my throne with safety. a••
carry on my d•ceptiosts•v,et imp y, therefine I wit
resolved en lay violent ha.-tds nn myself; for I can-
not endure the thoughts of being publicly degraden
and executed. Yet as R)me cnnipensation is due tr•
my friend, for the honours they have conferred upon
me, for their consolation I make this public con-
fession. that I am a spurious, vile, and wicked im
po-tor ; that I ought to have been degraded and ere
cuted before ail the people ; and I solemnly declare
this to be my last dying speech and confession.
Done a our Court in Greenwich Pink, the 2lst
day of June, 1804.
SOLAR IfIVPOTHESTS,
alias Corr Kaman, a'iats NEWTONIAN,
SYSTRO4 Of ACTIONOSIT•

Among the m:nnr articles of French intelligenc
is a report, that t. e rank of HiAls Admiral or F ...ICC
will he conferred upon .knots BONAPARTi j an
otSze for which he certainly enjoys the oldest and
r.ost essential qualification.—the art of keeping out
of the way of English squadrons.
It !•as been very justly observed, that in all the
examinations of the conspirators, nothing has trans-
pined to attach any concern in the imputed plot to
his Highness the Duke D'Eworr ism. On the cases
of all the other v'Etinis of ambition, explanations and
justifi.uniens have been offered to the world; but it
would seem as if even Corsican atrocit yodare not insult
Franco and Europe with a defence, or even an ex-
tenuation of " ;slain *Artier." No ! that deed of
foul, wanton, atrocious guilt, must rest, for its Apo-
log!, with the transactions of Acre and Jaffa, the poi-
soning tithe sick, and the massacre of Alcaansitia.

L&W T:CTELLIGINCE.

COURT OF KN.:S RENC:I, WESTMNSTER, Just 19.
BrAre twi ELcs4wa luc I awl a Sptrial jury.

DOE, on tht• &nits of toes Kam, no Ton, v.. 1 CRSON.
This was an ejelment to recover the possession of
premises, in the manor of Earlcourt Kensington.
By an AB of Pirliament of Geo I all copybold
tenernii:s were lia!ble to a fine of two years un-
proved rent, tyon a lcn;ssic cn and appointment of
a new tenant, and, in default of such appointment,
the premises became the property of the Lord of
the Manor, until such time as the fine should be
paid. In this ease the fine Arti.4l dcd to If.oool.
and, iron the value of the fine, and t:10 novelty of
the question, Mr. E skins: stated the cause to be
one of great importance.
Th Aalo.l nit brought against the tenant in pos-
session, who derived under Mrs. !Mansell, the daugh-
ter of the late Mt. Brown, who derived under
the late Lord Kensington, the Lord of the Manor.
Three srveral proclamations had been made in the
usual form, for the new tenant to come in ; hut she
refused, mil the Lord, cind..r that ejeament, sought
to take possession until he should be paid the fine. It
having appeared, however, that the title of Mrs.
Mansell was not corretly stated on the pleadings,
the Plaintiff was nonsuited.

PA K ICI r. NM IV.

This was an sßi.)n upon a bond for the recovery of
5.0001.

Mr, Esick I pit, on the part of the Plaintiff, stated.
'hat on Sunday, in to mom h of July List, the Plain-
tiff was rettithinn: from Divine service to Smeth-
wick, near Birmingham ; passing through a .ane,
'bout half way home, he saw two persons ing
him, and having been robbed hut a short tiftl•• be-
fore, h., was terrified, and turned out of the brie into
a field till they should pass; he heard one of them
immediately say, D—n him, he's here," and then
swore, •• ther'd tat: him and strip him naked "
They immediately seised and dragged him to a pub-
lic house, and charged him with an intent to rob
them in tfisguisei then they proceeded to turn oat
all the people who tad assembled in the room, in
seder to strip him; but Mrs. Whitacre, the mother-
n-law of the owner of the house, would not leave
the room; said she knew the Plaintiff, who was a
man of 74 years of age, and it was not possible he
could do the like ; t ese two persons turned out to
'se one Sadler, and William Parks, a nephew of the
Defendaat's, The Plaintiff was determined to seek
redress for this violence which was offered to him,
sod declared his intention so to do Some days after,
the nefen.lant 14tvebyeasse to him, and pressed him
to make up the matter; but, upon the Plaintiff's refu-
i ie leo:tea, if he did not make it up he would take
ea e these men should make a charge of an unnatu-
!al crime against him, similar to that for which a
,lerson had been conviiied and executed at the last
mixes; but he despised the threat, declaring he
w.iuld stay in the country for no other purpose than
to dear his charaffer from such an imputation. These
th-eats were again repeated ; and, on the first of
Atignst, the Plaintiff was arrested by a Rimmr, and
hrown into a dungeon. While in confinement,he
eceived several visits from the Defer. {ant, and his
ttphew Parks, who advised hint to run away, and
ihred him money if he would kave the cotentt y.
-le was, after three days, carried blot, a Magi-
.trate ; when Sadler swore he saw him in the aft of
..ommittimi a crime of the most alsominabie nature ;
stid that his wife saw him also : upon which die
ilaintiff WAS re-committed, till Mrs. Sadler could
be examined. It happened, fortunately, that a it.
speaable Clergyman was present, who had been a
witness to the fo mer transaSion, relative to the
charge of robbery; and remiad.d the Magistrate
that it was the same person who now swore against
the Plaintiff Upon the wile's appeararce, she con-
tradidied her husband's evidence, and the Plaintiff
was discharged. He then conceived he WAS entitled
to extraordinary re Ir. is for this at most ter. ..us
in-
jury, in which his charter was so deep.; c Deem-
ed, and determined to have it, if possible. The
parties, aware of his hostile intention towards them,
proposed terms of accommodation, and offered any
e impensation he might require; in consequence of
which, the bond in question was executed by the
Defendant—and, at the same time, an advertisement
was signed by him and his Nephew, to be inserted
in The Birmingham Gautte, nearly as follows :

ar Where's we, the undersigned, William Perks and Tho-
mas Newby, rill, in conjunction with another pets ns, make
s fsls•e charg.• sg Misr Samuel Parks, of a crane against nature,
n tt fit to b? named, by which he was immersed ; do make
this public acknowledgment of our error in se doing, and ex-
press our extreme sorrow for the same."

The Learned Counsel then expatiated largely
upon the enormity of the Defendant's conduit. ob-
serving, &at if the Plaintiff had brought him and
his accomplices before a Jury. instead of taking the
bond in qarstion, they would lave given him im-
measurable damages.
Mr. Thomas Fellows, Clerk to an Attorney in
iirmingham. deposed, that he was a witness to the
bond. and prepared it ; he distin4tly read it over to
the Defendant. previous to its execution. and ap-
prised him of its nature, and the consequences
which might follow the non-payment of it ; he ob-
served, it was rather too great a sum, and advised
,:im to make it less. but the Plaintiff would nut con-
sent. The sum for which the bond was given was
settled over night, and the parties m the next
evening to execute. The Defendant was perfiltly
sober. and expressed no awonisioment or surpo ow
whatsoever at the time. The Defendant was 4;,p4-
ready an old, de:tepid mar., dreadfully afilided by
the palsy, and appeared almost double ; was alto-
gether a most grotesque figure. The witness swore
he thoiirot his . ability was all a pretence ; that the
shaking was all assumed ; and that, a few days ago,
ts was as firm and as strong as any man in Court.—
Upon his crosewxaminatton. by Mr. Glass, he said,
he never was an Attorney, that he was Clerk to Mr.
Beverly, of Birmingham—that he applied to be ad-
mitted an Attorney on use Court of Common Pleas,
some years ar—but was opposed by Mr. Spurrier,
to whom he ad served his apprenticeship. No At-
torney attended for the Defendant at the time of ex-
ecuting the Bond. He had beard the Defendant
was a very wealthy man. Some people said, he uas
worth 30 or 40,0001.

Miss Fallow% the sister to the late Witness, Was
present at the execution of the bond, and corrobo-
rated some parts of her brother's es

The Rev. Mr. Paris proved the transaction, which
took place before the Magistrate at Birmingham.
Mr Gusts made a very able speech in defence of
his client. His chief observations were direCted to
the charader and evidence of Fallows : he insisted,
that he was as wicked a man as any who ever lived
in society ; that he kept a client trap, at his house,
in Birmingham, and that he was the jackall who
statithe the business, and brolight it to the den, where
it was devoured by the principal.
He then cal eJ Mainwaring, who proved
that the Defendant's property altogether did not
amount to 3,001. Several Witnesses were also
called, who swore they bad had various transactions
wi h Fallow, and had good reason to ci.nclude that
he was not to be believed on his oath.
In answer to this, two clergymen, a barrister, and
a physician, swore they had known Failow lOr many
years, and believed him to be an honest man, and
to be trusted on his Li:A.
Mr. E situ ex spoke at some leryvtls to evidence.
Lord El Les annuer:ta observed, that this was not
an otien,e of his own ; that the unfortunate old man
had signed the bond ; it was an over anxiety tor the
safety of his nephew, he was weak enough to put
his hand to a bond for 5,0001. when he was not worth
half that sum; and having made some animadver-
sions on Mr. Fallow, the Jury found a Verdid for
the Defendant.

Deli! IN, Just,

The Commission of Oyer and Terminer was
opened on SAturd.tv last at the Sessions Douse,
Green-street, bef re the Right Ilnnoui.ll4.• the
Lord Mayor, and the Hon. Judges Daly and .Jo a.
stone.

Mr. Resat moved the Court on behalf of Jenne
Trok, E 4. now con6.icl in the gaol of K.:lamina
ham. The tendency lif i s apolirati in was for the
purionse of brie, that fientle oar to A Sr* ty trial
The Cousr 'Marred, that env/ dnulned whether
they conlat interfere, as. by lonkitsz into the calen-
ds- of thii county gaol, they found that Mr Tandy
WAS committed to that prison, under a warrant from
the Chisf Secretary of S.a.e. chargei with tteurna•
ble pi..etieest and if, 'spot' inr -stogation. 'ugh
niittal should ap;lear to he under a particular .%2of
iiuch Aft.-no-est:tied authority.
Mr. Bt..s to xcgni, ced in this, bat sit.3eioed the
mode, and undertilok to serve a notice alma I-1:s br
Attorney.'leneral, and the Crowts-S.ilkitor,
and prayed, that in the mean time the potitinn of
his client might be filed. to which the COUK I assented.

RAMS 6 ‘TE, Just. t 7.

This morning at two o'clock, the Nottingham
Mili•ia marched from this town for Canterbury.
where they Are to remain till further orders, hating
replaced the Derby Militia, which marched to Ash-
ford Iltrracks on Monday.
The conduct of the Nottingham Regiment. offi—
cers and privates, whilst in Ramsgate barracks and
town, Sec. has been such as to cause a considerable
regret at their departure. The soldier-like appear-
ance of this regiment does Colonel Could and his
officers infinite credit for their indefatiz tble ex-
ertions to perfect the men in military ~i.cil line
upon the whole they are a remark.tbly fine body of ;
men, about 900 strong, and of truly martial I
ap-
pearance.
A gnat numher of families have taken houses
within this lot tnizlit past, and it bids for to beg full
season here.

A vis;t to Compe.g.ge, in summer, and to Fon.
tainbkau in the autumn, were among the annu..l
eicarsio-.9 of the Royal Family of France perhaps
the lax joartery of ISO•AP Alves to the former place, '
may be one of his minsickri .s of ertyai:v. There is
a considerable army at Compe;r-, which is called
1
the Reserve of the Army on the Coal.
Esneriments are m il:Mg in Germany of inoctilae
ting sheep with the small-pos.
On the Sth instant, yt tg man (46 years old)
appeared at the imperial Palact at I".entsa, and
sired to speak to the Emeceoa. Fig, guards told
him, it was not a levee-day, and that he could ye*
see His MAJES rv. As he became ins dent, they ar-
rested and searched him. Some arms were found in
his peg ion, and it appeared that he was mad.
One of the great advantars of traveling-, the
knowledge of the produaions of more remote cli-
mates, is daly laid open to every visitor to the 80% A
MENAGERIE. EXETER 'CHANGE, where the best
collation of rare, living Foreign Beasts and Birds
ever offered to the Public is to be fwnd, for Pits
COCK is not only the possessor of Lotus, 'Floe's,
LEOPARDI, &c. to be seen in some other colleaions,
but also of a most astonishing ELEPHANT, %hose
uncommon sagacity is so much the subjea of con-
versation, with the Hyena, or Mountain Lion and
Lioness, lige-s. &c. from the Rio de la Plata,
Nylghaw, or Grand Antelope, Re , Kangag nos,
the female of which has a kind of pouch which her
young leave and enter at pleasure, Cassowary, and
many others equally deserving notice, to be fount,
alive, and in the most beautiful condition, in the
Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Cbmge.
A grand match of cricket, for one hundred gui-
neas, between the Gentlemen of East and West
Kent, was played on Boughton Lees on Monday
last, and won by the former t—a difirence arose be-
tween the parties who made the match, respating
the time of leaving off, but East Kent having 7
wickets to go down, and oily six runs w get, the
umpires allowed the match. and all bets to Masi-
nate in their favour.
West Ken' let im. 90
East Kmt 1 t do- be
Wes Kent 4,1 74
Lit Krot . 54 Jo 79
And 7 wickets !f,
Last week, seven persons, who hal been a long
time put I. the county goal of Warwick. under
sentence of transportation, received His Majesty's
most gracious pardon, and were severally discharged,
and retern-d t, their tespetteee homes.
On Tuesday eutaing two men ..rIJ one w 'man
were appsehts led at a public house hey nd Hock-
ley turnpik.e. near Birmingham, having in their
possession a oat number of forged Rant, of Eng-
land mattes. They waked t 1 e-e fur the pt rpose of
going by the Manchester Coach.
The ehild of Mr. 131.anco. of Baldw7n's Gardens,
who fell out of a window, by a brick giv gnay. a
few days since, when he was sent to the hospital, is
a shockingly bruised state, was yesterday brought
home dead. This was the last child out of 14 belong..
ing to the unfortunate parents, who have none lib
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