The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-10 00:00:00

THE. MISER.

A miserable shop-keeper, near Newport-street,
stands at this moment unrivalled for economy, and
is considered the most extraordinary miser of the',
day. l'he penurious being alluded to, has long
been the subjeEt of conversation in the above neigh-
bourhood, where, by barely supporting his existence,
and denying himself the necessaries of life, he has
accumulated no less a sum than 18,0001. at present
in the funds. The singularity of his way of living
occasions much wonder how a human being, placed
among civilised society, and surrounded by abun-
dancT, can submit to privations so severe and de-
grading, while possessed of the means to satiate his
wants, and procure comfort ; yet true it is, that the
uniform happiness of this man's life, has been ob-
served to center in getting mere; and at this hour,
the property he has accumulated operates as a sti-
mulus, to persevere in the penurious course by
which it was obtained. To describe his person and
shop, he answers Shakespeare's eharafter of the apo-
thecary. Sharp misery has indeed wars him to the
bones, and his appearance is that of famine and in-
digence. His eloaths, worn for a number of years,
are in some parts ragged and covered with patches,
rudely sewed an by himself; not a living creature
is suffered to live with him, not even a domestic cat
or dug, lest they should increase his expenses by
eating food. In the morning, after opening his
shop, a halfpenny-worth of milk alone serves for
his breakfast ; and for dinner, he usually locks his
door, goes to the meanest cook's-shop, and there
buys a small portion of stale meat, the refuse of the
customers ; he is then satiated all day, and at nine
o'clock at night, having shut op his shop, retires to
rest under his counter, not on a bed, but straw, laid
within a box, made to his shape. like a code, and
thus buried, remains until his usual time of rising,
when he continues the same round of avarice, and
fails not to call it frugality. Such is the conduel of
. this miser ; and, in other respeftr, his sordid condo,
has become so publicly notorious, that be is not only
an objea of derision, but the contempt of all who
know him.

A pamphlet has been published at Paris, entitled
" Alliance of the Jacobins of France, with the Eng-
lish Ministry, the former tepresented by Citizen
Menre„ and the English Ministry by Mr. HA M.
MOND, Mr. Yottes, Lord Petit am, and Lord
HAWK, 4ALRY ; to which are annexed the Strata-
gems of F. Da Aar, his Co7respondence, Plans of
Campaign, fte." This pamphlet contains a detailed
account of the proceedings of M. M/3112, from the
time of his deportation to the Isle of Oleron, in the
eighth yeas of the Republic. Being anxious, it states,
to merit the revocation of his sentence by some dis-
tinguished service to the Government of his coun-
try, he escaped from the Isle of Oleron after the
Peace of Amiens, and arrived at London, where he
pretended to have abjured his revolutionary princi-
ples. By this stratagem be gained the confidence
of General WicLor, the Bishop of Amt.'s, and
Count Aaron. He secretly transmitted to the
English Ministers fabricated reports relative to the
state of France, and the projeas of the French
Government. Mr. HA MMOND. at an interview with
him on the subje!t of these communications, is said
to have informed him, " that the British Govern-
ment was extremely sensible of the zeal which he
testified for its interests ; but it: the state of peace
which it still maintained with France, no use cculd
be made of his good dispositions ;" assuring him,
however, " that, should a change of circumstances
take place, the offers which he had made would be
accepted with the greatest pleasure." Masser, sa-
gaciously foreseeing that the Treaty of Amiens
would non.las carried into effeitii and having spilling
at heart but how he could be useful to his country,
resolved to remain at Loudon until the commence-
ment of hostilities. War WAS no sooner declared
than MtHaa re-urged the adoption of his plans,
namely, " to establish an Insurreaional Committee
of Jacobins at Paris; to burn all the palaces of the
new Government; to blow up the powder-maga-
zines ; to assassinate Bonaparte and his friends, .msl
to replace in provisional a.livity the Revolutionary
Government!". Every article of these plans," says
M. Mentz, was received in the Council with a ge-
neral chorus of • Well, very well I'" The English
Ministry, however, apprehensive of committnis
themselves, caused M. -- to draw up the
instruaions with which M. Manna was provided.
On the 15th of September he received two passports
at the Alien Office, the one being in favour of Sieur
Meats, calling himself LA rOliClia ; the other de-
nominating him ST •sistaLs Jaacoosnv, a Polish
Gentleman. The rest of the pamphlet is occupied
with a description of Mr. Da ass's private cabinet
at Munich, and some observations on the a ridku-
lous pretension% internal divisions, and reciprocal
suspicions of the French Emigrants."

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MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GVILTHAI L, 1
10 m9Rituw.
Gtmrgr. Tod, K,nz's•toad, Sloane itare, surveyor • lit
Thomas C,,tlet•, Fritity4treet, warehouseman 1 11
John Ilayee, ALtelstorte, Kent, paper•tnateer .1 it

Richard Syker, CheapsAr, linen draper .
I haena. Thoesa4. Camomile perm', merchant

PR ICE OF

YIITI
Bank Stack 4fr2l
pat Ceat.
J pot Cent Goa. i6 121
4 pm Catai r"
5 per Cent. Plain/ - 92i
i per Cent. I.watty 9sli 1
Long Ann. j 7-16
tinny, Annuities........
I.nperial J per Cent 5;l
Ditto Annuities
Dish 5 per Cent .. • • .1134
Ihtio Annuities
Wes rod Stack

No. 4

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STOCKS.
CD AT.
Din niurn ..... • •• • ~ . 41 4 at
India Stock iyt in'
Ditto Bonds..
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South Sea 5t0ck............
ul& Annuities
New ditto ..........
1 per Cent. 1AM.... .....
Exchequer fill's. ...... •
Eng.. Lottery timbal; Ir. i.
Idsh ()manna. ..... i.
Bank foe 1
India for .. ....... •
Cantos for... St4iti
r. Waif, Stock Stoker,
:'cardull, and 9, Charing Crow ,

PRICE. OF IRISH STOCKS.
MAT 4.

Government Deb. 5 per Cent. 99;
Ditto, Si percent.
Ditto Stock, S per cent.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Fatear, MAY •,

Vsaice 59
Naples 37(
L.sbns
Opono 6l/
Dublat 16.1

Amsterdam ... 37 II 2W.
Ditto at Sight 37 4
Rotterdam .... 3B 0 YU.
Flattiburgh 95 9 211/.
Alton 35 ''../ 2gLI.
Paris
Ditto
Hausdeaux 25 14 ' Portugal Gold In Coin
Madnd
Dan. 35 eifee Doubloons
Cadiz —in Paper. New Dollars
1/ato
li:lbo-
Leghorn
Genoa 45 54 per Cent.
Dublin on London (May 4) 15 1,
Belfast on London ( May 1) 6 7 11
Nast on Dublin (May 1) 94 g 61 days.

COAL EXCHANGE, MAY 7.
But Coals, in the rool, per Chaldron 495. Od.
Delivered to Housekeepers at Gls. Od.
Sund.eland, per Chaldron 45r Od.
helmeted to Housekeepers at .s"s Od.

BIRTHS.
On Saturday, at his house in Weymouth-street, the Lady
Capt. Gill, of sin.

At the R ,ght Icon. Lady Caroline Leigh's, Sloane-street.
the Hon Mrs. Leigh of a daughter.
At he house in Berkeley-alum', the L.dy of Sir George
Shee, Bart. of a daughter.
On Saturday hist, at her hove in Keyasosthetreet, the
Right Hun. Lady Harriott Gill, of a soil.
0 t Friday int, to Baker-street, rortnaan-square, the Lady
of Charles Law, Esq. of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
A few rtayg since, at St. Gileal, Dorset, by the Dean et
Exeter, Mr. John Sweittinan to Miss Mary Turnbull, bout of
St. Gael's.

At Farnborough, the Rev. J. Pratt, Rector of Seddlescoolo.
Sussex, to Misr M. A. Berens, daughter of Jos. Berens, Esq.
of Revington, Kent.
At St. Andrew's, Chiehester, Mr 3. Philp, of Midhur
to Mrs Mary Dally, of Clareherter, one of the people
Quakers.

OH the 45th of July littt, Charles D'Oyley, Esq. sun of Si
John Hadley D'Oyley Bart. Ind one of the Assistants in dr
wernor General's (Ake in Bengal, to the trulyosoub'e and
highly accomplished Milaßtrrianta bear, youngest daughter of
Wm. Gear, Esq. of Kerhasen, near Lyaimigton.
Mr. John Burden, of Lambeth, to Miss _Word, of MA,.
cheater.

Bartholemew Je'rev, Eq to Mi:s Mulesworth, eldest
daughter of the late Richard Moletworth,
M St. atores, Hanover Nave, Joseph !Mosey, E.q.
the Royal Bucks Militia, to Miss Vint, of W. eatft,ld,
the county of Oxford.
The same dav, at the Quakers-Meeting, Wood br Age, Mr_
Maw, tallew•cilandler, of Ipswich, to Miss Maria Jesup, thsr
daughter of Mr. Ben;amin Jesup, of the forgoer place.

DEATHS.

The Rev. Mr. Hume, a Pred endary and Precentor of the
Cathedral Church of Sarum, and Vicar of lleevalull, is the
county of Wits.
At the Parsonige.house, Rosconabe, the Rev. S. Topping.
Rector of Blatchington, Sussex, aged 83 years.
fa the 6M year of his age, and 27th of hit Miaistry, is
Rlackbum, the Rey. James M'Quay.
At Rochdale, the Rer. James Burgos, aged SS, format!,
Pastor of a thosesting Congregation at Whitworth, seat
Rochdale.

At ins Father's hansoms Thibbary Terrace, George Fish.
Oa Tuesday leri issiversally lamented, Mrs Trotter, snit
of Dr. Trotter, , and only daueter of the gal Las
Csntaio Events, vibe 11111 killed on hoard 11i, Majesty's ship
Roby, in 1f99.