The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-24 00:00:00

THEATRE,

DILitY LASF.
Last night, Miss DUNCAN performed Miro •:,
in the lively Comedy of The Busy 11,4 y. She a,
extremely happy in her delineation of this t a cciliatin
charader ; and was extremely playful in the stet
with her " Ossarthe." The new Farce of Matrimtry
has already established itself in public favour. Some
new scenery was introduced into it last night, w'il6
had a very fine effeel. Mrs. JORDAN wa. in charm-
ing spirits. The &louse presented a brilliant Audieuce.

Yesterday Morning, at seven o'clock, His MA-
JESTY left kekt for Windsor. About twelve o'cluA
lier MAJ EST Y and the Paiscassas followed, from
the QUEEN'S House.
A number of Paintings are removing from Kea.
sington Palace to the Qv ELIA house, in the room A:
those sent to Windsor.

His M %JEST v, on his way to town on Mayday,
from Kew, stopped at Kensington Palace, on a tis::
to the Duke of KEN r, and viewed His Royal High-
ness's apartments for above an hour.
Lord St. Hrt.ett's lett Burlington-street yesterday,
to visit His MAJESTY at Windsor.

The Earl and Countess of CARDIGAN, and Lady
C. WALMONAVL, return to their house in GreSte•
nor-street. this es'', for the winter.

The Earl of CAMDEN left Arlington-street yes-
terday morning, at six o'clock, to attend Ilk Ma..
MTV, at Kew.
fiady Jourdsroma has taken a house in Stomprn.
The Earl of Serrots will not come to town un.,i
after Christina% when his new house in Arlin
street will b. ready for his reception.
The Hon. Mr. Di Lunt, M. P. is returned I.
Ireland to Curzon-street.
Sir Flaaav and Lady Esen.zricsn returnc,
torn on 'l'hursday, from Cheltenhan..
The Countess of 135t.i. A 11014 I sister to the I. r
Duke of I.cossraa, has taken a house in Brunii-
EOM.

The Earl of TSiA T 11 MORE is entertaining alu
party of fAbhionablel, at his seat, near Dinh.a.
After the Durham Hunts.

We have tit pleasure of stating the Doclicsi
ROIBU0.l:41'S mother is mu of da.iscr.
Sir SIMON CLARKE'7 fine collection of !millet!
arrived yesterday from the Continent, at his hot:
in Gloucester Place.

Count Be t ufoi.•ts left town yesterl,y, on .1
visit to the Duke of 0 ILLS* NS, at Twickenham.
The Olympic Circus at Glasgow opened •
Monday last. SMITH. C110%11,4 AN, and Mi
PA nevi, are the strength of the company.
. We are sorry to bud. that Mr. Haiku, the par n
cipal Proprietor of Covent-garden Theatre, has bee"
some time much indisposed, at his seat, near I.*:
bridge. He is, however, in a fair way gnaw...
recovery.
The Vstw of Rout in the Strand still cocain',
to draw the admiration of the Public ; indeed, the
artist ippears to have been so happy in the Jesi:.:
and execution of this paintir.g, as to warrant -
comparison between it, and the works or our b(
Poets ; which, as they become more kno%m. he'
come more popular—its attraction has been
greati and its number of fashionable visitots si i4.l*
memo, as to have induced the Proprietors to
Swinish the intention, for the present, of substita
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CALCUTTA, MARCH 12.
On Monday His IVlajesters ship Fur, Captain Va-
ginn. arrived from Bashire, wheace she sailed on
the Rids ult. leaving the Paatier cruiser, and the
] aja,4aw, Trintmen, and Shlnnl7, and C•ede in that
quarter. The r•r has brought an additional sup.
Fly of English Papers to the fluth Oaober, and Con-
tinental ones to the 9th November.
Samuel Manesty, Esq. was preparing to proceed
on the emhascy to the Court of Persia.
On Wednesday last, arrived the .if,tzujer, hav-
ing on board Sidman Aga, the ambassador from
his Highness the Basha of Bagdad to his Excel.
lency the Most Noble the Governor General of
India.
As soon as the vessel in the offiing was known to
be the 3lttusfrr, Nicholas Hankey Smith, Esq. the
Mehmendar, and Mirza Mehedi Ali Khan, proceed-
ed on board in a bunder boat, to inquire after the
Arnhassa tor's health, and to announce their inten-
tendon of returning on the following day, with two
more gentlemen, to invite and attend his Excellency
on shore.
On the same day, a zeafut of fruits was sent on
board for His Excellency the ambassador, and for
his suite and the whole c ew.
The Afivsyrer was brought to an anchor below
the Middle Ground, and such a disposition was
made of the principal ships in the harbour, belong.
ing to the Company and private merchants, as
might enable them to salute the Ambassad.r with
the best effect on his pa's:age from the ship to the
shore.
Yesterday Mr. Smith, and Wheel); Ali Kahn,
accompanied by the Quarter Master General, and
one of the Governor's aid-de-camps, proceeded on
board the Musuj;•r, in the balloon richly ornament-
ed, to congratulate the Ambassador on the part of
the Governor of Bombay, on his arrival, and to
invite ::nd attend His Excellency on shore. A
separate boat, with French horns and other mu.
vical instruments adapted for the water, attend-
ing close on the balloon, to play the whole way to
the shore.

A proper number of blinder boats also attended
to convey such of the Ambassador's suite, a; might
be appointed to laud with him ; each boat havin, a
marine officer on b.iard, and so stationed, as that
the whole fleet might proceed in regular order, and
he so placed, as to give the best possible effect to
their attendance on the principal boat.

At about noon the Ambassador quitted the Al/n-
-titff,r, and was saluted by the !hip► in the harbour
in his progress towards shore.
. • .

he Ambassador was received on his landing at
the Dock Pier by the Secretary t.) Government, the
Adjutant General, and the Governor's Military Se-
cretary, w!io were rtispectively introduced to His
Excellency by the Mebmendar, and under a saint.
ell seventeen guns from Hnrnby's Battery. The
Ambassador then proceeded in a state palankeen
provided for the purvse, and in slow time, tin :mg!:
a street, composed ot all the poops in garrison, front
the Duck Pier to the Governoi's house, preceded by
the garrison band playing appropriate tunes, and
the troops saluting him as he p ASS! 1. The Ambas-
sador's palankeen was attended by Cliolodars, &c.
and the Peons under the Superintendant of Polite,
Mr. Halliday himself attending to station them in
the most eligible manner. Next to the Ambassa-
dor's palankeen, followed the palankeens of the
Gentlemen appointed to receive him at the Pier-
head, and after those, the palanke.ms of the Gentle-
mim who conduded him on share, and of the Am-
bassador's own suite.,
On their arrival 41 the Givernor's house, Mr.
Smith and Mehe.ry Art Khan introduced the Am-
bassador, as well as the principal officers of his suite,
the Hon. the Governor.

At the foot of the stairs of the Government-house,
the Ambassador was received by the Commanding
Officer of the Forces and the Superintendant Ma-
rine, and being handed up stairs to the Governor,
was condoned to a couch at the end of the state
room, richly ornzmented and prepared for the pur-
pose.

After the accustomed complimentary ceremonials
had been observed, and His Excellency introduced
to the Recorder, the Resident at Poona, and the
General and Field Officers attending, the Honour-
able the Governor tendered a carriage to the Ana-
bassador, as a mark of friendship, and for His Ex-
cellency's accommodation during his stay at this
Presidency, Coffee, Sec. was then introduced ;
af-
ter partaking of which, the Ambassador retired ; the
*slehmandar accompanying him to the house pre-
pared for his rccistion at 13) culla!).
The Ambassador has, we understand, expressed
the utmost satisfaetion at the accommodation which
has been provided for His Excellency.
A great concourse of people assembled to witness
the entrafee of this distinguished stranger.

MADRAS, DEC. 10.

On Wcdneklay evening, the Sons of Caledonia
pee a Grand National Entertainment to the Ladies
and Gentlemen of the settlement, at the Exchange,
in honour of their Tutelar Saint.

At nine o'clock, the comp .ny began to assemble
—shortly after, the Right Honourable the Governor,
and Lady William Bentmck arrived, and were con-
duaed to the Ball Room by the Stewards of the
evening.
The first dance was led off by her Ladyship and
Mr. Roebuck, one of the Maaagers of the enter-
trinment.

The supper, as may be naturally supposed, con-
sisted ~4" every laaury procurable in the settlement,
and the Champaigne, and other wines, were of a
must choice and delicate scle4tion.

A Committee. -chosen from the Subscribers, was
appointed some days previous, for seleCting Stew-
ards, and making choke arrairi;ements nece.sary lot
the occasion.
Few entenainments have been given to the set-
tlement, more deserving of particular notice ; and
%te may he permitted to add, that the management
could not have fallen into better hands, than of
'hose Gentlemen selthied for the purpose, to whom
every praise is due for their obliging and hospi,ahle
attention to the amusement and gratification of their
visitors.

LAW.

COURT OF Mrs BENCH, WtSTUrNSTIII, Nov.
The greater part of this day the Court was occu-
pied in hearing legal arguments, upon two' Ejeet-
ment Cases :.the one, Doe on the demise of the Earl
of Bet kley, v. the Archbishop of York; and the
other, Carr v. the Earl of Errol.
The arguments in the first case were ably enf need
by Mr. Serjeant BAILY fcr the Plaintiff; and Mr.
Glass for the Defendant. The question in this
case was, whether the acceptance o• a subsequent
lease was not a good surrender of a former? The
arguments in the second case were supported or,
each side by Messrs. D A AI Pita and Flo L ROYD j and
the question turned principally upon the construc-
tion of certain devises in a will, providing for con-
tingent remainders.
On both cases, after hearing the arguments (the
whole of which were entirely uninteresting to the
public), the Court postponed their final judgment
to a future day.
Mr. Gals:tow moved for an inquisition to Le taken
before Lord Et.t.emaolol.ll4H, against a gentleman
in the city, who, upon receiving his correspondent's
letters from abro.l6l, threw them all into the fire,
unopened, and afterwards meeting the latter upon
'Change, before all the merchants in London, com-
mitted a violent assault upon him.
The Court refused the inquisiton, but granted a
Rule for agood Jury to try the cause.

WARD r. LowittNn.

Mr. TOPPING moved for a Rule to shew cause,
why the Exchequer Bills, lodged to the cre.lit of
this cause, with the clerk of Ni., Prim', should not
be delivered tip to the bail. The prior
on the part of the Plaintiff, we give in our Paper
of yesterday.
The Court granted a Rule to shew cause.

COMMON PLEAS.

BENJAMIN SMITH r. BENJAMIN SMITH and

CHERRY.

Serjeant SHEPHERD moved for a Rule to shew
cause, why the Defendant Cherry should not be
discharged from confinement ; and stated, as the
grounds of his application, that there had be-n a
collusion between the Plaintiff and the other De-
fendant, to keep him in jail. Smith, the Plaintiff,
was father to Smith, the agenda:lt. The two De-
fendants were some time ago partners in trade ; bur,
on account of some dispute between then), the part-
nership was dissolved. The Defendant, Smith, had
brought into the partnership A sum of money, which
was advanced to him by his father, the Plaintiff : on
the dissolution of the partnership, the two Smiths in-
sist• d, that the property of the partnership should
be transferred to the Plaintiff, as paythent of the
money lie had advanced to his son, befOre he enter-
ed into partnership with Cherry; but this beingre-
fused on the part of die Defendant, Cherry, he was
arrested on a Bill of Exchange, of which he knew
nothing, but was convinced that it was executed by
the Defendant Smith, since the partnership was
dissolved, and ante-dated some months, so as to
bring it to the time in which the partnership existed.
In this belief he was strengthened by the manner in
which he was arrested; for, though Smith the younger
and Cherry were made Defendants, yet, when the
Plantiti and the sheriff's officer came to the house
where Cherry was, the Defendant Smith, who ac-
companied them, was not made a prisoner, but at-
tended him to jail with the sheriff's officer, as a
kind of additional guard.--Rule granted.

ANDRLW M4NIAHOST, Esq.
This entleman was brought into Court, and
moved for a Rule to chew cause why the excu-
tion under which he was arrested should not be set
aside on account of irregularity ; he grounded his
motion on an affidavit sworn by him, which stated
that he had lodged a writ of error against the judg-
ment obtained by the Plaintiff; but, nevertheless,
was arrested on his way home from Court, although
he had served the attorney of the Plaintiff with no-
tice to that effea, and he believed the execu-
tion was not regularly issued, La, on enquiry at the
prepi-r offii:e, nothing of the kind could be found.
An affidavit of the service of the notice on the op-
posite Attorney, and of the search at the Sheriff's
Office was handed in, on all which he grounded his
Application.
Rule to chew cause granted; and also an order
that Mr. fal‘Malion should be brought up on the
day of spewing cause.