The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-03-16 00:00:00

YOC.il, CONCERT.

Letters received yid Bussorah state, that the
Fre-ch privateer La forome, which has been so
successful in cruising against our wade in the East-
ern Seas, and hid lately taken several vessels in the
Gulph of Persia, wal met to the Westward of
B imbay, on the Bth November last, and, after a
shwa re.istrtice, captured by flis MAJZST 'es ship,
Concorde. privateer, it is said, has taken, dur-
ing the war, ne..r 20 sal our merchant-ships, se-
veral of them a ith very valuable cargoes.

Last night the Managers of this excellent Con-
cert, Messrs. Gilt/11016ER. HA RIBON, and BAR-
-1 LEM AN, provided et most admirable seleclion for
their Subsc. ihers. The room was uncommonly
crowded. Earls DARNLEY, FORTRSCUIL, And DA RT-
Rl'llir M, cat in the Royal Box. SARTI'S celebrated
Trnscitu was most admirably sting by Miss
PARK,
M. HARRISON, And Mr. BA RIL IM AN, and they
were de,trvedly encored. The, well-known Duet of
Imee Phertu: the top of She' bills dors onkrn, composed
by H4Nott., with Accumpaninvntai for horns and
LIMON by the Late Ds. A. was sung in the
mist fini,hed style by I-haat:AlN And BART LEM AN,
and way. ror,ered. MiSITENN•NI'L sweet voice WAS
heal d ith the :most charming effeCt in the song of
Let' haveila.er upon thr hrulb, from ALicbeth. Miss
PA RN sa:ig Mad Brit in her usual excellent style.—
The second act commenced with G a A :;S'A.celebrated
Te Drum.

Yesterday morning, about half past eight o'clock,
His NlA's& r kit Kew in his travelling carriage
for Windsor.

Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, Her MA-
'MY gave a grand breakfast to the Princess of
WALES. Breakfast was served up in the Grand
Saloon. The grand service of plate was used upon
the occasion. The Duke of KENT came from
Kensington Palace to be of the party.
At one o'clock Het MAJESTY and the Pei pa-
tassel left the Queen's House fur Windsor.
The !epic!, headers complain they have been too
heavily taxed already. Mr. PITT little knows at
what an immense expewee of time, truth, and inde-
pendence, legacies are often purchased.
This evening Lady ELIOT gives a grand route at
her house in Downing•street.
Mr. FosTLa's new tax upon fri.b been: is exped-
ed to diminish the number of bulls.

Mr. :lute is employed upon a portrait of Mrs.
BILLINOTON, which is cxpefted to prove a the
d'oeuvre.

The rum Roseita is allowed to be an abler finan-
cier than Mr. PITT. The Managers say he can
fill the treasury without the aid of Rev taxer.
Mr. Aset.sv, sen. we are concerned to state,
died on Thursday at his house in Abingdon-street,
Westminster.

Mr. PALM[R, Member for Bath, left town yester-
day for that city.
The Yowl Roma played Hamlet on Thursday
night for his Benefit. A benefit performance is not
considered a fair field for criticism. When he
comes properly before the public in slat character
we shall give our report of it.
The Oratvrt• last night, at Covent-Garden, went
off with great eclat. Mrs. A‘HF., in Ifolj, Holy,
drew (firth enthusiastic applause; and, Come, it' voa
dare, by Mr. Ba AII t6l, had an astonishing effe&.
Indeed, every performer and part of the perform-
ance commanded loud and universal approbation.
The Bath Harmonic Society have anaounced a
Fete Champetre for the Ladies, at Sydney Gardens,
on Tuesday, the 21st of May : Patron, His Royal
Highness the Prince of WALIS; President, E. Gi R-
amis Esq. Vice President, Major Noel..
The Brest Fleet, under Admiral GAN Tut A van,
is denominated in all official Orders, The
freperfef Navel Army of the Ocean."
Sir Sinner SMITH was at Dover, on Wednesday,
inspeßing his new-construaed boats.
Messrs. IR tra aoxa and B•RIERR'S beautiful View
of Rome, which has long deservedly experienced the
flattering and universaladmiration and patronage
of the lovers of sublime painting, is to be with-
drawn from the PANORAMA in the Strand, on Sa-
turday next, to give place to a Vino of the Say .qf
Napier Moral rensysisz, and neighbouring °Nees ;
but the Painting of Sir SIMNIT SMITH'S liagagetaeat
with the enemy's 4144 OthNd is to remain open
for public iaspoition.

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
There has been a derangement at our Farming
Repository.
.The.breeders of cattle held their an.
nual thew this . week, and, to reimburse them-
selves 501. which,they pay for the use of the pre.
mises for the spew days, they charge the public a
shiiling a head for each admission. This was resist-
ed by the servants, and others, who had hors sat
livery in the same concern, and a scene of much al-
tercation and confusion has hence arisen. A rage
for buying paintings, hitherto unkrviwn here, is now
prevalent in this city. To attend Lectures upon
Painting, is the most fashionable of all the amuse-
ments of the fair sex, and has almost thrown the
dancing master and the music-master into the bark
ground. Our concerts are over, and the theatre
begins to flag. The Earl and Countess of klard-
wicke mix freely and generally in society.

There is, it is said, to be a huge encampment on
Hanger I)..wn,,,ear Plymouth, of 5,000 troops, this
summer, a..t centrical position near the ea COA,t,
and a very commanding situation. N. E. of Sla•+e.
the seat of .1. Pone, Esq. and Stoford Lodge, the
seat of H. Rivxsts, Esq and in the vicinity of Ivy.
bridge, plentifully supplied with water from the
Arme and Plym Rivers. This encampment. it is
said, is the suggestion of General Sint ua, Corn.
mander in Chief of the western distria.
Several of the transports to be ensployed in the
secret expedition, have saile•f from Portsmouth for
Plymouth, and fourteen others have received sailing
instructions.
Five waggons arrived yesterday from Ports-
mouth, under an escort of infantry, l'iaied with
dollars from the Spanish prizes
The Hon. Auousrus CAVINDICII BIADSH AW has
been the successful candidate for the Bornug t of
Honiton. The poll closed finally on Wedne.day,
when the numbers were,

For the Hon. A. C Bra,l.haw 24'
William Cotitteitay, koq .

Islapr.ty I
It is understood, that the borough of Knare ho-
rough will bewatmlycontested. The names f see
gentlemen are mentioned as candidates, and nu-n r.
uus eleftioneering squibs are already in circul stion.
The town is all anxiety and hustle. pa-tly from ap-
prehension for the pit, and partly from expe,24tioa
from the future.

A Meeting of persons in the Corn Trade was bel
last weelcat Leeds, at which it was resolve', th the
MI of last Session, to regulate the Imperraqi n and
Exportation of Corn, and the Bounties and Duties
p.iyable thereon, had tended to advance the price of
Grain, and that a Petition should be presented to
Parliament, praying the repeal of said Aft.
Wednesday morning, between seven and eight
o'cl.,ck, twenty male convins, ender sentence of
transportation, were removed from Nmegaut, in a
long coatis, to Woolwich, to be put on board the
hulks stationed there.

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Last week, Mrs. CUNN I tet:Sl A SI, at KarrlallTS. Scot-
land, having risen during the night and a
costae, it eremite hntd of part of her dress, by which
het face and different parts of her body were to
much burned. that, after languishing for several days,
she expired in great agony.
Thursday a man w.is charged before the magis-
trate?, at Batton Garden. with cruelty to his child, a
g 1.1 el 12 years old. The witnesses who lived in the
same house with the prisoner and his wife, stated that
they weir both in r:n• habit of ill-using :he
beating her about the head and loins with knotted
cords, so as to cut her flvsh, then immerse bee in
cold water, and shoe bee in a store yard for hcurs
during the cold weather, and at th.n,e ours she was
fastened by an iron chain to prevent her escaping.
That by some stratagem she Jid effed her escape,
and wandered about the streets several days Ard
nights without food. Some women, who lived in
Termill street, took her under their prate Rion, where
her rather found her, took her home, anal iavented a
new species of torture, by putting her hands into the
fire, then putting her to bed, and throwing a lar v•-1
full of hot cinders on her ; bee flesh bore enid. ne
marks of the cruelties she had endured. The prisoner
in his defence accused the girl of obstinacy and dis-
honesty, which WAS not supported. Ihe wife, step-
mother to the girl, who was also in custody, WAS dis-
charged, and the father committed to prison for
want of bail. It is said he is an itinerant preacher,
and wears an outward shew of sanditv, although in
the humble station of porter to booksellers.
On Friday last a Court Martial was held on one
of the Drummers in the Third Battalion of Loyal
Birmingham Volunteers, for a breach of the Ist ar-
ticle of the tithe sedion of the Articles of War, viz.
Desertion, and inlisting into Oa. Royal Marines : he
WAS tound guilty, and sentenced to receive 150
lashes ; but, being his first offence, he was strongly
recommended to mercy. Accordingly, on Monday
morning he was brought out with the battalion to
receive his punishment, which, the Colonel, with
great humanity, remitted ; but he informed the
line, that though clemency was extended in this in-
stance, from several mitigating circumstances, the
utmost rigour would attach to all future infractions
of the ditty of a Volunteer.

At Worcester Assizes, which began on non-
day last, Enoch Nfur:•hy, alas Evoke Ka4 fad, aims
Enoch Ksnrelaugh, was tried for bigamy, ha
having married Er. t•trea LUTIFTCH, wildr his
former wifr was living. He was found Geese, after
a trial of sir hours. This trial excited much atten-
tion, and the hall was immensely crowded to hear
it. The prisoner aged as his own counsel, and
pleaded for himself.

While several Speculators cleared large Sums in
the Last Lottery, by a resale of the Tickets they
had early purchased, num:•rous Adventurers, fruits
Procrastination, under an idea that Tickets wtailri
materially fall in Price on the eve of the Drawing,
subjefled themselves to the Payment of a consider-
able advance. Such Speculators have already begun
to possess a Stock of 1 ickets in the present great and
very superior Scheme, which will, consequently.
tend to enhance the Price, and that speedily, of the
Lottery Market. With such reiterated experience
of the ill effeets of dela", as Adventurers have
found in the List three of four Lotteries, can
they longer pursue, with common prudence, the
System of postponing their Purchases to the Igg
Moment ?

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