The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-04-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

has bans stated in several rapers, under the 'reed
of tiedratrisu lutelligente, that Mr. Boone tins lately walked
seven buLdred malts in twenty summits days and that it

u an sst:Jaishing performance exceeding every effort of tie
kind in the usemnry ache oldest spurting man living. Non,
as I conceive tv • pedestrian performances, 17,59 nod 177,,
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to be %titbit& But iirriod of ru'emory, and to far exceed that ek
Mr. boom, 1 have scut yen the following account albino.
In !''binary, 1759, George Guest, of Birmingham', warr-
ed to walk luo miles in 2$ tact esi.ve days; which he pier-
(twined in 07 days mid 19 hours, with great ease, walking the
last six mike within the hoer, although he had six hour* to
do it in, being after the rate 0(35 miles, 7 furlongs, and Ise
yards, per day, fur s 7 days and 19 hoes.
In November 1773, Fester Powell, clerk tom solicitor is
New Inn, Loudon, wagered to, 'talk fram Hielas-lfall, Lou-
don, I. York, and back, being 39e mike and a quarter, in
nix dap; which he ptaliwoued in Ise dart, eiihmen hours,
and ten Millubm, being after the rate of 69 miles, I &Rout,
and gib yard., per day, for that time. He started at tweet,
minutes pet Geelve in the usornirg, ou the guns of No-
vember, itaii al:tutted to Hicks's-Hall, December the ate, at
half-past six iia the comic', baying lye hours and fifty mi-
nutes to spore. He was five feet eight 'Tither in height, end
3 t "rink of age, end at the time su a very indifferent state of
health; and, on account of a pais is his side, obliged he
wear a strengthening plaister all the way. The first day he
walked to Stamford, e9e, mitts; the second_ day to bee-
cuter, 721 miles; the third day to York, and beet to Ferry.
bridge, Sei miles ; the nth day to Grantham, 66 miles and
5-'the , the fifth day to Eaton, 55 mike and 7-nthe ; and in
ihurteen heirs and thirty iniuutes of the sixth tiny, to
Ilickne-Hall, 1 ondon, Hie nightly rest was right
house the islet, Ire hours the second, eight hours the third,
six hours the fourth, and five boars the kf'h, besides two
Moors and • half rest at York.

lie had walked upon business frost New lon to 3Taidett-
bead-860p, and hack, which is upwards of ae irdes, is
seven hours, twin; eller the rate of seven miles and three
Ortittags an d• half pea hum'. without &Mawr% few any twee.
Yeses, &c. A. 11. C.
Lyndhurst, March 24, lsos.

The Euphentia, SA Grua, from London, fit
Tobago, is captured and carried into fluadaloupe.
Tuesday se uaight, about 6.e o'clock, William
Gtsiry and lIeU,, convicts ia Chime! (Aunty
gaol, under sentence of transportation, made their
escape from confinement, disgui►ed in women's •
clothes.

Tacker, the bankrupt. who had been tried and
aerated in Loudon, on the charge of embez-
zling his effects, and not appearing to his commis.
'ion, was indicted at Exeter for felmliously and
fraudulently tearing or getting oft' the stamps from
three bills of exchange, with intent fraudulently
to use such 'temps ou other bills of exchange: be
was acquitter.
Mr. Newsiest, of Ludnum. near Faversham.
hid a dog bitten by cue that was supposed to he
and was last week leading it across a met-
slow, when it broke. its collar, °sad ran at a very
valuable cow, which it hit. The cow very shortly
after shewed symptoms of madness, and it was
found necessary to kill her.
The Constable of Wolverhampton, when taking
down the names for the late Militia ballot. called
at the house of an old man named THOMAS EVANS.
who kept an ass to carry coals from the pit for
sale ; and inquiring of his wife, a very deaf old
woman, if she had a sou ? She answered, through
mistaking the 4uestion, " Hey, what do yen say ?
—there's our lommy," the name by which they
called the ass. The Constable asked her how old
Tommy was ? She replied, about twenty ; the
name of TOMMY EVANS was put in the list ; and
it so happened that TOSISIT was drawn.—N. hen
the Constable went to serve the summons. saying
he had a bit of paper for Tonne, the old woman
said he was in the garden, and shewed the place
where he was feeding. Peace-Otficer's charvin,
rin, and the merriment the town at his expense,
wheat's. donkey was actually dressed up with the
cockades of the recruits, and led through the
streets, may be readily conceived.
This week Greet Mid-lent Pleasure Fair, at Stamp.
ford, began, and considering that winter is yet
lingering, promises to be well attended. Monday
meriting and again at intervals in the alter.loon, a
brisk fall of wow rather disconcerted the gay pro-
menaders. The depressed state of the linen and
fancy-dress market, we understand. is remarkably
apparent ; many articles •of female dress selling at
half the price asked at the fair lest year.
From what fell, a few dies sin *, in nutmeat,
from the Csainett.nua of the Exceptive'. re.
'pectin; private Lotteries, it is pretty clear, that,
after the City Freeholds Schemes . re terminated.
so more primate Lotteries will be granted. This
sensation so extensively °pent:es, as to have excited
a great increaser( ;ntereet toward. the momentous
('ity Scheme, which is now so ea •at issue. le
consequence, a great portion of the public aupear
deternsiaml not to let such an opportie.ity of pro.
dot:tire adventure, for a trifling stake, esc:ipe thesti.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

RTIMOCTiII, ♦rail. 4.

Arrived the &indite's and Streit :toss I,oas a cruise;
Sniffiest and Ant, from Guernsey, having under
their convoy the Eclipse and Liimirtd transports ;
also a French privateer, and the American brig
.11exander, of Boston, both sent in by the Nedersa.
The whole of this day it has nlown a violent gale
of wind fmra the S. W. The American brig Aris-
tides, detained by the kly privateer, cut her
cablis this afternoon, and ran into harbour ; a mer-
chant brig is on shore on South Sea Beach.

DEAL, ♦PRIL. 4.

Arrived His Majesty's brigs Farago and Bold ;
the former from Plymouth, the latter from I'ort,-
muu•h, with convoys, both of which are sailed for
the liver. tome, NIARCH 30.

The American schooner, Mohawk, freeman At-
kins. Master, laden with barrilla and fruit, ha.
been forced into Kinsale by contrary winds. S:ie
came lag from Tormroca, a small creek near Ali-
cant, and has consequently been placed nuder
quarantine. She left Alicant on the sth instant.
It was known at that port chat the squadron which
had sailed from Carthagana had put into Majorca,
and, it was added, that the gale of wind which drove
them in had dWroasted several wall of the squadron.
. .

The Hibernia, all American vessoel, which bad
4rrived at Alicant, from 116 •tol, in ballast, to take in
a cargo, had been seised by a French privateer ly-
ing at the former port, merely for having been vi-
sited on the passage out by en English cruiser, and
immediately condemned. The Master of the Ili-
ivrtispius passenger on board the Mohawk. OA
the 9th inst. the Master of the Mohawk spoke the
Bulwark, of 74 guns, One of the squadron blacked,
iag Cedis, under the comiasuid of Admiral Purvis.
The Admiral had then with him thirteen line of
battle ships. It was catnintinicated to the Mohawk
from the jpdleark, that a sleet of merchantinen,
from England, bound up the Mediterranean, had
arrny,l at Ciiloraltar under convoy of a frigate.
Mohatek reports uothiNT of the r.uglish squas
/irons at sea, although she to all likelihood had
passed Sir R. Straelian.