The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-02-03 00:00:00

KAV.IL INTELLIGENCE.

roirrsmourni TEL 1.
Arrived last evening, his Majesty's ship. Dryad,
Capt Williams, from Weymouth, and remains with
the squadron. Wind W. N. W. and moderate.
Passed by the City of London, Lander, for Ind.-4.
His Majesty's ship rererable, Capt. Searle, of 74
guns, now in the harbour, is ordered to be fitted
out as fast as possible, being intended for foreiga
service as soon as she is ready for sea.
'llte Aurora frigate, oire of the ships of the New-
fonadl.lnd station, will be ready for docking the
next spring tide.
It is with much satisfaction we find that seamen
enter with great alacrity on board two re-connnis-
sinned frigates, the Aciophioft and Alaroeur, in the
harbour.

DOVER, FEB. 1.

Mons. de Souza Canterichn, Envoy Extraordinary
from the Prince Regent of Portugal, is hourly ex-
pected here from Calais.
The Duchess of York passage vessel, Capt. Wat-
son, sailed this morning, with passeogers for Calais,
bat will not be able to go into the harbour, as the late
winds have occasioned a bar across the entrance,
which entirely precludes the passage vessels from
going out or in. We understand th.tt the harbour
of Boulogne is in the same predicament.
The little passage vessel, the Nancy, Capt. Lati-
more, arrived here early this morning, with the
Hon. Mr. Pierrepont and Mr. Campbell ; with dis-
patches for the Neapolitan Ambassador also.
Amongsrthe vessels which arrived last night, are
the following : The Woodman, of and from Shields,
Young ; Happj Return, from Arundel, Lillywhite ;
Forty:le': Increase, Walton ; Irish Miner, of and
from Cardigan, laden with butter, for London,
Nicholls ; Thomas and Mary, from Blackney, with
bark, for Leith ; Hope, of London, Goddin, with
timber ; Nautilus, of Shields. Clowe; Faint, of sad
from Leith, White, with wine and brandy, from
Bourdeaux ; May Flower, of Sunderland, —;
Staff of Lift, of Yarmouth, with salt, from Liver-
pool, ; Retard, of and from . Arundel, for
Newcastir, —; Experiment, of and from Arun-
del, for Newcastle, —; and Yrow Sarah, of and
from Amsterdam, laden with salt, Prins, bound to
the Texel.

The brig Mertury, of Yarmouth, has put in
leaky, and cargo shifted, laden with brandy and
wine, bound to Amsterdam.

Time will not permit me to mention the others,
which are chiefly colliers and tember-siiips.

FROM LLOYD% LIST.
The Elope, fledglcinsun, from Whaehaven for Dublin,. is
lost off beelin, and all the Crew.
Thr Endeavour, Lyall, from Rotte►dara ; the *sloop re y,
a( and a Duteli vowel, said tube the V ruw
Ida, VaVI Mal, are low in the Orkneys. _ _ .

The Columbia, Fortisych, fr... 4. Savannah, lin Liverpool, s
lime Dutnot.
The Ellwoo I, Fisher, (rem Whitahaven, is lost near the
ble of Man, and all the Crew.

!ARMED.
At Liverpool—the Louisa, from Charh tong, Phoe-
nix, Duncan, from Hauthro'; and the Etta, Btackbank, from
St Michael's.
At Bristol—the Sally, !plunger, from New York. "
At Kinsale—the Elelya, neti, from Honduras.
At Bolfatt—the Teresii, ‘furioiy, from Quebec.
Al Galway—the Ain, Yomielusbanil, from Now York.
At Newry—llse A firm, Harri,y, fro in Wilmington.
At Cork—tire Sally, Guaulei, from Lobar; and the Nell',
Lawton, from Deritra-a
At Ncw York—the Telegra;•h, Gardiner, from Liverpool.
At Africaa—the Awe*, &yes, fmin Liverpool,
At Trie,te....rbe Patty, llayccck, from Lonflon.
At Veitice--the k IGs, 3one3, art.! the larlustty, Wier, from
Ccenwall.

The late Mr. Penneck. of the British Museum,
deserves more than a mere record of his death. He
WAS a man of distinguished talents, and of tke .high-•
est sense of probity and honour. A firmer and more
per severing friend never existed. He never thought
any thing a toil or a trouble that enabled him to
serve thria... whom he had reason to deem meritori-
ous objects of regard. He was descended from a eery
re.ipect.able and antier.t family in the county of
Corsa all. IHr NV:IS himself the son of a younger
brother, and was educated for the church. He
entered early in life at Trinity College, Cambridge.
When the Earl of Bristol went Ambassador to
Madrid, Mr. Pennock was chaplain of the embassy,
but did not, as is usual in such situations, receive
any patronage from Government, and he was
too diffident and too delicate to press his preten-
_sions. His chief and, indeed, only patron, was
the late Earl of Godolphin, to 'shom his father vras
steward. By the interest of this inestimable and
amiable nobleman, Mr. Penneck became Rector of
St. John's, Bermondsey, and of Abingx,r, in the
county of Surrey. By the same friendly patronage,
Mr. Penneck obtained his situation -in the British
Museum. The gratitude of Mr. Penneck towards
this Nobleman, never abatedin his mind, bat to his
last moment he spoke of him with veneration and
re•rard.
Mr. Penneck was also .chaplain to the Lord Or-
ford, who immediately preceded the late Horace
Walpole, and succeeded Dr. &ebbing as Lecturer
of ft. Catharine Cree, in which situation his abilities,
as an eloquent preacher, were highly distinguished.
He has left many manuscript sermons, which we
hope will not be lost to the public.
Mr. Penneck was through life the gubject of an
hereditary gout, which disabled him from all ac- .
tive exertion for some months in every year, .and
finally put a period to his life. If be had not snf-
fered under this severe malady, his -constitution
would most probably have prolonged his life to a
-very late period. As a proof of the benevolence of
his disposition, it should be mentioned, that heyro-
posed to three of his friends, the formation of a
Club, for the purpose of assisting any unfortunate
persons that might be known to any of the par-
ties, conceiving that though -one man could *to
little to encourage
..genius, or relieve distress, four
persons might co-operate with effect. This amiable
association consisted of Mr. Penneck, Dr. Warner,
Mr. Ramsay, all clergymen, and Mr. Cair, Pre-
ceptor to Sir John St. Aubin, and to Sir Abra-
ham Hume. '1 he good offices which were effected
by this benevolent combination, many persons now
alive have reason to remember with gratitude. All
the members of this philanthropic confederacy are
now no more. Mr. Penneck, the founder, and
the last survivor of this humane Institution, paid
the debt of nature on Saturday last, in the se-
venty-fourth year .of his age, to the regret of
a numerous body of intelligent !fiends, who
venerated his virtues, and have often enjoyed the
pleasure arising from his good sense, his knowledge
of the world, his friendly zeal, and his solid and
unostentatious learning.

'; Air

EUGENE ARAM.
The account in our paper of Monday last, to
which the following article alludes, was copied from
another daily paper.

To the Entrox of the Beirisn Pans.
Si R,
As truth ought ever to be the primary object of
research, I trust you will find a place for the fol-
lowing correction of an article which appesutd in
your paper of Monday morning, respecting EUGENE
Al AM. The writer of the article appears to have
quoted, merely from memory and a memoir of Eu-
GLNE AR AM, published by HARGR AVE of Ktrares-
borough. The father of EUGtNE ARAM was a
gardener, of whom no account is preserved to in-
form us, whether that brilliancy of talent, and acme-
ness of genius, which his son displayed, descended
from him, or were adventitious in the son; Etroesie
meeting with some mathematical books in his fa-
ther's library, formed the resolution of becoming a
mathematician; this he accomplished merely by the
aid of books. From mathematics, his pursuits
changed to the acquisition of the dead languages,
and the most considerable of the living ones ; these
too he effected in a manner which dues honour to
the inventive faculties of man, and affords a con-
vincing proof of the immense capacity of the hu-
man soul. Being of a tender disposition, manual
labour was rejected for the dissemination of his
powers, in the capacity of a schoolmaster ; though
it is extremely natural to suppose, that under the
tuition of such a literary constellation, scholars
woold make a very rapid progress yet we are not
informed, whether he ever bad a pupil that did
honour to the abilities of his tutor ; it is certain, that
his seminary ranked with very inferior classes,
and that few seemed sensible of his great merit.
It is said, that his fire dereliction from the paths of
honour, was in the formation of a garden from the
produce of the neighbouring gentlemen's horticul-
tural care; in this practice I+OISSE %I A N, CLARKE, and
himself, were accomplices. From Owns their d.-
predations rose higher. CLARKE, married a wife,
with whom he received (the author "oelieves) 1501.
CLARKE being deemed a resrecta-ale tradesman,
found no ditEculty in accumulating a quantity of
plate, &c. for the celebration of his nuptials. A
plan being settled upon for the transformation of
the plate by ARAM, CLARKE and HOUSEMAN, they
went together to St. Robert's cave (CLARKE had
that afternoon moved his wife's portion, and had it
then in his pocket) to beat down the plate. Owing,
perhaps, to a pre-concerted plan, some difference
arose betwLen the parties, and ARAM struck CLARKE
with an instrument which they had brought to open
the ground with, he feil a victim to_his own crimes,
and was buried in the cave. It was reported that
CLARKE bad ed to the Continent, and converted
the plate to his own use; but some suspicions
arising concerning the integrity of AR A a and HOVSE•
M AN, their premises were searched, when several
articles were discovered. For want of evidence
Houszat A N and ARAM seere suffered to go at large.
ARAM left Knaresborough, and visited several parts
of England, generally officiating in the capacity of
an assistant in schools. About thirteen years after-
wards, as simse workmen were digging for lime,
(but at a considerable distance from St. Robert's
cave) they found a skeleton. On being inspected
by a surgeon, the learned son of Escalapius pro-
nnunced that it could not be more than twelve or
fourteen years old. This roused the attention
of the public, in whose minds the mysterious ab-
sence of CLARKE was still fresh ; HOUSEMAN was
taken before a Magistrate, and questioned closely
respecting the bones. Unconscious ofthe force of his
own expressions, he declared unequivocally 4'they
are no more CLAita.E's bones than mine," the na-
tural inference was, if these were not, then he must
know where CLARKE'S bones were. The hope of
pardon induced him to reveal the secret, and on
examining St. Robert's cave, a skeleton was found
with a fracture in the skull, as he had deposed.—
Aa AM was found at Lynn in Norfolk, and was tried
at York ; he was found guilty, and received sentence
of death accordingly. On the morning of his exe-
cution, he was found in the cell nearly deprived of
life, having found means to secrete a razor in his
cloaths, with which he cut the wrists of his hands.
His defence on the trial has been frequently admired
for its eloquence, but having been composed for
sometime ?previous to his trial, a much finer piece of
comiiosition might have been expected.
In EUGENE ARAM we find one of the most me-
lanchdy instances of the depravity of human na-
ture. The author of this article has for some years
been electing authentic information respecting this
very extraordinary man, who has a son and a
daughter alive at present ; from those and other
sources, he has been able to collect several mate-
rials, which he, at some future period, intends to
lay before the public.
Feb. 1.

J. 43.

General! Fox will set out shortly to take the chief
command in Ireland, in the room of General Sir
WILLIAM MEAnows. Since the uunion There has
been no independent Commander in Chief in Ire-
land.: the chief command is held under the Duke
of Yoni‘, by the General in Chief on the Staff.
The full emoluments of the office are, however, en-
joyed to their MI ea-tent. They amount to between
12 and 1.5,0001. a-year, and •render this the inost
profitable military appointinalt under the crown,
next to the chief command in India.

Colonel Boucurn who was lately plundered by a
body of insurgents in the neighbourhood of Lime-
rick, reports that the party which attacked his
house, comprised upwards of 'two hundred men,
who, not content with taking 2791. from his secre-
taire, and destroying all his Jurniture, &c carried
off sore df his horses and cattle, and killed the
rest, together with his dogs. Some of the ruffians
.haveleen taken, and others'hase fled.
A petition has been drawn up by the Magistrates
of Greenock to the 'Lords of the Treasury, praying
that that town.and port may be admitted to the !
benefit of the projected bonding and warehousing I
bill.

•
About one o'clock on Saturday, a man threw
himself over London Eridge.; he was ,hurried by
the torrent from The water..works'-arch, under a
vessel ; his body disappeared, and is not yet found.
He had fbr some time been mentally deranged.—
Hs widow is in great pecuniary distress, and is left
with four children, one un infant at the breast. A
subscription is opened for her relief.

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