The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-07 00:00:00

FEVER AT GIBRALTAR.

11faids!..ie frigate is arrived from Gibraltar.
She sailed on the 11th ult. and has on board several
passengers, among whom are Lady lames and
Family. Sir THOMAS Tit !COL had embarked—but
the death of General BA itec Err obliged him to re-
turn, and resume the command of the garrison.—
By this conveyance, we have received letters op'to
the date when the frigate left Gibraltar; and, it is
with extreme regret we have to mention, that the
accounts they contain, relative to the fever, are most
alarming. Gen. BARNETT has fallea a sacrifice.
Letters of the Sth mention his indisposition, but
do not say that be was confined to his bed. fie be-
came wane on the 9th. and died on the following
day. Lord FILM IA Ctioroo, Aid-de-Camp to
the General, shared his dangers and his fate. Ma-
jor Rattlers is also dead. It has Wen clearly as-
certained, that the fever is of the same nature as
that which had proved so destrallive at Malaga, and
was introduced from that place into Gibraltar,'thrO"
the medium of a Spanish family, notwithstan.fing
the greatest care had been taken to prevent the ar-
rival of strangers ; it was therefore supposed, that
they had gained their admission by bribing the sol-
diers on guard in the night. A deal of the mischief
has been attributed to an unfortunate difference of
opinion among the medical men at Gibraltar, re-
speding the nature of the disorder, and the manner
of treating it ; only one of them, it is stated, hn us-
ed a right judgment of it; as a proof of which,
only one patient died, out of the number he attend-
ed. When the mortality first began to be so great,
a cord )n of troops was drawn round the town, to
prevent any intercourse with those out of it: but it
has been removed in consequence of the violent cla-
mour of the people in the town, at being shut up
where the fever committed such dreadful ravages.
No sooner were the troops withdrawn, than the
people mixed indiscriminately with each other, and
the mortality consequently increased. Two hun-
dred persons were said to have got on board a ship.
bound to Malta, who had agreed to give twenty
guineas each for their passage. The greatest part
of them, it is feared, were diseased, when the ship
sailed ; and as no medical assistance was on board,
their situation must be dreadful. Tuirty others
escaped on board another vessel, and engaged for a
passage to Oran ; they were also without medical
aid, and their fate was what might be expo fed from
their imprudence. Twenty-seven of those unfortu-
nate persons died in the course of a day or two,
and the remaining three jumped overboard, when 11
jpt sight of the Maj./store frigate, in hopes of being
picked up and conveyed to England. The frigate
saved their lives. but sent them into Gibraltar.
On the 10th, the deaths were about forty a day,
and the numbers of the, sick were immense.—
No returns whatever had been made of the deaths
among the military ; but from the burials that hava
been observed, they have suffered us equal propor-
tion with the lel of the inhabitants. On the morn-
ing of the I th, the wind chaaged at Gibraltar, ^,1(1
there was eve: y appearance of rain ; till which, Ca.:
unfortunate inhabitants of that place had no hopes
of experiencing any abatement of the disorder.
It is added, that the Spanish force at :it. Roque
was inrreasing, merely to serve as a cordon, as it
was reported from Spain. The people in Gibraltar,
however, entertained apprehensions that, from their
numbers, they had a more particular objet in
IOCW.

The late marvellous account of the invisible agency
in the house at Sawston, by which, if any lady en-
ter, she is said to return with tattered garments, can
find a paialiel only in the account of a more libeial
phantom, which, about 40 years ago, occupied an
old house in White-friars, Chester, where, if any
female entered with a rent in her gown, an i..visible
hard was sure to sew it up! 'the tradition still
exists to that city, that a sempstress had been mur-
dered in the house alluded to, and who for years
made an invisible use of her needle with uaconution
dexterity.

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PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS. Oct 30
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111Ul1 WATER THIS DIY AT LON DOM BRIlltal:,
17 mitt. aftor 5

HI It IH.
At T.,. in House, near Welwyn, the Lady 0, Gto:geGeotray
Muly Ysy. M. Y. via aon.

MARRIAGES.
Monday. at St. Mary', Stoke Newington, by the Rev. Dr-
a.kin, Evennt, soo Thmsa, Ever.,r, Esq.
M. P for Lodgershall, to Mi..: of Pala:ine House.
Stoke Newington, only daughter of the late Thomas Elk,
Esq. of the same place.
Saturday Lonnight, at the A:they Church, Rath, Went,
Colonel S.nyth, of the ftFd regtment, to Mist Cat.telo, ./. that
city.
t)n Fr:day right last, by special liceneo, at Mr.. Haut
South Audler stmen, the Flan. Charle' Eugene{ Agar, brot!,—
In the Right Hoe. I.,•rt Viscount llifden, to Mate Hunt, o:
Llanhydrock, ill the County of Cornwall.

DEATHS.

A few &teatime*, at Levee, after a long and re'nful Wheal,
M frOyly, only daughter a the Rev. Mr. D'Orl!, of atix-
ted-place.

On Saturday, the 27th of Ofhober, at his Tirane ir.,.ho••sis„
in Lewes, in the R. rear of hiaaL.e, Ilia Rev. T nietl.y &awe.
A. M Rector of Ardiaigly, awl Vicar of West Ilutl•ly, brisk
an Surwert.
Lately, at her house itt Altieniatle-row, llotwe'4", Bristol,
Mrs. 11m-rod.
Thursday morning, at Gloucester, after a li•tgerinc artl na at.
ful illness. Mr,. Richard.un, the Ldy of Sao:1w! Kwha•dson,
Esq. of Heu►ul Castle, ;mar Cow oridge, in tuts ouunts
Glamorgan.