The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-24 00:00:00

FATAL DUEL.

On the nth instant an inquest was takes at Parlitagtoo, by
Mr. CIIIARNIEL HATEMAIty Corn:ter fur the coustyot Derby,
on a view of the body of Captain Fort Denegos, French pet- .
goner of war, aged 47, lately residing at Ashity•de-la-Zentch,
whole death was occasioned by a sword wound, received, it
Is conjectured, to a duel, ...ought with SOIMI mss of his fellow
prisoners. lb* body ass found by a tabooing man war five
o'clock in the afternoon of the title tolling, in a Mild to Pack-
import, *beet sink floe Ashby, and warm. The coat and
waistcoat, corn by the deceased, bad been takes if before
the supposed combat, as was evident from their out tit itor
pierced by the weapon the former lay Nees npuit, and co.
vered the body, and the waistcoat, with • pocket-lhasdker-
chief, was (moot Mot a few yards, and another handker-
chief hi) to the fret of the deceased, hut no weapon was
Round, nor ons any person observed veer the place—The
sword entered the breast ou the right side, between the fourth
and fifth ribs, passed through the lungs, aid pierced the
heart ; the left hand wee also slightly womeded between the
second and third finals. The Joey returned • verdict of
Wi/fid l'erder, agetest some pressen or persons etakooo n —lt
appeared that this geor . man, io the coon( of tbesaele ante-
nnae, bid arquatidio the person with whom he Wired, be
expected • letter to he sent for him, and destret if it came
be nine.l hr trilled from a public-boom he freepterted ; (bat
be soon afterwards returned, to inquire titles lett.v had been
received, sod again a third time ; and, about four o'clock,
finding no letter, he left his Imigieets, apparently in tonne
haste. No further circumstances have vet transpired which
threw any material 413 on this traesectioo, eimjec-
tared
place with which of the is Spas fatal nrommtre took

Tuesday morning P:lavessCil AUGUSTA arid
SI•aY took an airtii_ h a coach and tour on the
Maidenh.-ad
T'in:scia? Lao, .I,iyr. DCSIDAS paid a visit to
Her MA.) t and the Patacuisas at Wind o,
Lusve ; at.erwards her Ladyihip returned to St.
Leonard's Hill. where she is on a visit to the Hou.
Mrs. HARCOURT.
Viscount CREKORIIR will ail.; day give his an-
imal bounty to thirty of the oldest Irish cluvinatia
Weataiiasser. It consists of two bushels of
coals. a half-peek loaf, four pounds of beef, and
two shillings in money to each man.
Sir Ht.NRY and Lady liatuo• left lila/tames
Hotel, yesterday, for their seat in Essex.
Viscount and Viscountess DUDLCY and Virgao.
during the Christmas holidays, will entertmu, of
their seat, Hemley Hall, Staffordshire, a numerous
assemblage of Nobility. Several Balls will be
given. -A
select band of musicians has been cow
gaged to go down on the occasion.
The Conuteas tof SUTTON, on Tuesday night,
presented her Lord with a daughter, at her house
in Arliagtoii-street.
The Duchess of MONTROSE bad a select card
party, last at her house in GrOeVelloT-
square.

Among the Fashionable. last night at Drury-lane
Theatre, were the Countess of Basaisoacsocu, Mar-
quis WLLLIsLIY. &V.

Sir Jolts andLudy CAMPLIPIII WILOTTEIMIRT,
and the Hon. Mr. EDkN. left town, yesterday, on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Dvuy, at their
seat at the Oaks, in Surrey, where Lord.Sts•Lxv
arrived, on Tuesday last, from his regiment (the 2d
Loves! Lancashire) at Hull.
Mr. Mxt.vin performed the parts of Captain
Plume, in the Comedy of The Recruiting Wicer,
and Michael, in the Farce of The Adapted Child,
for his own benefit, at the Binsinghatin Theatre,
on Thursday last, on which night he closed his
engagement there for this season.
Lord O'N sit., one of the Post-masters Gene-
ml, arrived in Limerick on Wednesday se'nriiglit.
An Irish paper mentions the committal of D.
C to gaol, for stealing • Yemenis pistol
from one of the Kerry horse.
Viscoust Mot:lll4pr was expected, last night,
at his house in Charles-street, St. James's, from his
seat in Norfoik. His Lordship will leave town this
day on • visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
ADERCORN, at the Priory, to pass the Christmas
holidays.

Mu Cambridgeshire, the scat of the
Earl and Countess of fla Row :tit it, will La etdirea-
ad, during the Chri,tmas holidays, with en elegant
assemblage of fashionatile visatoi
Mr. Huila, who hail the honour of kilning the
KING'. hand, on Vrdnrsdav, upon his being ap-
pointd Seriettist Surgeon to the Kure, was die
gentleman ano performed the operation upon the
Duke of PORTLAND some time since, and pro-
dutA it complete. eine.
The R.•.. Tittinas CASTLIY. A.M. Fellow of
Jesus' Cohege, Cambridge, is presented by the
Master and Fellow, of that Society, to the valuable
Rectory of Cavendish, Suffolk, vacated by the
death of the Res. ROOM*, WAIDDINGTON.
Coloftel WYNW•RD, and his Lady, came home
in tile Walpole Indianian, and were fortunately laud-
ed at Deal just before the ;pile came on in *lnch else
was wrecked.—Six little hwy., comia over for their
education, were taken out of their co. moo" .4.-

SHOCKING

fin Thus-twisty evening,
o'clock, a most dreadful e
took place in C.lewit's-court,
neyinan carpenter, who ,
hairs bark loom, was sit
the explosion took piece,
cident, or bus, the gunpowdei
known. The man, in great ~inip
of the window into the yard not ciethe,
• tames, and in this state ran illy; his 1.1.ii;1043
-parlouri and front thei.ce into the court, whet
with the assistr.nce of sereraf people, the Raid
were extinodished ; he and his wife were tak,
to the lin:lntel in a must shocking and ilsorio
state. The explosion forced the partition, whit
separated the back and fr"iit ream, into the fro
room, where a woman and three children were. w
providentially received no other injury than sok
bruises from the fallinq of the wainscot. T
whole of the outride of the front room, iogeth
with the sashes, were forced out into a low Ititildir
on the npiiesite .ides of the motet. The unfuftupar.
man and hie wife have been speechless since th,
menuswierimse
parrot. •
• • 1160W-Tllt
0. Thundery evening, Joie Ts.-savor
bring* before Mr. Rican, by Men. osie of thollond
from the eeighhourbood of Cimino, CI nerziassomploilhinn
Crag ea. of she robbers caeca-out iiimonerproimic
bossier the Countess of Morton. an a Olt
of the tedietment met the Of et
concerned is the *bon .
Peter Hum* 'destined the Primmer as lasing al lo nos
spina whoa. hr bass..lenses before the Hiened Jam,
indoeolltms t.ln the bill of %theta, it.
The Primmer charged the Mune with ben a -it
(see who gives information°, thieves.) Ifs was
fur trial.
Jahn rimier, late $ ronitalearlal chart its the
Messes. Lyme and Dostaddows, entwout toilsome:Mei
street, in the Strand, understood anotbatt ettatantadosoiam
ed with embezzling varies, no. of stoney Delmer it% Is
employer,.
After a long examinatikm, be wu emumitted brow e
ciablanag 611. se 351 de 6cli mud ea by 011141111 fib
He irie ebiu committed fee trial fur Mafia* 101111.
in the book of '.Verso Dimildelph and Co. thirlienhmeZ
Preeneture, the figure of 1, before 4a, the w%
1431. sad making it appear is all lir ociinuisis vial hi
mute's, Haulm had paid in to the beehimnifeL there his
what he had.
Yesteaday, Oseste-; the porter, bet Ite the Ilbld
Hone lon,* Plitteelene, who bon bum sainnily win 4.
dem on et fist sad ski
Wig • Irounpeper weak
teat free the Cbsdinil* niblitiona Itch Moir eiriiin
in St. Mildrerroaset, lookroenstmaimottute
when the suspicious ciielatatimsee dynamos sot of th
Inn, just aft. r the Chichester maild got to 14
ludginp, we. fatly en/Awned, by hie satinfastoi 1111 peer ni
that he emit' ran bone fur his great cam; Ye sun of earn
discharged.
The way the robbery was committed remaiso still a nip
ten.

. •
A Proclamation will 'woes: w tl:is night's Ce
'dent. appointing a General Fast to be observe
throughout Engload, on W'erlaesday the Rd. a
February ; amid another Proclamatiou aid appiss
111 the same amaze. directing a General Foot t
In observed on Thor's"... , the oth of Felbstisary
laccutfhout Scotland.
Tbe patent place of Collector of the Imports
and Potports of the Customs, held by the lat.
Earl of Liveapoor., is abolish.A, as dwacted
an Act of Pa: :lament, to take place On the dairom;
alba Noble Earl. The other piece of Clerk •
the Pells has certain. • {one to tht: Earl of Swat
non by reversion. At the death of the Earl o
Soon son, we understand that place is to be gibe.
fished.
We are concerned to find that much damage wed.
sustained on the CINISt, near Dover, on Wednesday
night, during a, heavy gabs and fall of snow,
The Ellimor, of Sunderland. llrsseason, wafts
ter, with iron from Cardiff to Londuu, was wreck,'
near Shakespeare's Cliff; and also the Jawe, if
Carmarthen, from Limerick, boned to London
The Captain of the latter is the only person
of both crews. He was thrown on shore about
o'clock at night, and wandered about until
ing, ignorant of where he was. Tho bodies of lig
men and two boys were cast om shore yesterday.
the same place.
The Heslewood. Fowt.ra, from Malta oil "P
mouth, and the Stork, CiLtesses, froinew-'
:bound to London, were tortured off r
the former on the 3d, and the latter ,
stant, and carried to Boulogne by French
tiers.

The cargo of the Melpok East
ihore near Margate) continues discharging
water, in carts, and, when the water. ip, In
when the weather is woderate. The • fills
tide.

The Union Indiaman, for the safety
lunch (tear lute been entirtained these
Nast. anchored et St. Helen's on Thursday
noon. Mho had been driven on the meat • "
and has experienced very bad weather.
last her anchors and cables.

Yesterday the election for the Common
for the Ward of Faivingdon Without, r
casting op the Poll Books the nunthcrs
Mr. It ukr. Waatbetan.. 7,17. Mr. S.
MrAunts Creek .... 711 I Mr. Wm 1
Mr. Wm. Murrell.... 66e Mr. Time.
R. Drrring, Esq. Dep. 659 Mr. Jobe L
Mr. Rarnin t 6ei Mr. At.
•Mr Wm. Juba Reeve 640 Mr. Wm. I
Sir J Unnamed+. Kot. 616 114
1 Los. Ree.v . lii6 Mr. James
Mr Jobs . • • 149
Igor I.mM/int x kiirree. 9riret'l7
it COntaillo.i of 10.0001., 1 ~. ;1,0001.,
3 of 1,0001., 5 of 5001, &c &c.
ale so very evident in favour of the
that thaw who can buy a Share, no
The Capital Prizes already drawn have
among the Pithlic; No. 133, drawr
10,0001., on Tuesday last, was *old in
one Eighth, and ten Sixteenths, at
Co.'s. Comilla and Borough, where
Shires will be oft Vale. warranted Codrawn, until
Turs:lay Morning, nine o'clock.
Dtsmotut alfowed on Lottery charm, Every
Purchaver of ihares of Tickets, amounting to Five
Pounds and opearda, will be allowed a Discount,
at J. WAJUIER's Fortunate Office, 16, Coenhill,
vilioroVapital Prize* to a 1.04.. amount have been
recently said in S'.art-x. Oniv Twn more

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ACCIDENT. r
It *bow half past
I esplosiois 4,1 gulli,olo4
Litt, Fetter-Imi.. A joy
resides iu bl owe pow!
home with his wires
swot the cause of the
owder came there, is r
greet agreiyi jompesi 4
yard wija his ellethes

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Malta and PI f.
froraCnrki boa
off Doormen, • A
rr on the 4th in-
tench privateers.
t Indianian (on 4.
,charging sit 10/11 111
ru iip, in boats,
to ship fills every
"CI
fety of which se
i.w several days 1 1
Thursday after.
coast 4' Frances •
tither. She has ,
oninion Council, .1
out, clo.ed. At
if:ero sere—
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Wr.ght.
1. Harper S3S
Dodoes sa6
roues:
4.11.1
es. List D-p. 476
s Brewer 430
Iv happen again I
nil., I of s,ootdmi
. The Chalices
the Adventswer.
10 doubt
base born divided
awn a Ps se of
in else Quarter,
it Wassail' arid
ere Tickeb rod