The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-12 00:00:00

hens WRIT EXPAMTIONS.

this rreataii• Prints of yesterday say, " We 1
him' that Another expedition is about to he coi-
l:Cie:l. under that distiognished leader, Sir Joas
Srewaat, the Fiero 4 Maids. The whole of it skill
be composed of 21 and 3d battalion; of regiments,
formed from our gallant Militia Arolunteers."
With respen ca the Expedition which is on the
point of sailing, th• same papers all. .• We have
ail hnrity to state, the reports of yererday were in-
carte& in several particulate. Tne command, as
we cued yesterday, (Thursday), is entrusted to
General Bencsrosto, a man of teitd talent and
bravery. Madeira is not the destitute in of this cx•
peoirion—the force for it has been collefted with no
Tess silence and promptitude, than that for the
BAltic. It will start trom CAE, where all the e-
Rinker, are now embarked, unless tit. 3 eth, now
embarking from the Ise of Wizlit. Tae tegint_n.s
are :
Detachment of the ',it'll /Widely.
Fogoteets
SA Foot, in Ot.t Buda.
2,1 h —...., or Edinburgh Regiment.
2I liattaliod.
—,2.1 ditto and
91,4 --, or Atgyleshire

G,•aeral ReaLsrono, with his Staff, embarks in
Ireland.

The Medical Staff, which goes with him, is con-
sideiable ; it goes from this colntry, viz.
Otputy Iss...fnr of Wimp yg.
P4ocians—Hr Irwin awl Dr. Hine nig
S:afitiunge v.—Me...6. Carroll, Hrrth, and Csrpue.
A potliecsrt —.4lr. Leo 11.
Purveyor—Mr F..irersod•
Eiza Hospital

DUBLIN, S aas 7.

(Extra 36 fro:a P.irme Letter; )

" It commenced raining on Fri Jay last in this
city. The rain continued fnr -eight hours.
without intermission, and had not ontiieiy ceased
until Monday morning. Ihe Hsi -15, in eon.
sequence. have been meat terrific, and have done
rear injury. Every hour brought fresh ac-
counts from th.t country of new disasters
A coach was flyers-- near Lucan, and six per.
sons. passengers, were diown-d, in the rive, I-sw-
ing of the Liffey. kt,y4,l Gina' burst near
Mayno •th, and overfi -wed the country to a con-
siderable event "

Another letter says ..‘4 Several stage cnaehes
have been swept away by the ttemeadues floods,
and the passen,ters drowned. The storm of Sa•
turday was the greatest that I rem .nher. Three
large trees in the New Garie: itutiand-square,
have been turn tap by the toots, ai,d several chim-
nisi in the city have been blown down "

Doctor Mireels a vet! 6 ir rit g man, only
twenty-four }ears of wts app tinted to St.
Genrtte's F,:ver Elblialvo i. and lied • hi-e days atter
of a liver. He was the jrotqc of Doting Plunket,
and had a very amiable ni .th.•r and three sisters
looking up to him for support and proteOton. Poor
Dick Lawson has added to our list of sudden
deaths ; his illness is attribut- I to eating honey at
breakfast ; he died at Mni in'. hotel, in the next
room to Catalam. Aprovlt tit C4tAlarti ; our few
gentry are vieing with each ntner in paying her
homage. She lett t own some time since to sp.•nd
some time with Mrs. 8yr...2, of Cbi I ,hi'
travelled in the Earl iit Harrington's ba►••ucne and
as, with two oet-ttd•rs Her return was in the
tame spleldid style, with the addition of having
Mrs. Byrne's coach and .our tor her mail

Camlani's last appearance will be tomorrow
night ; and T understand Kelly is sufficiently reco-
vered to give his assist tnce.
Mrs. Byrne, of Canoiteely, at whose seat Madams
Catalani has been so ho.pitably enter ained, wasMise
Devereux, of the Cott.ity of Weilltd, ant is the
I.' is of Mr. Byrne, a ncar reittive to the Mar-
chioness of Buckingham. His large estates have
devolved to his •inly child, a daug'it..r 'hit seventeen,
and whose educatoin and Accomplishments are the
principal pleasere and amusement of Mr Byrne.
A currespondent sends us the fallowing remarks
on that part of the late military reAulation which
relates to the Om-pensioners of Chelsea and Ed-
mainham Hospitals:—
" A regiment, after having been for a length
of time on foreign service, is ordeed to England.
where a number are discharged and admitted to the
benefit of Chci:ea Hospital. Boon after the same
regiment it ordered to Ireland on service. where
it is further reduced, and a certain number placed
on the out-pension list of Kilmainham Hospital.—
It is no doubt intended that these soldiers, of equal
merit and length of service (serving in the same
regiment) shall be put on the same footing. But
they are in a very different situation :—Those who
happened to be discharged in England receive
from 101. to 42i. par annum, while such as were
discharged in Ireland receive nu more than from
71 5;. to K. according to the class. It TAY be fairly
presumed that Government never inteneed suc'i i.tis-
tinaion, and there is no down. when noticed, that
the old soldiers of both countries will be put on the
ume footing."
The accident upon the road from Dublin to
Lncan is thus related in another private letter :
On Sunday last, the flood on the flat grounds
about the village of Chapelisod, near Dublin, was
at its height, and surmounted even the battle-
ments of the bridge. At this time a hack •ey-coach,
with six inside passengers, male and I.malr, and.
as we have been informed, one child, through
the temerity of the driver, attempted to pass the
bridge ; when, shocking to relate, the coach
and passengers were carried by the violence
of the flood completely over the parapet wall ! the
coach upset and instantly filled, where there must
have been at least fifteen feet of water, and all mi-
serably perished. We have not heard the names of
the unfortunate sufferers; but we have been inform.
ed they were a party who had hired the coach for
the day, .nd were going to see a child, at some dis-
tance in the country, which was at nurse. They
drove with a tandem horse, and all the cattle pe-
rished; one of the horses was taken up so far down
as Ringsend-bride.
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A Paper of yererday states, that Mr. Coac Lodon.
brother to the late ever-to.beilamented done Cot.-
ci.ouse, E.q. candidate for the county of Wexford,
had arrived a few days since from France. We
have made every y, and regtut that we Can-
not confirm the ideate intelligence.

VOL leR;

.Vansiom-seinst, save. f t.
Mr. Gilbert, the Captain of the ship Lacs&oi, i
West India vessel, *at brought tip before the
Loan M•vere, charged with having landed from
his ship, in the River Thames, tin bottles bt port
wine, against the revenue laws.
The Custom.house Office., and one of his water-
men, were examined, and proved that a bey had
brought from the ship, over the lighters, a bag, in
which the wine was found; the Officer having seen
the boy all the way from the ship to the quay. and
haring made the seizure as soon as he laid it down.
'the defence set up WAS, that the boy havo.g re-
ceived orders from the Mate to bring Ashore some
linen to be washed, had put two or three settles
t!.e Captain's wine into the bag among the cloth-s ;
but at was proved that ten bottles were found in the
bag.
The Captain, on hearing the evidence agiinst
him, nbserved, that even tile ten bottles signified
vei y little, as he alone could drink that quantity of
witie in ten minutes ; and he should not regard the
price of it; nor did he conceive there WAS any
law for taking away from him his ostn wine.
The ship-owners appeared, and pleaded that Life
seizure of t:'.e wine (which was a prohibited com-
modity) had not, by the evidenc., taken place on
board the ship, and conserptioitly that tn.: sup could
not be forfeited thereby. rile Lotto Maxon yielded
to thi, defence on the part of toe owners ; bit . in
reply to the Captam's demand of the restoration of
the wine, acquainted him, that is was ferfaited,
together with t:lree times the vslue thereof, amount-
ing to a sum exceeding five p
file money was s., tautly paha down in Court,
and the Captain di,zharged.