The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-07-12 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.

Str J as Ma sat to try the only remain-
ing cause upon the paper, which went off undefend-
ed; and was of no public interest. The sittings in
this Court are discontinued until next Ten.), and
the Judge and Serjeants w:11 proceed on the circaits.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, at which were present the Right l ion.
the LORD MAVOII, seven Aldermen, )(Leos ota,
two Sheriffs, and a great number of Commoners.
A Petition was presented from James EPHRAIM
LURE NIALSOH, Esq. Citizen and Draper, praying
the Court to discharge him from the of of She-
riff, to which he was defied on the 25th day of
June last, he being a Protestant Dissenter ; which
was read, and referred to a Committee, to examine
the allegations, end to report to the next Court.
The Militia Committee delivered in a Report in
writing, recommending the Court to apply to Par-
liament for a separate Bill fur raising in the city of
London their proportion of men for the general de-
fence of the nation—which was agreed tot and a
draft Bill being prepared, was read, agreed to, and
ordered to be presented by the Sheriffs, attended
by Mr. Resits( aa cca, to the Honourable the
House of Commons this day ; this Bill being reccs-'
sary to preserve tie aucic..t and important rights
and privileges of this city.

DUMAN, jos.y S.
'I he Leinster Circuit has been annenneed. The
Judges are, the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Nor.
bury.

Wicklow
Wexford - 22
Waterford -.- tf
Clonntel
Kilkeony - 8

The Home Circuit begins at Ca low on the With
of July; Judgrs the Lord Chief Baron and Mr.
Justice Daly. 'ille Munster Circuit, at Ennis, on
the. 24th of July; Judges. Mr. Justice Day, and
Mr. Baron Sin ta.

A man of the name of Patrick Doyle has been
committed to prison, charged with treasonable prac-
tices. He was apprehended by Major Sirr and
Justice Hell.

TELEGRAPHS.
Last•Mnnday a communication by Telegraphs be-
tween Dublin and Galway was opened before his
Excellency the lard Lieutenant, at the R..yal Hos-
pital—a message was transmitted, and an answer
returned in his Excellency's presence. Tlic Lord
Lieutenant had the goodness to arrange a message
of considerable length for the Telegraph, which was
sent to Galway in thirty-five minutes, and to which
an answer was returned by Captain Beaufort, of the
Navy, who is a confidential officer at Galway, it; less
than five minutes. This line of Telegraphs has Leen
completed by Captain Beaufort and Mr. F,dgewc rth,
who has gratuitously devoted to this establishment
eight months' incessant labour, as the best contribu-
tion he could make for the defence of the conntry.—
The velocity of this mode of communication is a,to-
nishing ; intelligence sent from Dublin at rlevon
o'clock, fur instance by the sun-dial of the Royal
llospital. may be received at seven minutes and a
halt past eleven by the dial at Galway: fifty-four
signals have attually been sent and received in 31
minutes.

The vocabulary, which is a most laborious work,
has been construaed under the diretion of the Lord
Lieutenant, to whom it is dedicated in the following
Ann, _

arms anti wiettee Hardwick' guards a throne,
And with a nation's glory bleeds hts own.

A tower has been constrated, upon a plan entire.
'y new, by Mr. Edgeworth, on the hill of Coppa,
near Kilcock, upon which a permanent tele-
graph is seeded. This tower is defensibleainst
every thing but cannon, and would most probably
resist six pounders for a considerable time. We must
not omit to say, that fifteen stations belonging to the
Telegraph are manned by detachments from the
Fdgeworthstown infantry, who have conduChA
themselves under many hardships during six months
(without officers or inspeaion), so as to obtain pro-
teetion and assistance wherever the/ have been sta-
:ioned.

Lord ViICOCInt STRANGTORD, His MAnsry's Se-
cretary of Legation at Lisbon, left that place for
Madrid on the lath of June, charged with a mission
to Mr. Fasts.

The East India Fleet. under convoy of the Cid-
-444, Admiral Sir EDWARD PaL tsw, sailed on
Tuesday usorniag. consisting of the following ships.
viz.

Nig MADRAS, stmoel., £llrD
The &tits( Capt. Moak's'.
101 MADIA* AND 111111kG•tr
United Kingdom Capt. J. H. Polly.

FOR if AD, AI.
Airly Castle .. Capt. J. Mackintosh.
Worcester • . Wood.
Lord Hinwitesburv....
Duke of Montrose Tatersan.

IrOa 7IMG•L.
Monarch •• • • Capt. Hawes.
Severity, - Minton.
Alexander — J. R. Francklin.

The Dutch privateer Le Lose, Capt. HTrrottrS
Mos Dil Lt, of Marseilles, fitted out at the Cape of
Good Hope, carrying 12 guns, and 90 men, has
taken, upon the coast of Angola, the English ship
the Pirpgret, of 330 tons, carrying sixteen guns
and sixty men. The brave French Captain, with a
crew scarcely one half of the enemy, was the first
to board, and after a sharp encounter with swords
upon the deck, made themselves masters of the ves-
sel, the cargo of which consisted of 350 negroes,
a great deal of ivory and dry goods. The loss of
the enemy in this action was sixteen men, and we
had only ten killed and wounded. The prize has ar-
rived safe in one of the ports of the Brazil.—
(.Ifintiteite.)
The Peotper privateer of Boulogne has taken up-
on the coast of England, three ships: the Theth,
the alpre, and the Rorer, and carried on tho 20th of
June the two first into Dieppe, and the third into St.
Valery. Two were coal laden, and the third with
provisions.—(Afoniieve.)
The Gravesend and Rochester Volunteers are ex-
peeed at Maidstone this day en permar:cnt duty
for ten days ; before the expiration, they will be re-
viewed npon Coxheath, with the Maidstone and
other neighbouring Volunteers.
fo-morrow, at noon, the following persons, now
in Newgate, viz. Howse, Arteldt, and Take, who
stand convitted of a conspiracy, will stand in and
upon the pillory, at the end of Duke-street, West
Smithfield, pursuant to their sentence, after which
they will be taken back to Newgate, to undergo the
remainder of their sentence, which is twelve months
imprisonment.
Yesterday Merritt Coiner, who eseaped from the
Hulks at Woolwich, about two years since. was
apprehended in Wapping : he eluded the vigilance
of the officers during that long period, who had
been in search of him.

A drummer-boy, belonging to the Reyal West-
minster Volunteers, deserted some time ago, and
was lately detected in a regiment into which he had
enlisted ; he was, on Tuesday, tried by a Court.
Martial, and was sentenced to be flogged, winch,
however, will probably be commuted, if he enters
on board one of His MAJtsr v's ships, where
two is neatly impraflicable.
Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, as a
yairig woman was passing through Long-lane.
Welt-Smithdeld, with an infant in her arms, tt e
child of Mr. DAVID MOIWAN, of Cloth-Fair, a
brewer's-dray ran upon the pavement, the wheel of
which struck the child out of the nurse's arms, and,
i r an instant, its head was literally crashed to pieces.
Mr. NI o :was at present lies dangcrotisly Mot a fever,
Anti his wite is in the last stage of her prcgnacy.

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AMETI6.

The Court of Inquiry appointed to monis. sts isto
the conduct of Commodore Mounts, late Coemisto-
der of the American squadron in the Keditem-
nean, bare delivered aril opinion as follows: .

" That Cti.(aiit Riehatal Morris did Mt hiorte't In
hit Glenwood of the M.-ditnnouran sq alost
6ev.4or,activiti noomitory Ingteeute ibe duties et his att 1; ;
that he is responsible for Ms Inaetislgend stator! conduct
0:' the squadron under biscarnwapd, Mews usilarest. fiend',
U,is 19th day of April 160 i.
et 4AMIIEL BAltitOtd, Prelates*.
" HUG"! G. CAWPREJIL. .
" JAHN CAIIMN.°
Copy of a Letter from Rostat Seert-
tary of the Navy, to R. Moasts, Esq. Niw Tort.

S
" Sip, P 6 Navy Deponntont, Slay
" ViTith my Letter to you of the 2J toot !transmitted to Pall •
Copy of the Opinion of the Court appointed to inquiroilatespoot
eotidit tt., as Commanding Ufficer ot tho squadron of mail oar
fed of the United States iv the Ilediterrauean. The opiniesis
ha su,g tutisti..tl the P.eUdent that it is not the public inte-est
that you should be longer co•itiutied in the Navy of the Un,ted
States, 1 have ill chareu hotn hint to inform you, that he has
revuka..d our Comm iass ost.—.l air, Sirs, your obedient aervant.;
(Signed) " ROBERT SMITH." •

Some notice having laielY been taken in several
prints, of embsrrassments baying arisen in the adjust.
meet of American Claims, under the convention of
I sua, with France, we arc enabled to state, that
some obstacles to a final liquidation of them exist
from the variuus construfliors given to that instre
meat.— (New ror4 Gazeitc, May 216.)
10111 Sr 4 14 A.
Accounts from New Orleans, of the I Pith of April,
state that the army of Louisiana bad left that place
three days previous for Pensacola. The late P-efett.
M. Ass.% r, was on the cv:: of depaz :;ng. His des-
tination was unknown. He was to sail in the brig
Nate/ter, sonic say for Caadadmpe„ others fur
Charleston. He took a formal I:ave of the Ameei.
can Commissioners on the 12th, and was received
at the Gove-iiment Heise with great revel and ce-
remony. The American inhabitants intended giv-
itag a sumptuous entertainment to the Commis.
sioners previous to the & Tarture of General Wit t. it I s-
em. It appears some uneasiness was excited at No.ve
Orleans by the appearance there of a Later out
Governor CLAYnot z to the Presi.oes,l ..t t!ie
United States : k will be recolleled that tut
ter spoke in very unhandsome and contenapt:Lati
terms of the merchants, planters, and others of that
country. Some Frenchmen, who conceived them-
salves calumniated by the Governor, have manifessrd
unusual irritation. Inflammatory publications have
been the consequence, inviting the inhabitants to
resist the Government of the United States. The
Governor has declared the letter to be a mutilated
extract of the genuine one. On the 15th the public
feeling seemed to be subsiding.
The French frigates, Meta and Syklle. each of 44
gun,, from Guatfalonpe, where they recently came
from France with ta—nps, arrived last evening, and
anchored in the quarantine ground. The objet of
their coming is unknown.--tNese For* Vasette,
May 25 )

ARMY CONTRACT.