The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-11-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOSS-ST RELT.
Yesterday the three men, who are in custody on a
charge of stealing a number of game cocks from the
neighbourhood of Chelsea, %v.:re brought before
NICHOLAS BOND, Esq. and err WILLIAM PARSONS,
when one of the cocks found in their possession was
owned by an inhabitant of Tarnham Green, and
one of the young gentlemen b.:longing to Kensing-
ton, proved his purchasing it of one of the Prisoners.
They were committed for further examination.
An information was laid by Mr. Robert 11 'llowa•
against a Mr. Holland, for penalties amounting t
5001 for keeping, what is t. ,ma a Li re G..
Mr. Holloway opened his castr in a speech of
considerable length and much ingenuity, in the
course of which he threw a crowded office into
bursts of laughter by his ludicrous similies. He
began with saying, that it had ohm been said of him
that he never came into a Court of Justice but for
the sake of the penalties : he acknowledged the
charge in all cases eccept that now before the Ma-
gistrates, which, lie pledged himself, in the most so-
lemn manner, he had undertaken for the public good.
He said he understood that there was to be an ob-
jeslion to his information ; b,..c.tuse, it was supposed
he had taken it under a late ACI of Parlia,nent,
passed for the suppression of Littie Ws, which, he
knew very well, only authorised informati ins to
be laid by the At roRNLY-GENESIAL. The A.r.t
under which he laid his information, Was the loth
of George 11. which describes a number of games
that are punishable, and that states gamiug gene.
rally to be unlawful, and enaas penalties. Mr. H
thee described very fully the nature of the Lidie Go's,
and the proceedings of the Defendant. He term-
ed the gaaw, in his informati in, an Ivory Go; be-
cause it was drawn with ivory tickets ; and, to avoi.,
detthion or notoriety, the Defendant had not his
Lottery drawn twice in one place; and it was gene-
rally drawn at green-shops, or chandlers'-shops—
and he made his lottery known, by employing a
number of old women to go gossipping into the dif-
fer.nit neighbourhoods, saying, they had won a
number of pounds upon certain numbers being
drawn, and certain numbers being favourites, they
having dreamed of them ; but, in fitt, the num.
ben that the old women reported to be favourites,
were drawn. The tickets being ivory, those that
were favourites had gum and sand upon them ; and
those who drew the tickets, had instruCtions never
to draw those with sand upon them. Those prac-
tices, he .is.erted, the Defendant carried on in all
parts of London. He very happily ridiculed the
term Little Go ; he said there were a variety of
Co's ; there was a go to the gaming-house, a gto
the Old Bailey, a go to Botany-bay, and a gu to
the TICW-sirop.
Mr. Masts-AT attended for the Defendant, and
took an objeltion to the Information in point of
form, viz. that it only stated, that the Defendant
had set up divers games, without gait:4. that he
set it up in an office or place, which the Vlagistrates
allowed to be fatal.

An information against a respcflable stable-
keeper in the parish of St. James's came on to be
beard, brought by Mr. Digglcs, an Attorney, of
Golden squire. for letting w horse to hire for three
days. and 4,:dy delivering A Stamp• Office ticket for
one day, with an intention to defraud the Revenue
of two days duty.
Mr. PI NUM attended for the Prosecutor, and very
ably stated the case.
Mr. Atte v attended far the Defendant, and oh-
jefted to the service of the summons, because it was
not personal, which the Magistrates over-ruled ; but
Mr. ALLEY refused to produce the certificate li-
censing the Defendant to let horses, which was ne-
cessary to enable the Magistrates to aft.
Mr. PINERO then produced the Register's book,
with a list W names, and the residence of those who
were licensed to lett horses. Mr. Axi oa ex-
amining the book, discovered that it was v:zreruely
incorrect, and that it was originally made in 1802,
and the clerk had made it serve for the last and the
present years, by scratching out the '2, putting 3. and
scratching tl.e S, a..d putting a 4 for the present
year, which, Mr. At i xv contended, was not a correff
record, and in which the Magistrates concurred.
Mr. Borro telt occasion to reprobate the slovenly
man.'2r in which the book had been kept.
The information was of course quashed.

LAS?' NICHT': GAZETTE.

Admiral!, Ofce, Nor. 20, 1804.

Con: of I,,tter from Captain Hancock, rd His Majesty's
tilecli the Cruiser, to Wnham Nlarsien, E 44. dated in Tar-
t:swish Roads, the 17th instant.

SIR,
I herewith enclose, for the information of my
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, my letter
of this day's date, to Lord Keith, acquainting him
nit!' my having captured the French brig privateer
Le Contre A miral Vlagonicommanded by Captain
Blackeman, from Dunkirk.
I have the honour to be, &c. Jones Harmonic.
Cruiser, at Set, off Y:rnsootk, Tea, a. at.
MY I.O:tD, 0 17, Isc.l.
I have the honour to acyliaint your Loislship,
that leing last night, at nine p. A. with His iela-
jetty's sloop under my command, and the gun-brigs
Bold and Ann, and Florence cutter, close in with
Ostend, in five fathoms water, which statinn I had
taken from the moment the wind tame to the east-
ward, to follow with every p tasible eflicaey and
energy your L•rrship's instructions in the irryort.
ant t',•~. v entrusted to me, of watching the on,. rev's
ram:zit:v.!, at that port and Flushing, we nb.e: veal
a strange ',ail standing in shore, which, on si,c veer-
ing us, wore and made all sail, steering at lir.t with
the wind abaft the beam; we immediately made
all sail in chace, which continued during the whole
night, in which the stranger displayed much skill
and ability in all his manoeuvres, and tried us on
every p•sint of sa.ling with various success; lie some-
times gaining on us, and we in our turn nearing
'him, till five a. m. in which time (eight h s•trs) we
had run ninety-sever miles, by the log: during the
latter part of the dame die wind freshened con-
sider ably ; but this gave us not the advanta,4e I
expeded, as lie preserved his distance till a quarter
before five a. ns. when both hi; topmasts went
Away ; he then attempted a masterly manoeuvre to
scope, which the haze, the darkness of the morn-
ing, and the lee-tide, gave him t fan- prosped of
succeeding in, by clearing up his remaining sails,
and coming instantly to an anchor, alth':ugh in e. 5
faffitams water, in hopes see ahould either •pass )141
tinverceived, or get to laewasti. Although I
was not aware, to the full extent, of thi• accident
and manoeuvre, I never lost sight of bins ; and at
the time it happened I observed we were nearing
:urn so very fast, that I had begun to reduce the
sail ; hot, as we were going then more than eleven
knots, I had but a few minutes' time before I was
up with him, and the wind blowing so la :sh as to
isk the loss of all our masts, if I atternp.ei to haul
to wind with the sal I had then set, I was under
,he necessity of passing him, which I did, however,
within hail, and to v. indw ird, and isa.t receiving any
answer, except that he was from Pnilad. Ala, in bad
English, I ordered three guns to be find into 1-ins.
then plai-ly discovered him to be a large armed
brig with nine p.'r:s on a side; having in a few nu-
-.lnes taken two reefs in the topsails, and cleated the
decks of wrecked spars and split sails, we tacked,
and ranged up within ten yards of his lee-quarter,
he having cut his cable, and again attempted to
make sail, when, just as I was on the point .1 hail-
ing him, preparatory to giving him our brnasiusle,
he called out and begged us not to ice, as he had
struck.

On boarding him, I was pleased to floe my opi-
nion confirmed that I had captured Capt. Blanck-
tnan, so well known during the late and present wars
in these seas, having received information he was
at sea in a brig. .1 he vessel he commanded, proved
to be Le Contre Amiral Magon French privateer
brig, quite new, this being her first cruise, pierced
fir eighteen, and mounting seventeen guns td dd.
ferent calibres, viz. fourteen long six pounders,
two' eighteen pound calonatio., and one long
nine-pounder, and manned with eighty-four men,
French, Danes, Swedes, and America%s ; had been
out from Dunkirk eighteen days, and hats captured,
during his cruise, the ship Belisarius, cd New.
castle, Matthew Hunter, master, on the 9d inst.
off fynemonth ; the brig Scipio, Richard Robert-
son, Master ; and the Content's Increase, George
Bel', Master, both laden with coals, off Foley
Bridge, on the loth instant; the two former were itc..
mediately dispatched for Dun kirk, but the I Ater was
recaptured about two hours after by an English man
of war brig; she was proceeding for Dunkirk or
Ostend, and had been laying-to for some hours in
the evening, waiting for water to crc.ss the Bank,
and, I apprehend, little expesled to find English
cruisers within the Strtiom Sand. The lairs and
cutters in company, who have bore up eoh the
Cruiser in chase, were run out of sight by twelve
I bog to recommend to your Lordship's notice
Lieutenant J. Pearse, senior Lieutenant, Lieutenant
Lusk, second, and Mr. Lash, Master, with the
sshole of the Warrant and Petty OtEcers, Seamen,
and Mariners, through whose united exertions this
a:tive and enterprising enemy has been prevented
.asking further depredations, which, from his
1. •.tl knoviledAe of our coasts, added to the ample
means he possessed in this brig, from her superior
sailing and force, must have been highly detri-
mental to the trade of this country ; nor can 1,
in justice, omit availing myself of this opportunity
to express to your Lordship my thanks to Johannes
Whymmer, pilot of the Cruiser, who, on this and
all foe mer oeci.a.ns. by his cortca knowledge a I
the c..as; and shoals, and zeal for His Majemy's
t:o vice, has ati- irded me the more essential confi-
dence and :tssistance.
I am happy to add that the Masters of the cap-
tured vessels, as also their crews, amounting to
twenty English seamen, were on board the Contre
Amiral Magon at the time of capture, and arc now
on board the Cruiser.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) Joan Hascocc.
Admiral Lord Keith. i.. B &c. sec &c

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Yesterday, at two o'clock, a sperate battle was
f night in fluky Fields, between a dtur me: in the
Ma. pia-bonne Volunteers and a journeyrna,. ter:
after a long and well-contested battle, wh;ch Lis
an hour and ten minutes, ♦i@ory was declared in
favDtir of the drummer.
A few days since a small bakehouse, built for
the use of the troops, at Arundel Barracks, was
blown suddenly down, whilst the are was in the
oven for the purpose of heating it. Mr. Boozier,
the baker, had jest left the premises to fetch, from
a neighbouring building, a sack of flour, and was
thereby providentially saved from destruiftion.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

• PLYMOUTH, soy. 17.
• LAUNCIIES.

114.. morning being rainy, many feared a disap-
n iintment would ensue. 'I he speaators of all ranks
re numerous ; perhaps there was the greatest
sot:tiler of carriages, genteel families. fie. ever known
' s.r etynruith Dock. The afrenuson clearing up, and
t• e v•ind blowing from the S.E. the tide came in
p fine fin the. purpose. At three &dock, the
was nearly covered with boats, of differ-
le-.c,full of spetiators, to view thy.
• sight. The Dark goes being op ned
. •wo o'clock, the yard was crow led betoi e
and the surrounding bill was ct.ve:ed with
...wore. About four o'clock the l'iwas was
~11%1; the Circe shout half an hour Ate, ; and
• rlrherttin at five o'clock. It is admitted' one of
• 'nest, if not the finest, launch ever known No
ti;ieat nor vhcruninn happened. It is supposed
• .C.)C 1 people witnessed thi, grind scene.
avixusst, Nov. 18•
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• Sailed this morning, the brs, Admiral Gower,
A r Portsmouth.
TCM,I,TII, NOV. 19.
The "Pljr. ef 74 guns, Captain Pym, is dropped
NO, to St. Helen's. from wh,nee she will proceed
•ts rip the Channel Fleet, when the wind is fair.
Arrived the /vs of MI guns, Vice Admiral Sir
l'.rasmus Gower, Capt. Ommanney,trom Newfound.
incl. She was nearly founds ring during her p.ts.
.age, from her knee; being ?Inv.:, and the very
neral infirm state of the ship. Chat good man,
i.id brave officer, Sir I:. Gower, is confine] on
award by illness, and has been so the greater part 01-
.I.le time, sine he *ailed from England. The I.tr
pot into lorlsav for a few lours, during, I strong
a. W. wind. She 'Altai with a fleet, co t.is:ing
•twenteen s.til of vassels, five of which pa:red fire
.lays after sailing; the ships for Bristol, parted
on the 14th instant, and the remainder in the Chan-
nel. Also, the Marts, J.1111.1`So”, from London,
bound to Jamaiel.—Wind,S.S.W.
Sailed the Saracen sloop, Capt. Beauchamp, on a
cruise.
The Trimalh. Meductr, and 31.eilela, remain under
quarantine. at the hintherbank.
I hss /14/,..t0/t.5.,, of 74 guns, Captain Loring, is
under orders to jnto the Channel fleet.
in Nor. 19
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arrived the Pr,qv Lan, sloop of war, from Pie-
mouth, with a convoy, and sailed for the River.
Came down from Sheerness the tireet sloop of war.
Arrived the r4amptea frig rte. and Oreclrt sloop
of war, and several gan-brigs from oil the French
Coast, and remain in the Downs with His Nlajesty's
ships as pe:- last. Wind, S.W. Mows hard with rain.
tritwtee, NOV 1.
This morning some vestiges of the total wreck rf
foreign ve,sel were found on the left hand side of the
entry from the southward in Bras,ey Sound. On
some pieces if the wreck are the following names: D.
Grtroywe Ze, bode; and on two brass swivel guns,
saved from said wreck, are engraved the words, &hip
Nepal f at, J. P. Nero L. Buiseink, Ann!) 1;97. A
mast, cable, and two dcad botlie. were found about

three miles distantftnm the wreck. The Die Erndre,
Scheart, of Knningsherg, from PillAu to London,
I,iden with wheAt And lints, drove a,linre in West
l'oe, near S•tntsurgh-herd. Vessel And cargo a
'reek. Penple savrd.
FROM 1.1%T.
GsAsoeun, —Pass.ai t,v the Jaco'ra, Srondermaa,
um IllorterdArn ; f tsdraght, Zzinatt ; and the Good IS-other',
Espain, from Tuantog.o. Sail ,d the ...Spencer, Wood; for
Jamaica • doddington, Mats. Ax St. N. •ncenrs; —,
'.rCadiz% Toe G •bc-aters, Me.srlruk, for T.lll,lllgen ;
G ..n.4 r )itman ; Vreindecliap, U•eslaaod ; and the Fredenca,
for Extbden
110•1• LP
bAr Dneer.--.lle Illarosorry, Roller, Pow St. Thomas's; slat
the Shanourt, Ds..i.ls, frost Limer.ck.
At Cowes—the Merchant, etieee; from Dattmore.
At Plymouth—the Lovely Quote, NewrotiEd-
.
hod
At L.e•rpool..-the D sir •. Bolden, It, from It rt.
At I 0,!..-..h0 Marv, Chi..rd, tro.n Quebec.
At Wodbr --the While, trout Archangel.
At Leith—•ete Aume-E, from Vireinu.

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At G..enium...".• Steang, from
At Ire. Wnd.hou.c. R .at from
At Lervinwiarry....the Mstserva. Rah.. ; Joist', —; atvl
twehirr, (man R iv. .
At Jtier-.the rar"e. fern Made~n
. At Nikan.--tbe Chasteefirld, Wan*, iron !Se. Nutullarut

LAIR ACT Or a L.LTI tit INOst A GINTLILMAit AT
r DIVA YORK, To HIS TllitSts AT castrioss, so
WHICH PEACA HE CCLONGS, DAIID SSP r. 10,
Inns.
l ~ •• •• Shortly after the date of my last letter, I went
not as siaretcargo of one of my own vessels to Care
. F. owo:‘, in the Island of St. Domirgo, where I
,v.is de :lined from various causes for .shoo; :!Iree
-. months; and, just as I was teasly to sail, a general
massacre took place, in which all the white man.
%tomer,, and children, were put to death. They
were French, yet I did my best endeavours to save
the lives of as many AS possibly I could; though
perfe.ctly sensible at the time. I was barnrdino both
ml .de and property ; I was discovered in the et.
1 rit it. Tin Mtn a dungeon, condemned to be shot,
and :.r yassel and cargo colitiscated. Nit. by the
4..0 '.. ;•.:cifetence and spitited conduct of the Ame-
r 11, 111 I. unsnl, I was liberated ms the fourth dry of
• nsr con inernent, not knowing all the time what was
•0 bare been my fate, being allowed to have cons.
miinc atices with none. This dungeon was about the
- largeness and form of a common b:tker's oven ; the
heat ot which was so great, that I did not suppo.e I
could possibly have lived four hours, much less four
days, when I was first put in. Some of those whose
lives I was endeavors ing to save, were young ladies
f respell; they were yet alive, and hid in a baker's
• ten, a; a time when about three thousand Isy deed
upon the street, end not a white face to be s Tn.
Ally a few Americans, who were chiefly on board
their ships. This was a ti. ing circumstance with me.
IA second time did I make an attempt. and succeed-
ed in jar as to bring sisteen safe in New 1:Ink,
lehicb was mi,:e than all the rest of the .Intercarts
in poet did, itosugh at.ont thirty in nundsct. Ws re
ti to gsve y...iii a full titta'l .-1 the horridnrardas i•
not G.: v e‘cet.J the limit, of a letter, but be a
psinful task : it was nothirg uncommon to see a
.1111) osaet pierce both tLe mother and the child in her
'Km, whilst the datigh:er was stripped of be-
clothes, and pat to death in the most rode and kith-
.aut mane:. too shoe/sang for Isataassity to relate.`

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•NEW BREWERY.

Yesterday a Meeting was held at the London Ta-
vern, of the Sithscribers to the New Establishment
for brewing Genuine Malt Liquor, Mr. Wm. HALL,
in tie Chair. The Chairman opened the business
in a neat speech, and the Assembly consisted of up-
wards of three hundred subscribers. The resolu-
tions being read, several verbal alterations were
proposed, after which the resolutions were unani-
mously agreed to. The opinions of two eminent
Lawyers were then read, which gave every neces-
sary satisfaEtion to the meeting, as being decided and
unequivocal in the legality and justice of the in-
tended institution. We never says• so large an as-
semblage, where so much order, decorum, and
propriety prevailed; every Gentleman offered his
opinion without interruption, and every article of
the rules and regulations was discussed with tem-
per, and altered or approved according to the una-
nimous voice of the Subscribers. It appeared from
the statements made, that the sum of money sub-
scribed, and the subscriptions, of which notice had
been Aiveit, exceed 50,0001. Such was the im-
pression made by the disclosure of the plan, on
winch this establishment is to be carried on, that the
Subscribers took additional shares to a considerable
amount. Thanks were then returned to the CFI A I It-
MAN ; and every person present retired, thoroughly
convinced, that an institution, which has prospered
so much in the course of about five weeks, must be
, eminently successful in the result. Indeed the har-
mony that prevailed among the parties, augurs, to
a certainty, that the plan cannot fail of answering
the most sanguine expeaations of the Subscribers,
and the public, who are also materially interested
in the nndertaking.