The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-09-07 00:00:00

CHELTAIVII4M, Sever. s.

the ;wed newt rrota Portutgal was received here,
on Satnruity morning, by our throng of Fashionalsles
possible shark of joy. The bells rang
mnnj merry peals, and a universal face of gladness
pervaded/1h ranks and degrees through the town.
•At mien the Theatre host4tesl i most .nrilliatit and
ilium/sus atulgeoce (the play being bespoke by the
Non..ldra.. NitannAw). 'The performances it Milt
Off with much and merited eclat ; and at the end
if the linst•pieei: Mr. BEY7III.RT, iu a short, appro-
priate speech, introduced Bole Britannia. in which
the Louse joined the chorus; and the follow-
ing Itnrs, written on the spur of the moment, were
added, and Most enthusiastically applauded and
encored ra.--

La, ! now the T..ratit's lefasus It% tOl
lln Portagars long sin-rine p'..‘ws,
`Where millions shoat, by Thee ware hued,
And Spats returns the grateful strains.
Mule Ilritauaia,
'Tis thine to raise the prostrate uo*,
Su kat the Power Supreme decreetl,
britaiw stnkee the a!orions Now.
By which whole Nathan bhnil be freed.
Hair Hi itaimikke.

lYcl.ronx is announced to act kat! bing nn
TaturA•lay next, wad ti.lcuctt, on the ral.e, to suc-
'reed ruin.
Mr. litsn's elegant villa, t'nnibray
taken by tfe Earl of Kt.sm A RE, for tie winter, and
the fiatily are partly conic in.
Our latest arrivals are
The. Elm( alai Countess of Suffolk, Lord Andover, 31sr-
eh„,,, of Blindt,..e!„ 1).0r5,7,v.r Lady Gsl.vay, Lord Charles
Spencer, Su. Nathaniel Dance, Mr. .Ingerstem, Mr. bream-
vo.Kal, Mr. listuaroOry, ice :at%

Monday moraing, lIIS A.I79TY, Priuceeacs
%watt. AUGUSTA, and AMELIA. Hermaipomed by
Lady TuYNNtc, Lardy littEltS and ‘VAI,sIN GUAM,
englOY. Vol Colonel ToJK rude
Wuuldor P.tret and returned to the Palace et
tvel Tr. Afterwards the Pat tt cEr.sre, art urn panted
by Lady TUT:tat:. 1.0411 RI% 1,115 *lid %V 41.sING-
-111,01. awl Cultutel TAY Lox, took another rite for
au hoar.

ye.terday, His MAJESTY, Princesses SOPHIA,
Al'Ut+TA, noel AXYLIA, aerorn;ianit d by Lady
Geaerdi FITZROY, altd Colonel TAY-
LOR, rode till noon in %Vindsor hark.
Lord AI tai li.s.aa left town, yesterday, for his
meld Zitifield, Berko*
The Earl of CHATOISI left town, restertray, for
the seat of Lord itatintstLin, in 1.4u301k, on a
01100tio? party.
Lady'Cattortst DARER returned, on Sundial.,
to her house. in Park-lane, fr.ats 54..1.411'10. at:.
Ladyship will leave town, this day. for her seat in
Surrey.
The Marquis of TWF.EDDAI.E arrived, on Sunday,
at Titoxas's hotel, r.oin Seotlai.d.

The Hon. Colonel and Captain Carel. left town,
ristenlay, en a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Etna, at Cusliiiihory-park.
toady JULIA PkIIICT is very ill at Sion-Lose.
General and Nlrs. Itossk returned. yesterday, to
their hone, in Saville-row, from a visit to the Earl
and Countess of E3iF.I. at Cashioltury.
The Duke and Duchess of Sosir.:tsey arrive',
yesterday afternoon, at their house in ficeaditly,
from Ltratidliv-house, Wilts.
The Duke of itenciino left town, ou Monday
afternoon, for M'oburn Abbey.
Tho asked fashions do not appear to have made
.great progress among retioiud people in Irelaikl.-=
A witness, upon a fate trial, in that country, swore
a Lady was mud, merely !steads* she went with her
baron bare.
His Royal Highness the• Dar of YORK and a
elect party, dined, yt-Sterilay, with Ckm. Dames.-
amp, at his house, in Audley-square.
The Countess-Dowager of EItUOL has been very
ill-, fbr some time past, at her linwe in John-Street,
Berkeley-square. tier Ladyship. w,lio, we are
'loopy to state, is much recovered, will remove in a
fair days to the house of the Countess of GLascore,
in Carrington-street. May Fair. •
Lady DON A LLT is on a visit to the Couutess of
CIIAMLEVILI,C, at Weymouth.
Miss Dtteau, after a prospenoos tour from the
jolly tars of Plymouth to the honest Yorkshitemen,
has passed through Loudon fut Margate, to glean
a few loose notes from the London citt at that fa-
vourite watering place.
Mr. TIIIODORE Hooke has been again angling
in the Heicomien fountain. He has roiled alt night
and caught twofishet, one of which. we ,u pox, a
Carp, is entitled " Food for else Critics." it is not
yet known which of the 1%. inter Theaters is to dress it.
Amongst other patronage in 'Norfolk, Mr. Fin..
SIMMONS was honoured with that of Sir Wit LIAM
and Lady JERSIMGIIAM, at whoa seat the Earl of
Ream sae an] Lord CASTLF.IIOIs were on a visit,
and were much pleased with the sweet voice of their
countryman.
Miss Botaton takes lease of the Liveassiol audi-
ence, to-morrow night, in the part of Adele, in
The Haunted Tower. after Mlss Smiles Mrs.
Oakley. in Cot:mates eoineily of Vie Jealous
Wife, for her own benefit.
Iris Grace the Duke of Noattorz, we are in-
formed. received, by the last East India fleet, a pre-
sent of the most beautiful antelope ever seen in this
country.
Miss SMITH closes her engarinent at. the Liver-
pool Theatre, on Friday next. 10 the part of Lodi
Illa..lartli, fur her own benefit.
Mrs. Hear Hewers left town, yesterday, cm it
visit to the End and Countess of emouliostml.kr,
at their seat in Clic-hire.
The Um. ComtLes ARBUTHNOT- left town, yes.:
terday, for Staffordshire, on a shootinif party ; and
in the course of next week he iota:oda visiting Choi-
mondeley-castlt, Cheshire.
The }Light flon. J. P. Cults ASt arrived in'town,
"to Monday evening, front Dublin.
Contain liasoroais. of the Guisrds, who so Os-
howdy figl iii the battle of the trh ult. as men-
tioned to The Cneette Ertraardlaary of Saturday.
ass a snit of T. Ba A DrOaD, E....i. of Asfidnen-Park.
1" SJ"ee ; and an Officer of bighlyttistirrtivhod
is-sit.

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s••• Ole londay sit'imirglit case of aSi aguia, ulnas
le id it (hitt :Assizes. before Barou CseoueE
* *tidal Jety. • It aas an action' brought by
the CriArti; tittle 'rue/mute of the Rev.
i4II; to try au issue, whether Mrs. Creagh, daughter
Of C. iVidenhelle,'Of Castle Wideithain, Castlerlown
Roche, was of a sound and dispiming mind, at the
period of her marriage with Mr. Maansell.
Serjeant Met; AllO n stated the case for the era,
sedition, at considerable length.
It *filtrated, that, the rotag lady in questionis
the child of C.Widellhaln, ESq• and is posses_.
sed of some property sad fortune. She
some titre in the year Ifsol, Jyllll Creagli. late of
this county, This gentleman dying iu October,
Ma, left his widow a jointure of 2001. per ann.
atria:lool. assets, independelit of an anueity
riving from her father. The death of bee husband
had milli an effect on the feeling and sensibility of
Mr.. Creagh as caused a meatal dertingement.
whirls the Vrosettutor inaiistaimel was bat of ic•tein•
porary nature, wham the Defendant ic;;ierted, it
contented to 'merle the present time, without auto
intermission. 31r. :Mame:ell beilig the nephew cf
Mr. Wideuhein, had of course innuy opportuintie.
of being iii company with this lady. eiel did accom-
pauy her and Mr. Witlenhain's family to Custle-
Conuell, where the latter gentlemau Witt advised to •
convey his daughter, which by cuuoing a change of
41'11.11C, unity administer to' her benefit and teen-a-
ble,. After reusaianig here for some, time, Mr.
returned home. and left her to the care
and protection of Isis nephew. This Cre.itlemaii awl
the Lady, however, slaortly after proeeiled to Vette-
more, where u private marriage wilt place on tilt:
aoth of April, mid a public our on' the 3.1 of May,
13t*. The point ut issue was the mute of this lady's
intellect at this period, and whether stir poesemed
sufficient satiny and diocrimisiatiou to dispose of
herself on that day. It was proved on the part of
the Prosecutor by various witnesses, alio had seen
Mrs. Creagh at this time, amt who were intimate
;11 the is natty, that shneithihited lll,,bigrs of iamuity,
tint, on the contrary, tlispl..yed a sound and discri-
iulnuting mind ; that it had steno itself iii venous
imatinces, in her conversation, wauifested
acuteness end cultivaticei, in her, gitieral tuaduetP
and the perfect propriety of he, beimeiuur ip matt
irtetunees, whilst in the house Ad at the table of.
Mr. Mounted. It appeared in eve fence, that in the
January preceding the marriage WILY comiffere.i
so sane as to execute a le ise to a ice . Welstewl,
waidi her t,t!ser signed and del. vered to this gentie-
man, as a fair and legal iuetre ii-ut ; and it also ap-
peared she had taktu out a imiasstration for the
effects of her late husband, and mad given orders
to her f then, tliniugh the meth u:u of u Hunt, re-
spectilig the wile of some cattle at Kilda-ors fair, to
which her father 'assented, and performed
Her strict propriety and appr cf. I-
duet were also prosed by a physician and u• ter
gentlemen, who dined and were in company with
her,on several ()comma*. A Mr.. t' Woks. aster to
the.Proaecutor. deposed, that Mr. Widen tam re-
eeising intimation of the private marrits4e of his
daughter, did apply to her oa t• e sub, ct, and.
ateording to this evidence, she iii.!oul, artesian]
the fact, but entreated ;11. fwgivisiame, which he
declined giviug, until, as he said, a pub to marriage
took place, Ouse-vin,, that it 11141 he effected at
Castle Connell, oa which the Ludy herself urged
the propriety of its being performelnt Fedaniore,
as the Braziers, the relatives of her f leaver husbenil,
whom she did not wish to meet, 11.e.1. there; and
also is it was in the dioccre of liitattoe, which
would, of course, create some detey mat difficulty.
as they were not retidents of that paridt. The
above eirclitestances uwl conversation* wale Prayed
by Mrs. Franks. Mr. Franks, Mr. Hunt; +int
Bowles, Doctor OCalluglian. and the Her. Mr.
Bennet, who officiated at the marriage, add which
it appeared had been solemnised wider the atit:ni-
rity of a license procured from Limerick. Tle-se
facts were, however. opposed by an equal body of
evidence on the opposite side, who dep iaed that
this lady, ever since the death of liar fihmer hus-
band, and ap to nearly the present period, was of
an unsound mind, and incapable of t.miging or de-
ciding for herself. Many acts of in minty, amid
runny cirenntatauce* which manifested the unsound
and disordered state of her intellects, were attested
by several respectable witnesses.
Water Brazier, Esq. faller to her former has-
bind, proved the geaeral derange-meet of the Lady's
mind, ever since the neriort of her hash:lnd.* death,
which was rnaoffested in various imam •es, such as
riding on the baronehe seat of her own c irriage,
at the races of Mallow, and threatening or at-
tempting to precipitate herself front a hign rock at
lJngritia, where, if she fell. inevitable deadi would
have Yen the Consequence. Mr. Street' proved
also the general . state of derailma:lett under
which she laboured, of which he was a witness, and
which was displaced in several ways ; o 1 the occa-
sion of her hasbirani death. required a small
hole to be made in the lid of the con, as.die said
to admit him to breathe, and at theltim • of his fu-
neral she 'raised) thi ton of Comte Wiilenhate.
in a wild and distracted manner. .Rector Halloran
proved his attendance an her for two 4113 e, at the
period of her husband's death, and that she dis-
played -evident signs of insanity. Dr. Barry, of
Costletawn, proved his visiting her at two different
periods, and that he believeit ehecritil not have hid
a lucid interval, and that it was he who advised her
father to remove her to Castle Connell. It was also
sworn, by her waiting women, that she was at all
peviorls insane, since the datth of Mt. Cretlgh, and
also at the period of her marriage with Mr. M.
that it was discernible, from various circumstiuscee,
• by }siting her fingers, by teariii4 her clothes, and by
striking her atteesiards, &e. It was else attested b,
CNioneettor (/'Driecoll, that, in MAIM, where this
lady was carried by her parents in November.
11103. she 'hewed Mgt), of a disordered naderstand-
'hag. in the squalidness of her dress, OM hair being
cot 'bore. her breasts hare, and preserving a rue-
lunched,: demeanour% Hot the mom important.
fact, and which seamed to here a considerable ef-
fect in deciding the werdit,c tree the testinsoay of
Dellacour, Esq. who proved that ais.inquisition
seas held in Mallow, sorer :lime is term Ware
four Magistrate. of the County, shalt verpieetabh
Aire, for the purpose or asee-twirl I r toe real mete
of this lady's mind. who decided ea her iataaitY,
and that she wee evidently demote I.
Ganalsellor thooliu descanted upon the evidence/

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lokallitied to pnsve, incompatilAe
with'ittpiestiinoily of Mr. Nl:sunbelt's witileases.
/lc was replied to by eounaellor QUIN ; when
The Learned J o nut; delivered a short, hut !mint,
ed charge t.otheJirry, who retired allow cow. o'clock
On Tuesday, %arising, mod iw rLuut nit hour after
VI/tight its a verdict for Mr. Widenhain.
EASTBOUIOI, lit.r-rE3nrua 3.

VesterJay evening, about six o'clock, we were
Warmed by signals from Beachy ilead, for an ene-
my bring on the toast ; the shor.: will in a moment
crowded,- from whence, with the naked c 3 e, we dis-
cerned, three large French lug4er pi ivuteers, who
were in the act of taking a large brig, mid a sloop,
sod two vessels more were in sight, uud, it is feared,
could not escape : a brig, ladeu with wood, for
Chatham, run a-shore about a mile below this
place, and so escaped ; hut her bottom is so much
damaged, that it is doubted whevhcr she will ever
get off ugaip. A light collier ran in to the shore
for protection, and although it blew a strong south
Westerly wind, and the sea g mountain, high,
a boat, at the risk of the 111Q.1.11 tires, went to her
assistance, with the view or mooing her ashore on
the sands, clear of the rocks, where she might hare
floated ou the return of the tide. The privateers
made so close aft/• her, that the guns from the bat-
teries tired at them, on which they made sti, show '
inz their cootie for the coast or France : the col-
her was dires-ted to keep close in by the shore, and
make for putigeitees light-house, by which means
she escaped. The dragoons have been patrolling
the coast all night, with a . view to prevent auy at-
tempt at depredation.- This inerning all is cello
and a subscription is begun fur the boatmen
who so daringly brava] the danger of the waves to
protect the persons and property 6f their fellow
countrymen. There hits nut bermes privateer upon
this part of the coast since April last.
1 have just now received information, that the
privateers hare taken a few vessels of different de-
seriptions.

CLOUCCS tE /I. SErr. 5.

On Saturday last the remains of the lion. James
Yorke, Lord Bishop. of Ely, wete interrvii with
liar solemnity in the family vault at FOrthatupton,
Aleolf Tewkesbury. The body was attended to the
grave by Lord Somers, .Ir. Doivilessiell, and se-
veral other gentlemen, who were anxious to pay the
last duties to their departed friend ; awl the re-
spectful concern which marked the countenance of
every inilividnal who witnessed the solemn scene,,
evinced most (wilily the impression which the logic
of so goo,' a /WM horl.made in the :iv:glibourlsisrist.
On Tuesday last the resnoi... of Colonal Kali
were iaterretl, with military honours, iu the family
vault at Tewkesbar:,. The funeral was exceedinxly
solemn. cud the process 4.0 mod highly . respects-
Lie. The TewkolisliSry Vol ilateers attended nu the
melancholy occasion.
Yesterday, at as Ordination held at the Cathe-
dral, by the Lord Bisho:, of this thoce,e, the fol-
lowing gentlemen *ere admitted to Orders, viz.
Deacons-41e-wrs. Jsisse• itsidge, H. Berlin',
Thomas Andrews, S. Creswell, and Wool-
stan.—Priests-.Messra. E. Dl4 nbetty Thai, Jarvis,
T. Sel men, John Turner, Win. Loggia, sod P.
W. Moore.