The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-07 00:00:00

MILITARY C.R.

The experiment with the Military Car succeeded
perfealy on Friday last ; it reached IVelling, a dis-
tance of eleven miles, in two hours and ten minutes;
the men having suffered no perceptible inconveni-
ence or fatigue. After waiting two hours or more
to teed and refresh the horses; the fourteen men
were as safely and pleasantly conveyeeiback to town
in one hour and fifty minutes. Yesterday, soon
after one o'clock, another apparatus, intended to
answer the same purpose, was drawn by four horses
int.) the parade before the Hsrse Guards, and was
examined by His Royal Highness the Duke of
York, Mr. Pitt, and a great number of General
Officers and persons of distinction. This apparatus
was slung upon the springs of a common post-
chaise carriage, but it is clumsy and expensive, and
wants most of the advantages of the fcrmer appara-
tus ; instead of the tight-rope going from one sprtl:-...
to the other, serving as the support to the men's
hacks, and which it effettually did on the trial,
these are six large irons standing up from the s.at-
boards, three on each side, to support a rope; in-
stead of one board for the men's feet, two have been
substituted side by side; instead •4 its being sus pended
by ropes, large str ups and buckles are introduced ;
most clumsy foot-board for the serjeant and corpo-
ral, who sit in front, has been added, supported by
three large irons ; in short, this apparatus is at least
t~i.e the weight, will Lost mi.re than twice a♦
math, and requires twice the space to stow it-in
whet, not is use, as the :ipparatiis tried "II Ft iday,
and yet it is calculated fur carryiug two men less ;
and which number seems quite AS MAPV .15 ought
to be ousted upon the common carriage cf a post-
chaise, whose usu.,l load is twelve hundred weigh!
or less, whereas the twelve men who went off on tne
carriage yesterday, weighed, with their accoutre.
inents, not less than twenty-four hundred weight.
'len private•, a corporal, and serjeant, were seated
on the carriage, about half past one, with all their
marching accoutrements, but they alighted by or-
der of the Duke of York, and went to the Guard-
house, to be accurately weighed being again
seated, they drove off followed, exaCtly at two
o'clock, for Welling, accompanied by two officers
of the Guards nn horseback. Mr. Pitt seemed to
take the must ,Rive part of any one present, in in-
spe:tirg and suggesting alterations of the apparatus
Among the company present were noticed, Generals
Burrard, Hope, and Lesley, Major Ounsell, Ea! I
Cantle:l, Sir John Fordyce, Mr. Burdet,
Hooks were provided under the seat-boards for
hanging the soldiers knapsacks; but they carried
them cni their backs as on Friday, and it seems
most proper and convenient for them to do so. This
apparatus was, we understand, produced by the
same Coach-maker, who made that tried on
Friday.

It gives tut the highest satisfaction to inform the
friends of liberty, rhat a very numerous and re.
speCtable body of Freeholders breakfasted with Mr.
svgas, at the Nev London Tavern, Chears .le,
yesterday morning, and proceeded from thence
in a body o support M.* good old cause, by giving
their votes in favour of Sir FiIANCIS BVILDSTT,
Bart.

The Commissary of the French Prisoners of
War on Parole at Chenerfield, has received orders,
from the Transport Office, to permit fourteen of
them to return to France upon parole ; they are
Medical Men, Commissaries, and Pursers of ships,
and they will march in a few days to :;outlismpton,
where they will take shipping for Morlaix.
General WHITILOCKI, Lieutenant Governor of
Portsmouth, is appointed Inspettor Genetal and
Commander in Chief of the Forces in the Isle of
IVight.—During the time the General has com-
manded Portsmouth Garrison, which is nearly six
years, there has been but one officer tried by a court
martial; and that was held last week on Captain
Yemen, of the Worcester Militia. The minutes of
the Court are sent for the approval of His Maim.,
till which the sentence cannot be known.
The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased
to order that Dr. LIND. first physician of the Royal
Hospital at Haslar, shall be superannu tted on his
full salary, as a reward for his unrernitted attention
to his duty doting a service of n years. Doaor
Two m rine, a gentleman of much professional ab:-
lity, and who is universally respelied, is, we feel
great pleasure io stating, appointed firit physician.