The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FALMOUTH, Au°. —Arrived the Camilla, Prowse, from
Riga; the Success, Boase ; and the Libert Birch, from London.
PLYMOUTH, A VG. 22. Sailed the William and Amelia,
Jones, for St. John's. New Brunswick; Brailsford, Wilson, for
ditto ; and the Prince of Saxe Coburg, Tremaine, for Gibraltar.
PORTSMOUTH. A tro. 23.—Sailed the Ottaway, Douglas, for
Quebec; hang, Lusk, for New South Wales; Edward transport,
for Sierra Leone; Aurora, Kroft, for Dantzic; and the Zephyr
and Industry transports, for Chatham.
DEAL, A co. 21—Passed through from the river the Camden,
Mailer, for the South Seas; and the Regent packet, Collins, for
Valencia. The Elizabeth, for the South Seas, remains.
GRAVESEND, Attu. 23.—Arrived the Hsrmoine, Voss. from
Dantzic; John and Mary, Coxon, from Memel; Dantzic, Hunter,
from Petersburgh ; Pruvidentia, burst, from Gottenburgh ; Betsey,
I Aspill, from Genoa; Concordia, Dickenson, from Kiel. Sailed
the Lucinda, Stephenson, for Memel ; Bowes, Collin, for Quebec ;
Mulgrave, Garbutt, for Malta; Emerald, Nockells, for Buenos
Ayres; Aimable Elisa, Grandin, for Havre; Inclination, Deitgen,
for Bremen.

MITE:HAVEN. A t:o. 22.—The Jessy, IlliKentie, of Dum.
fries, sailed from this port at 3 p.m. yesterday. At midnight the
vessel was observed to he on tire. The flames burst forth so sad-
denly, that the crer and passengers with difficulty saved themselves
in the boats, and landed in safety here at 4 a.m. The vessel soon
burnt to the water's edge, and at seven o'clock entirely disappeared.
Site was ill sight front our pier, *bout two lcsgues in the offing;
she had on board about 70 puncheons of rum, and materials and
stores for the equipment of two large vessels building at St. John's.

CURIOUS PIIENOM ENON.-At Redness, in this county,
there is, in Mr. John Martinson's orchard, on one branch
of an apple tree, a cluster of upwards of 70 apples. The
branch is about the thickness of a man's finger, and the
cluster reaches exactly twenty-four inches from the branch.
The whole of the apples are in a very. thriving condition,
and a good size; they seem to be of the codlin kind.—
York Courant.

EXTRAORDINARY FRODUCTION.—The farmers in the
vicinity of Kingsbridgc have been greatly interested during
this havest by an extraordinary production of wheat,
grown in the garden of Mr. Mordaunt, of Read, in the
parish of Loddeawell; one corn only has produced 46 stalks
of wheat, bearing in the whole 2000 grains of corn. The
interest excited induced the agricultural connoisseurs to
make close inspection in the root, to ascertOn whether or
not any of the feathered race might have dropped addi-
tional corns, and they seem to prove the whole 46 stalks
to be the branches of one seed sown.—Western Luminary.
FORCE or CONRCIENCE.—During the last Canterbury
races, Mr. Manelark, oflicichester, had his pocket picked
of his watch, and on Saturday last lie was accosted by a
person, who asked him if his name was not Manelark, and
Mr. M. answering in the affirmative, he acknowledged him-
self to be the thief, and said he had not had a moment's
peace since, but was driven to it through distress. He di-
rected Mr. M. where he hail pawned the article, and it
was restored to the owner.—Kentesli Gazette.

PRESENCE or MlND.—Whilst a journeyman mason
was repairing the front of Mr. Donkin's house, in the
Bailey, Durham, on Thursday last, the scaffold on which
he stood (three stories high and upwards) gave way, and
just as he was about falling to the ground he threw away
Isis tools and made a spring towards one of the windows of
the house, which fortunately happened to be open, and
seizing hold of the bottom, released himself from his
perilous situation, by climbing within.
Mr. Nash, a gentleman residing at Brighton, met with
a singular but severe accident on Wednesday last. While,
leisurely walking on the Pavilion parade, a person genteelly,
dressed suddenly appeared, as hurrying from apprehended
danger, and as suddenly ran against him. Mr. Nash was
dashed to the earth by the shock, and had the misfor-
tune to fracture the bone of his thigh. The fellow, the
cause of the disaster. it turned cut. had been detected in
shoplifting, and had been closely pursued by the officets
of justice. He was overtaken in the end, and on Friday
was fully committed for trial to the gaol at Horsham. Ile
stated his name to be Charles Williams. Under pretence
of snaking purchases, he had succeeded in purloining
gold watch, of eighteen guineas value, from the shop of
Mr. IVilensburst, in North street ; a silver watch from
Mr. Silverston's shop, its the New-road ; but had been
foiled in an attempt to possess himself of a gold repeater, at
the shop of Mr. B s uckwell, in St. James -street. Soon
after being in custody, he confessed to Mr. Wilmshurst,
that he had transferred the article stolen from his shop to
an accomplice, but which accomplice unfortunately has
ev• d