The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-28 00:00:00

STAMFORD. SEPT. Z.

About a fortnight ego a formidable attempt was
made by the prisoners of war at Norman Cross to
Wed ti.eir escape from confinement. Between ten
and eleven o'clock at night, a force of five hundred
of them rushed all at once vinlently against the
interior paling of the prison, and inaninstant levelled
one angle of it with the ground. They were pro-
ceeding to in ike a like experiment upon the next in-
closure (con•truEted, like the former, of wood), when
they were charged by the military of the barracks,
and more than forty w re severely wounded with
the hayoriet, before they woe driven back to their
confines. None uscaiNed : but in coosequedee of
this sttesupr, a vast inclasute of brick-wink is now
building about the prison : it is to be fourteen feet
high, and nearly a mile i i circumference.
Much interest was excited in this town, on Tues-
day evening, in the fate of a fine child, between four
and aye years old, whom a female vagrant, pass-
ing from the north, sold for four shillings to a chim-
ney sweeper in tl.io place, alleging th it it was her
own son, but that she was unable to maintain him.
T:.e circumstance becoming public, the unnetnr.:l
stue.l.er (if she really is the mother of the truant,
which, for the sake of scandalised humanity, we hope
and believe she is not), experienced the sumiaary
interference and justice of the mob. She was hooted
and bugeted, until her dormant fisting was awaken-
ed, and the contend between her and the chimney-
sweeper being rescind's!, she lett this place with her
dial!. on Wednesday, for the South.

To-morrow, win Michaelmas Day, a Common
Mali of the Livery el London will be convened at
Guildhall. fee the choke of Leao MAYOR for the
Tear ensuing, %rhea the Waal will take place in
she meal form.

Yesterday the Loyal Whisechapel Volunteer Re-
giment met to their full complement, under Lieu.
ter.ant-Colonel Hamer, in the Tenter-ground,
Goodman's fields. They are to parade from seven
to nice o'clwk every morning. and nom four to six
every evening. to go through their field exercise, as
permanent duty for ten days. A company. after
the field-day, is to remain on duty till relieved the
next day. Captain Witco:, of the Rifle Corp.',
pnounted *card yesterday, an so every company
in succession diroughout the thole battalion, which
muster near five hundred effet,live men.

The period of furlough allowed to officers from
India, is for the future to be redriAed to six years.
It is asserted in some private letters, lately re-
ceived from Monte Video, that the attacking army,
althnngh ordered to enter into Buenos Ayres with
their muskets unloaded, had only five hammers or
axes amongst them, with which they were to break
open the barricaded houses.
On Friday, the Nifty schooner arrived at Ports-
month, with dispatches from the Flon. Admiral
BZILICLIAT. They contain the important intorina-
lion that one of the desertets taken na bo.:rd the
CArsapra,:r had been tried by a Court-Martial, and
upon the clearest evidence of his bring a British
subject, had been executed. It is reported the
Rear-Admiral Sir A. CouttllANl, who had arrived
at flerroud I to lay up during the hurricane season,
- The dispatches brought
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PORTSMOUTH, lILPT. 26.

Arrived the Red-bread gun-brig, from a cruise;
and Flora transport, from the West Indies.
Sailed His Majesty's ships Marrs, Hrt.4, and
Sophia, in search of a French privateer. which cap-
tured twn of the homeward-bound-fleet, in St. }P-
lea's Roads. They are since recaptured by the
Alive brig of this port.—Wind W.
DEAL, srer.

Arrived the Karyaroo shop from a cruise.
Carne down from the River, Alt on, GAmmon,
far Lichon ; Bri:annio, Brown, for Guernsey.—
Wind W.N.W. _ _

ArriveslHis Majnty's ship Nori!zpni.rland, with
the homeward-bound West India Fleet, amongt
them are :

The H levee, Mercy, Mason ; Haddock, Rc.lnvin ;
Intrni,ic, Phillips ; ;tole, Cruisers; Uninn, Briiwit; Surri,v,
arvey ; Favourite, Volary ; Grim, Groves; Sinionencic,
Brion ; Anne, Mundell ; Albion, Lincktator ; Princes,: of
llottack ; General Boyd, Smith ; Wanstoad, Wil-
ton ; and talc Sisters, Peacock.

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