The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-20 00:00:00

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Yesterday, a ono &Headed at the Navy Office, and wade
• claim of wines dew to bias as beloating u. the Mart. aad
wiser ships. Mr. Hedinglield, the lorpret..r of seamen's
rlaias essiniami rot• his rem, bat cooid not fiad there was
any thing due, sod give him an answer accouters/1y it was,
►owever, witb mach difficulty he mold he prevailed spun to
kave the plate. He afterward• retuned to the Office, sad
was so extuenely Wu►kwme, that Airco was obliged to be
re•ortrd to, to tom rim oat This he gat into t►e Strand,
lie diem burin • very laidieveris appiromor, Itches oily a
shirt wad trousers, with wither abort, stockioes, or list, and
►is behaviour very visket and 'Waive sgaktst the Navy
Office; some attracted a treed, w►ieh foliried boo whew.
emr be west. Bmnp►reys, belonging to the Oliver,
pentog to be pintas at t►e time, Masked the taste; aid
ea ►etas infomed, eadinvenred to take hint isle) restudy,
bat he restated most vistpstly, wed tbs Halem could not
esecired, till, ►y the assistauce of several wan, he armada-
plb►ed Ding hi• heads. then proivired • comb, and corivey-
*4 ►ins to l!knr-strset„ w►aa Mr Bedingfirld from t►e Navy
Office atteuded. From the viol: ut be luiviour sad inco►r-
rent language of the poor mu, there was •o &obi of ►is
being den•ged, and it was strongly sospecii it he had brakes
out of • mad-house. He um accordiogly eoinnetted to St.
Clement s Wwithsase, soder the warned of Mr. Remo
and Mr. BILDISICIIIILIN as • darigeroos lunatic.

Saturday Mesas. WALSH and NIIIIIISTT sorrels-
dered under the commission of bankruptcy
awarded against them, their Solicitor previously
requesting a further dky to snake out the necessary
accounts to be given in. and the Just December
was listed accordingly, it being understood that the
lottery transactions of the house are to he stated
distinctly from its other concerns. A bond debt of
40001. lately due to the inn by Earl Motu. occa-
sioned considerable discussion. Although the
Earl's name appeared in the list of debtors, Mr.
WALSH observed, that the money had been paid to
Messrs. DA a and Co.. aho were his Solicitor., and
who, lie understood, claimed a lien upon it.
Capt. Iltssrre is appointed to the Destatetrk. of
74 gun% in Portsmouth ; Capt. C. W. BOYS, to
the Stalks.

The Toner. Altecust.a. from the Brazils, is as
Aare near Liverpool. .
The Rose, Gassman', with oats for London, is
on shore nen ill'hitby.
The Polly. BA }CU* u, from Stockholm for Lon-
don. is lost at Holy Island.
The Akre, Bartrs. train Waterford, is put into
Ramagate with the loss of anchors and cables.

_
The Thanes, EVANS. from Gotteabiergh for
London, was 'aptness'' mar Lowe* oa the g,3d
November.

• The Aemesis, Capt. SONSITILLE, arrived at
Sheerness, on Thursday, in a most disabled state,
having lost all her masts, besides being mach da-
waged in her hull, is a dreadful gale of wind, on
the morning of the 9th instant, near the Text",
where she hail been watching the Dutch ships at
that part, for the last sit weeks.—She was close in
with the port, when the wind at N.N.9l'. caught
her, and literally carried all by the beard.—The
gale lasted three days. She had one wan drowned,
and right others badly wounded, by the falling of
the masts.—There are four sail of the line, two-fri-
gates, and a great flamber of brigs and schooners,
Lying in the Tesel, ready for sea.
%e are happy to hear that the respective propri-
etors of the Duke of —..ltstrsocwATEll's canal, and
of the Leeds and Liverpool one, have at length,
%read to unite the two by extending the Leeds
and Liverpool one from Wigan to Leigh. This
great undertaking will be of immense advantage to
the towns of Liverpool and Manchester, es well as
to the iu4nufacturers and other inhabitants en the
hue, on account of the cheapness and facility
which will then attend the tau-mit of goods of
every description between the first manufacturing
town, avid the second sea-port in the British em-
pire. There are only seven miles to cat.Alkhiin

IfffAL INTELIJOINGE.

POICCSMODTH, DEC. 17.

Sailed the Zealous. Sir S. Hood, for the Aiechter-
muesli ; retlosa ou a cruire ; Norge for Ply-
mouth; and t:esisionee for Falmouth, to take specie
for Spaiu.—W loft N.E. •
FALMOUTH. DEC. 16.

The Mars cutter arrived yestenlay from Lisbon,
in male days. Capt. Geastry, oldie 11th regiment
of Foot, lauded [ruin her, anil went off immediately.
in a chaise and four for London.
The Elisnbetk Packet, for Comitina, sails to-
morrow with dispatches, and a Messenger.
Wind N.

aItEEIVIESII, DEC. 18.
We have experienced a very heavy gale, all last
night, at N.E. ; as yet we have not -heard of any
damage. llis Maiesty's ship ChalcHger is a:).-
pointed In take the last convoy from hence to Got-
tenburgh, and will sail as soon as some vessels come
down train the River. -

His Majesty's ship Alert sailed from Carlscroaa,
about the 2d nudism. with about one hundred sail
of vessels, under convoy, for England. The lait
fleet was to leave Cariscrona on the 15th instsnt.
under convoy of the Vesuvius and .Sed Elven. The
Ranger. and Magnet to see thee as far as Gotten-
burgh

DOValt. DEC. IS.

The Alum Merle Cathariiie, of and from Lon-
don. with stores for Portsmouth, lost her anchors
and cables; in attempting to make the harbour,
mu against the Pier Ilwi and was driven oat to
sea.

The following vessels have pot in here, with the
loss of auchors and cables, and other damage,
vis.—The Charlotte, Watson, from Oporto for
!Ipswich ; ✓uha sad Susan, Rams, of and from
'forlaty ; remits, of Poole, from London for Ports-
ntoatl► ; and the Forrester, %Vilkininti, of and for
Shields : the latter, with the loss of au anchor and
cable, and tnurn-mas►, and her starboard-side stove
in by the Thetis.
The Dike ef Montrose East Indiamen is off
here, with the loss of her anchors and cables. Se-
veral vessels have pot in here with the In.' of an-
chors and cables, ■nd other damage received dur-
ing a heavy gale of wind, last night, at N. %V.