The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-12 00:00:00

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HOWARD and GIBBS'S BANKRUPTCY.

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The Conunissionem rut again yesterday, and re-
ceived the proof of v.irioas debts; but Mr. Carroll,
whose claim of 18,000! was appointed to be dm-
coned, dud wit attend._

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MIDDLESEX SItSvIONS,SEPTIIIMEI 11.
PERJURY.
Jailer rwitpsost our indicted for perjury al-
leged to have been committed in giving evidence
against ,Bornetl. the Prosecutor in to case tried in
tins Court.—The Jury found a verdict of Gwiiit.
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cußsoem FISH.
On the llth ult. • curions lloh, supposed to bellitirts the
species knows. sunolig sailors by the name of Johnny Dory,
was tumid entangled behind the polling of a sea fence, below
Dunmore Iwbour, Scotland. It toast have got into tido si-
toaster daring high water. Wises. Gonna, the water had left
it, and it Wei heard bleating like a lamb, which it continued
to de till the fisher who first made the discovery killed it.
It was carried to Masora House. It weighed albs., was
three feet lost, and t ioehes broad. The colour of the fish
was black, with Sorge whitish spots on the sides, without any
soaks; the eyes as large as throe of a horse; the mouth
gait, round, without teeth, and ro large as to admit n man 'a
hand freely; nod roue/ the extremity of the mouth is a fold-
ing of the skis, ressolitsist a swine's anew. The trolly wily
was fit, and the ash Toombied seal is taste. A person
from the West tallia‘wieflkoro It ass native of that coon.
try; a Isa 4 be bid sibs pub% lot some so large.

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MELANCIIOI•Y ACCIDaNT.
Some., alterooon an aceioleat which had lite to have
-twee altvadrd wit► the loss of several live■ occurred on the
River off Woolwich Hr. tenton • respectable tradesman
at Poplar, left house that morning with a party for pleasure,
consimisg of his wife as* two children, tad three or four
fn. wit, all is a sailing boat, which while steering-oms with
■ fresh gale, happening to come soddenly is contact wit►
a shier hawser, was apart, and the whelk of party was►ed
overbound, the surrounding wstrrmest were some stormed by
their piercing shrieks, and instantly twat their oars to their
asoishace, mid- sown rescued them from s watery grave,
with the exception of one of the children, w line gist, aged
thomws who having rot among the rhipping, sunk to rise no
more. The poor little •offerer was picked op next day
floating us the sealer off Ilhoorkwall stairs, and conveyed to
the Globe Tw►era, where au Inquest was taken yesterday
on the body, before Mr. Cowin, the Coroner, and a
verdict of " Aecidewla? Death," recorded by the Gentle.
Hotspur Ike Jury.

EXTR.4OIWINARY !MCA Pr.

[From the µ Ilikntrent /ferule of July VII]

Last Wednesday night a Chief in the village of the Lake
of the Two Mountains.. 'then going to bed, incautiously
Muck a lighted candle ctantit the wainscot of a garret where
he and his household, ONION sting tot-eighteen persons, had
retired to rest. After some time, the tallow, by which the
candle a.lheio I, melting, it felt down, onfuriumately, Mu a
basket where there was a bag containing eighty four pounds
of gunpowder. The consequence was a■ immediate explo-
sion, which blew or the roof, rent away the sides, and, in a
word, ►educed the house to splinters. By such an accident,
one would expect that many were killed and wounded; but
it was trite the ; fur not a single person, though all
were blown out of an upper story to the distance of thirty
yards, was injured materially.
The Chief, whose name is Jacob Commandant, slighted on
his feet in a canoe on the beach, through which bis legs pe-
netrated as far as the ankles, and held him fast, as it were,
in the stocks. Tbere he was (maid by some of the intiabi-
mita, in in►xpressible terser, imagining his situation to have
proceeded from. some malicious demon, whose exit and en.
trance had destroyed bin hois:e. A child was sleeping with
its head near She basket, antlered no other hurt than having
its hair singed; to crown all, a leathern bag, containing
three pounds more of gunpowder, mid lying io the same
basket, was found mar the house unexploded