The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.

Wind S.S.F.-High Water 4 minutes past 2.
Arrived the Edinburgh, from Glasgow ; Colombia, from
New York ; Majestic, from Charleston ; Ceres, from New
York ; and Earl of Surrey, from the Isle of Man.
The Corinthian packet ship, hence for New York, was
going in when the Colombia sailed.
The Nestor, hence for New York, lost on Long Island :
crew saved ; cargo all damaged.

Lose or THE SHIP Nrsvol.—We regret to have to
state, that the ship Nestor, Pease, from Liverpool for this
port, one of the old line of packets, went ashore at three
o'clock on Saturday morning, off Hempstead (about es
miles firm Sandy Hook), where she bilged, and we under-
stand will be totally lost. Fortunately the cargo was not
so valuable as it is usual for those ships to bring. It con-
sisted of 100 tons coal, 100 tons lead, some salt, and from
five to six hundred packages of merchandize, in die lower
hold, the most of which it is feared will be lost. A
few packages between (leeks are saved. The passengers
(five in number) and all the crew are saved. The letter=
bag yesterday reached town. The Nestor was of 400
tons,—She was launched in October, BM—New York
Paper.
SiiirwitEca.--At day-break on Tuesday morning last,
during a tremendous gale of Wind, some fishermen ob-
served a trow, apparently in distress, and drifting at the
mercy of the wind and tide, between King-road and the
New Passage. She appeared to he laden, but they could
see no person on board. They observed her for nearly
two hours, till she went out of sight. Oa the receding of
' the title the body of a man was found, washed on shore at
Lawrence Weston ; and soon afterwards the bodies of
three others were picked up near the same place, and not
far distant from the situation where the vessel was first
seen. She proved to be the Hornet trow, of Abbey-
Tintern, laden with wood, &c. for Bristol; and the men
picked up were the Captain (Harwood), and three of her
ill-fated crew, six in number. It is supposed that, finding
the vessel unmanageable, and seeing their danger, they
had endeavoured to reach the shore, which was very near,
in the small boat, in which attempt she had swamped, and
they all perished, as the boat was found sunk, and full of
water, near the spot where the bodies wete discovered. A
man and a boy, the remainder of the unfortunate crew,
have not yet been found. The trow was afterwards fallen
in with by a steam-packet, and towed into Newport. The
names of the men found are, John Harwood, Aaron .
Darby, Wm. Hopkins, and Isaac Howell, all from Brock-
wear, on the Wye.—lnquests have been taken on them by
W. Joyner Ellis,Esq., and verdicts returned atTonlingly.—
Gloucester Journal.
Yesterday the despatches for Eragal and China, by the
ship Royal George, Captain Thnits, were closed at the
East India House, and delivered to the Punier of that

ship.
Flat AT BRI3TOL.—FURTHER Psarrectass.*-Friday
evening a dreadful tire brfoke out in the range of buildings
over the High-street, Market-house, Bristol. The fire
began about half-past ten o'clock, and so rapid was the
progress of the devouring element, and so instantaneously
did it communicate to the several premises held by differ-
ent occupants, that it has become a difficulty to say in what
part it commenced. The livid glare of a volume of flame,
nearly fifty yards in extent, excited the most painful ap-
prehensions in moat parts of Bristol, and those in the im-
mediate vicinity instantly sent all their books to a place of
safety, and packed their furniture and other property ready
for removal at a moment's notice. The engines speedily
arrived, but the pipes belonging to several engines were so
much out of repair as to be almost unfit for use. About 12
o'clock the roof of the western half of the buildings fell. in,
and the fire rose in a tremendous sheet of livid fliune to the
sky. All hopes of saving this extensive range of buildings
were then abandoned. The whole of the Market-house,
from Messrs. Courcall and Jennings's' next the Arcade
leading from High-street, to the Crown Cellar, were a prey
to the devouring element; and the efforts of? the firemen
were directed to prevent its extending to High-atrcet, or
down the range of butchers' shops to St. Nicholas's Church,
and they succeeded, but it was not till nearly two o'clock
I that it became a matter of certainty that the lire would be
confined to its then limits. _ _ _ _

LIMERICK, SATCRD•Y, JAN.22.—On Saturdays Privy
Council was held at the Castle, when proclamations were
issued, declaring the county of Limerick, and the baronies
of Bunratty and Tulla, in the county of Clare, restored to
a state of tranquillity, and relieving them from the opera-
tion of the Insurrection Act. Captain O'Gtady, M.P.,
John Thomas Waller, jun. Esq. of Castletown, and other
county gentlemen, Caine into town yesterday, in expecta-
tion of meeting Mr. Blackburn. His presence, however,
ass totally unnecessary, and Mr. Yokes and another Ma-
gistrate attended in the County Court-house, and read his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, withdraw-
ing the provisions of the Insurrection Act from this county,
the entire of which is now relieved from its operation.
Since the restrictions of the Insurrection Act have been
withdrawn from Kerry, that county continues in a peace-
able state.—Limerick Chronicle.
SINGULAR GRANT TO WHALLEY ABBEY.—Among the
grants to this abbey is a singular one by Henmy Duke of
Lancaster, of two cottages, seven acres of land, a hundred
and eighty-three acres of pasturage, and two hundred of
wood in Blackborn-chase; and another grant of the same
nature in the neighbourhood, for the support of a female
recluse and two women servants within the parish church-
yard of Whalley, who were perpetually to pray for the
souls of the Duke and all his posterity. The convent was
to repair their habitation, and to provide a chaplain
and a clerk to sing mass to them in the chapel be-
longing to their retreat; to bestow on them weekly seven-
teen loaves, of such bread as was used in the abbey; seven
loaves of the second sort ; eight gallons of the better sort of
beer, and threepence for their food. Besides, they had
annually, on the feast of All Saints, ten large stock fish, a
bushel of oatmeal for pottage, a bushel of rye, two gallon*
of nil for their lamps, one pound of tallow for candles, six
load of turf and one of faggots for their fuel. Upon the
death of these recluses, the Duke or his heirs were to ap-
point successors.
EXTRAORDINARY STRENOTII.-FOUIkeJOIICS, who lived
at Tydu, was noted for his prodigious strength. The
esteemed champion of Wales for boxing, wrestling, &c.
came to see him from Denbighshire, for the sole purpose
of trying their. relative strength. When the stranger ar-
rived Foulke was mowing bay in the field near to his
house ; the stranger went up to him, and inquired if he
knew one Foulke, not supposing from his size and appear-
ance this cou:d be the person he sought. Foulke answered
that his master was in the house, or not far distant, at the
same time begged to know what his business was? I have
heard, the stranger replied, that he is accounted the strong-
est man in the Principality, and am come to try our strength
together. If that be all, Foulke observed, I can soon in-
form you whether it will be worth js ur while to see my
master, for I am a tolerably strong man myself, but nothing
in his hands, as I have often experienced, to my cost,
when I have had the temerity to contend with him ; there-
fore, I would have you try what you canrdo with roc first.
They immediately engaged, when Foulke, by his superior
strength, flung his antagonist over a high wall into the
road. Fully satisfied, he exclaimed, "if this be the man,
what must the master be!" and mounting his horse rode
home, fully convinced of his supetiority. Many are the
feats of strength he performed; such as taking a cow upon
his back, and bearing it home; carrying a tree he had
felled, which seven other men were unable to perform, &c.
From every account he seems to have been a more extraor-
dinary person than Margaret Evans; but while she has
been noticed by several writers, Foulke has only been cele-
brated in the tradition of his neighbourhood. He died
about thirty years ago, at the age of seventy-five. The in-
habitants of that country are remarkable for longevity.
The registers contain many ages of a hundred years and
upwards ; and it is common to find persons alive at a period
little abort of it.