The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-05 00:00:00

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EDINBURGH, Aram e 9.

To TVE ticHi' nom. 'rim LOaD PItOVOST, cum
bi,:GISTAA'fE OF U.N3L

MY
I beg leave to transmit to your Lordship an ex-
trail from a French Journal, which has been lately
published in this town. The ancient name of
Ramsay is so well known in Scotland, that it may
likely be in your power to obtain some iatirrmatiou
about the Lanny of Thom: Sangster Ramsay, a
young man of about 18 years of age, who is said
to be born in Bengal, and son to Mr. Nisbet Ram-
say, a Scotch gentleman, and superior officer iff
the English army about 1793. This unhappy
youth, alter baying been turned away, and_wilfully
forsaken by the inhuman tutor at Bayonne, to
whose care he had been committed by his father,
has been a most wretched wanderer these nine
years, troth by sea and land. No doubt but his
relations have been very unzasy about his lac, and
very likely have mourned for him as for a dead
child. How glad would they be to hear he is well,
and longs to take shelter in their arms !
I should think myself happy to be assured that this
my application to your humanity, in favour of your
young countryman, has not been displeasing to
your Lordship, and that it may be any way ser-
viceable to him.
I am, very respeafully, your Lordship's most
humble servant, FAUTIN, Secretaire
de la Mairie, a Grenoblz.
•
Grascble, tL:lBth Veatose-9ih March, 103.

Extraa front the journal de Crenolde, on ilttnaks
Dept:my:tut de L' here, Mercredi; i 1 Ventose.
Nisbet Ramsay, born in Scotland, and of consi-
derable rank in the British service, was taken pri-
soner by the French tile beginning of the last war,
sad carried into Toulouse, about the year 1793.
At the fall of Robespierre he quitted that city,
and repaired to Bayonne, a prisoner on his parole.
He had with him . his son, Thomas Sangster Ram-
say, born iu Beugal, whOse mother died in child-
birth. Nisbet Ramsay boarded his son with M.
Amile-Wincelas-Muntz Berger, diredor of the or-
clestra at the theatre of Bayonne ' • but being obliged
to depart suddenly, to return to his native country,
he committed the care of his son to a private person,
for whom he had.letters of recommendation, and to
whom lie gave money for the charge of his son till
he Could send for him. But this person, dead to
every feeling of honour and humanity, received the
money deAined as the beard of young Ramsay,
without fulfilling the engagements he had- contra6ted
in receiving under his roof this sacred deposit. lis
turned this unfortunate child out of his house at the
age of nine, and obliged him to en,rag:.• finiself as
a cabin-boy. Young Ramsay served in this capa-
city four-years. Returning, to France, he hurled at
Havre, still ignorant where his parents might be.
Since that period he has led a wandering lift, and so
unfortunate, that often he has been obliged to beg his
bread. At last chance conduced him into the depart-
ment of here, where he tiiled the ground and kept
cattle near four )cars, at St. Jean de Vaux, a village
situated in the most mountainous part of the country;
and four leagues from Grenoble. Fatigued with this
state of servitude, and' urged by the ardent desire
of finding his father again, of whose fate he was
still ignorant, he Went to Grenoble, where-he-learnt
by nccident that M. Berger, his music-master at
Barrnnc, resided at Grenoble. He went to his
hotne ; M. Berger recolle&ed him ; and young
Ramsay has found in his old master a secon..7. fatha..
The family of Ramsay roust be in the greatest
anxiety for the fate of this unfortunate youth. M.
Berger, yielding to the impulse of generosity, and
li•aening only to the voice of humanity, will take
charge of the young man till Lis family, informed of
the place of his residence, will claim him.—Young
Ramsay is tall, has a fine figure, and a pleasant
c countenance. Poverty, and the wild state he was
la, . have not altered his featnres nor limited his.
understanding ; he has not altogether forgot the
English language, and still retains souse knowledge
of music.
M. Berger thinks the quickest method of making
the existence of Thomas Ramsay known to hi; fa-
mily, will be to insert into our paper the history of
his misfortunes, in hopes that the most creditable
journalists of Pails, eager to contribute to the hap-
piness of the family of Ramsay, will insert this
account in theirs. These papers, circulating in
England, will inform the fatuity of Ramsay where
they will find their lose chid.—M. Amite Wincelas
Muntz-Berger, Professor of Music, lives in Rue
Brocherie, No. 11.8, Grenoble. To this address,
particularly, the family of Ramsay will have re-
course to find young Thomac.

7

Cardinal You; has removed from Venice to his
Episcopal Seat near Rome. He is so enfeebled with
age, that he seldom ventures abroad, and, when he
does, it is only to visit the schools that lie endowed
for the youth of Loth sexes.
The Colossut, of 74 guns, lately launched from
Deptford, dropped down to Woolwich on Tuesday,
tor the purpose of being coppered and prepared for
service.

Admiral Sir Ronr.str CALDLX will leave town in
a day or two for Portsmouth, where he will hoist
his flag on board the Prince of Wales. of 98 guns,
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