The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-01 00:00:00


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IL LUMlNifilMit .iXTRAOIEDINARY.

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&tiros—Although I was murk gratiticd
by the accomst.green in your .Paper, of Tliiirs'l4y
lost, of the yarning scenes of rejoicing n hic:i the
lietropoliceshiltited on the occasion of Ilis
jesty entering on the 30th year of has reign, yet
I confess I Celt soine*hut surprised' at your not
noticing, in your description of the ILLUMINA-
Twirl, several transperevcies, which attrketed very
general observation, and of some of which I h4ve
token the liberty to send yoo is sketch.

Johmscia's-eourt. Oat. 31. N.
The front of Mr. P-a.e-t.'s house displayed a
transparency of considerable size.—At a distance it
seemed to represent Ado bearing the world upon
his shoulders. On a nearer view, however, that
which. on at transient glassier. appeared intended
for • detour:akin of the globe. turned out to be
nothitur more than a et:realer shield, divided into
compartments; whirl), instead of the names of king-
doms and owes, kore the following inscriptions :
" Surveyor of the ITeltion.., and Clerk of the Irons n the
Hint " " Chancellor of Itoe Iho•hy of twocaster." " Chau-
cellur• of Exrbetiori." Punk Lord of the Trratury,"
Round the siodd was inscribed the folluoing
motto:

" 0 ! that Matra, degrees, and offices,
" Were ttot &riled corruptly ! and that alto honour
• " iLvere purcboued by the sterol of Ow sentorr !
" I loos many. reren,altoutot cover, that fraud five
" flow many be ettaintauded, t►at command i"

Tlie design of this !minting M• 116 very bad, and
excited general contempt. The figure bearing the
shield ar.sned totally itiadequate to the burden,
and ulisolotely tottering under it. The whole be-
im: li4lited by eaNdle-endr, Mid a very sombre up-
peitiatoce.

The _Earl .of CH —'l,-41.11 residence was nearly
covered by two paintings. The first (over which
were written the w• rd, parteriunt monks) repre-
sented The Itisembarkatioi at Wakherem. The
troops appeared in the most spirited attitudes. as if
ardeutly desiring to signalise iftemselves, mid im-
patient for the completion of the ulterior objects"
of the Expedition. in the distance. Eir W. Cur-
ties barge.was distinguishable, with an enormous
turtle hanging frogs the stern. The.seeomd (winch
was iiictibett, toucher ridicules eats) exhibited
A View of the Interior of Ws/therm after the
Ccnimander-M-Chief bad left .• his brave compa-
nions'" and, instead of en army burning with
ardour to meet the, foe, presented to the eye •
gloomy prospect of the dead and dying—a perfect
Golgotha—Bert the insidious Dyseatery triumphed
—There the 'Typhus reared his horrid heed—amt,
in a third quarter. the Amite seized his victims.—
Th.:• scene wait terminated by a distant view of South
klevelaad, on which a number of French soldiers
were olinerviii,le—They seemed wilding till the seer-
/alum at Walelieren should place that island in
their possession, without the tremble of fighting !
Underneath 1 observed the following lines front
homer's Iliad :

Ye GaAs! irk: isswiers bas Wester weaned?
" ilrhatifraits his eitathiet sail his coarser yislJ-...
Great is- the Coswil. lionises is iiiefrid !"
This transparency have.; rather a ohewy a!)pear.
wheri sot stnctly slummed. attrari..l t00..y
alleviators ; hut they uniformly retinal, hurl vied
at the snhject—and disgusted with the
tnanagenient
of titeriere I
By a singular roiecidetv4, the hoo.es or Lords
GREY cud GIVINVILLS exhibited $1 similar trans-
parency—The subject vino eisicianatus cultivating
his paternal for ith the itiscriptiori—
o When r ice prevails, woe irspi.Nl4 ate* bier sway,
" Ttie ur he..., is a private Maass r

'1 he Earl of L-e-P-x's house eras ornamented
with the representation of a lirst-rate, on whose
stern I could distingitisb.the mune "rUnited King-
dom," contending with a furious storm—htr masts
gone by the hoard, and exhibiting every symptom
of distress.—But what attracted particular new e,
was the manner in which the first and second Cap-
tain, and the other Officers, appeared occupied :--
instead of infusing spirit into the crew, for the pur-
pose of %arm:J.; the Ship, the fernier appeared beady
employed ricking lip a great quantity of routes and
fishes, which were scattered ebout the deck ;
while the hitter, equally candes4 about the vessel's
safety, seemed to lawns zealously in setting the
crew by the eaes—by dealing out a double porticos
of grog to some of them, wi:n cause from a fa-
vourite countrya—while others, who egoist& shared
the lahour,, hut who were nbt mimes of the
enei -d ~pot, seemed to be threatened null the liu-
nistneient due to mutiny, When they advanced,
in suppliant posture, to reque.t a participation in
the good thine* which their shipmates were enjoy-
ing. The painting was thus inscribed

Is there not some chosen come.
Some holdeu thuader, io t►e it. .re of Fleur's.,
Red with oueutomon wroth, to 7.lest the own,
Who owe their greatness to their &winders mile I"

Wednesday a boy purchesed a cracker at Mr.
PllSTLEcHwiiitt.'s, ironmonger, Laue.esal, Sief•
fordshire, and• immediately set fire to It at a candle
on the counter in the shop. The expJosion cons-
iiiimicatvil with a caunister containing a quantity
guitialarlet,whichshattered the window to pieces,
and forced the wood work into the street, hrsides
, injuring many articles in the shop. Mr. P. and
the boy lied their heads and feces much scorched ;
and as their WAS a greet quantity of gouponderin
the shop, end on the.prensi.e-, it is a very curtail:de
cirt•unastance that munch greater damage was not
done. •
On Sunday evening, a young man, son of a re-
speceable tradesinait.iii Chelsea, whilst in a stele of
;intoxication, was decoyed by two sharpers into a
house in the neighbourhood of the Haymarket.
where after losing mar 141. at cords with one of
them, lie, in hopes of retrieving his misfortune,
staked a valuable watch, which was al.o very Soon
lost, and having requested that a small seal night
be returned hue, but being ungenerously denied.
he endeavoured to obtain it by force, and in the
mcu die sec: ived so severe a cut across his right eye,
dud 110 hopes are entertained of has revoveriag it
Saturday night. during the fog, a cart standing
unattended loaded with a tape of Madeira, near the
Saracen's Head. Strowhill, was driven away by them
thieves. The wine was lost, bat the cart and Ikon
way futtad is titestrall-streat.