The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-13 00:00:00

with Caner4l SPCernne nn beim!. The Peter,-
lonrgh Picket i. one ref the mpiNdr,,,, employed in
cue capture or Porto

It is 0t.411.(1 returns to Orders of the

Utilise of Common., that the weekly average
;.mount of Ilmik 'totes and viola bill. for three
yei.rit preceding the blt of April, 1819, was
26194 21. 14. PI. ; aurl that tbe total weekly
B spit mites sail Rank post bills in dr-
at the followistiz, periods, was--
Oil the nth May, 1819
10 Jew
9th ditto
11,h ditto 94,439,010
ell ditto ..... 24,149,880
291 t ditto 24,111,190
striwors 111bItbire luislieen a gradual redac-
t.", in the Cant mites in eirctilstion since the 25th
of 111 y, to 'the turiount of 1,285.8401.

A wiimlier of respectable inhabitants in the city
mean to he sworn in as special conitabfes. to moist
the to•il power in quelling any disturbance that
may take place in Smithfield on the 21st of this
t.,011/11 --(a resit% Paper.)
A %wow?, man. son of an apothecary at Idatein (i
foie to ins Duchy of Nassau. where there is a col.
higiste estAilishment), iwrsaaded himself that he
1• on id render an sssential service to his country. by
rohliog it of M. last., President of the Regency
Wishorl. who enjoyed the confidence of the
I hike, nod in consequence he resolved to assassinate
in. found M. IBEL at Sehwalbsch, and aimed
bins at his face with a poniard. M. lint., who
is toll sit corpulent, and who was not alarmed,
rem it his assassin and ilkirmed him. they
ere st-nizgling, the murderer drew a pistol from
1 ',twice!, and attempted to discharge it, accord-
, it to some, at M. lart., but others say at him-
r• I : t4e pistol, however. mimketi fire. The assassin
a, is taken into custody, and probably justice will
I - •rwrifily executed.

0 i Fiiihry tl•e first clitioion of the 88th reit-
nt4rcleed from Berwick to Hull.

O.IS eturday morning u division of the 7191 rr-
I•:nwnt arrived in Liverpool, to replace the 04d re-
which was lately quartered there. The
irm.inider of the 714 will be stationed at Chester
end the I.le of Ma%
Tlsere is a steam-boat in Americo of 2.200 tons
I.orileis. The engine is of 1.000 Isom power. It
i 4 ciliril The Faking the First.

The fast India Company's outward-hound ships
li~llie Caulk and Lord Castlereagh parted corn-
only off the coast of Portugal in the evening of the
:LI of May. On the ~.07'11 May the Lord Castle-
rettth was in let. 2. 1. N. long. 20. W. all well.
A letter front Florence of the 20th ult. says—
" Lord I;Tacis still continues to reside at Venice,
vo rite,. one should think. in sonic 1-spec's, not
tench suited to his habits, except his iiidolent one.
A man who is so fond of equestrian exeicime would
J ard!y have been expected to choose Venice for his
stnitle, where there is go mining a cep but in a
gondola along a narrow cane!. Lord 11v RON, how-
* se►. not only keeps horses, but continuos to ride,
Tar there is a barren sandy spot of sovill extent,
w here be gallops backwards and forward, fur three
a,r four hours every dry. Few, very• few pet sons,
r he,her Venetians or his own countrymen, are stif-
f red tm enter his house. His usual plan of seeing
cowpony is in his box at the opera, to which he re-
►nrt• every evening. He posses his time in great
i• d.olence, except as to riding. He rives very late,
1-eskfasis, rides till dusk, dines, goes to the opera,
wrens borne, and goes to bed."
r CEORGE and Lady JERSINGIISM, with their
foei'y, left town last week for Staffordshire.

Mr. end Mrs. Mimi. end fsm:ly left town
)warder for their seat its Yorkshire.

Yesterday a grand Regatta. is commemoration of
the royal victories of Great Britain, took place on
Vie R.v.r Thames, year the Red [louse, Ilatter•ea,
fineness of the day, together with the novelty
f t'.e scene, attracted an tinmetise coocourre of
sp..ct atom

It ha. been suggested by a correspondent, that a
crrt.iin Noble Duke may have been actuated by
pvtriotic motives in causing the melting down of
gold plate. Ile may have been desirous
contributing his mite towards the resumption sof
plyments by she Bank.
M. and Mrs. litsxos• have renewed their en..
gazeittetios with the proprietors of Covent-garden
hvatre, for five years.

A gentleman in Paris, who wintered the dread-
fel result of Madame BLANCHAIM'S incaution,
of fire, has, in a letter to a friend in London,
t•tattri, with • strange inconeisrency, that the lady,
when taken up, was not quite dead, but literally
efalhed to pieers I
William Share, James Smith, and War. Smith,
were indicted yesterday, at the Old Bailey, for
atralirtg • rruniity or wheat from • barge la the
riser Thuntes. 'lire Prisoners were acquwerti.

Yesterday a number of persons were convicted
s• Il.iw-vtreet, in various penalties, for selling fruit
I i Sunda), in Covent-garden market.
Nloi,dav se'rinight. a Coronet's inquest was held
tit the White hart public-hour, on the
laxly tf Mr*. PLANE, who diet on the Saturday
}seceding, in constquence of having !micro poison,
'I
he ealmiliation of evidri,ce occupied the greater
p •rt of Monday and Tuesday, when the July re-
s.irio-d a verdict ef Mosisfouglarr the hos-
t-and of the deceased, who is committed to Read-
gaol to take his trial for the cifeticr.
On tlatrirdAy Cie Rtl h ult. a dreadful accident happened
ait New Mill, near Hohnirth, by which Iwo temions lost
'VW liars :—While the I of Mr. Mirklethwaiir, of
slot place, carpenter, was loading a cart with wood, the
horse look (sight, and Ilse wheels passing over his boas.,
kit'. it km lotion the spirt. The master seeing the areidrut,
t sit u,r to the horse, and attempted to arrest its furious pro-
reii ; Lut while he was engaged its this dhoti, the cart came
i r fol:i*Cl with a wall, against whirl. Mr.Mirklelbwaile ista•
j so dreadfully bruhitd, that after languishing
t.li the Mouthy (alloying, he expired, 'awing a widow and
a ,amorous family to buten( his death. The horse still
Jolting forward, was •pproaebing a number of children at
play( and some of whom would &sibs:ems hate swelled the
number of victims, bad sot a young man, with great pre-
sence of mind, Lien up a Imrge paving stone, and Marled
i: at the horses head with so well directed an sins, Sisal it
brought him headlong to the ground, and tlftclually arrested
Isis fatal career.