The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-08-14 00:00:00

N.IVAL INTEI.I.IIIENCR.
roirrsmouitt, aucust 12.
Arrived the 2:bra and Rviolmie bombs, with
large fleet of outward-butind vessels under convoy
from the Downs.
Passed by the Vecu,illf bomb with a fleet of ves-
sels under convoy tor Plymouth. Wind, N.E.

EDINBURGH, Aug. 10.
PRINCE. OF WALES.% BIRTII-DAT.
The following General Orders are issued to the
troops of this city and neighbourhood, relative to
the manner of celebrating the birth-day of His Royal
Hi ghness the Privile of \Vales :
" The Roy, atArtillery, ith Dragoon Guards, 21th regiment
of Foot, the Brigade of MOrtia quartered in the Goy, the
Brigade of Militia .4:itioned at Murs.,elburgh and Darkeith,
with curb Corps of Yeomanry and Volunteers as shall express
to Brigadier General Graham their readiness to attend on the
occa,ion, are to parade on Portobello Sands, at nine o'clock in
the morning of the Itth of .August, in compliment to the
birth day of His Royal meu*, the Ponce of Wales. The
troops will burnt in one line, the Edinburgh Brigade taking the
right of the Infantry, the Music:burgh the tat, and the Vo-
looteers the centre. The 7th Dragoon Guards will ha placed
on the right of the Li 11.., and the Yeomanry Gavalay on the
left The Light Artillery, both Yeomanry and Volumeers,
will be stationed try Colon-I Smith, according to instroctions
which he has received. The General will be upon the ground
precise;y at ten. The length of the litre prevents any salute
from the battalions; ilimet ire, as soon as the statute front can-
non in over, lie will repair to the right, and pass along the:ate
When he shall have again taken his station in fruit, seven
heavy guns will be fired from the pier, upon which, three
toned, are to be fired by each battalion, by file, fnii.g from
right r 4 companies. Seven grins will then again be fired from
the pier, to be followed in the same manlier by mitieptetry, and
so again for the third time; when the last fire shall have ceased,
each reeiment to give three heraas in honour of the day. The
line will then march, past the General in open column of com-
panies (min the right. 'The officers commanding Coro are
requested to honour the Earl of Moira with their colnparay to
darner at Duddingston on that day."
CALEDONIAN GARDENERS LOTX;F.
On Thursday last the Caledonian Gars:utters Lodge
held their Anniversary Meeting, at the King': Arms
Tavern here. The Members convened in the fore-
noon, and the Committee, who had on a previous
occasion inspeCted a shrew of broccoli, at this meeting
inspeded the melons and carnations. All that were
produced for competition were very excellent, and
evinced the great perfeaion to which they had
brought the cultivation of these plants. The Judges
found themselves at some loss to decide where the
superiority lay, but at last determined to fix the pre-
miums as follow:
Mr. Alex Hay, Gardener to John Watichope, Esq. of g -
rwuntesn—hrst brocoli.

AI:CUir 10.
Sailed this day His Alajestv's ship Relinswenr, fit
guns, with the outward-bound East India fleet under
convoy, and proceeded to the Westward with a fine
breeze at North. Als9 sailed, the Alseklaul packet,
Skuyler, with Mails of the suds ult. and 6th inst.
for Lisbon.
The llawi!tos, packet, for Jamaica, and the Prinee
Ernest ditto, for America, sail to•morrow with
Mails.
Arrived this day, the Pfanish ship Adrinna, Capt.
Farmer, from St. Croix, bound to Copenhagen,
seven weeks passage.
The Trimmer schooner and Mary Ann cutter,
cartels, sailed yesterday with Spanish prisoners for
Corunna.
HAIM (CV, ALTOUSI 12.

Two packets arrived this morning from Hilmar/1,
with the mails and several passengers; atm the Ladg
Diverts, Captain Fly n, with the Mails from Gotten-
bur gh .
The Diana, Capt. Macdonough, sailed yesterday
with the Mails of the 9th, for linsum ; Mr. Charles
Kemble was among the passengers.
Sailed also on a cruise the Escort gun-brig, Lieut.
Garland.

DEAL, AVG. I'2.
Sailed the Trait!, maa of war on a ct uise off Bou-
logne.
Arrived the Videarpi and bombs from
Dungeness. and rrmaiti iu the 11 as with the rest
of His Majesty's ships as per ' • •
A heavy tiring has bevn ~„ o' the Frem.li
Coast during the whole of last night and part of this
morning. which is supposed to proceed from an en-
gagement with a part of the enemy's flotilla off: Bou-
logne.
I was this morning informed h an Office', that
the military never have had such just and strong
grounds to expea the invasion as at the present time.
and these conclusions they deduct from their in-
strußions. which arc very positive.

Mr. Wm. limit, Gardener to Wm Simpson, Esq. Parsons
Greets--second
Mr. I lo,ie also got the first melon.
Mr. Wm. Dick, Gardener to Wm. Nfaxwell, Esq. cf Car-
melon.

Mt. Julia Shank.lie, Nurseryman, Leith Wa cama•
tiun.

Messrs Dicicion and Shade, Nur.ery and Seetimnen, Edin-
iturgh.—serond carnation.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GM !TRUING, AOG. 12.—Passed by the Alliance, Winton,
from •uernary ; Rulla, Springall, Loot Gotteiiburg ; Char-
Scaburgh, from Palau; as. 4 It" Good I lope, Bather,
from Lear. Sailed the Maria, Gifley, fur Petetshorgli ;
Stuckin, for Memel ; James, Stock, for Loningsburg ; and
th_Aun, Datidom, for Stettin.
weareen.
At L'rerpool-T•The CASitlO, BulideriON from hfrrwar; Su-
*tonal!, Stephenson, from Riga; Liberty, Miller, And jhe
Salt:, Cockton, from Peteribergh.
itristol—Better Luck Still, —.., from Petenbl79:i.
11.eitiv.—The Fame, M Varian°, from ditto.
4,1 e elt de, Muses, Gill, front New York; Diana, Gros
sael,and the Adventure, Jnhn.ton, from Newfoundland.

The Caledonian Gardeners Lodge have two ob-
jets in view by their constitution ; the one is, by
'holding out premiums to those who excel in the cul-
tivatioa of plants, flowers, etc. to induce such a com-
petition as may be instrumental in improving the
various candidates in the knowledge and praCtice of
their profession, which, of course, will be beneficial
to mankind at large. Ihe other objed of the Lodge
embraces those reciprocal duties of friendship and
kindness which mankind owe to each other. With
this view a fund has been raised, to which all the
members contribute, and they are thus enabled to
help a brother in distress.
The ball-room was elegantly fitted up for di,: ec. At )erby Asdzes, which ended an Tuesday
commodation of the company at dinner. At thelast, lasi, War. lrgilmou Baseman, a substantial farmer of
upper end, there was a crown surrounded with roses, Mugginton, in that county, was (visaed of an
assault on the person of the Rev. Eowa en Wi L-
and surmounted by a very beautiful Imperial thistle,
Nor. Samuel Cooper, a servant of the Defend-
on the one side the Prince of Wales's Feathers, and
ant, s.ter the conviCtiort of his master, pleaded
Defend-
on the other the Irish Harp. Immediately under
tined 101. and COOPZIII
these, the President's Chair was placed in an alcove, gio'// to an indaßment for a similar offence, for
fancifully ornamented with ever-greens,and a variety ti
which Mr. BATEMAN was
of other beautiful flowers. SI. It appeared in evidence that the Prosecutor,
Two tables went &wit the room, at the button.
with his brother, Sir ROW?.
the Defendant Bate-
of the Ptesident. Wit MOT, Bart. were
of each sat a Croupier in an alcove, similar to teat hunting over a fallow field of
S in the month of February last, when they were
About four o'clock, Mr. Thos. Davidson, ga- ietby the Defendants, who accosted them with the
dener, ummerfield, President, took the chair; isle. . .iost abusive and opprobrious language, and after-
Thomas Shade, nursery and seedsman, Preset of the ~.: aids committed an assault on the Prosecutor. The
Competition Committee, in the Croupier's chair on A.-earned Judge, in passing the sentence of the
.curt, observed, that there was too much reason to
the left. There were nearly 100 members of 11
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Lodge present. • msrehend the offence was premeditated ; and it
After dinner many loyal toasts were drank, also, as not even pretended that the gentlemen were do-
with those peculiarly appropriate to the object of . the least possible injury, but that the Defendant,
A:omen, had suffered a morose temper to interrupt
meeting, and the glass, the song, the toast, and the
sentiment, occupied the remainder of the evening. s'ieso in their amusements, and to carry him to very
every one vying with his neighbour who should con- u. -,a.rrautabc lengths ; that eonduet su gross and
tribute most to the general harmony. A band of ono per must be slisenantenanced ; an! that the
music attended.
thought proper to apiilogise for, and acknowledge,
his offence ; that Lis humiliation came too late, and
that he should have shewn an earlier contrition.
Witt' AM rites IC, lately belonging to the Hens-
t: idge company of the lst East Somerset Volunteer
Infantry, has been conviEted in the penalty of 101.
for refusing to deliver up the arms, cloathing, and
accoutrements in his possession, on being discharged
therefrom; as also in the sum of 61. being double
the value thereof, which sums have been according-
ly levied, with the charges attending the same.
At Moorwhaite, near Wigton, a melancholy cir-
cumstance occurred—l A/SELLA Dixon, a respal-
able yourig woman, having been unfortunately se-
duced by a young man, in order to atone for his in-
discretion, he promised her marriage. The appoint-
ed day arrived, every preparation was made, but her
betrayer never made his appearance. Agonised by
the reflation of her unhappy situation, and the
thoughts of bringing into the world a living instance
of her dishonour, she took the fatal resolution of put-
ting an end to her existence. With this view she
procured a quantity of mercury, which on Saturday
the 47th ult. she swallowed : the deadly poison soon
began to operate, and by its virulence, she was de-
livered of an embryo. After lingering in the most
excruciating agony until Saturday last, she expired.
After a long deliberation, the Coroner's Jury brought
in their verdiet—Lapary.
A Painting, which had been for some years at a
broker's shop in this town, for sale, was lately pur
chased by Mr. DUNS, of the Star Inn, who paid a
guinea for it—and caused it to be bring up to curer
a blank space on one of his stair-cases. In this si-
tuation, the piCture was seen by a Connoisseur, who
purchased it of the landlord for fifteen guineas ;
and, we are credibly informed, has since disposed
of it for 7U01.1--This pidure, which is said to
be one of the best produCtions of the pencil of
RV BANS. or of his equally eminent disciple. VAN-
DYKA, isthe portrait of a lady of a noble English
family, and her two children, in the outline of the
middle of the seventeenth century—and, although
it has of late year: bean through a variety of bends,
and sold by some .tt so low a price as four or five shil-
lings. is in a good state of prepolmoolu.....d
Paper).

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AI Dublin—The Pluto, Stephenson, from Wirsaiiet.
At Leghorn—The Prende Rrn4rr, Kogs, from Poole.

A letter from Plymouth says Several of the
Spanish prisoners having escaped on shore, at Cat-
down, from the cartels from Spithead, in Catwatvr,
have been taken again and sent to prison, at Mill
Bay, and have now forfeited their turn for exchange
till the next cartels arrive. This, it is hoped, will
be a warning to other Spanish prisoners."
A letter from Chelmsford, of August 1 I th, says,
All the troops are constantly on the alert ; Mar-
tell° towers are building on different points. The in-
trenched position near this town is to be finished with
all possible dispatch, and to be mounted with long
24ib. carronades and mortars, which are already
arrived, with an immense quantity of ammunition.
The armoury, which has for a length of time been
building, is at length complete, and is to contain ten
thousand stand of arms, &c. It is situated on an
eminence near the town. and with the magazines,
lodges, Stc. has a most beautiful effeet."
Parnell Nichulos, of Redruth, was committed to
the county prison at Rodmin, Cornwall, on Wednes-
day last, charged on the Coroner's vet dift with the
wilful murder of her infant bastard child, which was
found wrapped up in her apron, and hid under her
bed. She will take her trial at the Assizes, which
commence on Monday next.
A most daring robbery was committed on Thurs-
day sennight, in the dwelling-house of Mr. MOR-
GAN, surgeon, of Egloskerry, near 1.2 unceston,Corn-
wall. A man, dressed in a dark fustian jacket and
trowsers, and red waistcoat, Galled at the house and
enquired whether the l)o8or was at home ? on being
answered in the negative, he asked whether he mild
be sent for? the mother of Mr. Morici•si replied
that there was nobody in the house but herself. This
WAS the information he wanted. He seized the as-
tonished lady in his arms, bound her hands behind
her, and tying an handkerchief over her face, con-
veyed her into a back kitchen, and threw her on the
floor, with threats of instant death, if she attempted
an alarm. He then proceeded into the upper apart
ments, broke open several locks, and rifled the house
of money and culler valuables to the amount of
1401. with which he gut cleai off; and every exer-
tion to appralheisdi him has hitherto proved in-
skteasal.