The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-07 00:00:00

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Several curious mistakes and accidents happe;,!
to the Fog yesterday.
Mr. PITT and Mr. Fox proposed to meet ai,i
make a snug Cabinet, in Downing.street ; hit hire
Perr scrambled into the Treasury, and his
stumbled upon the Opposition Beath in ellajiO4„,
of Commons. s 1 . Alg- -
An Eiev.awe of haul too threw off her
chief to catch her lover ; but he could not see her
beauties in the fog, and she caught a severe co 4 •
A Counsellor at Westminster assured the itur
that his cause was as clear as the San at
day. The Judge observed that the Court WAS all is
a Fog.
A certain theatrical Captain took a great fancy ,
chambers in the Temple of Hymen; but he
ed in the for into the Court of King's-Beach.
It was said the loeng Rower was &kith- ,1
some parts of Frederwk, In Lover', Vas...is. at d
fog came on, and no one could perceive a 544
fault.
Mr. SHER inAm set out upon a visit to PAritaaa.;
but, mistaking his way, soon found housell ire Lie
Land we Live in, with 1. ,fh Thieve,.
A beau stept to edible a Venus de Mrs:icos, in
Bond-street ; but, on close examination, discormied
the fair statue was a fashionable nude.
A countryman mistook Doctor's Commons Ise
Smithfield market, fancying he saw in the fob
great numb& of horned eotir.
Mr, Coney proposed to walk quietly to the Oita
of the Iris)) Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but ht.
Fosr El stepped Into his shoes.
Lord -- arose at ten o'clock, but found that
my Lady was up before him, and had put
on his breeches.
LORD ILIRROWBY. 1,750 `ll6'-
"•-*Ol
We mentioned yesterday, that Lord Haymow
had met with a serious accident. On Wednesday
morning his Lnrdship, in company with his bro-
ther, the lion.-Mr. RYDEIt, went to their late mo.
titer's house, in Park-street, to examine some pa-
pers. The Hon. Mr. tisane, atter the leusiuesa
was done, came down stairs, leaving his Lordship
alone in a loom upon the first floor. In soma
time after the servants were alarmed on lindiug
his Lordship laying senseless at the foot of the
stairs. It is supposed that his foot shred as'
he was coming down stairs, and that he w.sspre-
cipitated to the bottom. It was nearly an hoar
before his Lordship recovered his senses. He was
put to bed, and medical assistance was instemly
called in. We are happy to state that his Lo:R•ip
was much better last night. He is attended br,
Dolor Fe AL::111. and Surgeon Hoar. A eurnerO4.
list of Nubility and Gentry went yesterday to emir
quire after his Lordship's; health. Her Maateevl
was graciously pleased to express her concern at the
accident, and to be in the list of enquirers.
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COVENT-GARDIN.
TliE YOUNG ROSUIUS
Troia R9wint list night repeated, Frnb-r.tk, in
Lover"., Vvws. A critique. upon his performance
would only b.. a repetition of what we hare :thusly
said, and which every one who sew him co Wed-
nesday night must have telt and acknowledge to be
true. In Frederick, he leaves nothing to he whited
for. It is a be writ ul and finished pan traitove art seny
we cannot say, picture, tor, whenever he appeass,,lse
does not harmonise with the other figures upue the
scene. They are all thrown to an immeantrable
distance upon the back ground, and the c7e see;
nothing but himself. Die house overflowed as
upon the preceding. tights with an elegant comp,iny.
We consider it a fortunate circumstance that ar-
rangements hive been made, from which the ileibbe
may flatter themselves with a long enjoyment of the
presence of this wondertid boy. Were he only to
visit us for a taw day.; orweeks, the universal en-
thusiasm which be has excited, and the invincible
desire to hel uld such a prodigy upon the stage.
must have produced before this many fatal 4L'
cideats.

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Yesterday morning, A'lout ten o'clok, His MA•
J rsTY left Kcw in hi; travelling carriage to dine
with the PriAce!A of WALI.S, At Blackheath. Hi,
MAJEsi r, on I, s return. arrived at the Queen's Ilene
a few minutes before Ave, and set off for ;thaw
seven o'clock.
Yesterday the Duke, of Y j It. CA hi ',cc, and
Susstx, dined with Her NI Afrs r v and t. e
c asses. In the evening, tier MAJLS I" ti h.lu: A sit
party of the Nobility to ten end car.:,.
This day the ROYAL FA,/ it v %vitt
Windsor.
His Royal Highness the Prince pf WaLts, acrd
suite, leave town this morning tUr Brighton.
The Bari of IV tticttet.sra left town yesterday,
for Burleigh, in Rutlandshire.
The Duchess of Davonsulae, Lord and LadY
MORPET/I, and their children. left town last tug's
for Chiswick.
The Duk: and Duches, of Motioritost have ar-
rived in town.

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'llse Hon. Miss PEI.II A Nei late house in Whim-
hall-yard will, in future, Lc usrd ay ~:t (Ace for
the Chancellor of the Irish. Exchequer, the Ril,tl t
Hon. Juan FOST La.

Jolts Beasts r, Esq. succeeds Sir Josh 'Ras,
in his late house in Upper Br.wk-strict.
The Hon. J. SPESICER arrived in town ye-terttal
from Wakefield, at Lord Cti roues house in Han-
over-square, where i.e wail remain a few v..relts.
Count BEAUJOLAIS !eft town last night on a visa
to his brother, the Duke of Oatcass, at Twicket-
ham.
The Duke and Duchess of BEDIORD arrived at
their house in the Stab!..-yard, on ihesday, fr'
Salt-hill, the seat of Mr. Wills
Mr. HOLMAN is daily expetted in Dublin tore-
surne his theatrical labours.
Friday last, the Right Hon. Lord LutrvirEs. aid
the principal part of the. Fanitl, left tile C.4,:.e,
fw
Lowther, &c. after a residence at Whitehaven at se-
veral weeks.
The Edinburgh Theatre was to open on Wedrw-
day uight, with Mr. CUM NERLAND'S COMedr of 7:e
West Indian. Mr. Dwv se, lute of Drury Lace
Theatre, was announced fur !Meow-, and Mr. Z.Nly;,
from the Bati: Theatre, for Stedrucil.
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crrr RT.'S INES 3.
—row—
A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
t Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayon, seventeen
kldermen, Recorder, sheriffs, and railer Cty OtE•
en, together with a great number of Commoners,
ere present.
The Court proceed, to the EleAion by ballot,
of a second Clerk to the Court of Requests, when
the Petitions of Mes'rs. Davis, Fasson, And Yea-
„,,,td, were presented, praying to be eleiled to the
office, and on the ballot being cast up, there stp-

Feared or
Mr. Fai,..3.1 9S
Mr. Drvl, 60
Mr. Yettward 52
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whereupon the Lord Mayor declared Mr. Fasson
duly elated.
The Court then proceeded to de& the two Junior
Clerks to the Coal Market, and, on the ballot being
cast up, there appeared for
Mr. Cunt. 178

Mr. Ilicharrtman 130
Mr. Hitchcock.. AI
kir Mani.ut oj,
Mr. Dall.l. l5
Mr. la ‘rrett 5
when the Lord M.t• or declared the Elgtion to have
fallen on the said Mt•ssrs Curtis and Richardson.
The Committee of City Lands reported, that they
were prnsecutirg the reference respeeting the pro-
kited improver tetit of Smithfield Market as cape-
dititrusly as ix ..::.')le.
Mr. /11. JET. :,til i.e MEW It lEI brought up a
Report from the Committee of City Landis, /vain
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coofiirnity to a Motion 41t. the last Orin, re tug
Set:,htield Market, wherein they rated, that they
h.. 1 several cook.-ences with a -cfnputation from the
part:lh of St. Sepulchre, respt tong a plot of vacant
pound, upon which they bay- "ice erected their
Workhouse ; that they liar • die enlarg meat of the
Mallet now utaler cot,sidet at itn. concerning which.
tbey taped soon to be able to report to the Court of
Common Cone.eil.
Mr. fiti•le.m.in Le M till kit a afterwards stated,
*At the ( •,:ontir ee would lose no tithe—and also
mole some observations or what fell from Mr.
Waithman, at the last Colo t, which he conceived
to rellea on the Committee.
After a motion was made, "That this Court do
agree with the Committee ir ;heir report ;" I
Mr. SENIVEL thirom said. the repon was very un-
misfaCtory. He fully agreed with the observations
of the worthy Commoner, at the last Court, that
if the city of Lmdon did not speedily take some
steps towards improving that Market, it would, in
all probabilis y, be removed from the city. He had
it from undoubted authority, that such a plan had
been in contemplation, and even some measures
taken towards effecting it.
Mr. WAIr ii It AN,. after making many observa-
timis leading to shew the absolute necessity of an
enlargement of the market, aad also its inadequacy
to the accommodation of the public, complained
that this report, after a lapse of two years, gave no
information whatever as to the plan in contempla-
tion ; if they were suffered to take their own course,
it all probability, in two year; more they would
make another report as little satisfaetory. He there-
fine moved the following amendment—
" Tiet the Cormoitte for krinc ton: Cr.'': Line.; he di-
rected empere awl eepurt to the. Court w.thout Lt-15,,•, what
..uowri.?
welestier ele.int or ..thervoi.e, nvgy adi.ear not
oligiolol the inneovetntlit of Solithfi.eld Matlret or, art en-
I-T-fll Aut. and •ucle-as ma; go wn:, the expectation of the
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audrn COMMltagLilla
After v)me obserrarinas from Deptries 'l'm:L
ama and Gootteracer, Mews:Non r, Gairrrrns,
and brortes, the ametatimeitt was agreed to.
GIBRALTAR.

Hy the Lisboa Mail we have received the subjoin-
ed letter .--ona Caliraliar, by which w.• Larn that the
number of deaths has much abated --not however in
consequence of the disease having turned milder.
but because f.ie survivors have mostly gone through
the dkease, never attacks the same person
..econd time. it is now very gene. helseved by
the tazulty, to be the yellow fever of the West
ImL :

GISRAUTAIt, 1111 V. $.
" The fever has now gone completely through
the town, there not being one single house w:iose in-
habitants h.tre escaped the contagion ; and the
deaths in fever have now decreased in consequence,
to about four or five daily. At the South part of
the Rock, it still continues to rage among the it-mpg,
xic! it is the general opinion of -the faculty, that the
disease will not be extirpated till every person has
been attacked with it.
It is now clearly aleertaitied to be the malite,-
hant pestilential fever, as has prevailed in the
West Indies since 179 j ; and, it is a remarkable
fel, that the only person. who escape the contagion,
are such as have had that lever in tare West Indies,
Or the fever at .Philadelphia or Malaga.
" It does not appear, that any instance bits oc-
curred of any person here having received the in-
feetion a second time. More than-one third of the
itthabitants have been carried off by it, and all
newly arrived people are infallibly attacked with it,
and it generally proves fat.ll to them. Several
Milks who had escaped the disease at the South,
where they were encamped, have been universally
attacked oil their moving into town.
" The principal deaths,within these few dars,arc--
" Major AN anews, a Barrack-Master General,
and his wile.
" Mr: DENT, of the Naval Hospital.
" Duaw and Mr'. GLLDCs.
" Docctor GALINAITI4, 10th Regiment.
" Mrs. Pawn* L., wife ot the Naval Storekeeper.
" Lieut. NV must a Act', of Dc Kelle's Rep-
" Mr. GLNN, Danish Consul.
6" Mr. Gazzo, Imperial Consul:"

liythe death of the Right Hon. THOS. IIaaLLY,
Faliter of the City, Sir WAT[IN Lewis, Alderman
of Wine-street War.!, becomes the senior Al.irtman,
and.of course will be ttanstated to Brisige Ward
Wfahout. Calledor of the Orpian Duty on
in the gift of the Corporation, also becomcs
vicant, which, it is expefted, will be given to Sir
V! ar►tsi Lt.,* is. This translation will occasion a
warancy of Alderman of Lime-wee. Ward, And it is
awaited that, at the request of the inhabitants,
Juan Pa ttinKgsq. M. P. for Qeeenborough, and
a$ inhabitant of Liowstreet Ward, will succeed as
Alder mau.