The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-08-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INT6LLI4ENCE.

PORT!MOI TH. AUG. 21.
•
Medlin arrived or sailed this ind N.E.
• PLYMOUTH. auo. 90.
Came is the Sapphire, from the Cape of Good
Hope ; ?krt. an.l Aireisses, from the Eastward.
Sailed the Ilsrlrytaiot armed ship for Alilford.
(NOW n Cordon is appointeJ to the rilk de Paris.
JIO sad Captain. 11411144, late belongink to
her. is P# toted tolheColeip.tfe, 120 was. This
basuriflal "ship la retorted" lea dte Jett]-heat to
her-Moorings off the Stillest Pond, in order to effect
het outfit; her guns are Anon board, and she is
'erected to go oat of harbour in a week or ten
del a.
'Come op Flansnaze, the 41enserse, 3fi, and Pit-
-19 giin., to be repaired ; the focuser is or-
skied for docking.
Devito, almost. 21.
Yesterday the West India feet, about ISO nil.
'tame to anchor in the roads,
.with the wind from
the eastward, and oft ttie mekieg of the flood tide,
''sitt their anchors, and turned into the Dowdy. .
slitiedlterooois the Tartar, custom-house cutter,
rirthie Are, Worthinguni, sent is a scnogglit4
Aer, with about, sou r-ankeni of spirits.--"the
wind still mimics. from the eastward.

DEAL, ♦US. al.
fkiied the Lowistitere to the Nortitioard.
5,6'1(4 through the Dowu►, the Civilise East India-
imam hat. hitoeteuitooth.

TA IJIOUTIII. Ara. le.
,1141 ed Hit Majesty's 1411 p Aka, with a Beet of
• far Cori. and tie Norristown., armed
• , with a Beet of cnaltais for Wale,. Tile
4-Kent packet. wi.h mails from liew-York
gpol is eighteen dory feom the latter place,
414: the Mints* Feast, front Jatuaica, are arrived
of this port,
~ emit is awl sailed Soria, the Sapphire. •
i4Arreesd 4104 Nwrcisowt, guns. Captain Mel-
-01*s Sr' tee itootwerd.—Warped down to .the
*4.oes &tumid. St/ guns ; she will be ftaa4: to-
day, precious to her wailing.---Swilcd•the Are, it,
haw'

LOTTERIES:

, (Contiitsed fora Maus& !it Paper.)
Air. Moult Bosse
Vila is ywur trade rim a pawiliroket. Sil-
versmith. Awl jeweller, in the Strand.
:lbw icing have you been a pawnbroker wan
brought up. to it ;.atteriversli i left it, end have
Wave embarked in it again. 1 have been a pawn-
broker upon my own accouivt in all fourteen year's,
and I hare been in hornless, iu the whole, twenty-
'finstateurs.
DMA that time, have you had opportunities of
rvatious on the effects produced by the
lousily ?—I have had some opportunity, and have
seen very nufavonrable effects.
• Are Ton aware that the la*, retpectiog t draw-
' ing of the' Lottery and Insuranced, bay beets altered
• withiis;Ux or seven years?—Yee, Fain.
Have the evils been diminished by the alfrrstion
of the Lottery ?-1 consider that within the last
tivi-or slit years the evils have.betii dianinishois
• •Do.evits e.iat from the Lottery bider its
sent regulations consider they do. •
To a considerable degree ?—I know one monk'
bow nearly ruined by' .it. I holes 1 shall not bi
obliged tentenliou the name ; 1 have known the
plate of the • family clime into my hands, sad they
could not renew the payments; and I have been
informed, that they were *bilged to lose all. We
do not know finial about the periwig:who pledge
with us, and they will sir that they live at Brent-
feed,
although lbw may live at Kim. or elsewhere.
johns have sent to families to inform them. to pre-
vent their login, their goods by not renewing; sod•
ato doubt often ineffectually on that account.
Was the family you just spoke of in affluence?
-4 mean a family which was well to do.
Does the family consist of a man, his wife, and
,children do not particularly know whether.
;thrre is husband or not. It is a lady I spoke of;
!he was so infatuated, that she would persevere,
saying she hoped to get her own back, and it has
• unfortunately been the reverse. I recollect some
few years-hack, five year* ago, a person, whose
wife had made away with alumni every thing. 'He
.was collector of the various taxes nt Clement's
4nn, and froth the distress he was driven to by the
misconduet of his wife, he threw himself into the
New River.
We. he in geed circumstances X-41e was a men
wry well to do ; he was ander-perter st. Clement's
Inn, and afterwards upper-porter. His name was
Mathews.
How coma thelesityour knowledge ?-1 knew
it, because be to
in oar own parish. and
whets hives dead -VW cirriintstances come to my
krussiledgm hien:the wife, and they were con-
tinually pledging everything they could' get.
DO& they pledge with you( ?-4 bad malty of
their things.
Have you ahy other particular Fact within your
iscoilechon ?--Ind I lumen what I was to be
=llea here foe, I might have conned over a variety
of things, which I have not now upon my meniory ;
hot, sa thehsabits of business, and the opportunity
of obverting distresses, I hare been frequently led
to einterish Maple from insuring, because I knew
the congesting:me.

Despealmeartlest yea did this since the new re- !
galatione f.=-Tlease had a good effect, but there
have been the Little-Goes iu some part of the town,
and they go %lira the chances.
Do you • apprehend i
thatellte Little• Goes are
plated by the tottery chances, and that they are
only employed daring the Lottery believe nets;
but the officers in Bpsw-street knew.
Dix* the tine of the drawing of the Lotteries,
doou find your business enemas 2—Always.
i it allusions of that description that it dues
not inetememt other periods?—.Pretty near the re-
gular quarter-days we have as increase, altar that
wetune an influx of money.
Are the pledges made during the period ..of the
drawiag of the Lottery of a description different
from those of other periods N.-We get such goods
then as we do not see all the year round.
What sort of goods ?—.Superior goods, es cisia-.
iag from better families; and I do think the Lot-.
tery has been the occasion of it.
Dave you more pledgesat the Irene time of the
necessaries for living, such as linen and bedding ?
—Not so much as they have done formerly; hut I
conceive it is the case in soroa degree now. When
there are demands. such as cannot he foreseen, it.
causes numerous quarrels among such people. I
know in our workhouse, belonging to Si. Cle-
meot'is, the people there are so infatuated with
Lotteries, that they have attempted to subscribe
their 6d, a-piece for a part of a ticket ; and there is
a greet deal of insurance, putting in for what they
call the ow— as ' last-drawn ticket.
1110 W,

_ swespstitkak soth as the ,
"ire eon a peg* siker r—Not
out of isffice ; I Was Churchwarden the leer b
last. We hare a person lamas in oar ausd.house,
from the excel.," she hod 1.0)110 to in the Lottery;
she had made away with all that could be moved.
The husband forgave here
i and. on account of this
forgiveness, a lenity_ she did net expect, she wont
out of her mind. Had I knows of your inquiries,
I could have provided myself io a different man oer.
Will you came to tha Committee when yoo hart
collected more faets?—Yee, I will do that.
Such as come to your obaervotsoo, both as parish
officer and pawnbroker.
• On Thursday irst Wert York
Regiment of 'Chu, was bird by a Coort-Martial,
at Plymouth, and seateated to receive wren
•

hundrid lashes. for maiming his owls person,by harlot!, for several months past. after the
Stullfetlit-ited daily dressed a wound In the back
of his hand, intresioced ewe Itad buttons, with the
shanks west the flesh. seder the plaister Msd
bantlese.- .
. So animist ie Government of the spe•dy recovery
of Lisboa. that preparations are already marls for
rc-eatablishinir packets hetweets that place 'led
Falmouth. Two vessels hare sailed from Fel-
month with hole jots& for Spain 0 Sue for Cunt.
and the other far Constr.&

On Wednesday 1.814 a Very full meeting of
the Gentlemen. Clergy, Merchnnts, and other
principal inhabitants of the lierouvli of 104(1%
was held at the Town's Nall ; wise; an Address
to Iris M A./ rarr, spin-mint; the condisct of Gayer,-
meld in relation to Spa as wan siosimolitly
agreod to.

SAGS.

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Kele! 'A. de. te ot:
aeatex, 11. is.' Su al. 15a.
Sae; '9l. lee. to A. 134.
454 Duty laid

VOICE% (W NAY ilt(D
wr.J.►rra'a.
Kay, 51. to &W. rt. ed.
Straw, 11. Iyr. to 41. Olt

44. Isa it I
ots. as. as.
Is te.
St
Lamb 415

Aommedam. 3 U.
U.
Ditto ot NOW . 3.: 7
Hotterdmo it s oU.
Homburg 35 9 gig%
Athos ...... 115 a AIL'.
Para iday's dam It 3 ti
Ditto 94 9 U.
Diamoilramm 94
Madrid. is
Da I . 4l earl
Palermo
Ditto
&lama 4l
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