The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-15 00:00:00

CAPTAIN SIIiPLE Y.

The late Captain Conway, Shipley, of La
Nymphe frigate. was the second surviving son of
the V. n. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph.
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entered into the naval profession at a very tender
age in the year 1793, under the protection of the
Hon. Thomas Pakenhani, in the laresoeible, of 74
guns, and dila:eyed in that ship, during Clio ever-
memorable action of ."Itne the tion, 1794, traits of
courage rarely to he met with ; he served the re-
mainder of his time as Midshipman with Sir Ro-
bert Barlow, is the Plebe frigate, and was made
Lieutenant in ISoO. Ile was made a Poet Captain
in 1804, by Sir Samuel Hood, at Surinam ; his
commissiou however was dated previously in Eng-
land. as a reward for his gallantry in the rapture
of L'Egyptirime, French frigate privateer, of 36
gone. ..catitaitt Shipley ten commanding the
itipro.on. of I 24. The pest-steer had some days
lints ntaly been engaged by the Osprey sloop, com-
manded by the late Captain Youtiehusband,
and in consequence made but a faint resistance--
that did not ',seen the credit due to Captain
Shipley. who, in a cortette. with only 93 men on
hoard, 36 of whom were foreigners, attacked a
frigate with • complement not far short of 300.
Pat his letter upon the subject to Sir Samml
flood will ever be preserved as a sarstrata of mo-
ekst rnerit--witheitt attaching the least praise to
his own conduct, be delineated the heroism of
Captain Yoanglittsband and Ili, crew in such co-
lours as must hays excited admiration is • every

peruser.
1; poet Sir Samuel Hood heir! appointed Com-
modore of a squadron in the sinter of 1806, he
applied for Captain Shipley's vessel, the C'oms.g,
of t 0 !man, to be permitted to accompany him.
A stronger proof of the esteem that gallant Officer
held the deceased in could not be adduced, the
Sumas being far from a de,icable ship for such an
expedition. Captain Shipley was a native of
Flintshiro, North Wale., in the qtith year of his
age, tall and graectil it, his person, firm in his
attachments, an invaluably friend, and meet en-
gaging is his ousnacrs. Perhaps there never ex-
isted an iadivedual who mere etuitsend, possessed
fife Floor of jo.torilig la he .-ommandrd with
sentiments similar to his own. Vs hat those sent,-
1111111Mte were. his life, short alas 1. as it was, and his
giefira. fall, have revealed !

Them has been a ge,ier.il &Awe of the carrot
seed sown this sprit.;; the cause of which has nut
been satisfactorily aocertaitusi. The quantity com-
monly sown in Norfolk is elu:s. per aerc ; but Mr.
Btatioln, of 14 kite hisighatii, ha- sow tubs. per
acre, on so aces. and it is thoutlut the baft,t wuy
to secant a crop.
The Greenock Pap's. gives the following account
of a Midsummer storm :—On •Nonday afternoon,
about four o'clock, the most tremendous storm of
thunder mid lightning, accompanied with torrents
of rain, and of hatlatoues of email:ion* wire. ever re-
membered to have .been seen by the oldest resi-
denten. was experienced at Fairlie, for shout three
quarters of an hour. A body of water rushed from
the bill* with such formidable impetuosity, as to
resist all confinement to „its usual channels, over-
spreading the siehla, sweeping
.away with it stone
dykes. theentire will of two field*, one of corn, and
another of potatorowassl partially injuring 'several
others. In the village the houses were inundate.'
three feet deep. Its somewhat remarkable, that
at Largo, not more than two unites distant. this
storm was by no memo felt to the same degree,
though we hsve heard that, no the Dumbarton side,
and at Hishoptos, so this side, it was nearly as %is,-
led, and snack abort the mass boar as a: fairlie.