The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-10 00:00:00

THE FATE OF GENIUS.

Homer was a begpr; Plants turned a mill; Terence
was • slave; Boethius died in gaol; Paul Borghere had
fourteen different trades, and yet starved with them all;
Teem was often distressed fur Ave shillings; Bentevoglio
was refused admittaisce into an hospital he had himself
erected; Cervantes died of hunger; Camper's, the celebrated
writer of The Lasiad, ended his days in an alms-house ;
and Vangelas left his body to the surgeons, to pay his debts
as far as it would go. In onr own country, Bacon lived a life
of meanness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh died on the
scaffold ; Spencer, the charming Speacer, died forsaken, and
in want ; the death of Collins came through neglect, first
causing mental derangement:—
Each lonely scene shall thee restore,
For thee the tear be duly shed,
Belus'd till life ran charm no more,
Aad moaned tho' Pity's self be dead.
Milton sold hie copyright of Paradise Lose fur fifteen
pounds, at three payments, and Ani•hed his lite in obscurity;
Dryden lived is poverty, and died in distress ; (Away died
prematurely, and through hunger ; Lee died in the streets;
Steele lived a life of perfect warfare with bailiffs. Gold.
smit►'s near of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save him
from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in the burying.
g►ound of the English factory at Lisbon, without a stone
to mark the spot; Savage died in prison at Bristol, where he
wee confiaerl fur • debt of eight pounds; Butler lived is
penury, and died poor; Chatteriou, the child of genius and
misfortune, destroyed himself!

On Friday, the Mid•Lothian yeomanry, under
the command of their Colonel, Lord NIELYILLa, on
permanent duty in Mum'burgh and Edinburgh,
after the usual parade and drill of the corps, march-
ed to Leith to dine together in the Assembly Rooms.
At four o'clock, Lord Met.triwt took the chair,
supported on the right by Sir GEO. CLERK, Baron
CLERK. and Sir WILLIAM FORBES ; OH the left,
by the LORD ADVOCATE, HUGH HOPE, El. &c.
all formerly officers in the regiment, with the ex-
ception of Mr. HOPE. Upwards of 460 officers
and privates sat down to dinner, when, after the
usual loyal toasts, the Colonel, in a neat and ap-
propriate speech, drank good afternoon, at about
half-past seven, when the whole dispersed, with
perfect order, to their different quarters. We un-
derstand the regiment is to he reviewed on Friday,
the 10th, on Portobello Sands.
DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning,
about I I o'clock, as some men we►e digging a sewer
near New Bethlem, the earth fell in, and the fore-
man (MAawooD). with three others, were buried in
the ruins. Two of the men, and the foreturo, were
got out after the elapse of an hour, the latter quite
dead, who has left a wife and large family to de-
plore his loss. The two other men are not expected
to survive.

A melancholy occurrence took place at the Cross
Keys iVaph, Lincolnshire, on Sunday se' 'ght.
As *time lads were bathing, two of thews were car-
rued out of their depth, and were in a most perilous
situation ; when a young man named Timms
Esnatie, aged about 22 years, succeeded in bring-
ing them out of danger, but his exertions had so
weakened hi►n, that he sunk to rise un more ! The
body was found on the return of the tide, and an
inquest was held by ----- EDWARDS. Gent. Co-
rouser, when the Jury returned a verd.ct —Accidea-
tally Drowned.

rATTELLIceivek.

COUNT op CHANCERY. tricaLl's
TuuttinA%, JULY 9.

DUDLEY r. FREEMAN.
Thia was an 'fovea' from the judgment of k.
Honour the late Mister of the HMIs. It relates to
the construction of it will, of no interest except to
the parties concerned.
The SOLIcITOtt-GENERAIG. Mr. PRESTON, M.
HEALD. and Mr. SUGUEN, were braid for the
Plaintiff; and Sir SAMUEL. HOMO Ll,t, amid Mr.
SNADWELL for the Delendand. The SouctiOx-
GENERAL has to reply.

COURT OF KINGS BENCH, Guit.ortALL,
TUURIDAY. it/LT IP.

Sitting* after Term. before Mr. Jnstiee ABBOTT
• and Special Juries.

AMY V. BUNTING.

This Was an action brought to recover the slim
of 8001. on a policy of insurance effected on the
Alalawn cutter fur a voyage from Trieste to Teaki
and back—the vessel beftwe her return to the former
port tieing rendered, by accident, unserviceable and
useless. It appeared Ir he evidence, that the
Plaintiff, who resides at V Is, received a letter
from Trieste in November. Nth, dated the pith
October, acq g him ilidt the Atedanla would
sail two days after (-48th) flout that port, a ills a
cargo for Tettki. being to touch at Corfu, and to
return with a cargo to the same place with all cosi-
venient dispoteli—and directing hunt to insure her
instantly during the interval. The Plaintiff did
not do so, but delayed till the -29th January fol-
lowing, when he applied to the resideut agent at
Varnsauth, of Memos. Jackson and Andrews, slop-
brokers, of London, who, after communicating with
his principal*, executed the policy on the 3.1 Feb.
with the name of M. Bunting, lerwriter. The
vessel performed thevoyage to Corfu, but is. returning
shipped a sea off Venice, wat tilled with water, and
the whole crew !writhed except a sailor and a boy.
She was afterwards brought into the port of Venice,
but was in a condition totally unlit fur service. The
action was brought to recover the sum fur which
she had been insured.

It was contended on the part of the Defendant,
that the delay of the Plaintiff in effecting the po-
licy till beyond the time when lie should have
heard of the safe return of the vessel. if am accident
had happened, and his perfect silence with re►pect
to the contents of the letter before referred to, in-
dicated en apprehension that some modortinie had
happened her, and a fraudulent intention in aup-
preaiiing that apprehension, and the restful ou
which it wits folllllied, from the agent of 11r*sr►.
Jackson and Andrews. The agent proved he had
htard nothing of the letter ; and a captain of
merchant vessel stated, that the usual time of per-
forming the voyage was six or seven week•, a por-
tion of time much less than the interval between
the 28th of October and the 29th of January.
The Jury, without leaving the box, returned
verdict of 'sunsuit against the Plaintiff.