The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 18.
Henry G,attan, E.g. arrived in town yesterday,
with his amiable family. This revered Patriot and
rofound Statesman was, on Thursday last, elegant-
ly
entertained at the Sheaf Inn, Kilkenny, by the
principal Roman Catholic inh.thitants of that city
and neighho.trhond. A number of persons of dis-
tinthoe, among whom were Major General Taylor,
the Maylr, the High Sheriff of the county of Kil-
kenny, the o:Miters of the garrison, &c. &c. were
politely invited, and attended on the occa,ion. The
usual loyal toasts, and a variety of appropriate ones,
were drunk with enthusiasm ; all pre,ent were
equally cribedar in their sentiments resin, cling the
caret, and separated the following murnbse, after
passing several hours in the utmost harmony, good
humour, and convivial;ty.
Friday night, t t pi ismer% made their escape
from the gaol of Dowiip trick, among whom weft
A. and R. Stewart. father and son, who, at List
assizes, were sentenced to be hanged, but afterwards
respited until 21st November. the mode of escape
was, by making a t,reach in the wall, and descend-
ing from the upper n.lt of the gaol, by tying their
sheets together.
At a meeting of the King and Queen's of
Physicians. on Monday last, Dr. Jo. n Parcel, 1)r.
Patrick Plunkett, and Dr. John Crampton, w: re un-
animously defied Honorary Fellows of that body.
The 15th, 94th, and 96th regiments of toot, are
immediately to embark at Cork for foreign service.

The CINWOVICNX arrived on Ftiday a! St. Helen's,
from the D.iwns, on her way to Piyincuth. The
Certerms and Sy/pit have also been driven into St.
Helen's Roads, by the late gale,, and new remain
there, with several other ships of war.
The Havre and Dieppe b 1 pi:Lading squadrons have
recently detaine.f, and seat in for ad jzdication, se-
veral valisalA vesicle, which attempted to violate the
blockade of those Kris.
The Qd liattAtitni of the Cs: Regiment received
rsitire orders to erchaik un Friday afternoon at
Catdowir.

This day several of the Ride and Light Infantry
Companies of different V.ilunteer Corps, go to
Woo‘wich, in the baats of the [liver Felisahics,
tate purpose ot exercise.
A Caurt of mon Council will be l'eld at
tu-morrow, to elect Principal Land Sea
Coal Meter, vacant by the death EDWARD
PARIS'S, £sq ballut tin which will c 'numerics
athalf-pna one o'clock, and close At halt-past two
o'clock i and ou other business.

WESTMINSTER SE.'!'.qONS, 0, r. 20.

A curious cage c:lme forward ihiE day before the
Magistrates; 11EN fey JANILS PVr., Esq. the Poet
Laurent, in tin; c!..dir.

A Mr. Teat goers (not the pro!ege of 'Squire Al-
worthy, nor the pupil cf '2l,ii.osopher Square) was
charged with a certain an .if immorarty by a dis-
consolate damsel (not Maliy Seagrins), but Min
Dolly Pettyf:re, as the father of her illegitimate
chi:d. The nymph on lerwent a 1,,:g amination in
direa eviience, aid was very minutely cro,s-examined
by a junior Barrister, the Advocate of Mr. Jones.
From the ten-a- of Miss Pettyfoie'. testimony, it
appeared she was a servant in one of the Cyurian
Temples, in King-street, Soho; and that Tom Jones
WAS at the same time waiter at a porter house in the
neighbourhood, from whence the votaries of the said
temple were occasionally supplied with porter, gin,
and other cordials : and that Mr. Janes WAS the
usual attendant with such liquors. The night of
the firs' General Illumination for the last Treaty of
Peace was the first time the parties saw each other.
A treaty was then entered in:o, the result of which
was a fine boy. Mr. Jones, in the mean time, found
it necessary to rusticate, in order to prevent the pry-
ing officiousness of the parish officers : and when he
conceived the danger all blown over, he returned to
town, and set up a public•house of his own. Either
the parish officers or Miss Pettyfore got scent of his
arrival and settlement, and not sats,fied with the
nailing pledge of mutual love, the lady came for-
ward, and foiled all the interrogative subtlety of the
learned young Counsel, by swearing the child point
blank to Jones; and,what WAS rather an extraordinary
instance, fidelity to her first love : that she had had
neither before or since any cohabitation with any
elan but Tom Jones, though she had before, and
ever since, remainci a servant in the same house.
The Justices awarded against Mr. Jones the whole
espences of the lady's acroierirment, and 4s. 6:1. per
week for the charges of maintaining the child, now
two years old, together with the costs of suit.
A petition was presented from the wife of Jones,
praying the lenity of the Court towards the frailty
of her husband, but to no effra ; and Miss Petty-
fore retired in triumph under the prottiftion of the
venerable Abbess, her mistress.