The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-07-03 00:00:00

iItIDDLESEX NESSIoNS.

Yesterday the Middlesex Sessions commenced at
Hicks's Hall, before Wm M A ITIWARI NU, Esq. at d
the &rich of Justices, when several assaults at • e
tried, the most material of which were the fultowir :
Richard Monist" a patrole belonging ti the Puts-
Fe Office, Bow-street, was indiaeci tor violently ns-
saultmg James Reynolds on the 17th of 'at th la•r.
The Prosecutor, also is a labottritt man, staie.• ti at
he had been hard at work on the day mentioned in
the indiftment, and returned iii the evening to s.is
lodgings, at the house of John Dalton. a publican,
in Cockpit-alley, ury-lane. It hao been usual bit
him to r ceie.• the kc) of his room when he carne
home, either from his wife or the lansilind ; but nit
this occasioa, it was mislaid, and zhe Pr..secutor sat
d in n in company with the Defendant, whili
ton went in se tr.t, of it. The Defendant en liea
gan to speak about a transaften which had prea
v:ously been the siihjett of dispute bats,. een • 'm and
Prosecutor, namely the seizure et sonic pi ode be.
longing to the lacier, when the Defendant, stidecilly
rising from his chair, exclaimed 1,./o you Wail. in.
to say something, that you may bring forward as
evidence against me r' at the same insrart, while the
Prosecutor was leaning hishead 4..1 I is hand,he str u k
him a violent blowthat knocked out his right eye.at d
desired him to rise and fight like a man. ill- Pro-
secutor, who was in a shocking situario• , Ltd "You
have already endeavoured to mind r no•
my knowledge, now I slipp.,se von M.,. ro take
a:y.lWe." Dalton, the landlord, coming into the ro m,
told the Defendant, :144.11. 64: 1 loseclata s y.. is
quite out ; on which he appeared sorry for sib .
had done, and declared, he had nit the leas I .31-
tioa of committing so grv.tt an injury he .ft .r-
-wards paid the expence , incurred by a reaiov.l if •
the Prosecutor to the haintal. In deteme or the
assault, it was stated, th it the Defendant had no ma-
lice at the time the blow was given. The Jury
found him Carty, and the Court sentenced him to
pay a fine of 301.

Yesterday the Landon adjourned Sessions was
helJ :,t Guildhall befire the lir.cokoss and City
City Offers ; no trial of general interest occurred.

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NAVAL IN!ELLIGENCE.
• MAIWICHI ALT 1.
The Lady Frown packet, Captain ilyn, sailed
lont night with the Mails for Hu.nm, and several
ers. The Iti•ag Georer, Caota;ii
for aGOttenburgh, wit,h the Mails, and a ltus,i.ti•
Courier, and a neutral vessel. with several pa:ten-
ter' for i.:Tithden.
Just arrived, the Dorset, Captain Hamilton, and
the Led, Nefreaa, Ca-tain George Deane, with the
Itelle front Gottenburgh, and two Messengers.

novra, Jti 29.
`As the wind in the course of last night shifted to
the S.B W. the greater part of our blockading squa-
dron have been obliged to leave the French coast,
end are now at anchor in Dungenness Road, to the
number of eighteen sail ; besides which, two frigates
pre arrived off this place.
JUNE 30.
A heavy firing commenced this morning, about
ten, on the opposite coast, between Calais and
Boulogne. It eon.inued at short intervals during
the greater part of :he afternoon, and at times was
very violent. At noon. signals were displayed from
the signal posts along shore, of the enemy being in
motion ; but it was so very hazy in the Channel,
that no accurate observation could be made at the
time, nor h.ts it yet entirely cleated off. The firing
is supposed to have been occasioned by some of the
enemy's vessels, in the absence of our squadron
from their coast, having come out of Calais, or some
port to the Eastward, and fell in with some of our
cruisers detached from the rest of the squadron, who
haveondeavoured to prevcnt the enemy from form-
, ing a junaion with the armada at Boulogne. The
e Dungenness squadron remain at anchor in that road-
with a southerly wind, and two frigates are
still at anchor in this road. We have some vessels
' ea the opposite side to watch the enemy's movements.
1/01TSSIIOUTH, JULY 1.
Sailed the Squirrel and Lark sloops of war, for the
coast of Africa, with several South Seamen, under
convoy.
The firevard frigate is expeaed to sail to-morrow
pith the fleet under convoy, for the Mediterranean.
' Wind S.E.

DIAL, JULY 1.
sere I the Newer..re sloop of war, with the Meserch.
Almaden and Marla East Indiamen, and the rest
of the outward-bound, under convoy, for Ports-
mouth.

Sailed the Now shop of war; Fare bomb;
BloseLloosad, Locust, and !indoor gun-brigs, on a
cruise.

&main in the Downs, the rest of the ships as per
last•

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Arrived and gilled for the River, the hi', Skin-
ner, from New-York.—Witid E.N.E.

PLYMOUTH!, JUN 29.
A court martial has bean held on board Ed Sah fr-
iar del Mgmele;of 110 guns, Vice-Admiral Ynnng, in
Harnoase ; Rear-Admiral Sutton, President. R.
_ _

Liddell, Esq. Judge Advocate, on four seamen i'f
the Monlope, of 74, guns, for mutiny, &c on boas d
that Chip of Brest, in her late cruise it that station,
and for conspiring to murder their officers, and run
away with the ship. After a trial, which lasted the
whole day. and being heard in their defence, and
die charges being fully proved, the Court f and them
all four Guilty, when sentence of death was imtnetti-
atelf passed on ahem by the Judge Advocate with
rsolemnity, and they were sentenced to be
isatged at the yardarm of such ship or ships as the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty shall ap-
•point. They were immediately put into the custody
of the Provost Marshal, and closely confined on
board the dag-sbip.

FROM ,YD'S UST
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Last Wednesday, as the boats crew of the 31e/sa,
of 84 guns: were going up Durnford-street, Stone-
house, Plymouth, after landing at the Admiral's
Head, a corporal aid three orderlies of rile 4th
r royal dragoon guards, doing duty at Ge;vl,,il Eno-
• Lams's, recognised
ote a seaman of the mon, who,
with three of the regiment, des.rtesi in hive
€to the Irish Rebels, from a picquet guard,
their horses, arms, and accoutrements. On
• challenged, the seaman rrn array, but the
dragoons being mounted, pursued him, and secur.d
him in a public house, where he had taken shelter.
His name is Caw sit I. v, hut he passed on board
tile Muss by the name rd Enw•at,s, seas a good
seassaa, and one of the Captains of the foretop. He
it closely confined in irons, and will be tried by a
General Court Martial. His throe associates were
&win 1790, in Ireland.

The batteries and fortificati,,ns I.•gun on the
bid& to the westward of Dover, are carried on
with great assiduity, under the dire&ion of Colonel
Twtss, of the Engineers. Upwards of 1,000 soldiers
Mies the diferent regiments encamped and in gar-
rison, vs constantly employed on those %u: k+.

LETTER
RELATIVE TO THI MURDER Of MISS BELL Of
SCARBOROUGH.
[See Tfa Batriss Pratt of the 5.11 May.)

From Mr. HNRRISOS file C r-retue: to Mr. BELT..
0 SIR, " Kirbyrnoorside, May 29.

' Haying had a great n timber of professional calls,
together with three inquests, at very considerable
distances, since my receipt of yours, I regret much it
has not been in me power to answer it sooner. The
severe affliaion which has been entailed as well on
yourself as on every other branch of your family,
from the late atrocious and hru:al Murder which it
was my province to investigate, must, indeed, at
this juniure, be deeply felt; and, believe me, when,
I say, that I can truly sympathise with every con-
netion the poor ill-fated Young woman has left be-
hind her. The inquiry I was entrusted with was in
its nature as momentous and important as ever fell
oithin my jurisdiaion ; at Snainton, in my road to
Osgodby, I had learned that the young woman had
formed an acquaintance wrth a private in the York
Volunteers; that she had been dup-d by the ad-
dresses of her suitor, who professed to be her ad-
mirer, and a single man, and that as their route was
fixed on the following day, she, in a fit of de-
spair, dreadiag the resentment of her friends at
home, and sinl/4ing under the pressure of reflec-
tion and disappointment, had terminated her exist-
ence by throwing herself over the Cliff, or drown-
ing herself in the waves of the sea. These two
causes of death hieh no doubt her murderer
bad insidiously attempt- d to propagate) were abun-
dantly refuted from •estimony and the concurrence
offaas, and were indeed so fully disproved as to
leave the du' ors withn it any doubt on their minds
as to the real cause which gave rise to the melancholy
catastrophe. From the tale already narrated, and
fmm the silence of the messenger that was dispat:h-
ed for me, I confess, that some jealousy arose, a id,
in order the more fully to ascertain the truth, I
subpoenaed Mr. Smart, of Hutton Bushel, to assist
inahe inspection of the body, to enable a candid un
biassed jury to give their verdia. That verdia, I
trust, they have given without prejudice or partiality,
their finding it was my dirty to record, and that record
the world are already acquainted with. It grieves me
to find that any one should attempt to embitter your
afflictions, already too poignant, by endeavouring to
murder her again afer death, by at tithing her re-
putation,or attempting to prove her character to have
been vile and profligate; but if my testimony can
tend, in any degree, to 'math the feelings of her
affitited relatives, or to wipe off the foul stain of
slander and calumny, I now come forward in the
cause of truth, and in the discharge of that important
office whirls my conntry has env usted me with, and
as a medical man to declare, That in the course of
our investigation, there appeared the most unequi-
vocai mark.ol an innocent and virtuous deportment
, and that there was not the slightest
shade or morbid appearance on the body, which
could authorise any sugrestion that her condua had
been immoral or reprehensible.'
" In this declat soon I have no doubt but I shall
have the concurring testimony of my two medicil
brethren • wgo assisted at the inspection, should any
further vindication seem necessary.
tt With yourself I trust that the vile murderer of
your child will hereafter be brought to condign pu-
nishment the ways of Providence are mysterious
and inset-in:Able. yet we seldom find an offence, hei-
neus and vile like the present, very long sheltered
perhaps the apparent delay may tend to heighten
the strength of future evidence, and be more likely
to convict, than those circumstantial proofs we
are already possessed of. With
that you may su vive the present affliaive stroke,
and eventually regain that serenity and comfort of
mind, you have so lately lost, I remain, Sir,
s'Your's and the Public's devoted humble Servant, '
" T. Ham trims

" Coroner for the North Riding "
• Mr. Smarty Hutton Snahell, and Mr Trail, Scarborough.

CARUSLF., Joist 30.

Yesterday se'nn'ght, at Borough-Bridge fair, a
person named Thomas Armstrong was taken into
custody, on an accusation of being associated with
a knot of villains who subsist on the produce of for-
gery. and whose transaeions have been most alarm-
ingly extensive. The specific charge against Arm-
strong was, that under colour of following the pro-
fession of a jobber, in which capacity he attended
all fairs and markets, it was his practice to circulate
counterfeit notes of the bank of England, as well as
some country banks, particularly the Greenock.
The presumption of this man's gnih originated in
the testimony of one Thompson, formerly a slater in
this city, but who is now detained in Scotland for a
similar offence : he has given in a string of names,
which has already appalled the guilty,' and filled
the world with astonishment ! On the above pre-
sumption, Armin ong was on Saturday brought to
this city, and, under a proper guard, was lodged all
night in Irving's coffee-house ; at which place it was
Intended he should undergo a further examination,
For the better security of-the prisoner. or perhaps
for some other reason, a king's messenger came
here on Sunday from Edinburgh ; and two solici-
tors followed. with competent authority to exonerate
or determine on his commitment.—Upon due inves-
tigation, Armstrong was, in custody of tie aforesaid
me,ciger, sent to Edinburgh on Tuesday, there to
abide his trial. Ile arrived at Edinburgh on Wed-
riesday last.

W.Anesday came on in the Commission Court,
Dublin, the trial of Charier Frazer Frazell, Esq. on
five indi.iments, for an assault against the Rev. Mr.
I.s nw IC ,f . After a minute examination of all the
fa.rt,, Mr. Frirell was acquitted. The Court having
bound him over to keep the peace, he was imme-
diately discharged.
Preparations are making for enlarging the en-
campment at Shorn Cliff ; et is to be augmented by
3,C500 of the Foot Guards, and two nr three regi-
ments of Militia, who ate ♦ery shortly expelled on
the ground. The whole of the brigade, consisting
of the 4th, d, and 52d, strucktheir tents at S o'clock
on Saturday morning. They marched a few miles
from the place, returned about noon, and mpitched
their tents. The men are all is UM excellent
health.