The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-16 00:00:00

FASIIICNABLE lIVTELLICEA CE.

1 The taruis
and Marchioness of Ely arrived on Tuesday IR
Clarendollotcl. lband.street, from Rifmns, Ca7acrbury. “.
The Dow.sger 3larrhioness of Exeter left itoeliauiptua, yays.
day, for Iturleigh, Lincolnshire.
Lord Petersham has left Elraatnn, Derbyshire, fur Buttoe.
lion. George Villiers has left town, for Wilts.
lion. t
17th
lancers)).L. at SCanterbu tanhope has left town, to join his rigikett 44
ry.
Sir Jacob and Lady Astley have lift town, fur thvir kat, India
Park, Norfolk.
ver n.
Sir
Wx
Frederick and Lady Baker left town on Tuesday, fur
i.
Ms Excellency Count I.ieven arrived in town yesterday 6,
Earl Cow per's seat, Pansenger, Ilene; also Count Paul
from Harrogate.
gie6rge %Vyndlsam, Esq. has left the St. Petersburgb 0,41,
Dover-street, for Park.
Arrivals at Tlionias's Hotel. Bcricley.square:—Bernw
the Isle xi
Airs. Brant
Wight., from Suffolk ; Sir Wm. and lady 11. Ogla..tln, f:Lti
of
Arrivals at Blake's Hotel, Jermymstrett i-1,1,,,tn„, Tr .
k ditto
burton and Colonel Rivoulo, from Malta. Lady KesurceZ,
ft .

WINDSOR. WED% RDA Y, SIPT. 13.
On Monday evening tl772:Zhad a seleet dim? pon,
Among the company present were—Her Royal Highx
the l'rineess Augusta, Earl and Cetintiris of Hamm
Lord and Lady Alarvhorough, Mr. and Mrs. Froroout,
Sir A. Barnard, Sir W. Knighton, and Sir E. Nagle.
The weather being fine this morning, the King left the
Royal Lodge in his phaeton, and proceeded to
Water, where his Majesty was expected to take an cunt.
Rion on the water.

. The band of the Second Life Guards attended, and
played in the Long Walk, which was tbronpal by rm.
burs of the neighbouring nobility, who came is tteir cu•
Tisza :or the purpose of promenading.

• SINGULAR AFFAIR.
The conversation of the fashionable ei,ter;ie at 8ri.h..1
for the last few days has been entirely engtossol
affair between the Earl of S—r and a Mr. Tw—s',
the latter gentleman having uncereinvniuud7 posta,
Lordship at Lucomhe's Library and other inbl'e placer.
The following particulars we have gathered from repot;_
The gentlemen above mentioned agreed (on it is asserted
Mr. T.) some years hack, that 2,0001. shouhl be paid tr
the other by the individual who should fag succeed to ho
expected estates. His Lordship having obtained pow,
aim of great property by a recent death, the sum u stated
was demanded by Mr. T. His Lirdship, however, denial
ever having entered into the contract alleged, and one.
quently refused paying the money ; on which Mr. T. is
said to have offered to produce a third gentleman, who sat
present at the time of the agreement being made, andsho
doubtless could speak to the fact. It is stated by the fen rdi
of his Lordship, and we have not heard it cmotti.cr
that this gentleman, on being called on, had no ren.:2-
brance of the alleged contract. Mr. T., however, infixed,
and again reiterated his demand ; and on his Lordship kesio
refusing payment, sent a challenge by a friend, a Ilr.
R---ad—n, which his Lordship refused to accept. The
consequence of which was, the dsterininatiou of Mr. T.
to post his Lordship, which he immediately did. Ihr.
sition on oath having been made by Mr. A—n, be 'ere Sr
David Scott, that a challenge hail bet it sent, and tits cer-
Jain valuable lives were thereby endangered, warrants
were instantly issued for the apprehension of s',l the
parties. Ills Lordship was taken at the York Hotel its
on Friday evening, and entered into heavy reco,m4vcca
to preserve the peace. Every effort to disco., r the oppo-
site parties has hitherto proved ineffectual ; it is reported
they have left Brighton. We further learn that Lis Lord-
ship has submitted the ease to couns?l, who have selristil
..terior proceedings, which, we arc further inferred, are
in active progress.— West Susses Advertiser.

Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex will bores
the Norwich Festival with his prisenc and during the
week be the guest of the Bishop of Norwich. The Rail
Duke, it is said, will afterwards ray a visit to T. W.
Coke, Esq. at Ilolkbam.
Mr. Canning is attended, on his journey so Ireland, ty
Lord Howard de Walden, and it is expected will takes?
his residence at Phoenix Park. The Right lion. Sreretsry
has taken Mr. Williams, the King's Messenger, with dim.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady &rah Its-
binson left their residence, in Downing-street, for exam
of the Countess de Grey, at IV/vs:house, Silsoe, Ran:-
shire, on Tuesday afternoon.
The Earl of Harrington, who has been much hubs-
posed since his arrival in town, is getting defter.
The Earl of Clarendon, we are sorry to hear, is scrim!y
indisposed at Bath.
The Earl of Carlisle hos added to his capable c0!!...•-•
tion of marbles, et Castle-Howard, a filnale statue, the
work of Westinacott.

On Sunday a dinner of roast and boiled beef with plum-
podding, was given in the garden of Albion-place. by her
grace the Dowager Duchess of Manchester, to 2.',0 of the
Ramsgate Charity School children.
The Rev. Win. Frederick Hamilton, B.A. of St. P. tens
college, is appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Right llon.
Lord Viscount Melbourne.
Mr. AL. c.rady appeared at the Belfast Theatre on Ma.
day, in Corildunta. Ile is engaged there for incite nights.
Mr. Dibilite disel..ims being the author ifs farce brought
out at the Haymarket on Saturday last.
The Aberdeen Theatre was opened en Tuesday se'rtilt,
and Mr. Sinclair acted Prieee Orlaado, in the (►penal
the Cohinci. . .

The Chancery Commissioners have been very act:refs
their labours, and are expected, when Parliament mail,
to make a voluminous report. They hare required filar
the Holicitors who practise in Chancery, a list of the fir.,
arc. in suits in which they have been engaged; bat &IC
! certainly are of subordusate consitleraiitu to the great
delay in bringing suits in Chancery to an issue. Let sloe
means be devised to correct the evil of procrestination,
which will of course contract the enormous exp:nsm of
suitors, without any alteration in the sale of solicitors
fetar.—Britirli Traveller.
On Thursday last, Mr. Slit it was entertained at Con-
way's Great Rcoms, George-street, Cork. About one
hundred and thirty sat down to an excellent ditto-. After
the usual routine toasts, the health of Mr. Shea followed;
he returned thanks. The other speakers wire, Mr. Stephen
Coppinger, Messrs. Murphy, and Sugrue, the Vice-.'s&
dent, and Mr. Br.c.
FI ELDING'S Nov Jones is inimitable as a
! mock heroic, interesting as a novel, and profound st al
! imitation of nature. But, after all, the hero is 2 V4ar,
unsentimental fellow. His love for sothio is impure and
! canting, and although she is drawn in better tame. her 1;!v •
for Joins almost r duces her to his level. Sheriilan her
elevated Fielding's hero two or three steps, in his (Jon's!:
I Surfitee ; but the moral of each is the same. Jorer4 .Sse-
filet: is the Blifil. I sin aware of Fielding's denunriatians
upon all who call his novel low ; and, as far as relate to
ilie laying his best and most natural scenes in bumble life,
I go along with him in his contempt of all those SIC la-
dies, clerks, and apprentices, who turn up their noses at
! the Ire rk un that score. But the taste of his hero IS (I art
afraid) radically vulgar. He is, by education, a whipper-
in ; and, by ii:ittire, a wencher. Literature sits ill on
him ; and he makes love in common-pace. I sboula
, think Fielding felt this by his constant eh precitions of the
word Goo. Josels4 Andretes, footman as he was, and
meant for nothing like au high a fellow as Jones. has twice
his refinement, and is really a man of bib sentiment, of
which Jones has not a grain. Now I have lll:ntioned this
other delightful novel, I cannot help rreorrhugal Mat
preference of it. Even in point of humonr,thais is n.i?
character like Mr. Alwalsam Adams, in all" 7'etwtrow*;
and so Fielding knew very well, as 1w evinc a by that re-
freshing introduction of the parson's name at the close of
the lattt•r novel, as the superseder in Mr. Allworthy's fa-
mily, of that gross creation, Mr. Thwarkum.—PaThalloor.
On Wednesday evening lut a large meteor assobterved
to pass over Maiastene, from the south-cast to tho Nest—
Maids/one Gazelles
'Pere: AR Mli.—lkliehments belonging to the et% 5111.
9th, Yist. anti 911 Ile,ritnenta of Infan:ry, under the com-
mand of Li, nt. [lead, arrived at Chatham; on the 13th inst.
on board the 'Linke, from the West Indies. Detechouvis
of recruits marelital yesterday morning from the Recruiting
Department, in Westminster, for Chatham, Maidstone,
Canterbury, Ilythe, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight.
&DDSS I1g• T 11. ),I Monday last an chler=
named Grant, olio raided in Great Cht sterile
hlaueb.st•r-square, on walking tkrough the yard, Ire.?
Latokwaids, and instantly expired. ii'ertlit.3" ApopteFl-