The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-12-14 00:00:00

LiAPYLPS. Dse. 19.

An adjourned meeting of the Underwriter, cats.
coned in the Baltic Trade was held this day, a he
Merchant Seamen's ()Mee ; when the following nine
Gentlemen were a:poisited a Committee to inve.ti.
gate the several ca►es of seizure and confiscation
that have lately taken place in the Itti,,s,an and
Prussian ports:—
Z. Aldrroarn Atkins
Mr. William Bro.l
Mr. Lcwis Buroand
Mr. A. M. Banners
Mr J. B)rn
It is calculat. d that t
losses is not lees than live

Mr. William Hathaway
Mr. Aldriman Rumen*
Mr. James Saraary

Whi[tae•

1
ma omouot of the several
millions sterling.

CORaN: R'S IVeUZST.

As Issued was held on %Vedoesday evening, at the Mose
mid Dolphist, kluelestield-street, Soho, before A. Ges.s.,
Esq Consuer fur Westminster, on the body of Mr. 5i164.141.
who lost his life in the late dreadful Moat the Mules. Ho-
tel is Lialie.street, se !Saturday last, and where a part of
the body wu dieessered tying In an heap or fellelob at okikt
o'clock on Wednesday moronic, the side being entirely bond
.I A Professional Gentleman .is the nriglshourhood was
immediately sent for, sad attended, who, after examining
the tenuous some time, pie it as bin opinion, that it was
the body of senate versos When, after a king consultation,
Ike Joey brought in their verdict--Aecideatal Death ne the
body of a owe, together with the ashes ors second person.
The servants M the deceased were examined before the
Jury az to thrir escape, and the caused the tire.
It it not tree that the waiter, who was reported to basis
been burnt, has suffered is the flames body of Mrs.
Simeon has nut yet been discovered; a great number of
workmen were employed yesterday to dig io the reins, but
so trace of het cou!ct he found.

The canoe of the American ship, which we stated
yesterday to be under dimension in the High Court
of Admiralty, is tinier the For. which vessel sailed
from the United States dire* for France on the faith
of the revoeation of the Edicts of Bet lin and Milan.
and is detained by the captors, under the Orders is
Council. A, this suit involvu the whole question be.
t»een the United States and this comity, with re.
fret to those Orders. it ha• excited goon iwterr.s
and attention. It came on before Sir W. Sco IT wa
Tueeriny, end was postponed until this day. We
learn that, on account of the delicate statkof our re.
lation• with America, and the indecision of our
Cabinet with ►egard to this onion laid question,
that the judgment will be again deferred.
Letter, have been received by a ship from 10sa
tend to the sth, from that port, and f Pal Its 10 Ihe
2d inst. Th French papers are not later than the
cloth gilt. and contain no news. The private advirts
confirm the failures in the French capital, and in-
form us that the Colonial Produce taken from
Americans and deposited in Antwerp, rianktort.
and Cologne, to a large ainueat, was to be sold
on the di of this month. A gentleman who was
passenger, with, that sin news bad strived either
from Spain or Portugal.
We read in the Scriptures shoot the wise taco
of the Eas►. bet it is i•retty evident there are also
wise men in the West, for a certain Fashionable
Club in St. Jetnes's.s eeeee have established a Faro
Beak on the following curious principle—that all
the Court Card Stakes which belong to flockierf,
•hell be laid out in the purchase of Tickets is •he
new State Lottery. for the benefit of the
From the spirit of Play in this establishment, a
scarcity of Tickets and Shares may be expected ;
an immediate purchase is therefore recommende,
as the whole of the Lottery will be drawn in one
Day, on an entirely new Plan, the 15th of February
next.
A p•rtent has been recently granted to D. P.
PAINE, Esq. banker, of Bath. for a method of as-
certaining, with accuracy and expedition, the newt.
hers, dates, and .gins, in beak.bills, &c. and to pre-
went forgeries, defacing, and altering.
HEIST LLOYD, midshipman belonging to His
MAJESTY'S gumbrig Gallant, lying at Leith, was
on Monday tried before the High Court of Jostio.
ary at Edinburgh, for the murder of Materiel.,
Fttanx, a Danish seaman, and emitted. It was
proved on the part of the prisoner, by the evideace
of Admiral °TWAY, that he had acted upon the
unfortunate occasion in strict conformity -
orders prevailingn the &Web navy,

mil with the
mad ho duty.

COURT OF SESSION, EDIABURGII.

FIRST IsIVISION.

Tan DIAGISTRATER Or EDI r. MrS4RF. Gig.

SUN, Tth.l3lliVA. A%U ( 1:AIU.

The I) fenders are firtf4, merchants in this
city. (Ca; iearvd to them that the town of Edit).
burgh rxecttd nt, emusimus ruts fi.s tuwll 1,1 il,.
sad in an u a• opal foamier, the sum drintii.Jeti trutu
thin bring in, re than e ti..t their fie:goloturs, pos.
messing subject. of equal value, paid. , They, tittry-
fore, complaniril of ball of suniperisioc, to the
Lord Ordinary.
A variety of ingeniont arguments were Med by
the Cinintel 011 both sides.

Lord I-Minato; Lord Ordiniry, on considering
memorials for the parties, found o that, according
to the table a i.nually delivered to the Stenteinasters,
the rental is fixed at sit per cent. of the purchase
m.unies of the houses plosesserl by the proprietors,
and tour-tiff us of the real 'rent on houses ocenpied
by tenants; fuuds it not•dented that this role has
beeti followed in ii‘ing :.he rental of the suspenders:
fluids that, (ruin the alteration of the value of
bowies, in cocsequence of which those in the centre
of the. old town, formerly posseetird by persons of
rank end prOperly, are now in the occupation of
inferior people, at rests comparatively tritium, •
general volti.ition would not afford a ju.t or proper
standard; finds, though to particular eases some
may take place, yet the rule udopted by
the Steia-masters is, upon the who:e, as equal and
pue:ter annoy that can be suggested, end according-
ly has been followed with few, if soy complaints,
previous to that now in question."
Some procedure haviug taken place after the
abler interlocutor was pronounced, hie Lordship,
" in respect this is a question of a public mature,
ping deeply into the powers.' roagistrstes on the
one -bawd, and the rights of the inhabitants of
burghs on the other, appointed the easy to be stated
in informations, and reported to the Court. Oo ad-
vising these, upon the with of June last, their
Lord-ships adhered to Or interlocutor of the Lird
Ordinary, and subjected the Defenders in tenets-es
of proem!. A petition was presented against this
lodgment, but it was refused on the 131 b ult.
It was ebseried, from the Bench, thabit was al.
way, impolitic to alter esiabiialied rules and prac-
tices, esperielly where end) affect large bodies of
teen, or cisarnunities. if this doctrine were well
feuiaded is the general eme, of which there could
be so doubt, it certainly applied with greater force
to dm present instance.