The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-12 00:00:00

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The Inn:fates, Capt. Lelyros, of 154 Ph* tad
men, with naval stores from England for the Reets
caught fire in the hold ; the crew, unable to emits,. '
guiSli it, caulked the hatChways, and wefts able ts/
reach the Bay of Rosa*, where they. ran ashore;
all of them except five are saved, but the vessel watt
entirely consumed on the 2d of April : the J.. • fri-
gate then off here sailed down to embark the men.
On the 7th came into this pert the British cutter,
Sag), Captain Thomas Leake, of II guns, and 2g,
men, prize to the L'E,pereere French privateer, oT •
t guns, and 5h men, bound from England and Gib- • •
raltar, with important dispatches on ..rd for Lord
Nelson, which the French preser4ed from being , •
thrown overboard, by killing the Captain. The cir-
cumstance of her capture is related as follows: The
Steil? was steering off Palamas, on snorting, sr
her way to the fleet, when a strange sail appeared na
sight, and continued her course towards her. As
she dr,w near, it was observed that the strange
vessel v:as Latine-rigged, and had only three or four
per.. . •;;)na deck ; from this circumstance, and the
build ot 01: ship, it was not doubted by the Captain,
or any on board, that she was a Spanish coaster; no '
further nritice, therefore, was taken of her, until she
edged close up to the Swift, and laid herself along-.
side of her, when upwards of 53 hands, who, till
that time had kept below, rushed upon deck and
boarded the cutter: the greatest part of her creel
being then below, she could make no effatial re-
sistance, and accordingly surrendered. In the mein
time,' however, Captain Leake, who was a pew
;raisin', young man, ran below, for the purpose .4"
throwing his dispatches over-board, which hving
ob-
served by the French party, they followed him, aril
cut him to pieces with their sabres, bore he could
, accomplish his purpose. The first Frenchman who ,
boarded the Swift, was killed by an English saihir.' •
. who, with others, were obliged to give way, find-
ing no assistance at hand, and the superior ;Washers
of the enemy."

CHt_LMSFoRD, .Me►

Mr. Howard, butcher, of Moulsham, having haa
his slaughter-house robbed on Sunday night, the
23t11 ult. and conceiving the like circumstance might
again occur, determined upon discovering the digs
he therefore said but little about the robbery, bat
provided a brace of pistols, each of which he loaded
with three balls, and watched several nights alone; ,
when, on Thursday night, the 33 insran:, he ob.
served a soldier near the spot where the promises had
been before entered. On Mr. Howard's dissevering
himself, the soldier instantly drew his bayeati ; bet
Mr. Howard, on presenting a pistol, and threaten-
ing to shoot him if he attempted violence, coss•
peiled him to return the weapon to its scabbard,
and insisted on his immediately *absolving to be
taken a prisoner to the barracks. On their way
thither, the soldier, who is a stout athletit mos I
thinking to overpower Mr. Howard by as ,
stroa:;th again drew his bayonet, and a•sel ea.
sued ; Mr. Howard having sprung upon hies, wish
a design of suddenly wrenching the bayonet ost dr •
his hand, unwilling to take away his life by :Irk*.
In the attempt, however, his, pistol went oat
fortunately the balls did-se-Sokeerterelsiser ,
He then relecsel tha man, having had sallicieet op.
portunity to identify his person, and proceeded s
the barracks to lodge a complaint to hie oiipse•
against him. About half an hour after the soldise
(a corporal) arrived, and was Wren into caeliedg.
A Court Martial was afterwards held upon Mar
and he was sentenced to be severely flogged.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MULISH rms.

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Si a —ln drawing up the strieures upon the eet
tested charatier of the author of (keen,' I was letli.- i
from the length of the article, to strike oat the words ~,
if the aphorism in question, referring yottr reader to ,
the work itself, page 520, edition 1737. Its pew • f
:lent import will not be properly applied by an es. •
I efleaing laid new. For the sake of one, wit' sea; . ,
little more depth of inquiry may prompt to imasid4.7, ,
its Jue extent and consequence, be please& now so ,
insert it as it stands aptly quoted, at the Bth pig* 4 1 1
" The Plea for a private rathgresee 1 Girl:, "TO ..':
make principles or fundamentals belongs not to ma%
to nations, nor to human laws To build upon
principles or fundamentals, as are apparently laid
~
God, in the inevitable necessity, or law of nausea, , ‘.
that which appertains to man, to nations, and to Iri
man laws. To make any other iundamentals..and t
then to build upon them, is to build castles in the .•
air." This maxim should be accurately
throughout all its (unluckily we intricate{
tion, with those preceding and those coifing „
upon it. The distrwaing circumstances of the pe. •
i
riod, about the close of 0 du, r's oppressive miscalled '.
Frac:aerate. drove the zealous frkod of legal go. •
vernment to give them utterance. Contrast them vnib
the temper of those verbulent times, and with what
we sec exhibited in the versatile and crooked con- ._'
duet of each double-minded Protegee of this day.— '
They will bring to a disgraceful test, the 4sotoriotta •
obliquities of the several brawlers, " fit only to
plea and dish mawrest counsels." Their truly pi.
triode and loyal purport, requlated by the Law, of
God, of Natnre, of Etern.:l Justice, would invest ,
their virtuous adherent with an awful dignity :lad -
glory, before which the inflammatory speechilyers.
and ribald vritlings. though lost to shame, yet driven
to utter infamy, must " bide their diminished tieads." i
Both, Aprd 30. J—s D—C-11. ,
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The Awlland packet, (apt. 'Samoa' sailed yes-
terday from Harwich, with the Mails of the Bth for *,
Husum, and the Diana, STI.WAILD, for Gottenbugg. '
both without passengers.
Yesterday morning the Marquis of Saussuar
left London for Hatfield. •

We understand that Friday the 18th instant is
fixed fax the presentation of Colours to the several
Regiments of Loyal 'London Volunteers, by the
Corporation of London at Blackheath the LOU)
M A VOK, Who is to present them in the name of the ;
Corporation, will go Oy water, in the City
to Greenwich ; and the River Fencibles, under I
command of Commodore Lccss, will attend him.
The Antrim yeoman infantry (commanded by
t 1,2 Fail of MASSEILECHZ) have unsr.irnously les
solved to serve in any part of the Globe, wherever •
it may please His Maas 1v to send them. •