The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-09 00:00:00

NsarAL INTELLIGENCE.

DOvr-R, NAY 6.
Arrived last night thdt Venus passage-vessel, Capt.
Sharp, with Lard Cholnsur.dle-,- and suite ; also the
Pa!, Ulti7ll and Rambler F:euch pAssage vessels,
et ith Lords Conynhana and Loftus, Sir Charles Blab-
don, and families. _

Arrived from Bologne the ',chiles, with Batiste
Lough, French Messenger, who proceeded imme-
diately to London with dispatches.
In consequence of the fabrication of the letter
sent to the Lord Mayor, an express arrived here
about six o'clock, which was forwarded imme-
diately by one of the passage vessels. In the course
of the evening another arrived, contradidin72 the
first. A row-boat immediately put off. and form-.
.iately overtook the vessel that went with first ex-
press, before it arrived at Calais.
Si: o'clock.—A French packet is arrived, and
three other vessels.
Mr. Sylvester, the King's Messenger, landed
abet'. half au hour since, and immedia ely proceeded
t London on horseback wide every possible expe-
nition.
A French Messenger is also landed, and is to fol-
low the former without loss of time.
TALMOUTII, MAY 4.
Arrived yesterday the Prince Adolphus packet,
:Lots, in eight days from Lisbon passengers by
her were Mr. Moon, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Vincent, Mr.
and Miss Jay. This packet brings no particular
trews.
Arrived this day the American ship Sally, Capt.
Ist'Phearson, $7 days passage from Rio de la Plata,
ith hides, &c. and proceeded on for London.
Sailed this evening, the Prime of !Vales packet,
Todd, with a Mail of the 2tith ult for Lisbon.—
Passsngers by her were M. Gonne, merchant at Lis..
bon ; M. Hebe, of London ; Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
rums's, and Mr. A. Fox, jun. of Falmouth.—Also
sailed d.e American ship Marlyn, Capt. (lark, for
New York ' • the brig Four Friends, Hosking ; and
the Balm, Purchase, mith tin, &c. for London • the
brig Beatrix, from London, ('apt. Lawson, for Zw)lle
bec ; and the brig Friendship, Parker, for Gibraltar.
.1 he packets with Mails for America and Jamaica
will sail on Sunday next.
The Dke of rod packet, with the Mail of the 3d
inst. will sail on Saturday next for Lisbon.
The Toweared packet, Dodd, from Jamaica, is
daily expeeled.—Wind North.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY G.
Went out of harbour His Majesty's ship Chic Iviter,
of 44 guns, Captain Spear, and remains at Spithead
with the squadron of His Majesty's ships and
vessels.
Sailed His Majesty's ship Russel, of 74 guns,
Capt. Williams ; and Morgiana sloop of war, of 16
guns, Capt. Raynsford.—Wind S.W. and moderate.
Remain at St. Helens, His Majesty's ship
..4urora, of :28 guns, Capt. Malbon ; and Camilla, of
guns, Capt. Taylor, with the Amphion frigate,
and Pilrey cutter.
The Russell, owing to light winds, has come to
an anchor at St. Helen's ; as well as the Expedition,
armed en jute, Capt. Withers, bound to Guernsey.
Arrived the Anacreon, from Alexandria;
left that place on the I'2th March, in company with
the whole garrison of the place, except the Janus
and Major, who had the plague ou board.
PLYMOUTH, MAT 5.
Arrived the Ranger cutter from.a cruize.
Sailed the Nazzd frigate, and Hazard sloop' of
war, on a cruize.
DEAL, APVi ti.
Sailed for the river, the Lady game Lundell, from
Bengal.
Sailed the ships for the East-Indies, and the rest
of time outward-bound on their respativc voyages.— i
Wind N. E.

In the Ni.v.p.iper, entitled the T;mes, of Satur-
thy morning, WAS inserted the fullusving para-
yraphs---
_ _ .

Saturday )leruinz, Ilalf-post Tu. o'Ciarl

We stop the pros to alin,Wilre the arrival of Mr. SI L.
•VTr • , with D'spatelies from Lord Wirt won Tll ; and also
of a French Courier, with Disiime ors CIT Ahlarti.iiSSl
We have seen a G.iitleinan who is also this moment .irrired
from Fraiice. HP blares, that previine. to hi. leartii; Calais
Nlalsc D, the French Ciinmis-ari, had receiv.d official in-
f omatiun tom Paris tiiat the Negotiation li-d bccit amicably
t omituted.
In colieluence of this joyful intelligence, Masivtvw
red that public tVmmistrations of joy should imm..di ttely
take place; and when our informant Lift Calais, the military
sor•Ye air.emhliii% to c,lebrate Cie hippy tidings.
The above intelligence, of the virli of kliich we cut
1.0 40 iht, will at onus* the giu wash prevailed ye--
tetiay, Own the appar-ott eert4i.ity of hustditizs.—!Urea.
To the above the speculators in the city imprii-
deatly attached so much credit as to send a message
to Lord }JAW rsat; Rit, through the medium of the
lotto Ma Yos. to inquire whether i; were worthy
cf credit, and in the mean time, very extraordinary
relate, the Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange were
simple en. ugh to shut up their Stop, and to decline
entering upon any transaCtions, until an answer to
their message should be received. At twelve o'clock
a letter was Sent to the LORD MA OR, of which
the following is a coma copy—
' ale VAAL), Dalt/AV-WM, no!, 7, 1803.
As ~..rd It t•rliffaUST is DOI at the Firt.ign o+cc, 1 lime
onenti rust Lotilsairs note, conformably tii the wish
proaarl though y•iue M aseiigt:r :my information h.id
mee.v,:il by Government which could properly be the
141,;;C.1 of public eudotiunication, your Loril.hip may SP es-
t.:l%-d that sa:h a Cu.iithutVeatiitt would ten be wohle-ld I
fro! 1, however, me duty rlis•inetly to caution our
.• reezOriog i.npr‘seinns of the d lictiptiou alluded to,
to o 1h any in:authors-A enannel.uf infurm.divit.
1 IleCe tar I lunvur to be,
My Lord,
fiver triniship's obedient mold faithful humble Servant,
rt., /beet if.m. the Lord Haler. bIiSNG TOY.
After reading the above communications, it may
tinturally create some surprise that the wise men of
the East should ever think of disturbing the con-
templations ()fa Minister on so trifling and partial a
subjell, as the vague iasation of a paragraph in a
Turficious Newspaper, when the same Minister had,
but a few hours previously, declined answering ques-
tions of a much more important nature, put to hint
-by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Tu
the Minister's answer, as might be expeCted from
jlln Anoti, GTO% may I.e attributed good nature,
'rontene,s, and discretion.
Jtt Calais there *as no ringing of hel:, nor any
'expressions of Joe but such as aluini:.;:cl the counte-
niusees of the good people of the place, on the 'v-
.:Moors of a probability of peace, nor any public de-
monstrations whatever of their confidence in the fly-
tag reports.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 7.
The Court was occupied the greater part of the
morning in hearing bail justified.
The ruh: obtained to file a criminal information
against Sir F. F. Vane, for assaulting a Mr. Benson,
in the city of Carlisle, was made absolute.
THE KING V. COFFIN.
Mr. GAEROW shcwed cause against a rule ob-
tained in a former term for a ci immal information
against a Mr. Coffin, on the application of the Rev.
Mr. Gurney, a magistrate. It had been alledged
on behalf of the Prosecutor, that he was disturb-
ed in the middle of the night by a dreadful noise;
and that when he got up, he found the servants of
Mr. Coffin digging up the ground before his house,
where they ere Lied a post on which they hung him
in effigy. This was the offence on which the pro-
secution was founded, and it was said to have been
done by the diredion of the Defendant. Mr. Coffin,
in his affidavit stated, that he had not 3ieen direc-
tions to his servants to disturb Mr. Gurney, nor to
ere& an effigy before his house. It also appeared
that Mr. Gurney himself had, about twelve sears
ago, during an eleftion contest, committed au of-
fence exaMy similar to that with vhich he now
charged the Defendant.
Lord Ei.r.r.xaokoicir observed, that the affidavit
of Mr. Coffin was of a very ambiguous maim?. He
did not positively deny that he had any share at all
in this transalion ; and therefore his affidavit
would not he a sufficient defence to the Court, were
it not that the gentleman who now complained of
an injury, was the least of all entitled to the inter-
ference of the Court, he having himself done the
same thing formerly which he now charged another
with doing.— The rule was therefore discharged.

THE KIN:: V. COI Lls/N.

( Mr. ERCKINE stated, that this was a question of
the first importance, as it was no less than an en-
quiry whether the shipping property of Great Bri-
tain was effMnally ratable to the support of the
poor or not ? The Defendant had three ships
which were aetually moored in the harbour of King-
ston-upon-Hull ; for the possession of these h: was
assessed to the parish rates, but retnsed payment ua
the ground that he was not an inhabitant of the pa-
rish to which his property was rated, and that the
ships, moreover, had no certain locality in King-
ston, any further than that they occasionally traf-
ficked in that port. Mr. Erskine supported his ar-
gument on the 9th and 10th of William, which
obliged a man to pay his quota to the rates for all
property, whether an inhabitant or not of the parish
in which it was assessed. But, conceiving he could
fortify himself still irunger by the general law of
the land, he contended that the Defendant was
liable on the 43d of Elizabeth, which orders every
man to be rated according to his ability, both inha-
bitant and occupier. The inhabitancy of thc m::n,
he readily acknowledged, was not in the parish ;
but his occuption of the ships, which were in the
parish, was sufficient to make him liable. It was
on this point that the argument tu: ned. " The
ships," said Mr. Erskine, " were registered in
Kingston, their general moorings were in Kingston, '
and, if not assessable in that parish, they would be
bound to contribute no where else." And is all the
immense marine property of this kingdom, the best
proportion of its wealth, left in this ambiguity, with
respeel to its right of contributing to the support of
the poor. The Learned Counsel, therefore, rested
his argument on the law of the land; and having
proved the occupation of the Defendant in a certain
parish, he thought him liable to the rates though no
inhabitant. With respell to the ships, they Were a
transitory chattel, and, in the course of trade, vi-
sited different ports ; but their registration was at
Kingston, and in this place only could they be as-
sessed to the parish rates.
After much discussion, the Court was of an opi-
nion very contrary to Mr. Erskine.
Lord E►.t ISaoßovctt thought that many cases,
patticularly the King v the Inhabitants of Liver-
pool, were in favour of the Defendant : that the
mere re:;istration of the ships in the port of Kingston
did not necessarily confine them to that paiish ; and
it was stated that they only moored there occasion-
ally. This they might do in many other ports, and
it would be hard if the ships should be assessable
in every port in which they might have touched.
His Lordship asked, if during the time in which he
held the assizes at York, he would be ratable for
his carnage, though he only staid a week there ?
He was of opinion that the case ought to be sent
down to be amended, and then further discussed.

TORK ASSIZES.

CAN:;:. LAWS.

lAVILLI: v. rurrrr.
The Plaintiff is Lord of the Manor of Rush-
worth, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire ; and this
was an action upon the Game Laws against the De-
fendant.
The Plaintiff and some other gentlemen were one
day List season shooting upon the Plaintiff's manor,
and they observed the Defendant also shooting, who
once or twice crossed them in their course. 'I he
Plaintiff sent his game-keeper to know Defendant's
name : Defendant told him who he was and where
he lived. A notice of discharge was immediately
prep owl and served upon Deftmlant ; upon the no-
tice being served, Defendant said he would take no
notice of it, but would take his diversion in spite of
any one.
ion Parkinson proved the signing of the notice
by the game-keeper.
Mr. loljambe, deputy clerk of the peace, proved
the enrollment of the power to the game-keeper,
at the Clerk of the Peace's office.
Saville Crowder, Fame-keeper to Plaintiff, proved
the Defendant's having told him his name and place
of abode.
.14 Booth proved the delivery of the notice to the
Defendant on the I tith of August, on the moors,
and that he saw him kill gala, fur three hours after
the notice given.
Mt. Sykes, agent to Plaintiff, proved Plaintiff's
being owner cif the manor of Rusliworth.
Mr. Serjeain Coo r..Ltt, on behalf of Defendant,
objecled that a general power given to a game-
keeper to give discharges was, in law, not good.
The learned Judge over-ruled that objeditin ; at
the same time observing, that it would be a thing
attended with great inconvenience, and almost im-
possible to meet every purpose, if a lord of a ma-
nor was oblige] to give a partic.ilir power every
time it was necessary to give a discharge upon an
improper infringement of hi; right.
erditi for Plaintiff—Ow nillimz damages.