The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-30 00:00:00

MRS. CL.I N , Kka V. 6.

This literary La ly, of much ingenuity, whose
death we lately an piunced. resided at Ipswich.
in Suffolk. Her first publica:ion was a trans-
lation fi th• Latin, of the fine old Romance.
al Barclay's Argenta," which made its app.:wanes
in 1772 in four duodecimo eviheuies, ender the title,
" The P. ain z ; or. The History of Polvarchus and
Argents" the neat 111111 " The Champion of
yiiitte," a Gothic Story. which ee po'llished in
1777. and was re-published i tt# to footing seat,
under • e tole it has ever sine retained, v:z. " The
English Baron" Mrs. Rates has .inee that
time wr,t •n, " The Two sl n on; a ..fodern
Story ;" 6. The Progress of Romance. tarnugh
Countries, and Manisets." in a course ot in-
teresting and well-iFeitieti evening ci•
" The Exile ; or. Memoirs of the s.:041211 d.•
stadt," the principal incidents of wh:ch are h.ri fisted
from a novel by M. D'Aess AUL, "Tar tie • t.,r
Widows," a Novel; Plans nt Edueation,
Remailis on the System of other Writers," in • duo-
decimo volume; and " Memoirs of Sir Roger de
Clarendon. a natural Son of Edward the Slack
Prince, with Anecdotes of many other eminent
Persons of the fourteenth Century," in duodecimo
volumes. It is hardly nec.ssary for us to arid, con.
I earning a writer so well known as Mrs. Reeve, that
her works discover her to have had cultivated useful
knowledge with considerable success ; and to have
applied that knowledge less trivolonsly than is Ste-
quently the case with female Authors.

AITIMORDINAR I IRRUPTION.

A letter from Johnstown. Montgomery County,
mentions, that the country in the vicinity has, this
Autumn, been uncommonly inte4ted with bears.—
About 250 have been killed within the circuit of
eight or ten miles. The CAOSt of this irruption, as
it may be termed, is supposed to be the scarcity in '
the back parts of the state, of chesnuts arid beech
nuts, which compels the bears and squirrels to resort
to the more southern and produaire traits. In.
stances have been known of a whole cern-field being
stripped by these marender, in the coarse of a night.
A singular instance of strength in a bear, occurred
lately in the neighbourhood—A young one, nearly
full grown, was taken in a steel trap of 2l lbs.
weight, to Air* was annexed an iron chain of 231bs.
—his hind lag was broken, notwithstanding which,
he dragged both trap and chain above two hundred
yards, to a large hemlock tree, up which be climbed,
until the chain became entangled in the branches,
and checked his progress. In the morning he was
traced to his retreat and ahot, and it was found ne-
cessary to cut the tree down to get possession of the
body. A panther of considerable size has likewise
been seen, by several country people. lately prowl-
ing in the vicinity of the town. A farmer, when
in the middle of a field, was alarmed by the ap-
proach of this unwelcome his only refuge
was the stump of a tree, on which he mounted.
and with a rope halter that he had in his hand, kept
up a constant noise. by beating the same against
the trunk ; whether deterred by this or not, the pan-
ther contented himself with walking several tunes
around him, and then, without any particular seer,
took a French leave, and retired to the woods.—
(1 en; Yeti Peps.)
ussmsmimeeresese

A ship from Holland arrived in the Downs on
Sunday. Tat. atrit•mo had not meshed Utrecht
when she sailed but he was daily ',twitted. Rini:
Lou is's health is rapidly declining. and as be intends
to visit France, it is supposed that l'at.tteitasis
will be declared Regent drain his abieace.

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OXFORD, Dec. !6:
At a meeting of the Dean and Chapter, held on
Wednesday meriting bet, in the Chapter-Hothe of
Christ Church, the following Gentlemen were cleft.
ed Students of that House i the Hon. F. North
Douglass, eldest son of Lbrd Glenberrie : William
Venable, Vernon, Esq. third son of the Archbishdp-
of York ; Et. Cleaver, Esq., lon of the Bishop of '
Fernes ; Williarp Wickham, itoltiri-Ourdon. John
Mackie, Thomas Sater,*Chatleelltonsevoad Henry
Cotton, Esqrs. "49 - ,t .
On Tuesday lestiajthesictif. Isaac Bacon, It A.
and Fellow of Queen's ege, was presented by
that Society to the Reetorf kit Ittelebrigdoo, in this
county, vacant by the dtaithcof the Rev. James
Coward, 11. D.
.6.
On Monday last was married, at St. Oilers
Church, in this city. Mr. YRoissas Freernari, of
Launton, to Miss Mary Clifssio,e4.l3icestar.
zasa—,..--..aasssipm,
IRE LAA D.,
nuattsi, um 26.
On Sunday, their Grams the Duke and Duchess
of Richmond arrived at Florence Coon. in the
County of Fermanagh, the seat of the Earl of En-
oiskillen, where they were received by the Noble
Owners with their accustomed hospitality and
politeness. Their Graces were met at Florence
rt by the Earl and Countess of Reimer,. The
following day the party took the amusement
of she field, and had excellent sport ; his Grace
Med five and a half brace ef woodcocks, in twelve
shots; on the succeeding day the sports were re.
snmed, and, with equal diversion and success. His
Grace will set out for Derry on Monday next, nose-
cArnpanied by her Grace, who, with the Countess of
Enniskillen, and the ladies of the party, all go to the
princely mansion of Castle Coole, the seat of the
Earl of Belnsore, near Enniskillen, where they will
remain till the return of his Grace,which is expegted
to be on Thursday.
The house of Mr. Sylvester O'Halloran, in the
liberties of Limerick, was lately attacked by an
armed banditti. Mr. O'Halloran fired at, and
killed me of the villains, who attempted to wrench
the bars off one of the kitchen windows. The test
effetted their escape.

;LI on, Bac. 24.
On the 9th of last month a Cuo, t Martial pro-
ceeded on the following trials :—E.isign Power, of
the city of Waterford Regiment, Captain Magill
and Captain Nugent of the We,tmeath—the first
gentleman on charges preferred against him by an
Officer of the 15th Regiment of Foot, and the two
latter on charges m &de by LoM Delvin. After a
taro•! minute itivestigitien„ and hignly honourable
to ilse Officers who composed the Court, all the
gentlemen were acquitted. and returned to their duty.

A Deblin paper says, '• Cite new arrangements
in the General Post Office have, under the govern.
mem of the harts of O'Neu t. and CL•PICAaTT,
added cot only to the cnmtorts and ease of all the
subordinate depanments under those Noblemen,
but must materially contributed to the publ e ac-
comino.ation. For the eorrelt discharge of the
duties of an office, there is no better guarantee than
the value of it to the possessor, and we have heard
with real satisfaanits. that those intalltgeht and allay.
Noblemen have raised the salaries of all the clerks in
the Post Office from the low pittance at which they
mind, to a more liberal and adequate renitvratioa.
—We are also glad to perceive the institution of
s veral new lsost.t)ffices, throughout various parts
of the country, and mom granted upon a true regard
to public utility, without their being given or denied
on account 14 political connexions or party vari-
ance ; and we hope to see still further arrangements,
which are in progress, that futther instance the-
4.sitity and industry of those Noblemen at the head
of chi. General Post Office."

The improvements alluded to in the above para-
graph we: e, we believe, all suggested, if not strongly
recommended, by the late Chancellor for Ireland,
the Right Hon. Sir .10111/ Ncwroar ; but this is not
the o.dy imitarice in which, as well as in the 101.
per c .nt. Income Tax, the present Ministers have
reaped, where their predecessors had sewn, and
where the real labourer has not been thanked for the
harvest.

fhe Joseph, ---., and Baltimore, of and
from Baltimore, to Jamaica, are taken and carried
into Cuba.

The Li, mar, —, from Halifax, to St. Domingo,
and drlantic, horn New York, tor ditto, have been
taken, retaken, And carried into Jamaica.

The haperuntnt, from Viriimia for Jamaica,
is taken.

The Cli., FIROUSON, hens Loudon to Tobago,
is strutd.d nn the coat og France.

The cisse, Saaacn, from Cuba; and Antoinette,
from St. Domingo, both for BaWeave; Losior,
Haatev, from St. Domingo, to Savannah; For,
prom St. Domingo to New York; Horatio. from
New York to Honduras; Haar, from Guernsey to
St. Domingo; and the .Woitarrh. from St. Do-
mingo to Guernsey, are detained, and sent into
Jamaica.

A copper-bottomed Guineamen (supposed to be
the Braver), belonging to Liverpool, cm IS guns,
with 230 slaves, last from &abettors, is taken, and
carried into Cuba.

Estrattl of a letter from Captain ht•Ls am, ot
the Many, dated off Dover, December VI :—•• I
sailed from Cape Francois, on tne 29th silt. in com-
pany with the Lady Warren ; when off the Carcus
shore, I hove•to, to speak bet, she being then on
our weather quarter ; when she came glillfrit with-
in hail of us, to my Meat surprise. I saw her put
about, and sued in-shore Item us, end saw no nose
of her. I left at the Cape, the afleraansr. Wat,T
C 4140011; --+; and Dale of rove, Llum
By a vessel that arrived is Tuesday from a Trench
prqt„ several private letters have been received,
which state that Colonial produce has not expert
@aced any advance in France. Our Orders ot Coun-
cil were known at the time these letter were
written. A letter from Boureesue, nt the 10th inst
also confirms the (att. A letter from Gibraltar,
states that the Algerine Corsairs are peculiarly Adis,
against the Americans, nine of whose vesicle they
have already captured.
Yesterday the LOU) MATO% ordered the price ot
bread to be raised nig au assize, to take plate
to-anirrnw. %%hen the quarters loaf wheats will be.
NW tot 1 1 id, mil ipasshoLi 93.

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noirwir tin?.
Os hketitY evening, KG Deane,.. of 1) err
lane tbieriii,Nalref with, its wife us Comet.Gerdee
Thsatte, to we the nes Plotontianr. Senn after the
perforntatitaitionlibutotk hll7 wilterl4 t'be lor of
the adjoiniag boa opened by tbelonvet epee, aid I
gendernan thett, who rem irked; that Ms friends
were not inibiebox, hot they were in that in which
Mr. Decanip wis-; the boa-k -epee then opened the
door of that Nix, and- Mr. Decamp, apposing his
friends were in. the front, lifted up the seats end
trade way for him to pass ; the g•ntleman inifne•
diately seated himself before Mr. Decamp, and took
his piece ; Mr. Decatip observed to him, fw pre.
sussed' Ms friends were not in that box, and. it
being full, be could not remain in his place. After
seine trieffedual remonstrances at t..is u ngentlerean-
like behaviour, Mr. Decamp became peremptory.
insisted upon his leaving the seat, and forced
him out ; a seufile ensued, and the intruder struck
Mr. Decamp a violent blow, and core off the left
side of his coat.
Donaldson, the Constable, and R;vett, the Bow.
street Officer, were called to keep the peace. The
parties went to Covent-Garden watch-house. where
the intruder gave in has name as James Wade, Dad
endeavoured to persuade the Constable of the Night
to take his charge against Mr. Decamp ; but the
Constable observing the violence with *WA Ma.
Decamp had been treated, refused to take it.
Yesterday morning, the parties attended at the
Office, when Mr. MUM. the Sitting Magistrate.
ordered Mr. Wade to find bed ; they. however, set-
tled the business after they had left the Magistrate,
by Mr. Wade paying Mr. Decamp two gammas and
a half for the loss of hi. coat.
waestosi.notem
Yesterday Mr. David Seaside, son et a Merchant
in the Abscan trade. was charged before the Loan
Maros with ots.trolting the Geoid if the Chesser
Mail on Saturday evening lest, and #se with me.
melting several other persons.
It appeared, that as the Gnard was pasting along
the pavement to the coach, with the Mail on
shoulder, Defendant desired tom to go to this ether
side, which he declined, when be was shoved of
the pavement. On his return be was followed by
Defendant up the passage to hie. Asgill's Offiee,
where he gave him in enarge to a tameable, wiso
advised Mr. Samuels to go away from the place,
which he refused, and struck the ceastable several
times, when a sculls ensued, and be was taken into
Mr. Asgill's Office, where Lee struck a Mr. Wilint.
son and severak-other persons. Auer toe cosaics
had soar, he was taken to the Poultry Compter.
.Pmciser, in his defence, stated, that :.e Accent..
'lied some friends, who were going off in the Li.
erpool Mail, to the Post Office; the coachman told
m he had not rams for their luggage, when
Mt. %meek, to aatisfy himself. ascended the
positively, denial vying seen or shoved the
'guard. Alias ht came "aown he heard some winds
and two or ;Large ris_n came and collared him ; hi;
desired them go, and tie would walk with
theta. They refused, an: be, an to drag him
along. when feeling himself aggrieved, he resisted;
be was dragged into one of the offices, and forced
Into a chair.
- Mr. Manly, a gestlensan who accompanied
Defendant, said that the Guard, who gave evidence
against Mr. Samuels, shoved against him while
conversing with a friend of his, when he desired him
to go to the other side. which he refused. In about
two minutes after witness saw three or four roes
bolding Mr. Samuels by the collar. Ha interposed,
and &bleed thus to let him go, at. they bad no right
to use him in that trisnner. They told him they
would not let him go, and dragged ..ins away;
when witness went with them, and got into the
office. Atter they had got so, they began to shake
Mr. Samuels very much. The Officers put witness
out. While he was in the office, Defendant did not
strike any person.
The Loan MAYOR advised Mr. Sonnets to male
a suitable apology; when the Solicitor to the Poet.
Office informed his Lordship, that as apology would
have no effect at present ; it the Post-Masters Ge-
neral instituted a prosecution. Defendant might. ny
sending an apology , induce them to atop pr ,ceeniagt.
Defendant put in bail to ammo the assaults at We
Sessions.

A few days ago, as Jaseas GRAN•IIt, EN. of
Barrock-lodge, Cumberland, was proceeding in hit
carriage to pay a visit to the Archbishop of Yoaft.
at Rose Castle, in passing over liawkeicale bridge.
sae of the horses, being very spirited, made a
plane over the battlement, and hail auspended in
that dangerous situation, until, in ruder to prevent
the carnage from being dragged over, the traces
were cut, and the animal precipitated into the bed
of the river, and killed oa the spot.
On Saturday evening ao affray happened at a
well-known house at the foot of the Castle-bill,
1) ,ver, between a party of the Sl:ropairsie arid a
party of the Sorry regiment of militia, between
whom there appears to he a considerable degree of
aoinsosity One of the Sorry militia was carved
to the hospital so much beaten, that his life is de-
spaced of. A guard is to be stationed in future.
to prevent persons from resorting to the house at
which the affray took thee.
The New State Lottery Scheme. just launched,
may be justly compared to a first-tate ship that is
just off the stocks—srornd in all its timbers, and
winch wilt hear the vrietest ecaosiftatieto from stem
to sum. That it will; in conseqaesce, soon have
its lull complement of early aid ardent adventurers,
is not to be (forested by any woo are capable A
making distinaions.
W., it w at no publication that contains more
information on the sunjea, or is better adapted for
geotlemen going to the East Indies, than Johosex's
Urre.diri VO.G111111", (just published by J. Abreast',
Corunill, puce los. 61) A respeaable Literary
Journal says, "'This volume forms a code of in-
stru3too ter young advrrntuzers, who, it is well
.known, are often ordered out to India without any
pterfutts knowledge of the country, and also at a
time when they cannot possibly furnish themselves
with books cont%ining the necessary information ;
to tab, the Author's sole objeff ia to furnish a lases
in companion en the first visit to the Oriental
World, and the means of preserving of health in ho;
sismates,and p tang those resimus coatequeaces
drat malt Um iatcaverance," &c. Sec.