The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-01-01 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

COURT OF SESSION.
About four years ago, the sheep, pasturing on the
grounds in the neighbourhlod of the city of Edin-
burgh, were much infested by dogs in the night
time, and on many occasions great numbers of them
were worried and destroyed. No discovery could
be obtained of these nightly depredators ; and as
the mischief still continued, the Procurator Fiscal,
at the instance of some of the proprietors, offered
rewards, first of 25 guineas, and afterwards of 50
guineas, to any person who should be the meant of
" olstaining a discovery in the premises," which re-
wards were offered by advertisements, published
repeatedly, for many months, in the Edinburgh
papers, and were to be paid by the Procurator Fis-
cal of the county, on consiaion.
It happened that a poor washer-woman at Stock.
bridge, who had been sitting up all night, paying
the last duties of humanity to one of her fellow-
creatures, going to the door of her house early in
the morning of the 17th April, 1803, discovered a
dog worrying sheep in the parks of a gentleman at
Stockbridge. The destructive animal had already
killed six sheen, and was chasing the remainder of
the fleck, when the poor w 'man. -.41 se name is
Charlotte Wilson. frighted him away. Th.: dog
was traced to his home, the owner of the dog was
cited befo;e the Sheriff of the county, and di.. dog
bei. g fully conyidled of the offence, was ezensfed.
It was some months betor - the final sentence
was pronounced upon the dog. owing t
which the master of it maintained wit' the
gentleman whose sheep had been w srtied ; his. so
soon as the conviaion tratk place. Mrs.
applied to the Procurator !Neal for the nromie-cl
reward, which was rat's. d. chiefly on the g:ou.'d
that the I..formatios g,v n by her was not in
terms of the adverti...Tneat._sh,, applied by pe
titton to the Sheriff ot the county. who found
her entitled to the reward of Mast g..iness.—
Procurator Fiscal t rought the Snet it's judgment
under review of the `up•em • C !tar. SO'r,e th- liti-
gation has been maintained for upwards of three
years, and at last the con.est was finished by ttro
consecutive ju!gments or tne whole Lords, ()whin-
ing the Procurator Fiscal to pay to Mrs. W Ison
the reward of 50 guineas ; arid he was also found
liable in all expenses of su:t.

EARL STANHOPL'SMODAL OP A SHIP

OF WWI.

Wednesday this vessel was hunched into the
Thames. and an experiment made as to her powers
of sailing. The Noble Earl, accompanied by Si?
Roger Curtis and Captain H amilton, went on board
the vessel at twelve o'clock, and she wits steered by
Mr. Warren. She sailed up the river under one
sprit-sail, until she came to Chelsea Reach. Ano-
ther sail of the same description. and a jib, were
then hoisted, and she was worked about on se-
veral tacks close to the 'void ; then with the
wind upon the beam, otter that upon the gear.
ter, and lastiy before the wind. She did nut
appeal entirely to a. swer the expeaation of the
Noble Inventor, and the design may be capable of
further improvement. A number of row-boat,
crowded round far the porpoise of gazing at the
s'ranger ; this prevented the free operation of the
wind and water upon the newly-invented vessel;
end, in fail, it might he said, that owing to thiscir
camstance she had lint altogether a fair trial.
This vessel is sharper than the former one. She
measures twenty-one feet from Ewa to stern, end
six across the beam ; the straig it lines in the site
of this are extended to a greater length than those
in the other, and ILaN off in what seamen tvrns a
very clean manner, both tore and aft ; each end is
as sharp as a wedge. But from the eir -iim.rAnce
of her bow at each end, as it may be c.lled (tor she
is calculated to sail with either end foremost), bay-
too great a shnuider, instead of titling off round
as others do. she will be liable, Cast of a strong
current of sea coming on her weath r-bow, to make
more lee-way than even a Dutch g aunt would do.
'lust, however, may be :badly altered i tie con-
struetion of others of the same general uessga. but
let the success of the invention be what it may, too
much praise cannot be bestowed on the ingenuity,
petseve►ing industry, and pat. lotic intentiolis of his
Lordship.

The Martial gun-brig, of 14 guns, Lieutenant
Jensen M , arrived on l'uesday, at Ply-
mouth, with dispatches from the squadron under
Sir R. STRACII•II, K. B. off Rochefort. which she
lett all well a few days since. Toe enemy remained
le stela quo.
0:1 Monday evening the brethren of the Athol
Lodge, No. 151, according to the ancient Cristi-
lotion of telemetry; his Grace Jones Duke of
kruot, kc. ice. G. M. and under the patronage of
the Right Hon. Br. Lord Dimas, at., held their
hef yearly meeting at Br. RALPH Lowss's, Halt-
Moon lon, BiarMarket, Newcastie-upon- I yne,
for the installation of Officers, when the following
Brethren, according to ancient custom, were in due
form installed: viz. R. Fseenses. W. M.; Jas.
C• 99999 TN, S. W. ; Gao. Duce, J. W. ; Rev.
J. Pzeitie, Chaplain r Jona •ND•ItiON. -Trea-
surer; Jos. Hautboy, Sec.; Mime Tiessiesoy•
S. D.: Time. Fount., J. D. ; and Lowes and
Imamate, Stewards. After which the Brethren
partook of an elegant supper provided by Br.
Lows., and spent the evening with that harmony
which ever charaifterizes Brothers of the " Ancient
Mystic Tie."
The Plymouth Mail had nearly met with a most
serious accident, en its return to town, on Tuesday
morning. On the other side of Hommel a bridge
is washed away ; and in order that no time should
be lost in going round by another bridge, the mail
generally goes through the water. By some mis-
take of the coachman, he missed his way through,
and got on some small pieces of rock, and stack in
the mud. The leading horses got off with the
harness on them, and the bars at their heels, in which
state they ran full speed a distance of four miles to
Honiton, when they stopped at the ion they usually
changed at. The passengers were necessitated to
get out, and those on the top to come of, sod were
up to their necks in mud and water, to lend assistance
in getting the mad out. which they at last effected.
sad then proceeded with two horses to Honiton.
None of them received the least injury whatever.

PORTIIGAL.

ADDITIONAL EDICTAL. OR PROCLAMATION,
ISSUED SY THE PRINCE RSORIST, PREVIOUS TO HIS

11.15•NRATION.
Latructions to whith ma Royal Decree ej the 26th Naiemter,

Mi. Wars refirPnce.
The Governors whom I was pleased to nominate
by my Royal Decree bf this present date to gore• n
these kingdoms during my absence, will have the
usual oaths administered to them by the Cardinal
Patriarch, and will attend with all solicitude, vigi-
lance, and aaivity, in the administration of justi,e,
distributing the same impartially, and maintaining a
rigorous observance cf the laws of this kingdom.
They will preserve to the natives all the privileges
which had been granted to them by me and my
Royal Predecessors.
the plurality of votes will decide on the rep orts
the respective Tribunals may lay before them, reguii
lating themselves according to the laws and customs
of the Kingdom.
They will direa literary professions, offices of
criminal and civil judicature and revenue, accord-
ing to the forms heretofore praised by me.
They will protect the persons and properties of
my loyal subjehs, seleaing for military occupations
those who may be deemed worthy thereof.
They will endeavour to preserve to their utmost
the tranquillity of this kingdom, to provide for the
troops of the Emperor of the French and King of
Italy good quarters, and to supply them with
every thing they may require, during their stay in
this kingdom, averting all and every insult that may
be intended, and punishing with rigour any that
may occur; maintaining always the good harinony
which ought to be displayed to the armies of na-
tions with whom we find ourselves united on the
Continent.

S .0..1.1 it by any occurrence happen, that any of
the skid Governors are absent, a plurality of votes
w• 11 clef a Successor. I trust to your honour and
virtue, that my people will not suffer inconveniences
,!uring my absence; and should it Ise God's will that
1 should return shortly to my kingdoms, that I may
meet every one contented and satisfied, reigning
among them that good order and tranquillity which
si,ould exist among subjeds who have rendered
themselves so worthy of my paternal care.
Mad If Our Lel), of Ajthia, on the 26th of Nev. 907.
(Signed) THE PRINCE.