The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-12 00:00:00

BRITISH FIRE-OFFICE, STRAND AND CORNHILL,
LONDON,
INSURANCES against Loss or Damage by
FIRE continue to be made on Houies, Buildings, Manu-
factories, Gouda and Merchandize, Ships, Vessels, Barges,
and every Kind of Craft, with their Freight, Cargoes, and
Stores, in any Harbour, River, or on any Navigation, FARMING
Si wit, and all other Property, in any Part of Great-Britaio
and Ireland
Persons who remain uninsured, will do well to reflect on the
many Calamites occasioned by Fiat; and of the dreadful
Consequences to many individuals: and as Property, in gene-
ral, has considerably increased in Value, those ;arcade insured
should reconsider their Policies, and make Guth addition as
prudence may suggest.
Animal Payments due at Lady-Day, must be made within
Fifteen Days therefrom, or the Benefit of the Posey will be
list ; but Insurance may be renewed after, without a New
Polley.
Printed Proposals and Conditiaas of Insurance, ind a List of
the Directors, Trustees, Sec may be had Grate as above, and
of the Agents in all the Cities:int! principal Towns In England,
ticiitland, and 'Wale*. Fur the Cutivenienet of their Friends
in Ireland, they have estaiilii-11-4 an Utile,: in Dame-sneer,
Dublin, where' and of Ursa Agents in the principal Cities and
Proposals are also to ba had Gratis.
ROBERT SKELTON, Sac.

WESTMINSTER LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY
OFFICE, IN STRAND, AND IN CURNIIILL,
LONDON.
nrillS Office was established in 1792, and insures
the Lives ol Persons desirous of securing independency
to their Families, or to provide fur them in airy way agreeable
05 their wishes; to effefl whirl), an Annual Premium will be
received Co the Payment of a grey. Sum, or of an Annuity, ro
thaconie doe and payable at the Decease of a Person insuvil, to
his Widow, Childr.ni, of other Representatives as be may ap-
point.
Insurances may be made for a Variety of other Purposes:—
to prry. tele for Renewal of Leases ;—to secure Sums paid for
Places or Employments, or for the Purchase of Life Estates;
—or in Aid of Arrangements hatweeit Debtor and Creditor,
Lc. &c. which is explained further in the printixi Rates amid
Conditions of Insurance, which may had Gratis, with the
List of Diteftors sa above, or of the Agents of The Fla emu
Fiat-Orr:cc in the Country, who aril appointed Agents for
this Office.
Annuities are granted to commence immediately, and are
payable at Michaelmas and Lady.day in every Year, or by
Agreement, at either of the ether Quarter Days.
The Rates and Conditions arc 41.0 delivered Gratis at their
Office in Dame-street, Dublin, and by their Asgrmts in the
Chien and large Towns in Ireland.
Attendance is Daily given for granting Insurancin and An-
nuities, and a Board of Direlors is held every Tiresday at the
&Clock, at their Office in the Strand, and on Thursday at use
same Hour, at their Office in Cornhill.
ROBERT SKELTON, Sec.

'('HE CHURCH of ST. MARY LE STRAND
A having undergone it thorotigh repair, the said Church
will be opened for Divine Service, on Sunday next, the lath
Instant, when two Sermons will be pi...ached, for the Benefit
of the Charity-Children of the said Parish ; that in the Morn-
ing by the Rev. John Shepherd, A. B. Curate of the United
Parishes of St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe, and St. Ann's
Blackfriars, and Lecturer of St. Giles's in the Fields ; that isi
the Evening by the Rev. Josiah Pratt, M. A. Assistant Minis-
ter of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row.
Service to begin atEleven o'Clock in the Morning, and Six
in the Evening.
THE GREAT LOTTERY,

ENGLISIi STATE
Consulting of 44,000 Ticks's,
To begin Drairing 4th APRIL, ma
GRAND SCHEME.

No. of Prises. Value of each. Total Value.
4 of 1.20,1)00 is I. bO,OOO
3 l U,OOO
5,000 15,0..
S 2,000 6,000
•—• 1,000 3.000
SO 100 2,oad
60 50
12,3t* 40 2:4,000
••• This Scheme differs from all ot!iers for many Ye..rs
re, in the circumstance of not having any Pr:Des fixed for
particular days.
VIrIFT and CO. No. 11, POULTRY, are ap-
Li pointed by Government to sell the Tickets and Story* of
the above Lottery. This Office (estatilishcvl in the Year 1759)
has beoui fortunate in the Sale of Capital Prises, THIRTEEN
of which were of the Last and Three preceding Lotteries, and
some of them divided into many Shares.

The Prizes of the November Lottery being now payable in
fall, Swt►r and Co. recommend an early Application to per-
eons who wish to exchanze them for Shares of the pre.ent
Lottery, which will certainly advance in price as the Drawing
approaches.

This Day were published,
OBSERVATIONS on the SPEECH of Sir
WILLIAM scurf., and other matters relating to the
Church, in a Letter to a Member of Parliament ; in which the
fatal consequeoces of permitting the Ckrgy to Fama are• stated.
Also, by the ,4itte Author, A Letter to Right Hun. Henry
lA.lingt•m, on the Establithatent of Parochial Libraries fur the
tumetit of the Clercy.
Sold- by Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yar I ; White, Fleet-
street ; list leant, Piccadilly; Faulckr, New Rood street ;
Reynolds, N. Iz37,oxfurd•street; and Didier and Tibliett, St.

CA PAPA/Gii IN EGYPT.
This Day is published, elegantly printed itt Quarto, price Two

. .
Guinea: in boards,
A few Copies on fine Royal Paper, with early Impressions
of the Plate:, price Three Guiae.is,
(D..dicatel by Perouieiion to Earl CR.% vr w,)
Plustrated by a large and accurate Plan of Valetta, in the
Island of ;Malta, its Harbour., Fortifications, and Dcpenen-
c.es ; View of Fort Manuel and Port Mar:am:oJ, with
Fort Tighe; View of Fort Ricrwli, the City of Valetta,
and psrt of Gr 'gate; View of Ricasnli, the Code of St.
AtNelo, Boor Moola, and the Pinta of Isola; View of Valetta,
and the Fortifications un the Niarsamuseet Side of the City
font Point St. Elmo ; View of the Fortoficatitert and elle
Entrance to Valetta from the Floriana Side ; View of the
CA, of Valetta, with part of the Grand Harbour; View of
• Cadia, as it appeared from his Majesty's Ship Hearn, on the
Sth of Oaober, 1800; Plan of Marmorice, with the Sound-
ings in the Harbour' by Captain J. Edmunds, R. N.
ikJOURNAL of the FORCES which sailed
from the Downs, in April 1800, on a Secret Expedi-
tion, under the command of Major-General (maw Lieutenant-
General) NWT, till tlw:r arrival in Minorca ; and continued
through all the sod:sit:quern Tran:aoliorei of the Army und:r
the Command of the Right Hon. General Sir R a :en ACER-
COMIC, K. B. in the hlaorreanantsn and Eolter ;
and the lett r Operations to the Sunesider of Alexandria, and
the ann,olete Evacuation of Egypt by the French, under the
Command of Lieutenant-Gitieral Lord HUTCIIII4SoN, K. B.
with a particular Account o. Malta during the Thin: it was sub-
ject to the British Government, &c.
By £NEAS ANDERSON, Lieut. 40th Rm.
Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-house, Piccadilly.
" Sums curious and important documents and details respect-
ing the Army that went from India to Egypt by the Red Sea,
are here given, we believe for the first time, to the Public ; the
compliments paid tb that Army are just and grateful ; and the
General Orders of Sir Jamas Baird are particularly worthy of
pennah
" laWorks of.ths nature it would seem a waste and wanton-
ness of Critacioun to dwell on slight defect: and trivial errors ;
we shall therefore conclude with recummendolog Mr. Aorder.
arm's Volume to general attention ; beleeviog it to be, a: his
introduction immures us it is, " An authentic Rovord of our
glory."—.Europeal Nlagssine, Nov. 1802.