The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-03-24 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

FAL/Winn, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Lord Melville packet
from Rio Janeiro; sailed the 24th January: Walworth Castle,
and John and Mary, from London.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Intrepid, Metcalf, from
Sierra Leone in seven weeks ; Marquis of Anglesey, from London,
with loss of topmasts; Henry and banal, Barrett, from ditto, with
dam e.
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PORTSWOrTn, Itlaaca 22.—Arrived from the Downs, the
William Fairlie, for India ; and Pheado, Beti, Cassock, Lady
Combermere. Lanock, and Joseph Green (transport); also, has
Majorty's ship Rochfort, from the Mediternuwat ; and his
Majesty's ship Maidstone, from the eastward. Put back, the
Larkins, for India.
DEAL. MARCH 22.—Passed this morning for the River, the
Honourable Compass ships Waterloo, Alas's. ; and Bombay,
--, from China. The Countess of Harcourt, Bunn, from Lon-
don, for New South Wales ; and Isabella, More, from Leith, for
Jamaica, remain.
Doren, Maness 22.--Off the port, the Kent, and General
Kyd, from China.
GRAVESEND, MARCH 22.--Arrived the Benson, Gossard,
from Antigua ; Aimable Eliza, (irandin, from Havre; Man,
Roberts, from Charente; Bee, Wilson, from Ncw York. Smiled
the Vittoria, Tate, for Trinidad; Socrates, Boland, for Gibraltar;
Express, Wells, fur ditto ; Polly, Coulson, for St. John's, N. B.
Charles Apnea, for Rouen ; Peace, Brace. for Bahia.
HARWICH, MARCH 22.—The Lord Duncan packet, from
Cuxharen, has brought ever tree master and crew of the Ports-
mouth, of Portsmouth, Woodman. They state dist about sixteen
miles E.S.E. from the North Foreland, on the 4th, being water-
logged, worn out by pumping, and expecting to go down, with •
signal of distress eying, they were taken out by the brig
bath,
h, of London, from Bahia, bound to Bremen, sad i
lovien POOL, Manor 21.—Arrived the Eliza, Ryland., from
Maranhem—sailed the 19th of February ; and Harnet, Thomas,
from Charleston—sailed the 23d of February.
Ooze woe E, Manor 20.—Arrived here the Harmony, 11'1Am%,
from IJenterara, sailed thence the first Ult. in company with the
Union, Coverdale, fur this port. The Iluskisson, Thorn, Bolton,
and Christiana, all for Liverpool ; and Demerara Packet, for
London, were to sail next day. Left loading for Clyde, the Glen-
bervie, Jones, to sail in two weeks, and Hawk, Wiest, in three
weeks after the Hastoony ; the Halyards, Brown, time of railing
uncertain. The Harmony experienced very boisterous weather
during the passage, and on the 25th ult. was thrown on her beam
ends, but by cutting away her sails she righted.
BUENOS A v nts, DEC. 24.—The American brig Urchin,
Chadwick, from Batts, got foul of the Lord loineeloch on the 6th
inst. and lost her :laminas; Sire-tmast, and received other
damage ; she is being repaired.—The British cotter Pomona,
Jefferey, bound on a tiiibiag voyage to the South Seas, arrived on
the 11th inst. in distress, having lost two boats, bulwarks stove in,
&c. ; she is under repair.
RIGA, MAUCH 4.--Five English vessels have arrived and got
shelter at Holders, where they most remnin, as the ice on the river
is suite fast, and nay continue so for some time.
ST. HELENA, FEN. IL—Arrived the Juliana, Webster, horn
Calcutta and Mauritius. In • gale of wind off the Cape, threw part
of her cargo (sugar) overboard. The Cadmus, Talbert, from
Calcutta, sailed Nov. 93 ; Scotia, Lenox, from the Cape ; Kathe-
rine Stewart, Forbes, from Bombay, sided December IS.—
February 11. arrived the Hon. Company's ship Royal George,
Biden ; Lord Suffield, Brown, flan Calcutta ; and Salisbury,
King, from the Cape ; the Cadmus spoke the Elisabeth, Swan,
front Calcutta, November 20; also the Bombay, for the Isle of
France and England, south of Ceylon. Nov.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—IHS Majesty's ship Victor, Ply-
mouth to Sierra Leona, 4th Feb. ; the Doris, Penny, Liverpool for
Sierra Leone ; 20th inst.: Exchange, of and from Jersey for St.
Johns, N. B. by the Intrepid, Metcalf, arrived at Plymouth.
The Honourable Company's ship Farquharson arrived at the
Cape on the 20th Janata?, from China, and, on the 20th ditto, fell
in with the Thalia, Munro, from Batavia, in distress for want of
men ; took her in tow off Alga Bay, but was obliged to cast her
off from stress of weather, with five men belonging to the Farquhar.
son on board.
The Dorothea, Buckstadlus, from Dantzie to the Texel and
Bilboa, is totally lost on the Coast of Judand. Crew saved.
The following ships had arrival in Bengal, viz.:—Royal Sove-
reign, Reynolds ; Me:thorough, Summer; Aberton, Percival ;
Kingston, Brown ; Fante, ir oung ; Florentia, Wimple ; Pal-
myra, Lamb ; Porkingliarn, Beach ; and Royal ('harlotte. The
Waterloo, Captain Alsager, passed the Royal George in the
Straits of Banco, and reported the arrival of the Buckinghamshire
at China. The General Kyd spoke the brig George from the
Sotto] Seas, bound to. London ; all well.
The Holstein, —, for Pernambuco; Fernandez, Thomas, awl
Centil Americana, have arrived at Rio Janeiro, prizes to the Bra-
zilian brig Bahia, and Pam schooner.
The Elizabeth, —, (whaler), frost. the South Seas, has arrived
at sit. Helena.
The Ilibernia. Giffin, arrhed at the ('ape on the 23th January ;
spoke, on the 22,1, the Active, Charlton, front the South I,.cas—all
Wen; and, on the 34, spoke the Helm. from Rio, bound to Liver-
pool, v. ho reported diet the Guilford transport, for New South
Wales. had put into Rio in di,tress.
The Plantagenet, Kay, front Liverpool, was lost on the 20th ult.
on Charles:oo Bar. Crew saved.

FIRE IN CHIMNEYS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

St R.—Tour correspondent " X," in this day's paper, asks re-
apet•ting the penalties, and says, a new stack of chimneys had been
built, in which a fire had been made to try the draft of the chimney,
and that, on a few sparks flying nut, the alarm of " Fire!" was given,
and the consequent attendance of engines ; and states his question
to he—" Are such engine-men entitled, under the Building Act, to
compensation ?" lam unwilling to have it snppnsed for a moment
that I do not duly appreciate the prompt services of such men ; but
who that takes the trouble to rend the Art of Parliament rill con-
tend that the above is a case coining within the 711th section ? 1.1
it not quite ear the provision was to enforce the duly sweeping of
chimneys, which new-built ones could not require ? The constant
inquiries have beep, in such cases, before blagistrat, '• Did you
see flakes of soot on fire in the grate ?" And, unless so, I never
11 saw the penalty awarded. Fours, he.
Ka 12, Adam.strect,Adelphi, March 23. P.