The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-10-15 00:00:00

CURE lOU THE GOLF!.

H. H. Pelly. Esq. of Upon, E•sex. WPM coo-
stonily a piece of loarktone sewed an a little Ramie
ease, suspended from a hlat k rihhou round hi.,
ilea, next his skin. It is Knout two inches long.
shout an itieh and a half broad, said of the thick.
se. of two-tenths of an inch. Mr. Pelly. who is
a Gentleman %demoted in years, says that he used
to be laid op annually f.r three or four months in
the year with a violent fit of the goat. Ile read.
is some old book. that the wearing of a magnet
next the akin was a sure pr.• tire algebra that
niost excruciating and etsfeebliog disease. He
knew that some of the finest and most powerful
m tenets in the world were found in the Province of
Golconda. He employed an agent in India to pro.
cure him one from thence ; and tLe stone he wears
sae actually brought from the mountaius of Gol.
crooks. Its magnetic virtue is very great. Mr.
Peliy pays, that he now anal then has ►.awe slight
tsingea. which only serve to remind Min of the t. r-
nhle to which liernice wassubject. It hap-
pened, by accident, one day. when dressing. Wilt he
otoittet to hang his amulet about his neck, another,
and another day passed, end he began to think that,
after several years had elapsed without a fit, the
mignet had altered his very system, and render, d
him intangible by gout. Hoe night, however. lie
awoke in torment; his dreams of security were di..i-
psted in w moment—he calle.l for his valegnard,
and threw it shout his neck. He escaped with a
slight attack. and has trot been sitfrant his piece of
loadstorse ever since: he wears it night an.l day.
and enjoys perfect freedom from all the panes i -
fitted by his old enemy.

For some weeks past. the exportation of horses and
oxen has been rrma►ltahly extensive from Doeug.
!ider and lisngor: from the fornirr port clin At it.
k ; unit from the latter to she 'mart of
Cum•.. fiend. The anonher and Indite of those .ant
from Do.oughader. generally. are trebly time of
Bingor.
On Satur.isy evening, * moot terrible ateillent
hsopenesl in the laboratory of )Ir. (hoer*. ol
Lee.ls, Chyllio.i. Mr. thlier.ll. Ins spoermlise
(' las Ile rutta.rr►..'.n of 11r. !Unties.. of Wake.
field, Exciseman). ansl• woman servant, were pre.
penult varnish; When us a stitiAlett the preparation
took fire. end the a:wt....lance war Hs d►radfuliy
*curetted as .mly to survive r few boor,. 31r. GR.,.
vie himself was seriou-ly hurt. hut sr err hapi•t•
to ray not MI In to endanger his hfe. Tue woman
servant is oho such boric.

The highway roldwry of which criwr was •-os-
vic•ed, end fur whit h he received senteisce of d ells
at Peterborough Sessions lest week, was attended
with the following circa lISSUISICVM :—lt spiwareil that
Noah M sentW. th% prosecutor, a pour
who had been at harvest-work in Cambridgeshire.
was returning through Peterborough on his road to
his dear land of potatoes. oo Saturday ere ll ioo g the
.99th ult. when he met the prisoner in the street
(it being then nearly dark), and tel-t 1 him if be
could stew hum the way to • IndAing-house ? The
Prisoher (also is also an Irishman). knowing proba-
bly from the prosecutor's voice that he was a coun-
trymen, answered •• No, I cannot hot slither then
you shall im aulitout a bed. you sn.tll hare halite(
tasne."-..“ Goad luck to your honour." said Pat.
“ will you go into this polder...house will hove a gloss
of rotor to this the Prisoner rradi!y ~,ruled
end thg sat drioking till about half-past 10, when
they I else house. soul soon after. instead of abid-
ing himself in the Prisoner's bed-romn, the poor
fell.iw was cnielucted into a tie hi near the town.
where the Prisoner left hits. and shortly afterwards
returned with enstber man. who knocked this Pro-
secutor down. took from hits' all his hard earning.,
and cut off the feet of his stockings, nailer the
,apposition that bank-notes might hare been con-
cealed there. They the* left him; and the night
being exceedingly ,{ark. the Prosecutor coitlii not
find his wry nut of the Held, bat reasaiinal there all
night. As soon as it was light. helemorl his way to
Peterborou.h, end seas diseovered sit+ing on ■
atone, wirmitug anti lamenting his loss; when. upon
being asked the cense, he related it with so winch
arlesitness. slid described the Prisoner with such
accuracy, that he was apprehended open parade,
and committed to prison.—lt Ives proved by a sol-
der, with whom he was quartered and slept, that he
was out of nil' giserterii WI the night of the robbery.
and his evidence bean. car rohoented ky other testi.
mony, the Jury found the Prisoner Guilty.
A desperate pitched bottle was fought in Wed-
nesday lest. at Shirley Wake. between a smith. twig
celebrated es a pugthst. soil Thomas Paris, wow
of a respectable farmer its that oeighbowrhowd.—
Shirley is about five awe* front Biemimehison, sod
the concourse of spectators 11/111 very greet. The
combatants met *Don afar three o'clock. in a
ring formed in a field opposite the Red Lies, at-
tended by their weal. arid hottle-hoiders. At
half-pest thre- they tat to. At the Stith round the
s•Oith um so erne. ti.at, havinz made an ineffectsal
effort to hit hi. 1117411. I►• g eve to. after cne of the bast
eolttreeti battles ever ...en in that part of the coati-
try. The smith. W.l 1141 repeatedly. was
rp-b-r beet bef.rre. nod r..s confident of victory at
setting to.

FROM SADURD.4I' NICM-S GAZErn.

lIIILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Coomisfits is ihsetssifor Ports Regiment of Loral if ilitiy

ehrtaedi by the Lwrd
George Hooper, Gent. tulle Lirsteurut---dAtcd Octob.r it.
Is to.
r ,utioisitx sip.ect the Lord Lireentiet of the Comfy ti*
. _

Su., ey
I.p. Yulumeer I istsairy-•-ll'illsata Tamer, Esq. to be Cap-
ittly 31, IS ID.
George liariree, Larg to be ditto— dated July -LS, 1810.