The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-09-24 00:00:00

THEATRE.

DRURY-LAKE.

Mr. SHROUD AWs popular tragedy of Pizarro,
*crafted, last night, one of the most crowded and
elegant houses we ever witnessed. Mr. Et.t ISTOS'S
ilia clear-toned voice, and energetic manner, gave
additional interest to the piriltic sp-eches of the
heroic Rollo. The audience felt and acknowledged
his merit. by continued plaudits. Mrs. H. Sin-
tows made her first appearance, this season, in the
part of Cora, and was received, on her entrance,
as so distinguished a favourite of the public might
expert, with reit d plaudits ; her performance
was most interesting. Mt s. Powatt, in Eivirw,
was digibifieJ and impressive. Mr. H. SioroMs
was much applauded in /loom ; and the whole
performance was excellent. The rodu.ne, decora-
tions, !cc. displayed the usual ltberali:y of the Ma-
nagers.

Lord Rlveas returned to town, on Monday, from
a visit to Their M u Esrits, at Windsor.
Monday, being the anniversary of His MsJe.rv's
Coronation, the same was ushered in with bello rang-
ing, guns firing, &c. at Windsor. la the evening
Their MaJamas' tradesmen, he. illuminated on
the occasion, and also the ?own Hall, &c.
The Earl of UXBRIDGE came to town, yesterday.
from Exeter-court, Derbyshire, and will leave town
this day for Windsor.
hems Jouascots, Esq. arrived. yesterday, at his
hou.e, in Upper Wimpole.street, from Ramsgate.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAM BRIDGE
arrived at his apartments, St. James's Palace, yes-
terday morning, from Windsor.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Crtafti.ory e
of W•xxs, took an airing in her harouche and tour,
at tire o'clock yesterday afternoon, round Hyde
Park, and returned at six o'clock to Brunswick
House to dinner.

The Marquis of Hest:irons is expe./ed in town,
this day. from Ireland.
The Countess of How resew has taken an elegant
house in Mata-ihester-strtet, to which her Ladyship
will remove in the course of a few days.
The Earl of Dalt Iv, we are sorry to state, was so
mach indisp.i%ed on Saturday, that he could not
dine with his illustrious visitors.
the Bishop of Sr. ASAPH, with his two grand-
children, and their amiable mother, wired on Sa-
turday at Brighton.
Lord Pousors ay was much better yesterday. and
had three hours sleep in the course of the day. Vis-
countess HowicE dined yesterday with his Lord-
ship, and did not return to Wimbledon till eleven
o'clock last night.
The last arrivals at Cheltenbam are—
Countesses St Vincent and Dowager Cloinne:l ; Lair
Charlene Scott, Sir John Dore, Hon. Mrs Murry A lost ;
Cklontds 111.mtgonsery, DmitriLir, arid Cliffs, sad INrs. Clife ;
Captain J d. Sampson • Mews. •n I Moitreerrei BJt•
Peed, dosanques, Jackman, Doniskiegteene, and Swaney; Mese,
Xerich, Greenaway, Welton, Linen ialge, W.V.ead,
X. P,4-s,LarLark's,,end Lk'.
The Earl and Countess of Dallasite embarked a:.
Donagindee for Portpatrick, on Sanriay se'nnight.
Their Serene Highnesses the Princes PA V L Fag-
°tame, and Pyres Gco arse, of Holstein Olden-
burgh. Fount Hot melt, A.1:I Baron MAI.TZAIIM,
with their suite, are arrived at hl.::etnoa's Hotel,
Edinburgh ; also, from Ireland, Jona Arai', Esq.
of Newton Ledge, and Lady.
On Saturday List, at Oswestry, in Shropshire.
Hatay Bloats, Esq. of the county Don-csd.
Ireland, was married to Miss Hume, eldest daugh-
ter of Mrli. M HUME; of Lissanoure
Castle. roomy Antrim. Ireland. The fair bride was
elegantly dressed in white, and wore a most superb
bee veil, the gift of her maternal Aunt, Countess
MAC. NT CY ; she bride--maids were Miss Maws
and MiN GILOACIAR A Hosts, the bride's Mier.
Woansea ate new employed in digging the
foundation, k-. for the intended new Tileatte, at
ill/dm/h, opposite the Pa r sic c's garden, on ihr new
road. This elegantly prejetlel building is to be co-
rniest in by the Nth of Nwv.smber, and to be corn-
Odesl mtnnaiy, rkfc,ra..e..l. and fitted with evert,
?as.: teal, Ey the commencement of the ensuinz ire-
son.

'rho KIN 3 has been pleaieJ, by warrant under
!lit Royal Signet and Sign Alarms', to give .nd
r'uu unto Maor-General Sir Juno bruff
411'0: k' win= is Nl.iiessr has oomiosted to be
of the Knights Companions of the Most Ho-
n• unable bliiitary Order of the Bath). His Royal
iseente aced permission to accept the oils of Count
s Nlaida, in Calabria, conferred upon him by Faso
DuIAPO the FOURTH. KIN° of the Two Simms.
f G.zelie
.ldrs. Di tton, who waslately kill-d by s fall from
'punting car. in Dublin. was wife to Donor Dit-
tos, of that city, and telia of Fu a ?ILLS,
.1114, Coffin! Of Limerick. This Lady had a nar-
y`"' escape irons a similar fate, sane years since.
mesa Daiwa svusedfrii y Lagiab Chiattu-r
-1.. w gratifying to the feelings of Englishmen was
museums, nu Satutiday last. of eight waggons.
" IT.I with Dollars to the Bank of England. Tf4
'J.:, ()twat month, another cargo, containing Nze
?nines, from 3.0011. to 513,000 L will commence
.r. iuting by Danis Fortune to those nbe
service o. Cr before that day.

, . .
WESTMINSTER ELEcrrox.

r. AIL rF.RCY.
Yesterday, pursuant to the requisition of several
of the most repeetable Ettglars of the city of West-
minster, A numerous meeting of gentlemen of that
description, in the interest of Earl Perc7, was held
at Willis's Great Rooms, King-street, St. James's,
tur the purpose of entering into resolutions expres-
sive of their approbation of the nomination of his
Lordship as a Candidate to represent the City of
Westminster.

About one o'clock, his Lordship, supported by
Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Adam, with a numerous
train of his friends, entered the room, amidst the
general acclamations of the Meeting.
After a short pause, George Byng, Esq. Member
for Middlesex, was called to the Chair.
Mr. WHIT ea eAo then rose to address the meet-
ing, and prefaced Its speech, by an elegant and just
euloonlum on the charatter of Mr. Fox. He ob-
served, that, as the melancholy consequence of that
great man's death, they were called upon to nomi-
nate a fit and worthy person to represent the city of
Westminster in Parliament. He was a man, look-
ed up to as the land-mark of liberty, the safeguard
of the Constitution, the bulwark of Europe, and the
pride and glory of his country. dills great lumi-
nary of the age had been snatched from his country,
at the moment she was most in need of his assist-
ance. Rut it would be idle to talk of a successor to
such a man, whose seat in the Council and the Se-
nate must be long vacant. The painful, but neces-
sary task, he continued, of opening this subje&,
and the purport of this day's meeting, devolved upon
him. la the discharge of this duty, he would en-
deavour to support their wounded and sorrowful
feelings; and therefore should, in the first place, pro-
pose some resolution, expressive of their sorrow and
deep regret for the loss of that great and illustrious
Statesman and Patriot. tie v.ouid next propose a
fit and proper person to fill that YJC4i,cy now open
by the death of that great man. To speak of the
hereditary virtues and honours of the house of Percy,
he thought superfluous ; but to speak of a succes-
sor to Mr. Fox, was yet more so. In speak-
ing of Earl Percy, at present, as calculated
to fill the vacant scat for IVestmiroter, it would
be impossible, at the commencement of his pub-
lic life, that the Eleulors could draw any con-
clusion ; but they knew him born with the fair-
est prospeeds, with an education and examples
before him, which must naturally guide him in
those pac.s which Mr. Fox and his ancestors had
long trodden. if he was inexperienced, he was in-
soma ; but they knew him to be independent, and
above all temptation to beti%-y those rights and
li-
bertiesef hiscountr y, which his august family hadever
supported. His father had evei been a patriot, and
the friend of that great man, whose loss is now so
deeply lamented ; could it u.en be supposed, that
the son would deviate from the virtuous paths of
Isis parent ? They could not taped to find in him
a second Mr. Fox ; but he had imbibed the same
princi;:les, and if not experienced in years, he
had been at least initiated in those principles
in his youth ; and if he bad not been able as
yet to distinguish himself from his age, he
had the example of Mr. Fox placed before his
eyes, as a model for him to study. Earl
Percy, he continued, would do justice to the Elec-
tors of Westminster, in uniformly treading in
the paths of integiiiy, simplicity, and troth; and
was in every respect a Nobleman. fit to represent the
City of Westminster in Parliament. Mr. Whit-
bread concluded by moving several resolutions, ex-
pressive of the strongest sentiments of sorrow and
regret for the death of Mr: Pox, and declaratory of
their unanimous approbation of Earl Percy, as a fit
and proper person to represent the city of West-
minster in Parliameat. (Far Mae lieseltsttoiss, see
tie front Of die Paper.)
Mr. Ettior ruse to second these resolutions. He
admitted, that he had not always been in the habit
of coinciding in the opinion of Mr. Fox, on many
points, but he n vered and resPecited his charther ;
and lamenred his death a• much as any man. The
hereditary honours and principles of his family he
knew Earl Percy poesessed : and (from his 'ask and
situation in life. he was conscious his Lordship
' would be found to aZt up to those principles which
had distinguished his ancestors in the cause of li-
berty.

Earl Pxscv then rose, and in a low voice (which
we regret) addressed the meeting ; having expressed
his gratitude to the Elearirs, for their kind inclina-
tions in his favour, his Lordship concluded,by pledg-
ing himself to an up to those principles which had
rendered the memory of Mr. Foz so dear to his
country.
The several Resolutions alluded to were then
Put, And carried unanimously. After which the
meeting dissolved.

At the Council, to be held this day. at► Order
will be made. to further prorogue Parliament from
the 9th of OOober.

Tbr alsore of last night contains an Order in
Council, revoking the Order of the sth of April,
160 S, by which vessels coming from the port of
Cadiz, or (tom any other port of Spain, without the
Streights of Gibraltar, lying to the Southward of
Cape St. Vincent, were ..joined to perform qua-
rantine.

The Gereete also contains an Order in Council,
ofwhich it appears, that by an Order in Council
the 15th of August. 1803. Rags imported into
the ports of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Alder-
ney. gark, or Man, were to undergo special quaran-
tine; but as it has hien represented to His MA•
JEST V, that the subjeaing Rags to such special qua-
rantine is attended with much inconvenience to
trade, an i there does not at present appear to be
any re..on to Apprehend that there d. es exist any
unusual or infeatous distemper on the Continent of
Lerfortr. His MAJIST v has been pleased to revoke
and ..c.schatge the aforesaid order.
Tie following article is taken from the Boston
Paper of the B.h An arrival at New Truk,
tr,.m Charlestown, reports, that. oa the 29th ult. a
French iqusdrou,consistirg of lout ships of the line.
two frigates, and one Nog, was spoken with off
Cape H itte. as. steering for the Chesapeak. On the
Ist lust this fleet was again spokes with, about 70
miles I rom Sandy Hook, steering N.N.E. The Nz.v
York F.dior remarks, it is probable they will sto?
at Boston for water and provisions, and thenprouced
for Europe."

TY
rvftic •

Yesterday, a very numerous and most respeftable
extra-irdinary Meeting of the lithig Club, was held
at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand,
pursuant to a requisition signed by several of the
Members, in consequence of the irreparable loss
this country has sustained by the death of Inc Right
Hon. Charles James Fox.

Abont one o'clock a great number of the Mem •
bees attended ; and after some preliminary arrange-
ments, his Grace the Duke of Noriolk was called to
the chair.
Having taken the Chair, his Grace requested that
some one of the Gentlemen who had signed the re-
goisition, would come forward and state thsolet
of convening an extraordinary meeting of the Club.
Mr. ADAU then rose, and in a short, but eloquent,
nathetic, and impressive speech, adverted with
great feeling to the loss which the people of England,
and of all Europe, had sustained in the death of
Mr. Fox. After an eulogium upon that grelt man's
charatacr. he read three resolutions for the appro.
bation of the meeting. The first was, that inquiry
should be made of the relatives of Mr. Fox, in what
manner the Members of that Club could best ex-
press theit affeaion and regard for the memory
sf that great character and illustrions patriot.—
The second was for the appointment of a Com-
mittee, to be composed of some of the most noble
and illustrious Members of the Club, for the purpose
of carrying into effea the first Resolution ; and tie
third and last was, That the Members of the Club
should individually attend the funeral of Mr. Fox.
These several Resolutions were then read from the
Chair, and carried unanimously.
Atter a Vote of Thanks to the Noble Chairman,
&c. the Meeting dissolved.

TO THE EDI !OR OF 7'HE BRITISH PRESS.

Sit—l request you to publ;sh the following letter,
written by a respeetable Clergyman and School-
master, who was patronised by the late Lord CheJ-
worth, as his testimony forms a proper and deci-
sive answer to a paper which appeared in Tie O►acle
of thelOth inst. under the signature of John Ball."
1 am yours, A CONSTANT READItiI.

In Tbe Oracle of the 10th inst. I, en F 1 iday last, saw
a letter signed John Bull," which contains a very
injurious Attack on Dr. Parr, for writing an inscrip-
tion to be engraved on a piece of plate to b.! given
to him by the late Lord Chedworth ; and I think it
my duty to caution all retders of the above men-
tioned letter, against the misrepresentation which
will be deteeed in it, when I have examined some
papers in my possession. In the mean tim., I de-
clare explicitly, that the inscription imputed to Dr.
Parr, was not written by him, but by my tnyelf.
Solihull, Sept. 21. JAMIS Ever.