The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-18 00:00:00

CAPTVRRn INDWIR.Y.

i PattiMahan itf the p►oeerdings on board the Europe. erring
the action beta ern the !lon. Company's ship* Streatham,
It Commodore Dale; the Europe, Capt. Gelstoue; and the
No. Company'. ratra.abm Lurd Keith, Capt. Campbell;
raid the French frigate La Caroline, of 4$ tuns, and .a•
morn, commanded by M. Feretier, on the morning of May
tn. Let. and Lung. the preceding day, is. d 4 N. and
V). 4d. East Lust per Chronometer.

At Sh. 30m. WM. observed a strange sill to
windward; piped the hammocks up; cleared the
ship for action, and beat to quarters ; though, from
her first appearance, we supposed her to be His
Majesty's ship Factor, our late convoy. with which
we parted only six clays before. At seven, ems.
when within musket shot. s'se hoisted the French
eiisign, and commenced a beak tire of round, bar,
an I grave, which we 1111 l nediately returned; and,
after a *inert cannonade ut thirty minutes, she
wore round our bows, giving u. tier 'An% lire
ur Inman* and, running down to Unwind of the
Mrealham. to mine*.( the 144.111011 with her. At
this period we. had two anon kallrtl, v‘t. 'l'. Roberts,
Mr. er,sud Jl,llllll liermouy, foretop-inan. and one
L %scar wounded. Our foretopssail- •, tied away
in the slings, t si shut dim' the fury-iss sat, four of
the starboiril, and two oa the larboard. 4 shrouds
out through, all the top-mast haikars,a, brace..,
mot bovilstis, shot away, and the 'idols c.impleiely
riddled, several s:wit in the hull, three of *Melt
were bet warts a not an.l water. From 711.30. n. a. ma.
until ohnut eight, she Streath•tm was opposi d to
smart tire from the frigate, when we observed her
colours were hauled down. 081'1'14 this time every
exit:tient was made on our part to juju the contest ;
but, front thetvippied state of our rigging, &c. every
attempt was fruitless, Imams cud bowfin, being all
shot away. The frigate now bore up, thwarted the
Lord Keith's bawl's., giving her a risking fire;
wore round, kept firing at•her its passing, haul-
ed her wind mote/ her stern, and gave her the
rake astern; the Keith returning her lire as she
painted. Durnig this time we kept up a fire whenever
a shot would tell. The frigate now hove-to on
our larboard-spatter, mud recommenced the action,
whirrs was continued for at:out t tes, when
she tilled and stood to the N. W. At this time we
itad received several shots its the hull,on the larboard
side. We then passed to leeward of the Streatham,
eine am. and hailed her to know if she had struck,
*high was answered in the affirmative. The Keith
Mew made all wail, and stood away to the south and
awitsvird. At a quarter pest nine a. is. the frigate
tacked, and stood for the Stre,itham, to take peas
ateensti of her. Wr had not at this. Cone the least
wls nt of the skip, stud the carpenter hail
there were five feet water in the hold.
Captain Orlonne called, in consequence, a roosts!.
totem of efh.-ers and passengers, before whom a
stalemeist of Her damage.; was laid, and the dif-
ferent opinions asked of what would be most ad-
visable to be done? when it was the unanimous opi-
lion, that, frosts the Streatham having struck, the
Keith having left us, *Oil the dioibled and Stoma-
eagealsk stale of our own ship, it.wnuld be but as-
clog the crew to masks further resistance ; and
baring endeavoured, by every means in our power,
to protect the property of the Cowpauy, and sup-
port the imam* of the British Aag, we were reduced
to the unpleasant necessity of leweriog our colours
to the Frisch frigate La Caroline, Csintaiue Feas-
t*. of 48 guns, and 350 men; suit at ten a.m. we
were taken possession of by M. Basin, id Lieu-
tenant, when Captain Gelstene end Officers wire
Mat on beard the frigate to surrender their arms,
who every piste atteattou was shewo them. •

pAirescui. Am ON 11041t0 TRZ EUROPE, EMIR. THE
COPT +ll,l Al I OFFICIIIII RID QUITTED DEL

The leak in the evening iiicreesed to 91 feet. and,
on the following mor • 4, ladiog the waster gain
upon the pumps, mode signal to the frigate, which
came within basil ; reported the situation of the
shy, and received order, to remove the passengers
oa hoard the Streath4m, to throw the guns over-
board, ousel that boasts would be kept in reechoes to
takeout the people, *herald it be 'secretory to aban-
don the ship, in which case to scuttle her; applied
for more hands, which was refined, es the hosts off
the frigates wire
wore than those already ou board the Essrope, and
her oleo people. •
The passenger. were accordingly removed on
board the Streatham, where they remained till the
fallowing day, and were treated with every poi aible
attention sod civility by Monsieur R thready, the
*Seer in charge, as well as by the passengers of
that ship.
• Oo the following day the leash on board the
Europe, which was discovered to arise from the
thirty-six shot holes in the couuter. six feet under
water, having been reported stopped, and the wa-
ter got under, the passengers were ordereit on boded
a 44111, snit the Astrupe ia4tle sail for the Isle of
France, in euutuany with the frigete and the &rect-
a/go. It is but common justice to Monsieur
Kum, hefare-mentimied, as well as Mons. Des
Pinochle*, the officer who remaiised in charge,
end is lull seemed, Nlon4eur DUVIti, to say. that
every possible attention was paid to the passengers,
who were left in the undisturbed pow.escon of the
cabin, frith a part ruler request that they would
consider themselves therein as if nothing had hap-
pened, aod'whetever requests were made. they were
granted with a readiness, evaticing a rest wish to
oblige. The only property lost, was plundered
by the Liscar.. belonging to the ship. The men
sent on burin.] from the frigate behaved with great
civility.

The Ladies were, by this treatment. soon re-
hewed from their fears, which must have been con-
siderable, both (ruin the unexpected commence-
ment of the firing, before they had time to retire to
the gusi-suom, and from s Obit 'having passed
through it while they were there, and the splinters
which in consequence flew on all sides.
In stating what is due to our enemies, we must
not forget to pay a just tribute to the conduct of
nor friends also ; and it is but truth to may. that
every exertion was made, on the part of Captain
his officers, and the ship's company. the
whole of whom evinced the utmost readiness to re-
imminence the action. if that measure could, in the
general opinion, have been attended with such a
prospect of ul t ate aaree_es or escape, as to nave
justified the sacrifice of lives which most inevitably
have ensued (rota a prolonged coolest, with a force
so far superior to the Suropc.

HIGHLAND SOCILTY OF SCOTLAND.

The anniversary General Meeting of this Society.
io.ternas of the charter, was held Tuesday e'en-
night at Etlintourgli, at which there was a very re-
spectable aua u.luuce of its !Hernia:no, to the 11U113.•
Lite. of 1-20 ; 41111011 g Other* were—

be Right HMI the Earl of Leven and Melville, Lord
AsliLurton, Lord Seisfmth, General the Hun. John Leidy,
Hou. Maj r Cathcart Honbk. Archibald Macdonald, and
redersck S. Nos th Cathcart,
Lord Bannatyne, Sir James
Gordon, Sir George liscleimie, Sir George Stewart, Sir Joke
Sinclair, and Sir W. G. Cumming Gordon, Baronets; Magor-
Generals Robertson and Graham Stirling, a ill. many Gentle-
late a of extrusiive lauded property, aiul respectable names of
the law, military, sod eninnwreial interests.
Right Hon. the Earl of LEVEN and MCI.VILLE, Vice-

Ihresident in oAice. it. the Ch.tor.

Before practedlng to other lnnotiehs, Mr. M AC.•
DON Ain, the Treet..urer, stated, that he hell received
a letter from li:s Gruce the Duke of Athol', Presi-
dent of the Society, ext.ressing his regret at bring
prevented fruit •ttrudttig the Society on thi. awes.
stun, by important business in the country. Ms
Grace et the .sine nine repressed the warm interest
he took in the prusperitt• of the Society, sad his
desire to piGiniiie its patriotic views.

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The Society then proercileil to ballot for new
members, o hen .ereral Noblemen mid Gentlemen
were drily admitted slentbers of the Society. in..
clatienL:—
The Earl of Fingal, JAWS Lord Rnlbveo, Lord Asbbrar-
lon, tire Lid Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Juba Austruther,
M.P. Hon Frs./ern:la SllVtiter Nvrth Douglas, vt Glen-
bervie, &e.

Aud, on motion, William Smith, Esq. Mem-
ber of ParMimeo fur Norwich, was unanimously,
and with much approbation, elected an honorary
member of the Society, on account of the uniform,
active, and zealous reentries of that respectable
gentleman, in promoting the improvements nod in-
terests of this part of the United Kingdom, particu-
larly its his capacities of one of the Parliamentary
Commissioners for the Highland Roads and Bridges,
and Deputy-Ourreresor of tine British Society for
Fisheries ; Mr. Smith, for the purpose of more ef-
fectualty forwarding these important objects, having
twit e travelled through the North and Writ High-
of Scotland.
The &scat:tear then submitted to the consider-
ation of the Society the proceedings of their Di-
rectors since the general uieetiug in June last, and
the premiums voted by them fur raising green
crops, improving waste lends, meliorating the
breed of black cattle, improving the art of plough.
ing by competitions of ploughmen in various dis-
tricts, and for other objects; also to authors of
essays on ditlereut subjects, such lie the best means
of introducing into Scotland a knue ledge of the
stapling of wool as a trade, the inanagenieut of
woods and plautatious. Ste. The Meeting ap-
proved of the coutiourd exertions of the Directors
iu promoting the object. of the institution, and
were gratified to hod, that every attention had been
given by the conveners and the Members of the
Society resident in the country, to the ploughing
and black cattle competitions in the ditlerent dis-
tricts. A list of these premiums, and the persons
to whom they had been adjudged, was directed to
be published iu the iwwspaperi, iu the mond man-
ner; and as it appeared that a number of essay.,
and mutat 000 i o •ations, containing useful informs.
Lion, on various subjects, had been received since
the public itiou of the third volume of the Societj's
Trainactmos in 1607, the Meeting recommended
to the Directors to prepare and publish a fourth
volume is speedily as possible.
Mr. MACDONALD, the treasurer, congratulated
the Society upon its flourishing state, and nicrvase
of its funds, pe recapitulated by him, amid es ap-
peared from en accurate state thereof, peltared by
Mr. %Valium, actiwuutant in Edinburgh, the Society's
auditor of acconida, upon the table; and, ou the
Treasurer's motion, the dunks of the Meeting were
mianituoudy voted to Mr. Wilson, for the trouble
he taken in the Society's affairs, without fee or re-
ward, mill the perspicuous view given by him of
the funds of die Society, its income, and its expen-
diture, after a minute exa 11l i oo 'bun of the Collector's
accounts of recoveries and payments, with the book
kept with the Royal Bank of Scotland, where all
the cash transactions of the Society are kept. From
the ',betel support which the Society continues to
receive from the Noblemen and Cieetlemen of Scot-
land, and even from other parts of the empire, as
this day's ballot venires, the /fleeting were enabled
to vote a larger sum than usual to be laid oat by
the Director, in elicournging pruper objects of nn-
proveinent in the year I hlO.
Ou the motion 44 the rreasurer from the Com-
mittee of Directors, and hearing peelers! Members
with respect to the great benefit rendered to the
egvieeltural and farsuing mitered of Scotlauil, by
Hr. Andrew Meikle, of East Lothian, (a mail
uuw abuse Moiety years of age)..My his improvement
or invention of the tiirashing machine, the Meru
authorised the Treasurer to subscribe thirty guineas
towards the subscription set on Toot by the great
proprietors and farmers of East Lothian, equally
respectable and benevolent, to Inviter of Mr.
Meikle, for the purpose of bestowing on him and
his family. in old age, some substantiul mark of
puhlic apprObation.
The Secretary laid before the Meeting a letter
from the Rev. Dr. Douglas. of Galashieldit. a Mem-
ber of the Society, with an accompany drawing of •
machine, stated to lw invented by Mr. Thomas
Mereer, clothier, at Wilderhaugh, near that vil-
lage, for raising the ink of wool on cloth and blan-
kets, and also of an improvement made by Mr. Mer-
cer, on the common cranks used in suaciiiiiery.—
The Society remitted to their Directors to investi-
gate the merits of Mr. Mercer's inientiniis or im-
provements in machinery, with power to the Direc-
tors to bestow such mark of the Society's approba-
tion on Mr. Mercer, as they should see proper aud
expedient.
A drawing and description of a new plan of
fences fur pleasure-grounds. made of wire, Metall-
factured by Mr. Mon, of Chelsea. Middlesex,
stated to be durable, and polarising the udvantages
of not obstruetiug the views in gentlemen's grounds,
was laid before the Meeting by Mr. Brentwood,
jun. of Edinburgh, for the inforisietwo of Members.
The SKULL 0000 !listed, that several commum-
cations had heeii receistly received from the Board
of Agrieultore, through its President. Sir John
Sinclair, from the Farming Society of Ireland, and
from the Beth dud Hest of Eughind Agricultural
Society, who had complimeoted this Society with

a complete set of their published transactions.—
The Meeting recomaamided that a communication
with these respectable institutions should be care-
fully kept up. and authorised their Secretary to
commuicate site thanks of this Meeting to the Bath
Society. The Meeting also directed. that a com-
plete set of the corrected County Reports of Eng-
land and Scotland, drawn up for the Bored of
Agriculture, and now publishing by Sir Richard
Phillips, should be added to the library of the So-
ciety. . .

'elie Society resolved to subscribe to a work now
nearly ready for the press, to be published by the
Rev. Mr. Irvine, of Little Dusikeld. entitled, "The
Liers of the Caledonian Barth."
A letter from Mr. Currie, Secretary to the Com-
mittee for sualiaging a chapel lately opened is Lou-
don, where divine service is to he performed in the
Gaelic and English languages, for the benefit of the
poorer classes of Elighlauders, such as old sailors
and s 'Mier*, in end about Loudon. accompanied
with the platk and regulations for said chapel, war
laid before the meeting. The Society. although
precluded, by the terms of its charter. from con-
tribution; from attends to this object, unanimously
expressed their approbation of the establishment,
being the only one of its kind in Londe.). and had
no doubt that it would meet with countenance Nan
individual Member., many Noblemen and Gentle.
men of toe Soslety haying already come liberally
forward as subrettliers in aid of the institution.

The Society having proceeded, on motion from
the Secretary, to the election of President, Vice-
President, mail other officers, for the current year.
the Duke of Athol', was re-elected President; and
the Earl of Leven and Melville. Lord Gray, Lord
DANA, and Lord Seafor'. Vice-Presideats.

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Among a variety of saner matters r. (erred to the
Directors for consideration, were * drawing asid de-
scription of an improved method of yoking horses in
thrashing machines, by Walter Samuel, West Lo-
thian ; and a communication from the Rev. Dr.
Siugers, on the moat likek means of facilitating and
extending the progress of improvements iu rural af-
fairs.

In the afternoon a large party of the Members
attereled the annivenary dianer in Fortune'. tavern,
the Earl of Leveu in the chair, when many loyal,
patriotic, and appropriate toad. were given.