The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-11 00:00:00

TAIMENGZIM

Mn. Clinton. Mrs Alexander, Colonel Clinton. Adjutant-
general, Cannel Houghton, Lieutenant Alexander. Honourable
Charles Lindmi, and Merin. Philip MUllaOil and Alexander
Campbell, writer-, Mr Robert Fox, Elisite,th Monchlim and
Niched Sillineham, servants to Colonel Clinton.

The packet per Earl Hove was sent to the Post-
Office on Saturday night.
We understand that the Ear! 11,:ce has brought
oat the statue of the Most Noble the Marquis Corn-
wallis, which is to adorn this capital.
We understand that Mr. Fox has brought out
souse beautiful prints of this superb piece of sculp-
ture.

_His Majesty's frigate Caroline is also arrived in
the river from England, whence she sailid the it.th
of May hut.
We understand that the Caroline took several
prizes, during her passage, but we have not yet been
able to learn the particulars.
The Caroline spoke with the Lord Cattlereagh
Indiaman on the 18th of August last, for Madras
and Bengal.
The brig Rat, Captain A. Foggo, is likewise
arrived here from Madras, which she left on the
11th current.

Captain Foggo fell in svi..h and spoke His Excel-
lency Admiral Rainier, with his squadron a Cey-
lon, and brings an account that His Majesty's sloop
of war Yaw-, Capt. Johnston, has fallen in with and
captured a valuable French merchantman from
Europe, bound to Pondicherry, with a large quan-
tity of specie on board : the prize had been seen sale
into Trincomale.

The French frigate La Belle Parole had frequently
been seen by Admiral Rainier's squadron, but from
her superior sailing has hitherto escaped.

ORKNEY.

On Monday the eSd ult. a number of the princi-
pal inhabitants of Os kney, met in the Town House
of Kirkwall, for the humane purpose of taking into
their most serious consideration, the deplorable state
of the country for want of grain, occasioned by the
failure of the two preceding crops, to a degree that
is truly melancholy. 'though the crop before last
had the aid of a good one immediately preceding,
such a scarcity prevailed, that the proprietors and
others found it necessary to ei,ter into a subscription
for importing grain, to sell at prime cost ; and they,
in conjunaion with a few private dealers of conse-
quence, imported and sold vitluals to the value of
nearly three yea's land-rent of the whole islands.—
This large quantity was all exhausted; and, the last
crop proving still worse than the former, and the
price of cattle having fallen, and little er no fish
being procured, on account of the tremendous seas,
and the boisterous severity of the weather, the
farmers and cottagers are now reduced to extreme
want, and the funds of the proprietors, as may
easily be conceived, are inadequate to relieve them.
In these circumstances, when every other resource
had failed, the meeting turned their eyes to the Go-
vernment, whose beneficent aid they had received
on ioimer pressing occasions, and whose bounty has
of late been so opportunely felt by Shetland, un-
happily in a similar condition ; and in order that a
supply may he procured without delay, to prevent
famine, with its horrid train of consequences, the
Sheriff Substitute, whose zeal in the business does
him honour, was empowered and entrusted to make
and forward the application, through the channel of
the Crown Officers in Scotland.