The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-23 00:00:00

FEMALE REVENGE.

At a distinguished watering place, in the eastern
pan of Sussex, four young men of the town lately
gained frequent admission into the kitchen of a large
family visiting there, under pretence of paying their
respeOive addresses to four of the female domestics ;
but, in the course of a few weeks acquaintance,
matters ttanspired which convinced the girls that the
young men only paid court to their master's pantry,
instead of their fair persons ; they therefore con-
spired to revenge themselves of their perfidious
sweethearts, by the following expedient ; Having
procured and killed a large Tem Cat, the cook
flayed and washed it. dexterously cut it up, and
with proper seasoning put it into a pasty. The
beaux were invited, as usual, to supper, and bad
each partaken very heart,ly of the pie, when Mrs.
Abigail, wlfo did the honours of the table, poked
from the bottom of it the nether extremity of poor
Tom, curled up like a pitch•cocked eel, and begged
their inamoratas to pick a joint or two of tail, to
finish with !—The catastrophe may be guessed at ;
the sparks made a precipitate retreat to get rid of
the contents of their stomachs; and the story get-
ting wind, they were in consequence so laughed and
mewed at. th.•t one or two of them, to avoid tile
=thugs of the multitude, have been induced to
quit the neighbourhood !

The King of SWID•11. we lament to say, is seri-
ously indisposed with the Aux, attended with a low,
intermitting fever. H. had the first appearance of
it at Stralsund ; but, contrary to the advice of his
physician, and the special exhortations of the officers
of his guard, he re:used a temporary retirement
from his military fatigues, and would take no me-
dicine which required confieeinent. The conse-
quence is said to he very alarming; a bulletin is
daily issued—the last in:imated that His MAJZSTY
coneinuedi in an alarming state of relaxation.
On Saturday last, two fishermen, observing some.
thing lying above the surface of the water, between
Hearn Say and Whitstable. immediately put off in
a small boat, to ascertain what it w. 16. They found
it to be a surprising large fish ; returned on shore,
and took out with them two ratlike's, with which
they fired at it seven different times, without pro-
ducing aoy offal, so as to ascertain whether it was
alive or not ; they then proceeded, and aftually ran
the boat on the back cf the fish, and wounded it with
ao axe upwards of a foot deep. The fish im-
mediately proceeded out to sea, and the next
mashing was washed on shore, nearly on the
same spot, dead of the wounds it received the pro•
ceding day. Mr. Amu. a farmer in the neigh-
bourhood, went down with his men, and by the
assistance of nine horses, drew part of the fish above
high water mark. It proved to be a grampus, 31
feet in length, and weighed between 10 and 12 tons.
The fat, or Woggle. when boiled, produced boo
gallons of oil.

Letters from an officer of rank in the navy, dated
Sept. 10, off Copenhagen, state the great gal.
lantry of the in-shore squadron, and that the I)ia-
patch, Is, Captain LILLTCRAF, bad a narrow
escape, as she rounded near one of the enemy's
batteries, but did not cease firing, when a fresh wind
off shore backed her off without receiving the least
damage. He describes the city of Copenhagen as
almost reduced to ashes. He says it was a dreadt el
and awful sight to se* the grand Church and its
lofty spire all in lames, which curled to the
top in a spiral direclion, when on a sudden, the
whole mass of building fell in with a most tre-
mendous crash. Our troops marched inter the
city on the evening of the eth. and occupied the
citadel, the bands of all the regiments playing
Reds Britatissie. The jolly tars took possession of
the batteries and men of war. The greatest credit
is said to be due to the troops and sailors for their
very orderly and regular conduit during the whole
of the siege ; it has been an honour to the British
name and character. The advanced squadron
bad many bard brushes, yet have lost but few
men. One day the shells, shot, and carcasses,
flew so thick about them, it was thought the
whole squadron would have been knocked to atoms,
but the aim was so very bad, and wide of their
mark, that the ships comprising it nevi d with very
little damage. A little advanced squadron have
just had orders to join Commodore KZAT/th in the
Great Belt, to Lterrupt any army that might at-
tempt to cross over from Holstein." '• We hope,"
this Officer says, to be home in an English port in
about three weeks or a month, with the Danish fleet
in tow."

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