The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-07-29 00:00:00

CULTURE OF COTTON.

Great exertions are making HO ranee to esta-
blidi manufactures, and to extend the cidtpre of
cotton. Their extru.ive territories ,Ewan as wally
edvanteges, both from the great variety of climates
and the extrusive population. The soil, however,
is in no part •of France equal to that of the
N etches; neither is the climate more favourable
than that of Georgia, fur the cultivation of cotton ;
and the United States mina, far many years, liosseisi
the principal inonoply of that valuable article of
traffic. it does not require much labour, and. is
not so liable to injury as other plants. •
The conquest of Sicily holds forth great advan-
tages. That Island is remarkably fertile, and is
situated between J 7 mid..ta degrees, the climate is
rimilar to Georgia, and in fact, we believe that there
are not more than. ten .degrees of difference bc-
taceis the climate a the Western part of /Europe,
atat the Eastern part. a, the l:uited States. .
By exan,:.iiiag the pinnispliere, as laid down lay.
Heica:o,-, we find that the WIWI parallel • which
csinnie• the middle of Canada, also pities the centre
of France, ulicre all the country is in Isle.m,
when tae river St. Laurence, is covered with ire ;
the p....a11el which croases I hiladelphia, where, du- -
iag the winter, the Delaware is frozen up, also
.paoser the piddle of Vortural and the kiii•gsluni of
Valentia, where dm and reasons are i.inn:er
to the oil* Georgia and Fhir We.
In Sicily, the culture of the cotton-tree may be
brought to jicrfection! /t flourialies bent, iu a warns
and ey sou: and in Liiiigue4qc, l':ovence sad
Italy, they eta ii:11). the 8;0411 Vi:•ginia cotton
plant, or tine kie.J cultivated in Ca.olina and
Georgia; but intl.: islands they can, with little la-
bour, raise that +Millar to the culture of St. Itlary'l.

Thursday a firc broke out in the parsonage of
Sandford; Devon, the residence of the Rte.. GEOILI:C
BENT, elude was iu a short time enbrely destroyed,
together With sevenother houses in the village-
Ott Saturday last, .1.1.3tES M ELLICE and. WILLI AU
CLARI.E. two of the servants of the lion. Mi.
Su RIM Id, were uni'iirtutiately drowned when
drawing a net in the river Lam. near Perth ; the
reviser was get out is about live minutes, and the
latter was nearly huff au hour under water.. Me-
dical aid was unimdiattly procured, cad evtcy
'arum/used for their recovery, but without effect.
A very destructive tire happened lately at Bake.
in St. German's, Coomali, (the seat of Sir Jost.ea
Coetsv,.) which entirely destroyed that ancient
mansion, with the farm-house adjoining, and part
of the furniture, 3001 worth of wool, and 100 l
worth of hams and bacon ; an apprentice boy to
M-. Ii'SAST, the tenant, about 9 years of age, f. II a
victim to the Loom The fire broke out atter the
family had' retired to herb sea weastairiourd by,
the cloyed of the kitchen chimney catching fire.
On the 14th ult. one of those pltrenotneua in. na-
ture, which rarely occur in the-e climates, took
place isms Kirkconsiel, iibotit six miles above San-
iinhar; which had a most alartnitig nod terrifying
aspect. The following are the particulars :-;—" In
the afternoon, a large black cloud appeared to rest
on the hill of Corr-envoi), which soon shifted and
stood over the coal-Pita, alma two miles from that
place, whets a whirlwind, apparently riaittoltrectly
below it, appeared to strike the cloud. At this
iastant a loud and confused noise v: as heard, vial
the water iminedhately descended with great velo-
city, in nn awful mid tremendous manner, tearing
op the ground and stones of an immense side,
wherever it touched. Those who witnessed this
be 1.111., describe the water descending from a consi-
derable height, in broken columns, rolling over one
another, alich, when it approached near the earth,
terminated in a small point, in an inverted couical
shape. The day was uncommonly warm and sul-
try, unrt scarcely a breath of wiatl could be felt."
Tuesday, a labouring man having found his wife
in an illicit atnour, the husband, without waiting the
tedious process of the Courts of law, thought tit to
bring his action opt the spot, and so completely co-
vered the paramour with mud, by rolling him in
the kennels of Drery-line, that it was impossible
to discover • feature in his lice; the detettilant,
However, took to his beds, and thus released himself
from so dirty an affair.

VIETINCS. OF cttrbrfriks, Cri
in-MORROW.
M
PeterJoon, late of tioefolk.row, Lambeth, hawker a 1.,
Philip Totteuliaro.court.-esid, ealeowt-
maker .

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George Tuner, row or late or I.intow. licit,
keeper .
1.
Lett•anaa Jos,ph I.efftnan, New-street, Bishopsistr-
soescitant .
• ) ld
Jatut•s South, Loth: l'ulteoey.steeet, I. Jones's,
tallos-clisndlt r .
ti
ll'illia Girt.% , St. John-street, blitldgeses, cLoa•
maker : . • -

Jon !oh Ilzaky, Piccadilly:

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maker .
It
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1/1111n1 110.1,0 n, WlLilillg-Ptreet. Leases, IliellimOt i)
Julia Lei6l,4, 4..lldJeary, London, srarelsomesnon • le
aurrill(..ATES.
John Baines, of Ashford, Salop, fanner.
James Duiunure, 4.f Broad•slreot, Lando*, merchant.
J.11.1C4. I.rbastiun %Ydliosoll, of Stainferd, LiNCJIIII, liner..
draper.
Ju...ph I.nckinan, of Salford, I,ancester, manufacturer.
John Garthser, of Droado.slreer, Leedom, emordisut.

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