The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-08-17 00:00:00

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11Aitt.SOIO04H•STRati.
Saturday, at tl:;$ Office, Mare 11(t, ,yhts. a
Pinphetess. was ct.arged wish stealing a silver-
seuX-bos, whilst on a ptufess;onal visit to the wait-
ing-maid of Mrs. in Chatlwte•street,
Friday. The testimony of the cieduluas compiairi.
ant went to prey-. the, the profts.ional Sybil took.
tea with he- in the absence her 'pi:tress ; oth••r
damsels had been previ,iusly invited to hear their
destiny. It was agr.e.l stn ati hands, that the own%
boa had been haudt•d about as a cheue. mid the es-
cuse made by the fortuaeitcller was, that she had
put it into flip:ten it. The bas was
missed in a shaft iiitic alert t ie Pt isomer had left the
hou,e, and she, ou betng applied to, reined to re-
store it. The i'mphetass was seat to retail future
events in 1314:ewell.

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1 he InHewing revolutionary speculation is copied
from lie Core Alercuetil, Chrlnitis, in which it is
given as a communication from a Private Corms.
poadent

" I haft lust 11114 ttlltift.llhtlltt to Me a pipes of torelaireee
wirreit I believe,* be true, and Wadi ills me eith amazement.
The +cold .1 destuted to nee revoistrioro—end the Damon of
Cherry, if sat QMr cal: him, tress only one us be begriming
his 'Fmk Tit are Sultan hlosiaphs, uln be turned but of
Turkey is and illsrioniinkrits are not to extend beyond
this side of the Asiatic froolier-ssPrinea Evens It to summed*
the Kole of Holland—X*4oh %oven* is to lure tipper Italy,
MO Naples is to be restored to its riehuirl Sovereign. Forth-
nand IV. The Archduke Cherie, is to be Xing of Hungary—
thri 13 end Duke Conttantine in be X:eig of Los.c.e..Mersr,
Emig of Poland—eel Jerrono Itorteperte King of Westphalia.
Eight Coehtlerste Kingdoms are to be formed into the Empire
of the Wit, under the sceptre of Nepokion the Meat. The
remainder of the Cmtinerit is to aLkoowlelge the impeaur
Alexander as Lord Pareanoult of the Empire 01 the Eau.
The four men sentenced to suffer death at Chelms-
ford, were all reprieved on Wednesday.,
The pedestrian match between Coptaia BA ICI V
and Wrooa, of Lancashire, has been settled at
Erightnn Races: Thy are to go on foot, for
twenty-four successive hours, and it is ropposed
that at the rate of five miles and a half an hour, they
/mast complete the distaste: of ISO miles in that
time I It takes place at Newmarket on the 12th
Moher neat, for SOO guineas a side. Woos gives
Captain That a • t weaty miles,
About six o'clock, on Wednesday morning, a vio-
lent storm was experienced at Starn:ord, and gene-
rally in the n•ighbonthousl, for several muss ruund.
In the parish of Edmonthorpe, in Leicestershire,
about that hoar, a fire-ball struck a large tree, con-
taining three loads of wood, which it shove in all di-
saffirms To a part of the trunk which was left stand-
ing the tire communicated, and burnt so rapidly, that
some labourers who discovered it, had to fetch many
buckets of water from the canal before they extin-
guished it. During the storm, an ewe and lanils
were killed in Sewstern parish by the lightnicg.
The following occurrence took place at eat-
ton, Norfolk, in the evening of Monday last :—A
poor woman. named Ropes, very far advanced
in years, WAS passing through the premises of
Mr. Ita.sirz, wises she was attacked by a ram,
by which she had bet leg 'iodated, and was
otherwise hurt. The rarn was in the all of
in the rescue of the
unfortunate woman
)0 herself. She was
to the hospital.

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