The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-10-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF IYIw BRITISH PRESS:

SIR,
Coming lately out of the cow try, I t -
to call at an eminent carv•a• sod •
town, to receive some meter •
with the usual (and now Mar •
of the scarcity of money, bio •
glanced my eye mind a very 14:ii
torered wall} gold. My dhnippoi:ltir
pecially the splendid appearance ; •
shop, put me on refleftirg, rather Cat
returned to my lodging, on the presen•
scarcity of gold money. Short as my s•
with the man was, I learned enough ti. e '• •
my mind the propriety of requestli.g p.•
submit a few short remarks on this Lubjelt .
consideration, through the medium of you
lent paper. I learned, with that seiiou,
,•
which every well-wisher to his cout.try otig'
on such occasions, that while a whole 1
nowned for good sense and vigilan..e, is Ar
under pecuniary embarrassments, and espe...•
the waist of 'circulating gold, two hundred
sand guineas worth of this precious met al -
merely used, but destroyed, annihilated, by
useless and superflumis pre Lice of GILDING: e• • 4
window shutter, every old looking-glass, r
dark hole in our habitations, must new be d••
over with gold : our sign-posts, with all their
derous incumbrances of lions, unicorns, horse.
dogs—our very water-closet--but I dai., not
tare to be bulimia on a subjed that, for an
know, may be very cerium,. ,
I am'too well aware of the recent mania :••
the timid and avaricious, of accumulati
&Porn'', immense treasures of sliver and 1., •
might possibly enter/44 you with some I, s
though not more ridiculous instances,
same pernicious dotage has extended es eu .
matey and penny-time,! lam aware that '
but a generous anticipation of public spirit, ••• , ...-
speak what I fear is nearer the truth) nothing ' •
seresailr will, in the present public CiICUMStAnt •
restore these useless masses into immediate circula-
tion. I apprehend this as an evil which cannot be
remedied by any sort of compulsion that will not
violate our censtiostional Alertly., and which must, •
therefore, be left as it is, to the operations of ;ll=
and increasing confidence. I will also cosfecs my-
sell unprepared to demon:Pete the evil which I i:na.
gine must be consequent to the unreeraiva dad cal.
saute wee of gold that I allude to: it may be a
raid ;it may be only a wildm :I. But if it be, AS I
at present venture to suppose it, a thing of formiJa-
tiie magnitude, and enormonsly pernicious, let the 1,
Government, or the legislature, look to it speedily. I'
If it be held injurious to the state, and even highly f•
criminal, to diminish the substance old guiwa, why I
are we thus left at liberty to waste thersa::*, in an
undiscriminating folly of disguising statue-, hears,
bulls, beats, band-boxes, and the whole alphabet
of ridiculous es coerce' For this prallice (La say the
best of it) is as derogatory to sound slll4ik as it is to all
propriety and rainy.
Let it be remembered (which I take upon me tat
assert) that, in every praftical c insideration, si dint
anaddimeg. Let the use of gold. in such lolariess
be r.ctrain.d sot a while by sirlpfu.lry Ir.:r; or. at
least, let us have some temporary, balancing regula-
tions respefting so licentious a consumption of so im-
portant an article, that, with as little disadvantage.
as ri -.able to the mechanic and other part:near in. •
eerests in the commm wealth, may help to diminish j
that weight, or dismess and inconvenience which
now presses so heavily upon Me :.rude. S. S.

I NTE T. L IC ENC E.
ro‘rvaau Tl 7, OCT. }7.

height of a very heavy squall, the
ans, a fine new frigate, commanded
Hammond ; and a large Spanish
• 400 tans, supposed to be her
so hard, we cannot learn her
ulars;hkesvie the Albacore, of

Sleady, of 12 guns, from the east-
Atiathit, of 14 guns, and Phil', of
`r Havre.
of 74 guns, Capt. Robinson, is
iead from St. Helen's, to be paid,
of 7♦ guns, Capt. Loring (who
.quadron, at the blockade and cur-
ships at St. Domingo), leas been
fitting with all haste to proceed out

Robscm, lately arrived from
London.—Wind W.N.W. blows

PLYMOUTH, OCT.
RetteN, Catteraw, from Amsterdam,
trigate ; Ctdpoys, and the Pierer
a cruise.—Wind W.N.W.
nett., OCT. li.
after post, the Pellet, &to', Bla•
'gun-brigs, on a cruise, off the

arrived the Leda frigate, from
sailed for Sheerness.

..ed the Volcano bomb, Pe!ln-, and
several olter gun brigs, from off the
remain in the Downs, with the

as per LA.—Wind S.W. squally,

:ON Limy rys UST.
Y 7.-.-Pas.a by the Bear, Steward, from
te, Bainbridge, fmm Savannah; ant the
Southerby, from Chara:te. Settee the
Courtney, for Oporto ; and the Minerva,

OF 71lF cousncr.

of Government, and particularly
been unremittingly occupied for
past in examining the sea coast,
ascertaining the weakest places,
into a complete state of defence,
the attacks au the enemy, when-
attempt to carry his threatened plan of
execution.
been the schemes which have occu-
, of Government, and of His Royal
Inlander in Chief, respeEting the
is tiug this Jesirable objet; And
istice to His Royal Highness to say,
• to be carried into rzecutioa. does
_ military skill and discernment.
proposed to inundate various parts of
- along the coasts of Kent and Sus-
i the sluices or guts which discharge
from weir sulfate, and to defend
appropriate work; of Pitification ;
although medicable, would do
to the latish and grounds inun-
therefore been determined to abandon
and to adopt another. at the sur
• able mditary Officer of the Quer-
's department, which will afford
security, be less detrimental to iadivis
property, permanent in its nature, and
- beneficial to the trade of the distria through
s.
proposed, is to eemstrolt a canal of
etween Shorncliff battery and the
Rye, and just under Pleydon
is to have a rampart on its north
military read, so that on the cliffs,
r. batteries may be construded to
passage of the canal, and it will be
throughout its length by batteries on the
water being also great, trading and
above 200 tons burthen may be
and the latter may assist in the
necessary. and as it greatly
of coast to he defended, it may be
of the most important military
executed in this or perhaps any other
eminently to its importance is,
defence with utility. It will aft
drain. and greatly relieve the levels
highland water. It will enable
produce of the country at a cows-
expence to the sea coast. It will
, means of conveying shingle and
interior of the country, for the making
`f roads, which. throughout this die-
d. It will be of infinite use to the
should ever the projeded canal tioin
~athe Midway, by LamSethurst and
Canterbury, with a branch Isy 'renter-
act, take place. Its summit level
hundred feet above the level of
is nearly fifty miles on one le.
Canterbury a canal, on one level, has
communicate with the sea at St.
die isle of 'llaset. capable of c
sr-
vessels; so that, by joining these two
'e interior of the county of Kent will
easy navigation to the sea coast at
Chatham, Rye, and Hythe.
means of the river Rother, open a
n important part of the county of
Roberubridge, from whence the timber,
s, may be conveyed at a cheap rate
dockyards at Chatham and on the
be the meani, in all probability, of
improvement of the harbour of
contemplation, And so much to be
As old harbour of Lympc, the Portage
Romans, will also be opened, and it is
attention of his Majesty's Ministers
.-r or latter be drawn to I Iythe, and a good
established there.

has been contrafted fur, and the
finish it in four or five months.—
workmen are alrea4!v employed,
thousands are now on their way to it ;
the i:ntxrt.ince which Government at-
national work, that they have employed
civil vita= ill tilt kingdom to
esecutiuy.

SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

The following official Remonstrance will serve to
explain the nature of the dispute between the Spa:l-
- Government and the United States :

44 In the Menitesirs, Nos. 596 and 397, published
in New Orleans, the 12th and ISth of last month,
I observe, translated into French, the Ad which
fixes the imposition and mode of receiving the duties
on goods that may be imported into the ports of the
Untied States ; and having seen, with much sur-
prise, that Mobile is comprehended in the number,
as well as other territories, which form part of West
Florida, which His Majesty has been pleased to
entrust to me, I should be wanting in my duty,
were Ito remain a quiet spectator of such a mani-
fest violation of the indubitable rights of sovereignty
which His Majesty possesses over the said province.
Such a violation cannot be attributed to error, for
error always proceeds from causes, which, in this
instance, do not exist, for the reasons I am about
to expose.
" The United States pretend, that the limits of
their purchase reach to the eastward, as far as the
River Perdido, founding their pretension on its
having been formerly the boundar; of the province
of Louisiana on that side; but as France ceded to
Great Britain, by the Treaty of 1765, all the coun-
try, from the mouth of the River Iberville to the
River Perdido, which country was conquered by
His Majesty's arms during the war of 1779, it is
eviden4 that the United States have much ies, right
to claim the territory in question, than His Majesty
NU, when he received Loui itna tiom France, to
demand the whole of the country from Pirishourg
(formerly Fort Duquesne) w the conflorace of the
Ohio with the Mississippi, ceded, in the said Treaty,
by France to Great Britain, who WAS then mistress
of these colonies, now called the United States. I
repeat, Sir, that those States have less right to
claim this territory. because your Excellency knows
that the right of conquest is always preferable to
that et cession.
" The present case is perfectly similar; and if the
United States believe that their boundary extends to
the River Perdido, for the reasons they allege,
they establish a precedent for His Majesty to make
use of his right to the aforementioned territories ; a
right which he did not avail himself of wlien he
took possession. of Louisiana. becarise he did not
then conceive it valid, nor would he at this mormat.
were it not for the similitude it bears to the present
claims of the United Sates.
44 By the same argument: which the- United Stares
make use of to obtain what suit, tiem, t. e. to de-
mand the province of 11-r4 ___lnsiana, as it tormerly was,
and not as it now is, it may he proved to them. that
Ponce de Leon, who Was the first European who
landed on the coast of Fleitia in 1512, took pos-
session of it in tae .ram: of His 141.1j:sty. according
to the custom of teller discoveries. It is likewise
well known,.that shiring the period immediately
subsequent to the di,coverv, all the country from the
Bay of Mexico to :he err titern extremity of what is
now occupied by the Unitel States, V.. 16 known un-
der the appellation 01 Fins ida, If provinces. there-
fore, are to be claimed by what they have once
been, Spain will certainly have to yield West Flo-
rida; but, oa the same principle, the United States
wul have to give up to Spain, Georgia, South and
Norm Carothra, &c &c. I now a k your Excel-
lency what name the United states w 001... give to
a claim cf this nature, made by Spain ? Be it wnat
you please, it is the same I must confer on the pre-
tension now formed by the United Sra.es.
" Your Excellency will recoiled th it, loy the
treaty of St. Ildetonso, of Ist 0 toher, 13no, :tat
that of Madrid, 21• t March, the Curt of
Spain Inceded to the French Grivernmeot the pro-
vince of Louisiana ; aid as the verb recede has, in
itself, a definitive meaning. waitli your Excellency
must know as well as I, you must he equally aware
that the recession ot Louisiana to France Could not
comprise West Florida, which was cosartered by
His Majesty many years subsequent to nos laving
possession of Louisiana. unless in conseqrience of All
express clause stipulating the same; this clause does
exist, therefore there can be no foundation tor the
pretensions of the United States.
44 Oa the above principles, and in conformity
with the duty imposed upon me by my station, I
protest formally and solemnly against the Ad of
Congress alluded to above, and declare to your
Excellency, and through you ro the Government
of this United States, that 1 feel it my duty, and
am therefore resolved to resist, by force of arms, if
necessary, any of of authority that the United
States, or any individual in its name, 'hall pretend to
exercise within the dominions of lit Majesty. and
, all and every ad, derogatory to his sovereignty, de-
volving the responsibility of the consequences on
him, who shall, by precipitate measures, or un-
founded pretensions, disturb or infringe tt.e good
understanding Dow subsisting between our respec-
tive nations. God preserve you many rears,
" VIZLNCC TOl.Oll,
" Pensacola, May 1, 1804.
Ma Ezciii.y w Claiborne, Esq."

We have often heard of individuals followir7 a
, *umber of trades or professions in cour.try towns,
but we think the following exceeds every one we ever
beard of; lie certainly exceeds even Ciiied Q,o r*.
A man of the name of WILLI•M HILL, of the
town of Warminster, has the following extraordi-
nary notice in the front of his house :
Whitesmith,Gardener, Schoolmaster, Watchman.
Tooth-drawer occasionally, Shoemaker, Chapel
Clerk, Crycr of the Town, Running Footmar.
Groom, and Organ Blower, Keeper of the Town
Hall, Letter Carrier, Winder of the Town Clock,
Toiler of the Curfen Bell, Waiter and Billposter,
Fire Bucket-mender, Toll-taker at the Bailiff of the
Hundred, Assistant to the Staffordshire Potter, Fire-
lighter to the Dancing-master, Ringer of the Mat ket
Bell, Sheriff% Officer's Deputy, Keeper and Deliverer
of the Fair Standing, Street Springer and Flour-
seller, Cryer to the Coroner of the County, Inspec-
tor of Raw Hides and Skins, Ale Taster, Ticket
Deliverer at the Fives' Court, Fishmonger, Mace.
hearer to the Steward of the Manor, Chrk of the
Vestry, Porter to the Grand Jury. Regulator of the
Town Did, Beadle, and Keeper of the Hog Pens.
He further adds, a fashionable assortment of every
thing in the above branches, well worth the atter..
t'on of the public. Country Orders executed with
the greatest puns uality and dispatch.—P'. B. An up.
F renti ce raated. A premium will be expetid.

ERUPTIONS OF lETN.4.

Eruptions of ;Fru& on reined. as enumerated by Faze Hui, to.
(ether with those which have occurred since his tune.

Being ignorant of the date of the first eruition,
he begins-by observing, as Pausanias also has done,
that in the time of the Sicani, who, atter the Abo-
rigines, were masters of all Sicily, the continual and
destrutlive eruptions of the mountain obliged the
inhabitants to retire from the east side of the island,
as most exposed to its malignant effetls, to the west
side. The Situli, or Sicilians, who succeeded in
the domination of the island to the Sicani, have left
no precise dates of eruptions ; but when the Greeks
were masters of the Island. three happened, between
the time of their first arrival. and the sixth year of
the Peloponnesian war that is, between the years
730 and 430, before Christ. Others followed in
402, 152. and 125. This last was so peculiarly
fatal to the city of Catania. that the Roman Senate, in
commiseration of the injuries they had sustained by
it, remitted all tribute due from the inhabitants to the
republic for ten years. This and the two following
were, probably, the eruptions that buried those parts
of old Catania, from which the late Prince of his-
carri drew the antiquities with which his museum is
stored. For the neat recorded by Fazellus happen-
ed in the reign of Caligula. Another in A. D. 254.
Among a variety of others, not specifically dated,
one occurred, in which the lava flowed into the sea,
and filled up the harbour of Catania : an irreparable
injury, as this fine city, though built even on the
water's edge, has no port, or harbour, whatever.
Other eruptions happened in 1169. 1329, and 1444.
From this time, for some years, the mountain ceased
to emit fire or smoke ; insomuch, that the moun-
taineers occasionally explored the crater without in-
convenience. But, as the historian expresses him-
self, " ineonstans hoc malingctudo foul," for a terrible
eruption happened in 1536. In too curiously ex-
ploring the mountain, about this time, a learned
physician of this country lust his life.
This eruption was succeeded by one in 1537.
Since the time of our historian, a most desttuSive
one happened in 1669. This broke out from the
side of the mountain, as most preceding ones had
done, at the distance of fourteen miles from the
summit small crater mountain, now called
Monte Rosso. from its red calcined hue, one mile in
circumference at its base, was formed on this °eta-
sion, out of which flowed a tremendous torrent of
fiery lava, half a mile broad. that overwhelmed a
great part of the city of Catania, and there met
the sea.

There stands in Catania a small old castle, round
which this I.tva chanced to form almost a complete
detour, leaving the castle itself, built of hewn blocks
of former lavas, uninjured. This is the stream
whose hideous deformity at this day, devoid of ve-
getable deposit, still disfiguirs the south and west-
ern border of Catania, and on which a considerable
part of the new and noble city of modern Catania
is ereCted.

Another great streaw of lava issued from the
mountain in I 093, accompanied by an earthquake,
which proved fatal to a great part of Catania, and
some thousands of its inhabitants. Other streams
of lava have burst from the mountain since that pe-
riod, but produaive of less extensive desolation.—
One of very recent date, that skirted the borders of
Bronti, the estate granted by the King of Naples,
with the title, to Lord Nelson, is also visible.

MEETING Or CRF.DITORS AT GUILDHALL.
TO-1110111110M. MU.
Jonathan Mead, Southinmiter, Forew, dealer . . 312
John Ldp., unw or late of London-wall, carpenter . 310
Henry Cowley, Pl)•nouth.iltn:k, Devonshire. inn-
keeper .
Jahn I. ere-, Barbican, eeelmserchant . . . Jll
Jame. Clem Grillimisti •et, Shedwell, maim?? . . 2 II
Joan Stork, Thomas Whitby, tut Mamie* hotterill,
Or..et Di illsl-1, YorlL.hire, inerchales . . 10
John Henry Schneider, Bow-lane, merrhant . • 211
Andrew Thomson and Bartholomew White, Bow lane,
wholeta'e hr.-Oars
John Cumi scram, Emots„ Surrey, .hoplieeper . . 210
Thomas Dandy, late of Bainuridaey-wall, Surrey, slop.
safer .
James Bennet and Samuel Loresey, now or late of 114.. h
Huharia. pawn'irukers .
William James. Real Lion-square, apothecary . . 10
.14...ph Kerns, Ka.iiiiritoke, dealer .
Rirliaol Homer Fuller, Guildfor.l, irimmnsizer . . 13
G orce railthoroe, St. John street, oilman . lt
Wilnaiti Picknuis, Great Newport-street, watch-maker 10

DIVIDENDS.
William D..lton the elder, Fox and Knott-yard, Snow-
d-aler in ha• lO
Thomas Lewis, hodfrd-street, Covent garden, druggist 10

--
CERTIFICATES.
Daniel Kingsbury, of Exeter, fatt.,t
Matthew Doosfo,J, of •t•eet, dealer.
Swouel Lichigtrae, nt Itl‘lllo3ll.4reet, &Act.
To:%er ..nd John Tucker, IA Exeter' merchants.
W.lktm White, 4S.buthantino I.bo.lrlsna.„ br4taly-naerchant.
Fra.lCi4 Da•Kl D. Ia Chaumette, of Larleultall-asreet, thew,
ance•broker.

NAVAL 7
I •
Arrived in the heig
I,?wh, of 40 guns, a
by Captain Hamm
frigate, of about 44
prizes but it blows
name or any part;cu
16 guns, and the Sire
ward; and the Aliad
18 guns, from off Ha
The Sun/hare, of
ordered to Spithead
preparatory to her sai
1
The RcilerapAoft, of
i commanded the squ
~ i render of the ships
? docked, and is flute
1 of the harbour.
Sailed the Affiance
Honduras, for Len
hard, with rain.
Came in the Reeve?,
for Boston; Notad tr
It, sloops of war, from a
Bailed yesterday, a
saes and the jackal! 1
i French coast.
This morning, ar
Dungeness, and sails
P.S. Jost arrived
Ilfiriaer, with several
Frisch coast, and n
rest of the ships as
with lain.
FROM
GIAVRIMPR4 ()Cr 57
Savannah; Neptune, B.
0 *Meg AliglattS, SoUti
I i
11 WIIIIIIII alba Emma, Cot
Sexism, for Entbdeu.
...-.....
DEFENCE
'The attention of
. of the Premier, has 1
• these three months pa
.?: for the purpose of al
told of putting them i
capable of rousting d
i ever he shall attempt
invasion into executti
Various have been
pitd the attention of
Highness the Comm
4 best manner of efr...f
',. it is but doing justice
that %%oat is now to
equal credit to his in
It has been propos
the km grounds ales
aes, by awe of the
1
~
the fresh water frost
~ these sluices by app
,
. , but these schemes, a
. . .
I . ... tacredsble damage tc
, •t$ dated ;it has therefi
; 4 these schemes, sad
gestion of a very abl
tarmastsr-General's
i, much greater securii
P. dual property,
4 re" , smutty beneficia to
: which it will pass.
' 7 The scheme prop
1 .
t . large dimensionsabet
i saver Roches, near
' , beigbts—this canal i
tide, covering a mil
1, odiefehneithts above, i
the
ii,,, passage
I Banked throughout
appt" WU.
depth of went
armed vessels, of a
, brought along it, a
defence if found
,: •. t, shortens the line of i
s emside i redas one o
t-v. works ever execute
Country.
But adds
' I.: that it combines ds
. themas
a c
• t
taotcchawrryaterthde p
dear
partitively small exi
below from the h
..
it
afford
beachnal ti:.l.l;idinYteriomc:
and repaiiing of eO,l
: I trio,
cou arenty very bad.
county Kent,sh.ot
0 1 Yelden Lees on the
:
i
ii
• , is about one huts
the WA, and is n
vel. From Cancel
been projefted to es j
Nicholas Bay. in di,
Tying sea built vesse
I' canals, the whole ilia
have a ready and ea
• Canterbury, Chath:
. - It will also, by ma
staviganoo into an i
! i Sussex, at Roberts),
i and other articles, n
•
to His Majesty's dot
IThames. It will be
bringing about the i
Rye, so long in con
I ; wished for. The of
Lynam of the Rom:
probable the accent:
may sooner or latter
harbour established
This great work l
..,a eontraUors are to fir
• Several hundred w
and several thousas
end such is the imp
lath to this national
v.. most eminent cit
tarry it into czecuti