The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-11-18 00:00:00

SHELTON ANDJUSH. HUDSON.

le consequence of letters and other information received
by Mr..l4lkaoti on Saturday, from authority nut to be
doubted, that " towsollling wrong" would take place to-mor.
vow in the battle between Shelton and Josh. Hodson ; or, in
phis terms, that it had been made certain (by a dormer
of Mt) as to the come! The members of the P.C., in
order to check if nut, finally pat a stop to such divhonourav
bit practices, so iiiamorically opposite to the principles on
which th►t institution is founded, immediately acid orders
to Gibbous tint to let the sops and stakes Co oat of his
pussemion. Mr. Jarksou also publicly staled he would not
be present at any such attempts to deceive the patrons of
pugilism; a■d Belcher and Crash, who were to hive offi-
ciated as seconds for Shelton, have likewise declared off
their previous migagemest, and •ill sot show in the ring.

•MOCKING MURDER.

A dreadful mime has ',tread consternation is St. Gamier,
dep.'s...cot of Loire. In the nicht of the 20th of October,
some assaisias catered the bumble sod retired dwelling of
• poor widow, and murdered her and her two children, one
of whom was aged fourteen years and the other twelve; they
car►ied o 8 the little property the poor woman possessed, and
with a view to westing deiectios, they sot ire to the stable.
The Names alarmed the neighbours, who hastened to the
spot; fortunately the stable *lame was destroyed, and the
authorities had time to discover the horrible assassination.
They foetid the younee► child dead ; the elde► was breathing,
but eap•rrd almost immediately; the mother survived about
twelve hours, but she was so faint as to be inesp,ble of
giving asy informatiou. It appears that all these unfortu-
mate persons ►ad their skulls brokers. The =ell mitilaut
watch is Wog mule for the risterderers.—(FsciteA Paper )

The Corporation of Berwick has unanimowly re-
solved to reque-t their Representatives an Podia-
meat to oppose the proposed alteration of the line
of rood between Morpeth nod Eitilibritgh. A saint-
lar resolve, by the Magistrates of Northumberland,
was come to at a late meeting held au the Town
1141. at Alisoick.

We understand that ■ Requisition to the Mayor
is row in the course of signature, requesting him to
call a Public Meeting, to take into cui.sideration
the subject of the daring piracies which have been
committed on the property of his Mon:awes sob-
jrcio, and to procure protection front the lurther
depredations of the pirutes.—( Liverpool Paper./
A requisition bar heen signed by the Yeomanry
of Hampshire. for the High Sheriff to call a couuty
meeting, to petilion both Houses of Parliament to
take Iwo cuisatalt ration she present alarming slate of
their property. Although the number of signatures
is already large and respectable, the deputation
charged with it have notified that, seeorg that the
owners and uccupier4 of land in the county of York
are coming forward in the same cause as them-
selves, arid that they do not intend carrying their
requisition to their Sheriff until the month of Ja-
mmu), ; and it having been suggested by many of
the ponies who have signed the Hunts requisitiois,
that it will be expedient to adopt the same course,
as it will give inure trine for obtaining the signa-
tures of those who are friendly to the measure—they
thiark it right to apprise the owners and occupiers
of land in the county, that the copies of the requi-
sition will be retained for signature in the several
market town., until the end ul December next.

The Casette of Saturday contains • itottfication
from the Admiralty Board, dated the 15th lint.
that their Lordships anthorise all his MAJESTY'S
subjects to hoist and use, for signals only, pendants
and the Union jack, until the let of January, 1824,
end sio longer; upon and after which day no pen-
dant is, under any pretence whatsoever, to be hoist-
ed in the ships or vessels of any of his M•Jxsrx's
subjects, nor the Union jack, except as the signal
fur a pilot. But any other colours may be used fur
signals only, provided they are not hoisted in the
place where similar colours are savorily woru its his
AIAJRSTY'S ships and vessels.
It has become • practice for the navigating men
on the Thames to alight 'tom their vessels and tres-
pass on the Cliefdeis estate, the property of Lord
Viscount KIRKWALL; and. on Monday lass, a maw
of the name of John Hatch, was convicted in the
penalty of 51. for poaching there. It is hoped that
this will operate as a warning to others, who prac-
tise such illegal habits, as they will roost probably
be detected by the vigihsuce of the keepers,