The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-10 00:00:00

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.

Last Monday awning Mr. Junes lugs, of Stewart's
rents, \VIM-street, Ligroin's Inn-fields, after breakfasting
with his Tandy, was proceeding down stairs, when he was
audit, my seized with a dizziness in his bead, mud would
have Niro had hr not grasped the stair.ease railing. His
daughter hearing a noire on the stairs, came owl, and found
the old gentleman iu the situation above described; she
asked hint what it was ailed him? but his speech had failed
—he diupped down—aisil in less than one Pinnate was a
corpse ! A Coroner's Inquest wu held on the burly, and
the Jury returned a verdict of—" Died by the visilalioa of
God."
• =. ".
A splendid hammercloth is preparing as • pre-
sent from Colonel ROBARTS to Lord CRA NBORN
on his marriage. It is composed of Cape Nene
skills of the most beautiful description, furnished
by Mr. POLAND, furrier, of the Strind, with golden
clays, and the family altos at the cud., of the most
exquisite workmanship.
it may toot be wholly devoid of interest to those
Ladies and Gentlemen who adopt the prevailing
&Akin of Curling the Hair, to Worm them, that, in order
to prevent the dryness lent harshness whirl, but Irons give
to the Lair, ATKINSON'S CURLING FUJI I) is the Duly
article for that specific purpose, which has been patrunirid by
She Nobi.ity, and also generally adopted by the meet fashion-
able Hair I) . By applying it to She hair lifter
it makes it soft •nd glossy as the finest si,k, sod keeps the
Curl firm in the rxercita of dancing or walking, or in damp
weather. It also possesses the most surprising properties fur
regenerating the growth of the lisle, and for itreventing it
(slime off or changing colour. It is sold by most Perfumers,
Hair Dressers, and Nledicine Venders; but as there are an.
memos Counterfeits, the following sticisatere tool address is
on the label of the genuine: a James Atkinson, 44, Gerrard.
Street, London."

HAZARD and Co. respectfully inform the
Public, that, by n new arr.ingemetit, on VA LEN -
TIN L'S DAY (A, XI WrfiACllliay) the Purchaser of a *Mile
Ticket can only use eighteen shilliugs, ■ Sixteenth twu
shilling*, other Shares its p►oportion, and yet have a
Chance fur all the Capital Prins that may be draws,
on that day; and the Public sill please to recollici, that
Three Prizes of 2,0601 Commis Milli liken be drawn. If the
Tickets and Shares arc returned wt the above /MA II 1(114, it
Mali be me or Wore 23d of February —The Wheel is rich,
and contains, besides other Prizes ii. Commis mid Money,
Six of 41,0007.—Ticktis and Slatirs are Selling by
HAZAR D and Co. at their Old and Fm innate Offices, Royal
EsehatigoCiate; 46, Corisliill atbd 324, l)xfurd•streel ; '
by their Agents in the Cotinir), wh,. sold, ill the last
Contract„ Na. 1.481, a Prize of 10,0:114, and in learnt
Lotteries Four Prises of 30,00 Vi. ■nd Sere. Prizes of
20,01101.

On the return of his MAJESTY to Carlton-
I'dlure on Wednemloy night, as serious occident oe-
culled as the covalcode woo down Long-
sere. Owing to the slippery slate of the prireineot,
the hor►e of one of the lifegisinthtsirsi f I, 111111 the
rider woo thrown to the ground. Some of his coinp.i.
mous, in their rapid career, tisiorindobly rode or. r
Liar. The wheel of a cormige olpo 'mooed over his
brea►t. It is •upet litmus to odd that was bili-
ously hurt.

Olt Friday lust a fine boy, just three years
whilst playing near some madding' iu the. mut,.
litwrilood of Cheltenham, WI upon a map of quick
bier, %Omit lay Ilk- snuw upon the ;pound; :nul
hyluie the accident win ihittovereil, the poor Infant
ars literally burnt to death. The wart( lied and
uneorociuus father was she first to remove m he Lolly,
and tm clearing the feistuies arum the lime, dis-
covered to his astooishaueut and dismay that it was
his cowl, child, and sunk Unsuitable to the grouods

14W lIVTELLIGENCIL
COURT OP KING'S BENCH, Wzirmiturtmt,
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9.
Till ICING U, 010101 VIRAGO.
Mr. Cunt moved for the judgment of the Court on the
Defendant, who was convicted at the last Assizes for War-
wick. before the Lord Chief Baron, for publishing, in Oelo.
her 1619, at Birmingham, where he carried on the trade of
a bookseller and newsman, a seditious and blasphemous
libel, in a paper called Tee ficpubliette No. 9.
The Defendant put in his own affidavit, staling that be
had discontinued selling the works of Carlile; that he had
already suffered a lung impeisonment for selling No. It of
The Republiehm, and was totally reined in his lousiness, and
had • wife and four children to maintain by his own per-
foetal exertions.
Mr. DU NA* addressed the Court for she Defendant, in
mitigation of punishment.
Mr. CLARK and Mr. RrADER spoke in aggravation.
Mr.Jumice BATLEY, after ohterving on the pernicious
nature and tendency tor the work which the Defendant had
published, sentenced him to twelve months imprisonment in
the House of Correction, Coldballs-fields.
THB RING V. EDMONDS.
The Defendant in this ease, being also Defendant in the
ease of the King against Cartwright and wheel, had obtained
the permission of the Court that he should not be calls(' up
for judgment in the present case until the Court had heard
the argument for • new trial in the other case.
Mr. CLARK now stated his iodination of asking fur joadg-
meut lo.worterow.
WEST MIDDLESEX WATER COMPANY.
Mr. SCARLETT sheared cause against the rule for a wan.
daunt, obtained by Mr. Brougham a short time ago. He
said, if the terms of tbe rule were looked at, it would he found
to be the most universal asandasaus which the Court bad
ever granted. It was to call upon the West Middlesex
Water Company to rejoin the service pipes (which had been
d from the main pipe.) belonging to the house. of the
ialsabitsnts °film parish of Mary-le.bune, and supply them
with water at the males heretofore charged, and this was at
the iastance of two individuals, without skewing that ell
the inhabitants required it. It was quite manifest that the
Court would not grant the intandanatis in those terms. The
question broadly stilted was, whether the Water Company
could be compelled to supply any individual with water, no
contract being entered into fur that purpose. It was quite
clear to him they could not, hooking at the Acts of Parlia-
ment by whirls the West Middlesex Water Company was
established. The first Act, that of 46 Geo 111. cap. 11, pro.
vided that such of the inhabitants of Hammersmith, Ken.
Mutton, Putney, and other places, as were desirous of hen%
supplied wills water by the Comp toy, might lay on • service.
pipe al their owls expense to the main pipe, having first ob-
tained thesconsesat of the Company for opening the ground,
and paying for the mime such suns as might be mutually
agreed upon between them.
The Loot, CHIPS J !mica-4' Does the Act authorise you
to lake away the supply after the pipes have been once put
down ?"
Mr. SCARLET" submitted, that the whole was left by the
Act as matter of contract. If the Act of Parliament had
made it imperative on individuals to lake water from the
Company, then norlioultteilly there must exist a power, either
in that Court or elsewhere. of enforcing the supply. By the
second Act of 50 George 111. cap. 132, all the parsers, &e.
of the former Art were continued, au far as they were not
expressly 'hereof. His Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham)
must go the length of caontesulii ~ that a clause in the last
Act, which priih,bited the Company from selling any of the
privileges by Moot Act secured to them, and authorising
them tp take and demand moth sums as were reasonable,
was an express repeal of the 57th section of the Act of
44 George 111.
The COURT inquired of Mr. Brooches', if his affidavits
slated that the iutlividu•la applying bad authority from
the majority of She inhabitants!
Mr. BROUGHAM said, the oppllestion was made with the
concurrence of a great proportion of the Inhabitants.
Mr. Justice BATLEY thought it would he proper for Mr.
Brougham to have his affidavits amended, so as to skew
that he had not only the concurrence but the authority of
the majority of the inhabitants of the parish.
Mr. Semiscarr—" Should the Court listen to this appli-
cation, it will be a question whether the Company should
carry on their works at all."
The LORD CRISS Justice said, it appeared to him that
the Legislature was the proper place to settle all the matters
he deference; though undoubtedly the Court would uut iu
any ease fix • rale.
Mr. DERMAN-44 The Act of Parliament has already fixed
the asaximunt of the Company's profits at ten per cent."
The COURT—" The rule mum he enlarged till next Term."
Mr. BROUGHAM suggested that so long • delay would
prevent the parties reaping that advantage which they anti-
cipated from the opinion of the Court.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICV-44 if the opinion of the Court,
that the Legislature is the proper place for a remedy, is
what you want, 1 think you have It already, Mr. Brougham."
Rule enlarged.

COD-FlSli.

Great quantities of herrings are still brought, at intervals,
to the commodious fish market in Boston, which hint lately
been supplied with the more delicious eoi•fish in great
abursdsure.
Ctsiblish, as well as herrings, are dingly prolific. Of
the former it is a ted that " • single Ash will produce at
• birth, if they escape depredstiou, • number equal to that
of the inhabitauls of England:" of the latter, that " if
guff red to multiply unmolested, and its offspring to remain
undiminished fur the space of twenty years, it would show
• promo), many times greater in bulk than the whole earth."
lake herrings, cod-fish also derive importune from their
constituting one of those articles of committee which most
essentially contribute to the comfort of man. In the year
iBOB, 577 ►hips, carrying •bout 64,1167 tuns, and navigated
by 4,336 seamen, were employed by the British Goes rument
to export the produce f the banks of Newfoundland, the
seat sif the principal end fisheries. The vessels used lii this
fishery are loon u•se hundred to nee hundred ■rid fifty
lima burden, and cat tbfrosts thirty to An ty thousand fish emelt.
Besides the i••riuers, ishout 10,000 persons are employed its
ea/clime, salting, mid dr)ing the fish, which ate sent Guru
thence to the West Indira, anti to Europe, where the greatest
part are dtipu+ed of in Catholic countries during the seism,
of Legit. Fano these fialiertim the proprietors are said to
reap • hit so abuisilaill,'iss to et pay their trouble by a
revenue of seer rat millions a year; and it is probable, that,
when some of the valuable mild miner are wrought out,
they well still remain au inexhausted and inexhaustible
sunset. of treasure.
Newfoundland, in the infinity of disco►ery, was an appel-
Intiou common to all Nueth America. Toe famous b►brag
banks ou the basid of that name, whirl, the general rem.
d. atone of the cud, appear to be the tops of vast chains of
submartue mountains, extending above 500 emirs in length,
mid surrounded with sleep seas: they are rendered, by the
resort uf this fish, almost as valuable to great Britain as the
mines of Potosi are to Spain.
Cud•hsh are never seen sculls of Gib altar, and few are
taken north of /Mind; they air again tumid to SWAMI tin
the courts uf Norway, iu the Baltic, off the Hebrides, Ork-
ney, mid Western Isles; bust we understand that those which
are at this matins brought.iii cobbles to Boston, are must of
them caught sat the Dogger Batik
Whilst herrings ale styled anchovies of the Norllt—hurl at
the pkeusatil tf the waters—and soil-Gab a luxury fit for
latitga—porpoises, which in' warmer •onus me frequently
at en dispoi nog to our river, even as high as Skirbeck Church,
are now held in not I contempt, and deservedly riject-
esl as an article of food. Yet the porpoise too has had its day.
It was once es highly esteemed as the shark is now by the
micron. of Africa, and the whale by the inhabitants of
Gieeulaud. It has been known to bold • conspicuous place
in the bill of fare fur entertainments given in the hall of a
palace. Indeed we lean• front good authority, that a porpoise
was considered • delicious luxury, ■nd even accounted s
'or,: dish, so late as the re►gn of Henry V111.—(00clon
Gentle)

COAL MARKET, FIIOUVAILV 9.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
5U Newcastle
5 Soliderland .... It .. 335. Ad. to ♦l.. OJ.
5 Stoue Coal .... 1

[Freon lila " Leaden New Pelee Carrent."J

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9.
COTTON.—The holders of East India Cotton are more
firm, and no pareels are offering eat SU low rates as for some
weak' preceding ; all tither descriptions of Cotton an
and may be quoted a shade lower. 1 he sales liner
one last consist sf 100 Pernams, 121. a 120. in bond ; 1110
Bowed., 9d • 91d.; 100 Surma, 6,e41.; 250 Bengali, sd. •
51d.; 100 Deco-oars% 10d. a lop. duty paid; 50 Carrie-
COU and Grenada, 9d. a 1181. The accounts from Liverpool
this morning state that market heavy.
SUGAR —The demand for Miisrovaden this week his
been vary !Moiled; there is nut the slightest variation in the
prices. Good cud flue Sugars continue comparatively scarce,
and rate high.
Tb• Refined market has beers heavy, and rather lower,
owing to the extrusive parcels formerly bought by 'lrmo-
Wiwi being throws upon the marker, mad as they no longer
appear sanguine at to the alteration in the Remiss Tariff,

tke redisetioa I. the prieea daritic the meek may be slated
at Is. a ts. Molasses are steady.
Exported last week:— Single Doable
1 To Homburgli
East mod West ladies 2,748 f 627
Ireland 2OO

113,480

1 et 7

By public sale, 3,300 hags Bourbon Sugar sold f•11y ts.
lower than the last Enid India gals, chirlly good brown sod
low yellow hegira : 285 chests H h sold. the white at
high rates, the yellow avid brown at a small reduction ;
White, middling 545. a 565. ordinary ; Yellow 31s. 61.
• 326 • Brown 281. a 28A.

Co►wsr.—The public asks of Colfre broueld forward ibis
week have hems considerahle ; the priers g Ily must Ise
quoted 2s. • 3.. per cwt. lower. Several 'weds of Kiegod
(hoary pale Si. Domingo, 1 Um 6.1. awl 1 Ills.; good ordiaar•
Jamaica, hat rank, 115 s. • hue ordsuary, 118 s. •
Mts. Demerara and perinee Crate at • similar r. due.
Linn ; midrib's., 1255. a 146 • good middlorg, I2W, rauvt
130 s. Three were Ito public sales this twenoon, stud ce►y
little business doing by private cootract.
RUM, BRauDY, and liottAttos.—The Government con-
tract fur 101,000 gallons of Rom has no effect on the market
prices : Leeward, and low Jamaica. may be onrchased at II
Nether reduct,on of 1.1. per gallon. Brandy may he bought
on lower tellltr, hut as there have been no Wee we cerium
slier the quutatious. Geneva is still without inquiry.
Tat.t.ow —The dentin(' Cur Foreign Tallow coutio•ra
very limned; the prices are without variation. The Town
t•atker is today quoted at 58s. 6d., which is the same as
last week.

A 4V-it lIVI'ELLIGENCR.

rowniummt, vssituaair O.
Sailed the Cameleon on a rrui.e; Caroline, Soopet, rre
Havre; (),, V%. for Honduras; Kinpion, P.lllllll, fire Ja
malts ; and Jubilrr, Falrbo►u, to the IlVe,twant.

PLYMOUTH. IFERIIARY 7.
Arrived the Harriet, Coming, from Si. Mit hall's
FALMOUTH, IKBRVAIIT 0.
Arrived the Conklin, %lave. from London for Balsoria;
Amps u, HOider; Mud Lady Popham, Jenkins, from Lon-
don for Jamaica; Lang, Clark, from London for Si. ♦in-
cent's; Mary, Cleland, Gomel London for St. Luria; Mar-
garet, Simp-,..., Rom bunion for Teneriffe; and Mellona,
Laing, from Newt-smile for Rio Janeiro

D RAI" F tan VARY 8.
Came down from the Myer the Itariou, Denning, for Ja-
maica; and Westmorehturt, Robinson, fur the Writ !itties.
The ontward.hound remain, but will get away as animas the
ebb tide makes.
SCILLY, PIMA Wilt 11.
Several casks of butter and some Alberts have beets picked,
up on the shine of several of the adjacent islands.
The Ann and William, Best, from Plymouth fur Te►ceira,
foundered at sea on she 6th ultimo.