The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-11 00:00:00

FROM LIA)YD'S LIST.

FALMOUTH, FEB. B.—No arrivals or millings. The outward.
bound vessels remain as before.

PLYmotrett, F. 8--No arrivals or sailing'. Remain the
outward bound as before.

PORTSMOUTII. Fsa. 9.—No arrivals or tailings. The out-
ward-bound remain as by last letter.

DEAL, Pen. 9.—Clinle down from the River and remain, with
the outward bound as before, the Lavinia, 3lorvisne, for Faro ;
Bee, Wilbert, for Constantinople; Neptune, Welder, for New
Orleans ; Sir Joseph Banks, Blake, for Jamaica ; Dart, Douglas,
for Sierra Leone; and Mary, M4Clure, for Jamaica.
IVEY slotrett, Fun. 9.—Off the part, the Voyager, Richardson,
from the Cain el Good Hops.
Oasvwstnri PTA. 9.—Arrived the Kingston, Leckie. from
Demerara ; aniflonry wellealey, —t from the Sputh Seas.—
Sailed the St. Marrs, Burton, for Jamaica ; Symmetry, Davison,
for Demerara ; sad Britannia, Rubic, for Lisbon.
STANGATE CREEK, Fes. 9--Arrived the Sultan, Yeoman,
from Smyrna ; Simpson, —, from Odessa ; and Ariadne, Pitt,
from Ithaca.

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Frs. 6.—The Benjamin, Fromm, for this port, sailed
from Trinity need three weeks before the George, arrived here
from Newfoundland, and is not arrived.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. B.—Arrived the Mexican, Christopherson,
from Havannah ; Alfred, Gordon, from Charleston ; and Dickens,
Proctor, from Bilboa.
PARIS, FEll. 4.—The Sidonle, of Marseilles, Ameline, from
Senegal to Havre, has been sunk in port.
Fen. 7.—The Alphorso, Le Roy, from Havre to Guadeloupe,
was totally wrecked on that island—crew saved.
A letter from Trieste, of the 221 ult., mentions the arrival of a
Captain, who had been informed at Corsola, that a Netherland ves-
sel, which had sailed from Trieste, was last on the island of Cases,
and only three of the crew saved. It was supposed at Trieste that
the vessel lost was the 31ercurius, Folketa, which sailed from thence
on the 4th ult. for Antwerp, no other vessel under that flag having
left there, and she might have been as far as the island of Cana the
following day.
AIALAGA, JAW. 21.—A heavy gale commenced the 16th inst. at
night, and continued till the 18th ; most of the ships in port have
suffered a great deal of damage. Twelve Spanish ships were driven
on shore here and on the 'oast, but not one }:nglish or American—
and a number of lives lost. The Minerva, Guerrero, bound to
Havanna, is very much damm,ed. The Frances Ernest, Fildcvt,
From Altea to Malaga and Liverpool, lost their masts, bowsprit,
kr. The Sara Morrett, Freeman, from B.,ston and Gibraltar, is
damage.
NORFdOLIC, VIRGINIA, JAN. 6.—The Orion, Smith, from
Cape Haytien for Wilmington, was wrecked on Mayaguana Reef,
Bth
_lll t--crew, cargo, and materials saved.
natal' AX, JAN. 2.—The schooner Brothers was totally lost 26th
ult. near La Havre—only the Muter Raved.
VESSELS sroxesr WlTR.—Cretan (whaler), from England,
14th November, by the John, Mercer, arrived at the Ca of Good
Hope ; Antelope, from Liverpool to Buenos Ayrea, 7th October,
by the James Sibbald, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope; Dwarf,
of Hull, from Newcastle to New York, 26th ult. lat. 44.36. long.
25. 28. by the Cecilia, Hepburn, arrived in the Clyde.

Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's, at Bourdeaux,
dated Feb. 2. :—" Referring to our letter of the 13th ult. relative
to the captures of French vessels, by Spanish privateers, during the
late war, we have further to communicate that a Committee has
been appointed in Paris. by his Excellency the Minister of Marine,
in execution of the Ordinaacesof the 25th ult., charged with the
liquidation of the losses sustained by the French merchants, in coo.
sequence of such captures. The following is a list of the Corn.
mittee appointed, viz :—M. Le Chavalier Jaune, Jurien, Benin
de Vaux. and Comte de Touman Taboureau, Fumeron d' Ar.
duel, 31aillard de Vacant* Abrial de Rozeene." Signed.....Cunev
and Wilson, Agents at Lloyd's.
The Chartem---..--,Aeor St. Petaaburgh to Leith, was as
Hammo Sound, Coast of Norway, ou the 18th ult.
The Wolverton. Short, front Liverpool to Valparaiso, was
spoken with on the Ist ult. in lat. 3. S. lon. 27. W. ; and the
Cretan (whaler), from London, 14th Nor. by the John, Mercer,
which arrived at the Cape on the 18th Nov.
The Albina, from', Havre to Pernambuco has been
captured by Brazilian privateer.
The Juttroy Anns, San- from Riga for Antwerp, has foundered
at ses--ercw arrived at Flekkefiord.

r rosy', INFANTICIDE.—A young woman named
Al.rt, living an tenant at the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lanes
was. on Friday last, vinited by her sister. EbAbeth Alert, whe had
come out of the country. The two sistersalept in one bed, and two
other maid-servants in another, which was in the same room Eli •
zabeth Alert became very on Saturday, end on Sunday evening
she returned into the country, having previously confessed to Mrs.
Kingsford, the landlady, that she had miscarried. On Monday
morning the chambermaid. on making the bed in which the stranger
had saept, felt something hard, and, on ripping open the ticking,
discovered a 1011-grewn female child, much discoloured, end bearing
evident marks of ealernal violence.

FATAL. ACCIDiNT.—SIInday morning, between four and
five o'clock, the house of Mr. Abraham. a respectable chandler
end oilman, No. 26, Iloundsdltch, was entered by three men,!
through an alley at the rear of the house, who proceeded to the
third floor, where the servant girl slept, and rapping at her door
they peremptorily desired her to open it, and to remain quiet, or
they would blow out her brains. The unfortunate girl just awoke
from het sleep, and under the impression of such threats, ran to
the window and lifted it, when, melancholy to relate, she precipi-
tated herself, into the street, by which fall her brains were literally
dashed out. The watchmen in the front of the street kept throw-
ing missiles at the windows to alarm Me. Abraham, and the noise
in the street, it is thought, intimidated the burglars, and they com-
menced a quick retreat down stairs ; on their descent, a young
man about seventeen years of age, the shopman of Mr. Abraham,
ilit.charged a pistol at them, the ball of which paved through
the hat of one of the burglars, knocked it oft; and it was left be-
hind