The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-15 00:00:00

MAY 15.

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str;kiag. The figure stands ,at a table on which the left hand
:rests ; and those who remember Mr. Pitt Will Olive Lreat plea-
sure is loOlsiug at a portrait which convey. leer accurite Gulden
nf his totirode, cswntenance, and manner. 'Some persions have
complained of a feverish appearance in the. (nee but we own
that to as the picture appears to he eiteediagly well-coloured,
and in as instance to
" trerstep the modesty of nature," 1
Vu understand that Ntr.sLawrence tans this a posthumous plc,.
lure, becluse he painted it from the dead body of Mr. Pitt.
fiat surely this dues not make the picture posthumous. A post-
humous poem is a poem published after the poet's death ; and.
she propel mensiog of the words " a posthumous picture,"
seems to he a picture exhibited after the death of she painter.
Accordiag to Air. Law react's vocabulary, every *talent history
may be called si posthumous work, since it is .publkhed oker
the death of the persons who constitute its subject. . _ ~„
'AUTICAL INTELLI(iENCE.- -
Pt.s st o 17TH, MAY 10.—The Citeerly pastille, Which Veit's.
ed Isere esterday, brought dispatches from Admiral Sir U. Cots
ton's tleet off the Tagus, which sbe left all Well, twelve days
since. She brings intelligence of all exploit performed by • the
boats of the Nymph frigate, and Blossom sloop of war, filar me,
which from each of those ships. manned and armeds 'proceeded.
up the Tagus, about three weeks since, under stover of the night.;
in order to attack a large Portuguese brig; insiinititig 20 guns,
manned with a French crew, Whit% lay mewred abase Belem
Castle, and immediately off the city of Littans. the boats got-
very near her. before they were diseaverfr...d, when a tremendous
ifire was ripened upon them from the shir:;, and-from several them-'
• sand troops a hick Bard the shore. Vaptain Shipley, the C001";4,
snaader of the Nymph, headed thelxpedition, amlgot ant along-
tiide the enemy, and was the first:vim attempted to board, which,
he had nearly erected, when he was nnfurtunately shot by Is
musket-ball. and intmediattAy fell oierboard, and was seen nee.
snare This
_calamitous eircumstatice so damped the spirits of
the boat's crews, and fitsd.ing themselves opposed by such an im-
nesse force, the euterprize *as forthwith abandoned, and the
I,aats retuoned dar' n thesbarbour with the loss, of their brave'
Commander., sciunatt killed, and a midshipnian and ;three'
seamen wawo-ted. Captain Shipley is represented a mostbrave
and gallass' 011Secr, about 26 sears of age-
OUTII!, MAY 11.—An Officer arrived this morning in a
1'34 .et from Sicily, six days from Gibraltar. Ile says, the
).''reach and Spanish fleet, ittriuding the Rochefort squadron,
leas certainly relieved Corfu ; and, on its return, Lord Collings
wond's squadron was just in time to perceive it go into Toulon.
There is reason to think, that one of our friptos is taken by the
french and Spanish tieet, as a frigate was sent out from Malta
to araltar, to five notice of the French squadrons being in the
Mediterranean, nail having joined the Spanish squadron, has
rot since been heard of. This Officer has been but a month
from Sicily, and the packet he came in has been attacked three
times ay privateers, on her passage 160111 e. The Rochefort *qua-
slron, it appears, meant to have landed their troops in Sicily,
but did not, front an idea that our reinforcements had arrived;
but this nut being the case, the French have lost the opportu-
nity. At Gibraltar, it is said, that Bonaparte has sworn to
take that fortress, and his people have been at Algesira' to re-
connoitre it. He will tied it, however, a tough job, for the
improvements are beyond all conception.

BOXING.

On Tuesday the match between Gully and Grerson, Horton
nod ('rib, and Dutch Maui and Cropley, took place in Sir J.
:,eahriglit'i Pork, near 3larket-street, Dens, after it had been
prevented at three other places. It w I'S nearly three o'clock,
u hen a ring etas formed, by permission, in Sir John's Park—
and the first ex hinition took place between c ih and Dorton,
timidst a tremendine4 fall of rain. A ring was next formed for
e;ollrY and Grt•gson. They set to tzt half past three o'clock,
wilt) th..ir seconds, Joe Ward and Gibbons for Gdley, and Lee
nod lticlonin fur Gregson. nettinr five to four on Gully.
The rounds continued in favour of Gully till the 17th, when
tiregson lust his temper, and run in upon his adversary, who
hept hitting and getting away from him in a manner whirl, ex%
cited astonishment. lie turned his hack to his man twice in the
x.ound, and made towards the ropes; but Gully changed his
trout, fioLed him, and kept him from falling until he hail ruf-
f/ailed him into an apparently senseless state, and then drupped
him quietly betiVeell his arms.
1-leveu utter ruuuds weiv fought, and Gregsoa was constantly