The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-09-19 00:00:00

A ROBBER •HOT.

On Thursday night, lifter the family of a gentleman who
lives in the mamma perspire' by the late 1)r. Holt, in East-
lane, Walworth, had r, sired to rest, a gang of thieves emirs.
watered to break into the back part of the bowie aud rob the
premises. They effected an entrain,. into the gardens sad
grotto& by getting sower a 1110 war, and WOlll4l, MI doubt,
41:1VP succeeded in their object, had nut owe of the ring bud
epos the wire of a spring•glin which was set I. the grounds,
the controls of which lodged in smite part of his body. The
family was alarmed by the report of the gun, and got up
immediately soil found a quantity of blood lyiug owe the
ground wear the wire, and traria a 'om. of it to the wall,
over which it is supposed his consprolions helped the
wounded man, and carried him off. Then is 100 doubt but
the thief was daiverreotesly wounded; hit met with that ma.
weary puuishment he merited.

lIKTR.4ORDINARY SMEEP-STRA LING.

A dock of 101 sheep, marked T. M. which were Mateo
on Monday last, the property of T. Miller, Keg. of ratites,
Keel, have been traced to Sisiithall-wiarket, widths a kw
miles of Uxbridge. The bailiff of Mr. Willow, of the Bull
and Meath ISIS, Bull and Mouth-street, purehawil She duck
(dr his master, of two melt, mid paid them for them. In
etinseimenee of biourbitis baring heel' sent 111)W11 to Ux-
bridge, the bailiff discovered that he had been petrelmaiog
stoke property—he immediately pursued the thieves sad
ignored them, with the whole of the money he paid them,
earwig • few shinitiv. The Prisoners were conveyed to
Berclesfietd pol.

A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.

As Mr. Charles Lamb, alt.ipmais to a pawnbroker in Rol.
born, was coining out of the Old bailey Stusions-huuse on
Thowsioy afte►noon, where he was atteudiug to give evidence
on •.trial, in passing through the mood he was robbed of
Isis watch. Ali two hours after his retorts house, and whilst
deploring his loss to his fellow showman, a man came into one
of the private buses, and offered him a watch to pledge, de.
mending 3t on it. On Mr. Lamb's looking at the watch, he
immediately mcegnised it to be throne tic was rubbed of, and
turned romid to his companions to tell them of his good fur.
tune; of which the fellow took advautage, and whether frum
knowing Mr. Lamb to be the person be robbed of it or not,
he honed out at the private dour and ran away. A pursuit
immediately took plane, but, from the number of permits
passing, and it being darki he enacted big escape.

LORD B YRON.

COINCIDENCE BETWEEN TEE RIGHT Ron. LORD

MYRON AND OTHER AUTHORS.
4.01.11.0
[From all American Paper.)
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1—" The oak leviathan., whose ribs," &c
Child* llarad, Cast* IT. STROM.
1—.1" Like leviathans afloat,
Lay their bulwarks on she twine."
Bottle of tka Rollie. Crinentru..
2—" The mind the music breathing from the face."
Smog.
In a note to ChM& nevoid, Canto IV. the Noble Bard, for
the sake, must probably, of exalting his Biswell Hub-
Miner's remarks, mentions President Uupaty with a vinegar-
dipt pen, and rather likewise u currents calotoo." It is
dangerous for writers of any description making known
every author he consults. After borrowing the idea in the
line quoted of Dirpaty's identical Italian Loden, ►e (the
Right lion. Lord) might have spoken with a little nsore
respect of the aged President:—" Quelle harmunie dans eta
fin Ines! quelle nseloslie! Oui, elks eomposeet sons Pail
(qui on me passe mite expression) an air dormant. 11 y a
sue nonsique ale la muskier et ile k forme, comae it y t one
mitrique du sins." Letters nor L'ltslie, ea 1795. Par
Depaty, President a Market au Parlenteut de Buttrtleasx,
A Parir. 19911,--p 119.

" I lure out man the klith blot nature owe."
Childe Harold, Crude ir.

The almost adage of "Avant. Plato, reran: sod maids
aintra." I have mil the line before me, if misquoted;
purfa—it is familiar. Notwitrbstandiag these coincidences,
to winch every writer is mower less liable, I cannot hat al-
low Child. Harold, Cantu IV. to be.the best poem predated
saner the days of Pope, as breathing more of the soul of
puctry„ though it will, no doubt, be butchered in a good
oral demoonsirmedon style by some of (hose snockbird en.
tie. that coutioually decry the productions of every author,
yet cannot be said to bay. a note of their ow.. The beauti-
ful description of the torrent at Tend (viltiels may be le.
prated with rapture at the Falls of Niagara)—the sublime,
to admirably exemplified in die lines, in which mention is
nook of the dounfal of the Roman eutpiie—the exquisite,
and, I believe, oriental, simile—" parting day dies like the
dolphin,"itse.-1 be touching lines upon the Princess Charlotte
—but it is needless to particularise either the beauties or the
faults of the poem. The poem will speak fur itself, and
speak well. Nom tali loops. rod (fusible," as I may bring
thus auonyinolisly Coineideisee, like these, if even more
siumetirsis, are so,.lficiently excused io the' words of Dry-
den : _ _ _

Show, may he found that sever yet were tees ;
'Ti. hard to find such wit as Sc", has bees.

Lord Boron's great merit is, I Milk, his originality.
" Dryden," says Dr. Juhusww, " often allaised • proliadaly
which I'upe could taever nisch." The popular ports of the
prwswig slay, Suethey.Caraphell, Moore, Rogers; sad Walter
lietiNr rrabbe included, were vastly below Lord Byron,
wham this depth of thought (sip remarkable in his Lordship's
pg•inetinaw) is considered. Lewd Byron sloes not halt to flu
the last finish, or bestow the AnAl polish or his perfurmauces.
dslatuly routine of Pope slushiest hins to condense bus
iswiluscuts, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all
that stsuly might produce tre rhanee supply." This IS the
twaniscr in which all these last-mentioned versifiers compose,
.eweem %slimy mud Scott. " Dryden's perfurnsances were
always hasty—lse composes' without consideration, mud pub-
lished without correction. What his mina C 411141911 pply at call,
or gash. r in one excursion, was all that hr soughs, stud all that
Ise gave." This is highly applicable tu his Latilship's poetry.
Messrs. Campbell soul Rogers (and others if you will) are poets,
iSesimist he sknitd ; their versifitatiow the most polished ; but
elm resits, the lightning-bursts of thought from heaven,
that touch, that Midas clasp shot tarns to ore all it ell-
illfscrot, wherr, •nsl in 11w laboured, sastud-wrought rhymes,
.44 slant rersilis r of this age rill. slit be be found to emit as
in Me self taught porfro, the genuine worn of Byron' The
g. sous it Monthey, alone, apprises, sof all these writers, in
soy sternly comparable with thit apt tsar (bible Harold.—
I A.r.l Ilsruo and thin Indio).- must hr plated us the very
soustnit of our nosh oil I'arsarrws. If Ibis be owl the case
yet, when this generation shall have missed away
sisal soothd r • *--.l.—whete opera, " wow is-
-- of carsdsd "

aldsor." %ball be the severe 1.4 ._ 4etllietAss. theta (this
M us false isophery) this situation PhoU be thew sward.

TWO 'WOW Old woolen. one loomed ELIZADEVII
(.1.411KE, the other MARV GaIFMITHS. the loniser
103 yrar% old. um! the hatter 104, applied oil So.
Nulty 140. at the Toon-Itail of Liverpool. for
rt (ILI. Both watt metivcs of that too tt.

• •
NORTHERN EXPEDITION.
The fialowing is • letter, front 1111 o(6oer em-
ployed on the Nortlt.west Eepttlitiou, to • Mend
in town :•-o
• His Majesty's ship Alloamoder,•Joire 17.
fifW Dean thrt—l am now wellies in the tent open
the worth end of flare or Warms Island, with the peisdalsin
clock within one Tani of me' and the observatory sad all
the instruments within half arluitew. IY. were ariested is
one peugrese yesterday lot the lee, which forms a complete
bar about three miles to the northward of 114 s island, tom-
menciag on the Greenland aide, from what is ealed Four
Island Point. and extersding down the Straits at a dist once not
gi
lister then le miles to the westward of this isles'', sad 15 to
the westward of Disko. Soon after entering the Smits, we
found it absolutely impracticable to go up 10 the middle, es
the ire gradually brought es into the land, till, a link to
the northward of Riskoll (ridge Reef Kull), we were for a
day or ton totally blockaded. The ire thee, by one of those
mieecossuable changes that so frequently serer here, opened
sufficiently to give as a free passage. till yesterday we found
a second bar in this place. From every secomit we have re-
ceived, as well as from what we have already sees, it is Cer-
tain that the last winter has mot osily been a Revere, but that
the frost has lasted much later than has bee. the ewe fur
neatly years poet. Yon way imagise our sorprise wises, ea
coming into thin neighbourhood yesterday, we fund up-
wards of 35 British ships at anchor upon the ite.herss, which
completely form a cluster of isisouserable islands from the
spot in which 1 at Mir usornewt view them. They have all
beets detained here—not days, but weeks, in spite of every
exertion to get to the northward; and the fishery may he
considered as hitherto an nesercessfal use, with IbeexCep-
lion of a few of the ships isi Disko Bay. The esunes which
operate upon the ire, producing very 'oddest changes in it,
are so little uoderstood, that it is impossible to judge when
any such chaste may take place as to enable ea to get to the
northward. I have just been to the top of a usountain of two
inconsiderable height, to determine its altitude he the ban
roineter, and I wish! could give yoa an adequate ides of the
magnificent sublimity of the scene I have just 'Mowed.
The whole horizon to the northward and westward is one
complete mass of compact field.ice, with the raceptiori of
about 500 tremendous ire bergs, which, with here and them
a small spot of dear blue water, serve to very the scene.
which would otheriviertire the eye with the uniformity of its
dazzling whitener. To the eastward is seen the land of
Gremslard, very high, almost entirely termed with mow,
and frowning, as ft were, sport the tress of ice which es-
Tirollll its shores. To din southward is the island of Disko,
with its summit (which we have never clearly sera) coos-
pithily lust in the clouds; near tine island are all the
Greenland skips at anchor. giving a fieish to the mese,
whose grandeur and beatify are far beyond any thing I
hareem' before. The lougitadesof the places oil this tout
were very muds its waist of correction. We bad • great
ounibee of excellent tuners to Zhu southward, which, with
the Isabella's chronometers (which go admirably). will,
think, determine the tougituilts so fir, to the nearest three
or four mike. The dip of the needle in 1at.67. U. was 64.
and the variation 67. 36. Here the dip about the same,
and the asysnuthe we have taken this morning we casuist
work fur want of a Iptitude, which we hope to obtain at
midnight. The transit of the sea fur the pendulum we hope
to get tn.inorrow, and if the ice still remains firm, so as to
prevent oar leaving this place, the nest day, we trust, will
produce something in this way. Delighted as I am to take
a part iu these otterevations, I confess l should be glad to
see the tests struck to-night. and the ice open; and you
may rely upon it, that no object whatever will ever tempt
our Commodore to neglect for an instant the main object of
the expedition.
The current that ha been spoken of as coming toast:Daily
dews the Straits, if it exists at all, inset be to the westward
of tier track op the. Straits ; sad, indeed, all the masters of
the ships have a great dread of being eel to the westward in
our present latitude, as. they insist upon it that if a ship
were beset here she would probably come oat in 115 degrees.

ittlesnew, JUNI 13.
The ire having *petted a little on the evening of Saturday,
we endeavoured to get over frees Hare Island to the coast
of Greeslaed, or, as the masters call it, the East Laud. The
Isabella wee beset in making this attempt, sad was drifted
about with the tee by the tides till fifonday morning. We
were suns fortunate, laving sreceeded in getting over to
. the land, end isle clear water, on Sunday evening, sod there
made fast to a berg, to wait ter the Isahella. There would
be so navigating this sea bat for the bergs; for, after the
emu have towed and warped the ship for II or 14 Yuan,
she would be adrift again, and at the mercy of the ice, if
you could not anchor iu security to one of them euermous
masers, which rests upon the ground, and perfectly Reims
you from every danger, except that (which has once or twit*
Deterred to us) of drifting off with a high spriug tide into
deep water. A ship is almost perfectly secure from going
on sbure, when well anchored to them, fur the smallest of
them draws so much more water than any ship, that it must
gniund along before the ship, unless the shore Immediately
willies it is very steep indeed. A very small ice berg, to
which we anchored on the 9lb of Jose, was grounded in St
fathoms, and was so firmly moored, 'hit the levels of the
dipping needle were not is the slightest degree affected.
JULT4.
Since I last wrote, we have been incessantly occupied is
attempting to get through the lee to the northward. The
list stage we made was into North East Bay, where we have
bees detained several days, which could only be occupied in
settling the position of the several points of land, Le. and
the variation of the compass, which, by the bye, can never be
done on board a ship with any tolerable degree of accuracy,
a differesee of 19 degrees arising from a change in the sliip'e
head, on board the Isabelle. On buard the Alexander this
diffrience is very. apparent also, but in a much smaller de.
gree. Ido not, however, consider the experiments we have
yet made to be sufficiently numerous, or sufficiently delicate,
to enable us to draw any satisfactory conclusion from them
on this very interesting pitied, till further and better oppor-
tunities offer,
We hail rather an interesting visit from two Esquimau
families the other day, bet with the details of which I shall
poi now trouble you. to truth, I have so few moments to
spare from the immediate doilies which sow peen upon us,
that 1 fear you will think my letter but •thehby cote. Them
last two days have given us • run to the werthward beyond our
most easignine expeetation, as we are at this moment within
seveispniles of the northentranst of the Wessn's Weeds, and
passed Sanderom's Hope yestephiy evening. Oar latitude (by
secure') to-day at noon was 73. 10. N.; Isabella's 73. lb.
long. 67. 14. W. Some of the Esquinseux from these
islands were, I understand, on bowl the Isabelle 'cedar,
and report, that die place in which we now are has been
clear of ice during whole rimier (is this possible ?); that
no whales have been herr dievintr, the whole seams, and that
they think there is plenty of clear water to the northward.
If this be true, it is delightfid intelligence for us. At far
as we eau ourselves pee, there is no reason to question the
accuracy of this statenieut, for though the number of bergs
is here, as at Riskull, and at Ways's"' Island, sad at Black
Hook, almost beyond conception or begirt, the field-ie. ass.
pears to be by no means so close as to stop our progress.
Row long this fair prospect may continue, it is impossible to
judge. but the voyage Winos to acquire extreme interest,
and all are anxiously looking out to the northward.
P.S.—Jelo 6.—1 have jest measured the height of an ire.
berg, which is 123 and a half feet, and it is aerosed is 126
f3thione 1. This is literally a small one CURIIIIIIIII. with some
houdreels that we have seen. Feet shove water, awl fathoms
under, seem to be the general run of their *recite gravity.

A letter from Waterford, dined September 14,
my►--"' A very respectable Meeting of the In-
habitants of ibis City took place on Tuesday in
the Chamber of Commerce, at winch the Right
Honourable Sir JOHN NEWPORT, Baronet, M.P.
presided. The object of the Assembly was to
take into con,iderittion the situation of the poor,
who avert present so severely afflicted by dysentery,
and to devisethe best soil speediest memos of afford.
nig then' relief. After mature deliberation various
Resolutions (or raising a subscription, &C. were
UuaUiNaOlably adopted."

COURSE UP EXCHANG:
Amsterdam 37 211.20.
Ditto at Sight... 37 2
Amsterdam 11 10 C.F.
Ditto at Sight 11 7
Rotterdam 11 11 215.
Autwerp ex-oro ll 14
Hamburgh 34 10 2W
Aliases 34 11210.
Paris 3.lay's date 24 70
Ditto . 00 2 U.
Boonltalia ilo.. 24 90
Frankfort oat the
Maine 1431 case mo.
Madrid, effect 3114
Cadiz, effect 321
Bilboa. effect 3ll
Barcelona
itwilk 37f
Gibraltar....... 34
, Leghorn

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Malta 50

Naples
Palermo 1211.1. per oa
Lisbon b7i
Oporto 57
Rio Janeiro AI
Dublin per rt.
Cork 921
Axis oitbe Ban* 0010114 ml
4 per Cent.

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Gold iu Pars 4 0 0
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