The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00

BISIIOP BLAZR.

On Tuesday se'nnight celeb►ated at
firs l-
fortl. the Septennial Festival of MAN) Blaze. Tl►e
procession was planned, and conducted with great
▪ In point of reppecialtility and numbers. it
far exceeded that of nosy preceding !semi!. The
morning was p►opitious. and at the early linur of
nine o'clock. the triode of the cavalcade, intionistim;
to upwards of a thousand horse and fuut. were ice
motion, and in the following order :---
Herald.
Waolstapiers on Horseback. each lions caparisoned with a
Fleece.
Worsted Spinners suit Manisfisetaters ou Iliorsehark. in
White Staff Waistcoat; and each a Sliver over the Slesul.lte,
and White Staff Saab ; their Horses' seeks furred with Nets
wade of thick Yarn. •
Me►ehauts or /horseback, with coloured Sash►s.
Fuer Grants. Masters' Cowers. Four Gnarl's.
Masters' Sons sad Apprentices, of the see of hunt" suit
upward; oa Horseback, with White Staff lYsielcuater and
White Sheets, tied with Worsted.
Apprentices and Masters' Soils; wader twenty years of
age, on Horseback, with orionsented Cap', Scarlet Scutt'
Coats, faced with bright 314aarine An, White Stuff Waist-
coat; and Mae Pantaloons._

Saari.
thiarth Guards.
Shepherd and Shepherdess.
Twelve Sla plierd Swains.
Six Guards—Jaws.— Mincers iledes.—Sist GIVIrIIII.

WooWafters uu Hurstlia-4 -1;:-wilk7or-u-a—oseuttil Caps, dud

♦ariuua Slivers.
blace.Brartr, J. Huiseback.

Bishop); Orvieto.
Bishop.
Cousb-Maken.—Clearceel Bornes.—Cambers' Wirers.
Woolcorubers, with WOW Wigs, &c.
The assemblage, much honmireit by the attend-
ance of their friends from Leeds; moved from the
place of rendezvous to the top of High-street, soil
from thence they returned to the Mime, where
they-presented an interesting and splendid
tacle. Surrounded by en immense multitude, of
at least thirty thousand visitants, accompanied by
a well-selected and choice band, playing favourite
and appropriate airs, they were sumptuously re-
galed in booths prepared for their reception. On
the rising mid varied terraces attached to Mr. Flew-
cett's house, were displayed numerous grouper of
the female fashion and beauty of Bradford and its
vicinity ; and from those grounds, the eye, directed
to the fields below, was gratified by a scene strik-
ingly interesting and beautiful. The assemblage
then unoved in succession to the Geoilemen's seats
in the neighbourhood ; and after again parading
the town, they were dismissed at the place from
whence they commenced their route.
At six o'clock sixty gentlemen sat down to a
sumptuous dinner at the Talbot Inn. The wines
were excellent. Matthew Thompson. Esq. was in
the Chair. After the cloth was drawn .4 Ants Mobil
Dwaine" Wu sung in the first style, by Messrs.
Parker, Hirst, and Mato% Among many other
the following toasts were given in succession :-
46 Tbe Kieg"—Gad save the Bing, by the Rood.
" The Prism Reims"—Hail, Star of Brunswick.
" The Queeo amid Royal Family"—lbe Duke of York's
March.

clung—Death of Abereronsby, by Mr. Purim...
4 The lossaoetal blensory of Bishop Blase." •
Glee—The Red Cross Knights.
Mr. Tuovesow then eddressed the company at
follows:—" Gentlemen, I cannot give you the next
toast without congratulating you on the harmony
which has this day universally prevailed, and it
would ill become me to arrest .our increasing con-
viviality by attempting to describe what you have all
had an equal opportunity of witnessing with myself.
The great inventor of wool-combing, whose memory
.we are met to commemorate, fell a martyr to the
infuriated persecution of the Emperor Dioclesion;
hut though he had the power of taking away his
life, yet his invention continued to remain a proud
monument of the imbecility of a tyrant; and, I
trust, that so long as the long-woolled fleece shall
be the pride and the boast of Britons, and the envy
of their foreign neighbours, its manufacture shall
ever employ its thousands and its tens of thousands
of Britain's sons. The far-famed Colchiau fleece,
though it obtained the name of golden, sinks into
insignificance, when it is compared with fifty mil-
lions of golden fleeces annually shorn in the British
Empire, and which command employment, and af-
ford support, to half a million of her population.
You already anticipate that my toast is
" The Fleece, sad may it long analogue the pride of Bri-
tons and the envy of9Oreigners."
" The Town add-Trade of Bnidfori."—Robin Adair.

Mr. Gliwice LISTER, the Vice-President, in an
excellently well-conceived speech, made some cheer-
ing allusions to the increasing prosperity of the
country, and dress a just and etnking contrast be-
tween its present political and commercial situation
and that which it held at the last Septennial Festi-
val. " But little," continued the speaker, " would
avail our skill, and our industry, did not the genius
and the enterprise of our merchants find a really
market for their country's manufactures. In every
quarter of the universe the British merchant is
known and respected; and if honour and integrity
characterise all their dealings, and if a punctuality
■nd faithful observance of contract command our
respect and esteem, I know of no men more justly
entitled to our approbation than the merchants who
attend the markets of this place, many of whom
have done us the honour to visit us this day. I
will give you then—
" The Merchant., and Audis to them for thrift company."
Sung—The Flowing Bowl.

The convivial►ty of the compa►►y was uninter-
rupted to a late hoar.

During the whole day. • spirit of hilarity omit fest-
tivity pervaded the whole town. l'he misname.
lisrers vied with the merchants. owl the workmen
,with their employers, in their respect and homage
;to their mitred Patron, and the scenes of this
[jubilee will form • subject of gratifyiht retrospect
till the return of the next celebration.

Lately quantities of bacon and candles have been
'apt on shore near the Point of Ayr, file of Alan,
supposed to have been part of the cargo of the
which foundered off Peeletowis souse mouths
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