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NUMBER 11.912 A PUBLIC MEETING of the MERCHANTS. BA NKERS, SHIP-OWNERS, MANUFACTURERS, 'and TRADERS, of the CITY of LONDON, will be held at the City of Lando* Tavern, •on Witoncsnar, the 15th of April, at One o'Clock punctually, to consider of the expediency of Pe "tioning Parliatuent for a Revision of the Coax LAWS. The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR in the Chair. N.B. All'canununteations to be addressed to John Hall, F.sq. No. 6, Cirrus, Minoties. IMPERIAL PLATE GLASS COMPANY. T HE Directors hereby g i ve not i ce , t h at the time for receiving DEPOSITS on SHARKS in this Company ez pired on &TUMMY last, and that no further Deposits can now be ree.elved. WhL WALKER, Scc. pro temp. April 11, ins. BEEF and MUTTON, To his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the undermentioned Counties: Berke Hants Salop Berwick' Lancaster Warwick Bucks Leicester York • Cambridge Monmouth In the several Counties Cumberland Norfolk in North and South Derby Northumberland Wales, Dorset Nottingham - In the several Counties Glo'ster Rutland in North Britain Teat the deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th day of May next; that Proposals in writing, sealed up, and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this OfSce, on or before Thursday, the 28th day of April; but none will be re ceived after Twelve o'Clock on that day. Proposals must be made separately fur each County, except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be included in one Tender, as also mug the several Counties in North Britain, and, each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by Two Persons of known Property engaging to become bound with the Party tender. ing in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the due Performance of the Contract ; and np Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the Prices expressed in Words at Length ; and should it so happen that during the Con tinuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplied by virtue of the same, the amount of the Stamps on the Contract and Bond, paid in the first Instance by the Contractor, shall be refunded to him SOUTH WEST BORDER of the NEW FOREST, HANTS. Between RINGWOOD and CHRISTCHURCH. VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE. Spacious RESIDENCE with OFFICES, COACH-HOUSES, STABLES, DOVE-COTE, and Outbuildiuga, and nearly SEVENTY ACRES Of Capital Meadow and Pasture Land, and an extensive Fishery in the River Avon. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Itegent-stteet), At Garraway's Coffee-House, 'Change-alley, Combat. On Wtnxessar, the Ist of June, 1825, a t T we l ve o 'Cl oc k, A VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, _ cost PRISING . WINKTON HOUSE, Situate in the Valley between Ringwood-and Christchurch. A substantial Brick and Stone built Rfsidence, commodiously pl'an'ned, and adapted for the accommodation of * Family of rDas tinction, seated upon a beautiful Lawn, with. a handsome Carriage Drive in front, Pleasure Grounds, tastefully disposed, and orna mented with sthtely Trees. The River Avon, flowing through the Estate, is stored with tile finest Salmon and Pike, and other Fish for which there is an exclusive Right of Fishing of considerable extent. The House contains a spacious Entrance Halt, elegant Drawing-room, excellent Dining Parlour, Library, Gentleman's Dressing-room, and other conveniences adjoining. A capital Oak Staircase to the Principal Floor, a Ladies' 31orning-room, Five ex cellent Bedchambers, and Two Dressing-rooms; a capital Bil liard-room, a Secondary Staircase, and proportionate accommo dation for Servants. Particulars of the Contracts may be had upon Application at these Chambers, between the Hours of Ten and Four. The Offices comprise an excellent Kitchen, Scullery, Servants'. ball, Butler's•pantr}, Wash-house and Laundry, and other requi site Offices; and Cellars in the Basement for Wine, Ale, and Beer, atc. Yard for Coals, Woods, &c. Detached, A Stable Yard, three • Steil Stable, and Standing for a Poney; another Erection for a three-stall Stable; two capital Coach-houses, Dove -cote, Poultry, and Tool-house, with Lott over; Carpenter's Shop; another Yard, with Cow-houses, Piggery, &c. The Grounds are beautifully undulated and slope to thr Avon. a fine rapid stream of clear Water, presenting cheerful and varied views of the adjacent country. There is a very good GARDEN, with wall and standard Fruit Trees, and a Grapery containing Vines of excellent kinds. The Estate lies all compact, and contains nearly SEVENTY ACRES Of excellent Grass, Meadow, and Pasture Land, o f t h e mos t pro ductive quality, and entitled to valuable Forest Rights. The Neighbourhood is highly respectable, the Roads excellent, with delightful Rides and Drives to a great extent, without the interruption of turnpikes. A Daily Post. A Faculty Pew in Christchurch. The distance from London is 97 miles, from Ringwood 7, from Christchurch t, from the fi ne S ea B ea t h at Mudditord 21, and 13 front Lyndhurst, where the Forest Hounds are kept. To be viewed, by Tickets only. from the Ist of May : Particu lars may thou be had on the Premises; at the Hotel, Christchurch; Crown, Ringwood; Crown, Lyndhurst; :;tar, Southampton; of Mr. Lyon, Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. tobins, No. 170, Re-gout-street, where a plan of the Estate may be seen, and Tickets for viewing may be had. CONTAGION AND QUARANTINE. From Mr. Chitty's work on The Leos of Commerce and Mani ffac,. tura, vbl. H. article " Quarantine." Much contras iety of opinion has at various times existed in regard to the contagious nature of some diseases which very extensively afflict mankind; in particular, the re ceived doctrine that the plague is a contagious disease, liable to be brought from infected countries, and propa gated by means of persons or merchandise, has been questioned in some recent publications, and by Medical I Gentlemen of distinguished ability and knowledge._.. As the quarantine laws, which are founded on the re ceived doctrine of contagion, impose the most severe and heavy restraints to which the commerce of Great Britain is subjected, the dotibts entertained of the vali dity of that doctrine, strengthened by some circum stances which had recently transpired in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, justly merited the attention of the Legislature. Accordingly, in the commencement of the year 1819, a select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed " to consider the validity of the doctrine of contagion in the plague ; and to report their observations thereupon, with the minutes of the evidence taken before them to the House." The Committee availed themselves of the evidence of a number of Medical Gentlemen, 66 whose practical experience or general knowledge of the subject appeared to the Committee most likely to furnish the means of' , acquiring the most satisfactory information," and they had " also the evidence of a number of persons whose residence in infected countries, or whose commercial or official employments enabled them to communicate in formation as to the facts, and On the principle and effi cacy of the laws of quarantine." In the short report the Committee drew up on the conclusion of the inquiry delegated to them, it appears, although they abstained from giving any opinion on the nature and application of the quarantine laws, that they decided in favour of the validity of the principles on which the regulations were adopted. At present, therefore, any alteration in the quarantine laws and the regulations which so heavily affect the mercantile interests of the country is not to be expected : and it might suffice, in a work professedly treating on matters of existing law, to have simply introduced the short Report of the Committee, prefixed to the minutes of evidence, as preliminary to the consideration of the quarantine laws. But induced by motives of curiosity, as well as the importance of the subject, to peruse the minutes of evidence, it has appeared to me, that in many respects the evidence has a bearing on the ques don of a very different complexion to what the report is calculated to give; and it is material to add, that a difference of opinion, as to the import of the evidence, was likewise entertained by the able and intelligent Chairman of the Committee, Sir .I.ln Jackson, H Art. who with an indefatigable zeal and industry superin tended the inquiry throughout : for, in presenting, in his place in the house, the result of the labours bt the Committee, it appears that he had refused to concur in their sentiments ; and after commenting very fully on the evidence, and shewing its result, he protested stre nuously against the report being adopted. It is foreign to my intention to enter into any an,i'lysis of the minutes of the evidence, but there are some cir cumstances which weigh so much in support of un , . • . ~ Per Cent. 1, c , „ dr Ay ° -; . :,., • -111 1 It.. • . . • / 1 // /,/ •.. •. . c., . . . . . /...- lb .:-' 4lf 6 A i , .„-__•.‘„, e Q i r , • • ' _Af . . 4.• • V . . • i a g 4: V 6 \ : 0 - ii a 1.4 0 e %." 4 : I t . ' • . I V ) $ . . 1‘• V I i •-.-:..- v .. t • - 4 0 %1 . , w - . • i . . , TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1825. . . rPRICE SEVEN PENCE. ii. ' -- ARMY CONTRACTS. TREASURY CHAMBERS, .., Cbounisatriat Department, March Si, 182$. VOTICE is hereby given to all Periods desirous of A. ‘ contractiug to supply the following Ardcles for the use of the Army, vit. opinion adverse to the :ern, that I shall use leave slightly to notice them. first, then, the report assumes the authority ot all the medical men examined, with the exception of two, for distinguishing the plague front o her epidemics, by its being of a contagious and 'Wee tiotts nattne, and communicable by • contact only ; when as, on tedetring to the evidence, it will be seen that t' is criterion of contact, which would go at mine to ea in;ish the plague to be a specific contagions dis• ease, and different in that respect from epidemic )'ever, is co..fitted, as much as I can discover, to the evidence t.f but three or lour out of nineteen medical Gentlemen examined, and many of these, moreover, do not teem disposed to apprehend more risk of infection from the above assumed sine qud non of actual contact, than froth contiguity and the atmosphere of a sick chamber. Secondly, although by far the majority of the medical men examined are in favour of the received doctrine of the contagious or infectious nature of the plague, yet it clearly appears that the disorder is so much mddified by atmospheric influence, and Sy the matinees, customs, and circumstances of the place where it occurs; that strung doubts are very generally entertained by them, whether, under any circumstances, the disease timid be received aad propagated in the climate of Great Bri tain. One Gentleman very facetiously remarks. that a sea voyage does not agree with the plague, and believes it would die a natural death before it got rotrnd Cape Finisterre. It adds much to the force of those doubts and opinions, that it is clearly established by the Custom-house returns, that nowithstanding our very frequent intercourse with the Levant and infected countries, and notwithstanding the notoriety that the quarantine laws have been frequently eluded, and that parcels of goods are abstracted from on board. ships and smuggled ashore, before undergoing expurgation, there has occurred no instance, ever since the first esta blishment of quarantine, upwards of 100 years, of the plague being tound on board any ship, or of any person employed in the lazarettos being infected. Neither does anything ,appear on the face of the evidence from which we could infer that the last great plague which visited London in 1665.6 was the Levant plague. The conjecture of some four or five of the Medical Gen tleftnen favouring the doctrine of contagion, as to its being imported, is rebutted by other medical conta gionists, who concur in the t pinion of the anti-con tagionists as to its having been generated at home (under perhaps some diseased constitution of the atmosphere), from the narrowness of the streets, the crowded state of the inhabitants, the accumulation of filth, the want of common sewers and drains, a deficiency in the supply of water, &c. such as existed ill. London previous to the great fire ; since which time it is an undisputed fact that nct one case of plague has occurred in Great Britain. Thirdly, many very sulking examples came out here aad there in the evidence, of communication with people ill of the plague, where eves the sores- had been handled, and patients had been slept with, without the disease having been communicated. These instances.at least counter vail others, where, in places in which the disorder was prevalent, its communication from contiguity of situa tion was inferred; and the knowledge that the Turks made no scruple in wearing the clothes of their relatives deceased of the plague, and that the bedding and clothes of those who die in the pest-houses, as well as of strangers, which are the perquisites of the pashas or governors, are annually sold at the public bazaars, also afford an answer to the accounts, some of them absurd enough*, of the introduction of the plague into various places, and its subsequent propagation. I shall conclude these preliminary observations on the necessity and ex pediency of quarantine, by earnestly recommending to those interested in the subject a perusal of the evidence, which concentrates many valuable facts, and will, lay the foundation of future inquiry; and I would particu larly solicit attention to the full and able evidence of Drs. Maclean and Mitchell, who mainly oppose the doctrine of contagion, and endeavour to show that the disorder is dependent on localities and climate, and at. mosperic influence, like other epidemic fevers. The following observations which may be considered of some importance respecting this pestilence in the East, are from Rae Wilson's Travels: Opinions have been entertained that this disease is endemial ; but it is a singular fact, that although some of the soldiers of the English and French armies were infected with it in Egypt, in the year 1801, it gradu ally diminished, by the adoption of certain judicious regulations established by a Boatd of Health, on the part of the British, till it ceased in 1803. From this time, during a period of ten years, the country was ex empted from this calamity. It made an appearance in 1813, raged dialing the whole year, and from that time to 1819, when I was there, the country had been vi sited with it during spring. In general it is checked by the intense heats in July and August. Among the anomalies of this extraordinary disease, there is one re markable fact, namely, that the vessel which communi cated the infection from Alexandria to Malta, during this year, was not only navigated on her return to that port by a fresh crew, who were not only discharged in good health ; but the cargo, consisting of flax and leather, which convey this contagion, was landed by the native Arabs with impunity." • Shaking an old featber.bed thrown aside seven years before, it has been idly supposed, raised a plague which carried off 5900. To this absurd story may be added the foUowing, to which many have given credit. By 25 soldiers, one after another, putting on an old leathern coat, 10,000 person* perished from plague. Some cords used in burying the dead twenty years before, caused the death by plague of 10,000 people. The plague overspread Paris in conse quence of a workmaa removing from the walls of a house, where they had remained several years, some clothes fouled with the blood and matter of plague sores. A young man was seized with the Plague by thrusting his hand into an old trunk, where a spider's web instantly caused a plague sore. One person was seized with the plague from holding a bit of thread ; another dropped down dead by 'standing on a Turkey carpet. A Lady smelling at a Turkey hand kerchief died on the spot: Some children playing on clothes laid out to the sun caught the plague, and all perished. The Colombians have many repasts during the day. Ac seven in the morning they begin with chocolate, a t ten, a meal of soup, eggs, &c. they dine at two, take chocolate again at five, and sup at an early hour. From about three to half. p.ist four they take their siesta, during which time all the shops are shut, the streets de. sorted, and the whole city in profound silence. „ ROYAL HUMANE SOClETY.—lnstituted 1774, for the RECOVERY of PERSONS apparently DROWNED or DEAD. _ PATRON. The KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. PRICSIDENT. Ilia Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. &c. VICC-PRLIIDINTE. Right Hon. Lord High Chan- Right Hen. Lord Rivers cellor Right Hon. Lord Kenyon Most Noble Marquis oT Hen- Right Hon. Lord Henniker ford, K.G. Right Hoa. Lord Prudhoe Right Hen. Earl of Stamford and Hon. Philip Posey Warrington Hon. Mr. Baron Garrow Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K.G. Hun. Mr. Justice Gaselee • The Right Hon. Earl of Liver- Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. pool, K.G. Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart.Ald. Right Hon. Earl of Romney Sir Charles Price, Bart. Right Hon. Earl of Pewis Sir John William Lubbock,Bart. Rig ht Hon. Viscount Dudley George Watson Taylor, Esq. M.P. and Ward John Atkins, Esq. Ald. Right Hon. and Right Rev. Lord John Gurney Esq. Bishop of London Robert Barclay, Esq. Hon. and Right Rev. Lord RI. William Mellish, Req. shop of Oaford Timotky A. Curtis, Esq. The ANNIVERSARY SERMON of this Institution will be PREACHED at St. George's Church Bloomsbury, on SUNDAY MORNING, 17th Instant, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of GLOUCESTER. The FIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be celebrated on THUIUIDAY, the 21st Instant, at the City of London Tavern, at which His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBER LAND will preside. Sir Wm. Ashbarnham, Ban. Sir Charles Plower, Bart. Ald. Sir Edward Banks, Timothy A. Curds, Esq. V.P. Rev. Wm. Jolliffe, Gideon Ackland, Esq. C. 11. Ashley, F.sq. Wm. Bowles, Ea* N. J. Brunel, Esq. F.R.S. John Cape!, Esq. Robert Curry, Esq. J. W. Fowler, Esq. STZWA RM. Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. David Pollock, Esq. G. K. F. Schwieger, Esq. Russell Scott, Esq. George Sharpe, Esq. R. Smith, Esq. John Stracey, . Edward Tewa E rt, sq Esq. Samuel Turner, Esq. Thos. Wilkinson, Esq. Join Wilmot, Esq. Dinner on Table at Half-past Five o'Clock precisely. CHARLES BARCLAY, Esq../ . 1 . BENJAMIN HA WF.S, seeasnrera 5 eeasnrera After Dinner there will be a Procession of Persons restored to life by means of the Society; and His Graee the Duke of Nos- THUMMILAND, K.G. President, will present the Honorary Medal lions, voted by the General Court, to the following Gentlemen, vie Capt. Wm. Cooke, of the Cambria Capt. More, Capt. English, R. F.. Lieut. Turnbull, R.N. Mr. W. M. Hughes, Rev. Henry Woolley. Tickets, 15s. each, may be had of the Stewards; at the City of London Tavern; the Loudon Coffee-house; the Baltic Coffee-house; and of the Secretary. Tickets to admit Ladles to the Gallery to view the Presentation of the Honorary Medallions and the Procession of Restored Per sons, can be bad only of the Stewards. _ J. FROST, Sec. Society's-Horse, 29, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. Since the Establishment of this Society, upwards of 5,501 have been restored from apparent death, and preserved from imminent danger, and more than 20,010 Claimants have been rewarded. by the So ciety. The Committee request Medical Gentlemen, Governors, and the Public, to visit the Society's Receiving Holm, on the North aide of the Serpentine River, Hyde Park, built by the Society on the ground granted by his late Majesty, where a Medical Assistant is in attendance during the Bathing and Skaiting Seasons. The Annual- Reports of the Transactions of the Society, are sold at the Society's House, where a Manual of the Methods of the Treatment ofPersons apparently Drowned orDeadonay be had gratis GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES. SOLD by BUTLER, Chemist and Druggist, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, London. Appointed sole Agent for Dr. James's Fever Powder and Analeptic Pills, in the place of Messrs. Newberry and Sons. Anderson's Scots Pills Hooper's Pills American Soothing Syrup Henry's Magnesia Bkaefting Liquid &Marking Ink -....--- Aromatic Vinegar Braithwatte's Black Drops Hunt's Family Pills Cephalic Snuff Juniper's Essence Peppermint Cheltenham Salts Lemon Acid for Punch, &c. 'Ching's Worm Losenges Macassar and Russia Oil Citrated Kali for Saline Draughts Oxley's Essence Ginger Cundell's Balsam Honey Ruspini's Dentifrice, Tine. &c. Dixon's Antibilious Pills Solomon's Balm Gilead Daiby's Carminative Singleton's Eye Ointment De Velno's Syrup Steer's Opodeldoc Dutch Drops, as imported Stoughton Bitters Freeman's B athing s Spirits Seidlits and Lemonade Powders 1 Godbold's Balsam Soda and Ginger Beer Powders Gowland's Lotion Salt Lemon and Scouring Drops Godfrey's Cordial Sandwell's Issue Plainer Huxham's Tincture Bark Turlington's Balsam. And every other Patent Medicine of repute. Merchants, Captains, and others, cannot be too careful in the purchase of the above. Ar t i c l es for Exportation, as spurious imita tions are generally in Circulation. Medicine Chests completely fitted up for all climates. N. R—THOMPSON'S Genuine CHELTENHAM SALTS, Mr. Butler is appointed Agent for. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GISIELEMEN, THE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS o f t h e East India Company beitig appointed for Wrnmennav, the 13th April twit. the favour of your VOTE and I STEILEST is requested for the following Gentlemen, viz. . JOHN MILLIE, Esq. Joust PETTY MUSTIATT, F.sq. JACOI BosANQUET, Esq. Enwaan PARRY, EN. WILLIAM . 1 6 ATLOP. MON&Y, Esq. WILLIAM WICIAM, Esq. Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble Servants, WILLIAM ASTELL, CAMPBELL MARJORIBANKS, J()SI AS DU PRE ALEXANDER, JOHN BEIM ROBERT CAMPBELL, WILLIAM STANLEY CLARKE., JAMES DANIF.'LL, NIEL BENJAMIN EDMONSTONE, • WILLIAM FULLARTON ELPHINSTONE, JOHN HUDLESTON, HUGH LINDSAY, JOHN LOCH, JOHN MASTF.RMAN, CH A R LF.S MILLS, jun. JOHN MORRIS, JAMES PATTISON, RICHARD CHICHET.EY PLOWDEN, CHARLES ELTON PRESCOTT, GEORGE RAIKES, JOHN GOLDSBOROUGH RAVENSTIAW, • GEORGE ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON, GEORGE SMITH, JOHN THORNHILL, SWENY TOONE. F.ast LA: House, March 50, 1825; TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES ADD GINTLIINIX, H AVING the honour of bring recommended to you by the Directors of the East India Company, as CANDI DATES for the DIRECTION to be chosen this Year, we take the liberty of requesting the favour of your Vote on the day of Election, WADSZADAY, the 13th April next. We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and most humble Servants, JOHN BAILLIE, JACOB BOSANQUET, WILLIAM TAYLOR MONEY, JOHN PETTY AIUSPRATT, EDWARD PARRY. WILLIAM WIGRAM. Eat India House, the 30th March, MIS. This day was published, THE QUARTERLY THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, and ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD, Number 2. Price 6s. Also, the SECOND Emma of No. 1. Printed for C. and J. Rivington. Sc. Paul's Char ch-Yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall. IT 0 Mrs. JOHNSON, 28, Y or k -place, City-roa d-- A. Madam—To behold the consolation afforded to suffering In fants h your AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, in case of Met convincevery feeling Parent how essential an early application of such abl medicine is to alleviate the suf feting. of children thus unhappily situated. Having found your I American Soothing Syrup to afford such great ease and comfort to a child of thine, who experienced the most acute sufferings while teething, so much so, that its senses absolutely left it, and it was stippo•ed that Death was about to relieve it from its.anguish, tiU recourse was made to your medicine, which, on its first application, wrought a wonderful change, and by repeating the same, four double teeth were brought through in two days, and the child was gradually restored to health. Any information an this circumstance will be gladly given by, Madam, your most obedient servant, J. 'China and Glass Warehouse, 13, Tabernacle-square, ELLEN. Old-street-road, October, 1824. This inestimable medicine is to be had wholesale and retail as %blame, and of all ptincipal medicine venders in town and country, ut Is. lid. per bottle. —None are genuine unless signed on the stamp, *Rh Mrs. Johnson's own hand-writing. Principiis obsta, sere medicine paratur. F OR many years have Messrs. BELL and Co. devoted their attention as regular Surgeons, to the study of a particular tlass of diseases, and the uniform success attendant on their mode of 'treatment, has almost invariably restored the patient to his former state of health. Influenced by such circumstances, they offer to the individual labouring under the effects of a certain disease, the means of speedy recovery. The man of pleasure who has produced de bility in the too eager and constant pursuit of enjoyment, may be restored to his former degree' f energy; and finally in those cases where general relaxation has produced nervous debility, it is possi ble to bring back the system to that degree of tons compatible with health. Patients in the country accurately describing their cases by letter, anti enclosing a Bank -note, may have advice and medicine for warded to any part of the Kingdom. Consultation at home daily. DELL and CO. 211.13. C. Sorgeons, 5, Adam-street, Adelphi. EAST INDIA HOUSE, January 26, 1825. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED -A- •COMPJAY of MERCHANTS cu ENGLAND, trading the EAST-INDIES, do hereby we Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House, in Lradenhall-street, on WEIMSDAY, the 13th of April next, from Niue &Clock in the Morning until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the said Company for four years. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. TO FLORISTS, atc- Just published, in 12mo. with coloured plates, price Its. boards, A Now Edition of ACONCISE and PRACTICAL TREATISE on the GROWTH and CULTURE of the CARNATION, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tulip, Hyacinth, Rose, and other Flowers; including a Dissertation on Soils and Manures, and containing Catalogues of the finest and most esteemed Varieties of each Flower. By THOMAS HOGG. Florist, Paddington-green, Middlesex. Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-lane.