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Adequate Security will be required for the due performance of the Service. Persons desirods of Cnauacting will apply for Particulars, to the Comptrotter of the Twopenny Post Mice. No Tenders can be re "hived after 15th September next. lly Command, FRANCIS FREELI NG, Secretary. SOUTHAMPTON AND FRANC. THE CAMILLA STEAM-PACKET will, oo i TUESDAY. sth September, commence running once a week only. She will start from SOUTHAMPTON every Tues day, and from HAVRE every Friday mousing. weather per mitting, during the remainder of the season. Satilbampton, August 55, 1825. 12th April? I thought it probable that the prisoner... might not have recollected that the sixty ris dollars were returned, and the only other sum paid by els purser to me being ten and a half ris dollars, that was so far short of 71. ls. Bd. that I thought it must allude :o the other sum, those two being the only sums paid into my heads directly by Mr. Gable, on account of savings or compensation money on behalf of the Ma dagascar boys. This witness was directed to withdraw, and Mr. Richardson was recalled, and produced documents which shewed that on the 19th of January, at the Cape, the exchange en public bills was fourteen fix dollars, one %killing, two and a half stirers ; on the 7th of Fe bruary, the exchange was the same: on the 22d of March, it was fourteen as dollars per pound sterling. Cornelius Prout, a supernumerary Clerk to the Andromache was then swum. This day was published, price es. ed. i tintYFOß MIA ; or, U HOSTS of GREAT NOTE an Histoirette By Captain D. ERSKINE, Royal York Rangers, and F.S.A. Ed. late R.M.C. To be had at &mouton and Son's, Booksellers, 474, Strand; Messrs. Bowdery and Kerby's, 190, Oxford-street; and Mr. Bey's, Somerset -street, Pottman.equare. _ This day was published, by JOHN Lam, Jun. 52. c ommit, REPLY to a PA “PiILET e.stitled, " A Refuta. 13. Lion of Cautiorary Observations to those who contemplate an Investment of Proptriy in No./ Docks." " The Barth has hubbies, as the water has, " And tbe&c arc of them." TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN THOUSAND :TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR POUNDS, IN ONE DAY. wIFT an! Co. beg leavt to di:Tet the attention cf !...7 the Public to the above unusually lase amount of Prize Money in the present Scheme, all to be obtained in One Day, 31st This Month, when FOUR. of .e 25,000 each, and all the other *Prizes, must be drawn. Every Number will receive £5 at the least. This being the last Grant of Lotteries in this country, the opportunity of gaining such Capital Sums by a small adventure will soon cease. The Tickets and Shares are on Sale at. the old and fur- ' , tunat.: Offices of S WIFT and Co. 11, Poultry ;, Mating Crosi ; and 31, Aldgate High-greet, where TvArBLVR CAPITALS were Sold in the last Four 2/lonths.. Thi• day was published, Examined to the first Charge by the Court—Did you, between the 7th of January and 20. h of February, re teiv e any money for savings or short allowance ?—I did. At what rate were you paid the tie dollars per pound sterling ?—I received them as fourteen dollars to the pound ;but on 1 *caletifillitstl" `stut 'e,lllh - T that there were some fractional parts, making it above•that rate. Do you know, of your own knowledge. whether any oithe'slip's company • were paid savings' money.bo tween the 7th of %fittingly, and the 20th of February ? I never•witnessed any such payments, though I hate heard of them. By the JUDOS ADVOUATZ —From whom did you le• ceive this money, and what was the amount ?—I re— ceived it from Mr. Goble, Purser of the Andromache,, being 92 rix•dollars, for the sum of 61. lls. lid. sterling. By the Prisoner—Will you have the goodness to pro duce that account ? The account I have is an extract from his bnok in the Steward's hand-writing. This witness was ordered so withdraw. The PRIUDIST—The evidence, prisoner, is now dosed for Ste prosecutioo. The Prisoner—As there are five charges against me, and it will of course require much evidence to rebut all this testimony, may I request your indulgence, by post poning the Court-Mattial till Saturday owning? The Pasuomrs—Let the Court he cleared. In Two Yes. royal lBmo. printed uniformly with DebrAt's P:•••rare, price las. in hoards, ASYNOPSIS of the PEERAGE of ENGLAND. Haiti:A:ins under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Date of Creation, Descent, and , present State of every Title of Peerage hick bas existed in this Country dine the •Conquest; with the .occeision rf Archbishops awl Bishops from the Couqust to Ale present time. By NICH‘ , LAS HARRIS IsTICOL AS, Esq. the It ucr Temple, Barrister at Law, Fellow of the Society of • A REAL BLESS:NO TO :NI OTHERS. %111 ERE is not, rerhaps, in the Materia Me dico, any oni remedy Which so rffectualy relieves the pain of a suffering Patient as the AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP. ll'hu can watch the writhing tortures into which a lovely infant is often convulsed during the period of dentition, without feeling sympathy for its sufferings? and who would hesitate to procure a rensedy, when a remedy can be found, which is obvious by the effectual relief afforded in so many distressing cases which are daily coming to the nodce of Mrs. JOHNSON? Therefore, mothers ought never to be without the American Soothing Syrup in the Nursery; for if a child awakes in the night with pain, by only tubbing the Gums with a few drops of the Syrup, it will imme diately open the pores, heal the gums, and thereby prevent fevers and convulsions; for.should it came in competition with any other disorder, it often destroys the mother's brightest hopes. To be had, wholesalv and retail, of Johnson and Co. 2s, York. place, Citproad ; and, by their appointment, of all prindpal ides dici►ne Venders in Town and Country, at Is. 9d. per bottle. N.B. None are genuine, unless signed on the Stamp with Mrs. Johnson's own hand-writing, as there are several spurious sorts. Antiquaries. PO:1H for C. and J. Rivington • T. Egerton ; J. Cuthell; J. a nd \V. T. Ciarhe; Langntaa and Co. T. Cadell; J. Richardson ; J. Roads; J. Booker; Kingsbury and Co. Deldorin and Co. S. Bagster; Ila:nl!ron and Co. liatehard and Son; J. Harding; li.vitvell and .Martin; G. D. Whittaker; B. Lloyd and San; and It. Saunders Of whom may be had. up,Bagrn r'RER AG E of the United Kingdom, corrected to April last. In 2 Vote royal lßmo. price Al 4s. in boards; also Debrett's Baronetcy of England, corrected to November, UM In 2 vols. price £1 69.. This eas was pub!ished, in Sum Ss. 6d. sewed. letiG ILLUSTRIOUS EXILE; oc- A. cas; , , , ted by the Pcrseutiou of the Protestants in Itls, with tthcr By HUGH STUART BOYD. Esq. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orrne, Brown, and Green. After an absence of about fire minutes, the Court was again opened, end it was announced by the Presi dent to the piisoner, that the Court was of opinioi t as it was then an early hour, that he might be ready with his defence by the nest morning. The Court was accordingly adjourned till this morning. On the Ist of December will be publiahed, TDIVINGTONS' ANNUAL REGIS TER for the .1 Year 1324, in one large volume octavo, price 18s. in hoards. The volumes for 1820 (commencing with his present Majesty's Reign), 1321, 1822, and 1833, have been lately published, /rice Ills. each. If the early appearance of this Work were the principal object to be consulted. it would be as easy to bring it out in Juno as in December; but such a plait could not be adopted without sacrificing almost everything that ceut.l distinguish the %York from being a mere abstract of the last. yeat's file of newspapers. The Editor has to record events, the knowledge of which (ruin the mere distance of the regions in which they take place, cannot reacts Europe for some months after their occurrence. It should be rernenibered that the business of an Annual Register is not like that of a daily Newspaper, to tell us what is passiug, but what has passed. In else one case delay may be inconvenient; in the other a certain interval is in some measure indispensable for the aecomplishmeot of the proper object of the Work. Ilivhigtons have just completed the former Series, in con -I:::nation of Dodsley's, tram 1791 to 1311, inclusive. The volume for 1212 will be publi►hed in the course of neat mouth. COURT-MARTIAL UN Ml. THOMAS GOBLE, PURSER OF HIS MAJESTY'S SSW THE ANDROXICHZ SECOND DAY. At a quarter to eleven the Court was declared to be open to the Public; when the primer, in the custody of the Provost-Marshal, was introduced, as on the previ ous day, by Mr. Mincher, his solicitor. In our brief absract of the Charges yesterday, in the 4th and Sib Charges, the sum of 71.11. Zid. is mentioned, which, by a transposi• Lion of the figures, was accidentally printed 81.75. id. Henry Maclntyre recalled—By the COURT: In 'a former part of your evidence, you said that you re ceived money from M. Goble to 'pay tlie 4 ship's, com pany their s4vings, and directi9ps_ from him to do so. Have you any written orders from him to thrt effect? —I have. SIERRA! LEO.N,E. LIVY'S SECOND PUNIC WAR. 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For the Use of Instructors, and persons who may wish to impibve themselves in the true principles of Riding, and Breaking Lorin. With Engravings. illustrative of the position on Horse back, and particular Lessons of the Manage. By T. GIBBONS, Lieutenant Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Egerton, 'lnbar/ Li brary, Whitehall. 1- F HE FUBLIC are warned against numerous Imf. tatious of DOCTOR SOLOMON'S CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD, put forth by several unprincipled Individuals to ensnare and deceive. The great reputation so Inn enjoyed by this excellent medicine for the cure of Indigestion, Nervous CAM. rtaints, Declines, and Diseases induced by excessive Indulgencies, sic.d the great demand for it, have tempted the worthless and on. r:lncipled to this nefarious i l n e e s ti e ce, by which many invalids hive i•te.:l irreparably injured. imitations extend not only to the rare of this medicine, but to the Advertisements, Wrappers on tho Bottles, and every distinguishing mark except that which would involve the life of the depredator, namely, the words " Samuel Solomon, Liverpool," engraved on the Govenuneat :camp axed to each Bottle, to imitate which is felony, ar a z nishable as such. To this distinguishing mark the Ogle a is particularly directed, without which no • Cosmos. amain what ever has any claim to the merits of Dr. Solomon's wearies. tgr The genuine medicine is prepared at Oiloadikleets 1112 , Liverpool ; and sold by Mr. R. Johnston, es. Ceriddi; Mr. :anger, 150, Oxford-street ; Mr. 'Ward, Holborn ; Mr. Stradling, Royal Exchange, Londe ; and all Medicine Venders, IA bottles at t is. each ; and Famny bottles, containing the quantity of four tinal! ones, for 335. 4.13. Be careful to ask for " Doctor Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gikad`," and look at the name on the Stamp. (The paper produced.) You swear that that Is Mr. Gobles handwriting ?—I do. The writing was acknowledged by the prisoner. The paper bore date on board of the Andromache, and sated the prisoner's recollection of having given a sum of money to Maclntyre to pay the ship's crew their sa vings in colonial money. Was any part of ship's company's savings between the lit of November and the 7th of January following paid in kind ?—Part of the bread due to the ship a company was paid in kind between those dates.—You have seen this paper (the receipt), purportin; to be an account of the sums of money paid to the ship's com pany ? I have... Were any of these savings paid in kind ? No; some of them had bread paid to them in, kind; bat it is so long back I cannot point out whern. l Can you explain to the Court why there have been savings paid in kind and in money likewise? It had been a customary thing, both before and after I joined the ship, to pay them savings in kind.—When did you join the ship? On the 10th February,lB23. Cross-examined by the Prisoner: Why did I give you this acknowledgment? I thought it essential to contradict the public assertion made by you, Mr. Goble, on the Andromache's quarter-deck, before Captain Moorsom and Lieutenant 'Fait, that you knew nothing at all of the payment of savings to the ship's company between the Ist of November, 1821, and 7th January, 1825.—Did I not tell you, in the month of Jnne, 1825, after I was sent for on dec k,l being the day after I was out of the sick list, that I had totally forgotten the cir cumstance, till you had reminded me that you had given me the change back? You told me so, in your own cabin, on the same day, after the public assertion on the quarter•deck. The witness was ordered to withdraw. Captain Moors= was recalled, and the fourth Charge was proceeded in. This witness stated, that it was in June last that the debtor and creditor account to which the charge relates was brought to me by the Senior Lieutenant, being a document which I had directed the Purser, by a writ ten order, to make out ; it was a debtor and creditor account of slops issued to and saved by the Madagascar boys between July, 1824, and May, 1825, including the whole period of their being on board the ship. In this account there was a specification of the rum of 71. odd, as having been paid to Lieut. Tait by my orders. By the Conav—Paid by whom? By the Purser; I gave a written order for a very different appropriation of the money.— Do you hew that this sum was ever paid by the Purser to Lieut. Tait ? Ido not know that it Was. In the paper that was given to you, stating the sum ,of 71. Is. Bd. to have been paid to Lieutenant Tait, was I ( that counterbalanced by dill savings of the Madagascar boys. or was it a direct account charged to Lieutenant; Tal, ?—The account in question was on the right hand side of the sheet, and on the left hand side was stated the value of the savings of the boys between the Ist of November and the 7th of January. It appeared to me that the right hand specification was intended to ac count for the items on the left hand side. Mr. James Jones Towsey, the keeper of the records at the Victual:ing Office, produced the debtor and cre ditor statement above alluded to, officially entered at .he Victualling Office ; he likewise produced the ac t companyiag later of Captain Moorsom, bearing date 17th June, containing a similar account of the trans , . action with that which he gave to the Court-Martial. Lieutenant Taft was then recatied. By the COURT appears (rein an account from the Victualling Office, that 71 Is. Bd. said to be tie savings of some Madagascar boys,between lit Novem bee and 7th January, serving on board the Andromache, was paid to you some time between the above periods; did you receive such sum ? No—State to the Cour t what you know relative to the fourth charge,which you have just heard read. In the early part of January, when the new system of victualling commenced on board of the Andromache, Captain Moorsom told me that the Madagascar boys might have money or slops for their savings or provisions, as might be most adv an lagecus for them. I told Captain Moorsom that 1 wou'd enquire into the matter myself; and about the tf January I went on shore for the express purpose,l baying previously obtained. from the Purser, and I believe also from the Seward, a rough account oil what was due to these boys, which shewed a balance of seven pounds odd. I also obtained, 1 think, fiorn the Purser's S.evrissai, the pi ices of the various articles of the !slop clothing; I got from the Purser's Steward, t o th e best of thy recollection, the.length of time it would re quire before their savings of provisions from the end of January to corer an issue of one blue jacket and a pair of trowsers; during this time Captain Moorsom was absent; on 11:s return, vitich I betteie was on the 26th, I reported to him th it the slop clothes were cheaper and better than could be purchases' on slime. I asked Captain Moorsom if he would sanction the issue of one blue jacket and one pair of trowaers to each boy, stating at tile same time, that such issue would bring the boys in debt, but that about three weeks would clear it off? At the time I made the report I was led to believe that 71. odd was all that was due up to the 7th of January. It has since appeared that a larger sum was due, and, therefore, less time required than three weeks to pay off the debt. Captain Moorsom sanctioned the issue of one bluejacket and pair of traw lers to each boy, which were accordingly issued two or three days afterwards, in my presence. Did the •prisoner ever charge you with having re ceived from him the sum of 71. Is. Bd. the savings of the Madagascar boys?—Never, until I saw it in the statement made about the 13th ef June. When the pri soner was desired to say when Such payment bad been made to me, he said, either in January or February. The account paper was brought to me on the quarter deck by Mr. Long, the clerk, who asked me if I ever received such sum ? I said no, it must be a mistake of the purser, and I went to the Captain, and told him no such payment had been made to me. Captain Moor som, in my presence, desired the prisoner to put dates 'against the several items in the statement ; and when brought to the Captain, no sates appeated against the charge of 71. Is. BJ. This witness was cold to withdraW, and Captain idoononi called to prove ttsa iftb charge. • • By the COURT.... Please to state to the Cclurt what you know of this charge?--Did the prisoner state to you that he had paid to Lieutenant Tait the savings , of the Madagascar boys between the Ist November and 7th January, amounting to 71. Is. 81? On the quarter: .l deck, in . June, he con fi rmed the statement contained in the paper, as to his having paid the sum therein men tioned to Lieutenant Tait =Was that coufirmation of she statement made in presence of the Lieutenant? Yes.—What was the Lieutenant's answer to that charge?, He told me that he had never received it.—Did yea! lever give an order to the prisoner to pay to Lieutenant Tait the savings of the Madagascar boys in Colonial currency, or otherwise? I did give verbal directions to' the prisoner to pay a small balance, which, by an ac count he presented to me, appeared to be due to the boys for savings up to the 10th of April, into the hand, of Lieutenant Tait, and I hold in< my hand that accounts which is for, provisions saved, and certain slops issued ; and I believe the balance was paid in Cape currency. —lt appears in this official document th it, by Captain Moorsom's order, 71. Is. Bd. was paid by the purser to Lieutenant Tait: if I understood you rightly, you never gave any such order ? I did not. By the Jul= Aovocntra—Did the prisoner persist, in your presence. that he had paid the sum in question to Lieutenant Tait, after the Lieutenant bad denied having received it? He declined answering any ques. tions, on the plea that the subject was t 3 form matter for future investig ition. Cross-examined by the Prisoner—How many Mada gascar bays were borne on full allowance on the ship's books? I think there were fourteen.—When did you join the ship? On the 2'2d October, or thereabouts.— Js this the order of the 15th November, to which you have already referred? It is. —(This order was direct ing the purser to issue only two-thirds of the usual quantity of previsions, and no spirits; and not allow ing the savings thereon to be paid in money without his permission). Captain MOOTSOIII was then directed to withdraw, and, at the request of the prisoner, lint. Tait was recalled. By the Prisoner—When this account was shewn to you by Captain Moorsom, and when 1 was present, being the ISth of June, 1825, and Capt4in Moorsom demanding of you whether it was correct, did you not immediately point to the second and third account. and afterwards say that Mr. Goble had once paid you sixty dollars, when Captain Moorsom said, that will do for another investigation? Did such conversation pass ?—I pointed out the second statement as being incorrect, not having received the sum of 71. Is. BJ. and in explaining how Mr: Goble might have made the mistake of a pay ment of about sixty tie dollars, as compensation to the Madagascar boys, to be kept until Captain Moorsom's arrival, for a decision whether these boys were to have compensation money, and which money was returned to Mr. Goble. After making this explanation, Capt. Moorsom stopped it, and said that it would be the mat ter of future investigation. or words to that effect. 1 considered he meant the history of the 71. Is. Bd. By the COURT—Were the sixty dollars in your pos session at the time of this conversation? No; the sixty dollars alluded to were lodged about the 9th April, and returned about the 14th of the same mouth, and thie conversation took place in June. How could you suppose that the prisoner alluded to he sixty dollars, when they lied been returned on the ••••.11.m.m. IP ROM A PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. Accounts hare, ust been printed, by order of the House of Commons, relating to the duties, exports, im ports, population, schools, churches, and marriages, of the colony of Sierra Leone. No antics were levied or received in this colony, ac cording to these accountit; prior to the month of August, 1811, and for the latter half of that year the amount collected did not exceed 1011.5:. Id. In the following year, however, they amounted to 2,1751.195. 4d. brit in the years 1813, 1814, and 1815, they-do not appear to have exceeded an average of 1,5001. In 1816, they amounted to 2,4471. 16s. 6d. and in the ensuing years, until 1821, they rose to 3,4, 5, and 6,0001. In the year 1823, they are returned at 8,7301. Bs. from the Collector's books: The exports, which are from the years 1817 to 1823 inclusive, are given in hulk, but not in value, and consist of the produce of Africa in its various states of preparation. Hides, mats, tiger skins, gold dust, monkey skins, stuffed birds, honey, nuts, oils and wax, wood of various kinds, indigo, cc ffee, rice, lime juice, and African curiosities ; these principally com pose the list of exports, and denote a state of celonixa tion not very much advanced in the cultivatigkehiaits and manufactures. The imports are alsn given, but they aws . .in k waka, (not in quality),during the same period, andluwasinett conveyed in ships from London, Liverpool, and %WA, • and the invoice value during the year itimr--A.K.. 72,5161. Is. 2id. in 1818, 94,79 W. 14s. 54d. -lerwOrs the following year, 1819, it to 80,8681. I. Hide • and in 1820, it was only 66,7251.95.4 In 1821, how ever, the invoice value is quoted at 105,060/. 15s. 10V. in 1822 at 85,3501. 14s. 83. in 1823 at 121,4421.185.1 and in 1824 at 80,9171. 12s. Bd. • A census of the population of the colony is also given for 1818, 1820, and 1822. No census of the •colony appears to have been taken at the time of its transfer, to the Crown, neither was any taken in 1817. The order transmitted from the Colonial Office required, up to the latest time, a complete census of the population, exclusive of the military ; distinguishing the Europesm, Nova Scotians, disbanded African soldiers, Kroomer, other African emigrants, and liberated Africans; dis tinguishing also the sexes, tie number of persons mar ried, who have learned to read and write, and the num ber actually enjoying the means of Christian education. This last order has not yet been complied with, so far as the completion of the census, but it will be finished when the Gjvernor (General Turner) returns troth the Gold Coast. The grand total of population, according to the cen sus last taken in 1822, is 15,081, of 'which little more than one-third belongs to Freetown. It is chiefly com posed of the following classes :—West Indians and Americans, 48 men, 19 women, 18 boys and girls. Of natives, 1,327 men, 977 women, and above 1,200 boys and girls. Liberated Af ricans, 3,312 men. 1,956 ! women, and between 2,000 and 3,000 boys and girls. Discharged soldiers, 1,103; and Kroomen (whoappear • to be a migratory race, coast intly moving to and from the colony), 947. Between the census of 1817 and 1818 there appears 4to have been an increase of populat•on of 2,252 indivb. .duals, including 1,190 captured negrces ; and between the latter, and that taken in 1822, there is an increase of 2,956 persons, including 943 liberated' Africans, and .1,030 discharged soldiers from West Indian and African corps. ' The returns of schools spew within the last three ..Yr• four years a very considerable in:rea-e of nu mbc - s. in 1817, the number of men, WJElle I) and children I:1 course of education did not 1111,141 exceed 400. On we