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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED eiIitPAVY of MERCIIAATS of ENGLAND trading lc the EAST INDIES, do lambi ea Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held by adjournment at their House, in LeadenhaU-street, on FIIIDAY next, the 25th instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of continuing the consideration " of the Hydrabad Papers now before the Proprietors, as far as they respect the coo l' duet of the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastin gs, late Governor -41 General of India." CA MBRI DGE-H SE. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVA'fR OU CONTRACT, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent.atreet). THE LEASE, FURNITURE, and FIXTURES of the noble and sincious Mansion, CAMBRIDGE-HOUSE, Situate in South Audiey-street contiguous to Hyde-Park, with large Garden, Stables. Coach- Houses, Btc. To be viewed by Tickets, which, with Particulars, may be had of Mr. Robin s , N o . 170, Regent -street. Lord NUGENT presented the Petition of the British Borg; Catholic Committee, of which he bad givep notice, against the IV' before the House. The Noble Lord said; Pit liholild o:‘,tpane his observations upon it to a more fitting opportunity, ard that It was signed by the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Stourton, Lord Arundel', and several of the most ctable tbolic Gentry in England.—The Petition was orders, to be primed. Mr. Secretary PEEL gave notice, that on Thursly he •hould move for leave to bring in a Bill ,to Consolidate the 'Laths relating to Juries. . . # 4, EVPPLY. • 7'y •.7 • ;• JOSEPH DART, Sea Wall' VlZTlLifiiwc-9FF104 . karma* le, Oa' T HE COMMISSIONERS FOR VICTUALLING his MAJESTY': NAVY, 4c. do hend'S She Notice, - - - That on FRI DAY, the 25th inst. they will be ready to receive 'tenders ih writing (sealed up), and treat for the Supply, on sepa rate Contracts, of all such quantities of LOAF BREAD and FRESH BEEF as may be required for the Officers and Men at- tached to the First Division of the Coast Blockade for the Preven tion of Smuggling in the County of Kent. The Supplies, under both Contracts, to commence on the 15th March next, and term!: nate—the Loaf Bread on the 30th September, and the Fresh Beef on the 31st December following. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office, or by applying to Captain M'Culloch, at Deal; Mr. Stokes, Agent for the Victualling, at Chatham ; and to the Purser of the Division. Each Tender must specify the •price Id words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed, and must be accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible Persons en. gaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Pena sum of Three Hundred Pounds, for the; due performance of the Loaf Bread Contract, and of Five Hundred Pounds for the Fresh . Beef Contract. 'MIDDLETON HALL?, near CAERMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES. The Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on hls behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. ;FALLER CLIFTON. BRANDE'S PHARMACY. On the 7th of March will be published, AMANUAL of PHARMACY. By WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE, Esq. Professor of Chemistry and Materia Media' to the Society of Apothecaries of the City of,Loadon. In One Volume, Octavo. 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The trial of Lord Cobham cdnunencea the series, but, in an Ap- . pendia, others anterior have Wert eonectedirom the early Chroni cles, and a condensed view has also been given of the several trials for Religious Opinions and for Witihcraft.—The design of the work, the first of its kind in our language, has been to avoid the technical prolixity of the State Trials, and the vulgarity of the Newgate Ca. kndar, and to produce a popular and tasteful work, on a class of subjects which possess inexhaustible chime on eutiodty,and a never failing intensity of interest. London : Printing for Knight and Lacey, Pateitiolter:fo* ;* Wtstley and Ttrrdl, Dublin; tad all Bodirs+lleh. 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This day was published, in Two Volumes Post Octavo, price 135. in boards; FIT2ALLEYNE•OF BERKELEY; a ROMANO!, of the present Times: full of Facts, Fancies, and Recollec tions, Trials and '!'a les, and Strange Conceits. By BERNARD BLACK MANTLE, Author of the English'Spy, &c. &c. Published by Sherwood, Jones, and`Co. Paternoster-row; and sold by the Bookstllen of Olonetster, Cheltenham, and Bath. I , . THX ICONCLUOIXO CONTRACT. S*iFT! and Co. respectfully inform the Public, thin the lkiseme (to be all decided in One Day, 12th APRIL( contains FOUR Prizes of £llO,OOO, with Forty other Capitals, and many Prizes, as usual, of smaller value, downto £SO . Every Ticket will be entitled tb, at least, €5. ills last feature rendered the late Lotteries very popular, .and is therefore continued in the present Scheme. A great variety. of Numbers are selling at the old Others of SWIFT and Co. 11, Poultry; %2, and 51, AWgate High-street, Losidess, cod by their Agents itt 111 , the principal Country Towns. •-•• • . lii. B, s w Ifrand Ce. veil Mk etikblkslbia PARLIAMENPARY PROCKEIMMGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 21. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice, that be should move the second reading of the Scotch Judicature Bill on Thurs. daT, and moved that the Lords be summinted.—Ordered. fhe Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the Merchants and Traders of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, praying for an alteration in the Laws for the Recovery of Small Debts.—Laid on the table. Earl DARNLEY said that he held a Petition from an indivi dual of whom he knew nothing, but which, from the importaneeof the subject to which it related, he thought it his duty to present. It was front a person called John Burridge, who stated that be had invented a mode of curing the dry tot, and prayed that a minute inquiry Ix instituted into the stateof the Royal Navy, as it alleged that for a considerablemeriod, it hid been one sof decay, in' consequence of dry rot. He himself (Lord Darnley) did not be-, liege the assertions and reports which had been circulated on that subject, and trusted that, by presenting that Petition, he should afford his Noble Friend opposite, at the bead of the Admiralty, an opportunity of contradicting them, and abetting What was the reel. state of the Navy.—The Petition baying been read, Vis Count :MELVILLE was happy to be able to state that the assertions that the Navy was io a state of decay were unfounded. In consequence of the reports which bad prevailed on that subject, a most minute inquiry had been made some time since by or-' der of the Admiralty, and the result had been most satisfactory: It had appeared, indeed, that in a "few instances, beams of ships bad decayed, but that,- upon the Whole, the Royal Navy had never been in a sounder state than it was at present. Thit.rinteluenli contained in the Petition were, therefore. entirely Unfounded. To ward, the close of the last war, it had become necessary to build .a great number of ships With considerable celerity, atilt) oh that ac count timber . had been employed from our Colonies in North America, and from the North of Europe, he was sorry to say, of as inferior quality, to which might be attributed, in a great measorr; the partial cases of decay which had occurred. But it was his firm belief that if the Navy Board should confine theinselves, as It was intended, -..t0 the practice of taking only sound well-seasoned oak, there would be no future danger or dry rot, and nothing would sr- . feet the durability of ships thus built. With the exception which he had mentioned, he could assure their Lordships, and the Public might rely, that the result of a minute inquiry of some years, had been most satisfactory, and that the general state of the ships of the British Navy was perfectly sound. Earl DARNLEY was glad to find that his opinion was correct, and that the general state of the Navy was sound. He could give his own testimony in regard of one particular ship, about which reports had been current, the Howe. When taken into dock at Sheerness, instead of being bound in a bad state of decay, the Howe was in suck an excellent condition that there scarcely ever had been seen so sound a ship. From this that. Lordships might form some estimate of the general state of the Navy, and of the correct ness of the reports which had been circulated. Having turned his attention for many years to that subject, he was able to declare that from the manner in which the Navy Board was conducted, and from the extraordinary skill and ability displayed, it was his belief that the Royal Navy had never, at any one period, been In a better condition than it was at present. Earl GROSVENOR asked from what part the timber wed : at the cicse of the last war had been obtained? Viscount :MELVILLE replied, that it came partly from our Colonies in North America, and partly from the North of Europe. The Petition was then laid en the table. Mr. PASKUOUIN presented the First Report etbe Tanjore Com missioners, and the Second Report of the Carnatic Commis: sioners.—Laid on the Table. Mr. Mauer, from the Tax Office, presented copies of the deci sions of the Commissioners of Taxes, in matters of taxation.—Laid, on the table. Mr. Mason, from the East rndia House, presented Accounts old the Salaries and Pensions granted by the East India Company (hir ing the preceding year.—Laid at the table.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being a call of the House fixed for this day, the galleries were not opened until nearly five o'clock, The call was understgod not to have been enforced. Lord BKCTIVE presented a Petition from the Barony of Castle. town, in the County of Meath, against the Bill for preventing illegal Associations in Ireland.—Ordered to be laid on the table. Similar Petitions were presented from the parish of St. Mary's,' Dublin, by Mr. GRATTAN ; from the county of Kilkcnny,.by Mr. AGAR LAM ; two from parishes, the names of which we could not hear, by Lord Moron and Sir J. Nrwroar ; from the parishes of St. Michael's and St. John's, Dublin, by Mr. 'await ; from Terp. plemore, in the county of Tipperary:by Mr. Huns; four from the county of Cork, by Mr. C. nonhuman ; from the parish of Mary borough and another place in the Queen's County,-by Sir H. PAR NELL ; from the Catholic Inhabitants of Birmingham, by Sir F. Bosom:; from Kilmore. by Sir F. BURDETT ; three from Athlone Blackehurch, and another place by Mr. AGAR ELLIS from certain parishes in the county of Cork, by Mr. Baouonam ; and from the' parish of St. Katharine's, Dublin, by Mr. Assiteadatre. The Honourable Members generally expressed their concur rence in the prayer of the Petitions, which were severally ordered to be printed. Mr. GOULBURN presented a Petition signed by above 2,000 respectable Inhabitants and Freeholders of the city of Dublin, stating that they viewed with alarm the proceedings of the Catholic Asso ciation, and praying for its suppression.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. H. DAVIS presented a similar Petition from the Inhabi tants of the Parish of Temple, in the city of Bristol.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. BROUGHAM called the particular attention of the House to a Petition which be held in his hand from three individuals re siding in Dublin, named James Alcock, Alcock, and —.- Henderson. The Petition would skew that two of the positions upon which the Bill before the House was grounded, were false. It refuted the assertion that no difference was made between the Catholic and the Protestant in Ireland, and that the Catholic Asso ciation was Not beneficial to the people. The Petitioners com plained, that being qualified by birth and servitude to become cor porators of the City of Dublin, they bad been refused that right be cause they were Catholics. The Hon. and Learned Member said he would stake his reputation as a lawyer upon the assertion, that this right was as clear as that where a man possessed of an estate in fee died, his son should inherit it. This was afterwards decided to be the case• upon application being made to the Court of King's Bench,whith Court granted a writ of Mandamus, by virtue of which the Petitioners now sat as corporators. Now the fact was, that these were poor men, and had been enabled to acquire their rights by the interference of the Catholic Association. _ _ _ Sir J. NEWPORT said, that the hardships experienced by the Petitioners were of &sill , occurrence. There were some cases still more aggravated ; for sometimes the writ of mandamus was resisted by the Corporation, and the parties were put to the expense of a second application to the Court. Under these circumstances he contended that it was Impossible fir a poor man to obtain his rights. On the other baud, in order to maintain the ultra Protestant faction, persons of a very low condition were adMitted to the Cor poration by the payment of half the usual fees. This 'hewed that the poor Were as much interested in the equalization of civil rights, as the proudest Nobleman in the Roahn—(Hear, hear.)—The Pe lion was ordered to be printed. . Lord EAS'I N 011.Lnc-seated a petition from Hereford, in hicksr of the County Courts Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Sir T. LETIIBRIDGRpresented a Petition fast Arbridie, praying for a Repeal of the Astessed Taxes. Ordered to be printed. Mr. 'l. WILSON moved for Returns of the quantky of Coals importeu tram the I'oi u of Newcastle and Sunderlaud, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, specifying the names of the collieries from which they were imported, said the quinthiis of ,mill chili astd screened.—Ordered. Lord EISRINOTON presented a Petition from the toarnot Tavistock, praying for a Repeal of the Duty on Seaborne Coals.— Ordered to be printed., Mr. HERRIES presented a Petition from the .liorough of Harwich, in favour of the St. Cathetim's Dock Ml.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. H. DAVIS presepted a Petition from the Parish of St. John's, in the County of Ulosicertet, prgiug a Repeal of the House and Window Tex.—Ordered to'be - printed. RU BOLiD presented o Petithin'froth Ylurtnonth, praying for alto/real of the Assessed 'Fates.—Ordered to be Ointed. ablso t o Petition from Ipswich, icaavour of the Sc. Catherine's Dock Bill..—Ordcrect t kjituitcd. a . 1.. • • • , Celt . . ~ii.t•'~li ------- . Upon-the motion of Sir G. IcLERK, the 'Movie' # a Committee of supply. ,•:. ; ! Sir GEO. CLERK, after some prelimitamtObSerTS dons, remarked that the charge for the itenlficere itt the Dock-yards would hive been lest, had tberenot hrenn deduction in, the produce of thesstores. hi the sec;pd division there was a considerable reduction, whicat tt ould have been still.greater if some items to be accounted for had not been included in the Estimates., In the Ordinary Estimatesthe Works-at Bbeemess 'occasioned a sucirethan usual charge, iin coosequence of its haviug been recommendal to go on with them at aTmote sapid rate than was originally conterhplated. By that nseaas a shorter period world be contumed in thet completion, and a saving of some moment effeoeii. : The next charge he should notice was that for the'llreakwater, at Plywriabth Sound. From the expeaserMatrecting a Light-house, and in finishing the - portal the grefilt water where thatbuilding was Lb be constructed with cut stones of very large dimensions, thii item had swelled to a larger amount than usual. The Bleak water itself had suffered- from the heavy gales on tlie 2 4 1c1 of last November ; and to guatd against furtlaer accidents, it. was snggested that the middle of the work should be finished in the sarnemanner as the ends, with large cut stoner. Commis-tioners had accordingly been sent down by the Admiralty to investigate this part of the subifet, but notwithstanding the additional expense which might be to in curred, the whole charge would be considerably within the original estimate of 1812. The Hon. Baronet, after adverting briefly to the cost of the Victualling, sat down by moving—" Th.tt a suns not exceeding 54,81&. St. ld. be granted to his Majesty for defray ing the expenses of the Admiralty Office." 'Mr. HUME could not conceive how t4e present sum should . be required, if the promises which Ministers had ; made were attended to.; instead of teduciug the expense of ,the Navy, by one or, two .millions, they were greater than in 1817. Our Navy was now equal to that of the whole world, and he saw no reasul yrhy we should always be in a state to go to war, wit t all the powers of the globe united. It also was most im portant that the amber of Officers on half-,pay and allowance should bearansfeired to, full pay when va cancies occurred. The promotions were note- with. the exception of one year, eqoal to what they had been during the war. Every one who could possibly be re moved to the half-pay a list was so disposed of to 'make room for new appointments. In such a 'system there was manifestly something wrong. In a few days he shoed move for an account of the number of promo dims in the last year. The year before the last war the charge for the Navy was but two millions and a half, and now iewas five millions and a half. A miltion of Money was also expended in building ships si n ce the peace, while numbers or them Were daily going to de cay. One half of the Navy was now completely use less from the dry rot, and that in itself was a subject requiring the minutest investigation. One year oil Was used as a' preventive, another time coal tar, and anofter time salt. .He wished to know whether his Majesty's Ministers had yet made up their minds as to which was the best? The employment of steam, he thought, would entirely alter the eye tem of warfare in narrow seas, and he ithould therefore recommend the present system of ship-building to be relinquished. The .ex passes at Sheerness he considered to be superfluous—for dur ;tithe war that dock was dispensed !rich, when the Nasy arnouieed to 1000 ships, and hereafter steam-vessels would answer all tl o pun. pines for which that' cog/1y undertaking was commenced. With respect to the Colonies, he thought they ought to defray their own expeliset—he likewise objected to the £12,000 for the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, until it was *hewn that any beat& was likely to accrue fxont it. Mr. ROBERTSON deprecated the mischievous po licy recommended by the Hon. Member (Mr. Hume). British merchant vessels now covered the waters of the whole globe,and the protection required for them was very different from that which was necessary when our trade did not extend be yond a few degrees from the British shore. Should hostilities coin. mence, every foreign merchant vessel would be made a privateer. Mr. TIPME explained.—The vote was then agreed to. • Sir G. CLERK moved a sum not exceeding £29,633 ls. 6d. for the Navy Pay Office. After a few words from Mr. Hums and Sir DTA,. Maseito, the vote was agreed to. _ _ _ Sir G. CLERK moved, that a sum of .C 56,760 15s, be • gospvd for theßalaries and contingent expenses of the Navy Office. Mr. HUME objected to the grAnt ; but after some short satis factory explanation from Sir B. MARens. it was agreed tn. Sir G. CLERK moved that .€33,977 10s. be grained for the Victualling Office.—Agreed to. Sir G. CLRRK then moved £157,176 51. ed. for the eepens e s of his Majesty's Dock-yards at home. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, made some obser vations respecting the discharge of artificers, shipwrights. &c. front the dock-yards in Kent, while those in Plymouth and rrr tsnio uth were retained. Sir G. CLERK wished to inform the Hon. Baronet what the facts of the case really were. When a reduc tion in the number oflitipwrights was resolved on two or three years ago, the superfluous hands were given the option of remaining to perform other sorts of work at lover rate of wages. They concnrred in that ar rangement ; but in last autumn the shipwrights in the dock-yards on the Thames expresse.l dissatisfaction, and "they were told that if they disliked their terms, they were at liberty to seek employment elsewhieie. The shipwrights at Plymouth agreed to the proposal ; and he believed those in Kent, when they left his Majesty's docklards, would have found no difficulty in getting employment `lis private yards. Mr. HUSKISSON observed, that to his knowledge there was at present a great demand for ship wrights in the private yards on the River Thames; hat owing to a spirit of coisbinatide inktotig that -clues of artificers, and a desire to ,dictate kerns their' employers, he believed. numbers of item 'Were now out of work. If such conduct were persisted • he bad no hesitation in .acknowledging it would go lir to indace those who were most. friendly to the li berty of industry to call upon the House to 'reconsider the measure of last year which had been adopted with a Welk to the advaittar of the working classes. Within a fe* days Omits willing to give employment to ship wrights at a fair rate of wa g es had called upori him, ai,d -stated that they chord' not obtain .men to, accept goo.l arta reasimitbk wages; ftir their otrq Inter she geed !lase pro ceedblisliolftti *tardy terminitr, dna.* Vie• otamor inky . • - /. .rte 1:i. tt ,170"rft •'rt! •• •• • .- • BERKSHIRE. VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, FREE OF GREAT TITHES. DELIGHTFUL SPORTING BOX, MANOR WELL STORED WITH GAME, AND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX ACRES Of Meadow, Arable, and Wood Land; with Farm-Houses and Buildings. T 6 BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent-street), A.VALIJAS . LE FREEHOLD ESTATE, nee of GlticAT TITHES, with. a MANOR well stored with Pherants and Game. A NEAT SPORTING BOX, Wkh Offices, Coach-house, Stable, good Garden, Ste. seated in a Paddock, presenting a Park-like appearance. apital Farms, with Farm-house, and Buildings, and nearly THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX ACRES Of Meadow, Arable, and Wood Land, situate in a fine healthy part of the County of Betts, contiguousto good Market Towns, near the Craven Hunt, and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and in a Neigh bourhood of the first respecability. Particular, of Mr. Robins, 170, Regent-street. + ', - A