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QUCI -1 PERSONS as are desirous of con t ract i ng with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish for Twelve Months, front the 25th June next, such quantities o f COALS and CAN DLES as may from time to time be re cl:iictt, for sundry Barracks and Stations in the undermentioned Coanties and [stands, may receive Particulars of the Contracts nn applying at this Office, between the Hours of Ten and Four and to the respective I3arrack Masters in the Islands of Guern. s o-, Jersey, and Alderney, and deliver their Tenders at this Of f:e, as follows, viz. Tenders for supplying Coals, sealed up, and marked " Tender for Coals," until Twelve o'Clock on Tuesday, the 3d June. Tenders for supplying Candles, sealed up, and marked " Ten. dtr for Candles," until Twelve o'Clock on Thursday, the sth June; but no l'roposal, either for Coals or Candles, will be no ticed unless made on, or annexed to a printed Particular, and the Prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a letter he sub joined to such Propo*al front two Persons of known Property, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the stint expressed in the Particulars, for the due performance of the Contract. EAST INDIA HOUSE, May 17,, 1823. THE CO URt of DIRECTORS ?f the UNITED CO2IP.ANY if MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, troilism to the EAST INDIES, do hereby g ive Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company. will be held at their House in Letdenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th instant, from Ninno'Clock in the Morning until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR of this Company, in the room of Jcissfk COTTON, Esq. who bath dis qualified. APSEPH DART, Secretary. PARLIAMENTAR Y PROCEEDINGS. signed by some respectable names; he beggeclOovi evef, to state, that the parties who hid got np that ion, were themselves trustees. Mr. MA BERIN said, the constituent's of the H , illeu,b n. came forward in direct opposition to the Act of last Se‘sion, praying that the stamp might remain: Ile only hoped - that the stamp-Masters would rely on the Petitions brought before the House for the recited allowances clflrned by them. : Mr. MARItYATT supported the Petition, coti sid•.i•ing that continuing the stamp was uecessary; and calculated to render service. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 13. In the appeal of " John Reid, Esq. v. Jean Reid, otherwise Laing," front the Court of Session, the judgment of yesterday was read at length, and confirmed by this House. Mr. liciocorx, Sir Timis, ACKLAND, 3lr. Cu aw EN, and others, Isrought up the Irish Excise Duties Bill, the Foreign Wit nesses' Examination Bill, the Woolwich Gas Lighting Bill, .a some private Bills, which were afterwards read a first time. The Earl of DARNLEY, in reference to the Irish Parlia mentary business, was anxious to know whether the NiLle Earl opposite was able to tell their Lordships when the renewed Irish Insurrection Act was likely to come up front the other House? If there existed a necessity for expediting its passage, when it eventually did come before them, he hoped that, in the mean time, their Lordships would be furnished with ample information on the state of Ireland, from the correspondence which was admit ted to have occurred since the commencement of the Seision. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that he should certainly be most happy to satisfy the Noble Lord respecting the object of his inquiry, if it really were in his power to do so. Every one was aware that the Bill named by the Noble Lord was going on in the other House ; but it was impossible for him to pronounce, from the state of business in that House, when the Bill would actually be sent up to their Lordships. When that measure came before this House, be wished to give their Lordships all the information which had reached the Government here. This day was published, • In Two Volumes, price lA. in boards, WILLOUGHBY; or. Reforrnation. The influ- ence of Religious Princirles. By the Author of Daemon, CA ROLINC ORMSBY, Stc. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, Waterlod•place, PaU-mall; and St. Paul's Church-yard. This day were published, in Bvo. 10% 6.1. MR. BARRY CORNWALL'S NEW POEMS, containing the FLOOD of THESSALY, the GIRL of Pao- VENCIL, and four others. Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. Conduit -streets In a few days will be published, 1 11 MEMOIRS of WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. the Friend and biographer of Cowper. WRITTEN - BY IHMSECF. The Earl of DARNLEY still pressed for information ad in terim, till the coming up of the Bill.; but this intimation was not acceded to. And containing a variety of Letters and Anecdotes of the most eminent Men of his time, Extracts from his Private Cor respondence, &c. &c. Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. Conduit-street; and Sinipkin and lUarshall, Stationers'-Hall.court. Tenders to be made for the several Counties, and separate Earracks and Stations as specified in the Particulars of Contracts. It 'leaders are scut by I'ost the Postage must be paid. COUNTIES, &c. • liras Hants Pembroke Brecknock Isle of Man Suffolk Chester Isle. of Wight Somerset Cornwall Kent Surrey I.7umberland Lancaster • Sussex Devon Middlesex Warwick Dorset Norfolk York Durham Northumberland North Britain Essen Northampton Islands of Guernsey, Gloucester Nottingham Jersey, & Alderney. This day WAS published, in Sta. price £l. 13s in beards, THE FIFTH VOLUME of Dr. LINGARD'S HISTORY of ENG LANII; containing the Reigns of tie Qatens. Maar and ELIZAAETII. Printed for J. Mawman, Ludgate-street. CV wboni'may be had, the Four preceding Volumes. TIAls day WAS published, in Bvo. price 12s. boards, • _ Ti' II E LUCUBRATIONS OF HUMPHREY 11 RAVELIN, Esq. late Major of the • • Regiment of Infantry. • We'd e'en to't like French falconers, fly at anything we see." Sue ssraa Printed for 6. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-laue. " The best papers in the vulume are unquestionably those of a general character. The Essays on Modern Extravagance and Chatity are evidently the work of a man who has read life with an eye of wisdom. The observations are faithful to fact, and the remarks either ingenious or suund."—Literaty Gazette, larch 22, 1823. This dayivere publi4bed, With a striking Likeness of Geniral ItzecO, Otto. price 7s. 6d. - boards, A NECDOTES of the SPANISH and PORTU GUESE REVOLUTIONS. -- By COUNT PECCIIIO, an Italian Exile. With an Introduction awl Notes. By EDWARD BLAQUIERE, Esq. Author of " Letters from the Mediterraneap," " An Historical Review of the Spanish Revolution," Ste. Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-lane. •, Proof Impressions of the Portrait may be bad separate, price 2s. Gd. This work appears to be the offspring of an elegant, ardent, sod sprightly mind ; they are, indeed, distinguished by prettiness of remark, or bon mut, rather than by depth of view or serious ness of reflection. The well-wishers to the cause of constitutional Spain, will be glad to hod Count PiTchio as authority for very considerable rekources against foreign interference, contained in the national character of that country."—Literary Register, March 15, 1825. LITERATURE. 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Matthias Robinson, Inventor of the above highly esteemed Articles, respectfully cautions the Public against spurious imi tations offered for Sale; and which the Venders have unblushingly stated to be Robinson's Preparation, or the same as Robinson's. The Prepared Barley, and Prepared Groats, are Patronized by the first Medical Practitioners in the Metropolis ' and in every part of the Kingdom where they have been introduced, and as they are generally used in cases of Illness, or as a peculiar hoe Food for Infants, too much care cannot betaken to prevent an improper commodity being substituted. M. R. begs to state, his Preparations are made from the knelt Pearl Barley, and beat Embden Grouts, under his own immediae inspection, and will keep in any Climate. sold wholesale and retail, by Matthias Robinson, 64, Red Lion -street, Holborn; Messrs. Butler, Chemists, 4, Cheapside, ht. Paul's; 220, Regent-street, London ; Waterloo-place, Edin burgh ; and Saekville-street, Dublin ; sole Agents for the Coun trY • and Retail, by the principal Druggists in the Kingdom, in 1;11. Packets, a: Sd. and Tin Canisters of 21b. each, at 24. a i l Be careful to ask for Robinson" Prepared Barley and Pkpared Groats, and toobserve none 13 Genuine which has not Lis 1 3311 C and Address prkned On each packet. COLONEL WHITE. We hive been requested to publish the 'following Letter, written in explanation of an unfounded state ment which appeared in the !Vest Briton, and was subsequently republished in the Times Newspaper of the 2241 . 0 f last month : « mit EDITOR OF THE WEST BRITON, a Having arrived from Portugal but a few days since, I did not ire tilPthis day your gaper, which contains an extract of a private letter from Lisbon, deted the 26th of March, wherein the writer pretends to details a circumstance' which lately occurred to a British Meer In Portugal, and which, he says, is considered high:g &trace/sof to the pinion concerned. Now, Mr. Editor, having reasons to suppose myself to be the person alluded to, it is necessary I should declare I am not a British Officer, having re- i signed my commission several years since. The rest of the pre fatory part of the said letter is nut more correct, and can only be the idle dream of some gossipping old woman, or the malicious • tale of some credulous newsmonger. But that I may fill up your 1 Paper as little as possible on a subject of such little public im portance, I proceed to the main point :—Your Correspo. dent says, ' When the insurrection of Count Amarante broke out, Colonel volunteered his services against the rebels; lie appeared before the Cortes, made an address, put his hand to his sword, and declared that be was ready to spill the last drop of 1 his blood in defence of the Constitution:—Now, Mr. Editor, 1 every word of this 'spat, SSORSLY FALSE ' excepting that I ap peared before the Cortes, aad made a short address, in which:l did not say one word of volunteering my services against the:rebels, or spilling my blood, &c.—Now follows the only part of the letter which is at all correct, viz. ' He was informed that his Majesty bad raised him to the rank of a Brigadier-General, ai:d appointed him to command a corps of cavalry, which was to act against the rebels: this command be or first accepted, but in a few hours, Ece. &e."—lt is quite false to say that I ever accepted it—my first and only communication to the Minister of War, and which was by letter, stated my objections to taking the command, adding, as was really the fact, that the state of my health would not allow me to exert myself with that.activity on horseback, which a command of such importance required ; and in the same letter I tendered my resignation, in case his Majesty should not he pleased to excuse me trom it. The reply did not inform me that I was dismissed from the service (as your Correspondent states) but that I was reformed, by which. was meant, that I was still to hold my rank in the service ; neither, as your friend goes on to say, was I placed under the observation of the Police. "This statement, Mr. Editor, is already too long ; but as you have given place in your Paper to the garbled and imaginary effusions of your Correspondent, 30 you cannot in justice refuse to insert a correct account. I ;hall conclude by copying an -ex tract from a paper published in Portugal on this subject, and . which contains the reasons I gave to the Portuguese Minister of War for declining the command in question : " Exmac-r—i It is well known how odious it hat ever been to a free People to see foreigners employed in repressing their in ternal commotions, which are always in consequence rather in flamed than pacified. This reason induced me to beg to be ex cused front the command, since I could wish to see Portugal In the enjoyment of peace, harmony, and every good which accom panies a Free and Constitutional Government, in order to be able to re'ist unitedly the attacks of those foreign enemies who may interfere with her political institutions, or attack her national in. dependence. In this sense I meant to be understood, when I spoke in presence of the Cortes. In a cause of this sort lam ever ready to take up arms, for then every feeling of jealousy to wards foreigners ceases, and all are brothers, when they fight tii gether in the noble cause of the defence of national liberty and independence. The conviction, therefore, that my services, in the command to which the Government had destined me, could not be advantageous to the nation, caused me to sacrifice the rank, honours, and lucrative emoluments which the Government so generously bestowed on me.' " These sentiments, Mr. Editor, I found to be those of every impartial person in Portugal ; and since I have returned to Ent land, I have been highly gratified by finding that, with little difference, they are those of the most enlightened men in this country. All the disgrace, therefore, Mr. Editor, rests with your Correspondent, who has caused to be published such gross and calumnious falsehoods. To me, indeed, would it have been highly di.gractfid had I accepted a command, which would have P made it my duty to have encouraged one part of the population 1 of Portugal to destroy the other, and whose animosity would • have been greatly increased by a foreigner being employed on it—such a ditty is only fit for those degenerate souls who feel like your Correspondent. i " I am, Mr. Editor of the W. B. yours, &ea (Signed) " GEORGE WHITE, " Reformed Colonel, Portuguese Service." ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR. A Sermon was lately preached at the New Church, Mary-la-bonne, by the Rev. H. G. Wurre, M.A. for the be nefit of the Royal Dispensary for Curing Diseases of the Ear. From the great success of the treatment of the Diseases for which this Charity was instituted, a handsome Collection was made in aid of its Funds, which was further incrraaed by a number of Donations' from those who were unable to attend. The Preacher, with much effect, dwelt on the forlorn situation of those who from deafness are excluded the benefits of public worship, and the social and instructive intercourse. of society. It was highly gratifying to hear his address to the patients pre- sent, who had obtained relief, and who bore their grateful testi-1 mony to what was so eloquently impressed on the audience. By the connection that exists between heating and speech, and the mutual sympathy of those organs, many cases of Deaf and Dumb have been successfully treated at this Institution; a remarkable instance may be noticed in a youth of 19, who, at the age of five years, lost the faculty of both hearing and speech, which conti nued without interruption until within these few weeks, when, on obtaining his hearing, the powers of speech followed, and thus le th faculties have been developed.—The benevolent views of this Charity are nut confined to the Metropolis, but extend to every part of the Country. Tke Earl of FURTESCUE presented a Petition from Iligham FeiTer.s, praying for the abolition of Colonial Slavery. Lord CALTHORPE presented Petitions to the above effect from the Inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Bir mingham, arid also from lake persons in the town of Sherborne. Upon the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWN, the amend ments in the L'ish Charitable Loans Society Rill were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Lord SUFFlELDpreacnteda Petition from the Corporation of Norwich, praying for the abolition of the Colonial Slave Trade. The same Noble Lord presented a Petition from the Trades men of Norwich, praying for the repeal of the Insolvent Act. All the foregoing Petitions were. respectively read, and laid upon the table of this House. Several Bills of a Local kind, and likewise the Quorum Ma gistrates' Bill and Union Duties Bill, were read a third time, passed, and Messengers sent to inform the other House thereof. At nearly six o'clock their Lordships adjourned till to-mor row morning at ten. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented a Petition from the Inhabit ants of Durham, praying for the gradual Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.—Ordered to be printed. Similar Petitions were presented from Frome-Selwood,Witham, Bridport, Belf.ut, Oldenby. the City of Gloucester, Loughbo rough, Dudley, Worcester, Norwich, Waltbamstow, Mansfield, the town of Maryport, Wokingham, Dover, Buxton, GreatYar mouth, Swansea, the City of Bristol, Eye, Bath, Caine, and three from Cumberland. Mr.SCOTT presented aPetition from the Inhabitants of Brid port, against the Insolvent Debtors'Act.—Ordered to be printed. A Petition was presented from the Inhabitants of Bronton, against the Coal Duty.—Ordered to he printed. SM ITH presented a Petition from the Merchants and Bankers of Norwich, praying for some alteration in the Insol vent Debtors' Act.—Ordered to be printed. The Hon. Member presented a Petition from the same place, praying flt- the repeal of the Coal Duties. A similar Petition was presented front Upborough. A Petition was presented from the Merchants and Bankers of the City of Bristol, stating that the Petition presented from the same city against Slavery did not speak the sentiments of the inhabitants generally. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a Petition front the Merchants of Liverpool, praying that such steps might be taken as would gradually prepare the Negro population of the West Indies for emancipation from slavery.—Ordered to be printed. Petitions were presented for the abolition of Slavery from the Magistrates of Chester, by Lord lice ucava ; front the Jolla.. bitants of Giggleswich, in the county of York, by Lord MILTON; from the Inhabitants of Maltby; from the Mayor and Aldermen ' of the Borough of Pontefract, by Mr. F. Buxton; also front Coggeshall and Giggleham, in the county of Essex, by the same Honourable Member; from the Inhabitants of Exeter, by Mr. Conwrznair ; from the Borough of Thetford, by Mr. Commas; from the Inhabitants of the county of Huntingdon, by Lord J. Russets.; from the Inhabitants of Knaresborough, by Mr. Tsaansv; and from the Bankers and Inhabitants of Ludlow, by Lord Crave—all of which were ordered to be printed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that he should, on Friday, the 23d instant, move in the Com mittee of Supply a vote for the new additional Building at the British Museum. A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships had agreed to several public and private Bills. Mr. W. SMITH, seeing the Honourable Gentleman, the Colonial Secretary, in his place, begged to ask a question of him connected with a Subject about to be discussed. In July, 1821, he had moved for certain Returns from the Colonies, re lative to the state of the Slave population. Many of those Re turns had been made, and yet they were not only not in the hands of Honourable Members, but they were not even to he found in the Colonial Office. He admitted having heard that they had been laid upon the table last night, but he could find no mention of them in the Votes. _ _ _ Mr. WI IshIOT-HORTON said the Returns had been laid upon the table last night, although they had not been described in the Votes. Sir J. MACKINTOSH observed, that as Wednesday next had been fixed upon for resuming the inquiry into the Irish busi ness, he thought it right to mention that be should on that even ing claim that priority for his motion on the Criminal Law, to which he was by Parliamentary usage entitled. Mr. BARING presented a Petition from the respective Agents of the West Indian Colonists, praying the House to act with great deliberation in the discussion respecting Slavery, about to occupy their attention that evening. The Hun. Member observed, that he did not wish to be understood, in presenting this Petition, as giving any opinion on the subject, further than to point out to the House that a question of this momentous na ture„involving the property and lives of the Colonists, could not be treated with too much caution. He begged also to remind the. House, that the property thus questioned was property which it had been admitted might be held consistently with honour and morality, and that they were not turned Christians for the first time that night. He might complain, in behalf of the Petitioners, that a motion of this kind should be brought forward without any notice of the nature of the propositions to be submitted he ing given to them. He had always been a most resolute aboli tiorist, and he anxiously desired to see the slaves of the West Indies ameliorated, and eventually emancipated ; but in doing so, he hoped the Proprietors would be duly considered.—Head, and ordered to be printed. LINEN TRADE OF SCOTLAND. Mr. LINDSAY presented Petitions from Dundee and other places in Scotland, praying that the House would seriously reflect before they made any altera tion iu the Linen Laws of Scotland, under which that manufacture had gone on gradually improving until it arrived at its present flourishing state. The Hon. Member spoke in support of the Petition. Mr. RICARDO opposed the Petition. Sir It. FERGUSON also opposed it. The stamp masters had got the mob to go along with them.— The Petition was signed, not by weavers, but by tailors, coblers, and coal-merchants. He begged to mention that his Hon. Friend • had, indeed, one Petition from the county of Perth, which wa s Mr. HUME, in reply to the Hon. lietiiiier who spoke last, begged to call to his recollection that Irish manufactured cottons had been frequently passed ail linens, by their having stamps affiied to them. Hi thought the trade ought to be left free; those who . clio , e might adopt the sta m ps , an d t h ose w h o thought them unnecessary might dispense with them. Mr. LI USK ISSON hoped that the Petitioneri might have clic liberty to stamp if they thought proper. Mr. BA RING considered the stamp as g most ins:. po: taitt security to the trade, by siting tonfidence to the purchaser. The Ii is!i provision trade was mainly indebted to that practice for its success. In America; where the same practice prevailed, similar success at tended it. The system was in many respects wise: though in particular casei it might be objeitionable, yet in general it tould not be denied that it was pro; ductive of great advantage. Mr. MABERLY thought the stamp said nothing for the quality, but merely that the article was pro perly manufactured. The stamping was no security to the merchant, as had been repeatedly proved. Mr. LINDSAY was not so well aware of the man ner in which the Petitions had been got up, as the gallant General opposite professed to be. It p had been confided to him by his constituents, and he could assure the House, that all the Petitions con tained the names of most respectable persons. The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table: MERCHANT AND FACTOR. Mr. J. SMITH moved that a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the state of the law re lating to consigned merchandize as between principal and agent. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOIV felt extreme pleasure in seconding the motion. Mr. M A RRYATT doubted the expediency of alter.; inu the law as it no w s t oo d. Th ey h a d h ear d muc h about the merchant and the factor, but they were not the persons who were most interested in the present question. The person really interested was the broker, who advanced money upon the bills of lading, without first asking the merchant whether the pro perty was his own. But if the broker would not put so necessary a question, he had no right to call upon the Legislature to alter the laws for his own private convenier.ce. Perfectly satisfied however, that in the hands of his hon. Friend the interests of com merce would be safe, he should not object to the ap.. pointment of the proposed Committee. Mr. SYKES thought that some alteration of the law was absolutely necessary. He had in his own ex perience met with cases ofgreat injury to individuals; arising from the present law. He could not see how the interest of the consigner could be affected by the measure proposed by his lion. Friend. Mr. ROBERTSON was decidedly opposed to the measure. He objected to the precipitancy with which the measure was attempted to be carried. The Peti tion had only been presented on Monday, and notice had then been given of the present motion, whilst no opportunity had been given to Honourable Memberi to collect the sense of those who were most interested in the subject. Mr. J. SMITH defended himself from the charge of having precipitately brought forward the mea sure, It was his intention to give to every Honour.; able Member full opportunity of giving to it all the opposition which he might be authorised to offer. Motion agreed to, and a Committee appointed: SLAVE TRADE. Mr. F. BUXTON, in introducing the motion of which he had on a former evening given notice, ob served, that the question might be asked, what right he had to interfere with the present subject ? and that he might be told that there was one individual in that House, to whom, on a question regarding Slavery, all eyes were necessarily turned, and who was on all hands recognized as the eloquent, perse= vering, and successful advocate of the Negro. He hoped that no Gentleman would think . so meanly of him as to suppose that he wi s h e d t o encroach on the province of his Ilonourable Friend (Mr. Wilberforce). It was only in compliance with that Gentleman's request, and, indeed, with his actual injunction, that he (Mr. Buxton) undertook to introduce the sebjecr . But before he entered:upon this important and pei iloui question, he thought it his duty to take notice of the advice which he had received, as to the evils likely to result to the West Indies f r o m t h e agitation of this question. He had been told that it was no slight matter to agitate the question at all ; and he did agree that it was no slight matter to excite appie‘ !tensions in the minds of persons so respectable as those who signed the Petition which had that even ing been presented, and those connected with the West Indies. For his own part, he bad no prejudice either against the whole body or particnlar indivi duals connected with the West Indies. He consi deied their situation peculiarly unfortunate in this respect, that their predecessors had been tempted to embark their property in a species of Investment, which had been deemed at that time a proper invest ment, and one which was not inconsistent with jus tice or honour, but which was now allowed to be u • terly and absolutely irreconsileahle with higher prin -1 ciples. Ia was, therefore, no slight matter to intro ° duce a motion painful to the feelings pi those indivi duals, and certainly no slight matter to introduce a question affecting the honorer and humanity of the coantry. With regard to the responsibility of the I measure, it wits necessary that a man shoeld be sure