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. . _ ... . ... . ... . . ________ . . _ . _ -- -• • - - . . . •. . . . . . . s. IV'T Cent. i .. . ~ i • . . • .., ~, . 4 ....,&...—.- „:„..„-; otz• 0...ii.;-::.k - 7 1 "C: 3 ) ; • c' • ' VA71\1..... afr %%vim r "111 • A ay.-- ‘4.0_;;_.140.•1.,. ..x.• ~...4 7 - ~ ... . .4. a rig ari ri • f ..: . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 21 . • --- Noon 19.867• PRICE SEVEN-PENCE. co writAcT FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES OF NECES souES FOR THE ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY. X4FT-OFFICE, December 14, 1821. rya PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and commis vosEßs of his MAJESTY'S NAVY, do hereby give Pies i lat ea THURSDAY, the .13 of January next, at One ectoc k,tbey will be ready to treat with such Persons as maybe c og to Contract for supplying his Majesty's Yard at Woolwich with w oes Ankles of Necessaries fwr the use of the ROYAL MARINF. A itTlLLEitpr. .p at t e rns of the Articles, with a Fo rm of the Tender, may be on at this Mee. 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A MONG the minor afflictions to which the h uman A frame is exposed, the TOOTH-ACHE is perhaps tbe wet tormenting ; the anguish it occasions is often in vain at terapted to be assuaged.—ROW LAND'S A I SAN A EX TRACT, patronized by her Royal Highness the late Duchess of Tork,their Excellencies the Dukes Del infantado and San Carlos. This Botanical Specific has been in high estimation mazy years, rid recommended by the first Physicians as a sovereign remedy for the Tooth-Ache, Gum Boils, Sea also removes the tartar from the teeth, prevents their decaying, fastens those that are More, makes the teeth beautifully white, cleanses ciao scurvy from the gums, renders them firm and healthy, refreshes the mouth during disease and after medicine, imparts a sweetness to the breath, is so perfectly innocent that a child may take it, indeed, itis often used as a stomachic, yet contains those invaluable properties, that if constantly used, will render the teeth and pun sounds, beautiful, and free from pain, to the latest period Price 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and 10s. Bd. per bottle. So'.l by the sole Proprietors, A. Itowtoteo and Sox, Kirby. street, Ilatton.garden ; and, by their appointment, by Messrs. 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As a gentle aperient Tonic, they cleanse ' and yet strengthen the sonnet, restore the appetite, promote digestion, and keep the *web in a regular and comfortable state, free from costiveness, he by no mediae too r-laxed. The Tonic Pills are sold (at 21.941. 41, N. 1 is. and 221. per box) by the Venders of Genuine Me adow, wholesale and retail, in London, and throughout the kingdom. Er Observe the signature of 11 John Towers" on the label, ad his name round the royal arms' on the seal. NO remedy has hitherto been d iscovered which proves so generally beneficial in disorders of the nervous system, and of the digestive organs, as Dr. SOLO MON's COR DIAL BALM OF GILEAD. In trembling of the lionbs,pal- Station of the heart,.vertigo, flatulence, lowness of spirits, and general debility, and fin the symptoms of a cold, bilious and eon semptise habit, its efficacy is very great. Whether used to give relief to those who have reason to repent an excessive ind..4ence of the passions or habits of fashionable life, too great attention to tomiaris, or juvenile indiscretions, that strike at the root of health and vigour, it will be found an invaluable bracer and Invigorant. It is sold by Mr. Johnston, 66, CornbIll; Mr. Saeger (late Bacon and Co.), 150, Oxford-street, opposite New Bond-street ; lad all Medicine Venders, in bottles, at 11x. and 331. each. Of whom may be had, price 3s. Dr. Sotomon's GUMS vo Heatris i which may be consulted as tbs silent friend in all cases of Debility, Loos of Appetite, Consumption, Sec. with assured coolidence of success. WOOD'S LAXATIVE PILLS, WITHOUT ALOES, MERCURY, OR ANTIMONY. THE Medicines advertised for the relief of Bilious and other complaints of the Bowels, are so numerous, that the Proprietor of these Pills would not submit them to the notice et the Public, did be not believe them to be essentially different fa their composition from those generally sold. Most, if not all the advertised Aperient l'ills have Acors for their basis, and it has been clearly ascertained that in man- instances the use of Aloes is highly injurious ; they almost inva:riably aggravate every use of Piles and are frequently the principal means of inducing that painful complaint. Other pablic Medicines, it is to be feared, contain preparations of Menceav or ANTIMONY, which, though Invaluable in the hands of the Physician, are altogether inad missible in a Aledleine designed for family use. 'Die I'ills now recommended to the Public are entirely free front those objec tionable articles; they are 4arefully prepared with Drugs of the very best quality ; and altlasnigh by nu means offered as a Speedic Joy Me care if emu disease, they will, it is presumed, be timid aa excellent ArERIIENT FAMILY MUM:ISr.. In Habitual Costive ness, Oce.oional Obstructions of the Bowels, Bilious Complaints, Head-Acto..s accompanied with Nausea or dickr.ess, and all disor ders arising from an overloaded state of the Stomach and alimen tny Canal, they will prove decidedly beneficial. I hey require nu confinement, and possess this peculiar and impotent adeailtage,. that the bowels are not kit in a confined state by their use. 'fhey may be used by Adults and Children, and ia every stage of l'rvgnanev. ' Primr, d and sold, wholesale and rethil, by JAMNS Worm, tiPDICLOA, 3.2, 1 ligh-street, Bristol. Sold also, by his appointment, by 'Air. Edwards, 66, St. Paul'. Church-yard, London ; and by 1* respectable Venders of Medicine. ! 4 26 Est of 1 oil netttd month WO 1 De .........• ....roo. et • ......., . to‘ 'r a~ This day was published, Tn One Vol. price eis. boards, the Second Edition, FREWELL LE . ITERS to a FEW FRIENDS in RATTAN and AMERICA on returning to BEN GAL, in 1821.—8 y 'WILLIAM WARD, of Serampore. _ London: Printed [or Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, This day was published, in Quarto With a separate Volume of Maps and Plans, price £4.145. 6d. of the OPERATIONS ot the BRI TISH ARMY in INDIA, during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, and 1819. By Lieutenant-Colonel VALENTINE BLACKER, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Quarter-Master-General of the Army of Fort St. George. • London : Printed for Black, Parbnry, Kingsbury, and Allen, Lead enhal 1-street. This day were published, In Two Vols. /Ivo. price XI. Is. boards, MEMOIRS of her late Majesty, CAROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, Queen Consort of George tha Fourth : including ample Particulars and original Informs, tinn relative to her early Life—her Marriage to the Prince of Wales—the Secret History of the Years 17954—the Conduct of Lady Douglas, and the Origin of that Conspiracy—her Tra vels on the Continent—her Correspondence—the History of the Milan Commission—and the Evidence and Documents which ' arrived too late for the House of Lords. By JOHN WILES, Jun. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-row. “ MY FIRST PLAY!” The following excellent article is extracted from the last Number of the London Magazine. It is from the elegant pen of Ectis, whose contributions form a regular and valuable portion of that popular periodical: " At the north end of Russell-court there yet stands a portal, of some architectural pretensions., though reduced to humble use, serving at present for an en trance to a wine vault. This old door-way, if you :.re young, Reader, you may not know was the iden tical pit entrance to Old Drury—Gari ick's Drury— all of it that is left. I never pass it without shaking some forty years from off my shoulders, recurring to the evening when !passed through it to see my first play. The afternoon had been wet, and the condi tion of our . goiug (the elder folks and myself) was, that the ram should cease. • With what a beating heart did I watch from the window the puddles, from the stillness of which I was taught to prognos ticate the desired cessation ! I seem to remember the last spurt, and the glee with which I ran to an nounce it. " We went with orders, which my godfather F. had sent us.' He kept the oil shop itiow Davies's) at the corner of Featherstone-buildings„.iallolborn. -- F. was a tall grave person, lofty in speech, and had pretensions above, his' rank. Ile assor.iated in those days with John Palmer, the comedian, whoie gait and bearing he seemed to copy; if John (which is quite as likely) did not rather borrow somewhat of his manner from my godfather. He was also known' to, and visited by Sheridan. It was to his house in Holborn that young Brinsley broirilit his first wife, on her elopement with him from a boarding-school at Bath—the beautiful Maria Linley. My parents were present (over a quadrille table) when he arrived in the evening with his harmonious charge. From either of these connexions it may be inferred that my godfather could command an order for the thew Drury-Lane Theatre at pleasure—and, indeed, a' pretty liberal issue of those cheap billets, in Brins-' ley's easy autograph, I have heard him say was the sole remuneration which he had received for many years' nightly illumination of the orchestra and vari ous avenues of that theatre—and he was content it should be so. The honour of Sheridan's familiarity— or supposed familiarity—was better to my godfather than money. "In those days were pit orders. Beshrew the un comfortable manager who abolished them!—with one of these we went. I remember the waiting at the door-.not that which is left—but between that and au inner door in shelter-0! when shall Ibe such an expectant again !—with the cry of nonpareils, in, indispensable play-house accompaniment in those days. As near as I can recollect the fashionable pro- nunciation of the theatrical fruiteresses then was, 4 Chase some oranges, chase some numparels, chase a bill of the play ; —chase pro chuse. But when we got in, and 1 beheld the green curtain that veiled a heaven-to my imagination, which was soon to be disclosed—the breathless anticipations I endured ! I bad seen something like it in the plate prefixed to Troilus and Cressida, in Rowe's Shakspeare—the tent scene with Diomede—and a sight of that plate can always bring back in a measure the feeling of that evening. The boxes at that time, full of well dressed women of quality, projected over the pit; and the pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (1 know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy—but I judged it to be sugaocandy—yet, to my raised ima gination, divested of its homelier qualities, it ap peared a glorified candy ! `The orchestra lights at length arose, those " fair Auroras!" Once the bell sounded. It was to ring out yet once again—and, incapable of the anticipation, I reposed my shut eyes in a sort of resignation upon the maternal lap. It rang the second time. The curtain drew up—l was not past six years old—and the play was Artaxerxes, " I had dabbled a little in the Universal History— the ancient part of it—and here was the Court of Persia. It was being admitted to a sight of the past. I took no proper interest in the action going en, for I understood not its import—but I heard the word Darius, and I was in the midst of Daniel. AU feel ing was absorbed in vision. Gorgeous vests, gar.' dens, palaces, princesses, passed before me. 1 knew not players. I was in Persepolis for the time; and the burning idol of their devotions w as as if the sun itself should have been brought down to minister at the sacrificial altar. I took those significations to be something more than elemental fires. Harlequin's InvaAion followed: where, I remember, the trans formation of the magistrates into reverend beldams seemed to me a piece of grave historic justice, and the taylor carrying his own head, to be as sober a verity as the legend of St. 1..ny1." EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors was held at the East India House, for the purpose of declaring a Dividend from Michaelmas to Christmas, and for the dispatch of other public business. The minutes of the proceedings at the last Court having been read, The CHAIRMAN moved, that the Dividend on the Capital Stock of the Company, for the half-year commencing July 5, and ending January 5, 1822, be 51 per Cent. Mr.R roBY said,he was aware that the present motion was usually considered as a mere motion of course, and that since the Act of Parliament. declaring that a Dividend of £lo.los. should be divided amongst the Proprietors of East India Stock, it was deemed to be scarcely a matter for the consideration of that Court, whether there should be any or what amtnint of Dividend. He contended, however, that a deep responsibility lay upon the Proprietors, and thit it was their bounden duty, before coming to a vote of this nature, to investigate the commercial concerns of the Company, and see whether their profits would' warrant the Dividend assigned to them by the Act of Parliament. He should move that an account of the net profits of the commercial establishment of the Company be immediately laid before the Court. The CHAIRMAN, after a short pause, observed, that the motion of the Hon. Proprietor did not appear to be seconded ; and that it was irregular to call for the production of accounts without notice. Mr. S.-DixoN doubted whether it was competent to any Member to bring forward a question of such importance without notice. Mr. Hume took it for granted, that all the com mercial accounts of the Company had been laid before the Court of Directors before the dividend had been declared. He admitted, however, that it would be extremely inconvenient to enter into any examination of them at the present moment. After a few words from Mr. RIGBY and Mr. R. JACKSON, the motion was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then moved, that this Court do ap prove a Resolution of the Court of Directors, grant ing to Dr. John Bortbwick Gilchrist, as Lecturer in the Hindoostanee language, the sum of £ 2OO per annum for a further term of three years, together with an allowance of £3OO per annum, to enable him to provide a suitable Lecture-room. Mr. R. JACKSON expressed his participation in the feelings of gratitude entertained by the Company for the long and successful labours of the distinguished individual to whom the present grant was appropri ated. Ile could have wished, however, that in the description of that learned person, words of a more complimentary character had been introduced; and he should propose, as an Amendment, the addition of the words, " late Oriental Professor in the College of Fort William; and now Professor and Lecturer in the Hindoostanee Language in London." There was another point to which he wished to call the atten• tion of the Court, he meant the-limitation of the grant to a period of three years. He could not but think it a little ungracious, that a •Gentleman, to whose labours the Company was so much indebted, and who had contributed so much towards facilitating a knowledge of the Oriental languages, should be put, as it were, upon his good behaviour for a term of three years. One of the necessary effects of this li mitation would be to preclude Dr. Gilchrist from any benefit he might hereafter derive from the Superan nuation Act, and he was sure that nothing could be further from the intention of the Company than that the grant should have such an operation. He should move, therefore, that the words " for the term of three years," be omitted. The CHAIRMAN thought the latter part of the Hon. Proprietor's Amendment objectionable, since it would operate as an extension of the Company's grant. It could only be introduced as a substantive motion to be determined upon by two Courts. The Hon. Pro prietor was mistaken in supposing' that the terms of the grant would have the effect of depriving Dr. I Gilchrist of the benefit of the Superannuation Act, for the three years would become a part of the per iod which would entitle him to receive the benefit of that Act. Mr. R. JACKSON contended that the Amendment would rather diminish than enlarge the operation of the grant. As the terms of the grant at present stood, Dr. Gilchrist was to serve for three years, soute qui coute, whereas, if he were to serve only quaindiu se bent gesserit, he stood upon his good behaviour, and might be discarded and sent out to starve at the ex piration of six months. The effect of his Amendment would be, therefore, to diminish the grant, since it lowered that which was positive to that which was only conditional. • Mr. TWINING asked whether the other alteration ► proposed by the Hon. Proprietor, as to the designa tion of Dr. Gilchrist, could be made without being previously agreed to by two Courts? The CllAlßmas said, that this was merely a verbal alteration, and did not affect the money grant. Mr. Hume said, that the alteration was desired by Dr. Gilchrist rather as a point of honour, than from any other motive. The CHAIRMAN observed, that the appointment of Oriental Professor had been made by the Marquis. Wellesley, and subsequently disapproved of by that Court. It would be for the Court, therefore, to con sider whether it would not be somewhat inconvenient to give a title to Dr. Gilchrist, which bad not been recognized by the Company.. Mr. flume remarked , that the title was vox et pm terea uileil. Ile could not help thinking that Dr. Gilchrist had been hardly treated. It was usual for the Company not to consider the retired allowance of their servants as part of their allowance for present services ; but that practice had been departed from in the case of Dr. Gilchrist. Other Professors (Professor Stuart, fur example) received a salary of £5OO per annu_m independent of his salary. Dr. Gilchrist re cci:ed i L:I62 retired pay as a surgeon, a . pension of £2OO for his literary labours in India. £2OO salary for his Professorship, and £l5O a-year for a lecture room, making in the whole £652. Now, if he were placed on the same footing as the other Professors, he would receive £5OO salary, and £lB2 retired pay. so that if every mark of degradation were removed. the difference to the Company would only amount to a sum of £3O a-year. He trusted that the Court would not refuse this trifling gratification to a meta torious servant. The CHAIRMAN said, that as there was something like a recognition on the records of Dr. Gilchtist's title of Oriental Professor in Fort William, he should not oppose the motion. As the Honourable Proprie tor who had just sat down, however, had hinted at an increase of salary, he begged to observe, that al though he was willing to grant the words, he had no inclination to concede the substance. Mr. R. JACKSON begged to advert to what he conceived to be not the least meritorious part of Dr. Gilchrist's character : he was entitled to a fee of three guineas from every young surgeon whom he taught, which fee, however, he had uniformly refused, for be observed, that he knew what it was to be a young Scotch surgeon himself, and he could not bear to take money from a young man in that situation. The CHAIRMAN suggested the omission of the words " Professor of Hindoostanee in London," since Professorships belonged only to Collegiate Establish ments, and that Court could not dub a Professor. Mr. HUME said he should oppose the whole Amend ment, if this term were objected to. The Court could not, in justice and gratitude, do less than give the same title to Dr. Gilchrist which he had pos sessed in India. The CHAIRMAN said, that if the Honourable Pro prietor persisted in what he could not but consider as a most extravagant proposition, he should be un der the necessity of opposing the Resolution. Mr. TRANI' bore testimony to the useful labours of Dr. Gilchrist, and thought the Court would only be doing justice to that Gentleman if they stretched a point for the sake of conferring on him au honorary distinction. Mr. Home asked whether the Professor at Addis comb had not been so nominated by that Court? The CHAIRMAN said, that this was under the au thority of an Act of Parliament. Mr. ELPIIINSTONK said that any Gentleman in that Court was of course at liberty to call Dr. Gilchrist a Professor, if he thought fit, but it was utterly out of the power of the Court to make him one. He con fessed, for his part, that he should have had more re spect for Dr. Gilchrist, if he had not seen his name so frequently upon late occasions in the Newspapers. He knew not whether the conspicuous part which the Doctor had taken on the occasions to which he al luded was to be ascribed to vanity or a worse motive. Mr. S. DIXON recommended to the Honourable Proprietor (Mr. Hume) to withdraw his Amendment, since, if it were negatived, it mould have the cffect of casting a censure upon Dr. Gilchrist. Mr. OLDHAM said, the Court had certainly no power to confer a distinction which was applicagle only to Collegiate Establishments. It was true that there was no Tack of soi•disant Professors.: there were Professors of Dancing, Professors of Veterinary Me dicine, and Profyssors of Music; but surely it would be rather a reproach than an honour to confer upon Dr. Gilchrist a mock title of this description. After some farther discussion, Mr. Hume, in order to save the time of the Court, consented to withdraw his Amendment, and the Re solution was agreed to. The CHAramAN informed the Court, that in conse quence of what had passed at the last Quarterly Court, relative to the alleged difference in the mode of in. struction in the Oriental languages pursued in the Colleges of the Honourable Company, and in the Colleges in India, the Court had called upon Dr. Wilkins, Visitor to the Oriental Colleges, and the several Professors and Sub-Professors, to investigate that subject, and ascertaia whether the allegations were correct. Several letters from Dr. Wilkins, and the Pro. lessors and Sub-Professors in the Oriental Colleges, were read, in which it was stated, that there was no material difference in the systems pursued in India, and in the Colleges at Hailebury and Addiscomb. Mr. Home objected to the partial manner in which the investigation had been con incted ; he moved, that the papers now laid before the Court be printed. Mr. It. JACKSON moved, that there be laid before the Court all the Reports of the College at Calcutta, as well as all Reports from Bombay and Madras, as to the proficiency of pupils in the Oriental languages, distinguishing these who had been previously edu cated at Hailebury and Addiscomb, and how long they had been subsequently instructed in India. After a few words from Mr. Hume and Mr. S. DIXON ' the motion was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN next moved, that a Resolution of the Court of Directors be confirmed, granting a sum of £2OOO to John Hinde Pelley, of the Bombay Civil Establishment, on the grounds therein stated. Mr. Hume opposed ilk motion, on the ground that Mr. Pelley had failed to fulfil the ter ms of a contract, which he had made to furnish the Company with ropes for-the lashing of cotton bales. It was true, that he had ultimately furnished the whole amount of lashings contracted for, and he believed also that he might have lost considerably by the contract, but as he had failed to fur nish them within the time spe cified in the contract, he was not entitled to any compensation. • Mr. S. DixoN opposed the grant. Mr. CHALMERS and Mr. Moser supported it. After a few words from Mr. MACKLIN, Mr. HAL LITT, Mr. MONEY, and Mr. THANT, Mr. HUME, on behalf of himself and eight other Proprietors, demanded a ballot, which was fixed for that day three weeks. After some other business, relative to the bye-laws of the Court, had been disposed of, the Court shortly after adjourned. 'i t ) ,~ , 1 ~, 'f • IA :. I.