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Tickets and Shares, warranted undrawn, are selling at CARROLL's truly fortunate Offices, 19, Cc:armii.t., and '26, Oiroan-sraaer, where he has already Sold many Capital Prises in the present Lottery And in the last Lottery, 11,486 18,602 Were both Sold in Shares by CARROLL. BISII has already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE CAPITALS in the vesent Lottery. ALL MUST BE DRAWN LAST AND ONLY DAY, NEXT TUESDAY, the 23d of APRIL. TRISK of the Old State Lottery O ffi ces, 4, • Cornbill, and 9, Charing. Cross, London, calls the atten tion of his best Friends, the Public, to the present Rich State of the Wheel, which contains TWO PRIZES of £20,000! And Twenty other Capitals of £l,OOO, £3OO, &c. &c. All of which MUST be Drawn on TUESDAY NEXT, the 1".3d instant, when the Lottery will entirely finish. Tickets and Shares, warranted undrawn, are on sale at BISH's Offices in London, and by 11'6 Agents in the Country. Every Ticket—Every Share—Every Capital—and every other I'rize mutt be Drawn NEXT TUESDAY. ,MOCK NORWICH UNION SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR. di Qin—Mr. SAMUEL BIGNOLD having issued L./ advertisements all over the country, stating thee the pro ceedings in Chancery which I and other members of the Nor wich Union Society have instituted against him, was the act ni four obscure individuals, who were not members; and who were the tools of the ex-Secretary ; and who were put out of Court ; I owe it to my own character to call on Mr. Samuel Ili:mold to prove the truth of his assertions. I declare them to be ail false. " As to obscurity, T own I am not so notorious as Mr. Samuel Fienold, nor do I wish to be so. I have never and destroyed a great and opulent Society, and enriched myselt by the spoils ; but still I ant a member of the Norwich Union So catty, as I paid fur the renewal of my policy last Midsummer, end the ycar is not yet out. So far from being a tool of the ex- Secretary, as Mr. Samuel Ilignold sarcastically calls his father, I v‘ited for his removal in ISIB ; but by what-I have since found oat, I am inclined to thick I was with others the Son's dupe— not the Father's tool. The ex-Secretary was brought into odium, as much as anything, by Mr. Samuel liignold's scribbling; by catchpenn, statements, which were proved to be false as fast as they came out ; and by scurrilous and personal attacks on the respectable Managers of other Offices. The old Gentleman was made a scape-goat of, and his dutiful Son slipt into his shoes ; but the Father never dirtied them a hundredth part so much in twenty years service as the Sou has done in three years. " Now, as Mr. Ilignold, jun. prefers writing in the News papers to answering our pending bill in Chancery, I call onl to answer the following questions in this Paper, and, if he can, without evasion :—lst, Whether the Society he is now ad vertising under the name of the Norwich Union, is not, to all intents and purposes, a new Society on a principle fundamentally different to the Norwich Union, and conducted by a different set of Directors? 2411 y, Whether the whole power and controul of the funds are not lodged exclusively in him and his said Di rectors and Shareholders? ally, Whether the said Directors are not the Directors of the Odd Norwich Office, formerly the rival of the Union? Chip, Who were the Directors of the Norwich Union at the time of transferring its effects to the Di rectors of the Norwich Office? Sthly, Why did he not, as was his bounden duty, call a general meeting of the members, to tlect new Directors, or to take such other steps as they might think necessary for their interest and security, if the old Di rectors were unwilling to act with Lim in carrying on the Society any further? 6thly, Whether the advertisements, bills, pam phlets, marks, engines, agencies, and other expense,, by which the Society was brought to its great extent of 60,01/0 members, have not cost our Society considerably more than £lOO.OOO, or what other sum ? 7thly, Whether such amount has been paid by the Shareholders to our account as a consideration for trans ferring the effects and Members of the Norwich Union to them —or what other sum? Bthly, Whether any, and whit separate consideration was paid to Mr. Bignold fur effecting the above revolution secretly, in addition to the emoluments, his new ap pointment as Secretary—and what those emoluments are ? 9thly, What are the names and residences of the Shareholders in the new Company, of what Shares does each hold, and what hive they each actually paid for them? 10thly, Upon what principle of common honesty does he defend the clandestinely breaking up our Society, unknown to the Trustees and Members gene rally, and converting their property to his own use, when just before the tinse of breaking up he advertised the Society to be most nourishing, and in the advertisements he is now circulating, signed by the Directors of his new Office, he acknowledges 'the concern might have lasted longer?' !Wily. Upon what princi ple of common honesty does be advertise under our name, and quote the great increase of insurances made, and the returns and claims paid by our Society for many years back, as things done by his new Company, which has not returned a sixpence; a display of which is as insulting to us Members of the destroyed Society as it is false and tricking on the Public? l2thly, If he and his party of Shareholders have a right to overturn our So ciety without our consent or knowledge, and put two-fifths of the profits into their own pockets, what is to prevent their taking the remaining three-fifths, or their breaking up or selling the Life Office as well as the Fire Office, whenever Mr. Bignold can get anything by it? Lastly, I ask Mr. Samuel Bignold to pro duce, if he can, a breach of trust of equal magnitude and bare faced impudence, done by any other person. And unless Mr. Samuel Ilignoltiedoes give good answers to all these questions, without , huilling, I do say that the Patrons and Trustees of our Society Lizl,ct their duty to the Public, if they suffer hint to continue advertising their names as parties to the New Tricking Company. And if our Members at large, who have been sold like a herd of swine in Smithfield, submit to be driven to any market Mr. Samuel Iligeole may make of them, they deserve no pity, let what will happen. " JAMES STALEY, 52, St. John-street, Clerkenwell." " P. S. Under Mr. Bignold, jun.'s management, we never got mote than 25 per cent. returns, dividing the whole of the profits. In his New Company, his Directors are to have sala ries, and his Shareholders two-fifths of the profits. Ills In surers must judge what the fraction left for them is likely to be? Probably not 10 per cent. for any time!" Cot at Or CHANCERY, JAN. 14,1822. " Mr. HART, Counsel for the Directors.—The simple facts of the case were these, that the Norwich Union Society, instead of being in a flourishing condition, was reduced to a state of great distress, involving the Directors in considerable peril, as they were primarily liable on the Policies, and would have to seek con tribution from the Members at large ; that several heavy losses, and some unfortunate difference; with sonic of tlitir Officers, bad induced the Directors to determine their responsibilities, by scfusing to continue the Policies." " The LORD Cliartcru.on.—l do not say that this record may not be so amended as to bring all parties properly before me, but I feel that it is very difficult to do so with 60,000 partners. I cannot hold that ►ocieties may re-model and alter their asso ciations, so as to change their original conaitutions, but i do not sit bete to try offeucts." THURSDAY, APRIL 15,.1822. PORTSEA, HANTS. DUKE OF CLARENCE PUBLIC-HOUSE. TO BE SOLD, THE very valuable and desirable FREE PUBLIC HOUSE and PREMISES, called THE DUKE. OP CLARENCE, situate in Queen-street, Portaea; long esta blished, and well known as carrying on a capital trade. Apply to Mr. C. Dawson, on the Premises; or to Mr. J. Dawson, 38, Hunter.street, Brunswick-square, London. IMPORTANT WORKS, lately Published by J. MAWMAN, 39, Ludgate -street. A HISTORY of ENGLAND, from the first Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Mary. By the Rev. Dr. John Lingard ; 4 vols. 4to. price 71. in boards. " Historians in general borrow implicitly from each other. Mr. Lingard understands his duty better, and is more ecru. pulous in the performance of ft. He always has recourse to the original authorities, and the effect may be seen in every page of his narrative."—British Reline, Dec. 1820. 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THE BARONETAGE CHART for 18'2.—This Chart contains a complete List of the Baronets of the United Kingdom, alphabetically arranged, with the following Particulars of each Member of the English Baronetage:— Name ; Date of Creation ; Number in Descent; Age ; whether Married, Bachelor, or Widower; Number of Children living, male and female; Privy Counsellors; Knights Grand Crosses, and Knights Companions of the Bath; Members of Parliament, and Sheriffs of Counties. It also shews by what means the Title was obtained, that is to say, whether by Naval, Military, Legal, or other Services; and states the Century to which each Baro net can trace his Paternal Ancestry : thus exhibiting, at one view, much interesting information, and forming, upon the whole, a complete Barottetage in Miniature. Also, TH6 PZERAGS CHART for 1822, printed uniformly with the shove, and embellished with the Coronets of the several Or &re of Nobility, tastefully coloured. Primed for G. and W. B. 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Purchasers are requested to ask for Morris's Brunswick Corn Plaster, and to observe the name and address of " Butler, 4, Cheapside," are engraved on the Stamp attached to cash Box, to distinguish the Genuine from Imitations under similar titles. r HE ANTI-IMPETIGINES, or SOLOMON'S 11 DROPS, efficacious in eradicating from the constitution every species of Scorbutic or Scrofulous taint, and highly re spected for their virtues in purifying the blood, and stimulating it to expel noxious and impure juices. 11•; Price II s. a bottle, and Family bottles at 335. containing the quantity of Four small ones, whereby lls. may be saved. With each bottle is given a copious bill of directions. The Go vernment Label or Stamp has the words " Sand. 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It corrects, purities, and sweetens the Blood ; and those who are afflicted wit's Scrofula, Leprosy, Scurvy, Scorbutic Eruptions, and many of those melancholy diseases arising from impurity of the ►lood and juices—those who suffer from diseased liver, and the dissipations and indiscretions of their youth, or whose constitutions are broken down and de bilitated by mercurial, antimoniul, or arsenic medianes, should submit to a regular course of the Vegetable Syrup. The effect of this medicine, pi incipally on the insensible perspiration, is such as not to interrupt either business or pleasure; it operates on the animal juices, and requires only the common restraints of mode ration in diet. It is dissolved in the chyle of the stomach, is conveyed by the circulating fluids, and corrects their tendencies to all those diseases which originate in vitiated blood. It is a safe, though a powerful substitute for mercury, and removes those evils which an unsuccessful use of th .t mineral occasions. The Syrup is prepared and sold at the Ptoprietor's house, No. 52, Berner's-street, Oxford-street, at 135. a bottle; and, by his appointment, at Mr. Atkinson's, 196, Blshopegate-street With out; and by Mr. Canhani's Agents in every considerable town of the United Kingdom; and the Concentrated, for warm cli mates, by his deputed Agents in the Fast Indies, viz.—Messrs. Mackintosh and Co. Calcutta; Messrs. Forbes and Co. Bombay; and Messrs. Papa! anti Johnson, Madras. BURCHELL'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. This day was published, In 4to. price 4/. 14s. 6d. VoL T. of TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH ERN AFRICA. By WILLIAM J. BURCHELL, East. With an entirely new large Map, numerous coloured Engravings, and 50 Vignettes, from the Author's original Drawings. Mr. Burchell's Researches in the Interior of Africa, during five years, over 4,500 miles of ground, besides numberless lateral excursions iu regions never before trodden by European foot, have produced a multitude of discoveries and observations which have never yet been laid before the Public. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. LOOKING GLASSES AND FURNITURK. `SEVERAL large SECOND-HAN I) PLATES, .7 are now on Sale, at COOPER and SON'S Manufactory, .93, Bishopsgate-street-Within.—Some of the larger sizes are admi rably adapted for large dining-rooms and elegant drawing-rooms. A large assortment of rich finished Chimney. Pier, and Clvval Frames, with New Glasses of superior colour anti brilliancy ; the prices reduced beyond all former precedent. Plate Glass for windows, Carriages, &e.—This ?stick may also he manufactured as high as 130 by 72 inches, 120 by 80, or to any given dimensions. Noblemen, Gentlemen, Surveyors, Proprietors of Hotels and others, will hod this W..rehouse deserving attention, from its extensive variety of excellent Cabinet and Chair Work. Tine Upholstery arrangements display some new specimens of pecu liar neatness and elegance, with the still greater advantage of economy in the charge. Furniture delivered to any part of the Country, without risk i of injury or expense of packing. SOUTH AMERICA. The following account of the power ar.d resources of the kingdom of Mexico and the Republic of Co lumbia, is extracted from the papers which accompa nied the Message of the PRESIDENT of the United States to Congress, recognizing the independence of South America: REPUBLIC OF COLUMBIA. " With respect to the ability and capacity of Columbia to maintain its independence, no well-founded doubt can arise upon that point, if we consider, on the one hand, the great population of the Republic, which exceeds 3,600,000 souls, the extent of its territory, its natural and artificial resources, and its situation ; and, on the other, the great military talent displayed by its Ge nerals and Officer; and the discipline and valour manifested by its troops on all occasions, but particularly in the celebrated bat tles of 13oyaca and Carabobo, in the capture of St. Martha, de fended by 17 exterior batteries, all taken by assault, and the re duction of the fortresses of Carthagena and Cumana. " Some idea may be also formed of the degree of splendour, power, ant! future prosperity of the new Republic, by consider ing it placed in the centre of the universe, with an extent of coast of 1200 miles on the Atlantic, from the Orinoco to the isthmus of Darien, and of 700 miles on the Pacific Ocean, from Panama to Bahia de Tumbez ; and exempt, at all seasons, front any of those dreadful hurricanes which cause such disasters in the An tilles, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in other places. " The great canals which are formed by the river Orinoco and its tributary streams, the Sofia with the lake of Nlaracayho, the Magdalena, the Cauca, and the Atrato, which all empty into the Atlantic, render Columbia the most favourite part of the universe for interior navigation ; and, by a union of all climates, unites also in great abundance the productions of the three king doms of Nature. Agriculture is farther advanced in Columbia than In any ether part of Continental America, formerly Spanish; and its products of exportation, which consist chiefly of cocoa, coffee, indigo, tobacco of Barinas, and some cotton, are of a quality superior to those of other countries, except the cotton. With respect to the precious metals, Columbia is inferior neither to Mexico nor Peru, with the advantage that their discovery is more easy and less expensive. She also unites, by prolonged ca nals, two oceans which nature had separated; and by her proxi mity to the United States and to Europe, appears to have been destined by the Annn' of NATURE as the centre and the empire of the human fatally." " bIEXICO. " Before the insurrection of the year 1810, the kingdom con tained 6,000,000 of inhabitants, and it is worthy of remark, that PROVIDENCE has been no less lavish in the distribution of her gifts as respects mankind, than in the fertility and production of the earth; the natives of this country, not excepting even the Indians, being endowed with a quickness of perception and abi lity to acquire and make themselves masters of the arts and sci enees, that is very notable, and far exceeds that of the inhabi tants of Old Spain, and, perhaps, many other c•untries. At the abuvemcntioned period, the kingdom may be said to have been at its acme of prosperity; the Royal revenue exceeding twenty millions of dollars, and the money coined at the Mint of this City upwards of 28,000,000 annually ; it has, however, ever since been on the decline, in consequence of the devastations committed by both parties in the long and cruel war carried ott between the Europeans and Americans, so that the population cannot now be computed at more than 4,000,000; the revenue at more than half what It was; and the money coined yearly at I Rom Ave to k 4000,000 this year it will not exceed 4,000,000." CPR ICE SEVEI,I7IMNCB. PARLIAVENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 17. Mr. MAYNARD, from the Southwark Court of Requests, piez, muted a Return pursuant to an ord er o f the House:--Otdercd to lie on the table. The secoad reading of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill was postponed froth Friday next to Friday the 26th instant. Mr. W. DUNDAS presented a Petition from the Candle makers at Edinburgh, praying for relief from the whole or a part of the present duty on candles.—Ordeied to lie on the table: Lord STA NI.F.Y postponed the second reading of the War rant of Attornies' Bill till Monday next. Sir F. OM NIA NN EY presented a Petition from Samuel Brown, Captain in the Royal Navy, praying permission to bring in a Petition for a Bill to erect a flying pier at Brighton.—Re. ferred to a Committee. Mr. P. 3IOORE presented a Petition from the Conunis sioners of Sewers against the Bill for Paving and Lighting Cam den Town.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord A. HA MILTON presented a Petition from certain in= dividuals belonging to the Corporation of Rakers, in the Royal Burgh of Perth, on the subject of the 13111 for Regulating Scotch Burghs, and praying the House to take their situation into Rs consideration.—Ordered to be printed,. • Mr. KEN NRDY presented a Petition on the same au* et from the Conveners of Trades in the Burgh of Ayr.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. SHAW presented Petitions from the Parishes of St. Andrew and St. Nicholas Without, in Dublin, stating it to be their opinion that the proposed Repeal of the Malt Duty would afford little relief in that part of the United Kingdom, and sug gesting instead of the abandonment of the Malt Duty, a repeal of the Window Tar.—Ordered to lie o n t h e t a ble. _ _ _ _ Air. A 1.1..01 gave notice, that on Thursday, May 16, he would move to refer to a Committee the last Report on the sub ject of Welsh Judicature. Mr. C. W. WYNN postponed the second reading of the York‘bire Election Polls Bill, till the 29th instant. Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Returns in detail relating to the Irish Civil List were ready to be laid before the House ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY hoped it would be id his power to answer that question to-morrow or very shortlyi but at present he was not in a situation to do so. Mr. BENNET called the attention of the House to the state 'of the law with respect to accessaries before the fact in certain cases if felony. lie pointed out the evils which were found to result from the present system. Ile shewed that in various cases those who were highly culpable escaped the punish. ment they deserved from the defective state of the law, and he proposed to give the Court a discretionary power in aggravated cases to sentence to transportation. Ile moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law in question.—Leave was given to bring in the Bill. Mr. BENNET next brought under the consideration of the House the state of the law with respect to certain crimes which came under the head of Manslaughter. In the most aggravated cases, at present the Judge bad only the power of sentencing the offender to twelve m o uths imprisonment. Such a punish.. ment was, in many instances, wholly inadequate. He noticed two instances of this sort which had recently occurred, the one, that where an unfortunate man had been thrown from the win dow of a house of ill fame, and who, after sustaining the most excruciating torture for several weeks, had died : the other that of a chimneysweep, who had lost his life through the inhuman treatment he had received from his master. He thought it de sirable that in such cases a discretionary power should be given to the Court to inflict severer punishini.nt than twelve months imprisonment. With this view he moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the existing law with respect to Manslaughter. Mr. C. W. WY NN thought there was no part of our law so deft; Live as that which related to the crime of manslaughter.-- Coder no head were cases so widely 'different comprehended as under that of manslaughter. The most accidental destruction of life, and the mcst determined killing, in some cases, were in • cie eye of the law the same, and the Judge, in the most aggra sated case, could do no more than sentence the party to impits sonment for a year, except by burning in the hand, which was a species of punishment which no Judge would inflict, if it were open to him in any other way to mark his horror for the crime. —Leave was given to bring in the Bill. The Marquis of LON DON D E ItRY said, when he had given notice of a motion on the Report made by the Committee ap. pointed to inquire into the existing Agricultural Distress, it was by no means his intention to interfere in any way with the motion, of which notice had been given by the Right Honour. able Baronet opposite. That he might not do so, he would now put uhf his motion till the Friday ; but as the lite;t importance of the subject made it desirable to avoid unneces sary delay, he wished it to be understood as peremptorily fixed for that thy. In answer to a question or remark from Mr. PiIIT.LITS, the Noble Marquis stated Friday week to be the latest period to which he proposed to defer btimring the subject forward.—The motion was accordingly fixed for EidAy, 26th inst. Lord BELORAV F. presented a Petition from certain Land. lords in the City of Chester, expressing their satisfaction at find ing that a Bill had been brought in to facilitate the Recovery of Small I)ebts under £l5, and praying that the same may pass into a hw.—Ordered to lie on the table. The Report of the Irish Bank Charter Act was read, and the Resolutions agreed to. AGRICULTURAL. DISTRESS. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE said, it was again his painful duty to bring a Petition on the subject cf Agricultural Distress before the House. He held in his hand a Petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Land, Tradesmen, and others, of North Curry, in the County of Somerset, in which the Petitioners com plained of the distressed state of Agriculture. To afford them relief, they considered it necessary that the expenses, of the Government should be greatly diminished. They stated themselves to have perused the Report of the Committee which had sat on agri cultural distress, and were considerably disappointed with its contents. The measures which it contem plated, they could not regard as adequate to meet the evil. The import prices which it proposed to fix, they thought would be rather detrimental to the farmer than otherwise. They wished the I louse to institute an inquiry to ascertain at what price grain could be imported from other countries by merchants, and to compare it with the price at which it could be grown in England, and this done, it would be seen that higher prohibitory duties were necessary than were at present proposed. The Petitioners had gone into a calculation, which he had not examined so far as to be able to say that he could go along with them in it, but it set forth that the valiatien of one shilling per bushel in grain was equal to the whole rental of arable land. This calculation, if it e.tablished no thing else, proved how anxious the Petitioners were that the subject should he fully inquired into. The Petitioners further stated, that. it was necessary that all kinds of agricultural produce should receive greater protection, fur the question did not rest solely , on the measw.es which might be adopted with respect to corn.' Unless such protection were accorded, they I declared, and in this he agreed with them, that with their present burdens, with the tithes and parochial taxes which they now paid, they could not continue to carry on their concerns. Ile noticed the effects produced by the alteration of the currency, and cone