The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-21 00:00:00

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O. amt. 10, *St 'saber W* 01111141MSA 40 latch Ito sold Itaselattsa has bora *read, are epos Hai luopoodoe ea, frispit• • eon at Ws House. JOSICIPII DART, 'smear,. I s hot Poitlns _ paps relates • price Ss. in boards (Fifteenth Wallsa). AgGIS,of LIFE; a Non-. tedieal Coinalea tory on The Indiscretions arising from Raman Frailty, Is viMehlisitGeopea, Symptoms, and baneful Elleets of Lies Vestry*, 4fionvirrlwee, f.hrieture. Remiaal Weakness. 4ce. are Play devebiped; Part 11. contains some remarks on cer tain Female Complaints. in particular Sterility ; Part eiabrates Practical Observations on Sexual Debility. &NI Abuse, and Mental irritation. with some interesting obseree.l dons*, vegetable and animal life; in Part IV. is a Series*: I , ceses illustrative of the preceding subjects, espialuincl them in a familiar manner, and the whole addressed to the Youth and Maturity of both Sexes. By GOSS and Co. 'Censulli.ig Surgeons. London. Nature beatis Omni eeac dedit, al finis eognovrrit uti.--rCLAuntaw. Niue* re* to all tie fund of blies supplies, /lairms , 4l application marks the wise. May be Add at td, Pateragaster-row ; so, ; 41, PteeadMy la, Princes-street, Soho; S 3. F -street ; 04, Fleet-street; 40, West Smithfield ; Ch . I.c.n dant Stiienson and Co., Burks and C0.1,..-)lorwinh : R. Ipsa ieh ; Barrett and Duffield, Bath ; Sheppard:pHs ibl ;Hatt. Cambridge I leadiev, Leeds; and at all Mak nellets.—Messra. GOSS and Co. are to be commited, .as Imola every day, nt their house ; and Patients In tiveCemyvy are roweled to describe minutely tht• fear, estiosing oar& mittenet for Advice and Medicine. nitwit can be fbrwarded to any part of the World.--00SS and Co. M. R.C. Sur. Mons, Rouverie-street, Fleet-street. London. ANGEL INN, tie. , ' STRAND. GENERAL. OFFICE. FOR TRAVEI.I.ING AND CON VEYING PARCELS AND hiERCHANDIZE. THE following MAILS and other COACHES go from the above Inn a— Paris Royal Mail, via Dover, Tuesday and Friday Nights, at twelve. Portman% and Gosport Mall, through Godalming, Pe tersteld. and Porters, every Evening at a gamier-pest f f and Sunday at half past O. Owies arrival a packet sails to . the Isle of Wight, to convey passengers and parcels: and a Mall Coach sets off to Chichester, through Drayton, !levant, Emsworth, Are. Gloucester Mall. through Henley, Oxford, and Chelten ham. every Eventing at a quarter-past 7, and Sunday at half pat 8. Dover and Canterbury Mall, through Gravesend. Chat ham, and Feverskans, every evening at a quarter past 7, and Sunday at half past O. From Canterbury. passengers and par eels are conveyed to Deal, Margate. Ramsgate, Sandwich, etc. • and from Dover. parcels are conveyed to Folkston, Van:trate. Hy the, Dimelturch, Romney, and Lydd. Milford Mall, throngh Carmarthen, Llandilo and Haver- 1 ftwilwest, every evening at a quarter-past 7, and Sunday at ball--past 6. Bath and Bristol Post Conch, to carry only four inside, tlrroep Reading, Alariborough. Caine, and Chippenhans, every liorning at a quarter-past 6. Bulb and Bristol light Post Coach, every afternoon at S. Bath liyht Post Coach, in two days, to carry four inside, through Maidenhead. Reading, Marlborough, Devizes, and Mellesham. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings at 9. This Coach is chiefly intended for the accommodation of Families. Invalids, &c. who cannot undergo the fatigue of such a distance in one day. Brighton light Post Coach, through Reigate and Cnek firld, every Morming at $. Cheltenham Original Post Coach. to carry only four in ;Pe, through Henley and Oxford, every Morning at 7. Chichester, Bognor, and Petworth Post-coach, Monday, Wed eesday, and Friday Mornings, at a quarter before 7. Dover and Canterbury Light Post-coach, every Evening at half-past b.—Ditto. every Morning at half-past 8. Oodetiming, aryl Guildford Telegraph Coach, through Epsom, Leatherhead. Clandon and Horsley, Tuesday,' Thursday, and Saturday Mornings at 10. Ditto, through Kingston. Ditton. Cobham, and Ripley, on Monday, Wednesday. and Friday Mornings, at 10. Henley Coach through Alaidenhead, every Afternoon at I, Sunday excepted. Littlehampton. Arundel. and Petworth Coach, Tuesday, Therrway, and Saturday Mornings, at half-past 7. Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, Sandwich, and Breadstairs light Post-caches, every Morning and Evader. Oxford Light Post-coach, through Healey, &e. every, Morning at 7. • Portsmouth new and elegant light Post-coach, the Regu lator. to carry only four inside, through Kingston, Guild ford. Petersfleld, and Portsea. every Morning at 8. (*teaches from Portsmouth to Chichester, om the arrival of the Mail, through Emsworth, Cosham, &c. to Bognor. Salisbury Poast-coach, to carry only four inside, through Staines. Basingstoke, Whitchurgh, Andover, &e. every Morning at 7. Strou.lwater Coach (removed from the Bull and Mouth.) through Abingdon, Faringdon. and arencester, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings at a quarter before 7. NORTHERN COACHES. York, Newcastle, and Edinburgh Coaches. and to all parts of the North. every Morning, at s quarter past 8. • Manchester, Lancaster. Kendal. Rochdale, Huddersfield, Bradford. Leeds, Hallifax, Rotherham, Sheffield, and Nor via' Coaches, Daily. Birmingham Post Coach. sets out every afternoon at Ave, carrying tour inside. and passes through Warwick, Learning' tbe and Daventry, to the Saracen's Head, Bull-street, Bir minthami, next morning at ten. CA RR lERS—To Twickenham,Breatford, and bleworth, every Moadsy, Wedntsday. Friday, and Saturday. EAMES and Co. ' Proprietors. Parcels and P ackages are safely and expeditiously con veyed from *is inn to every City, Town, Village, and t:osniry Seat in the following Counties. viz.:—Barks; Cornwall, Eamon. Dorset, Hants. Hereford, Gloacoiter. titmt,'Ozrord,get; Surrey, Sussex, Wilts, Wcireester, South Wales, ar ts of the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Gaeta boy. aed all parts of France ; and to all Parts of theijoith. ••• Take notice, that no package, containing glaslol4llll, nttetees, plate; cash, or Bank notes, however small abe vs ae, will be accounted for, if lost or damaged; war any .*ec parcel er luggage; of mere thaw Ail. vibe. sniess speeded as sack when delivered at the Ogee ttM paid for accordingly +4+ Next Peat-chaises, Be. at the shortest notice. Ex , tallith* WIIARb3.OIIIAND WATioNAL 411.LZSIORY. is Comattraorallee of tbiTatvisia of OM Ilhitrait &max, at the Rattle of Waterloo. Palsied ti:waler Obi Britlelt Usiltitlei ; 111se-MI but by 11, Is jall= al flee Boob* Hatt, Pisan* Is. Cosines dd. Ussariptles do. Iflk ' • - Sollsells. id, IVUE is Is/ •.t seials,l6; w • - yak appestat, • adebillie. lisire-Idie by. Nadia, a U. psi psid, to a al Ibis piper. dass,iptive of Ills i l tsz= assist a.; sad by pay* las Ms Ad MO , . & 11( soot aimed wiiids 14 Oats hardi!li *MP li• said S n o . pay espeascs. Souse. wi _ _ • tV larTi Wien I =IL . heillelbey ; sMiees redseed loniser runniest. Mies Glass for Windows. Cardwell, ex.—This article mayt be manufactured as high as 131/ by ?I bathes, lee by r4 lll:. v ir ra t e ozny given dimensions. Gentlemen, tinrveyors. Proprieton of Hotels and eases, will And this Warehouse deeerviag attention, froutiesmatenshreVariety ofezeel I est CAA met sad Mai rWerk Tb ps : i thoistery arraugerseals display some new speeinteas of neatness and elegance, with the still greater adven tate of economy la theeharge. Nome superior seeoad-hand furniture for sitting-rooms and bedchambers, to be dis posed of ea proportionate terms. Furniture daiiverrd to any part of dee essoirr, *Moat risk of injury or expect, of packing. R. SI ULY's SOLAR TUNIC- 'PURE Is universally allowed to be the meat pleasant. safe and eficacious remedy ever 'leered to the public.— Its warm and renovating qualities 'ruttier It the best medicine for debility. consumptions. nervous sad rheumatic complaints, spasms. Indigestion, lowness of spirits. and all those distressing affections .which harass the weak. sedentary and delicate. It requires no argument to convince more than a trial, after which these who valise health will never choose to be without it. Prepared and sold by Mr. J. R. Saffell. 33, Glocester-street. Queen's-square. Bloomsbury, In bottles at Gs.. is., 61:. and lbs. each ; and in flintily bot tles (by which there is a saving of 75.) at its. each. Also, Dr. Sibly's Lunar Tincture. for consplaints incident to the female se:, its bottles of 4s. M. and 10s tkl. each. Observe, none can be genuine unless signed by the proprietor. J. R. Befell, in his own hand-writing. on the wrapper. of each honk,. Role wholesale meets, Messrs. Barclay and Sous, 03. Fleet-market, Lando. ; and sold retail by Ward. &I. Ilolborn; Singer. 130. Oxford.street; titradling. Royal Evehapie-gate ; sad by all respectable stationers ' drug gists, aad-medicine venders. thrergber the kitgaloin. CONJUGAL Funizeri sad buss 04LiaAfril Agrottiners - , wt. The Recorder sat, on Friday last at the Session. Hesse, Ureea-street, for the trial of Prisoners and Traverser.. Michael Coyne yea indicted for stealing £35 Ss. 3d. in money, the property of John 11. Donnell. Elizabeth sl'Donnell, sworn—Witness is the wife of John Ill‘Donnell—the prisoner took the money from her on Wednesday morning, the 21st of March, be tween 5 and 6 o'clock ; witness's husband is a tailor; he lives at Carlow; witness met the prisoner on the coach ; they travelled to Dublin together; witness was coming to take shipping for Elgland, where she and her husband were going ; she had 31 guineas in gold with her ; she came to town on the coach ; the prisoner was on it also ; on their arrival in Dublin, he (the prisoner) invited her to a house to take her din ner; the house they went to was in Dirty-lane ; it was Mrs. Beatty's house; witness drank *hare of only one pint of table beer ; prisoner and witness slept there that night ; there was no pscket going to Eng land for a day or two; the next night he and she (p.i sorer and witness) slept at another house in the neigh bourhood of Thomas-street ; they slept in the same bed ; witness had her purse containing the money sewed in the plait of her petticoat ; when she awoke in the morn ing. she "comb" the money in his hand; he put a knife across her throat, and swore by his holy St. Peter he'd have her life if she raised an alarm; wit ness fainted away with the fright, when the prisoner made his escape; witness afterwards went to Mrs. Beatty's to search for him; Mrs. Beatty directed her to his (the prisoner's) brothers in Thomas-street; she said his brother kept drays; witness could get no account of him there, and followed him to Kilkenny j he had fled from Kilkenny two - days previous ; wit ness followed him to Tullamore; he was afterwards taken at Rathangan ; witness is the mother of six chil thee ; her husband is a tailor by trade ; her husband .bought a book to go oat to reap, and the prisoner was ' the next man in the field to him bat one ; when wit ness came to Dublin on the coach her husband was gone to the Fair of Athy to buy pigs ; believes the prisoner is a coiner ; he was " in that repute" in the country ; the morning after witness came to Dublin ; the prisoner went to the Pigeon /ionse with her to inquire for a vessel going to England; witness sup poses she must have passed as the prisoner's wife at Mrs. Beatty's or they could not have slept together ; witness did not tell Mrs. Beatty that the was the pri soner's wife; the prisoner " inveigled" her to go to sleep with him ; witness was not intoxicated; she was quite sober. Catherine Beatty, sworn.—Remembers the prisoners and last wimes" having slept at her horse--witness keep, an eating house; the last witness ease to her house as the prisoner's wife ; she case there the second storming after, with M r. M.Plablo t she said the prisoner had robbed her; witness directrd .her to the prisoner's bombers, in `Thomas -street ; witness knows the prisoner's two bro thers—always considered times both ns honest uses. The prisoner was •founa Ouilty. -Sentence—aeren year's transportation. WATERFORD ASSIZES, Sim IS. William Wallis Was indicied for maliciously set 'flog Ire to till hose of John Morissey ti John Morissey deposed, that about the middle of ,t. lia Wt, the. prisoner and another man came and set bit is his louse between tea And eleven o'clock in the aftenese. Witness was in his garden at the time be sew the Ire in the prisoner's hand; had light enough me them; they lived nearly a mile from witness; ,iteetr had a 4earrel with either; witness thinks they wisheile get his land from him ; witness labs part of a samintain on which his cattle grate; tbe. prisoner and the ether man had a part of the mountain ; bat whom bad the greatest part ; there was sufficient pant* fur all ; when they were setting Bre to the ,beee. ;illness was afraid to speak, bet went and alarm eel bie.lteighhours, but too late to save the house ; At 12 o'clock the Governor (Charles Pole, Esq.) with a large body of Directors, entered tt►e Court and the former announced that the present meeting was called in pursuance of their by laws to consider of a dividend for the cntrent half year. After the routine business of reading the minutes of the last Court had been gone through by the Secretary. The Uovaaxon said that he held in his hand a re commendation from the Court of Director..., that if the Proprietors thought fit, a divideul of 5 per cont. for the half year ending the 10th of Oetubcr next should be ordered. [Con this motion being put from the chair, Mr. N. tie:may (of Hiciinsond) rose and beggeil leave to address the Conrt from a written paper which he had prepared for the occasion. He proceeded as Stn—Before I move, of I propose to do, an amend.' meot to the motion just read, 1 her leave to make a few' observations, and to lie indulred, as 1 am totally unused to speak in public, with reeding them from the paper 1 hold in my hand. Though I am in the 75th year of my age, and reside 12 miles from this spot. 1 ant come here to day, aed whilst it shall please tioil to rrant me life and health. 1 will mine here on every similar *cession : not that I am vain eassulth to suppose 1 hare talents to produce any effect hal+ court, but as what passes here is usually, by the wraps of the public papers. coniiiinuicateil to every pert spf the kingdom, it may not he without its nes that the proprietors of Bank stork resident in the iiiitant emelities may know what 1 have attempted to do fod ‘ thrie *Hit mid interest, and thereby perhaps be in -I.a was en-partner, Sir, in this great trading company 20 years before me attention was excited to its concerns, or the injnry I hail sustained from not having a regular and fair share of its profits to which I was entitled, not only from the spirit of our charter,—not only from two specific Acts of Parliament,—nut only from one by-law of r out Dien making,—but from the natural prineip!es of justice inherent in every good and virtuous mind. In the spring of ISIG I came purposely to town, from Rams gate, to co-operate with certain proprietors of Bank stock, who had given me to understand that they were resolved to lay aside their formal apathy and indiffer ence, and take proper measures to enforce their rights. The first thing that was done was, at the coact held in March, to propose an increase of the dividend from 5 to 6 per cent. The motion for this purpose being seconded, a ballot was demanded and took place. No success at tended it, and indeed none could reasonahlv he expected, as the proprietors resident in Cornwall or Yorkshire, or the intermediate counties, were not likely to post away to London : and unless they dill zo, what chance was there of successfully opposing the will of the Ifireetors, surrounded as they were by their mercantile friends, re sident in London and its environs, and consequently at hand to attend the ballot without much, if any, per sonal inconvenience to themselves. But a circum stance, Sir, soon followed the decision of this ballot, %Odell appeared perfectly at variance with the preceding conduct of the birectors, who, in *Jive to their cha racter, must he supposed to have resisted the 'melon for the increase of the dividend, from an opinion that even the very extraordinary profits of the trade during the pre ceding 9 years would not justify such an increase ; and yet in a mouth, a little month, as Hamlet says, these same conscientious and faithful stewards granted, all at once, and without any explana tion that I ever heard of, a bonus of no less than 25 per cent. on his capital to each individual proprietor . This was a nseaeure, Sir, which at the time, and though I was benefitted lye it to the amount of more tbif &SOUL,. I thought perfectly unjust, because you gave ins what I had no right to, and must have taken it from those who had a fair claim to it. I think so still, and therefore hope that this precarious, mincer tain, and unjustifiable mode of dividing the profits of the trade will not in future be adopted. In this opi nion I know that I differ from almost all the propri etors of Bank stock with whom .1 have occasionally conversed, because I find them so delighted with the magnitude of the last bonus, that their thoughts and wishes seem wholly confined to the expectation of another. That of 1816, or something else, occasioned my not being able to find a single proprietor whir would unite with mein an application to the Court of - King's Bench for a mandamus, and therefore I was obliged to act individually, and was fortunate enough to obtain a rule from that Court to the Bank to show CRUM When the matter came before the Court, not a word was said indicative of its'not . hiving any juris diction on the subject, but fault was simply found with my conduct in not having taken the proper previous steps at the Bank Court. When in the succeeding year I Corrected this error, I renewed my application for a•mandamirs, but not the least notice was taken by the Court of King's Denels of My having remedied the defects of the preceding year; but I was totd a; once. that I had applied for redress to the wrong Court, as it Was only to be obtained in the Court of Chancery. I . therefore determined to porsne the weans so expressly pointed out to me by the four JUdget of the Court of King's Bench; but how great was my disappointment' to find, that on consulting three eatinert Chancery so . - . L 1 Ril iiii rl A 1 " NE WAITS! HATS, *sly IlaosjlnteeO ad, whams - ilia Dot tell then The Dade of the prisoner ;;; ?rum Applicants that have applied for Letters, sap- J. ato- eo,heastlful la ate mmelloutin *iv that 4she ether man until the aext morning. : 1 pond to here bees lathe Packet footed In Dalin. ay pinta s - w: lag are die rad= of all *al seillwelo" Power, 'of Gartmie, Esq. was examined . it:formed that it is saw too WI. After a week's delay 44p % ,1e trotritotod. Palest An flatioille. ithide will was brought before him ; after some Werra- three were Mend_ est sioeseetaeutlY Me Wawa "arid 1 = 11 1 . 4 11 e ammo , silk kill. liailled aa *wow* - lfy derreperrimmesues. and alit be reedy for pa kr Mein thelecolear to the lase, mist all enable. . Primmer acknewledged that a mast Darned wemis.mpleriteday Tint. " Illidethe title of , and sower epee whir rule. Induced him to set fire to blerissey's house.— !tin* WiLIN MAIL. .1. ItIRCAPTIMI COlll- RICHAROS sad C . Masafeedewne. 31 .0 elleralo 41 1 4- ,fist **Jury recomeseedesl `her to mercy es the I . • , . . site oodt4tase. - ._.. 714:43 - i t: , . 41;. :4;f s ,his Win *Quilt srubeepletosp{ffraterfere %*AI . .. iireolVir : °MUM °LAMBS sad IPURNITL . *h e lot& we to -% Ai ad kwits ANCOND HAM NAM, mil'aew as ' ' N. ea ank , • beekadiefs , If they m id i el s sow, wk. at Vallus and tom', . 11 teillaanacri Ws Stel.P." BAN K OF ENGLAND. Vitt: , d at e-street, Wiatia.—lomeof Om layer lira- —........ y oduptee fec kale dielatreessa Rol ealling "whir" Yesterday a Court of Pro rietors was held at the •• ' Jiondaem mina were sal*. . Ess A large assortment officio tubbed , Ser. - P Our joy Mates to roes sad c i eysi frames. miffs sew (deems oopedOr so d Bank, to consider of a dividend. . .0., • • vPd. • ~_ Le!yens prepaea!ory to filing a bill in that Court, to claim a fair participation of the profits of the trades to which, as a co-partner, I felt myself entitled, sot the least encoaragemeat was given me to make the in .tended application to the Lord Chancellor. It may ,be said, that as I :bad the sanction of the Gan of King's Beach in favour of this applicatioa, I might have felt sofficiently bald to prefer the opiaion of fear Judges to three Conosellors; and so I should had the legal process in question been simple, and its de termination to be looked to withia any reasonable peeled of time, hat when the perplexity and procrastination of a hostile suit in Chancery, with so powerful and so wealthy an opponent as the Bank of Boglaad, together with thecircametaaceofmybeing la the 75th year of my agle, is tit akeidered. I Wilk it 111$ be allowed that it would haveiotten as mach an act of madness, as folly to haveßled a bill% Mastery safer the dim"' raging circassatzaces I hoe stated. As end, therefore\ is pit to may fottimealitiopt as my pan to obtain `dress by an apipesl to &Alpert .of Law or Equity; but shield Wiret ! have done excite the attention of some of the proprietors of Bank stock, who are distinguished in point of rank, talent, or wealth, and who have no inter est in regarding the good Or ill will of the directors, east should they be induced occasionally to attend the half yearly courts held at the Bank, an alteration may take place in the proceedings there, and by the exertions of independent proprietors means may be found, should hope, to obtain half-yearly the productiot balance sheet at least, and some consequent examination of the state and profits of the trade. If this can by no means be effected, if the directors are permitted to act the farce of calling the proprietors together to consider of a dividend, without supplying them with any the least document for that consideration, in what a de plorable state is this great trading corporation, an I es pecially the wore humble members of it, who have little else for their support but the interest of their Bank stock? The direapors may do just what they please, anti if left to themselves, without any contrail, may again bring the state of their affairs into time con dition to wbicb they were brought in Febin try, 1797. If I ant toll that confidence is mine to them, I an swer, that claim is forfeited by what we know from the secamioations that took place before the committees of the Lords and Commons in 1797. It appeared from these examinations, that aftir more than 30 totally inef fectual representations to the then Minister, Mr. Pitt, during the years 1795, 1795, and 1797, on the injurious consequences resulting to the Bank from the advances of money made by them to Government and not repaid In proper time, the distress became so great, that a depn *don which was to wait on Mr. Pitt on Saturday, the theft of February,. 1707,--wnwlastrooted to tell Itha, that - Vise persevered in the measure he then had in contem plation, it threatened ruin to the house, and would I.ty them under the necessity of shutting up their doors. Had the mind of Mr. Pitt been less firm and decisive, and had it not suggested to him the bold, but hazardous measure of issuing the order of Council fur restricting cash payments, it is easy to see, from the probable drain of cash, what, at the end of the week, must have been the situation of the Bank, and consequently of the whole kingdom. Such, then, being the proof of the conduct uf the whole kingdom. Such, then, being the proof of the conduct of the Directors of the Bank during the three years alluded to, may it not jtstly be said, that unless the gentlemen then composing the direction are to be stigmatized as deficient in ability and integrity, what reason can be given fur placing implicit contidens:e in any who have succeeded, or may succeed them ? While the venerable gentleman was reading a letter, complaining of want of attention in the Directors; he was called to order by a proprietor, who insisted that the latitude which was allowed Mr. tiundry, contrary to the practice in all deliberate a . ssetnblies, of reading from a written sreclm, ought not to be made so general awl ir regular as to comprehend his reading the written state ments of others as well as his own. The objeetion tvas overruled, and Mr. Gundry, in conclusion, proposed, as an amend ment to the motion from the chair, that the proposed half yearly dividend be sir, instead of 5 per cent. On the ameudment being put from the chair:— • A PROPRIETOR (we understood Mr. Payne, of Bath) asked how the Court could decide satisfactorily upon either of the propositions before them, in the absence of s..nort more speeitic Information respecting the affairs of the Corporation than they could now refer to ? No answer was given to this interrogatory. Mr. D. B. Pavue then replied to the observations of Mr. Getwav; anti a long altercation then ensued ; after which the question was again put by the same Proprietor respecting the Bank affairs for the last six months. The Governor replied, it would be unwise upon every individual. appeal, unsanctioned by a vote of the Court of Proprietors, to call upon the Directors for such an explanation as that which the honourable pro prietor's question comprehended. • RATE OP INTEREST. A Proprietor requested 'permission to address a few words to the Governor before the question of adjourn ment WAS put. A report had gone forth, that it v.as shortly intended by the directors to recommend a re— duction in the rate of interest in their discounts, from sto 4 per cent. It was most important that before any such intention were "realized, the public should have full and timely notice of so important a change —one which most materially affect the value of every. species of property. This public intimation ought, he thought, to be given without favour; far it was . obvious that if die reduction were contemplated, those whewere timely in the secret must derive what itaight be considered an unfair ad►antage. No' answer was given at the moment to this applica. tion ; bat upon its being renewed before the Court broke up, The Goy ernor said in reply, that the Conrt of Di rectors were folly impressed with the propriety 5f _..L-.1111 _ - . • .......... "T