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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MARCIR es. Arrived the Trident gun-vessel ; with the Com merce, Adventure, and Carr transports, from Guern sey. Wind variable. • PLYMOUTH, staacti 27. Sailed the dritemis man of war on a cnike; and the Pre”nyante stare ship for Standgav Creek. — Wind lk.E. neit.,mAßcii 2S. Stile I the Drrar Rim-brig, for Portsmouth. Arrived th • Diomrde frigate, and :hate gun-brig, from a cruise off Boulogne ; and remain in the Downs, with the rest of the ships, &c. as per last with the Renewal, Crornartie, and the Echo, Rowe, for Barbadoes. EXTRACTS FROM Tat ELEVENTH EFFORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF NAVAL. INQUIRY. Issue of Navy Bills, for thenuronse of raising Money. Loss arising from the Mndc of Parvi•ig the Interest on Navy and Trio ors Bins Money (tamest by the Nary Board, for Secret Naeal Service'. Haynie unahuno. d that, Miring the late war, bills to a very consider ible amount had been iraliert he the Navy Board, for the purpose of raising money; and this traii.m . tion appearing to is irregular, we deemed it aht abject fur our enqiiiry. We at the same time mid , . an inyeutipatmo, M some degree eon neCted with the subject, into . practice which had potvaii-d with the Navy and Trairs i i,irt Beard., .4 making the Bills trailed by them seniority days date, pay .ble un the Seth day from Ch• dare of the bills, although rinefert fur ninety days was allowed to the parties la the roar r of our taloa:es on these subjects, we disco eared %bar cum haul been advanced by the Navy 8-.0, by wry of imprest, in musicale* of directions from the Lorrb Coin miraioners of the 'fromery, fur the performance of secret naval services. The present Report we Pail confine to the corsiirriti•iii of these runners. in the weer in which they have•been mentioned. issue of Nary Rill. Air the purpose of raising Money. Previously ro the adoption of this moraine, the Lords f'oni mis,ioners of fin:ore direfted the Navy Board to reuse it to I t notified to the rime, having ninety-lay Navy Bills then day., and wishing to hair a renewal of thus same insteid of reeeiring the aminiiit in . ash, that they might be lareomme beef' with new hills bearing the same harvest," which SICOIII - was direCted to be mr , tittiv-1 till further notice r but this tootle not fulls answering t h e prirons• intended, the ex pedient of taising money by the issue of navy bills was m ooned to. This trassralion appears to have arisen front a conversation botwere the Coorrptroller of the Navy and Mr. George Glenny, • merchant having large concerns with the victualling depart aura, upon the difficulties which were occasionally experienced by delays ito the issues of money from the Exchequer for the serri , e of the ha,y. In that crriversation Mr Glenny corm siunic.-tra! the mariner in which he had procured money on the , . victualling Mils, made con to him in payment under his con trails, through the agency of Messrs litoldamids. This pro duced an inter itw the nest day between the Comptroller of the Navy, Messrs. Cold...nuts. and Mr Glenny, and the plan of drawing navy hills, foe the rewrite of raising money, was ihelellpeticoncetted. The first set at these bills /of one hundred thousand pounds was drawn nit the 211 d of Gaoler, 1001, payable to Mr COOS. wall Smalley ; hut he disapproving of his name being made use of, these halts were destroyed, and others for the same amount weed ale ent en the name d Mr. George Gleamy. It was aftcrwasde thought right to make such hills payable to Dothattimpa end Glenn!, the firm of the house to libido Mr. Glennybehanged. The total amount of these bilk, issued between the 24th of Ofrubet 1600 acid the :41 , of May 1602, when the tweak* of drawing such hilts was discontinued, was four millions there hundred thousaudpountiv, besidcs ninety days intereit, which was added to give them the semblanee of reviler hills. There was however, this e seinial difference between them; Use regidarbdis stated tier pinucular kind of stores, or services, for which they were tit payment; these Mlle expressed Mlle that they were fur 4 . Sundry Naval Services." Not being aware ne any power in the Navy Board to draw bills of this destripeinn Ile the purpose above-mentioned, we enught informatamt from the Comptroller of the Navy Oil the bUttietip but he declined to answer the questitite put to hien, under that clause ot the Act of Parlianient by which we are op• pointed, which pmvides, that no person shall be obliged to answer say questioh which may tend to criminate hint, Or ex pia him to pains or .eferring us for the authority tinder which he and the Nave Beard had acted, to Hi. Mates ey"s ()Merin Counted iii June 1796, for regidatitig thy &nits of the several Members . the Navy Board, and to the patent by which the, are appointed. From these documents no sorb authority is derived, nor du We conceive the lase Bo rid ra.i, without the expires autho rity of Parliament, ',site hilts to raise money to be applied to the service of the navy, rer any other service. It is not meant, by the observations which our duty requires us to make oo this transaftion, to intimate, that it was midei taken with any inditeA view, or to. barge any abuse its the execution of the plan, alter it was resolved upon; it is the measure itself which w e hate to notice. It is proper likewise to slate, that three hills were issued under the dirorlions of the Loris Commission em of the Tr..a sort., signified at the time of tilt issuer tiv le.ters from their Serrliary in the Navy Board, which were inel , .s d confident ially to the Comptroller, and the pro lace of the balls was paid to toe 'Peeasurer of the Wirt , ; the ietteis entered in the Ap pendix spew hose this business was come oft ed We eliqutred whether the difficulties iii nbtaining money far the service of the Navy, stated to hare existed in the year. 1400, 1101, and 1402, arose from any unusual deficiencies in the Navy estimates for those years; the Comptroller could not speak Mthe estimates, hut informed us, that the &reunites which led to the adoption of this plan were owing to a defi. cleaty of money in the Treasury, and sometimes to the Nasal supplies being exhausted, which he believed to have been the cam in October tson The Paymaster of the Nary stated the general oruir.ence of official difficulties in applieatimie for motley, and that such difficulties might have occurred at the period when these bills were hailed; although he did not teeollect any correspondence of the Treasurer of the Navy with the Treasury or Navy Board, which led or 'elated Sothic issue o. these bills. It was certainly proper that the public credit should be sup ported, but we cannot admit that this measure was indispen sably nemmary foe that purpose; nor can we allow the validity of the reason given per it by the comptroller, namely, that no funds were exclusively set Apart for the payment of ninety-lay bills, the amount being uncertain; at is in the news of the thing that an estimate should he uncertain. All the supplies for thee navy are annually voted by Parliament on climate, and the amount paid by ninety-day bills, forming no ineonaidera ble part of the navy expenditure, must, of course, be Inchnied in the general provision for navy services. We were led by the examination tat the comptroller and chief clerk an the office. for bills and account, to am . aline that the advantage which might accrue by the interest on the bills, frum the time of their date to the time of their being negociared, was to Le the remuneration to the brokers for their trouble; but, by an account afterwards laid before us, we found that thew had made the usual charge of onelaighth per cent. com mission, and had given credit ro Government for the in• terest on the dads el-peed before the bills were negeciated. The amount of Moors. Goldsmiste commisairm on the nego c iat ion of these bias was five thousand three hundred and seven ty-five pounds. " 1. Goldsmids' account, it appeared, in had not given credit to the public for proisme of the hills, at the time of tliis is stated by Mess-s. Goldamids to ~ asitig advanced ti%e money before the I. not be discovered from any thing We are of opinion, that all ac , boards should be made out with j be necessary to a clear exhibit o f ready facilities the ersamirsatieti of the On rst entry, ein that lna t they ei Golf the ihadad i '; the full amount the pm4u aeglctlting them. But t i ne. have wisen front their '.aviiii bills were act =may n•gociated. Thi+ c.rcurtstsno, coutd n en the face of the account. counts rtn.iererl to the pohltC such particolivAies ray b each item, which will greedy accounts. ~.~-, .~:~. . • . • . . Loss arising from the Most. of paying the Interest on Navy and Transport Bills. Ey an Act of the 34th of His present Majesty, cap. 21, it is enacted, that after the sth da► of Aril, 1794, alt navy and ♦ictullliug bills shall be made payable on a certain day, not later than fifteen months from the date of each bill ; and that the interest on such bills as shall carry interest, shall cons mence from the day on which the saul bills shall IM registered. And by a subsequent Act of the 97th year of Ma present Majesty, cap. 26, it is directed, that all navy, victualling, and transport bills, shall be payable on a certain day, to be ex pressed in each bill, which day shall not be hi', than three calendar months, from the day of the date thereof; and that every such Bill shall carry an interest after the rate of three pence and one halfpenny tier ceritum per diem, to commence from the day of the date of each bill. Upon the passing of the last Act, the Commissioners of the Victualling transmitted to the Navy Board an account of victualling bills, payable in course, which had been registered in this month of January, 1797, tinting there to become due in 90 days from theday of the date, which day was not included. The Navy Board, on receipt of the account, stated their ob jections to this method of computation in a letter to the Vie walling Board, in which they obi:erred, that all bills made out under the same Act, should be uniform in all their terms; that on all o. cannons dependent on time, it wascustomary to both the fir s t and last day; that this mode of computing inte rest oil the navy ►ills had prevailed during the late Act, was followed in the Transport Office, and was in conformity with the present Oct. The Commissioners of the Victualling, in reply,forcibly con troy's* these io ition:. They state, that it had always been the custom of their office not to include the first arid last days in the calculation of interest, until that rule had been departed from in recknning the interest on the bills issued under the 95th of His present Majesty, and which was done at the sug. gestien of the officers of the Navy Board; that the rule now again adopted in the Victualling Office was cousistent with that imiversany observed in respect of bills of exchange; to which, except in the instance of the three days grace usually taken, they understood thee bills were, as nearly as possible, to be rendered similar: that they conceived their mode to Ire con formable to the Act of Parliament, and that it had um uccasien ed the slightest remonstrance from any persons receiving or holding their bills. To this letter no answer appears to have been returned. In punning different lines of conduct on the same occasion, both the Boards could not be right; and, as the interest of the public was committed in the question, it might have been ex pected that a reference would have be en made to the superior Word for a decision, particularly by that Hosed whose conduct, if ermeeous, subjected the public tot loss. It does nor, however, appear that this difference produced either referenceor enquiry and the rule adopted by the Nsmy Board, of making the ninety•day bills payable on the eighty• ninth day from the date, continued in practice in that and the Transport Office until the month of December, 1801 On the 12th of that month a minute from the Committee of Account , (one of the Committees into which the Navy Board is divided), stating, that doubts had been suggested of the pro priety of the mode in which ninety-day. bills issued from that office had been made out, was referred to the Board at largo. lit this minute the Committee set forth the propriety of their present mode of proceeding, grounded on the established prac tice of their eines, and the necessity of keeping faith with the merchants, who had been used to this mode of computieg the interest on their bills. They also express their &otos whether any envies would accrue to the public from the day's interest in question, on a presumption that the contractors reckon upon it in the terms of their contracts; yet, notwithstanding these reasops offered in favour of the existing practice, the Committee refer to the considerstiou of the Board, whether it might be preper at that time ls to depart from the ancient usage of the office, arid make an alteration in the computa tion of the time the ninety-day hills are made out to run, in conformity with the Victualling Office, arid the custom of merchants in discoonting In cnnsequence of this minute, the Navy Board, upon the 18th of the same month, came to a resolution, that the Navy Riffs issued in future should not bear interest for the day on which they are dated, agreeably to the practice with regard to Exchequer bills, and bills made out at the Victualling Office, and direct this change to commence on the following der . Previously to our having any knowledge of the above minute and resolution, we had desired infoesnatiou of the Navy hoard as to the causes of the rejection, and subsequeet adoption, of the mode use at the Victualliug Office, of excluding the lay of the date in reckoning the ereat on the ninety-day hills The rejection of that mode is no otherwise accounted for, then by observing, that they did not see reason, on receiving the letter from the Commissioners of the Victitallitig, to change the constant practice of their office since the first establish. meat of Naiy interest bilk, and which extended to all pay ments rit'salarv, pensions, fell or half pay, and all other atlas.- &vices issued from that department. The ft/1041/ 11151111 ed fur the suhsequentalterathui are, that art minter y might pervade the several public hoards from which bills of a similar description are issued ; a n d that when the time :mired, at the conclusion of the late war, that malty contrails were put up, and many more were intended to be so, it was thought a good opportunity for making an alteration in the mode of paying the interest on Navy Bills, which could curt, without itnpination of departing from an universals understexl custom, be altered whiht the contracts were roiling. It is likewise intimated to be iodate tenet whether the bills were paid one day rooster or liter, the sum pairlfor the interest being the same w one case as the other. We shall now make some remarks en the above proceedings of the Navy Board, and afo.rward• observe on the bills drawn by the Commissioners of Transports. Although the Navy Board might have been unlatirmed of the general practice of computing the discount on bills of ex. cheese, and the mode of calculating interest on exchequer bilk, yet, when the Victualling Board se strongly punted out to there that they were In error and that error injo r i ~, to the public we think they shout I have instituted an inquiry: had they inns so, they must have come to the same ceisclosimi then which they did afterward,, and on the same grounds ; for the meth,*l of computing interest on exchequer bills was the same in 1787 fns in 1101, and the practice of the Victualling Board they were befare fully acquainted with, and had rejected. It is certainly the rule in paying of wages, salaries, &c. as observed by the Navy Board, to include bush days, but nothing is gained by this to the person receiving such payment, as his time is afteraaals reckoned from the day neat to th it included in the former account, so that in the course of the rear he has is only paid 540 days ; but by the Navy Word's mode of malt ing the 90 days 'merest payable on the stOth day, a person might obtain 369 days interest in the COIIMI of the year; or, by following up that mode, a day's intered might be gained every time individuals changed their security, peovided the mo ney was again lent on the day of i's being received. The faith to be preserved with passi o n w h o se contracts w or e pending, Is a circumstance much insisted upon in the Navy B.ard's letter to us, and in the minute of the Committee of accounts. In order to judge what influence that consideration could have had upon the resolution of the Beard, at the time it was carried into execution, we called fr an account, spewing what standing contracts had deternitned between the Ist of October, and 19th of December 11101 (the day on whch the alteration took place), and an account of such as were then in force, and continued to be so for twelve months. By the re turn made to nor precept, it must appear how little the cowl deration of keeping faith with the contractors could have in fluenced the decision of the Navy Board, es roily two contracts, of small cousequence, had terminated within the first-mention ed period; and one hundred and twenty-three contracts were remaining in force a year after the change, beyond which time we thought it useless to carry our enquiries; and the change being ordered to take effect the day after the resolution, oper ated immediately upon all these contracts, contrary to what was alleged to be the comment understasiditig of the parties. It further smeared, by the examination of the Secretary to the Navy Board, that altlimigh the contractors were not con sulted on the alteration, they did not object to or complain of it, confirming in this respect what had been observed in the letterof the Victualling Board. The f'arnenistionem of Transports, in answer to our applica tion to them on the subject, informed us, that they had allow ed interest troth for the day on which the bills were dated, and that on which they became payable, because the persons to whom payments were made by ninety-day bills were, in strict ness, entitled to their money upon the completion of the ser vices performed ; brit that an interval of several days almost sayariably occurred whilst their accounts were under investiga tion, and the bills preparing ; and because ' accoiding to their construction of the Act of Padiaesent, they couceivod it to have been intended that the bills should be so paid. If Use Transgott Band thought themselves justified in their • practice by their construction of the Ad, they should raid have deoaried from it without legal advice, or proper authority. If a compensation, in proportion to the delay, was looked for by the Cintractors, ono day's interest was not sufficient. it would seem that this &wad followed the course taken by the Navy Board, and altered their practice when they found that the Navy Board had resolved upon a chawge. We rather think the contractors dad not look for any antici pation of payment, as a cowirensation for the Iris of time, whilst their accounts were pmeng, sore, delay iii which must necessarily occur, and that it had not then, not has Once had, any we ght with them an regulating the prices at which they mad , • vieir tender+ to Government The loth/rime is the amount of ninety-day bills, issued be tween the 26th of Dr cember, 1796, and tho 19th of December, lent, at an interest of three pence halfpenny per coot per day, allowed both for the day of At,, date,, IA the day of the payment of the bills: lasaled by the Navy Board . L.. 19,747,635 II 11 Transport Board . 6,305,976 11 7 L. 26,053,812 3 6 ----- Leas of one day's interest on the above sum L. 3,799 10 3 Although the loss of between seven and eight hundred pounds per annum, adds little to the vast amount of the national expenditure, yet it is because the necessary expendi ture is so great, that all possible care should be taken ter avoid any improper increase of it, such as we think this to have been. To the public, one day's interest on ninety,.mxrating on so many millions, was a consideration; to each individual it was not,. We think it right to ebeerve, whenever a difference of opi nion may arise between the Nara:/Ward:, on tile cun,tiuction of an Act of Parliament, or any ether general regulation, that such difference of opinion should be laid before the Lnrdi Commissioners of the Admiralty, for their decision thereon, as the pursuing of different li,,es of conduct mull tend to pro duce dissatisfactiow, and will in general be found to be inju rious to the public interest. Money imprested by the Navy Board for Secret Naval Services. On examining the book containing the registry of bills is.- ‘1,10.(1 by the Navy Board, we discovered that consid,:rable sums had been advanced, by way of imprest, during the late war, for the performance of secret naval SCIViCei. The impress against one of these parties, amounting to one hundred thousand pounds, having t-en taken off, and the ac• count closed in the books of the Navy Office in a manner which appeared to us irregular, we enquired into the circum stances of the transaSion. From the examination 'of the Comptroller of the Navy, we learned that this sum had been advanced by the Navy Board, in consequence of directions given by the Lords COMMiSSiOliets of the Treasury to the Comptroller, which were smirked " Most Secret ;" thr five thousand pounds had been repaid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Navy, and that the re maining iniprest of ninety-five thousand pound. had been domed, or takers o(, by the direction of the Lords Commis sioners of the Treasury. signified by their Secretary's letter to the Navy Board, dated the Ist of May, tIIO4. By His Majesty's Order in Council for regulating the Navy Office, dated the Pith of June, 1796. the Comptroller of the Navy is authorised to execute such secret naval services an may be directed Sy the First Lord of the Admiralty for the time being, and, after the services are performed. the Comptroller is required to communicate his orders, and his proceedings thereon, to' the Navy Board fiat their concurrence. In case a majority should disapprove of any part of hie conduct, they are to submit the whole, with the rearms for such disapprobation, to the First Lord of the Admiralty, whose decision thereon is to he considered as final Upon this Order in Council, instructions were &Iwo ap by the Lcyds Commissioners of the Adni..talty for the conduct of the Navy Bolni, and they were directed to conj . :lr.', thereto by their Lordships order of the 17t1. of August 17%, in which them is au onii4sion that we think it right to notice. It is out stared iuthat ordcr, under whose directions or ail thority the Comptroller is to perform the secret services there in mentioned ; the order runs this. ' , All contracts ate to be made by the Board at large, those for secret settle., only exceptea, which are to brt entrurt•d to the Com,•tiotlff, who is hantetsy authorised to executu such duty." Whereas, in the Order in Council, after dating that contracts of every kind orate be made by the Board at large, tiro e fuj secret services excepted, which are to be entrusted to the Comp. truder, it is expressed, " That the secret services above-tritatilned should be per formed under the authority of tin: Fast Lord of tune Ad niiralty for the time being " This oiniesion aooula be rectified, as we are of opinion, oi is cnnsiderable importance, that tie several subotelniate Donrds should !visa precios inforniAtion, not only of the client or the authority vested in them, but of the authority under which they are to act. The Navy Board, by their patent of appointment, are requir ed to folow such orders and instructions as they may from time to tune receive from the Lord High Admiral, or the Commis sioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral fur the time being; and it don not appear that they are authorised to follow directions which may be given to them by any other department of Government It is, howrer,nated by Cm Comptroller and the Secretary, that the Board' have been iii the constant practice of receiving and following direetio.is from the Lents COlillMi4lollefS of Ilia Majesty's Treasury, in certain cases, which they have enumerated. Itmlso appears, by th." account entered is the Appendix, N... 4. that 16,0001. have been advanced by the Navy Board to Messrs. Ifaninieraley and Company, for the performance sofa secret naval service, which wan dire-ted by one of lin Majesty's principal Summaries of State. If it be judged expedient that the Navy flood should follow the directions of any other department of Government than that under which they are placed exclusively be their patent, we think they mould he furnished wirh specific autho rity to that effect; and that thee should in no ease depart from their instructions without the sanction of the Lords Commis sioners of the Adirtar.lty. It is stated by the Comptroller, that theservices for which the sum in question, of one htlll.lMt thousand pxrunda, was ad vanced, were not performed under he orders, but under the directions of the Lord. Commis.ioners of the Treasury, by Wean authority the imprest was cleared, without any account of the expenditure of the money bang rend, red to the Navy Board. It is most pmbible that a commimieation of the circuit 1114110er of this transaction was mole to the First Lonl of the Admiralty at the time a advarciiig the first panel' this money; it does not, however, appear, hem his Lordship's examina tion, that he directed the measure ; an,l the First Lord of the Adminlty, at the time the hut adverse, was made, and woen the impress was taken off, was altogether uninformed of the transact Mo. Notwithstanding the time which has el it:iv/ since the ad ranee of the money, and the iniunctions ii( the order in Coun cil, we find that the daptrolltr has not comniunic tied to the Navy Board his proceedings in this business, or even made them acquainted with the nature of the servies performed. The rea son mewl by the Comptroller for this depaiture from his in structions is, that the service is ides delicate a nature, 'hat he does cot think it prudent to make the circumstance public. After this declaration, we forbore to inquire into the pur poses to which this money had been applied, and, of course, have no evidence of the services performed ; yet, we have rea son to believe, that they were of such a nature as to come within the description of naval services. There are circuits. stances, connected with the public interest, which have to deceit us to withhold the name, of the parties t• whom the money was advanced, and the nature of the service to which we apprehend it has been applied ; hut, as the rdv seestrit, which the public have for the propriety of the disbursements of public money by the Comptroller of the Navy, which may be considered of a secret nature, n the ultimate investigation of the Navy Board, to which all transactions of this nature are directed by the Outer in Council to he submittal, upon the completion of the services, we thick so salutary a regulation ought not to be departed front. By the account entered iii the Appendix, Nu. 4, it will be seen that other sums have been advanced by :Fe Navy Board for the performance of secret naval sersiom ; hut, as ti se vices are not yet tennicared, we inn oitly reconimend, that, as soon agility are completed, the commimication, directed by Ills Majesty's Order in Council, he modern the Navy Board CNA. M. POLL, EWAN LAW, JONI( Fopo, H. NICHOLLs, W. MACKWOItTIf Ps .% ED. Office of Naval IN dley, 24, Great George street, Ma - ch 4,1955. 77TE MARKEn• 1111EXCIIANGZ, roma', Matte 1 1 1. The fresh arrivals to &yam but kw' pert ar e =Mk; of foreign. This trade h a s slow sale, for second and 0tg.,,,, y qualities, which decline in twice ; but baying little ac t " band, it readily obtains our currency. The lideksltos linen buying so little Barley at present, it is lather cheep s excepting fine ' which continues high. Ws bite greot,„ , ,. plies of Oats, although with the many from Prima', the pre. sent demand supporn the prices. 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SBI T. Blatt, Stnck.'broker, 144- 4, Gambill, and No 9, Cha•i : r-ese. PRICE OF DOS!! srocKs Gov. Deb. II per Cent. •March 32 ) PBl CI /UKSE OF EXCHANGE, FILID•r. Mance 23. Nmateniain .... IP II 21!• Genoa 4 .4 Di.t.. At %est .. :41 0 l'eniee Rotterdam l4 32 U. ll.i+bnw 641 ilap.b.inakt 33 5 1411. Oporta ..... Alton..& . Alto ~ 33 6 1140. Dublin Pant I dsrs date IS 13 ' Ditto ' .. II - 3'2 Cr. 11911110$1. 11. . 4. linunleaan • •26 3 Portugal Grid in CLAW Cali:.. in paper aol &ars per 0z... 4 0 0 Dm° 3ij ei,ct D , ,uloinmis . ..... ... 0 0 • Madrid ..... Oat, 331 erect. S.lver in liars ..... 0 0 0 361 Bibs Nrw I.otili each.... O 0 e I.ogtmen BO Maple. A 4.f, on the blank of HeLanif 5 per Cent MARRIAGES. La•ely, the Rev. Wigiaoi Rons F.IIi ombe, eal e it an of aka Rev. W. Ellicombr, Hector of A phington, to Miss hue, if C.bst St. George, in Cornwall. Lately, at Kilinurry Church, near Limerick, Ere Ir.sar., of A4lk hill, Co. Limerick, to Miss Maunsell, eaughta. of Rciuert Minutia, Esq. of Limerick, Banker. bEATHS. Lately, of a Decline, in 11'2 19th year of her age Miw Ss. eannah Ldaile, second daughter of Jamm LA. 4 Upiiii.ister, Ewes. On the 27th of August last, on his !massage to Cakutta, C. Law, Ey. seuior merchant on the Bengal Establishment. Lately, at Mrs. Laiie'4, in Greet Orinonct.sheet, Cna its Titre' M..rgan, Eaq. of Fairford, Gloucestershire HIGH WATER TIII DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE, Mnrw 59 mitt. after I.—E4eit. 14 twin. Aft 2. SALES BY AUCTION. TO BLACK COACH MASTERS, STAGE MASTERS, KACKNEY-MEN, AND OTHERS. By D. SADLER, On THURSDAY, the 4th April, 1905, at the Red Lion,• Whitechapel, THE following HORSE', CARRIAGES, tte. Twelve Bonvy useful Long ELek 111 BUM , / %Vida! ttriwii Hones Two Honer tearful Bay a flearve, we Mourning Coazhes, a li;law Coazh, a Clisiw, Six tLektiey 0121C:Irl cim i dete (w Sottree Win.% h,K One Horse Chain», a Chae.e CAW, 'it t 4 Clack &sties, Twn Hvekney Carnagev, Twn N'tl N,v/ Cow* Witr-L, aryl about Fifty..ld "Into, a Q -aiitit! of Coach Inn, and Stable Utcosili—The P.onerty td Lee, mod are to Se sold without iteserre, lie ft ,ig the Hackney ftlaw,e— -tir•ly. The robin: in general w.ll hod the bon •ro br•iewed the Mornn.t.' , f Si'• ?KIN-1-s, MAPS, DRAwist.s, 1641.1p.a vf AND PORT kOLIOS. fly Mr. it ICIIARDSON, At his blase, Nu. 31, in the Straw!, oa TIYURSD April 4, and the following Der, at Toe's, 0C10..k, by Order of the aging Execuitir of the late Elwar.l Elq. deceased, rr HE Valuable Colleetion of PilIN After the I ben Baden and other M.otort in :lite vt '..: 136 ' n • oolong others, equally valoabie, is baniert Vistet in PR, coluired View of Rome on Twelve Sheets. Rauh+. Hrstrwicai Pilot. and Oreain,nts of the Vats.= and V , na Ano.ainily, by Volpetn, te.—Some Proofs, and other% highly painted, equal to Maosatures —King Charl.s the First ud Cbseelt, by Sir Robert strange, very fine. MAPS--Itwo 401 Plan of lAnolun nit Thirty-one sheets, coloured. A curtain Cul lettion of Or ginal Orawines of Mai and Plan, of Canino. arc. Oinks° Crnturne, Manners, Diserooli, The Collection, I Vol. Denou's Egypt, 2 Vol. Hod; 's View" Loki , (;i,ten** Views tit P•440,p , 00t4; I.e Roy (..ceze i and PORT FOLIOS. To he *leveed on Vifedneslyy tor !, and Mornings of Sale: Cal b • hail of Mr. Rt.dirdoii, N 0.51, Strand; an j Mt Clarke, Bookseller, Bath sweet LONDON:—Punted by GORGE ttVILNIUS, No. Wych Wow, St elem.:tal i antl published by .1.41 01 RN DER, at the Office, No. 15. beck at St. Chew" Church, Stned, where Orders t.. the Paper, ier. (1. 4 .1 .4) will be deli aesedeil ie. THEATRE r IHIS ?MOEN I Majesties' Set /All N or val be the YOU' no u an d Glenalynn,N l After the Piac, THE U Dance COMIX 4II 9 eccorWPitn , " l To which Lord Manikin, Mr. Pa 4111C6CbeuTtne:1:: h Treats! 14 ;F -rB ol : U w i i ° NI ' I b ythe:"ltc:bghaOtheyaiiii --- -- THEATRE R , LAST NIGHT OT 1 RI MR /IN SATURD it, acted, A FAV To A NEV And, at the desire of JONES and Matte Dueo, bewg their A for cite One Night r No. Is, CORNHI LIORNSBY an 1 I to the Public CI Grand Prim, canal" i.YKhI! approved of eland for Tickets an The TIMe in the I Public, which ottal Ticket before the co viand so the present such, HORNSBY an individird Pinchavert Orden, by Leiters if presort. Lour/ bee= I)ra or a 90,001. pail o 4, CORN, in BISH. Col . return+ Itiq mt. Yd Public in (anent k. Lotteriet, wtt doles •ttendud Put 11, the punctuality will insure kiro a cot GRAND SPRING awe berm Pr us of 1 II •• ?mons in tfi rd Slums, b• 1811141 Pon Office thders The Li 'GRA e 3 $ 3 0 IC 30 0 ll•trutt Tickets ►art of the C Fitt drawn, Ift fl Dom 2d hi; ma° Sci Da Ditto 4tsl D 3 Ditto Sth Da TICCETS ant Ticket.. r........ •.1 n, 'HE genera M 11e,"iteine, vast ikons. If du the necessary quoit medicines, add to n k heumatism, Affections, th•y a A NTISCUIt KU ri aid no restraint of To as , ,id count butic pops ritli black ink solid at bottles of S. 6.1. 1 r 1 1 11 E Reve ANTIBILIt be are requested t rir:d from the abe bring genuine, 1 Stamp Duties ha Barclay, the sole DoMetruent Pole, Staifurcbstrert, 01 stamp, which stain larch and any p with the memos with success t” I honour to rank II Hi , Grace the A of huh Jii,l W.-11 Stepp Ansne, Esq. lal.P Youthampton—ei oltuisom Calvert, F. S 11111•1 G. W . Di e . 11 iCalltelburv—it bishop. Th. 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