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"Tr -7 1 . c 7 s _,,._ 1.; cr ."). ,, jfi . .lecoleati *4O • . 41 No. 6,960. _ . = • , LONDON, THU MARCH 24. 1 t=2s. Price id. SOCIETY. A GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to this Institution will be held at the City of London 'raver°, on MON. DAY, the 4th day of April next, ax Nine o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of ELECTING 24 MALE, and 12 FEMALE PENSIONERS. The Directots beg to call general attention to the increased num ber of Candidates to be elected, and to suggest to the Subscribers the propriety of marking against the names of some of those who have most freqaently applied foe admission previous to parting with tlistilhalloilag papers, by which means only they can insure the election of those who may not have any friends capable of exerting ra•-naelves in their behalf. Subscriptions ace received by A. Redford. Collector, S. Landon road, Ssuthwark ' • and by D. RICHARDSO N, Sec. W. Cheatside,March 16, 1824. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SO CIETY, for allowing permanent Pensions to decayed Ar- flew, Mechanics and their Widows, rssideat within tea miles of the Metropolis. TI • ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be celebrated at the Cety of London Tavern, on THURSDAY NEXT, His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, K.O. Patren, in the Chair. Int:WANDS. • Sir Peter Laurie., V.P. William Eccles, Esq. Thome* F. Buxton, Esq. M.P. William Everett. Esq. Robert Wi:liams, Esq. 31. P. Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, A.M. George Birkbeck, Eaq. 31. D. Edward Forster, Eaq. Thomas Bah, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq. Henry HlLrman; Esq William L. Newman, Esq. Samuel Itosanquet, Esq. William Rice, Esq. Thomas Burwash, Esq. Arnold Rogers, Esq. Will sin Brum.kill, Esq. John Seabrook, Esq. Archibald Coe:wit, Esq. George Seddon, Esq. John P. Crowder, Esq. e George Weatherstone, Esq. John Daacyn, Esq. :Matthew w e a m it. ses. Diaper on she table at half-past Fire o'Clock precis.— Tit has, Ms. each, to be had of the S.tewahls at the Bar gibe Tavern ; and of the Secretary. DANIEL RICHARDSON, S.:Liteart_ LONDON ASSURANCE HOUSE, BIRCHIN-LANE, CORNHILL. CORPORATION of the LONDON ASSURANCE of HOUSES and GOODS from FIRE. Established by Royal Charter in the year 1720, for making Assurances against Lows or Damage by Fire, and for Assuring Lives. 31aaeli 23, 1825. Notice is hereby given to Persons assured against Fire by this Corporation, that printed Receipts for the Premiums due at Lady day are now ready to be delivered at the London Assurance House, Birchin-lane, where attendance is given daily from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in the Afternoon, for assuring Houses and other Buildings, Household Gouda, Goods in Trade, Merchandise, Ships in Harbour. Cargoes in Ships and in Lighters on Rivers and Canals, Ships building and repairing, Farming Stork, Am from Loss or Damage by Fire. And also for Assuring Lives. The Proposals for Assurance from Fire and on Lives are deli vered at the Office. Notice is likewise given, that the Fifteen Days allowed by the Corporation after the Quarter Day, on Policies of Assurance from Fire, will expire on the 9th April. By order of the Court of Directors, JOHN LAURENCE, Secretary. "1/1031A:s FOSS. A GL Persona hating any Claim on the Estate of Mt. TilOitlAS FOSS, late at South Mohan-street, and ta aterly or Maddox -street, Gentleman, deceased, are requested to send tit! Particulars to Ale. Richard Thompson, S, St. hlildtars. court, Poultry, the Solicitor to the Exttutur, and to whom all Prisons indebted to thesaid Thomas Foes are to pay such Debts. LOA , riS . .VTION BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR Or RUSS'S, AVIS THE UXITED STATES Or AMEttICA, FOR castirtiro INTO EFFECT Mlti IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S AWARD OM TUE FIRST ARTICLE OP THE TREATY O► 13/lENT. Signed at St. Petersburgh June 20 (July 12), Int His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the United States of America, having agreed, in pursuance of the fifth Article of the Convention concluded at London on the 20th day of October 1818, to refer the differences which had arisen between the two Governments upon the true construction and meaning of the first Article of the Treaty of Peace and Amity concluded at Ghent on the 24th day of Decem ber 1814. to the friendly arbitration of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia, mutually engaging to consider his decision as final and conclusive ; ►nd his. said Juvenal Majesty having, after due consideration, given his decision upon these differences in the fol. lowing terms, to wit:— •• That the United States of America are entitled to claim from (heat Britain a just indemnification for all private property which the British forces may have carried away ; and, as the question re lates to slaves more especially, for all slaves that the British forces may have carried away from the places and territories of which the Treaty stipulates the restitution, in quitting these same places and territories. WCii as ~ ie P.irl poteati-ry or :he treited aura. has in an elf al:icemen a clitetly uu.i•ted upon the grammatical sense of - time Anacie of the Treaty of Ghent, and that even in his note of the tth (Sloth) Omaha MEI, lie has forniaity declared. that it was apse t' e signification or the words in the wart or the Artieleies it iv wrtten, that the derision or hie itupercal Majesty was to be g rou tide J. . same declaration being contained in the note of Oie American Plenipotentiary et the 4th (Ifitto November 1821. thcaniperor has but complied with the desire evinced by both parties, in dere , ing his soltillttention to the cxamication or the grammatical ntiestinn. The opinion above-mentioned will 'bow the view which his !rt. peril Majesty takes of this qu es tion ; and that the t'abiret of Si. James m■y at Vie same tine be acquainted ;with the consider ations up.tn which this decisicn of the Emperor is rounded, the undersign...l herewith enclaves an extract of some ohs^_rvatiuca upon the literal interpretttiot, cf the firat Article of the Treaty of Gent. A • Tl%r rl * COPYHOLD ESTAT. iTING lI ILL, About one mile from the Toros Oxford -street, on the Un bridge-road, By Messrs. DAWSON and CAFE, (By order of the Kxecntors and ?rooters of Mr. J. Beck. deceased) At Garraway's, March the ISM. M twelve o'clock, in 3 Lots, IX COPYHOLD HOUSES, situateon the South side Li of Notting Hill, nearly opposite the Plough, part let on Lease, and the remainder to tenants at mil—to John Howell, a baker, and to Messrs. Dunford, Cartwright, Parrot, and Daville, at rents amounting to 1301. 13s. per annum, held on the Manor of Abbott's, Kensington, subject to quit rents of 20a. per annum, and to a customary fine upon death or alienation. The premises may be viewed by leave of the tenants, of whom particulars may be had ; also of Mr. Hall, Solicitor, No. 2, Ken. sington-square ; at Garraway's ; and of Moses. Dawson and Cafe, 48, Great Slarlborougb-street. In this respect the Earneror bas strictly followed the rules of the language matte use of in the Act in which the too powzrs have called upon him for his . arbitration, and have defined thelroitits of their difference. It is entirely to these rules that his 1 Majesty has thought •fit to confine hi mse lf , an d his is= therefore, can only be the strict ard r ofessary coopering:ion 4 those rules. The endevsigned avails himself of this import:inky of renewing to his Excellency Sir .Charles Bogot, die Ansi:l.:Ace' of he his,/ consideration. . . (Signed) J. Nrser.f.tolirat . ,. St. Petetsburgh, April 22, 1822. Annex B. The und.rrs'.guod, Seavtary of State dirredng the penal Department for Foreign A Wilts, lost no tine iu laying lefitro the Emperor his rowsti-r the txplansciews into which the Ambassa dor of 1.14 Britannic Majesty catered with his lioperi a l Af s jy a ey' s Government, in consequence of the pre li niiiiary and confidential communication mad: to him, as sell as to )Jr. MiddLtoo, or the opinion expreAee.l by the-it:emperor es to themes meaning of dte L&t Article of the TrcotY 6(60=1. Sir Charles Barron ensilestawas..tilotAttwirtue of his imperial Majesty'sdeci.ion •• Britnnto: dtajesty is not .bound to in demnity the United Stares foe any slaves who, coaling koqs places which have never been occupied by his dlajosty's troops, may f13..13 voluntarily joined the British forces, either is const.guerice of en couragement held out to them by his Majesty's afire», or in otOer to escape from the power of their masters, such slave not having been taken away from places or tertitories taken plW,N111U!I of by his Britannic Majesty during the War, and consequently not having been carried away float tha.c placsa for the restoration of which the Article stipulates." In reply to this obsorystion, the undersigned is commanded by his Imperial Majesiy to communicate t!:e following remarks to the Ambassador of hit Britannic Majesty. The Entiperor haying, with the mutual consent of the two Pleni potentiarks, pronounced an opinion founded solely upon the mean ' tog of the text of the article in dispute, does not feel himself called upon here to decide upon any question as to what the Laws of War may allow or prohibit to the belligereut parres; Gut strictly ad hering to the grammatical interpretation of the first A rtiele of the Treaty of Ghent, his Imperial Majesty again declares, that it ap pears to his Imperial Majesty according to that interpratatior-- " That in quitting the places and. territuties, the restoration of which to the United States is stipulated for by the T: city of Ghent, the forces of his Britannic Majesty had not the right to carry away front the said places sr territories any Slaves, by whavver titans they may hese fallen or have placed themselves in their power." But, " that if, in the course of the War, any American Slaws were carried away by the British forces from any other places than thoso the restoration of which is stipulated by the Treaty of Glint,. either by land or on board of British , ~ Great Britain is not bound to indemnity the United States for the loss of such slaves, by whatever means they may have fallen, or placed thentselves the hands of his Britannic 31f...wily's °liken.' Although the undersigned is convinced, from the preliminary explanations above referred to, that such is also the meaning which Sir Charles Bagot attaches to his observations, lie has nevertheless received his Imperial Majesty's eostunards to address the present Note to the respective Plenipotentiaries, which will prove to them that, in order fully to justify the trust reposed in him by tro two Governments, the Emperor bas been unwilling that the slightest doubt should wise as to the consequences of his opinion. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity of renewing to h:s Excellency Sir Charles Begot, the assurances of his tugu consideration. (Signed) Nz6SELEODE. St. Petersburgh, April 22, 1822. A. 1. OPINION OF HIS IMPERIAL adsagsv v. Having been requested by Groat Britain and by the United States to pronounce an opinion, as Arbitrator, upon the differences which, hare arisen between those powers, as to the interpretation of the first Article of the Treaty concluded between them at Ghent, De cember 24, 1814, the It has examined into all the era,. statements, and ROOM by which the respective Plenipitendafies have made known to the Imperial I).:partnient for Foreign Affi.irs the arguments which each party advances in support of his owl. view of the right interpretation of the said Article. LONDON. BRICK COMPANY. The DIRECTORS of this Company are desirous of receiv ing Minders for the Supply of ASHES. • Particulars must be. sent on of before SATURDAY NEXT, at "we're o'Clock, to 31r. Charles Kaye, Solicitor, Dyer's-buildings, lelboro. " That the United States are entitled to consider as haring been so carried away all such slaves as may hay?. been transferred from the above-mentioned territories, to British vessels within the waters of the said territories, and who, ter this reason, may rot have been restored. But that if there should be any American slaves who were carried away from territories of which the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent has not stipulated the restitution to the United 'States, the United States are not entitled to claim an indemnification for the said slavca." .. iyor the purpose of carrying this award into clad. his Imperial -• LEASEHOLD HOUSE, DEAN-STREET, AND THE UNITED FRENCH PRIMPERTANT CHAPEL, OR CHURCH, LITTLE PEA. SOHO. acva. • At -TV IL at Ht , in rota Lot; F. - IHE GR JND LEASE of a BRICK MESSUAGE, I. situate No. 63, Dean-street, held for a Tenn of Thirty-taw years and a half, at a small Ortiod-rent ; and of a Gmund-rent of 131. 2a Rd. per annum, issuing out of the United French Prw testant Church or Chapel, Little Dean.etrest, Soho, payable for a Term of twenty-four years and a quarter, with a reversionary Term of eight years and a quarter after the end of the said Term of twenty-four years and a quarter. The Premises may be viewed till the Sale, when convenient to the Tenant, of whom Particulars may be had ; also of Messrs. Elkins and Son, Solicitors, 39, Newman-street, and Eschequer- Ake, Lincoln's-Inn ; at Garraway's, and of Messrs. Dawson and Cafe, Great Marlborough -street. 11•• Prc r sident oethe United States M e r. denry 3liddleto:7l" And the said Plenipotentiaries, after a reciprocal communication of their sespective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles : - Art. I.—For the purpose of ascertaining and determining the amount of inclempication which may be due to citizens of the United States under the decision of his Imperial Majesty, two Commissioners and two Arbitrators shall be appointed in the man ner following, that N to say :—One Commissioner and one Arbi tritor shall be appointed by his Britannic Majesty, and one Com missioner and one Arbitrator shall be nominated and appointed by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and the two Commis sioners and two Arbitrators thus appointed shall meet and bold their sittings as a Board in the City of Washington. They shall have power to appoint a Secretary, and, before prc ceeding to the other business of the Commission, they shall teepee tire take the following oath, or affirmation, in the presence of earb other, which oath, or affirmation, bting so taken and duly at tested, shall be entered on the record of their proceeding ; that is to say :—" I, A.B. one of the Commissioners (or Arbitrators as the ease may be) appointed in pursuance of the Convention concluded at Saint Petersburg!' on the thirtieth day of June (12th July) 1822, between his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus.sias, his Britanic Majesty, and the United States of America, do solemnly ffi swear (or arm) that 1 will diligently, impartially, and carefully examine, and to the best of my judgment, according to justice and equit y , •decide, all matters submitted to me as Commissioner (or Arbitrator, as the case may be) under the said Convention." All vacancies occurring by death or otherwise shall be filled up in the manner of the original appointments, and the new Commissioners or Arbitrators shall take the same oath (or affirmation), and per form the same duties. BORNEO, SOO LOO, and BANCA CO3l PA NY. 1. A Company, having amongst its objects the development of the rich Oulu and Diamond Districts of Borneo, and the ex_ tension of the great valuta' advantages of that immer.se island, the great source of wealth in tliu Eastern Hemisphere, is nearly matured. _ _ _ 2. In the immediate vicinity of Borneo, ar.d of not less impart ance, are the famous Soo Loo Pearl Banks, celebrated for the fine and large Peals which they produce ; and the island of Banes, containing valuable Ores and 81111(ra/is, but more especially rich in Tin, of which a juster view cannot be given than in the words of Mr. Crawford, the Resident of Sincapore:— •• The quantity of Tin which the Mines of Batas are capable of affording-is immense, the supply of ore is nearly indefinite, and the facility of working great. " The whole produce of Banca is Grain Tin, a pure metal, superior in intrinsic value to block tin 22,1 per cent. Cornish tin is obtained with vast labour by mining through obdurate granite, often to the prodigious depth of many hundred fathoms ; Banat tin, by digging through a few soft atrata of sand and clay, and sel dom to niece than three or four fathoms. To clear the Cornish mines from water the most expensive and complex machinery is re quisite ; to clear those of Banco a simple wooden *heel, costing a few shillings. To separate the Cornish ore from Its matrix it must be ground in a stumping-mill,as well as subjected to the process of washing ; the Banes tin is at once separated front its matrix, and fitted without further cars for melting, by the simple process of pausing a stream of running water over it, in an aqueduct simply lined with the bark of trees. The necessary result of all this is, that the cost of producing a coat of Banca tin is but 225. Bd., whereas that of Cornwall tin is not less than 645. 7d.; and that, while a Cornish mine seldom yields a rent of more than a tenth or twelfth of the produce, often not more than a twenty-fourth, and usually not above a fifteenth, the Banta mines yield no less than one-half. This is the most exact and unquestionable test of the su perior fertility of the one over the other. The skill and ingenuity of the Europeans, their capital, and their machinery, make some amends for the inferior fertility of the Cornish mines, but such as are far enough from counterbalancing the immense wealth of those of Banco. 11'ere the Cornish workmen, with their ingenuity, their capital, and machinery, to be employed on such mines as those of Banca, no other mines in the world would in a short time be worth working ; and, on the other hand, were the Banat Miners, with their tools and simple machinery, to attempt such mines as those of Cornwall, there can be no question but they would be as inacces sible to them. for all useful purposes, as if buried a league in the suet of the arise, `• It is but a small portion of an island containing an area of 3,100 geographical miles that has yet been examined. The mines at pre sent are chiefly confined to the northern and western parts of it, whereas the south-eastern has hardly , been touched. From one ex tremity to the other the alluvial !anus are ascertained to abound in beds of tin ; and from the analogy of other countries it is beyond any doubt that the mountains abound in veins of it. To the diffi cult and expensive processes required tor the mining of these last, it is at present superfluous to la , ok, for the alluvial lands contain the cheap and abundant supply of many ages."—CrawforePs History of the Indian Archipelago, Vol. 111. pp. 463, 466. Edinburgh, 1820. Of the rich .Mines of Montradak, In Borneo, the same authority states, that they are at present chiefly worked by the Chinese, to the number of six thousand, who are nearly independent of any native authority, bc:ng governed by their own Chief ; the tribute paid to the Raja of Sambas, in whose territories the mines are situated, amounting to no more than IN bungkais, whilst the an nual produce is 181,000 or. of pure gold. The ore, from all ac counts, exists in inexhaustible abundance : the immense alluvial tracts round the whole circumference of Borneo everywhere contain rich deposits of this metal • whence it necessarily follows that the primitive mountains of the ii.terior must contain veins of it. From the abundance of the ore, and the usual fascination of all mining projects, especially those in quest of the precious metals, the starch for gold will be the first object to engage the attention of very enterprising and industrious people settled in that country, of whatever race. Amidst a great deal of anarchy and disorder, min. ing has of late years been prosecuted by the Chinese with surpris ing spirit. It is not above eight or ten years since considerable ca. pital and the use of machinery have been applied to it; and in that time there has been a vast increase of produce.—See Crawford, Vol. 111. Since the Diamond Mines of Golconda have been exhausted, the only aunts], has been from Borneo, and thence through chan nels sufficiently Circuitous. Diamonds are in no repute amongst the Chinese, or through the industry of that people we should, without doubt, have long ago found the province of the mines of Borneo greatly multiplied. The Bugis Merchas.ts are at present Ithe great dealers in diamonds. Of the Soo Loo Fishery and its products it may be sufficient to state, that rich as it is known to be at present, a greater share of skill and industry than are applied to these fisheries would greatly enhance the value and the amount of their produce. Steps have already been taken to secure the full advantage to be derived from these objects. The Capital of the Company will be 1,000,0001. in Shares of 2001. each. Communications for the present to be mule to Mr. Ogle, N 0.3, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street. A VALUABLE COPYHOLD ESTATE, TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD. THE KING'S ARMWPCIILIE-11alSE, A HOUSE AD JOINING, AND THREE SMALL HOUSES IN KING'S AR 3IS-COU RT, By Messrs. DAWSON and CAFE. At Garraway's, on TUESDAY, March 29, at 12, in one Lot. AValuable COPYHOLD ESTATE, most eligibly situate, and being No. 82, the King's Arms Public-house, Tottenham Court-road, commanding a most extensive and lucra tive trade, on Lease for a Term of twenty years, at a rent of 521. 10s. per annum. The House adjoining, being No. M, on Lease to Mr. Larke, for a Term of twenty years, at 541. per an num ; also, three Houses in King's Arms-court, immediately behind, let to Tenants at will, at 2111. per annum for each House. The Estate is Copyhold of the Manor of Tottenham, or Totten hall, subject to a fine, upon death or alienation, of 21. lh. Bd. and to a trilling quit-rent. May be viewed till the Sale, when convenient to the Tenants. of whom particulars may be had ; of Messrs. Ward and Aldersey, 14, Bedford-square ; at Garraway's ; and of Messrs. Dawson and Cafe, 48, Great Marlborough-street. Art. 11. If at the first meeting of this Board, the Governments of Great Britain and of the United States shall not have agreed upon an average value to be allowed as compensation for each slave for whom indemnification may be due,—then, and in that ease, the Cominiuioners and Arbitrators shall conjointly proceed to examine the testimony which shall be produced under the autho rity of the President of the United States, together with such other competent testimony as they may see cause to require or allow, going to prove the true value of slaves at the period of the exchange of the Rattifications of the Treaty of Ghent; and upon the evidence so obtained they shall agree upon and fix the average value. But in case that the majority of the Board of Commissioners and Arbi trators should not be able to agree respecting such average value. then, and in that case, recourse shall be had to the Arbitration of the lilinister or other Agent of the Mediating Power accredited to the Government of the United State*. A statement of the evidence produced, and of the proceeding* of the Board thereupon, shall be communicated to the said Minister or Agent, and his decision, founded upon such evidence and proceedings, shall be final and conclusive. And the said average value, when fixed and deter mined by either of the three before-mentioned methods, shall, in all cases, serve as a rule for the compensation to be awarded for each and every slave fur whom it may afterwards be found that indemnification is due. ESSEX AND KENT. Capital FREEHOLD 011AZINO LAND, nearly Ninety Acres, and a COPYHOLD ESTATE. near Romford. ByII'INSTANLEY and SONS, At the Mart, on TUESDAY, the 29th Instant, at 12, in Three Lots, by order of Trustees for Sale, ERY valuable FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD ESTATES, consisting of .S:1 acres of most capital sound grazing wand' land, most desirably situate, abutting on the road leasing from East Ham to the Ferry over the Thames to Woolwich, and of which immediate possession may be had. THIRTY-SEVEN ACRES of ditto, with a small part reed shore, situate in Carr Marsh Level, in the parish of Plumstead, and county of Kent. is the occupation of Mr. Henr7lstead. Also, a MOIETY of FOUR ENCLOSUREs of ARABLE LAND, called Long Yard, situate immediately behind the Black Hans Public-hpssaa, at Claalvreli liaatb, on the high road to Rom. ford, and containing neatly Eighteen Acres, let on lease at 211. per annum. To be ♦iewed ; printed particulars may be had of Moms. Le Blanc, Oliver, and Cook, Solicitors, New Bridge-street ; Ames the White Horse, Bow; the Yorkshire Gray. and the White Horse, Chadwell ; Black Hone, Chadwdl-heath ; White Hart, Romford ; Green Gate. Plaistow ; Feathers, Plumatead ; Ship. Woolwich; Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich ; at the Mart; and of AVinstanley and Sons, Paternoater-row. After haying maturely weighed the observations brouem forwari by each party--considering that the Bri:ish ar.clArnericin Plcn.; J tenti.tries Nava demanded that the discussion should be brougt t a close--considering that the former. is his Note of the 8:h (20th)Oc tober, Is2l, and the latter, in his note of the 4th (18th) Nov. !al lowing, have declared, that it is upon du. cor.s:ruction of the te.t of the Article as it is written that the arbitration iv to to founded ; and that neither of them h.tve referred to the general princir.l:l of the Law of Nations and of Maritime Law, but as secondary considerations:— _ . YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING. VALUABLE LORDSHIPS, AND FREEHOLD AND . _ TITHE-FREE ESTATES. By WINSTANLEY and SONS, At Garraway's on THURSDAY, April 7, at 12, unlees pre viously disposal of by private treaty, of which due notice will The Emperor is of opinion, "that the question is only to be de cided according to the literal and grammatical meaning of the f.rst Article of the Treaty of Ghent." Wilt respect to titz literal and grammatical meaning of the firs: Article of the Treaty of Ghent—considering that the paragraph,. upon the meaning of which doubts have arisen, is couched in tits following terms:— " All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken hr either party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this Treaty, excepting only the islands hereir.- after mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without cans. ing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or uthe i public property, originally eartuted in the said forts or places, end which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the rivitications of this Treaty, or any slaves, or other private property. And all a-- chives, records, deeds, and papers, either eh: a pulme neture or be longing to private persons, which, in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of the officers of either party, shall as far as may be practicable, forthwith restored, and delivered to :he proper authorities, and persons to whom they respectively be_ berg :" Consideriug that in this paragraph the words •' originally captured, and, which shall remain therein upon the exchange of th: ratifications of this Treaty," form an incidental phrase, which cart only grammatically t e et to the sub: tantives or to the matters which precede; that thus the first Article of the 'freaty of Ghent does not p-chibit the contracting parties from carrying away from tho.e placea,for the restitution of which it stipidates, any public pro,esrty, but such as may have been originally captured therein, and which may have been actually there at the moment of the exchange of :11. ratdications ; but prohibits the removal front the said places of any private property weatever : That, on the other hand, these two prohibitions are applicable only to the places the restitution of which is stipulated lot in the Article : The Emperor is of cpinion " that the United States of America are entitled to quint from tircat Britain a just indemnification for all private preperty wilich the British forces may have carried away ; and as the question relates to slaves more especially, for all the slaves that the liritish forces may have carried away from the places and territories of which the Treaty stipulates the restitution, in quitting these seine places and territories." " That the United States are entitled to consider as bay beet so carried away, all such slaves as may have been transfeereA front the above.mentioned territories, to British vessels within the waters of the said territories, and who fur this season may not have been restored." " But, that if there should be any American Slaves who were carried away from territories of which the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent has not stipulated the restitution of the United Slier , . the United States are not entitled to claim an indemnifizition tot the said sieves." The Emperor moreover declares. that he is ready to exercise the office of Mediator, which has already been tendered to him by the two Powers, is such negotiations as they may be obligeeito enter into, in consequence of the arbitration they have requested from his Imperial Majesty. Done at St. Patemburgh the ni of April, 1822. - - . be given, A LL those Valuable and Extensive FREEHOLD and LA_ TITHE-FREE ESTATES, situate at Hamden and New Hey, in Howland. in the parish of Slainburn, in the West Riding of the county of York, the property r; Robert Parker. Esq. Com prising the county or reputed Manor or Lordship of Ile en afore said ; together with a good Mansion, suitable Outbuildings, and five substantial Farm- houses, and 550 acres, statute measure, be the same more or less, of fertile arable, meadow, pasture, and wood Land, divided into convenient Inclosures, well watered and fenced. Also, all that valuable and improvable tract of Common Land, adjoining the above Estates, called Totteridge, Hareden Nab, and ‘Winfell, and containing about 1,600 acres, a Freat portion of which , is capable of being subdivided and converted into arable and pasture I Land, at a trifling expense. Also, all those two valuable Estates called the Sykes and the Trough House, situate within Rowland, and adjoining the last mentioned property, and comprising four good Farm-houses, with excellent Out-buildings, and about 215 acres, statute measure, of rich meadow, pasture, and arable Land. Also, a proportionate part, estimated to be more than a moiety or half-part of and in an extensive Common, called Sykes Fell, situate within Bowland, and containing about 15,000 acres, with a handsome Gothic Shooting-box thereon, Stabling. &c. These Estates are beautifully situate, nearly in a ring fence. The Mansion-house is distant from Slainhurn six miles, from Lancaster twelve,from Clitheroc twelve, and from Preston eighteen ; are well deserving the attention of the Capitalist or the Sportsman, the enclosed land being cf an excellent quality, and which, with the large tracts of Common, abound with Game of almost every description, and the property has recently been disforested by a grant from the Crown; there is also excellent Fishing. the river Langden running through the Estates for about eight miles. Sir. Wm. Gates, of the Sykes, one of the tenants, will show the property ; and printed Particul ars, with Plans attached, may be shortly had of Robert Parker, Esq., at Plungington, near Preston, the owner; Mr. Binns, land surveyor, Lancaster; Mr. Aloack, solicitor; Skipton ; at the Office of Mr. Clapham, solicitor, in Burton, in Kendal; Sir. Richard Lambert, solicitor, Gray's Inn, London ; Mr. Beverley, solicitor, Garden-court, 'Temple, London ; at the King's Arms, Lancaster; the Bull Inn.. Preston ; the Swan Inn, Clitheme ; at the place of Sale; and of Winstanley and Sons, Paternoster-vow. SILK TRADE. BADNALL'S PATENTS for WINDING and THROWING SILK. In consequence of the numerous Applications respecting the Ma chinery under the above Patents, all Persona wishing to Contract for the Use of the same, an desired to apply to blessrs. Lowdham, Parke, and Freeth, Soliciton, 63, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, who are solely authorised to treat for the same. 1.1 1 FIGURES FROM THE ANTIQUE, BUSTS, VASES, LA MPS &.c. STATE MEN T BY THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY. On the 22d of February the Bill fur making Wet Docks at St. .Kathatine's was read a second time in the House of Commons. The London Duck Company being satisfied that such addi tional Docks were neither required by the state of the Commerce of the Port—by the hurdlers of the Rates and Charges upon the Landing, Housing, Bonding. and Shipping of Goods—by any existing obstruction in the Ricer, or want of accommodation fur the Loading and Unloading of Vessels—nor by the want of further competition than now exists among the Dock Companies already established, and the private Wharfs, Quays, and Vi'arehouses; and that the construction of rich additional Docks at St. Katha tine's would do irreparable injury to the London Dock Company; determined to oppose the said Bill in the Committee to which it was referred : and accordingly instructed their Solicitor to prepare at Petition coofura able to the standing order of the HOli. House of the 24th of June last, which directs, that "no Petition against a Private Bill be ref:reed to the Committee on such Rill, which shall not distinctly specify the ground on which the Petitioners object to the Bill or to any of the provisions thereof; and that the Petitioners, be only heard on such grounds so stated." &c. On in city by the Solicitor at the Private Bill Office on Friday, the 4th March, al out three o'clock in the afternoon, it appeared that no " filled up Bill" had been deposited., and that no notice of the t!me of meeting of the Committee bad been given; and, therefore, the Sel en,: wrote to the Solicitor of the Bill, requesting to informed of the time of the meeting of the Committee, when the same should be fixed; and on Saturday, the 3th, at or after nine o'clock at night, an answer was sent, stating that the promoters of the Bill proposed going into the Committee on the V 1 ednesday following. This ieformation was on the next day confirmed by a letter from Mr. Dorington, the Parliamentary Agent of the London Dock Company. On Monday, the 7th, the Solicitor attended at the London Dock house, where the Petition which ht.d been prepared was examined by the Chairman and Secretary, with the view of r seertaining, with certainty, that every part of the statements contained in it was capable of proof ; and so minute and careful was this examination, that the Petition was not finally settled until ten o'clock at night. The following trimming (the filth) it was engrossed, and put under the common Seal of the Company, and the Solicitor attended in the lobby of the House of Commons, at four o'clock, for the purpose of meeting an Honourable Member, by whom it was to have been presented ; but, in consequence of a lamented event, the Members who had assembled—from motives of delicacy and feel. tog—dispersed without forming a House ; whereby the London Do dr Company were deprived of the opportunity of having their Petition presented, and referred to the said Committee on that day. On the nieetivg of the Committee on the following day, the Counsel, Agents, and Witnesses of the London Dock Company presented themselves, but the Committee refused to recognise them as Parties having any right to interfere in the proceedings, although it waraspliined to the Chairman and the Members pre. sent that the presenting of the Petition had been prevented by the cause herein set forth. Under these circumstances, and others connected with other Petitions against the St. Katharine's Dock Bill, which for the Name reason were prevented from being referred to the Committee in time, no Petition whatever against the Bill was before them upon their meeting; and therefore uo order for the hearing of Counsel lied been made; yet three Learned Couasel appeared on behalf of the Bill; one of whom opened the case of .he promoters thereof in a speech, in which assertions with respect to the London Dock Company were made without their heir.g allowed to be heard, although fully pre. pared to answer and disprove the same by incontrovertible evi• dance. The Intended Secretary and the intended Dock Master of the St. Katharine's Docks were afterwards examined as witnesses, who stated, in support of the preamble of the Bill, facts to the prejudice of the London Dock Company, which they were prepared, by witnesses then present, to refute or explain in the most clear and convincing manner. On the assent oling of the Honourable House on the same day, the Petition of the London Dock Company was presented, and ordered to be referred to the Commit:2e. The follow) ig day, the tatunsel, Agent., and Witnesses of the London Do, k Company again attended, and the Petition hawing been read, their Counsel claimed to MUM into the investigation of the preamble of the Bill ; but the Committee peremptorily refused to allow them further to interfere, than by objecting to such of the clauses as had not in n gene through on the preceding day. It may be proper to obaere , that as the London Dock Company Ind presented a petition agalcit the second reading, which con. mined in substance the grounds on which they proposed to resist the Bill in the Committee, the pr einote:s of it had abundant notice of those grounds, although, from the cause before-mentioned, the snore precise statement required by the " standing order" had not reached the Committee. The London Dock Company have been at great expense in col. lecting evidence to be submitted to the Committee on die iovestiga. tion of the preamble of the Bill, and are fully nrepared to sustain she allegations in their petition. by disinterested and compataut witnesses, and to lay before the Conro:ttee facts important to the 2-rblic as well as to the Company. They have great Interests at nk.:.; and desiring nothing more than an impartial examination ith the merits of the qucsnon at issue between them and the pro starters of the St. Katharine's Dock BM, the Company trust they will not be debarred from a hearing upon the subject, by the casualty which (under the detern. ti the the Hueourable Cum . enittee) has so unexpectedly intervened to prevent them from being hitherto heard agairat the preamble thereof. In this hope they are : uout to petition the Honourable House, praying that the at. Katharine's Duck Bill may be recommitted.. and that they may be heard against the allegations contained in the preamble. as well as against those other parts of the Bill by which their intwtet• sr- affected. London, March 21, 1625. CLOSE OF LOTTERIES. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ALL IN ONE DAY, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, WAND J. MEW RIGHT, the Contractors, beg to • repeat. ast the pruevt Seiter.te is one of the last they shall ever have the houo ,, 7rosuttnit to public notice, Government having determined to pass nu ws , we Lottery Acts. The Scheme contains FOUR PRIZES of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS. With Thirty other Clipitzia, &e. &e. aninunoirtg to 290,0001. All Sterling Money—no Blanks—ALL IN ONE DAY, 13th of APRIL. Tickets and Shares for the above Two Hundred Thousand Pconds are now ea zlale at the Contractors' Offices, 37, Eurniull ; H. Holborn ; and 38. Haymarket. ;• J. and J. Sirewrigbt sold bs Shares in the very list Lottery, 12,478, a Pam of 30,000! TO TANNERS AND OTHERS. ALL Persons wishing to adopt the simple and advan tagenus Alethod of TANNING under Mr. hPILSBURI"S PATENT, may have an opportunity of witnessing the effect of the same on any day during the present week only, between the Hours of Twelve and Two, at the Manufactory of Mr. Main wiring, Engineer, Marsh-place, blush Gate, Lambeth ; permis sion having been obtained from the Excise for that purpose. AU further information may be obtained by Applying to Messrs. Lowdhatn, Parke, and Freed', Solicitors, 63, Lincoln's-inn-fields; or to Mr. P. 11. Abbott, Agent to the Patentee, 6, Wallbrook's buildings, Loudon. CLAPHAM COMMON. COMMODIOUS DETACHED RESIDENCE, With Coach-beau, Stabling, Offices, Gardens, Lawn, Hot-houses, and Meadow Land. rl l O be LET on LEASE, by WINSTANLEY and a capital and commodious RESIDENCE, in the most complete (stile!, and suitable to the instant reception of a Eamilv of tl.e first respectability, beautifully situate on the prefer able side of that enviable spot, Clapham Common, over which it commands a doltghtful and uninterrupted view, possessing all the advantage of proximity to the high road, but at a convenient re move, and protected by full-grown forest trees. It contains a noble eating-room, elegant drawing-room, morning parlour. library, spacious entrance-hull, five principal chambers, ladies' dressing room, two very.spacious nurseries, a secondary chamber, two ser vants' 14011111, capital kitchen, scullery, weak-house, servants' hall. housekeeper's room, butler's pantry, and every domestic conveni ence fir a numerous esta_.. hll shinent, with cellars for wine, beer, coals, tic. Tne stables and coach-houses, including standing for two carnage', stalls for four horses, a loose boa, harness-room, lofts, &c., are fitted up in a very superior manner; extensive lawn, productive gardens, walled to a south aspect, hot-house, grapery, conservatory, and two paddocks of rich meadow land, with yard, ! cow-house, sheds, Lc.; the whole abundantly supplied with water. To be viewed by cards only, which, with Partittukus, may be had of IViustanley and Sons, Paternoster-row. S Q Np. Nobilityu B B ai ln e d e n S t ( r ) N t p t e h c e t y f u 1 ITannounce are o oTto the o SALE by AUCTION (without reserve), at their Great. Room, Saville-row. THIS DAY, the 24th instant, and following day, the ENTIRE STOCK of an eminent MANUFACTURER , declining that branch of business, consisting of nearly an hundred Statues from the antique, among which are casts of the Medici Venus, A polio, (Had iatm, Canova% large figures, and various others, in imitation of marble and bronze, finished in.the highest manner, as ornaments for saloons and halls, and to support patent lanr3 ; 200 Busts and Vans, antique and modern ; 40 French table lamps, a few suspended ditto, and lustrts. Catalogues may be had at the Room. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SILK AND LACE WAREHOUSE, No. 17, NEW BOND.S'r REET, Corner of Clifrord.street. .L 7 4 RANSOM begs leave to return his sincere Thanks • to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, for the libe ral encouragement he hna hitherto received, and respectfully in. forms them that he has entered into PART NERSII IP with Mr. DAVIES, from the House of Messrs. Howell and James, Regent- Street. - SANSOM and DAVIES most respectfully inform the Nobi lily, Gentry, and Polslie, that in consequence of their having wade several very extensive purchases of SILKS previous to the late ad vance, S. and D. are enabled to oder fm inspection a large and elegant solortinent of Sarceuets, (lens de Naples, Ducapcs, Lute strings, and Levantine', of every new and fashionable colour also a great variety of new Shades in striped °made Naples and figured Ducapes, of the most modern designs ; and an elegant assortment of Silk Barege Neckerchiefs, Scarfs, and UMW,. SA XIOM and DAVIES beg to remind the Nobility and Gentry of their extensive and well-selected Stock of LACE GOODS, con sisting of White and Black Bobbin Veils, Scarfs, Squares, Fele ' Tines, and Dresses, English and Foreign, Blonds, Mechlin', Va lenciennes, and British Thread Laces, dr.c. ate. Brussels and Chantilly Veils. Art. 111. When the average value of slaves shall have been as certained and fixed, the two Commissioners shall constitute a Board for the examination of the claims which are to be submitted is them, and they shall notify to the Secretary of State of the United States, that they are ready to receive a definitive list of the slaves and other private property, for whirls the citizens of the United States claim indemnification ; it being understood rnd hereby agr,ed, that the Commission shall not take cognisance of nor receive, and that his Britannic Majesty shall not be required to make compensa tion for. any claims for private property under the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent, not contained in the said list. And his Britannic .Majesty hereby engages to cause to be produced before the Commission, as material towards ascertaining facts, all tl e evidence of which his Majesty's Government may be in postescion, by returns from his Majesty's officers, or otherwise, of the miller of slaves carried away. But the evidence so produced, or its de fectiveness, shall not go in bar of any claim or claims which shall be otherwise satisfactorily authenticated. Art. IV. The two Commissioners are hereby empowered and re quired to go into an examination of all the claimasubmitted through the above-mentioned list, by the owners of slaves or other property, or by their lawful attorneys or representatives, and to determine the same respectively, according to the merits of the several a under the vale of the imperial decision hereinabove recital c ,ra having reference, if need there be, to the explanatory documents hereunto annexed, marked A and B. And, in considering such claims, the Commissioners are empowered and required to examine on oath or affirmation all such persons as shall come before them, touching the real number of the slaves, or value of other property for which indemnification is claimed; and also a, receive in evi dence, according as they may think cons!stent with equity and justice, written depositions or papers, such depositions or papers being duly authenticated, either according to existing legal fornis, or in such other manner as the said Commissioners shall see cause to require or allow. Art. V. In the event of the two Commissioners not agreeing in any particular case under examination, or of their disagreement upon any question which may result from the stipulations of thiq Convention, then and in that case they shall draw by lot the name of one of the two Arbitrators, who, after having given due colts sideration to the matter contested. shall consult with the Commis shiners, and • final decision shall be given conformably to the opinion of the majority of the two Commissioners and of the Ar bitrator so drawn by lot. And the Arbitrator, when so acting with the two Commissioners, shall be bound in all respects by the rules of proceeding enjoined by the fourth Article of this Convention upon the Commissioners, and shall be vested with the same powers, and be deemed for that case a Commisaismer. Art. VI. The decision of the two Commissioners, or of the ma. jority of the Board, as constituted by the presiding Article, shall in all cases be head and conclusive, whether as to the number, the value, or the ownership of the slaves or other property for which indemnification is to be made. And his Britannic Majesty engages to cause the sum awarded to each and every owner, in lieu a his slave or slaves or other property, to be paid in specie without de duction, at such time or times, and at such place or places, as shall be awarded by the said C.monissianers, and on condition of such releases or assignments to be given as they shill direct ; provided that no such payments s!ia'il be fixed to take place sooner than twelve months from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention. Art. y. It is further a;reed that the Comm:toioners end Arbitra tors shall be respectively paid in such manner as shat be settled between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention ; and all other expenses attending the execution of the Commission shall be defrayed jointly by his Britannic Majesty and the United States, the same being previously ascertained and allowed by the majority of the Board. Art. B. A certified copy of this Convention, when duly ratified by his Majesty the Bmpe:or of all the Russian, by his Britannic Majesty, and by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, shall be delivered by each of the contracting parties respectively to the Mounter or other agent of the mediating Power accredited to the Government of the United Szites, - ias soon as may be after the ratifications shall have been exchanged, which last shall be affected at Washington in six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention, drawn up in two languages, and have hereunto affixed their seals. Dune in triplicate at St. Petersburgh this 30th day of June (12ih July) 1122. (L. S.) NESSELRODZ. IL. S.) CAPODISTRIAS. L. S.) CHARLES BAGOT, L. S.) REWRICIVIIDDLETON• Annex A. The undersigned, Secretary of State directing the Im perial Department for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to commu nicate to his Excellency Sir Charles Bagot, Ambassador Extraor dinary and Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, the opinion which the Eir.peror his master has deemed it right to express upon the subject of the differences which have arisen between Greet Britain and the United States respecting the interpretation of the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent. Sir Charles Bagot is requested to consider this opinion as the decision of the Emperor in the Arbi. tration submitted to his Imperial Majesty by the two Powers. It will douht:ess be in hin Excellency's recollection that be, as RECORDER'S REPORT.' Yesterday the Recorder of London made his Report to the King in Council of the prisoners in NeWgate capitally convicted at the February Sessions, namely John Jones, aged 24; John Ferguson, 25; David Collins, 1R; Francis Jarvis, 55 : William Jefferies, IS ; John Debenham. 3t ; William Cannon, 20; James Ferguson, 10 ; James Young, 14 : for stealing in a dwelling.house to the amount of 40s. and upward.. James Davey, 20 ; Roger Adams, 19 ; and raisibeth Lefewe, for highway rolahavy. Charles Lucasev, 20; John Wood. 1•2 Charles Noble, 37; Walker, 19; John Brown, 20: Joh Alligan, _4; James Dunhoo, 10; John Davis. 16 ; )Hers Wilson 35; Thomas Cochrane, 17 ; Henry Barden, 2.1; Wm. Thernp. ,, t. akar Lint tt, 23 ; and fienrge R•vnnltlc 17: For haarelsry. (Porge Scott. 10: aid Orono mad Leslie, 19; for house-br aking. Henry 51tiggetv_, , 17, for cutting and maiming ; William B shut). 38, for sheep cealing ; aml Thomas Acaws, 15, for ha [i.e. bEtal•o4. His Majesty was pleased to respite during his Royal pleasure all the ahove-named prisoners, excepting.Joha treretigen. Jaaro-w Dovey, Roger Mams, William Walker, and William Th tinpson alias Linton. Upon whom time law is kit to take its otsame. and they are ontenxl for Hi:motion on the following da_ya:—OAvev and Adams on Tuesday; and Prig tam, Walkir, and Thompson Lintott, ea Wellhead, next. . - - -- - .. - . , • (-- .. ,-;.'1 6 .*-,.1 .I,= t , ..-, y ... • r ). i.; •1: . ... ... pZ /' 16.%0 - -4 ? .7 /6 - ;r i --r e-7 , -- --..- - .--e-c-c--e,i. , --, .1:•;,A . , .. " ,1;12-y r .fe - ' el .../ ;-. ....3 ~. • 4 . ,, Il ia . .. t / (... Ift.t. ' r • .4, ) ,/ - A 11:; , 09. 'of - • , 1 Illk\ • 7 • + - - ... . Tilt Tttt-4":41 . ., Ai ..,. ....., . ...,.,„5"..P1..:21 I 71.111141.: tit,l. .•, . ---- --,. 4 ' + • . , ~ • WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. 111sacu Ma. A.Bclecial General bird of the Trustees or Governors Iv Übe holden on TIIURSDAY, the 7th day of April neat, at Eleven o'Clsck in the Forenoon, at this 110-pital, for the ELBUTION of a PHYSICIAN, by Ballot (it necessary). In the room of Dr. Boyton, resigned ; such Ballot (if taken) to com mence at the said hour of Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, and close at Two In the Afternoon precisely ; and eindidates who in tend offering themselves must give in their ttstimoniali of quali fication to the Weekly Board, at the said Hospital, on Wednesday, the SO:b day of March instant, at or before One o'Clock in the Aftertoon. Hy Order of the Trustees, CHARLES vopisiALL, Secretary. SALES 13 lerrrf7. "'...'"aissak—""" TO TAVERN KEEPERS, PRIVATE FAMILIES, AND OTHERS. ELEGANT SIX AND EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIERS, CHINA, CUT GLASS AND EARTHENWARE, By Messrs. DA ' WSON and CAFE, At their Spacious Rooms, Great Marlborough-street, THIS and and following Day, at 12, ELEGANT six and eight light chandeliers, double and single light candle-stands, cut glass--in decanters, claret ditto, carafts, wines, tumblers, butter and sugar basins, water jugs, desert services, ice pails, finger glasses', wine coolers, celery ewes, and salts ; french lamps, iron, stove, and other china table and dessert services, tea and breakfast sets, chimney ornaments, blue and white table sets, jugs, &c. Twelve o'Clock, to 31r. Charles Kaye, Solicitor, Dyer's-buildings, tt H a , eiberg. - - ENGLISH and BRISTOL CHANNELS SHIP cl ('ANAL. • A GENERAL ,lEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to the P' PROPOSsED SHIP CANAL between the ENGLISH and 41 BRISTOL CHANNELS will be holden on. SATL'IMAY, the 41 '2l:.h day of slare4f4nstant, at the London Coffee House, Ludgate- L hill. at Twelve &Clock, for the purpose of receiving a Report from 'the Committee of the present favuurable state of their Proceedings in dis praiscusion of the ]wears, and to consider the pr.riety aompieds, the Negaciatron Detain the ,Bridgewsrer and aunion Canal Company ant: this Ctimmittec. The Char wiU betaken at One o'Clock precisely. By orderof the Committee, vo KIN G and LUKIN,.b, Dray'. inoosquare. i • N.B. Sabot-am are requested to bring their' Scrips: to