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~ ~ ~:~ / VICTUALLING OFFICE, DEC. '24, IS7%S. Commis inners for Victualling' his 111ajeqy's Navy, &c. do hereby give Notice, that Fnroxr, the 2d Jannary next, they will be rKoly to Tendevs in writing, (sealed ni,), and treat for Thousand Quarters of WHEAT, not to weigh kss 'ban Sixty Pounds to the Ih:slid, and overweight not to h paid for. To 1-e delivered into Nl,taasty's Victualling Stores at rt,t,'ord, one-half thereof feetireen tte 15th an.l 20th of aonaty n xt , nal the remainder lieforn t 114! Zlet i!a.y of '‘at month. &unpi n of not les4 than one quart each must ho pro olrell by tilt party tendoring. '1 nce Conditimts the Contract may 14 seen at this . Each Tender must specify th.e Price is words at length, 'll be dehrered hdore One o'Cloci-; on the day appointed ; i the penkni who makes the Tender, or some person on inuat attend to answer when called fin•. M. WAI.LEIt CLIFTON. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY `PHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the - 1 1- WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY heceby give intice, that a HALF-YEARLY GENERAL COURT rill in held, pursuant to the directiond of the Act of Par lament, at the West Indic Dock House, 8, Billiter.square, FRLDA r, the 9th of January next, at One o'Clock in the hernown, at which Mretinj a DIVIDEND will be de //aced for the half year ending the 31st inltant. By °Ma of the Court, 11. LONGLANDS, Secretary. Vest India Dock house, D,!c. 16, - 1823. ftf:i. The Chair will he taken at Two o'Clock precisely. EAST INDIA IMVSE, Dec. 17, 18 2 8 . io pRiZE AGENTS, TRUSTEES !la. PRIZE ItIONEY, otter r rerNins engaged in the Receipt rind DiAtributioo of Prize Aln-u, and their Reim.- !,entiitives. rHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of NGLAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES do here give notice, that by an Act of Parliament, passed in the year of the reign of his present Majesty, rap. .50, en rtled "An Art for regulatir.g the appropriation of certain nelaimed shares of Prize Money acquired by Sokiieris or itAmen in the tu•rvii..-e of the East India Company,'' which vcireal the. Itowtl assent on the 15th day of July last, all UNCLAIMED SHARES OF BOOTY, .zAt Money, Head Money, Bounty Money, and Salvage awy, and of 'L‘leney arisen from or distributable in re , set, of any capture or other warlike service whatever. be mging to Officers or Soldiers, and Commanders, Officers, Sailors, or ether persons in the Military and Naval service f the East India Company, which since the passing of thit let of lat and 2d of his present Mtjesty, cap. 61, as come oto and is now remaininx is the hands of,toy Prize Agent , f Agents, or any other person or persons whomsoever, esiding in the L nitesl Kingdom, are to be paid over to the 4 kl Court of Directors, in London, within aix calendar 'moths after the passing of the said Act, which periol yin expire on the 15th day of January next. And they also further give notice, that all ittch Un %limed Shares of Prize Money as aforesaid, which may tereafter arise or become distributable Ira resp,•ct of any rapture made in warlike service already performed, and vhich shall hereafter come into the hands of any Prize kg - Ent or Agent*, or any person or persons whomsoever, eidio g in the United Kingdom, are directed hy the same tt,4, to he paid over to the Court of Directors, in bm.ko, ssix ea radar months next after the receipt thetrof, , y such Prize Agents or other persons, to he applied to the Arpows of " Lord Fund," and the " Poplar iospitzl." All preons who Aro required by this Act to pay over ny money to the iii Court of Director:4 are required, intim= ferther notice., to deliver a true and correct account hereof to the Secretary, in Lon:lon, with a list or lists of he nainee, rank, regiment, or ether *efficient description f the persons entitled thereto, which accounts and lista re to be verified by affidavit on with of the party or one t the parties requiresl to deliver the Name. JOSEPH DAR f, S4,eretaty. LLOYD'S, DgC. 31, 1828. AT a GENERAL MEETING o f t h e SUBSCRIBERS, held this day, pursuant to notice, 'he Right Honourable WILLIAM THOMPSON, Lord Mayor, in the Chair; t 'vas stated o Cie iileeting, that - Al,,a,:rs. and tussell, insurance brokers, had recovered returns for short oterest on certain policies withoat authority from their Tincipals, and even after such principals had advised them , f the arrival of the whole property insured, by which pro eeding the underwriters had been defrauded ; and that 4e B srs. Hoskin and Russell had generally admitted the fact. Resolved, with only one diAsentient, That the names of 'mei Alexander Salisbury Hoskin and Richard Russell be rvi e d from the list of suliscribera to thin estahli , hment, and hat they he deprived of all the privileges of the I lth by and thereby rendered ineligil.le to be agtin elected rlernbera of this house. Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meet nit be given to Robert Dewar, Esq., for the real and ttention which he has uniformly devoted to the general Rterosts 41 the subscribers to this house, and more par irularly in detecting and publicly exposing, after a minute avisstigatisn, the frauds of Messrs. lioslcin and Russell. Resolved unanimously, That the sum of 50/. be voted tom the funds of this house to four boatmen of the. Coast luard Service, at Dingle, and a man, formerly in that 'Tr ier, who went off in a four-oared gig, at the risk - of their vex, and saved (after great peril and exertion) the tnastcr id crew, emsisting of 18 persons, of the Brig Veronica, fklelf.t, from Liverpool to Charleston, wrecked in Die ;t.,..b,ty, during a violent gale, on the 7th inst. ; and that to thanks of this Meeting be presented to Lieutenant John 61wie, R. N., inspecting Cutnmander of the Coist Guard, t Dingle, for his meritorious conduct on that occasion. Resolved unanimously, Thnt the best thanks of this lecting be given' to the Right Hoolurable the Lord 'layer, for his very able and impartial conduct in the Chair lie day. Resolved unanimously, That these resolntions be pub-. shed in the London Morning awl Evening Newspapers, rid in the Papers of tie principal Ports of the United JOHN BENNETT, Secretary. /( - _V / '<xf SSURANCE COM itrcEt, Blackfriars, London. AUTOMATA. - OW OPEN, at the HORSE BAZAAR, King-street and Baker•street, Poi tman -Ituarr, the ma;znificent EXHIBITION of 7.,;!JSICAL and MECHA NICAL AUTOMATA; cnmpcising nearly twenty dif ferent subjects including the celebrated Musical Lady, Juvenile Artists, Magician, Rope Dancer, and Walking Figure; also a magnificent Classic Vase, made by order of Nspolcon ; together with a Serpent, Birds, Insects, and other su`jects of 'Natural history—the a-hole displaying, by their exact imitations of animated nature, the wonder ful pm-ers of mechanism—Open from Eleven to Six.— Adinittance Is. Gd. ; Children Is. The whole of the Exhibition for Sale; also several Felt acting and 0t1.,c Musical Instruments. A Third Editio», vo!s. 11. 16s. NARRATIVE of a JOURNEY through the Upper Provinces of CALCUTTA. By the Right Bey.REGINALD HEBER, late Lord Bishop of Calcutta. John Murray, Albemarle-street. This (lay was published, a pew Edition, Svo., price p 0 EMS and TRANSLATIONS 13y REGINALD lIEIW.II, Afterwarsl4 Lord bishop of Cileitta. Murray, Albemarle-street. Mao, 'TRAVELS, three vols., Bv - o, .3d Edition, 38i, HYMNS, new Edition. Thii clay was Fubli4ied, Third Edit . ol, in 1 79. bouts, rrHE ART OF IFREICH COOKERY. 2- By A. B. HEAUVILLIERS, Restaurateur, Paris. The Author of this work.is the celebrated Restaurateur in the Iltte Richelieu, in Paris ; whose object, after 44 years' experience, is to enable Families, with the assistance of the commonest mok, to make a display and excellent cheer, by the simp►est and most eennomical means. Printed for Longman, Rees, Ornic, Brown, and Green. Of whom may be had, DOMESTIC ECONOMY and COOKERY. Os. bds. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE GREAT TEA-DEALERS. The differences which have for some time existed between the Bon. East India Company and the most considerable tea-dialers of the country, are daily becoming more inveterate and irreconcilable. The complaints to by the latter are, that fair play is not given to them, and that advantages commen surate with those derived from their body to the powerful monopolists are withheld. In consequence of the very active competition in the tea-trade, and the very small profits arising from it to the whole sale dealers—profits which are certainly, if we judge from the Company's own books of sale and theirs, trivial in comparison with the profits of other trades, without taking into calculation the losses contingent upon it, or the large capital required for keeping it alive—the tea-dealers came to a resolution, in the beginning of October last, to address the lion. Court of Directors. The East India Company are in the habit of charging the wholesale buyers very enormously, for what is (-abed " lotting" the good,t, a spec es of operation from which the buyers derive not the slightest advantage, according to their owa showing, the benefits being all upon the other side. The letter they sent in is as fullows:— To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the 111 India Company. " Gentlemen,—We, the tunlersigned Tea-dealers of London, beg reskiertf:i!y to call your attention to the very heavy chaige of ' Jot money,' to which we are sub jected, aod which we are aware cannot be supported by any claim of right or of advantage to the trade. " It is true that this charge, originally, we believe, a perquisite to one of your respectable servants, hits been tOr many years, when the trade was very differently circum stanced, submitted to; but in the unexampled competition whirl, at present pervades every branch of trade, the most rigid attention to economy, by the reduction of every 'un necessary charge, has becotue indispensable, and the Tea dealers of London cannot be expected to continue any ex pense paid in their own wrong. " We Leg to submit to your Honourable Court, that you are not to any extent the warehouse-keepers of the goods of others, so that the charges oi West India Dock, and other public companies, differ as widely in principle as they are comparatively unimportant in innount. " The teas are lotted solely with a view to the advantage of the sellers ; and in proportion to that advantage is the disadvantlee to the wholesale buyer. " We beg, therefore, respectfully to request that your Honourable Court will direct the charge for lot money to be discontinued. And we remain, with the greatest re spect, lion. Sirs, your obedient humble servants. (llcre the names of the 19 greatest tea-houses in London.) " London, Oct. 7, IS2S." Similar remonstrances and requests were made from the principal tea-dealers of Edinburgh and Leith to the Court. The Court of Directors hesitated about the pro priety of granting this request, and the ten-dealers waited in anxious expectation for the presumed ac quiescence of the honourable members. On tile last sale day, at the commencement of the present month, a partner in one of the most eminent tea-houses in thu kingdom addressed the Chairman (Mr. MuTratt) upon the subject, and begged to be informed whether the wholesale buyers were to be liable, upon that occasion, to the usual charges for " lotting." To this Mr. Muspratt replied, by stating that the subject was one of very great importance, and was at that moment under the consideration of the Court of Directors. . There wasiitill further delay, and the dealers con strued the hesitation rather tno advantageously for themselves. On Saturday all suspense upon the matter was quite at an end : the memorializing party received the following explicit communication from tile lion. Court :—• " East India flouse,.Dec. 26, 1525. " Gentlemen,—l have laid before the Court of Directors of the East India Company the letter from yourselves, and other tea4enlers in London, dated the 601 of Octutser last, requesting that the Court will direct the charge hit lot or loading money upon tea to be discontinued. " And I am commanded to acquaint you, in reply, that the Court have taken your letter into due consideration ; and as the charge in question appears to be a very moderate return for services rendered by the Company in the deli very of the goo is out of the warehouses to the buyers, the Court do not see it expedient to comply with the applica tion proposed for its discontinuance. _ . " I am, gentlemen, your most ohedieut humble servant, " P. AUBER, Assistant Secretary." This answer, it is unnecessary to say, gave the greatest dissatisfaction to the tea-dealers, of whom it is said there rill be in a few days a mectin7, upon the rubjcct of this rejection of what they cousider.a most equitable claim, and upon other points which more immediately and intensely affect their interests. The cry which they hare raised against the mono poly comprehends all the charges xvhic'h have been. 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Amongst those 'whoaire said to he great sufferers are several of the :Company's own officers, who, if t hey vetiture to spe iulate a Lttle, are taxed by their masters to the most 'ruinous extent. The lot money was, in the infancy of the Corn praiy, given to -one .of the -servants of the concern, 4t!! the Company Gulling that it was extremelypro s ductlve, took it to ihemSelves, 'and although not warehousemen, laid on charges which are, in the present state of the trade, SoinuLto be oppressi-se and iii!upportillile. The servant alluded to lost this va luelde perquisite in rather -an odd way. lie was so struck with the libarality of the Directors, in throw ing him an addition to his salary, that he determined to invite them to dinner at his holise at Blackheath. The entestainment which his gratitude dictated was such, as even the Directors. themselves were unac eirstoraed to. - There was not adelicaey o: the season W'ra' Dot on the hospitablt' - iitta' T he Direc tors were all astonished, and after congratulating each other on the magnificent treat, they returned home silent, but in deep thought. Next morning an inquiry was instituted into the amount of the salary and fees of their generous en tertainer, and the "let money" was immediately , struck off from his office, and adopted into the ge neral concern. They, however, had so lively a feel ing of the warmth with which he gave them a taste of his gratitude, that they increased his salary, we are told, about 1,5001. or 2,000/. a-year. It may not be unnecessary to state, that the East India Company charge on a lot of tea of six chests, Is. Gd., and on a lot of tea of nine chests, 2s. 3d. While other companies, who can derive no such ad vantage as the monopolists do, charge no more than 6d. a lot, whatever may be its extent. Upon Ben gal sugars, in lots of 20 bags, the Company charge 3s. 4d. a let ; while, on a lot of Mauritius sugar, of 20 bags, the charge at the West. India Docks is 6d. The following is to brief account of the last sale at the East India Company's benevolence. The sale was the greatest since 1814, when the quantity sold was precisely the same—namely, 93,774 chests, or eight millions of pounds. It consisted of 15,771 lots, which produced, according to the charges of the East India Company, the sum of 1,2681. 6s. 2d. At the warehouses of any other company, the lot money upon this quantity would not have exceeded 899/. ss. Gd. Unforinnate Ireland, which buys about one-seventh of the quaiaity of tea imported by the East India Company, suffers her proportion, and yet the tea-dealers there will not concur With those of this country , in the attempt to resist the hitherto ap parently uncontrollable, but now, it is said, wavering authority of the monopolists. It is, we understand, strong matter of complaint,' that a name is given to some tea, mentioned in the " Book," which it does not deserve. We mean that the quality is worse than tea of the denomina tion set down really is—for instance, Bohea Tea is set down in that book, which ought to be an uner ring authority, us " good ordinary Congeal," an article which invariab!y fetches a higher price. By this mismanagement, the public are sufferers, and therefore the discussion which must soon take place upon this subject will be of mare general interest and importance than any which has been provoked by the alleged oppression of a few. '+ .., -.:. 71). WINDSOR CASTLE. This splendid palace becomes, daily an object of greater attraction and admiration, as the works proceed towards completion, and as the furnish ing and full decc:ation of hit; Majesty's private apartments draw to a close ; for, notwithstanding ell that has been said, the latter have not as yet been brought to a final termination. The diffi culties that stand hi the way of all approaches by strangers to obti,in a sight oNhe interior em bellishments arc perhaps without a parallel ; and this may, in a great measure, account for the very imperfect, and in many respects, absurd attempts that have recently been made at a description of them ;• and we have one remarkable instance of this in a newspaper printed and published itt the immediate - 'netglifittrho'od of c' Castle. A Windsor paper the other day, hazards a descrip tion of that which it is clear the writer never could have seen--the King's private apartments and the approaches to them. Thee apartments are there described as opening upon a double staircase of solid oak, and lighted by one large lamp, when it is well known to any one who has ever in reality had access to this part of the pa lace, that the staircase alluded to is of solid stone, and lighted, not by one, but by four magnificent lamps, that could never have escap ed the notice G f any person who had ever seen those stairs. So much for speculative de scriptions. We gave some short time ago a partial but most accurate, as far as it went, description of the exterior appearance and internal embellishments of the Castle, nearly to the extent that they had then proceeded, and we shall not fail from time to time to resume the subject with an accuracy and faithfulness of detail in which exclusive op portunities must prevent the possibility of mis ieadiag, until the final accomplishment of this magnificent national structure. The corridor or gallery which we before described as extending round two entire sides of the quadrangle that forms the building, is now completed, and very nearly furnished with specimens of the rarest. works of art ; these consist of pictures, by Zof fani and Canaletti, which ornament its walls, the greater number by the latter artist. ; acid although the works of this master are not now held in any very high degree of estimation, there are here some beautiful specimens of his art : these pic tures, we believe, were all the property of his Majesty, and on that account possess a more sacred interest. and value with tacir present owner. There are besides these hung round the walls, to be seen, the portraits of Nelson, St. Vincent, Pitt, and many other great mines distinguished in the history of their country. In different parts of this corridor, too, as you walk along, the eye occasionally rests upon some almost animat ed bust, from the perfectness of its resemblance, in marble or in bronze; these are all of some wAinera men, and of iris Majtsty'm personal and private friends. Amongst the latter arc busts of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, and the late Marquis of Hastings, and there is one very recently executed by Felines, of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. At the head of the corridcr, near to the door leading into the music gallery, stands a magnificent least in bronze of King James 1.: there arc besides these busts, a number of figures in brcmae, most exquisitely executed by the hands of the first artists, and here and there the attention is fra quently arrested by cabinets of ebony of the most lavish and costly taste and workmanship, which are understood to have been once in the posses sion of Cardinal \Volsey, for whom they are said to have been made, and they are indeed well worthy the enormous expenditure of that princely priest.. These cabinets have all been newly po. fished, and are so admirably well arranged in this gallery, that on quitting one after a close and minute examination of its beauties, you are ' quickly again gratified by lighting upon another of still more exquisite attractions; the interme diate spaces between these cabinets are occupied by the busts we have already named, tripods, canidelabra, settees, Sze., so that not an inch re ma us unappropriated to sonic delightful speci mcll of taste and art. At e ac h d oor l ea di ag ou t of the corridor to his Majesty's apartments, are two tripods, richly careed and gilt, each tripod bearing three lamps ; aad the effect of these at night, when lighted, on the surrounding ornaments, is said to surpass belief in its magni ficence. There are also placed in the corridor at convenient distances several very rich or-molu clocks, by Vulliamy, so that the eye in this place never wanders, one rich or rare work of art im mediately succeeding to another, and the whole presenting a constellation of the most magnificent and costly grandeur. From the number of gems with which this corridor is now studded, and the pneral richness and splendour of its appearance, it has become an object of especial interest and general attraction to every one of the few who have the good fbrtune to find occasional access to the interior arrangements of this magnificent building. We on a farmer occasion described this gallery as being 16 feet wide by 14 feet in height ; the ceiling is of the most elegant ap pearance, divided into compartments of propor tionate dimensions, each compartment separately gilded, and having in the centre a rose or orna ment similar to those that are to be seen in Henry Vll.'s chapel at Westminster Abbey. We have not as yet been able to learn that the ultimate situation of his Majesty's beautiful collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures is de ' cided upon—whether they are to occupy a part of the Waterloo Gallery, which report speaks of as intended to be built, or some other part of the palace. That this gallery will be built is generally be lieved : and in any application to Parliament for a grant for the purpose (and no great sum would be required), we make no doubt that an assur ance will be given that the public will be allowed the advantage of occasionally viewing the beau fill works of art it will contain. The proposed site of this gallery is most favourable and:con venient : it is still, as we before described it, only a sort of court-yard, into which look the windows of some offices of little importance. These removed, the gallery would require no thing but a dome roof and some embellishments to complete it; but should even the cost be sup posed to exceed our contemplation, it would be a niggardly sort of parsimony to deny the money for an appendage so suitable and indeed lICCCS- C 97, toiZ..l tiflinon nni.l i ~ /~ ~ _ ,~ ~~ 1 i/ CAPITAL MANSION, WITH GARDENS, CONSERVATORY, GRAPE LOUSE, STABLING AND COACII HOUSES, &c. Situate in the Close of Saliabury, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. BARTRITAI, hi the Premises, on MONDAY the 234 of February next, at Twelve o'Clock, T HAT' truly Spacious and Well-arranged MANSION, forming a suitable Residence fur a sblernan or Gentleman of Fortune, known by the name THE KING'S HOUSE, situate in the most plea,ant art of the anus of Salisbury, the property anal residence Lientenant-General Slade. This truly desirable House, adapted for a family of the A respectability, presents a frontage (including the officet.) 35 feet; its approsch is through a Lawn and Shrub-. y into a upacions hall 19 feet square, with a vestibule . ft. by 13 ft. ; and on same floor, a capital dining-room ft. by 19 ft. ; nohie drawing-room, 20 ft. 9, by 21 ft. principal and secondary staireasvt leading to library 5 ft. by 19 ft. ; 10 beat bt'd.rooms, with dretraing-rooms; rater-eloaeta, and hot or cold bath ; servants' sleeping 'ortmerata ; and extensive arrangements of the most con ilkni domestic of in the basement; the whole in ex tient repair, many thousand pounds having been ex, Merl thereon within the last few yeara. Adjoining are two productive garden.,, encircled with 1118, clothed with the choicest fruit trees; conservatory, r ope-Louise, trembling for ten horses, standing for three ' t riage*, cow-sheds, dog-kennel, &e. ne situation of Salisbury is equally desirable with any England for She residence of a respectable family, de roult of trading the lots hours of London—the society of le total., and neighbourhood being of the vary first des iPtionr and the proximity of tic Downs offer to the P7rtststan the finest opportunity fur the exercise of his rsttit, area packs of fox h o und s being kept in th e neigh narbood. It 1 6 situate about 80 miles from London, SS from Bath, a i l 29 from Southampton. Th 4 Property held under the Dean and Chapt er o f N ew rum O 4 lease of 4,0 yenta, of which about St remain `"Pirrdil-lit the low annual quit rent of 50.., and is re leside every 14 years, at a moderate fine. Alin Two Pieces or FREEIIOLD PASTURE LAND, at of groat and small tithes; situate at a short distance, the pariah of NVEkat Haruhatn, now in the occupation of r. John White, as tenant front year to year, at the an ail rant of 121. 12.. Tho premises may be viewed with tieketa, by applica it to Meakrs. may and Dowding, printers, Salisbury; 9f the Auctioneer, No. 10, Mihom-street, Bath; of orn any further partirmlara may he obtained. Letters to be poet-paid. No. (`TOWN LIFE-A PANY, 33, Bridge-6 DIRXI CTO S. ITT, Esq. Chairman, M.P. Deputy Chairman. 1 John Kirkland, Esq. Major Moody, RI. Engineers Sir F. Ommanney Thotnas Solly, Esq. A. Stewart, Esq. James Farquhar, Esq. M P. I John Wilson, Esq. Thomas Harrison, Esq. Writ. Whitmore, jun. Eol. Goorge Henry Hooper, Esq. i William W'hon, Esq. Aumsous•—J. J. II Alison, Esq., Isaac Say, jun. Esq., Henry Stock, Esq. SOLICITOR—T. Haddan, Esq. A CTIJ Alt r-J. Al. Rainbow, Esq. THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS OFFICE, among others, are : I. A participatinn in two-thirds of dte profit's, which are ascertained septennially. 2. The Assurance Or Premium Fond is not sullject to any charge for Interest to Proprietors. S. Permission to pass to Continental forts ta,triwn Jareot and tile Elbe iochrsive: 4. Parties (including Officers of the Army, Navy, East India Company and Merchant Service} may‘he Assured to reside in or proceed to all parts of the world, at premiums calculated on real data. 5. Claims to be paid within three months, and the Directors are empowered to settle differences by arbitration. 6. The Assured may rEspole of their Po:icies to the Company. 7. No charge bat fir Policy Stamps. The Prospctus, Tables of Rates, &c. to be had at the Office in Loudon, or of the Company's Agents T. Ci. CONYERS, Secretary. WILLIAM PEATT L JOHN WELLS, E4q. Win. Richard -Cosw:ty, Esq. Junes (.2t,hrhoun, Eq. James Colria, E•cq. Cnptain J. W. D. Dundai, 11. N. " THE OLD SOLDIER TURNED I'OLITICIAN." " " VerVIR " IIGIITING." 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Yesterday an inquest was held at the Buffalo's Head, New-road, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq., Cmotter, on view of the body of Mary Mortlock, who died in consequence of wounds received from the contents of a pistol, fired at her on the night of the 17th instant, in Crawfild-street, by a most re spectably connected young man, named Benjamin Barrup, who has aheady been committed to NeW gate, for the attempt to murder or do some bodily harm, and who, there is every reason t.,) believe, la homed under a delusion that she was a female he had been acquainted with two years prior to the fatal transaction, The deceased was not 19 years of age, and had been recently in the service of Lady Dudley and Ward, in Bryanston-square. The evidence of NATi,:ttett, the watchman, who saw the pistol tired, and of the other witnesses CXEL mined at the Marylebone Oflice, was first taken, and was the same that appeared in the Police Reports, including the admision of Barrup, " that he was the man who did the deed, and that he trusted it was (lone effectually." The deposition of the deceased, taken before Mr. Griffith, the Magistrate, at the Marylebone Infir marv, was then read, which stated that she had nut known the prisoner until the previous Thursday week, when she met him in Covent-garden theatre. She met him by appointment the following day, and again on tire night the unfortunate transaction took place, when he drank a considerable quantity of ale, and his appearance and behaviour were very wild and disorderly. Wheu she was shot, she had hold of his right arm, but she did not sea the pistol, nor did she know who fired it. She did not even know the prisoner's name. This deposition was taken in the presence of the prisoner, who was dreadfully affected, and who said "he feared he had committed a terrible mistake." Mr. Goodger, the surgeon who bad examined the deceased when fir,t taken to the Infirmary, said that he ascertained that a piece of lead had perforated the upper lip, which had been the next morning ex tracted, but he at the time feared that a dangerous suppuration, if not a locked jaw, might follow in the course of the day. Notwithstanding every attention was paid her, fever ensued, which increased dining the night to such an extent, that it was deemed ad v;salde to have her deposition taken. After this the fever abated, and appearances were much in her favour until the middle of last week, when inflam mation and fever again returned, and she continued getting gradually worse until death put a period to her sufferings on Sunday last. The pistol, and pieces of lead which had been ex tracted from ale ❑nfortunate girl's mouth, were here produced before the jury. The latter did not ap pear to have been part of a pistol ball. The evidence being closed, the Coroner addres sed the jury at some length ; after which they re tired to consider their verdict. In about 40 minutes they returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Benjamin 13arrup." It is said that, Naval and Military Off' . cers will be appointed to fill the situations in the public departments at home and in the Colonies which may become vacantos a saving will thereby be made to the public of their half pay.--Morn ng Paper. - - Among the reforms contemplated by the French government in the medical profession is one, that no phy sician or surgeon ander 30, or more than 60 years of age, shall he allowed to prescribe or operate in the hospitals. In consequence of Mr. Rowland Stephenson having occasioned a vacancy in the treasurership of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, several persons have been men tioned—among others, Mr. Alderman Waith man—as likely to become his successor. MARCH OF INTELLECT.-At a young la dies' sendnar', a few miles from Exeter, children of be rm years of age are required to teach the poor their cate chism and psalms! A woman from the Black Lk, Ross-shire, bought, as She supposed, a stone of butter, at Inverness Martinmas market, from a person unknown; on going home, die found, to her astonishment, that a full third of her purchase n•as composed of mashed potatoes.— A herd,pn. CA i vie ,/; _~ ,' i~ yond doubt the most magnificent in Europe. The north-terrace of the palace overlooking' Eton, is now open to the public every Sunday. land the bands of the Horse and Foot Guards perfin-m pieces of mus'e there alternately. 1 The London visit a nt s , even a t thi s unfavoes -1 able season, are p re tty numerous , an d from this / terrace they get a view of the interior of the quadrangular building, in which are the stele entrance to the King's apartments, the private entrance for his Majesty, the entrance to the kitchens and other culinary offices, and the splen did new gate of George IV. From the staircase at the private entrance for his Majesty in this quadrangle, the corridor which we have been describing is entered nearly about its centre—that is, at the south-east angle of the Castle, and at this point commences the immediate approach to the Royal private apart ments. The first that are entered arc what are called the Queen's apartments, and consist of three very beautiful rooms, -but Are so entirely undeserving of that admiration which fills the , visitor on viewing the King's rooms, and other parts of the palace, that, for the a present, a mi nute description of them may P :deferred. On passing through these rooms, which are not yet entirely completed in their furnishing, you pro ceed through the King's apartments in continua tion,. each .roach as you peocaeaszt.‘atassing the other in splendour until you progressively arrive at thegrand dining-room, where the taste, beauty, and the magnificence of the whole seem to be re peated and combined. It is difficult which to admire most—the splendour of these apartments, or the excellent arrangement into which they are thrown for every purpose of convenience and comfort; and notwithstanding the just meed of praise that is due, and must he awarded to the skill and taste of the architect's lab Ours, it is tin. derstood that his Majesty himself has had no ha considerable share in directing this grand national work. We did intend to give amore minute and detailed description of the furniture and interior decorations of these apartments than we have hitherto clone; but this we postpone for a few days, because we know that orders have been very recently given to make considerable al terations in the festooning and drapery, partici:- lady about the various windows, where, by the first arrangements of the festoons, &c., the beau tiful pointed Gothic arches of these windows were entirely concealed from his Majesty's view. We stated on a former occasion that all the hangings of these apartments were of Spitalfields' manufacture, and such is the fact ; they are of velvet, wove upon,—that is, the ground is satin, and the decorative figures of velvet raised upon it, the whole of the most exquisitely finished ma nufacture, and reflects the highest credit upon our native skill and industry. There are a few particulars connected with the manufacturing of this silk that it may not be uninteresting here to introduce. .We before stated, that it was the determine tion of the King that all the decorations, &c. of this palace should be of British workmanship, and orders were given accordingly; but with res ference to this silk there was some difficulty and doubt as to placing the order for it in the hands of a Spitalfields' master, because the work was a very difficult one, and the certainty of bringing it to the perfection required : not very sanguinely entertained in the trade. At this time there was a French silk manufacturing house under the firm of " Depaully, Noutier, and Co." esta blished in the city, and as this kind of manufac ture was more of foreign make and use than in this country, those foreigners were consulted about the matter, and ultimately they got the order for the silk, which was for 1,000 yards. There was, however, a positive stipulation with this house that the silk should be entirely made by English hands, and that no persons whatever should ma nufacture an inch of it, except a Spitalfields' weaver, the foreign house having the direction and superintende::ce of the work, according to - the manner of the French looms, if that mode should be found superior to the English ma chinery. So far, however, from this being the case, that although the Frenchmen were at the commencement seemingly unalterably attached to the perfection of their own looms and mode of weaving, during the progress of the work, the very clever, and ingenious Spitalfielde s weavers, whom they employed, pointed out to them the errors of the French mode so clearly and convincingly, that the foreigners were compelled reluctantly not only to admit the superiority of the English loom, but to adopt it in the remainder of the manufacture ; and not only this, but they had all their own looms al tered to the English mode, and have taken the improvement over with thetn to France ; for the house not having been at all successild here, the establishment in the city was broke up soon af ter the completion of the King's order, and they returned to France. So caretul an anxiety was there to guard against any fraud or imposition as to the silk being made by British hands, that a silk-merchant of great experience and respecta bility at the west end of the town was employed by the Government to watch the progress of the different weavers in Spitalfields, to whom the silk was given out for manufacture, from the commencement of a piece in the loom to: its finish, and occasionally in this stage of the work to mark it with his seal ; and in every instance this was done, so that there could be no pos sible doubt as to who and by whom the work was completed. It may not be an uninteresting fact, in proof of the industry and skill to be found in this branch of trade at home, to state that of the thousand yards which composed the order, 200 yards of this beautiful and difficult manufacture were wove in every part be a Wrung female not more than 20 years of age, and the elegant finish she gave to her work was consi dered, by Messrs. Depaully, Noutier, and Co., to fully equal, if not surpass, any of the rest executed by male hands. This portion of the work, it seems, was given out to the father of this young girl, who was known to be °ri f e of the most ingenious and skilful weavers in Spite's fields ; but at that time the poor man's heah was in a very impaired state, and after accept ing the order, he found that he could not possi bly execute it, and was on the point of return ing it, when his daughter, anxious that her father should not lose so isvourable an opportunity of earning something handsome for his family, and the honour besides of manufacturing for the King's use, said she would undertake to weave the silk herself. The father, although he knew the girl had been very clever and ingenious from her childhood, and had paid great atten tion all her life to the most difficult intricacies of the loom, never imagined that she would be able to accomplish so new and difficult a work as this must be to her, particularly as she had never ' tried such a in inutile:l.lre before ; and he for some tune refused to let her make the attempt or to listen to her at all upon the subject ; her earnest entreaties, however, and the burden of a rather distressed family, induced the father to eaaai• nem dlv OLS ui This day was published, price rs. ' . nig 1 THE FOREIGN REVIEW, No. V. to in The Black, .Yoting, nr.:l Young, 2, Tavistock-street ; and ' suc h Rossange, Barthett, and LGwell, Grer.t Marlbo roug.t-strect• crate 11 ORD BYRON'S WORKS. A Ne( lhat tors and Belot:int( Edition, with Portrait and Plates each Four Pocket vols. ISmo. Price only 18s. homy Print.d for John Murray, Albemarle-street. 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