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Mr. CRESWELL ; Din Aionio, Mr. HUNTLEY; -Lion Velasque;, Mr. BRUNTON ; High Priestess, Mrs. POWELL • . Cora, Miss smi - CH ; Ainuziii, Miss FM()? ; lotoi Miss BOLTON ; VICTUALLING OFFICE, Feb. r I HE COlllltllS . SIONERS for VICTUALLING . - — 1 - Ilis MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby give Notice, that on Friday, the 7th February next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in Writing, (sealed up), and treat for Two' Hundred and Fijor Thousand Gallons of WEST.INDIA RUM to be delivered, duty free, from Warehouses in which the same shall have been bma'ed, into his Majesty's ViHualling Stores at VII. ford andPortsm,uth, in the fo!lewing proportions, viz. • MR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S • LAST CHARGE. their hostility against the .onoffending and helpless part of their fellow -creditors.' FROM THE BOMBAY COURIER, JULY 20, 1811. One defea in thiS voluotaty system of Bankrupt Laws must be owned to be considerable: , It is pro. teeted by no penalties against the franciulent con. ceahneta 'of: property. - There is no subsrinte for suet) penalties but the deterinined and vigilant inte, grity of Trustees. I have, therefore, with pleasure seen that duty undertaken by European Ge„tlernee of _charaaer :aid station, Besides the grew Consider, ations of justice and humanity to the creditors,. I will confess that liam gratified by the intetterence ofEnglish Gentlemen to prevent the fall of eminent or ancient commercial 'families among the natives of India. The Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery for this place, were holde,n on Satur day last befote Sir JAMES MA ' cIUNTOSII, and his Associates, and continued till lite on Tuesday even-, Gallon's • The Grand Jury having been sworn . in, the Re- CORDER proceeded to deliver to them a charge, which was rendered more than ordinarily interest ing by the notification it contained of his-approach ing departure for his native country. We have it in our power, most •fortunately, to give a faithful outline of this impressive and do (pent Charge, and we have also been gratified by a 'perusal of the letter written by the Grand Jury on .the occasion, which we are enabled to insert, with the RECORDER'S answer. Deptford 100,000 Portsmouth 250,000 Gallons, 44 . - t Zaha, Mrs. CIIILDE. which Will be f for the 35th time, a New per ormet. Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND PADMANABA; OR THE GOLDEN FISH, Wit h entire New OR, ic, Machinery, Scenes, Dresses, tic. Padmanaba, Mr. jE F ERIES ; „ nof Cashrnire, Mr. NORMAN jun.; 'Lim a r, Sulta the Fisherman, Mr. BOLOGNA, s-aYtacattadhri, the Persian Cook, Mr. GRIMALDI ; ti o . r 4e 4ca, the Sultan's Daughter, Nlrs. PARKER ; e as the Fisherman's Daughter, Miss E. BOLTON... as fox es Second. ricep 3s 6d.—Pit 3s. 6d. Second-price co#7d(JaerY as. Secondpric ' e is."-Lpder Gallery is. Se t, - Price - 6d - • • eNe w 4 for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Brandon, at the "-Office, in Hart-street. ha v i i , — new Operatic Drima, called The Virgin of the Sun, /io n flult)cen received throughout with the highest approba thern„,_:PPlause, will he repeated every Evening till tar. 3 with the Pantomime of Harlequin and Padina... The Golden Fish; bl t ril ; 11Y particular desire, the CoMic Scene of the Vegeta troni Italequin and Asmodeus,.will he introduced 8 Wa1 44 e 4 , " t he Labourer's Song in the Scene ot the Bay of 4. One half thereof in One Month from the Day of Contrail, and the other half in one Month afte,wardr. . . . •ThesecOnd circumstance which I think my se lf now bound to explain, relates to the dispensation of Penal Ltur.—Since my arrival here in May, 1804, the punishment of death has not been inflicted by this Court. And for Nine Handled Quartets of NEW PALE, and Tbref 11w:died Quarters of NEW CLOSE DRIED AMBER MA LT, to be answerable to Samples (of not less than one Quart each) to be produced with the Tender:, and to be delivered within the space of a Fortnight, into Lis Majesty's Pieluading Slot et at Deptford. The whole to be paid far by Bills, pqyable with Interest, Ninety Thy: after date. The Conditions, oj the Contra Els mg be seen at the Secretary's Office,' No regard will be bad to any Tender In which the Price shall not be inserted in 'words at length, or that shall not be delivered to the Board before One o'clock on the said Fri.l,iy, the 7-th of Fth uary mexc; nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some PersOn on hi: behalf, attends, to issuer when called The Grand Jury being sworn, ,the RECORDER delivered the following Charge:— Gentlemen of, the Jury, the presebt Calendar is unfortunately remarkable for number and enormity of crimes. To what cause we are to impute the very'uncommon depravity which haii in various forms, during the last twelve months, appeared be fore this Cams, it is difficult and perhaps impossible to determine. But the length of this Calendar may probably be, in a great meastife, ascribed to the late commendable disuse of irregular punishment at the Office of Police, so that there is ❑ot so much an increase of crimes as of regular trials. To frame and maintain a system of Police war ranted by law, vigorous enough for protection, and with sufficient legal restraints to afford a ,security against oppression, must be owned to be a matter of considerable difficulty in the crowded, mixed, and shifting population of a great Indian sea-port. It is no wonder then that there should be defects in our system, both in the efficacy of its regulations, and the legality of its principles; and this may be mentioned with the more liberty, because these de fed's have originated long before the time of any. one now in autlority, and have rather indeed arisen from the operation of time and chance on human institutions, than horn the fault of •any individual. The subject has of late occupied much of my atten tion. Government have been pleased to permit me to lay my thoughts before them ; a permts,ion of which I shall in a few days avail myself, and•l hope that my diligent infinity and lung reflexion may contribute somewhat to aid their judgment in the establishment of a Police which may be legal, vigor pus, and unoppressive. In reviewing the administration of laW in this place since I have presided here, two circumstances present themselves, which appear to deserve a pub lic explanation. SreAr the .population subjea to our jurisdiaon, ,either locally, or personally, cannot he estimated at less than 2oo i oon persons. Whether any evil con sequence has yet_arisen from so unusual (and in the British dominions unexampled) a circumstance as the_ disuse of capital punishment, for so long a pe riod as seven years,-aruong a population so consider-, able, is a question whi c h y ou are ent i t l e d to ask, and to which I have the means of affording you a satisfaaory answer. The Criminal Records go back to the year 1756, From May, 1756, to, May, 1763, the capital convidions amounted to one hundred and forty_ one—and the executions were forty-seven.—The annual average of personi 'who mattered death was almost seven, and the annual average of capital Crimes ascertained to have been perpetrated was nt.a . fly twenty. • From May, 1804, to May, 1811,. there - have been heen one hundred and Lille capital convictions.— The annual average, therefore, of capital crimes legally proved to have been perpetrated during that period, is between 15 and 16. During that period there has been no capital execution. • But, as the population of this Island has much more than doubled, during the last fifty years, the annual average of capital convictions, during the List seven years, ought to have been folly, in order to shew the same proportion of criminality with that of the* first seven years: But between the year; 1756 and 1763,-. the military force was comparatively small. A few fa6tories or small ports only depended on this Government. Between 1804 and 1811, five hundred European Officers , and probably four thou sand European Soldiers. were scattered over exten sive territories. Though honour and morality be powerful aids of law, with respell to the first. class, and militaiy discipline with respect to the second, yet it might have been expeEted, as experience has proved, that the more violent enormities would be perpetrated by the European Soldiery, uneducated and sometimes depraved as many of them must ori• ginally be, often in a state of mischievous idleness, commanding, in spite of all care, the means of in toxication, and corrupted by conteinpt for the feel ings and rights of the natives of this country. If these circumstances be considered, it will ap pear that the capital crimes committed during the last seven years, with no capitaLexecution, liwve, in proportion to the population, not been much more than a third of those committed in the first seven years, notwithstandi►ig the inf Lotion of death on 47 persons. The intermediate periods lead to the same results. u Berformances by the Dramatic Horses, the ectrndous Elephant, and Two Learned Dogs, introduc- Nouvelle Entertainments. Nl:w r , NEW PAVILION ,THEATRE, tr. LA STLE-STREET, STRAND, (ASTLEY'S) pl.l.,‘stablished by Authority of the Lord Chamberlain). 11 r PRESENT EVENING, Thursday, 6th, ialf" l aYt 7th, and Saturday, Bth, Feb. will be acted, at .pto?..t Six pricisely an entirely new Equestrian and `acts, Legendary' Melo-Dramatic Speetacle, in two With extensive Scenery, Machinery, t{ce. called BAGH VAN-HO ; As co Or THE TARTAR TARTAR'D: Inplishectthrough the means of having one Foot by Sea • and one Coot by Land. Timour, Mr. COLLETT ; Ilaghtan-ho, Mr. AS TLE Y, 4ilue_Beard ; 'Mr. MALE ; In 41 And Fatima, Mrs-ASTLE Y., titro, l " l 9 course of t h e Spettacle, splondtd I'rocessipns, tt i r,.,'"g the Largest and most Sagaciotis ELEPHANT higdoni. The Piece will terminate with it general iors e. ° , l the Usurper's Castle, Man - to Man Horse to 44 y p si t he very great applause-bestowed on the Extradorrlci t levy „F lo ut - lances of Mr. WI LSON, he. is re-engage or ,',, t anc e , v ellings . longer and will through his unparalleled "li', 4 , — ; "'es on the '11 , C.; T ROPE ; accompanied by the 6 e4 calities of the Two Clowns • artd (for the Fifth Time 4 ") a grand Pant oin i m i c al Selection, called • H.MILEQUIN'S OLIO; • I n . Or, lEWELS NEW SET. t,unvirhich will be introduceLt(tor the Fifth Time in this tr or , t Y) wo astonishig Learned Lap_ Dogs. oik " r s Open at Hilt-past Five, and begin at Half-past - is S eCond price Half-past Eight. Ll.aces'taken for the Boxes, from it till 3 o'cloCk. This Day was published, (Embellished with Fifteen fine Engravings), in Quarto, pride zl. izs. 6d. boards. of A COLLECTION of VOYAGES and .L TRAVELS in the ASIATIC ISLANDS, AUSTRA LASIA and POLY N ESIA. Being the Third Portion of a General Collection of Voyages and Travels ; forming a coin plete History of the Origin and Progrcss of Discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest Ages to the present Time. By JOHN PINKERTON, Author of Modern Geography, &c. &c. Printed for Longman, .Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoser-row ; and Cadell and Davies, Strand; and at the British Gallery, 54, New Bond-street. . Of whom may be had, by the same Author, Voyages and Travels in Europe, Six Volumes, Quarto, 131. t3s. boards. s _ Voyages and Travels in Asia, Four Volumes, Quarto, 81. Bs., boards. WILSON'S CHINESE FLUID, or TON QUI NI 01 L, is - the only discovery that has ever been found to effe.tivally prevent the Hair from falling offor changing colour, and occasioning it to grow thick and long ; and its power of regenerating flair on parts of the head which are become bald, is truly asts.inishing ; it possesses the must grateful fragrance, gives it a beautiful gloss, and strengthens the finest Hair ; as it renders it capable of re taining its curl in a damp atmosphere; it is perfettlyinnncent, and is proved, from experience, to possess those properties so often expeaed in vain by other preparations. Sold at 45. and Ss. and in large bottles, at one guinea, by the Proprietor, R. Wilson, 171, Oxford-street. And by appointment,, by Bayley and Blew, Cockspur street ; Rigge, Cheapside ; Turner, Bond -street; Newberry and Sons, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Persall, Holborn; Rajiv, King.street, Covent-garden; Berry, Greek-street ; Low, Strand ; and by all Perfumers and Medicine Venders in Town and Cohntry. The first relates to the principles adopted by. the Court in cases of commercial insolvency. In India, no law compels the equal distribution of the goods of an insolvent merchant. We have no system of Bankrupt Laws. AEIGHTEENTH THIS MONTH (FEBRUARY), LL the SMALL hut R ICH STATE LOT . - RV, of only t,OOO Tickets, will be Drawn ; con b.car lknee rizespf equal magnitude as i forer Lotterto of tidies the Number of Tickents.m rTHE Cases that have terminated favourably by - a course of SPILSBURN"s PATENT .ANTISCOR BUTIC DROPS, have been numerous, and have claimed a cehlbrity for this Medicine during the space of thirty years and upwards. Its success in Scrophulous Cases his amply borne out the testimony of _Dr..Hamilton, Professor of Mid wifery. Edinburgh, when treating on this Disease in his Work on Female Complaints. - Every Patient, will on trial experience the same exertion in his habit to throw off' this Disease. In Herpetic Eruptions, Eruptions from cold %yea fher, those particularly attended with disordered stomach in scorbutic, Gouty, Rheumatic, and Bilious COmplaints, Patients daily give decided proofs of the efficacy of this mild Antiscorbutic. The consequence is too well known. Every mercantile failure has produced a disreputable scram ble, in which no individual could blamed, because, it he were to forego his rights, they would not be sacrificed to equitable division, but to the claims of a competitor no better entitled than himself, A few have recovered all, and the rest have lost all. Nor was this the worst. The number of capital crimes in any one of these periods does not appear to be diminished either by the capital executions of the same pet iod, or of that immediately proceeding. They bear no asstgnable proportion to each other. As there are numerous counterfeits, please to ask for Spits_ bury's Patent Antiscorbtitic Drops, with the King's duty printed in black ink, in bottles of ss. 6d. double bottles tea. and large' il. 2s. duty included. Compound Essence, Bs. Dispensary, t„ Solio-square, London. • SCI-lEME. • 2 of £20,000 are ,C 40,000 2 - 4,003 - 8,000 4 Iroou - - 4 ,003 c, 6 ' - , 3 u Il r , 1 ,5.8 of cloo, £ 5 O, &c. &c. 2 5 ,600 t'ont.raCtor.. Nu CORNHILL, and Is/o. 43, C.-CROSS, - sincerely thanks the Public for their ajN3lngtfislicd. Favours. He invites their attention to the they: Scheme, which, from its arrangement, considering 11 140 1. Y limited number of TicketS, gives to Adventurers . a 4113. Kreattr Chance for the above 20,z001. Prizes,.than ',.; ° , t , l erY hitherto known. In the Lottery just finished, - 14 i s i'e : Two last, T. BISH sold and shared the following 4 9 , 7 ; 46 9 3 " Cl ass A - £20,000 1,853, Class 13 • 2.000 1.34 3 A. A - 16, 0 , 0 4, 02 5, C - I , °°° -4, 1 - C 15, 000 - A - - 2, 000 6,5 • A 5,e00 825 • . 13 . 1000 $3, A 3,0 0 . 2 . 7 1 7 , 1,000 A - - 2,600 '2,717, • B -,- ',coo &c. &c. &c. ItEb„ „To Lori ERY ADVENTURERS. i?W„,`- 11 :13 PRICE OF TICKETS AND SHARES. ~ I '-itiViG and Co. No. 1; CORNEIILL, (the 'tllTZ°rner next to the Mansion House), return their grate. 4 11(1 re "tiks to their Friends and the Public fur past favours, t,D 10,31'eatully acquaint them, that they have determined 4131 e 0 their Profits for a few Days, and to supply the ' e until Saturday Night, February Bth, at the following P,i, ' VERY LO. at P adding and Co.'s `* P Price at the Other I), , ffice. Offices. 44;1:t!te*Ticket ,C2O IS o Ticket - Zzi 5 ° 90ar i t e ° , nl Y - - L) la o, Half .. - to 18 . o J , :tgh ti •- - - 564) 1 Quarter . - sto o 16 '6 Slx te I - 214 o Eighth ' - - 2 --, _ 1,, 9 rki, e r e s "t p 7 o Sixteenth - i S 6 ost,, rout the Country, enclosing the Amount with li es t - v ge ' will be paid the same attention to, as if the Par kt the . re Present ; and the great saving by an early Purchase Coa: l , bV e Office, is self-evident. . ' rice" l nen, Carriers, &c. need only compare the above Th e i r —, to see the great advantage thq will have by making 01. Purchases at I' I DDI NC; and Ou's Office, No. t, %.„..11iII. ,„ f4NCrFOSS, YORKSVIIRE, SHIP TIMBER: 'i p„ ; ., To BE SOLD BY AUCTION, th ''''aY the 2ist day of February IS iz,.at Two o'clock in i i e Afternoon, at Hamby- Mo T Inn, near Pocklington, N v i ~.the East Riding of Yorkshire, Ns ;HP,E , followin g ELM and other TIMBER, g row- E oli the Estate of Cholmley.Overend, Esq. 4t Fang o 41 ki Spittal, near Pocklingtun af oresai d, a b out F our ` l y „'e l lt, rani I rani Starnford-bridge and th e N av i ga bl e Ri ver D er . : 270 Dutch Elms, and 89 Cyphers, los Ashes, and 122 Cyphers, 32 Willows, and 4 Cyphers, t Oak, - ypher. e nsuring Elm " ' frees are su i t a bl e f or. Ship.b u ildi ng, from 40 to too Feet each, and are deemed to be l ittal, it not superior, to any in the Kingdom. E state Robinson, l antes Beall, and other Tenants of the tate. shew the Timber • and tor further l'art;eul.irs N?ply 10 Thoinas Sc ntt, Esq. of Oulston, and Francis Scail, Oldstead, Mat Easingwold, Yorkshire. RENOVATED HEALTH. T T has been tcto 'frequently the subject of just and A. general reprobation, that meat destitute of the elements of the medical art have offered themselves as eandklates for public patronage in the profession of physic. For the purpose of doing justice to the result of our studies and experience, and to prevent us from being classed among those erispirics whose imprudent pretensions have, unfortunately fin society,' been too favourably received, we beg leave to submit to the liberal and enlightened a faithful statement of our pursuits and ac quirements. After having received a regular medical educa tion as the pupils of Messrs. Cirindell and Wizard, whose leetures and practice we carefully attended, as professors and surgeons of the London hospital; we entered ourselves as students in that, justly celebrated school for medical acquire ment, the Royal College of -Edinburgh, and were instructed in the different branches of anatomy, surgery the theory and practice of physic, chemistry; midwifery, botany, eeC. by,those eminent professors, Drs. Munro, Gregory, flack, Hamilton, Duncan and Rutherford. We trust we shall not be deemed presumptuous in saying that our proficiency and acquirements are not inconsiderable. Having fora long series of years made Venereal Complaints, and the various diseases of Debility, the particular object of our studies and practice, it will, we hope, be allowed that we have acquired superiot know ledge of their treatment and cure. In slight and recent cases of infection a perfect re-establishment is completed in the short period of two days ; and in those of the utmost in. veferacy, where other practitioners have failed of success, a proper perseverance in our plan' of treatment ensures to the patient a safe and radical cure. Ainicist the melancholy variety of disorders which are the effects of a. habit long and most unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes, there are nine more alarming or more distressing than those deficiencies and debilities which fre. quently prevent or embitter the matrimonial state. To such peisons - it must be a consolation to know That they may now, by.a new' and infallible mode of treatment, be restored to that greatest of all human blessings, a squire:, manly, and •vigor ous constitution. In 'all cases of debility, from whatever cause arising, as well as in every species of venereal infection, we may be consulted by patients of either sex with thesreara est secrecy and honour. Hours olconsultation at home from ten to three, and fICIM 6 in the evening till to at night. Patients in the country are requested to state the particu a lars of their case, age, and general habit of living. &c. See. in. closing a remittance for advice and medicines, when the same will be given, or sent to an part of the kingdom. To ensure that secrecy so essential to our undertaking,: the:postage of Letters eiay be added to the account for medi CURRIE and Co. Surgeons, No. rey Hatton- g arden tZ - Messrs. Currie and Co. have Certificates from the above respectable Professors of London and Edinburgh, for tee diligence, skill, and humanity, with which they. per. tinned the c...ties assuanea them during the time they at tended their Lectures sad Yr-0110c. Opulent commercial houses, either present or well•served by vigilant agents, almost always fore saw insolvency in such time as to secure themselves. But old officers, widows, and orphans, in Europe could know nothing of the decaying credit of their Indian banters ; and they had no agents but those bankers themselves. They, therefore, were the vi6tims of every failure. The rich generally saved what was of little consequence to them, and the poor almost constantly lost their all. These scenes have frequently been witnessed in various parts of India. They have formerly occbrred here: On the death of one unfortunate Gentleman since I have been here, the evil was lather dreaded than felt. Soon after my arrival, I laid before the British merchants of this island a plan for the equal'distri bution of insolvent estates, of which accident then prevented the adoption. Since that acne the prin ciple of the plan has been adopted in several cases of Rawl or of apprehended insolvency, by a con veyance of the whole estate to trustees for the equal benefit of all the creditors. Some disposition to adopt similar arrangement's appears of late totarani fest itself - in Europe; and certainly nothing can be bt.tter'adapted to the present dark and unquiet con dition of , the commercial world. Wherever they are adopted early, they are likely to prevent bank ruptcy.' A very intelligent merchant justly obse rve d, to we, that under such a, system the early disclosure of embarrassment would not be attended with that shante and danger which usually produce conceal-• ment and final ruin. In all cases, and at every pe riod, such arrangements would limit the evils of bankruptcy to the least possible amount. It cannot, therefore be a matter of wonder that a Court of Justice should prated such a system with 'all the weight of their opinion, and to the utmost extent of their legal power. I by no meanspre,ume to Warne those creditors who, on the•first proposal of this experiment, with held their consent, and preferred the assertion of their legal rights. They -had, I dare say, been -ill used by their debtors, who might personally be en tided to no indulgence front them. It is too much to require of men, that under the influence of cru e l disappointment, and very just resentment, they estimate a plan. of public utility in the same manner with a dispassionate and disinterested spec tator. •But experience and reflexion will in time teach them that, in seeking to gratify a just resent ment against a culpable insolvent, they in t:4 :t direct • Iu - the seven years immediately preceding the last, which were chiefly in the presidency of .my learned predecessor, Sir William Syer,' there was a' very remarkable diminution of capital punishments. The average fell, from about four in each year, which was that of the seven years . before Sir Syer, to somewhat less than two in iach year yet the capital convilions were diminished about, one-third. The punishment of death i$ principally intended to prevent the more violent and atrocious crimes. from May, 1797, there were eighteen convic tions tor, murder, of which I omit two, as of a very particular kind. In that period there were 12 ca pital executions. - From May, 180'4, to May, 18 11, there were six convidions for murder, omitting one which was considered by the jury as in substance a case of manslaughter, with some aggravation. The mur ders in the former period were, therefore, very nearly as three to one to those in the_latter, in which no . capital punishment was inflicted. From the number of con v idt ions I, of course, ex clude those cases where the prisoner escaped, whe ther he owed his safety to defective proof of his guilt, or to a legal objection." cannot atfeci the justness of a comparative estimate; because the proportion of criminals whi escape on legal objec tions before Courts of the same law must, in any long period, be nearly the same, But if the two cases—one where a formal verda of murder, with a recommendation to mercy, was intended to represent' an aggravated manslaughter ; and the other of a man who escaped by a repug nancy in the indiatment, where, however, the tars were more rear manslaughter than murderi—be• added, then the murders of the last seven years will' be eight, while those of the former seven years will, be sixteen. This small experiment has therefore been made without. arty diminution of the security of the lives and properties of men. Two hundred thousand men have been governed for seen yepors without a c •pit .noniQhm-r, - •