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) 0 - 61 - / - v" 44, P <- • 1 """)' r( - • cl.) L) / • / 41,1 0 - A do„ 17 ), ( . - ' 4 )<: ' • - "e"' ri • sittk 4g? 11.0 1 ; 4 ~, 1 ~ r> ore taken THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S PACKETS leave the Cus tom-House or Tower— For CALAIS, every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sun day morning. For BOULOGNE, every Thursday morning. For OSTEND, every Tuesday and Saturday morning. For HAAIBURGH, every Saturday morning. For ROTTERDAM, on Saturday the 26th of July, and 9th and 23d August, at 10 o'clock in the morning. MARGATE, every morning at 10 o'clock, (Sundays ex cepte4.) RAMSGATE, every Wednesday and Saturday eiorn jug, at Eight o'clock. NEWCASTLE, every Saturday morning. And BRIGHTON, for DIEPPE, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Every informatics at Smith and Son's, Galley Quay, near the Custom-house; J. Norman, 1, Water-lane, Tower street; tnderwood's, 56, Haymarket; Middletrufs, 359, strand; Mr. Black, 62, Ship-street, Brighton; Mr. Carter, Margate ; Mc. Martin, Ramsgate ; Mr. Shield, Dieweaatl e ; and at the Office, 21, Crutched-Friars, London. Powerful Steam Packets always ready for Excursions, and for Towing Snips. the mo tile whole istress for ar. The VINTId* 14tI :lEiik S. he. On Thursda y, at a M eet i ng o f t h e F ree Vi ntners, at Vintners' H ill, t h e su bj ect of the Salo or Wine.; in Unlic ense d H ouses was taken into considm-atien, and resolutions were passed which will p7obably check the practice of lending the sanction o' free vintners to the retail of wines in houses which be long to other persons. It had been represented by the Committee of Tavern-keepers and Licensed Victuallers, of whom Mr. Bleaden, of the Loudon Tavern, is Chairman, to the Company of Vintners, that several members of that Company were in the habit of lending their narnes to persons unqualified in every respect to keep houses for the retail of wines within the walls; that individuals who chose to keep houses of enter tainment for people fv- late hours, were enabled to do so with impunity, by obtaining the loan of a vintner's name, which was to be had for a valuable consideration, and that the licensepl publican, who was obliged to subunit to the most annoying restric tions, suffered considerably in consequence of the facilities thus aflOrded to adventurers. It wni re presented that . such houses as mother IL's anti the Saloon, where women of the town and gamblers were in the habit of assembling, found no difficulty in procuring the aid of a Free Vintner, who made 3 license quite unnecessary, and the Licensed Victual lers were compelled, while such person s were re leased from all comparative responsibility, to bear the bil!etting of soldiers, and to have the common informer at his heels, at th e same time that h e danger of losing his lic e n se b y con g ht make a b eggar might tingency—an event that of him. wasperpleatually was dis- oust who. , that her --lanuary ern which 'or her to LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1828. No. I PRICE 7D. • lie denied ople, and to obtain Lore part', banged or are twins, wiotaking has now effect on very turbid water, and it appears to possess the two great desiderata of such contrivances, namely, to filter very pelfectly, and very rapidly." Mr. Br:Ale, tLe surgeon, corroborates every thing that has been said in its favour. He states, that having pro cured some of the foulest water his house afforded, and mixed with it a quantity of water impregnated with 9as from coals, he poured it into the Royal Filter; that it passed through it very rapidly, and was drawn off in a state of such purity, and so entirely free from. the odour and taste of the gas, as to be quite tit for being placed in a decanter on the table, to be drank during dinner. Dr. Scud:tmore says, he has made sufficient experi ments with the Filtering Apparatus to satisfy his judgment of its efficacy in rendering the most turbid water quite clear and agreeable, both to the eye and to the taste, and consi ders it a great improvement upon all others. Mr. Thomas, the surgeon, has had a Royal Filter placed in his cistern, and ever since the employment of it, has had the satisfaction to find his house regularly and abundantly supplied with clear and wholesome water. He considers that the introduction of it generally into families will be found highly conducive to the improvement of the health of the metropolis, by effectually arresting the deleterious impurities which exist in the water in its present state, and which he thinks, of late years, has tended to augment the catalogue of those anomalous disorders arising out of a morbid derangement of stomach and the other organs sub. servient to the process of digestion. Mr. Keate, the surgeon, considers it to be admirably adapted to the important purpose of purifying and clarifying water on a large scale, and that it would be a valuable ap pendage to every cistern. "It possesses," he says, " the great advantage of filtering all that is served into the cis tern, so that no unfiltered water can be used for domestic purposes; and the water thus filtered is beautifully clear." We trust we have said enough to draw general attention to the merits of a discovery so highly conducive to the cleanliness, comfort, aril health of the inhabitants of this thickly peopled metropolis. We shall only add, that the Apparatus may be inspected at the Office of the Patentee, Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelphi Theatre, where the public are invited to have ocular de monstration of the efficacy of this remedy. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Jur.v , 16, 1828. THE Principal Officers of his Majest Y Ordnance do hereby give notice, that they will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Tower, on MoNnay, the 11th, and TUESDAY, the 12th day s o f A UGUST next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, sundry Lots of OLD STORES, Comprising a quantity of Accoutrements, Pike Staves, Sand Bags, Iron Bedsteads, Mortar Mill, Clothing, Tools, Ohl Serge, Harness, Leggins, Powder Horns, Staves, Tents, Bedding, Hammocks, Sacking, Fustian, Harrow Teeth, Camp Kettles, Candles, Worsted Fringe, Bags and Sacks, Scaling Ladders, Glass Carboys, Paper, Barrack Utensils, Tarpaulins, and a variety of other Articles, the whole of which may be viewed at the Tower, at Wool wich, and at the Military Depot, in Tooley-street, as ex pressed in the Catalogues, during the week previous to the Sale, upon application to the Storekeepers at those places, where Catalogues of the Lots and Conditions of the Sale will be delivered to those persons who may apply for the same. (By Order of the Board), R. BYHAM, Secretary. had served in Egypt. I applied, but again I was doomed to diNappointruent, as they gave the the same answer as at Chelsea Hospital. 1 next went to Mr. Peel's foreman, and he told rue that some papers had been sent lately from Lon don to Lancashire, where was the house of Sir Robert, and, perhaps, mine might be amongst them. I subsequently received them, and I then applied to the War-office for some relief, but they said that such a length of time had elapsed, that it was of no use. Now, your Worship, what I would wish you to do is, to write a letter for me, and direct me how to act. ►despeeple )ice, can precisely discover CHARLES BESSELL, Secretary. Well, my poor fellow, said Sir Phu:Haan, I will write you this hitter, but I am afraid it will do you very little good. Sir Richard, after a short Cale, gave the poor sol dier a letter of; recounuendation to the War-office, and he retired with the greatest sati►fartioa, with a full persuasion of its proving successful. Qinta not eir giving Thursday. THE ROYAL FILTER FOR CISTERNS. THE HEALTH and the COMFORT of every Family are so immediately bound up.with the SUPPLY of PNRE and WIIOLESONIE WATER 11, their habitations, that, to use the words of Dr. Ure, tike eminent chemist and phyaician of Glasgow, " it can act but be an interesting object to ascertain the qualities that which is daily consumed by the inhabitants of lute cities ; seeing that a very minute portion of unwhole -4,11e nutter, daily takes, may constitute the principal cause !lA*/ diferescae is salubrity which are observable in ilif ltreat places." Irishniau, r* of Ber t children. reeived at keusatian, 'wilily had B. to 2!. a make her ~larly and a neigh +. few Ail -13 them in ight, aud, was under MAR YLEBONE- OFFICE. —Yesterday. Wm. Rick wood and Joseph Hopkins, were charged before Mr. Raw- LINSON, with felony. At a quarter before six o'clock on Sunday morning, Crocket, a watchman, saw the prisoners together in Dorset street, and knowing them to be old offenders, watched them. He waited but a few minutes before Rickwood re ceived a leg of mutton, from the hands of a third person, who was in the area of No. 13, and ran away. The watchman pursued him, and when he brought him back to the house, in custody, the third person had usczped, and_ had left a short ladder behind, which was let down by a cord into thesurea. Tkis prisoner• told the watchman it w.ss no robbery for the mutton was given to him. Hopkins ran away at the same time, and was secured by another watchman, to whom he said " I am not the right chap, and have nothing to do with the concern." Mr. Hunt, of No. 13, Dorset -street, came forward to complete the case. The leg of mutton belonged to Mrs. Stuart, a lodger iu his house ; he saw it on Saturday hanging up in the area, and identified it after it had been stolen. THE DUKE of ROVIGO'S MEMOIRS. Each Volume of the French Edition of this work, published by Mr. Colburn, at only 14s. comprises two volumes of the Paris Edition, which is advertised for sale in London at 205., the publiu'are, therefore, advised to be particular hi giving their orders for Mr. Colburn's Edition, to prevent the substitution of the more expensive one. N. B.—The Third Volume of this important work, ooutaining the sth and 6th of the Paris Edition, is now ready for delivery. 8, New Burlington-street, July, 1828. ESTATE OF JOHN WILLAN, ESQ. 41, in con morn to, )nth. A. 4 rate's pro a severe ALL Persons having any Claims upon the Estate of the late JOHN WILLAN, Esq. of the Bull and Mouth, are requested to send the particulars thereof to our office on or before the Ist day of Septem ber next, as the Executor will then snake a final division of the Estate.—Dated this 19th day of July, 1828. LYON, BARNES, and ELLIS, 7, Spring Gardens, Solicitors to the Executor. wry, and xton for a ct.—They Mr. RAwctNsos LIAM him if he did not think it hung . in a tempting place ?—Yes, your Worship, said he; and it was tempting mutton too. Important as this fact is, it is not the less true, that the Public attention PM never fully roused, until the appear 410e, about fifteen months ago, of a publication, called " The Dolphin ;" the object of which was to prove, that article, designated by the illustrious Dr. Mead as "the * dacie of all oar nourishment," war actually supplied to °ism in a polluted and unwholesome condition. The writer W* , threatened with prosecution, and his statements de °Low' to be Wee : a public meeting of the inhabitants of too western part ef the town nevertheless took place : hAns were presented to Parliament : and the result was, appointment of a Royal Cmlimission to inquire into the Ntate of the Supply of Water to the lUetropolis. 'The long and anxiously looked-for Report of the Com missioners has at length made its appearance. We have egrefully gone over the hundred and fifty folio pages of *high it consists, and we venture to aAsert, that a docu- Taint of greater importance has scarcely ever been laid } Wore the public. Upon the concurring testimony of valuay of ear most eminent chemists and physicians, facts of the most fearful nature are therein established, beyond 144 1 possibility of eontradiction ; namely, that the water drawn by the Companies from the river Thames, is sent L ako our cisterns in a condition impure and offensive in t he extreme—that it is loaded with decayed animal and legetrild e matters, the proceeds *fa hundred and forty-fire C ommon sewers—that it is strongly impregnated with the 4eisterions refuse of gas, colour, lead, and soap-works, drug lulls, and manufactories of every description—and that, in woJtequence of this mass of pollution constantly miring with it, it has become net only disgusting to the senses, but unit to be employed in the preparation of food, or for any domestic purpose. The three Ceaniseioners, Dr. Roget, Professor Brande, sad Mr. Telford, the eminent engineer, commenced their labours by requesting Mr. Wright, the individual who di rvalod the public attention to the existing evil, to furnish thorn With a statement of the alleged grievances, and te pout out the beet mode of obtaining information, as to the truth of the allegations contained in the petition of inhaleitants of the western part of the Metropolis to Parliament. In consequence of this request, Mr. Wright addressed to them a Memoir, which is annexed to their Report. This Memoir, together with the Evidence taken isefore the Counniesioners, contains a series of testimonials to the gross impurity of the Thames water, of which we shall here give a brief outline. All of them will be read With interest ; some with sensations bordering upon horror. Few would have credited the frightful facts, if they came in a lose questionable shape. IVIDE,NCE YP THE IMPLIILIIY AND INSALVBEITT OF THE THAMES WATER. StIrrLIED BY THY COMPANIPI. Sir Marry Halford pronounces the water bent into his house to be a filthy fluid, with which he is disgusted. Mr. Thomas, the surgeon, tells us it is saturated with de cayed vegetable matters, and other substances prejudicial to health. Dr. Hooper is convinced that such matters in the stomach greatly contribute to the production of that state of faulty digestion an impurity of blood, of which the inhabitants of the Metropolis are constantly complain ing. Mr. Keate, the surgeon, avows it to be his opinion, that it is so filthy and impure, as to be unfit for the break fast table and for culinary purposes, and that it adds so much to the other unwholesome constituents of bread, as to reader every meal injurious to the health of thousands. Dr. Turner asserts, that the water sent into his cisterns durin g the hot weather frequently became quite putrid; and Dr. J. R. Hume, of Curzon-street, has no doubt that the continued use •f it without filtering is capable of pro ducing deleterious effects. Dr. Yeateo says, that the Thames water is extremely hk. 4 i, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the great quan- C 44 7,0f filthy matters continually pouring into it from "trols4 1410Ders. He instances a disease which prevailed to • eery serious extent, which he had himself traced to the jaaptuities of the water for domestic use. Kerrison makes us acquainted with a fact, the pe '64lo sr which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. Ou in fecting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, he says he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ra latlagit sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine sad the Dolphin, loaded with no small portion of undivided . - floating filth . from privies ;" from which he concludes, " a considerable quantity of hunutn excrement, in a 4 4104kided and undecomposed state, actually passes into our ciata•ns." Dr. Somerrills, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, states ti* water to be very impure. "The tide," he sap, "stirs up the mass of impurity produced by all that is corrupti is the animal and vegetable world, together with the iitriious filth of gas and other manufactories, that con ataattiy flow into the Thames from Battersea down to Gravese&d." Alluding to the water supplied to his late residence in Hanover-square, he adds, "it was slot only irsquently, but generally, extremely impure, fatid, and Viusive ; that it deposited much mud, and often enough t render its colour blackish." Dr. James Johnsen, the author of the treatise on In d*stiou," pronounces the water to be disgusting to the sight, and the effluvia to affect the senses. Until he 9:Aaged hie residence he was affected with pain after tak pig his breakfast, which be attributes to the water. Lie Aites tLe fact of several young females who had been aiireeted with bowel complaints from the same cause. If they went out of town a few days, and drank other water, the oomplaint subsided, but often returned nu their again making this water. There was a scum on the surface of +t , !: water of an oily nature, and the deposit is immense. When his cisterns were cleaned out, the smell rendered the hares very uncorafartable. " We skeet'," says the Doctor, at the delicacy of the Hindu°, who slakes his thirst at Q't same tank where hie neighbour is sacrificing to (Iloacina ; but what :lan wa say to the delicate ci ti zens ° L . Westmi ns t er , w h o fill th e ir tanks and stomachs with w ater from th e Th ames , a t th a t very spot into which a 44 ndred th ousan d ckacse, containing every spec i es of filth t . !• 1 all unutterable thi ngs , a re daily disgorging their 1 ' 1 . 44 4! cod abominable contents. It is absolutely alit ° . 4 „ 44 ,. i ng ,.. thnt in these days of refinement, and in a Metro riu'o, whose inhabitants pridg them se lves en delic lt Cy and c '!'"oess, a practice should obtain, at which posterity will shudder, if they can credit it. A time vnist awe when the people will open their eyes to this scene of car "glen, veiled and concealed as it is by iron tubes and stove pavement'. It is probable that part of the iasalu hilly of the Metropolis, as compared with the couut,y, may owing to this cause." The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we shall refer, is; Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work on Diet. Ile pronounces the water to be impure and offen sive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come in. Large quantitie s of matter are mechanically suspended in it. Tire Company send in mud with the water, and then com plain that the cisterns are not kept clean. lie states, that a family whom h e attended last autumn were all ill, and he believes it arose Evora dri n ki ng t hi s wa t er . " A s a P h Y - S!elall," he says, " I cannot find twin; sufficiently expres_ sive of the awful effects it may be likely to produce upon the health, and even lives, of the inhabitants of the Me tropolis." And in the last edition of his work he goes 'till farther, and asserts, that if a remedy be not applied to the aril, "the ravages of some epidemic may be fairly glitioipated." We could adduce the corroborativ e testimony of many stAer professional men of eminence, if our space would 41 . 1 0 W us to do so : we cannot, however, conclude without `' r ug a short summary of the evidence of six individuals whose business it has been to watch the progress of the "mischief, and to trace it up to its source. Mr.. Mills, the engineer, tells us, that the Thames is neither more our leas than the common sewer of London, so far as it receives the contents of all the sewers; which on the nos th side are ninety-nine, and on the south forty six. The water taken up opposite some of the sewers at the time of discharge is nearly the substantive contents of those channels of human ordure. Mr. Joseph Evans has often seen the sewers discharging black slimy liquid, with gas , o il, dead animals, entrails from the slaughter-houses, and other filth too disgusting to name. Mr. Goodhugh, the fishmonger, says, that the Company's water is muddy and offensive : if fresh fish are put into it, they will not live more than six Lours, and turn a yellow colour. Mr. Butcher, a fish-salesman, states the water to be very bad, sad that he has known three parts of a cargo of eels to die by the gas-water passing the vessel. Mr. Newland, the master of a Dutch vessel, says; that out of 26,0001bs of eels, the cargo of two boats, only 9,0001b5. were marketed alive ; they became sick on being put into the Thames water, and soon died ; they changed colour, and became spotted like snakes. Another captain says he has known 3,000 weight to die in half an hour, and that if the water gets worse, they must give up the business. William and Thomas Hetherill, fishermen, state, that they have left off the business because it had left them off. They used to catch flounders, eels, roach, smelts, salmon, &c. before they were ruined. The water gets worse every year ; the cause is the gas: they could get plenty of dead flounders, but no live ones; hail seen the flounders put up their heiuls above the water, and if there was a bundle of weeds they would escape from the water upon it. Mad seen two thousand pound weight of fish die in an hour ; and when the wells were opened there was quite a stench, and oil on the top of the water. The last evidence we shall' quote from is that of Mr. Goldham, who has been yeoman at 'Billingsgate -market for twenty•five years. He says, he has known 50,000 smelts brought daily to Billingsgate, and 3,000 salmon in the season caught in the Thames. He adds, that they are now all destroyed, and this fishery gone; and this he attributes to the impure state of the water, from the refuse of the gas works, from all the common sewers running into it, and the steam-boats constantly stirring up the filth. He has seen 4,000 eels alive at night in the Dutch boats, and the next morning three-fourths have been dead.— Many fishermen have been ruined by the change. THE REMEDY, AS RECOMMONDID BY THE COMMISSIONERS. such is the picture—the faithful and frightful picture —of the condition of the water of the Thames, as supplied by the Companies to their customers. That the inhabit ants of the richest, largest, most populous city in the world—the seat of a more opulent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in any other metropolis—alrould, for so long a time, have been contented to have seen daily running into their cisterns, and to have used, for all do mestic and culinary purposes, a necessary of life, so loaded with all sorts of impurities as to be pronounced, by profes sional men of the first eminence, to be offensive to the sight, disgusting to the imagination, and destructive to health, is a fact that would not have been credited, and that ought not to have been credited, but upon evidence " strong as proof of Holy Writ!" That the Commissioners, with these facts before them, should terminate their labours without taking into consi deration the best mode of removing so crying an evil, was next to impossible. Prevented, however, by the limits assigned to their inquiry, from looking abroad for a purer source, they naturally turned their attention to the im provement of the supply at home; and the result of their labour's is the recommendation of a general system of fil tration—a system, not limited to the fifty-three thousand families daily drinking the filthy fluid of which we have been speaking, but extending itself to the hundred and seventy-six thousand tenants of the New River and other Companies, consuming the twenty-nine millions of gallons daily supplied to the Metropolis. " Although," say they, "the . New River water is not open to the same objectionable impregnations as that of the Thames, it receives the drainage of a large extent of country, is occa sionally very muddy, and is susceptible of much improve ment by filtration." Such is the remedy pointed out and recommended by the Commissioners. That those gentlemen did not consider it to be a perfect one, will appear by the following observa tion :—" It must," say they, "be recollected, that insects and suspended impurities only are separated by filtration, and that the purity of the water, as dependent upon matters held in a state of solution, cannot be improved by any practicable modification of the process. lf, there fore, it can be shown, that water taken from the parts of the river whence the Companies draw their supplies, either is, or is likely to be, contaminated by substances dissolved, or chemically combined, it will follow, that the most perfect system of filtering can effect only a partial purification." Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners were drawing up this paragraph of their Report, the patent for " The Royal Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious ordeal of office; for if the merits of this invaluable discovery had been submitted to their consideration, that Report, we are inclined to believe, would not have contained the assertion, that "the most perfect system of filtration can effect only a partial pusitis cation." The subjoined extract from a Prospectus, issued by the Proprietors, will be perused with the liveliest in terest by all who consider cleanliness to be essential to health, and the purity of the element of which we are treating, to be nearly of equal importance with the air we breathe:— " The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior to all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only possesses the power of clarifying the water in a pre-emi- nent degree, but also that of complete ptirification, ren dering the roost turbid, stagnant, and foetid water, of a crystalline brilliancy, depriving it of every noxious ingre dient, and, in fact, producing Nature's nectar' in the highest possible perfection ; that is to say, clear and des titute of taste and smell." " But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is the proof of all this to be found ? We must have something more solid and satisfactory than bare assertions." The fol lowing statement must, we think, set the doubts of the most sceptical at rest for ever. Mr. Hume, the respectable chemist of Long-acre, who has long been employed by Government in analysing waters, had two bottles of water sent to hint for analysa don ; the one full of all animal and vegetable matters in a state of decomposition, and strongly impregnated with gas ; the other, a bottle which had contained the same foul in gredients, but had been purified by the Royal Filter. In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-six grains and a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains consisted of impurities, and the remaining sixteen grains were the original ingredients peculiar to the water, and dis solved in it : " for," he observes, " there is no water, however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells, su perficial springs, or any other source, that is free from saline and other soluble salts, not at all injurious to health." In the filtered bottle he found only sixteen grains of substances, which, on examination, proved to be the same materials peculiar to, Lnd soluble in, the water in its pri mitive state, and perfectly free front the impurities and contingent foulness of the ?eater, occasioned principally by decayed vegetable matters, a slight impregnation by animal substances, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and carbonic acid "as. Mr. Hume concludes with bearing the following high testimony to the merits of this discovery : pt—hr specimenoAt e ne r e t a h V e e o, r , i cit, c careful n u ; oh i a ct o lei a analysis, / cannot hesitate to mostas beffeetetctaudaolp,teadndto filter deserving of public encon)agement." The same gentle man, at a subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says, " the opinion I had formed of this new process for filtering is ful l y confirmed." W e s h ould add, that the water thus analysed, although purposely strongly impreg nated with gas a nd other im purities, became cry s t a llised, and destitute of taste and smell. Thus it is clearly proved, that of the forty-six grains and a half of solid matter originally placed in the Royal Filter, only sixteen graham of substances passed through it ; an d deleteriousrvation of theto However Com missioners may apply to all for mer s y stems of filt ration , it w hi c h s ixteen grains are p roved to be p eculiar to water in te,4e.l. ermuch, primitive state,the therefore, e , no t t he db ata s l e l is gr ea tl y t o b e re gretted that, before the cl ose of their la boors, they had not the benefit of the preceding experi ments, and of the following striking testimonials to the excellence of •' the Royal Filter. Professor Brande, one of the three Commissioners ap pointed by the King, has had a portable Royal Filter, for the purpose of trying experiments on water in a similar condition to that described by Mr. Hume ; and lie has stepped forward with his ready testimony to the singular merits of this tti,scevery. 1 h ave ," h e says, " tried its S. to S. 52 Sti 50 52 31 35 44 51 5U 64 s. d. a. d. 49 58 7 6 8 0 50 5 6 00 80 00 0 41 50 5 6 00 12U 6 10 6 10d IY6 00 09 as well m 'ening, we yesterday lur►ng last rs is large river ; the .he day be quality has Jule prime Beane are vameut in I, are with' -many, the rmuch the t upon t/te. Jay parts o f Wheat re- fine CO, ri. tine 60. , e. tine. k ? ". a. fine w. ;. fine rs. >. tine r --6. i. tine --+>• I. tine s. tine Va. s. fine 430. g. tine ld®. s. tine Vss. per Stolle. per Load. per Load. • per Last. ..- - LT quarter s k 'wet with sold ; toP 'as in good ad overage Beans. 35s Od Cd T. 24 Oct_ cif wore saw • was larg e ' last (by , •, beat 36 4 . a urrent 245.. is. per qr. Beans. 3Gs 04 Us 04 1,04 9;. o Ils.—eati, I.—Oati, Lb. tit.—Oat id.--.oat.s. 8 o 10c—lice olt -Doti Oil. TOW. ewl Y 2,648 0 . 17 4 3 10 11Y1. epuhlii . were strip rorld, wool' y, without might hail lied to utolo It, Bath, t , Merle, oil Df Wray 14 Rohert rood Lodg e to Sir The muty. both .N. C.R. yd. Rector , it daughter " omas Jai" romley, Cauterb ur t irunnaoug ef ' rt Edward' Orti? of her fl' grab, wiJo th, aged 5‘ NG, at HAY AND CORN HARVEST. BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, No. 5, Tooley-street, ( who supplied the wkole of the Tents, Coverings, Flags, and Decorations, at the Horticultural Fete,) has now on hand a large quantity of SECOND HAND CANVAS, suitable for Rick Cloths, with Poles, &c. complete, at a very reduced price, and the whole are in Goud Preservation, having only been used a few days by the Horticultural Society, at their late Fete. Marquees, Tents, &c., of every description. Orders by Post to be addressed in full, Benjamin Edging• ton, 5, Touley-street, Southwark. PURSUANT to a Decree o f th e Hi g h Court of Chancery, bearing date the 27th day of June, 1828, made in a cause " FINLAY against MEL LISH," the Creditors of JAMES MILLS, of Fore-street, in the County of Middlesex, Ship-owner, deceased, (who died in the month of December, 1814,) are forthwith by their Solicitors to come in and prove their debts before SAMUEL COMPTON COX, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton-build ings, Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. STREET, MILLINGTON, and GILBERT, Solicitors, Philpot-lane. B URGESS' NEW SAUCE f or genera l purposes, having given such great approbation, and the demand for it continuing to increase, JOHN BUR GESS and SON beg most respectfully to offer this their best acknowledgment to the public for their liberal pa tronage of the same : its utility and great convenience in all climates has recommended it to the most distinguished foreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its re commendation.--It is prepared by them only; and for preventing disappointment to Families, all possible care has been resorted to by each bottle being sealed upon the cork with their firm and address, as well as each label baying their signature, without which it cannot be genuine. JOHN BURGESS and SON's long established and much-esteemed ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES, continues to be prepared by them after the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many years. Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of the Savoy steps, London. T e original Fish-sauce Warehouse. SUPERIOR CARPETS. CARTER and FAWCETT, No. 2, Cheap side, near Paternoster-row. An extensive variety of the most elegant and novel Brussels Patterns, of superior quality, much under the usual charges of the trade. a. d. s. d. Yard-wHe Kidderminster 2 0 and 2 6 per yard Do de......very stout 2 9 and 3 0 ----- Doand tine extra fill- perfine, new and elegant patterns 3 8 Yard-wideVenetian,for Bed-rooms 2 0 and 2 4. --- Do do all Wool 2 9 and 3 0 Do do extra quality - 3 6 Half-yard Stair Carpeting 1 0 and 1 3 Do do all W001...1 G and 1 9 ---- Half-ell and airee-quarters d0......2 0 and 2 6 The Royal Patent Damask Carpet, Heath Rugs of all Kinds, Druggets of all Colours, Floor Cloths, Moreene, and Table Covers in great variety, Feathers and Ticking, Blankets, Counterpanes, and Marseilles' Quilts, Window Hollands, Printed Baize, for covering tables, piano -fortes, &c. Dinner Mato and Doileys. ROYAL EXTRACT OF FLOWERS. THE extraordinary circulation o f th e a b ove article, and its very general adoption by the first ranks of Fashion, at the Toilette and in the Drawing-room, have stimulated the Proprietors in an endeavour to render it, in delicacy of scent and fragrance, equal, if not supe rior, to any description of Perfume for the Handkerchief. It is distilled from a combination of Flowers, selected for their excelling sweetness and aromatic properties, when those Flowers are in their fullest vigour. Manufactured and Sold by Rigge, Brockbank, and Rigge, Perfumers to his Majesty, 35, New Bond-street, in Bottles at 155., Bs., 5w., and 3s. 6d. The PERSIAN BOUQUET is also recommended to the notice of the Nobility and Gentry, as a pleasing, very powerful, and durable Perfume. DR. COURTENAY'S NEW WORK. This day Was published, price ts. AN HISTORICAL aria' PRACTICAL TREATISE on SYPHILIS, Gonorrhea, Gleets, Seminal Weakness, Strictures, Eruptions, and Nocturnal Pains, so frequently saistaken for Rheumatism. These subjects are illustrated by a variety of highly interesting cases, together with the Miseries of a secret Vice. so long and so unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes. In the one it will be found the unfailing source A Barrenness, the other have its ravages fatally developed by a distressing state of debility, which, if not timely remedied, terminates in Impotence ; these are its remote and ultimate effects, while Consumptions, loss of Muscular Power, and various Nervous Complaints, usually characterise the earliest stages of thin most destructive and insidioue habit, for the cure of which a mode of treatment, the result of long and success fulpractice,the Author. a'lato With concluding speedy, an d e ff ectua l , i s adopted concluding re mar k s on th e b y evils resulting from attempts at Self Cure. Prineipna obsta; sero methetna paratur. By C. R. COURTENAY, M. D. Robert -street, Adelphi. Printed for the Author : Published and sold by Suther. land, No. 9, Carlton-street, Edinburgh ; Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-row ; Onwhyn, 4, Catherine -street, Strand ; Walker, 90, High Holborn ; Chappell and Son, Cornhill ; 94, ; Brook, Al Opera 137,Aread Ox ford-s; k au r d d- :n t a r ), e ' et be ChandaPoPflea'll Booksellers in Town and Country. " Amongst the numerous Medical and Surgical Works of the day, we consider that written by Dr. Courtenay, on Syphilis, and other frequently fatal complaints, to be worthy of the highest encomiums, arid justly deserving the serious attention of all those persons who may unfortunately happen to be afflicted with the maladies which form the subject of this very interesting publication. The luminous views taken of these diseases, together with important warnings against excesses, entitle this work to great praise; and we may add, as a further recommendation, that it is written with much delicacy and morality.''_lnspes•tor and Literary Review. TO DENTISTS AND OTHERS.-NEW SYSTEM OF THE TEETH. GENTLEMEN desirous of Practising th e New Method of preserving the Teeth and Curing Toothache, without pain or extraction, are respectfully in formed, that they may receive the necessary instructions from the Inventor, Mr. J. P. CLARK, Dentist, 19, Percy street, Bedford-square. References will be given to many of the Nobility and Gentry, and particularly to eminent Medical Gentlemen and Dentists who have been cured ; ar to professional Gentlemen generally, who are invited to witness operations that must ultimately render Toothache and the loss of Teeth unknown. To save trouble, none need apply for instruction who cannot afford a suitable premium, and no written communication will be attended to unless postage free. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday an odd-looking fel low xvhosetsup:for a humourist, was brought before the LOUD MA vox by a Borough officer, upon suspicion, upon his own evidence, of having been concerned in the rob bery of Mr. Hatton, the watchmaker, at the foot of Lon don-bridge. The officer said that the prisoner told him he had some thing very heavy at his heart. " What is that ?" said the officer. " Why," replied the prisoner, " I was in the robbery at Mr. Hatton's. I know all about it, and I had 1001. for my share of the plunder." The officer, of course, upon hearing him persist in his statement, conveyed him to the watch-house, where he got more sober. The Loan MAYOR—WeII, I suppose yon slept yourself into an honest man ?—Prisoner—l was very drunk. I hope you'll pass over it. The LORD 31..v0n—" There's truth in the glass," the proverb says. I won't be so hard on you as to refuse to believe you, when you were in that hopeful condition. You must go to the Compter.—Prisoner—My Lord, I was only in jest. The Lour) MAYOR—No, no. lam sure you were in earnest. You would not tell a lie—you must go until the day after to-morrow. The prisoner then was taken off to cool in the Compter. GUILDHALL—A few days since Sir P. LAURIE re ceived a letter from a young man, named Alexander Grant, jun., dated from Heston Farm, near Acton, stating that be had been educated to the law in Edinburgh, but being compelled by ill health to relinquish a situation in the office of a Writer to the Signet, he came to London last .January in search of employment; and in walking through Ludgate-hill he saw a uotiu posted up, among a number of others, that a clerk was wanted. This was at Holta way and Co.'s land and estate agency office, and inquiring within, he found it was an office for procuring situations for the unemployed, and was told no information could be given until he Lad paid a fee of 10s. 6d., and had signed certain conditions. Net having heard that there was any trickery in such offices, lie paid the money, and was told he should have notice within a week of such situation as he desired. The week passed away without any thing transpiring, and he therefore called again at the office, when Mr. Holtaway told him he wanted a clerk himself, and would retain him at 255. a week, until he heard of something better, if he could lodge 201. in his hands as security, as he would be employed in collecting money. He closed with the offer, and by borrowing a little money from his uncle made up the required sum. After he had been employed two months, Mr. Holtaway dismissed him, promising to repay the money by monthly instalments, but Le had only obtained 31. He had received nothing since May, and when he met with Mr. Holtaway, he was treated with insolence, and told to do his best. He was not the only one that had been duped, for when he quitted the office there were twenty young men who had been taken in exactly in the same way. The writer had heard of Sir Peter's desire to do justice, and protect the public, and therefore begged to be afforded an opportunity to publicly expose Mr. Holtawav's s;,stent. Sir PETER, sent the writer notice that he should it at this Justice-room yesterday, and on taking th e chair asked if Mr. Grant was present? The young man appeared, and the Alderman having put some questions to him, sent Herdsiield, the marshulman, with a summons, requiring Mr. lioltaway's immediate attendance. Mr. Holtaway, a gentlemanly little man, was soon be fore the Magistrate, and Grant repeated the principal paints in the letter. Sir PETER asked complainant whether he had procured many situations for young men. " - Yrs," said defendant, confidently, " I can refer you to several.'' Sir PETER. said he had just beard defendant was an at torney, and had fora time carried on the notorious servants' office in the Old Bailey. Defendant admitted this was true. He assured the Al derman he meant to keep to his engagement by paying complainant 41. a mouth. Sir PETER. said if he did not, the complainant could in. diet him ; but the principal thing he was looking to was the public, and he hoped that through the medium of the pres 4, au end would be put to this system of obtaining advances." The defendant was then dismissed. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday an old soldier appeared at the office, and inquired if Sir Richard Birnie was present. Sir R ICHARD -Yes, my man, I ant here, pray what is the nature of your business with me ? Soldier—Oh, your Worship, I am glad of it. You must know, Sir, that my name is Jim Pollet, and that in 1801 I served in Egypt, under that gallant Colonel, Sir Robert Douglas, but being grievously afflicted with an inveterate disease in my eyes, the Colonel felt himself compelled to discharge me, with a strong recommendation. In my way house I went through Ireland, and stopped at Kihnainham Hospital, where I was attended by Dr. Rennie, who pronounced my disease to be an incurable ophthalmia. I consequently departed from the hospital, and came over to England, and went to an old master of mine, Sir Robert Peel (the father of the present Secretary), to ask his advice. lie desired me to send my documents, See. to his agent, who would endeavour to do something for me. I did so accord ingly ; but Le, I suppose, neglected to take any care of them, when I applied to Ch e ls ea H os pit a l f or a p l ace there, as, I was told that no documents had been received by them, and they of course could do nothing for me. Some , years after this, I perceived an advertisement in the paper, relative to some prize-money to be shared by those who Mr. RAwLlNsoti—Was it in good condition ?—Juit fit for cooking, your Worship ; it had been hun g three days. Mr. RAWLINSON-Can it b e produced?—Only the bones. Mr. RAWLINSON—Did you partake of it ?—No, your Worship, I had not the pleasure. Mr. RAWLINSON—«'e must not joke too far; my ob ject is to lay the property right in the indictment. Riekwood declared that the evidence was half of it false ; and Hopkins said it was entirely so. 3lr. RAWLINSON told them, the declarations ofprisoners like them, who had stood at that bar before, were not worthy of much credit : and he committed them to New gate for trial. Francis 'Welch, of No. 21, Fitzroy-market, plasterer, charged a lad named IVilliue Butler, with highway robbery. The complainant swore that Butler, who is the son of a butcher in the market, knocked him down in:Tottenham court-road, at one o'clock on Sunday morning, and took from his person 1/. 15s. which he gave to an accomplice, and that accomplice escaped. When the case was called for i❑ suceeion with other watch-house charges, the prosecutor did not appear, and reason was given to suspect that a compromise was in tended ; to prevent which, Mr. Ruwlinson ordered an officer to bring the complainant before him ; and after taking evidence to the above effect, he committed the prisoner to Newgate. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday an ellcrly man, with hoary and care-worn countenance, was charged with de serting his wife and children. Mr. Wbraiington, assistant overseer of St. Saviour's, stated, that if the prisoner was now willing to be removed to St. Martin's-in-the-fields, where he was understood to have a settlement, the parish was satisfied not to press the present charge against him. The prisener was perfectly willing to be removed. He had rented a house in St. Martin's-in-the. fields, in 1811. Since that time he had been in furnished lodgings. Shortly before that time (said he) I embarked my fortune in a newspaper, called the British Guardian, of which I was a proprietor and editor. In 1811 a libel unfortunately found its way into it, for which I was prosecuted, and sentenced to an imprisonment of three years. In 1614 I was set at liberty, and, being in complete want, I was obliged to support my►elf as an attorney's clerk, in which capacity I was engaged first by Mr. Price, and after wards by Mr. Woodmen. In 1516 I married my present wife, it being my second marriage, by whom I had three children, one of whom died last Saturday week. Mr. SWAHEY said, he had stated sufficient; and, having signed his examination, the prisoner was given to Gale, the beadle, with orders not to part with him till he had taken him to St. Martin's. TOOMEVARA OUTRAGE. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) The following statement is from one of the wit neAse6 examined upon the investigation. It will be seen that it is borne out by the certificate of the Ca tholic clergyman : " There — was a new fair here on that day, and a man sung ballads at the fair. The songs were in the praise of Mr. O'Connell, and I need not say they were heard with delight—a delight harmless and unoffending. All was quiet until about seven o'clock in the evening, when two policemen, named Hill and Kelly, sallied out of their barracks, and ordered the ballad-singer off. Some persons present said that as there was no treason in the song, the ballad-singer ought to be permitted to go en. The police insisted that he should not sing, went into the barracks, and returned shortly after, accompa nied by the whole party, with bayonets screwed on their guns. They charged the populace, and struck them with the barrels and ends of their guns. This occurred before a single stone was thrown, as proved by several respectable persons at the inquest yester day, and which I proved myself there. The po pulace then pelted them with stones, and, after a struggle on both sides for about five minutes, the police were repulsed to their barracks. When they got in they fired out through the windows. Hill and Kelly were stationed at the street door. The latter put one foot outside the door, deliberately took.aim at a fine young man, named Gleeson, and shot him under the left breast. A man employed by Mr. Bourne received a shot in his arm while standing inside a gate, and a poor woman received a ball in the thigh as she stood at her own door.— While the deceased, Gleeson, was carrying away on a man's shoulders, the windows of a policeman, named Butler, were broken, and those also of an apothecary, named Borne, from which two shots had been tired. This will be proved to-day. After about twenty minutes the work of slaughter ceased. These are the leading facts. " Capt. Wilson is here at the investigation. A servant boy of Mr. 11. Ryan, who was examined yesterday evening, proved most satisfactorily that Kelly shot the man, a►►d there are two more to cor roborate his testimony. It was likewise proved most satisfactorily that the police were the a ggres- I sors. "ROBERT MANN." " I certify the above statement to be true and correct. " CON. O'BRIEN, C.C., ToomeV•ar3." t strike zars(,e from struck on shore, be w water The influK of Irish labourers into this country this season is much less than usual ; the reason is, food i s so cheap and abundant at home. Potatoes are selling in the towns at one penny for 14 1 bti. we ight.--Leeds Mercury. the Duke of York Gravesend boat was off Wo o l w i c h CANNON BALL. —On the 24th of July, as her passage down, the persons on board saw a bail Woolwich, passedone o f under n h d e e h u e n r s , water, at a short distance from a brig, named Ev, It time, within 20 yards of the brig Jupiter. Thiser be inquired into, and prevented in future, ought to rwose llic a li ga w in e , re an fi d r s i struck any vessel, it might have sent her to, for it it had and if it had struck a steam-boat then insight, the bottom ; with 200 persons and upwards o❑ board, the destruction life might have been exce.ive. of tumult Aiorniny advertiser. The Company of Vintners requested that the Committee would collect whatever cases of the kind alluded to in this complaint they could find, in order that inquiry might take place at once into a matter of so much importance to a large body of their fel low-citizens. - The oath of the free Vintner ex pressly prohibits the loan 4 . 4 11 e privilege in. the following words, which the members swear to ob serve upon being admitted :—" Ye shall colour no foreigner's goods under or in your name, whereby the King or this City might or may lose their ete;- toms or advantages," —and some time ago a Furrnise having been made to the Master and Wardens of the Company, that menkkers of the Corporation h a d as free Vintners unwarily lent their names for retailing wines in other persons' houses or cellars, for the purpose of evading the Act, it was resolved —that the fine for every violation of the bye-laws expressly prohibiting such practices should be . 1 1. for every month during which the free Vintner per mitted such use, or rather abuse, of his name to be made. The bye-laws also contain a power for levy ing the said penalties by distress ; and also a power by disfranchisem en t f or keeping houses of ; and the Court of Assistants further resolved strictly to enforce and carry into execution the laws against every member of their Corporation offending against the same. The Committee of Tavern-keepers and Licensed Victuallers, with very little trouble, ascertained that several houses, amongst which were the two above_ mentioned, at one of which (Mother It's) the most miserable trash is vended at an enormous price, were kept open under the auspices of free Vintner., and as if they were the actual property of such per. sons. They made a return of about a dozen houses to the Company. The Court then came to a resolution to institute an inquiry, and summon before them the following persons charged with having lent their names to fo reigners (those not belonging to the Company) : T.A.Beale,Vintner, for the Royal Saloon, Piccadilly ; J. Carter, Vintner, for Mother It's (now Smart's, but still retaining the celebrated initial), &c. &c. &c. The consideration for which this favour is granted is generally 20/. or 30/. a-year, according to the stroke of Imsiness done. It appears that the Company of Free Vintners long ago declared, upon a representation of this grievance to them, that they would disfranchise those who should persevere in cloaking persons who were not amenable to the Magistrates, and we are given to understand that this course has been adopted towards some of the offending parties. The attention of the Court was particularly drawn to the evidence given before the Select Com mittee of the House of Commons upon the Police of the Metropolis, by Sir Richard Birnie, in which the Magistrate censured the misapplication of tln. privileges of the Vintners' Company, and stated that great mischief was caused by such practices. I‘ is not meant to rank amongst the class of per sons by whom such houses as those frequented by prostitutes, gamblers, &c. are kept the names of many who have adopted the plan of retailing wines under the names of others; but the Tavern-keepers and Licensed Victuallers complain that fair play is denied to them by allowing others to sell with im punity in the ve r y teeth of the Act of Parliament, to the prejudice of the regular traders. A HAPPY CHANGE. At the Armagh Assizes, July 24, Brien 0' (a stout young fellow, aged, apparently, about 3.5 years) was arraigned on several indictments—fur riot, burglary, assault, and also for forcibly carrying away Bridget ill`Farlan, from her father's house at Loughgilly, on the Gth of June last. The prosecutrix, Bridget M`Farlan (a steady, clever-looking girl, but who refused to tell her age) was examined by Mr. Hall :—She deposed that she lived with her father and mother, in the townland of Ceromannon, in this county. She was in her father's house on the night of the 6th of June. Had been in bed some time, when she was awoke by the noise of a number of men, who forced open the door and demanded the witness. Brien O'Neill was one of these men, and he took her (prosecutrix) away with him, whether she would or not. She walked part of the way, and rode the rest with him. (Here she turned round towards the prisoner, and a snide of recognition passed between them.) Counsel—Have you known him before? Yes, Sir. Were you ever before in his company?--Yes. Sir ; I went with him before, of my own accord, to be married. Well, and he didn't marry you ?—No; be wouldn't take the fortune my father offered. . ~ Baron 11I4CLELLAND—Did you go N l t rre t ‘e l v i i a prt t euhd n t .iaNgvlistitot stop to willingly that night ? . , , would , f • I , as afoul tfie3 ° abuse my Prosecu.rix— IN y father and mother. ritrf a" roro s o : milte lPh i Nu ill i , S ayh elr et a'd r i e ° hi rds- ?.t t e .eo l if. i c .l i f , l : l , dlu eeib le i u sla se t yr ,ant e r l o ira i no usd i ' ,. l t a oetla l k‘ddllmin.i'ee'e'sjil:e‘i(‘ tirilig:err(elibnirolYiealf.:aluohl..ileppr'ti9r.udyni:ll.ena:.tlilh4'liiii'aeleiNntcr:roi.eiloiSfeitti3rlpjltiltdiairlll°lireosyoloaolll,it.lnsateoohorn t o o t b l e t ' ft . . e - , o e i; u l ' ,:t o• note ? - t il l: a' li m .fahs l efi r lt r Pl : ll( a i h i '' ) lll , . d e Had h : L :oe o tAi r c : of i e s tieei h sdr i t i: tittihieteadhtleafanoplis.. summonedsoine t im e . the attendance between the a verdict o f (4 p4rte e ige o su f l;a i r te m at a l r v ri a a n ge h i o il u id r, b ll e l e r m .l s V ol a e l m ig n h is a e r d - Acquittaoln.”which the Baron directed raptured b r id e. the gaoler to the open arms of his en- The stamp-office for this district we believe is tol. opened this day, in St. James's-stree. We are glad the distributor has been fortunate enough to obtain rooms in a situation so very central, and so convenient for the public.—Sheffield Courant of Friday. As HANNAH WESTBURY, Of this town, was on her way to Loughboro.ugh one day last week, she w a s attacked, when within three miles of the latter place, by a fellow, who took away her basket. The girl pursued him, and, notwithstanding a heavy blow or two, succeeded in recoveriw; frer property. She also get the fellow's stick away, and thrashed him till be cried for mercy.,.—Notting ham Pim urg ,