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\ \\l 1 • kJ4 'IT N .•- • . N. / z , t 7 . PO' TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1825 WILLIAM WATERHOUSE, CARRIEIt IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY. SWAN WITH TWO NECKS, LADZAI;IE,, GENERAL COACH OFFICE.—DOVER, DEAL, RAMSGATE,MAR GATE, & CANTERBURY PATENT COACHES DAILY. THE following ROYAL MAILS and POST COACHES depart from and arrive at the abofe Inn : HOLYHEAD New Mail, through Stoney Stratford, Tow cester, Daventry, Dunchurch, Coventry, Birminhatn, Wolver hampton inffnal , Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Llangollen", Corwen and Bangor, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. LIVERPOOL Royal Mail, through Dunchurch, Coventry, Coleshill, Lichfield, Newcastle and Congletou, every Even ing at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. BRISIOI., Royal Mail, through Reading, Newbury, Marl borough, Caine and Chippenham, every Evening at halt past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. • • BATH and EXETER Royal Mail, through Devizes, Melk sham, Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, and Collumpton, every Evening tit half past 7, Snnslays 7 o'clock. • PLYMOUTH Royal Mail, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. EXETER Royal Mail, through Salisbury, Blandfard, and Dorchester, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. -FairmouTui Royal Mail, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. MANCHESTER Royal Mail, through Northampton, Har borough , Leicester, Derby, Ash bourne, Leek, and Macclesfield. every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. BIRNIINGHASI New Mail, (in 13 hours), through Stoney Stratford, Daventry and Coventry (the nearest Road by 10 miles),,every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. CARLISLF, ;Ind EDINBURGH Royal Mail, thro' Charley, Preston, Garstang, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7. CHESTER New Mail, through Salop, Ellesmere, and Wrexham, every Evening at half. past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. KIDDERMINSTER New Royal Mail, through Birming ham, Dudley and - Stourbridge, every Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. NORWICH Royal Mail, through Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich, ever' Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock. MILFORD HAVEN Royal Mail, through Cat diff, Swan sea, Carmarthen, and Haverfordwest, crery Evening at half past 7, Sundays 7 o'clock,. _ LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 7. PROTECTION OF INFANTS.-MOORS T 2. FITZGIBIISN. This was a motion arising out of a series of law proceedings of the same nature as the case of Wellesley v.' Beaufort, (re ported in our Paper of yesterday).—The plaintiff' had ob tained damages against Colonel Fitzgibbon for criminal conversation with his wife, upon ' which followed a suite of divorce with an Act of Parliament which passed in the last ses sion. Mrs. Moore and Colonel Fitzgibbon immediately inter married, and took the children, issue of the former marriage, under their protection; the plaintiff; their legal father, disown ing all natural right or participation in their being. Colonel Fitzgibbon settled upon them 6,600/. of three per cents. for their education and maintenance, on certain conditions, whi c h excluded for ever the ex erc i se o f ? any paternal authority over them. The plaintiff havin g left them under the care of one of their natur a l, p arents (or both, as he professed continually to believe), now sought to recover his right of authority over them, and had obtained a habeas corpus 'writ for that purpose,_ which it was the pu r p ose o f t hi s app li cat i on to interrupt. The affidavits in support of the motion set forth many strong expressions ased by the plaintiff in the hearing of the witnesses, importing that he did not believe the children, two in number, to be his, but that they were 31r. Gitzgibbon's—the third and youngest he absolutely denied, upon sworn proof, to be his—that his ob ject in seeking to recover them was to annoy the parties who had wronged him, and that his intention towards the children was to bring them up with a mean low education, to cut the boy off with a shilling, to get the girl married to a farmer's son, and give her a cabin fortune of about 1001., and so forth. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Wakefield, and Mr. W. Brougham supported the motion. Mr. HART was partly heard on the other side. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he could not stay longer at present, but would hear the remainder of the argument to morrow. Undoubtedly he ought to know from Mr. Hart's client what he meant to do for the children. Ile was the legal father, and in the view of the law owed them at this moment the duty of adequate protection. Was he prepared to answer for the full performance of that duty ? If not, the Court, as their guardian, must do the best they can for them. His Lord ship observed, that formerly the House of Lords took upon itself in bills of divorce to make all the children illegitimate. The subject underwent revision; was well argued by Lord Thurlow in the Upper House, and still better argued by Mr. Fox in the House of' Commons. It was then denounced to be a grievous hardship that the Court of Parliament should undertake, incidentally to another proceeding, to de cide upon the status of a child or children not before the Court, and having no one to defend them before the Court.— Experience had shewn, in a celebrated peerage case especially, that•the new rule was the best as well as the most. equitable. —He repeated what he had said before, that it was a delicate matter for the jurisdiction to interfere with the claim of paren tal authority. But if it could be shewn that the duty of pro tecting children was slighted or disowned by their legal parents, the Court must grant the power of protecting them to the parties who would undertake that responsibility... , -Further hearing to morrow. VICE-CHANcELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 7. This being the first day 'of term, his Honour the Vice-Chan cellor took his seat at one o'clock. The Court was afterwards occupied with motions of no general interest. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 7. lIAINE r. WELDON. This was an action finr slander, tried before ,the Lord Chief Justice, at Guildhall, when a verdict was fciund for the plain tiff, on counts of the declaration, alleging that the defendant had said of him, " lie is forsworn," without alleging that the words had relation to any judicial proceeding in which the plaintiff had been examined on his oath. Mr. GURNEY now moved fora rule to show cause why the judgment should not be arrested, on, the ground that the words did not neeeswily import any charge of legal criminality, and referred to 6 Term Reports, 651, *here the point had been tle. cided.—The Court granted a rule to show cause. TILE KING P. HUGHES. Mr. CAMPBELL moved for a rule calling on Mr. Hughes, of Stafford, to show cause why an infivmation, in the nature of a quo warranto, . should not be exhibited against' him for ille gally exercising the functions of Mayor of that borough. By the charter, the Mayor ought to be elected by the aldermen and capital burgesses, each body consisting of ten, and con scquendy a majority of each integral part of the corporation was necessary to render the election valid. At Mr. Hughes's election there were present ten capital burgesses and four alder men, so that thOugh there was a majority of the whole num-. ber, there was not a Majority of each portion.—The Court granted a rule to show cause. HABEAS CORPUS. Mr. ADOLPHUS moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus to bring up the body of a child, the name of which he did not think it at present necessary to mention, which was born seventeen mouths before the elopement of the wife of the Gentleman, upon whose behalf he now moved. 'Mr. COMMON SEHJ :ANThet; said that he must beg leave to inform the Court, that at that moment there was an applica tion pending before the Lord Chancellor to make this child a ward of Chancery, and he therefore trusted the Court would not make any order until the decision of the Lord Chancellor should be known. AnoLPIIUS said he moved on behalf of the legitimate father of the child, and he did not understand why the applica tion of a third party to make the child a ward of Chancery should have any influence upon the opinion of this Court. This case had been before the Lord Chief Justice, at Cham bers; and he had directed that the child should be placed in the hands of a third party, in consequence of a return having been made to the writ of Habeas Corpus by the mother of. the child, and her paramour, " that the child is the child of us, and in our possession:" The child was now in the possession of a third party, and the father of the child now applied to.the Court that it should be brought into Court to be handed over to him. The Coststoar SERGEANT—The child is now in bed ill with the measles, and cannot be brought before the Court. Mr. ScARLETT said he was instructed to support the motion made by Mr. Adolphus; and as lie b e lie ve d th e on ly o bj ect o f the parties interested was to deprive the legitimate father of the possession of his child, he should press their Lordships for a writ of Habeas Corpus. Mr. BRortGliam addressed the Court on the same side. After some further discussion the ,Court granted a writ of Habeas Corpus, 'directed returnable to-morrow to the party in whose possession the child was. THE KING V. STOKES, This was the rule for a criminal information obtained by Sir George Chetwynd, against the British Truly'BlT, which stood to abide the event of his rule against the British Press, which has been so largely discussed and on which no decision has been given. The case stood for to-day in the peremptory. paper, and Mr. Brougham appeared for the defendants, but the Lord Chief Justice observing that no decision had been given on the principal case, it was passed over. From the silence of the Court on this long agitated question, it seems probable that the Judges are ..livitkd in opinion. PREROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 7. Nothing but common form business was transacted this day, and the Court rose before 11 o'clock. LORD MA YOR'S COURT, Nov. 7. , - - LAWSON AND BARKER V. THE TRUSTEES OF THE . BRITISH STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Mr. Bot.i.AND stated to the Jury, that the plaintiff's in this case were highly respectable newspaper agents; that the de . fendants were Lieutenant General Sir William Congreve, Bart. Sir J. S. Lilly, Charles Mayne, ES+, Edward Walpole, Esq., and another Gentleman, and that the garnishees were Messrs. Freres, Ward, and Co., of Lombard-street. The present proceeding was instituted to recoved the sum of 2071. 11s. for advertisements inserted by the plaintiff's for the defendants, who were trustees of a new company, called the British Steam Navigation Company. l'he Learned Counsel feared that his friend Sir W. Congreve engaged, when lie entered upon this speculation, in an ,unprofitable and unfor., tunate job. The company's funds had been placedin The hands of the garnishees, where they remained, as it would be proved in evidence, to the amount of about 1,7201. and he thought there could be no question of the responsibility of tho se trustees.. It - did not signify whether the company was or was not 'at wOrk.::-- All that it was necessary to show was, that the money was in the hands of the bankers, and that the plaintiffs' was a bona fide claim. _ _ _ A Clerk in the banking douse of Messrs. Vere and ‘Vard de- f ~.: 9,6 „ 7, '1.`3110. • Pnrcn SEVENPENCE: posed, that Mr. Ward was a partner in the banking-house of Messrs. Vere, Ward, and Co. Mr. BARNARD, for the defendants, asked in whose names the of the British Steam Navigation Company stood Adding, that he knew it did not stand in the names of those in., dividuals, nor in the names of any individuals at all. The witness said, it stood in the names of the five individuals mentioned as trustees. :11r. BERNARDLIIWe you got the books here ? Witness—No; I was not required to bring them. Mr. BaturAnD___lteal/y- this is quite a surprise upon me.. I know it is not mentioned in the bankers' book that the money ' is in the names of those individuals. and I deny their responsi bility. The account is merely on account of the trustees, with out naming them. Mr. ROLLAND—Suppose what you state to be the fact, contend that the defendants are responsible, and that the mo ney can be attached. I am. willing to give you the utmost.lati , tulle. Who are to draw the money ? Messrs. Vere and Ward must, when the Company was about to open its account, have asked and arranged in whose name it was to be drawn, if it were for no other purpose than that of preventing tbrgery. Air. Fi AliNAßD—Gentlemen of the Jury, I am, as you per 1411A,Pilltikka,greatest _of diflicultielu but I sliall„submitAkt., case to your judgment and experience. It is obvious, that, if three of the Directors signed a check, the money could be drawn ; but then the Secretary must countersign the check.— When the account was opened, it was opened in the name of the British Steam Navigation Company, and placed to the credit of the trustees, whose number was not known. I donut, at the same time that I state this, accuse the clerk of intentional misrepresentation. The RECORDER—The plaintiffs' witnesses have sworn that the money lies in the banking-house, in the names of those five directors, whatever may be their character. They were not within the jurisdiction to be served with a process, and there fore resort was had to this Court, whose privileges made theM liable. There is nothing more positive than the proof. The Learned Counsel - has certainly impugned it ; hut I am sure that he would not give his oath to the truth of his contradiction. The Jury immediately returned a verdict fur the plaintiff for 2071. Ils. LONDON ) OPORTO AND LISBON STEAM-PACKET 3 NAVIGATION COMPANY. WILLIAMS V. CURTIS. Mr. BOLLAND stated that this action was .brought to ob tain the sum of 91. is. 6d. which had been obtained in rather an extraordinary Way. Mr. Williams was a stock-broker, and Mr. Curtis was one of those gentlemen who occasionally did business in Capel-court, which is better known by the the his Alley. By y a some lettei m d e i r a e n e s ted or t other t A s l t r o . ck C u E r t x i g n o a r e in o to f s Ex change, to a gentleman named Sweennan. This letter commu nicated the intelligence that five shares were allotted to Mr. Sweetman in the abovenamed Company, and was sgned by the Secretary, Mr. Norton. Mr. Curtis sold this letter in the' market, and it was afterwards ascertained that be was not jus., tified in doing so. Mr. Williams applied to Mr. Curtis upon the subject, and a correspondence commenced, in which Mr. C. observed, "he hoped Mr. Williams and he would walk up Capel-court, arm-in -arm, as friends, and then the world would see that they were friends; that Mr. Williams had done his credit much injury in the city, but that he hOped and trusted all would be right again." This letter concluded with an ap pointment, upon which occasion the amount of. the money re.' ceived for the letter was to be paid. The facts were proved by Mr. Frederick Williams, die plaintiff's brother, .and Mr. Sweetman. The RECORDEn, in his charge, said, that no case could be more palpable than this. Whether there were ever shares in this company could not be 'ascertained from what had taken place, but it was evident that the plaintiff had, upon the belief that Mr. Curtis was authorised to sell the letter, paid the sum stated to have been given. It was also stated that Mr. Curtis had promised to refund the money which had thus improperly got into his possession. With regard to those companies, he wished it to be understood, that if persons received money. upon the pretence that there were shares'existing, while, at the same time, there was no ground for saying so, they might consider themselves very well off if they escaped without being prose cuted for receiving money under false pretences. fie also ex pressed a hope that the parties to the numerous frauds which had been lately practised in speculations of this kind would be . severely punished. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff, to the fulliamount of his demand. - , 4 , 7 - 9 -44 ,.., - 4 7 L' 1 1 . , 4 't, _ziA. , , ‘ •;-.:Y:, -,.----;.--- , ,•„. POST COACHES. The BERKELEY HUNT leaves Lad-lane every Morning at a Quarter past 5 o'clock, through Maidenhead, Henley, Oxford, Witney, Burford, North Leach, to Cheltenham, in II hours. Passengers and Parcels are for Warded by this Coach, without delay, to Woodstock, Shipston, Stratford, Gloucester, Tewksbury, Worcester, and all parts adjacent. DERBY New Light Day Coach, The Union; tin 15 hours, and driven through by two Coachmen only), -through Dun stable, Woburn, Newport, Northampton, Harborough, and Leicester, every morning at half past 6 o'clock. M.INCilEtifF,ll. New — Light POst Coach; The Regulator, through Dunstable, Woburn - , Newport, Northampton, Har borough, Leicester, Lolighborough, Derby, AshboUrne and Buxton, at a quarter before 4 o'clock. 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ROYAL COURT, GUERNSEY, SATURDAY, OCT. 29. v.ZOFFANY. This was an action instituted against Mrs. Cecilia C. E. Zoffany, wife of the Rev. Mr. Horne, for having concealed Laura E. Horne, her youngest daughter, against the sentence of the Court, which ordered that the said L. E. Horne should be given up on the Ist of September last, to the said Mr. Home her father. On Saturday, the 22d instant, Mrs. Horne was produced at the bar to be tried, but owing to the absence of two of the wit nesses, the Crown officers demanded a week's delay. This day the prisoner re-appeared ; the Court was crowded to an excess, in order to hear this novel and interesting trial. The following witnesses were then called and sworn : Mrs. Lihou.—Mrs. Horne lived at my house. The police placed two guards to watch over the chilli that it might not be taken away. I heard the child's voice on the night of the 30th August; the child was to be given up to the police on the fol lowing day. It was impossible for the citildlsiebsconti with out the knowledge of the mother ; Mrs. Horne has never offer ed me any thing to conceal the child. S. Toy and A. Gallienne, who we're placed as guards over the child, could not account for its absence. - Peter Lihou said he was oared 1501. by Mrs. Home to con ceal the child, which he refused. He went to Serk at the re quest of the prisoner, to ask Joe to, take the child, for which journey he received, 20s. from Mrs. Home. Miss Lihou deposed to having heard the child's voice on the night of the 30th of August ; she apprehended something, and warned the guards, as the latch of Mrs. Horne's bed-room door had been taken off; she does not know how the child was car ried away, but the mother must have assisted. (Mrs. Horne, during the evidence of the witnesses, made several-remarks, and was reprimanded by the President.) Advocate Callan, who pleaded for Sirs. Horne, stated that this case was novel and solitary on the records of this island— that a flaw appeared in the action, as it should have been en tered differently, arid hoped the Court would take the whole in consideration—and that the evidence produced was not to the point, no person having seen Mrs. Home assist in the child's flight. - Mts. Home then addressed the Court in the following man. ner : " Gentlemen—lt is not as a guilty woman, or as a suppli cant for mercy, that 1 appear at your bar this • day. I present myself before you with that tranquillity Of soul which ever accompanies those. who arc void of offence ! The officers - of the King havacchurged me with crime as guilty of contempt towards this honourable Court. This, in fact, is the founda tion of the present action against me; but I trust to prove, in a few words, the falsity of this accusation. In fact, gentle men, so far from a failure of respect, I protest I feel towards you the greatest deference : for can I be ignorant that, as re: presentatives of our most gracious Sovereign, you are here to hold, with impartial balance, the scales of justice? But I must be allowed to inquire of this Court Royale, how they cupid possibly construe into a disrespect towards theMselves, the firm refusal of a mother to submit to a separation from her child ? The law of God—the law of Nature—forbids it ! Are they not to be allowed their irresistible claims ?' Gentlemen, had the King, my master an d your's, demanded at my hands so cruel a sacrifice, I had refused t oo b e y ! NVithout doubt you are ' too equitableto mistake for contempt of your laws that mater nal affection which is written by the hand of Nature in in effaceable characters upon the heart of a fond mother ! It com mands her to sacrifice all, sooner than suffer her child to be torn from her arms ! I trust I have now proved lam guilt less of this supposed crime ; and I am satisfied that this Court will feel happy in being spared the painful, as well as novel, situation of finding itself at once the accuser and Judge ! I now proceed, gentlemen, upon the same grounds, to prOve that I did not violate my word ; and that you cannot, without injustice, punish me fOr the disappearance of my little girl.— Surely, gentlemen', you cannot forget, when pitying my din tress, you did honour to your own kindly feelings by assuring me thdt I should be free from the surveillance of the police, if I only pledged my honour for the safe delivery of my child, on the dayyou should appoint. When I look slund this crowded Court—when I recall to my mind the false representations which some (to answer their own mercenary purpoSes) have industriously eiteulated,'l feelit an imperious duty to again re peat the answer I then .mitde sots. It was to this effect :—` Gen tlemen, I thank you for the confidence you are willing to place in my word of honour. I will instantly prove to you I deserve your good opinion. I will not forfeit my integrity, though by so doing I might secure to myself the child I value more than my life ? Ask your own hearts—look back to history, and tell me, did you ever hear or read of a woman, who deserved that name, that would not, for her lover, husband, or (what is far more dear) her child, brave all dangers ? Place, therefore, what uard you please ; for as I li ve , were i t i n my power, I would-win my way with her through ten thousand guards !'— Such was my honest answer, gentlemen, in the hour of dis tress, anguish, and agitation. N'ou know it was. it is not only of you, but of the public I demand if my oath on this sub ject can now be doubted ? Mt Ido not wish to dwell longer upon this incontrovertible point; I feel the conviction, that what I have offered to your consideration has penetrated all hearts; and I see confusion and shame covering the counte nances of my calumniating slanderers ! In fact, gentlemen, (merely by way of argument), we will suppose, for an instant, that an all merciful and divine Providence granted to my earliest prayers an ark of safety, in which the child of my tenderest affection was wafted to a land of security, could you, with any semblance of justice, punish hue ? Did I accept the charge of her ? No ; you know I did not, Gentlemen. By your orders, both I and my daughter were surrounded night and. day by the police ! It', therefore, you deem me worthy of punishment for having so well fulfilled my duty as a mother, wkly.& you not reward those who so carelessly performed the character of guardians ? I trust that there needs no further argument to prove—lst, That I never agreed to part with my child ; f-'dly, • That 1 never offered the slightest disrespect to this Court; and idly, Above all, I am sure there is not the slightest occasion :n remind you, that I have already (only on suspicion) suffered above two months' incarceration !!! I am certain • there is not one present who does not feel - that the puniShment has far ex ceeded the supposed fault. I will not state to you what I have endured in the past two horrible months of imprisonment. Aly aim is not to excite your pity—much less your compassion ! I ask no favour, I claim only justice ! Gentlemen, I doubt • not I shall find it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not avoid stating that the action against Mrs. Horne should have been entered in a different manner, and produced several precedents in support of his arguments; but declared that Mrs. Horne could, not withstanding, be tried on the accusation which was clearly proved against her. The learned gentleman then proceeded to examine the evidence, and declared that the prisoner was fully convicted of disobeying the order of the Court ; but that, under all circumstances of the case, taking into consideration the long incarceration she had already sustained, concluded that she should be fined a fortnight, and condemned to the costs. The Com wrnoLLEtt, in a long and able speech, which lasted upwards of one hour, produced sev era l l aws w hi c h tbrbad the taking away of children from the hands of justice— that the child in question was in the hands of the Court—but that, at the request of the prisoner, the Court granted her in dulgence, and ordered that the child should be given up on the Ist of September- last—that he was not for granting that indulgence, as the Court should have given up the child to Mr. Horne, the father, but the Court did not think proper to adopt his conclusions. He, thereforE, contended that Mrs. Horne was guilty of contempt of Court—that the evidence pro duced was very satisfactory and beyond doubt —and concluded that Mrs. H orne should be imprisoned fbr a fortnight and con demned to the costs. The PRESIDENT having summed up the evidence, and dwelt upon the nature of the offence of which Airs. Home was guilty, the Court condemned her to 15 days' imprisonment, and to the costs. Applicdtion is to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Sess;on for leave to bring in a Bill for making and maintaining a navigable Grand Ship Canal, from the River Thames within the Port of London, to Arundel Bay and Ports. mouth, to commence at Cherry Garden stairs, Rotherhithe. A discovery has recently been fna(le of a num ber of valuable manuscript letters, written by highly distin guished individuals, and other copious documents, relating to an interesting period of our history. They are likely to be published under the title of the" Twysden rarers," v " N UMBER. 10,346 vi (.7 U . tI ,L I giivcg, act.vB, 1825. 1111 R C OMMISSIO7VERS for VICTUAL_ 41 : v° "i 3 iILIJESTY'S.NAVY, ere.. do hereby give 4 '07 -,L that on Thursday, the 17th November next, tkey tre at read y to receive 'fenders in writing (sealed up), and .ior 'ul , Ply (on sepnrate Contracts) o f all such quan d_ . 14 I SP. PROVISIONS, including .RUM,. as may be Vi ew ed for . the use o f Hi s M a j e .ty's Ships and Vessels at b ee 41'4 under mentioned, from the Ist January to the 31st 4en e k&er 826, i nc l us i ve, G1.G1., 4 7 Londonderry and Lotighswilly 1% 1 41 °4 Leith, Leith Roads, and the Mo wn Frith of Edinburgh 7,4ec and Dubli n And Liverpool. °T 6 , l ition s of the Contracts ?nay be seen at this Office ; z iwiti m PP 'ng to the S ecre t ar y t o th e POstmaster-General at Noe,: f ' ? the Collectors of the Customs at each of the other p. A . .. ... 4), (/ QC- Ptlt'ler must specify the Price in words al length - , 4446 e „ (I , ell ' ier ed before One o'Clock on the day appointed, Ni e t4 „ l '' to a ccompanied by a Letter signed by two respon -("erso, .„ . - bound with the Party e- qeti„ i- 2 engagtny to become ~ - g, in the Penal SuM-q . rm ce of , 500/. fur .the due peifo T he ac h of the Contracts-. 1 , P e ,.. Person On his 'lea • '° 4 who mahes the Tendcr, or some i ' ni u't attend to answer when called rm.. M. !FALLER CLIFTON. Pt, P4er t-T4LL /NG_ oFF/GE, Oct. 418, 1825. V ti CO.III.ISSIO ATE RS for VICTUA L , ti N ,.., do her eby give 'Yol k ' His AL-IJESTY'S NAVY, 'i .e . . 6e e ; ti " °lt Friday, the 18th November next, they will f•Q: ee ; 4 l to r eceiv e T en d er , i n writing (sealed up), and treat li tiet L'4PPly, (on separate Contracts). of all such qua o n ; il l , 4-11 M ESH BEEF as may be required for the d use en. io,, ed aJe*".O's Ships and Vessels at the places un er 92e hci, -6°, 4 the Ist of January to the 31st December, 1 ), ki ra 4 s 7v ei s vi a.: __ (;.114tt',,C.2.rriclifergns, Larne Leith, Leith Roads, and the Tat',lt ur. atid Newry Frith of Edinburgh t 4l ld Kin al Liverpool • . a h :lan l s e (4 4 ;"Pbrit o . . Londonderry and Loughswilly ( =li t , e s ", m Argyleshit e Milford Haven I ),:ti Newhaven . P 4l -1 1s NT °l lth Newcastle &Tinntouthllaven Portsmouth G re 'ay Plymouth %, No e l, Sheerness . t il tr ns,,,y a St. Mary's, Scilly Islands Lynn, and ki h l ‘tich and Jers e y Ai l l e ' l Y is ariT i t i ut t li h , e otinty of No w , The ~ ; and bu!)lin No; folk. or t h ' 1,,, °Pp! ed ition s o f the Contracts may be seen at this Office; , e t i , •-'''N - at the Post Office, Dublin ; to the Agents for C:N)-(4'colling ;it Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and r4l( t: e'Peeti velY ; to Mr. Pembroke, Deal Yard; the to the des, l'i r ' s. ,If His Majesty's Customs at each of h ( , 4 4 ' , (/ tece 44der must specify the price in words at length, :4??4,44livered before One o'Clock on the day appointed .; : l e 70.,. 0) :: ac(vnyanied by a Letter, signed by two responst ..- , e' '"i , ., i ' eogav,ing.to become bound with the Party ten '': tk 4 fl'e P etra/ Sum of 1,500/. for the due performance 4'it,,,te, C olttr„,, at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, and 4. 4 e 4 1 , 14 ' "d of 5 001. Ar each of the other Contracts. ''b r4c i t er '''' il •Vho makes the Tender, or same Person on l; 74"8t attend to answer when called fur. it!. WALLER CLIFTON. t.. 4t :" - --......_____________________ i ttil- FOR THE ARCH- DtAnORPHAN SOCIETY, , •STER. -`4-)NRY and COUNTY of LEICESTER. F 1) ' IP4 T! ti sht. honourable the EA Rf, 110 W the , 44' 41 4v „ i i . 14, been calle to 111 1. It t,• - • toe Aletting: the Chair, and having opened s lielhev ' al.' he by Sir H. Halford, Bart., and 4 sec fo o r nd ti e l d e t r 3 e k . 5e 1 , 91. tii,--„-,:T• Johnson That a Society be form , e 'et - t ti t i r ,',.: loows anti drphans of Clergymen, NI Whitisi within the Archdeaconry, or County of Leices. who shall have app en, j i , s hall 1 the Soty ; also have for its object tF, assist indigent Cler itt,,ts c0..„ - I l e ll cases as ma Incorporated esirab.e to Orphan So ,- verate with the Clergy I)Y, l tt vi , S l b e lio 4 r, %l)l "ed by Sir Charles Palmer, Bart., , apd o se w c . o n n g ded I be Nr tt l3 -... 'lll-1 .D. Erskine, That th, fpl s''4.) of the Society. (The Secietary read he l ps posed th;,lt w 1eit1e,..,. at', Used by C. \Vinstanley, Esq. seconded by s " "ii ' '' ' llt t the following be t a h n e d Pron presi : -oefe-C,;4-residents, Tr a easurer, Secretary, and Stewards of i for the.pr'esnt year:— l ' h ile 4„Tbe Lord j i ) , l i Lieutenant e PATRON. nant o the County. 1., 'r ; IL and Rev, the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, ' l l t-11)t1erT......-Tite Right Hon. the Earl Howe. 'il e V ery 1 7 N. il, 4l 4 ll rl i re l, j ti en o . h the T A r v c.h e d E ea . c .r o ll ni si Z E Ge T o:ge Robinson, Bart. it,tiatirs,, Ai , pA , Ord Robert G. A. L. Keck, Esq. I.P. C. M. Phillipps, Esq. •it (letlry,L4l,9ler, Bart. C. Winstanley, Esq. e(:) tge ir, °lll , Bart. C. - G..Mundy, Esq. -7.,91110nt, Bart. Sl' x, , ‘ nE nsUßEit—John Pares, Esq. ‘rth t ( f tlb s 0 tent'rAter —E. T. Vaughan. 444 ti t ,' t .zatii ty l ' l' II E SEVERAL h 4 el t r R ev. r;i0lIn Mansfield, Esq. IP. Rev. Robert .1v e)...._ c R. Dvies. M rewether ; Rev. ,F t • Ty, • ` l• Phillipps, Esq.; Rev. F. 4 e k , 11 )1 4 , 1 ' 01 (3 r). r j r ier ° t ' t re i e l. --Itiebard Norman, Esq. ; Rev. E. Morris ; Rev. ( loci --IV. ' P. Malor, Esq. ; Rev. F. Apthorp ; Rev. Jas. (lilrl'eei 1 killtilitlig%.o,l4% Packe, Esq.; Rev. Henry Brown ; Rev. rt A aX , 1 0ri,....i, ~„ Mr. Belgrave ; Rev. itelarks'arri nt ,-. Pd. Dicey, E sq , ; Rev. 4 I , , e ohe ~. iSy .. eorgeeipalnuel Miles, Esq.; Rev. Thomas Wright ; hgtillit „t, iettarn. t 4 4 14 il L trl .A v ed by the Rev. Mr. Apthorp, seconded by N' 1114'.°4111iit'tee'qi---That this Meetinff do now resolve itself ed. be rie ee , or the purpose of a opting such measures tike Co "a q to give full effect to the Resolutions just I,le h , lt tlitt ee L ei 'o t .t th.. , th e e„ . . ng formed, the Hon. and Rev. H. D. q li . , q to.4ttit, 0.-4. air, , 44. , ti le , r ,the Meeting were cordially and unanimously ' f ile t "' fOri;7l Howe, tbr liis kindness in attendingth l_ee as t.. 4tl; 'thte4°lveld',verrohliging conduct in the It R to el to s ec py l onbe now opened, to and that the r. IZeigzilette4l:elliborserie Subscriptions, and elithn4iNte in agreed to. give Re T cet e rts u a r c e ! 4 ' °- the I) :? eeed ings of the Meeting be advertised once of 1,--cester pa ,er (.lo Of a eircul 1 support, together with ky, and iitti,,ar Letter requestinggereay t r to the Nobility, 4. hat' (.4e ntr ` 3 , be sent by the St o N I c opi J, generally throughout e the County. °l4l 44 l lie t . e s 9f the Rules be sent to the Stewards of the 4'413 5 - e' z i wl .th a request that they will exert themselves Ptions. E. T. VAUGHAN, Secretary. IMPROVEMENTS ON THE RIVER TYNE. (From Me Tyne Mercury.) A Company has been established at this port for the purpose of effecting a great improvement in the mode of ' . unloading vessels, which cannot fail to be highly beneficial ov the commercial interests. The object they have in view is tb introduce lighters into the river Tyne, to be employed as they' are at Hull, Liverpbol, and most of the principal sea ports in the kingdom, so that a vessel maybe discharged of her carm e , with much greater security, convenience, and dispatch th an has b been hitherto practicable. Heretofore this duty has been per formed by keels, but they have been frequently otherwise en gaged when their services were required, and whether other- Wise engaged or not, the keelmen seeing the importance of the office they were called upon to discharge, have too often taken the opportunity of practising extortion by requiring much higher terms than could either have been asked or corn plied with except from the necessity under which the ship owner was placed of employing them. Besides the high premium thus given for their services, the keelmen were not under sufficient controul either with regard to the time or the care they employed in discharging the cargo. It any deficiency ever occurred, as we understand, was sometimes - . . observable, between the keel's - receiving the cargo and deliver ing it up, there was no responsibility, and the owner was ob . :: liged to submit to a loss, always mortifying from a suspicion • at least of fraud, and not unfrequently of consequence from its amount. From these circumstances, therefore, the policy of establishing a company -with lighters to deliver vesseLs at any time and at any place must appear obvious. The gentletherr who have associated together for this purpose are chiefly owners themselves, and will, of course, be the chief employers of their own craft, though when not so employed, of course it will be at the command of other shipowners for a rea,soi= ahle compensation. The shareholders arc twenty-five in mini- . ber, every subscriber holding two shares of twenty-five pounds. each. The first lighter was launched at Shields on Tuesday last, amidst crowds of spectators. Her burthen is about 67 tons, and she only draws lan foot water. This vessel is decked, and. will thus possess a striking advantage over the keels, as she can take in and deliver in perfect safety cargoes of a p er i s h a bl e nature, such as hemp, which were not unfrequently subject to considerable damage by the old system, from unavoidable ex- • posure.—The company intend in the first instance to have three of these lighters built, that they may try their effect, and we con- . fess if their concerns are conducted with spirit and attention we see no reason to doubt that they will be found to answer the ex pectations of the projectors, while they must be a very important convenience to the port. Indeed if they are prudently managed at the outset, it seems highly- probable it will be found neces - - sary to increase their number, and we should not be surprised to hear that, besides the accommodation afforded by them to the shipping, they become a source of considerable emolument to the subscribers. COMBINATION.—The combination mania has seized the crews of the fishing boats at Gravesend, where :11 the vessels are fitted out, for the supply of the London market with cod, salmon, and lobsters from Scotland. There were 160 of these smacks at Gravesend the other day, not one of which would proceed on their voyage, until the owners consented to raise their wages. STAGE COACH ACClDENT.—Yesterday morn ing, about ten o'clock, as one of Harris's Brentford and Par,. worth stages was coming through the town of Kensington wards London, the front axletree of the coach broke, by which it was overturned, and the whole of the outside passengers were in consequence' precipitated to the ground. The proprietor and driver, 111 r. Harris, was thrown with great violence against !he 911).stone and was liken into a nei g hbo ur i ng sur gtlm's quite insensible; the other pa,sengess pn . the roof, •efe all mos or less injured ; but we a r e extremely glad to stake thaiJnobe of them mere so severely hurt as to'eridanger their I . l,'vePi. A .gentleman was much cut in the face by Me gla'si in the window, which was broken to atoms by the shuck. The stage, which is quite new, was upset, about a fortnight since at the corner of Regent street. Harris was driving it at the time, and fell on the backs of the horses, and escaped injury. There were no passengers at the time. X tr' vito .%\S