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, - • ,_ • • . 4,1 0. 4 p 4 X, 1 ;IP t4 C - . • • ....v.; • - . r I ll' k _ d i re" - NUIVIBtR 90176.3 1' 11 URSD SEPTEMBER 27, 1821. PRICE SEVENPF,NCE. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. vIcrudLLING- OFFICE, Sept.', 1821 . THE COMMISSIONERS f or VICTUAL LING His MAJESTY'S NA VY do hereby gue No tice, That on Ftiday, the SS:A Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the Supply (on separate Contracts) of all such quantities of ROM at 'nay be demanded for the ?tse-of His Majesty's. Ships and P.esseis at Belfast, Carrickfergus, Larne . Harbour, and Newry' Galway, Leith, Leith Roads, and Me Frith of Edits -I?ergh, for the period of Twelve Calendar Months. Whe Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the Secre tary's Office, at this - Office, or by applying to the Collectors of ais Majesty's Customs at Belfast, Galway, and Leith, ,respectively. forthe 50;9001.: indeed, tile DoctOr, with proper regulations, would educate the ;Whole of their civil and military servants in Hindostanee.. Of 434 cadets sent: out last 'year, only 55 . had been educated in Hindostanee at Atldiscomhe. All the rest had gone out to india,• at- least so- fal' as the Company were con. cerned, without any adequate : education at all. What he wished was, that the resolution which had been read as refera ble to Medical assistants,,should be rendered • applicable -to the whole o their servants, for it,was obvious that to the whole. the the value of which to the Company's servants in India, he thought orthe most paramount importance. • The CHAIRMAN said, in explanation, that both at Addis.: combe and Hayleybury, there were professors of .Hindostanee; so- that particular language was by no means, as .the Itinour.; able Gentleman who spoke immediately before the last suppos: edoeglected in the collegiate educatibn of their officers. .To chew that both their military and civil servants were required to study Hindostanee, he referred to a complimentary expression used by the Marquess of Hastings in a speech he made at the College Of Fort William in the year 1819, when he alluded to the , education of the students who came out from Hayleybury, and pointed out Mr. Lindsay, who was at the head of the Per sian class, and 4th scholar in Ilindostanee. The chairman then admitted in the fullest tams the merits of Dr. Gilchrist, to whose pension of 3001. a year' the present resolution would add 3501.. more, but said that various -opinions were held upon the propriety of the general requisition for compelling all the young men to reside two months in London, before they, were sent to their ultimate destination. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNI'T'ED COMPANY of MERCHAN TS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES,• do hereby give EAST INDIA HOUSE, September 26, 18-21. The loyal people of this country will hear vi , ith- pleasure that, amidst the seditious journals which unhappily are to be found in other'places besides that great Emporium of Faction, tho, Iletroptilis, a new Weekly Journal has-starte'd in . Suffolk, Under the title of-" TUE • B.UItV GAZETTES or Bury, Ipswich, and Norwich. Ad -. vertiZer." ThiS Journal yesterday COmmeneed, its career, and as...far as we' can venture to judge •frin the professions of the Editor, and the ge neral contents of the Paper, it is likely to be of considerable utility in counteracting, within the sphere of its action, the political poison . which is actively diffused in all quarters by the malignant assiduity of those who are anxiously labouring to destroy, the CONSTITUTION, under pretence of reforaiing it.—We submit the following Extract to our Readers, as it affords a promising- speci men of the design and execution of 'this new loyal Journal:-- Notice, That the Lists of such PROPRIETORS at by the Com pany's Books appear to be qualifikd to VOTE at the GENE RAL ELECTION on the 10th April, 1824; will be ready to be delivered on Thursday s the Bth November next. JOSEPH DART, Secretary.. THREE OF 430 , ,009! NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. ALL MONEY PRIZES! NO CLASSES!-NO STOCK PRIZESI r,?gard will be had to anyy - Tender iw which the Price shalt not be inserted in words at length, or that :hall ,iot Le delivered to the Board before One o'Clock on the said Friday, the 28th Instant, nor unless the Person who makes the Terzier, or some Person 6,1 ids Z.ehalf, attends, to answer when called for. Ea ch Tender must also Be aocompanied by a Letters igned b!, bpo res ponsible Persons, engaging to become hound with tCe P artt/ tendering, in the Penal stem of 5001. for the due Pcrie'rman ee °.i . each of the Contracts, HAZARD and CO. CONTRACTORS for the PRESENT POPULAR LOTTERY, inform 'their Fnends and the Public, that the DRAWING wilt BEGIN the 30th of NEXT moS:Tn (OCTOBER). The Scheme has been received in all parts of the Kingdom with the must de cided approbation, and a very great 'demand for heTickets and .Shares is cxpezted 1,- ! th in Town and Country. HAZARD and Co. hope their anxiety to`meet the public Wishes will secure to them that portion of favoue which has hitherto distinguished their old and fortunate Offices, 93, ROYAL EXCHANGE ; CORNIIILL; and. 324, OXFORD-STREET; Where they Sold in the Last Lottery, 15,701 .21;0001. 6,054 • 15,0001, , Besides many other Capitals ; also All the 30,0001. Priies in One Lottery. _ ri CTV-ILLI‘VG-OF.PICE, Sept. 21, 1821. TIIE COMMISSIONERS . fi r VICTUAL-. 31.11ESTY'S N.9FYdohereby give No tice, Mut 071 Tuesday, the 2d of October "next, they will be "tie!, to receive Tenders in writing (sealed Ity), and treat for • -P.1./ Y Tons of COCOA, the growth of the British Planta . (I ')ns. to he answerable to samples of not less than two Paunds weight each, to be produced with the Tenders), Fifty Tans of NEW OATMEAL; Seventy Bags of KENTISH HOPS ( 6 0 Bags of this and to Bags of the last year's growth), to he answerab:e to samples to be produced with the ?ender s s T he whole to be delivered into his ltiojesty's Victualling at, Deptford (the Oatmeal by equal weekly proportions), tit the sll;ace of One Alonth,, and to be paid for by. Bills, pay ,e, without interest, sixty darts af ter date. . ' ( .1 " " 130 . for th e S A LE of the YEAST and GRAINS jaja sepal ate Contracts) that may be produced i n his Na..7"0 ""nzeat Deptford, for the space of One Year. the Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the Secre ("Y..' Office, , • r _egardwill he had to any Tender in which the Price ( "It not b e i nserted in words at leng•th, or that shall not be ' ; 'li " r ed to th e B oard b e f ore O ne o 'Cl o ck on the said the 2d October next ; nor unkis the Person who 'kik " the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer ' , the n called for. 4Each7'ender for the Yeast or Grains must be accompanied 6 4 ;1 1 a signed by t wo res p ons ibl e P ersons , engag i ng t o 'oltoe bound with the Party !mining, in the Penal Siena due performance of eacb of those Contracts. coyrß urs FOR STRAW. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, 25th Sept, 1821. SU" P ERSONS as are desirous of coo t tr ` ct i'lg with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to nrnish rwcice Months, from the Ist of November next, :nob quantities of STRAW for filling Palliasses, as may from t ° time be required at the Barracks in the andermen l"" Counties and Islands, may receive'l'articuhsrs of the "r aets uti ap p l y i ng at this Office between the hours of Ten hid P°ll r ; and t o the r e spective Barrack M asters i n t h e Islands 7, Guernser,,lersev, and Alderney, and deliver their st eskle rs at thi s Office, (marking th e reon " Tender for ".") ulna Twelve o'C tol, lock on Tuesday, the - 161k of Oc-. „. s ' Thasals are to be made separately for t each County in t ° ; ath Britaio, fur th e w h o l e o f t h e B arrac k s i n N ot th Bti l4l' and also fur th e w h o l e o f th ose i n th e th ree . 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Land Of Lincoln' lon, B-at-Law. te eet p nt . st tied for s arrister Joseph Butterworth and son, 43 CL-RE'S NEW POEMS. In 'r This Day was published, p. v. : ° .01 " ts, fonlseitp% Ftyo. with a fine Portrait, from a IT, Painting - by W.l-11Iton, R.A. price I2s. ti VILLAGE MINSTREL, acl other . . , .. . B. Jr. • POEMS. Longo " . "` - ' II N CLARE. Northamptonshire Peasant. B , dL „n i Printed for a a ylor and Hessey, E. brury, Stamford. 93, Fleet-street; Th e I, Of whom may he had, 1.4 F " ur lh Edition o f POEMS d escr ipti v e o f -MIRA!. ~......._____and SCENERY. ByJelin.Clare. Price ss. 6d. boards. I: ri ,..... • - tiE LONDON MAGAZINE, No. XXII. lo wing filr OC TOBER, 1821 ' price 2s. 6d. contains' the nil 1. Original Article s :—. 9, p(4)lvtgssloNs of an ENGLISH OPIUM Eater. Part H.— ~•,:!teplia 1 , . nia de Gantelmes, a Tale of the Middle Ages— iZistches and other Night Fears, by Elia-4. Leisnre . Pi ano ' N - 11. The Battle of the Frogs andllice,• in a New i n '''llinn—r,. Madame de Stael-6. Sonnet, a Retlectioo X. i•l n ' in er, by John Clare-7. Traditional Literature,. , No. 9, Onac,,ineis,a Scottish Miluister—S. Song,. fr r ojn the Italiailo. s 1 Songs of the People of Gothic or Teutonic Race— . • 10 11 t m" '"' the Priet-1 1. t. Van Viiikhoorns his Dogmas f.it 13 . e „ t ," 1 .1. No. IL Giulio Romano-12. Report of Music -15. . I ' ll l , N o. Gleanings from Foreign Jeur"a l s — Alstrhe e()i)lei Oracle -16. the Hermit, a Fragment-17 act ot rigi t arid Domestic Occurrences, Pen.l`.ed for T AYLOWand HESSEY, Fleet-street. • NEW LOTTERY. TUREE. of ,e 30,000, and 6,711 other Prizes,, All Sterling Money !—Not Two Blanks to a Prize ! No Stock Prizes !—No Gasses !—Every Ticket drawn singly ! —X30,000 Money for the First-drawn Prize on the First Day, L ...L. _3oth OCTOBER, (NEXT IVIONT11).. BISH having stated the Scheme at full length, now ad• vises an early purchase at. his Offices, 4, Cornhill, and 9,, Charing Cross; or of his Agents in the Country. *,,* The Prices of Stocks are affixed hourly against BISH'S Office in Corubill, by which the Public may see the fluc tuations. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors was held at the East India Honke, for the consideration of a variety of business. When the CHAirtstAN took his seat, the Secretary proceed ed to read the minutes of the last Court, and also the titles of certain papers relating to•the Seperannuation List, and other details connected with the Company's service. The Superannuation List was read by desire of Ur. R. Jackson. Mr. Ilionic complained of the impossibility of understanding the nature of t'.e public business, when cursor►ly read in Court, and suggested the propriety of documents of importance being pririted for the use of the proprietors. The CriarrtmAx replied, that such an expenditure was un necessary, as all their papers of importance were mostly printed when laid before - the House of Commons : they were, besides, at all times accessible for any proprietor who thought proper to refer to any documents. Mr. HumE said that the by-law required the presentation of all papers to that Court at their next meeting after such papers were laid before Parliament ; but the House of Corrimons did not always print such papers. A TROTH IE T OIL suggested that it would be desirable to have the papers left in the proprietors' room, with an index of easy reference. The CITAIIIMAN said that a book, containing these papers, and an index, was always kept, and easy of access ; not, how ever in the proprietors' room, for the document being a valu able record was carefully kept, but any proprietor could have access to it. EAST INDIA COLLEGES. An Account was next laid before the Court, shoving the number of Students admitted into the Companies' Colleges, at Addiscombe and llaylcybury, with the annual expence of their education, &c. 1111 7 ME wished to know what was the total expence, and the number of writers and cadets sent out from the body of stu dents educated in those CollegeS. , It was then stated from the accounts, that froin Midsummer 1820 to Midsummer 1821, there had been 40 studentvadmitted, and no petition for admission rejected ; and that 40 had been appointed writers, the net annual expenditure 8,0021., viz. gross expenditure 18,8871., receipts 10,8851., net expenditure 8,002. Within the same period 379, cadets had been appointed, and 55 admitted to the Military Seminary, 2 Cadets rejected; gross expenditure 13,6791., receipts 4,8711., net expenditure 8,8081. CHINA SEAS. On the ResolutiOn being read for remunerating the services of Capt. Ross for his survey of the China Seas, Mr. Hu ME expressed a wish to knovi whether Capt. Ross's maps had been published, or whether the information he had acquired in his survey was generally available for the public benefit. _ . . The CIT AIRMAN replied in the affirmative, and that the maps were to be had at Black and Parry's. DR. GILCHRIST'S SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. The e . LIAIRMAN then submitted the following Resolution to the Court of Proprietors : " That the Court having in the year 1813 resolved to en courage Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist in his Lectures in the Hindostanee language, by granting to him for the term of three years a salary of 2001. per annum, and the Court having on the 29th ultimo come to a Resolution to continue that salary for the further term of three years, and to grant to Dr. Gil christ .for that period an allowance of 1501.. per annum to enable him to provide a suitable lecture-room, the same be now allowed." Before the question was put upon this Resolution— At the request of Mr. HuatE the Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 4th of .November, 1818, was read : it was ex pressive of the opinion of the Directors, that all medical assist ants going out to .India should previously attend to the study of the Hindostanee language under Dr. Gilchrist, for at least two months, and that before their embarkation they should produce a certificate of such attendance from the Doctor. Three guineas were named as the remuneration to be paid for attending the course of lectures. Mr. Hu m't then said, that he 'never rose in that Court with so much ssatisfaction as at present, when he meant to call their attention to the state of education in their possessions in India. 'There was no greater question connected with the policy of their system of Government. in' India than that of education • and it • was very remarkable , that while a similar subject occupied uni versal attention both in England and inCeed in Europe, so little had been done to consider its imperative necessity in India, where it affected a population of 80 or 90 millions of human beings. It was a blot upon the system of their Indian Govern .Ment, that so little had been done in a long course of year's for diffusing a knowledge of the colloquial language of ,the natives,: under circumstances and in a • situation where that knowledge was so important in its conic.: quencea to the interest and happineSs of so many millions •of - .people. What had' they done for education in India since the year 11305 ? On the 27th February of that year, the Court adopted a resolution declaratory of the:importance of the education of their civil servants in the native Idnguageof /*tuba, and 'for the pUrpose or more effectually giving it, the Colleg,_ system wag established for the Company's servants. Now; the object of that College was unquestionably the diffusion of a su 'perior Civil and oriental edUcation fOr their servants appointed to office in India,- and a great expenge had been incurred ; but the practical results fell very far short of what they would have been, hada different plan been pursued. it could not be said that a system of economy had interposed to prevent the realization of their hopes ; for, according to the aggregate accounts of the years 1818 and 1819, the expenditure incurred amounted to .53,8331. a year : that expenditure was for the colleges both at • home and in India. Such a sum as that was more than ade luate to provide education for .the.whole of their servants.— Vet, notwithstanding the large amount he had just stated, the education it Conferred did nut comprehend more than, in the proportion of one to ;ix of the Company's servants. He .had no doubt ; that Dr. Gilchrist would do considerably, more for. the expenditure of 3401.'a year than had been previously done necessity of knowing Hindostanee applied ; and the evils which practicatly arose from a want of it were often imminent and se rious. The• Hon. Gentleman herereferred to several high au tirarities. for the _purpose of showing the comparative inatten.; tion paid towards inculcating the necessary knowledge of the ru diments of those native lanemages, which were indispensable fnr.the proper performance of the new duties to which the atm. tion of the Company's servants Were celled upon their arrival in India- The Marquess of Ilastinga particularly pointed out the, ill consequences which bad restilteit'rom an inattention general ly to the rudiments of the, Ilindottanee language in the educa tion of the Company's servants destined for active &flies among the natives. [Alt. Colehrooke's and Lord - Minto's opinions were also,referred to by the lie oct;eeiiie Member, for the pur pose of more effectually pointing .I,e-attention of the Court to the great advantages which must practikally flow from the dissemin ation of Dr. Gikhrist's plan for .44 4 4eth e : hadnstan ee, whi as wasp well sail, - was the conn: 'l;oesenicle.47,,,pll colloquial inter course iuea large 'caution of thelnferpanyT , 'territerics.] Lord Minna pointed out how comparatively. useless it was to send out persons conversant in Sanscrit, which was a dead language, in stead of Hindostanee, which was a liVing one: They might as well, he said, *end persOus to'do general duties in England, who instead of the English language, were ,only acquainted with Hebrew.. The hon. 'member then complained that, . not withstanding the acknowledged superiority of Dr. Gilchrist's system of education, a. different one should be .blindly perse vered in at the Company's colleges at Addiscolnbe and Hay leybury :• sot that, in point of fact, those who had. studied at home were obliged, 'on arrival in India, altogether to de part from their previous line of study, and adopt that of Dr. Gilchrist, which was alone taught in India.. All who were ac-• quainted with the oriental languages knew that there were two modes of teaching their rudiments e —one was Sir W. Jones's, and which consisted, for the purpose of acquiring the proper pro nunciation, of rules RR' giving to roman characters a .certain sound resembling that in use among- the natiVeS. This plan . was complex, for it. became necessary that letters should be ac - • companied, according to the old plan, with marks of accent • above and below, so as to denote one,, two; or more sounds, of which they were susceptible. Now Dr. Gilchrist's was a far • easier and more comprehensive plan, and had entirely exploded Sir William Jones's in India. Sir James Macintosh, •Lieute nant Irvine, and several other ofikial persons in India, who had turned their attention to the subject, had pointed out the advantages which Dr. Gilchrist's plan possessed over every other in - previous practice. It was quite preposterous, he thought, that the Company should teach Hindostanee accord- ing to one plan in England, and upon a different one in India. The honourable member enforced his opinion of the value of the Doctor's plan by pointing out its adoption. in Dr. Hunter's valuable dictionary, and Mr. Campbell's grammar; and said, that for one book printed upon .Sir William Jones's system, there were 300 upon Dr. Gilchrist's. 'From the fullest inquiries, he.(Mr. Hume) had.had it in his power to make, - . and from his own actual experience, he knew no man -Who had so strong a claim upon the Company as the gentleman he had named.-- 1)r. Gilchrist's abilities and services had been repeatedly sub mitted to the COurt as entitling him to their most marked at tention. The Doitor was the first man, after the Company had Subjected for 50 years to their authority the native troops, who translated for the latter the articles of war. Colonel Scott in the year 1796 quoted that circmnstance among other meritorious services of a similar nature performed by the Doctor ; and in the year 1804 when ill health compelled him to leave India, the Governor in Council (the Marquis Wellesley) transmitted to the Court of Directors the strongest recommendation of the Doctor's services. He referred to these facts merely to show that the present mark of attention conferred on Dr. Gilchrist was but a small favour in return for services performed under such flattering circumstances many - years ago. That tribute was due from him (Mr. 'Hume) to. Pr. Gilchrist, -for he knew that much of his progress in India was attributable to the in struction in the native languages which- he had derived from that learned and respectable individual. When the proposed remuneration was considered, it should not be forgotten that Dr. Gilchrist had been five years in his situation in India, when ill health compelled him to leave the country ' • had he been seven years, according to the college regulations, he would have been entitled to retire upon a pension of 7001. a year, and he had now but 1201. a year pension for all his past services. The present addition was, however, extremely proper, though it fell short of what such a man's services deserved. He (Mr. Hume), when he enforced the necessity of the Company's adopting Dr. Gil christ's plan of teaching the Hindostanee to all their servants going'out to India, by no means wished to damp the study of the higher orientaflanguages, which might be considered more as branches of accomplishment, than as acquirements of imme diate practical utility. These would always find students and admirers, as classical learning uniformly . did ; all he meant was, thatthe study of the. colloquial language in common use should be deemed- an indispensable acquisition, and he intended to have submitted a motion upon the subject; he would however, for the present, merely suggest the subject to the .reconsidera tion of the Court of Directors, in the confident hope that they would see the evident utility of adopting his suggestion. FroSt the year 1793 to the year 1812, when their charter was renewed, there had been 4,728 cadets sent out to India, and 592 assistant surgeons. In the year 1813, 3,467 cadets were all that remain ed in Bombay- and Madras : and had Dr. Gilchrist's plan been then more generally adopted, they might have reckoned on the whole number he had alluded to fully understanding the native languages. How was it in the present year? Of 496 sent out to India, only 55 had been educated at their college; fortunately, however, in the year 1819, 165 had been educated by Dr. Gilchrist, at an expence of 2001., being equal in pro portion to twice the number, whose education had previously cost 20,0001. In 1820 he had educated 228 ; and in 1821, 226 ; all valuable to the Company's service in proportion to their power of discharging their duties, with more efficiency and sa tisfaction, according to their knowledge of the people among whom they had to -live. It was the want of so necessary an acnuieement which made the admission of strangers into India objectionable: let them merely qualify themselves to commune with the inhabitants by a knowledge of their language, and then he, for one, saw no danger to their re s iden ce i n I n dia. Many of the evils which arose from the misconduct of Euro peans and the vain consequences assumed by them among the natives would have been obidated if the parties could have bet ter communicated with each other.. M hen it was considered that previous to going out to India an attendance for . two months upon Dr. Gilchrist would obtain the necessary elemen tary knowledge, it was surprising that so valuable an oppor tunity should be disregarded. 'the only objection he had ever heard was, that it would expose inexperienced youths to the dangers of a two months' residence, p e rhaps a t a distance fr an their families, in such a metropolis as this. .It was asked, " Would you expose a boy nn his raw state, one just caught, suppose-from Scotland— (a laugh),--fo all the allurements of London ?" To this lie should reply, that he thought the ad vantages greatly outweighed the risk, and he saw no great harm even from the knowledge of the world which, independ ent of the professional education, was to be acquired by such a domicile. • Let them bear in mind - the cheapness of the pro posed education, compared with the expellee of 50,0001., which they had previously, on a much smaller scale, 'obtained ; and then reflect on what was due to Dr. Gilchrist's labours. Mr. LowsmEs, (who had just entered the Court) " 50,0901 , for whet education ?" Mr. HirME.—" For education in some of. the Indian lan gune...es." Mr. LowNnEs.—" An Asiatic and luxuriant price for educa tion indeed." • Mr. II I; ME said, that his objection was not so much to - the sum expended, as to the system upon which it was applied.,..: He referred again to the liberality which Dr. Gilchrist road ways displayed, and the enthusiasm with winch he had devoted his talents to extend the knowledge of the native languages, quite regardless of personal 'considerations. It was the by wish of .the Doctor, that instead. of three guineas , the sum now paid ), medical students for the course of lectures, the price should lie only one guinea, and the instruction extendedi to .all those sent Out to India by the Company. By that course they would have the advantage of this most essential branch. of education beint general among their servants, and.ata price which' brought it completely within the reaelt .of those whose means - were the limited.-(Year.)- most limited.-(Year.) Mr. R. JACICSON expressed his entire concurrence in every thing .which - bad fallen from his•llon. Friend- respecting the merits of Dr. Gilchrist, whose services he highly extolled • and • •• • • ••- • ' Mr. RIGBY also spoke upon the value of a sytteni of educa tion which diffused a knowledge of the native languag?s among the Company's servants. Mr..LowNDEs also enforced the same topic. PuoPlitvron, whose name we could not learn, stated, that immense advantages were in point of revenue derived by the Company from the education Which Dr. Gilchrist had given some of their servants, and the consequent facility they had ac quired ofknowing the natives and then - habits. - - - After a few explanations from the preceding speakers, the resolution respecting Dr. Gilchrist ,was put and unanimously agreed to. The Crrarrtsr.tx then proposed for the . adoption of the pro prietors a resolution of the Court of Directors 'of the sth in stant, granting to Mr. John Hinde Penny, of the Bombay Civil Establishment, the sum of 2,0001. upon the grounds therein stated, which grounds shortly were the part remunera tion of the individual named in th 4 resolution -for a heavy loss which he had, under peculiar circumstances, incurred by a con tract in India. : ------ .111 r. Il L 3IE said that he 113 d not read the documents in this case and should therefore postponehis opinion until the second reading of the resolutiOn at their next meeting. - He cottld not, however, help saying, that nothing was more improper than the practice of the civil servants- of the Company having any con nexion with their contracts. ' • - Mr. RIGBY called the attention of the Court to the case of Messrs. Thomson and Co., who were fined because the frost in the river prevented their delivering a contract on a given day, and where the Company sustained'ho loss whatever. The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN said, that though there was' no actual loss, there had been a great inconvenience in the delay of loading-a ship, at the bottom of which the contract (iron) was to be stowed. A long conversation arose upon the point of order whether Mr. Rigby could discuss the forfeiture upon the one contract, when the question was the remuneration for another; and it terminated by Mr. Rigby giving . notice, of his intention on a future day to bring the subject again before the CoUrt. The Resolution respecting Mr. Penny was then put and agreed to; Mr. K. Jackson, Mr Rigby, and Mr. Hume re serving to themselves the right of expressing their opinions upon the subject when introduced (as it must, according to the Stand ing• Order) on the next Court day.—The Court then adjourned at four o'clock. Extracts from the Returns of the .Stamp Office, shoving the Increase and Decrease of Duty paid (luting the three Years ending at Christmas last, by the different Fire Offices, and exemplifying the Preference given by the public to the PLAN and MANAGEMENT of the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE. _ . Albion . - Atlas - - British - - *County - - Eagle - - tilobe - - [land -in-Hand - ope Imperial - Loildon Norwich Union . INCREASE. .' S. d. 3,306 12 7 881 11 9 •3,471 19 11 DECREASE. X. S. d. 1,133 16 6 643 11 - 11 1,075 0 9 - - 5'31 14 0 309 16 11 584 4 8 1,003 5 11 11,504 2 9 7,163 13 5 Phoenix Royal Exchange - Sun Union AVestrainster 1,131 3 2 2.880 0 5 3,921 8 0 4UO 4 1 THOMAS LEATHERDALE and THOMAS FRENCH, Esqrs., are elected., Bailiffs of the Borough of Eye, in Suffolk ; both these Gentlemen are . in the interest of the Marquis CORNWALLIS. THE ODD FAintr..Y.—ln the reign of 'King. WILLIAm the Tulin) there resided at. Ipswich p. family which, from the number of peculiarities belonging to it, was distinguished by the name of the ODD FAMILY. Every event remarkably good or bad.happened ,to this family on an odd day of the month, and every member had some thing odd in his or her person, manner, and beha viour ; the very letters in their Christian names always happened to be at . odd number. The husband's name was Peter, and his wife's Rabah ; they had seven children,all boys, viz. --Solomon, Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas, David, and Eze kiel. The husband had but one leg, his wife but one aim. Soiomon was born blind of the left eye, and ,Roger lost his sight by accident. James' bad his left ear bit off by a boy in a quarrel, and -Matthew was born 'With only three fingers on his right hand. Jonas had a stump foot, and David was humpbacked. All these, except David, .were remarkably short, while Ezekiel was six feet one inch high at the age of nineteen. The . stump-footed Joints and the humpbacked got wives of fortune, but no girls in the borough would listen to the addresses of their brothers. The husband's hair was as black as jet, and the wife's remarkably white. yet every one of the children's hair was red. The husband was killed by'accidentally falling into a deep pit in the year 1701 ; and his wife, refusing all kind of snstenance, died five days after him. In the year 1703 Ezekiel enlisted as a• grenadier, and al thoughhe was afterwards wounded in twenty-three places, he recovered. Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas, and David, it'appears by the Church Re gisters, died in different places, and were buried -on the same day, in the year 1713 ; and Solo-mon and Ezekiel were drowned together, in crossing the Thames,.in the year 1723. On Wednesday (19th instant,) Lady BARKER, while riding with some ladies in her carriage near Hove, met with an alarming accident. The coachwas overturned, and her Ladyship, as well as the oth€r ladies, were severely bruised. Mrs. COUTTSi who had been for a ride, and was re turning to Brighton, happened to pass by at the moment in her carriage, and undertook to send the party a coach from an inn at Brighton, to convey them home. With _her usual kindness, however, Mrs. C. did not wait while a vehicle could he procured, but sent her own chariot for the PurpOse.. No serious effects have, we believe, 'resulted from the accident.-:—(Brighton Paper.) " Parliament has been further prorogned to the 29th of Ne vember; and a Council of Regency having been appointed, his . Majesty left London, on Monday, for Ramsgate, whence he was expected to embark yesterday for Calais. We rejoice in the activity of the his obvious inclination .to let the people see their Sovereign. His Majesty's recent journey to Ireland, which, in point of fact, was any thing rather than a jouriey of mere pleasure, has proved one of the wisest, one of Ca a most satisfactory, and one of the most beneficial measures of his reign. Independently of the pleasure which it has afforded in this country, it has gladdened the hearts of thottsands—aYe, of Milhoris—,.of his Irish subjects ; it has operated 'as a sa hitary stimulus to the warm affections, of -their frank and generdus character; and, to the sister kingdom at large, it has opened the door to improvements and advantages incalculable. Loyal people love to see their King ; and, that the mass of the population in England, Scotland, taad Ireland, are not deficient in loyalty, is a truth which the disaffected part of the nation' feels and acknowledges with bitterness. They are writhing in agony and alarm, under the consciousness, that the ground is daily becoming more and more rotten beneath the feet of their corrupt and wicked leaders. The true spirit of the country, however, has been admirably shewn, by the liberal subscription, raiL in' testitnony 'of the forbearance, the cool firmness, the general good conduct of the -Life Guards, on the memorable Iftle of August. Nothing could evince a finer feeling of patriotism, un less it were the delicate, the respectful, the handsome .manne:-, in which those gallant soldiers declined the proffeied boon ; tilledginge that they had simply performed their duty, to. Cr. . correct and zealous discharge of which they stood pledged, " under any circumstances, without looking to any other reward than the provision which his Majesty had been graciously pleased to make for them, and the approbation of their King and Country."—.Sir Robert Wilson,. as appears : by Tuesday's Gazette, has been dismissed from his Majesty's service ; dis missed, as is generally understood, for the part which he bore is that unfortunate day , to which we have before alluded. Sir Robert, among-St other misfortunes, labours under that of hav ing his cause advocated by the Old Times, in London, and Ly the Radical Press of Paris. By the Litter, we are told that he " has written to his Royal highness the Commander-in-Chief, to desire an inquiry into his conduct before a competent tribunal."—Another proof of the revival of sound thinking amongst us, is found in the conviction, at the Lancashire Assizes, of a man, prosecuted by the ConstitutiOnal Associa tion, fOr selling the " New Year's Address to Reformers ;" the same libel for which Mary Ann Carlile is under prosecu tion in London.-We are old enough to remember Mr. Reeves's Loyal Association for the-Suppression of Republicans and. Levellers. We recollect, also, that 'that Society, like the Con stitutional Association of the present day, was assailed with all the venom of the disaffected Presi. The greatness of truth, however, insured its triumph ; and Mr. Reeves's Asso ciation, in conjunction, as it may be considered; with ;hat vigorous satire The Pursuits of Literature," with 44 The Antijacobin Examiner," and with " The Antijacobin Re- , view"—the last of which is still in .exiatence, and in the hands of a. very able conductoz--had. the proud satisfaction of contn. buting to the salvation of the country. When time and space will allow, , it is our intention to•offer some general remarks. on the state of Europe : at present•we can only add, that Spain and Portugal are in a very cntical state ; and that, with respcct to the existing relations of Russia, Turkey, and Greece, nothing can with certainty be affirmed." SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. SUDDEN DEAtit.—A.Female, aged upwards of seventy years, has • resided for a considerable time in a small house atCambridge-heath,ilackney road. She kept no servants, associated with none of her neig-hbeurS, and the only inmate 'was a fa vourite cat. Her doors and windows were.con stantly kept secured, and the signal of the milk man, or any one applying for admission, was throwing a stone against the door or window. A neighbour's daughter was in the habit of going every . morning to procure her water, but on Mon day, after repeated signals, she could get no en trance. The girl went for her mother,and with a dia mond ring they cut a pane of glass, got admission, and proceeded upstairs. There they-found the old lady, by the side of. her bed, with her clothes on, and a small piece of cat's meat in her hand. They soon discovered that she was dead. It in supposed she died of an apoplexy, as no marks of violence appeared, nor .was any of the property disturbed. From the abstemious manner of herliv ing, it was supposed her circumstances were very limited, but on examining her drawers, S.tock Re ceipts .and Government ,Securities were found to the amount of near One Hundred ThOnsand Pounds; She always declared she would 'make no 'Will, for " the KING" should have- all her money. Every search has been made, but :no will found. 'Her sister died a,few years ago and left her 7,0001. which it .now seems she at first declined, saying she was not in want of money. No relative has yet appeared : She was a maiden lady, and her name SARAH BOND.---(.E.:CC/li7lg PVC7'.) • . .