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The ''hole of which may he viewed upon application at the Principal Storekeeper's Office, in the Tower, and at the Royal 4rsenat, Woolwich, lentil - the day of -Sale, where printed Lists of the Lots will be delivered to those Persons who may a PPIy for the same. FOREIGN LerEIitATURE. To the WORTHY and I?DEPENDENT LIVERY of LONDON. against his adversary. The good Morellet was particularly good in this respect, that when he struck he knocked you down. Lingeret and some others could speak to this point. The Sorbonne was not one of the last esta blishments which the revolution thought pro Per to destroy, and in truth, as the French were of opinion they could do without religion, the Sur bonne was perfectly useless. It had besides an income of 50,000 livres (nearly 2,1001. sterling ;) it was therefore necessary to suppress it. The Abbe Morellet, who has an answer for every thing, denies the consequence. " By what right," he exclaims, " by what right, and with what justice, did the assemblies, styling themselves National, deprive me of these advantages for ever, without giving me the smallest indemnity. I was entitled to my share, at least for the term of my nataml life, of the ...,p,pual rental of 50,00 livres attached to the Society of which I was a Member ; 1 was entitled to my apartments in the house, to the use of a large library, to my portion of the bread, the wine, &c.; and under the pre text that it was a public establishment, they de prived me of all! !!" The author repeats very frequently in his Memoirs this doleful exclama-, tion. " They have deprived me of all I" We must excuse these recollections of his mis fortunes. To others be the task of proscribing lamentations, of interdicting complaints,and thus deprive the unfortunate of their sad and last con solation, I will not be so cruel. But it seems to me that in reflecting on a general disaster, the Abbe Morellet does not sufficiently forget, and dwells rather too much, in his Memoirs, on the wrongs which he suffered ; wrongs very de plorable, without doubt, but which, as he himself remarks, are effaced by other much more cry ing and barbarous acts of injustice and cruelty. So much sensibility in such a strong mind rather surprised me. Of what use is philosophy, if it does not prepare us to submit to the misfortunes of life ? still longer." but we had bet Fhis is_ tkiAg. indeed very kood ; :er not otrend,hiru. GEKTLEMEN, A S the Day of Election for the Office of LORD 'MAYOR for the Year ensuing is near at hand, permit me, in conformity with my pledge last year, to request the honour of your support, as one of the two Magistrates to be returned, according to ancient usage, to the Court of Aldermen, for their choice. All these little papers were secretly, printed, and privately sold. The Manual of the Inquisi tors made still greater noise than these.little pa pers. Voltaire was delighted with it, and wrote to a friend, desiring him to " embrace this wor thy brother for him _x he will save our holy reli gion." Frederick the Great conceived at one time the idea of taking the author of the Manual for his Al►noner; but fortunately for the Abbe Morellet it was never carried into effect, for I doubt much whether he would have pushed his little fortune as far at Berlin as at Paris. The Kin! , of Prussia did not pay his Almoners very I hay.e already briefly stated the reasons by which I Mt my self justified in declining last year to request your suffrages, or to stand in the way of anj. other Candidate ; at the same time I was prepared to serve, at whatever inconvenience, had I been re. turned at the Common Hall, and I pledged myself to come for ward in the present year, which I conceived to be that of my ro tation, and to which I had invariably looked. I will only add, that in whatever way this question, for which I taidcrstand t. there is no ptecedent, emu be decided by the Li very, It will be perfectly satisfactory to me. I trust every thing like personal, hostility will be avoided, as I stand on distinct and independent grounds, and it is not my intention even to sug gest to any Liveryman the disposal of his second vote. Having come forward in conformity nith the wish of many respected friends, both in and out of the Corporation, and having re deemed the pledge I gave last year, the result, be it what i 3 may, will not create in my mind an unfriendly feeling towards any one, nor occasion to myself any personal disappointment.— , Requesting the honour of your attendance and support on the -day of Election, the 29th inst.—l remain, Gentlemen, Your faithful humble servant, WM. HE YGATE. Chatham-place, September 24, 1821. We not yet take leave of our worthy Brother. C. By Order of the Beard, R. K. CREW, Secretary. [To be .cortitiliett.i CONTRACTS FOR STRAW. FROM TIL LONDDN GAZETTE, SEPT. 25. Commissariat DeOartment, Treasury Chambers, 25th Sept, 1821. SUCH PERSONS as_ are desirous of con f t racting W i t h t h e Agent for Comm i ssar i at S upp li es , t o urni ' l ' for Twelve Months, from the Ist of November next, I.llcll Quantitie s of STRAW for filling Palliases, as may from e t !nle to tim e b e required at the Barracks in ' the undermen !Dned Counties aml Islands, may receive Particulars of thu u " t racls on applying at this Office between the hours of Ten , 1 41 1 (1 Four ; and t o t h e respect i ve B arrac k M as t ers i n the •of Guernsey, Jereey, and Alderney, and deliver their : 1(4 " at this Office, (marking thereon "Tender for ‘ raw >") until Twtive o'Clock on Tuesday, the ,16th of Oc- [This Gazette contains Addresses of Congratulation to his Majesty, On his Coronation, from the Mayor, Recorder, Al dermen, Sheriff, and Common Councilmen of the City of Can terbury ; from the Members of the Cornwall Literary and Phi losophical Institution.] CARLTON 110 USE, SEPT. 17. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood on Richard Birnie, Esq. Chief Magistrate at the Public Office, Bow-street. IVIUTEIIALI:, SEPT. 25. The King has been pleased to grant unto Rear Admiral Sir John-Poo Beresford, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, his Majesty's Royal licence and permission that he may accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Portuguese Mi litary Order of the Tower and Sword, which his. Majesty the King► of Portugal bath been pleased to confer upon that Officer, in testimony of his distinguished services before the enemy : and also to command, that the said Royal concession and decla ration be registered, together with the relative documents, in his Majesty's College of Arms. tob et. FOR THE SUN. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. Commissions in the Derbyshire Regiment of Yeomanry Ca valry, signed by the Lord Lieut. of the County of Derby. Cornet William Smith to be Lieutenant ; Cornet John 'Webb, to be ditto, vice Balguy, resigned ; Charles Arkwright,Gent. to he Cornet, vice Webb, promoted ; John Henry Smith, Gent.'to be ditto, vice Smith, promoted. Proposals are to be made separately for each County in BoUth Britain, for the whole of the Barracks in North Bri tain, and also fur the whole of those in the three Islands of e uern seY, Jersey, and Alderney; but no Proposal will be 11°Ii et'd, unl ess made on, or annexed to, a pr i nted Particu lar' and the Prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Lett er be subjoined to such proposal from a Persrot of ""wn Property, engaging to become bound with the party tendering fur the due performance of the Contract. If Tenders are sent by Post, the Postage must be paid. COUNTIES. Brecknock, Chester, Cornwall, CuMberland, , De por'et, Durham, Essex, Hants, Isle of Man, Isle cof Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northampton, "Pttiligbarn, Pembroke, Suffolk, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex s War • York, North Britain, Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, %lid Alderney. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT - STREET, LONDON. TRUSTEES. Th e DUKE of NORFOLK, The DUKE of RUTLAND, The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON, LORD BRAYBROOKE, LORI) KING, &c. &c. &c. Ma na And Sixty Directors. - g i ng Director, J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. F.A S. diStinguishinz Principle of these Offices 1 4 it. that they combine the stability of Companies having i n rg u e C . 4 Pii!"L . wi . th the minor Advantage of sharing Profits vern moil Societies. for danent Capitals, amounting to 650,0001. have been the 1; - In addition to the fluctuating Capital arising from remiunis ; aiid it is expressly provided, that these Funds 14 _ne sh a ll b e answerable for Losses, whence Persons insured ,4eresffectually secured front Liability fur the Losses of blrr the Fire-Office, Returns of 20 and 25 per Cent. have ore inv ariably paid t o a ll P e rsons who have continued in- S Se veil Years, wh e th er th e ir Policies were taken out for i: v ea Yea rs , or were renewed annually, which Returns dur "c the last Seven Years have exceeded 30,0901. the Life Offi c e , B onuses of 131.85. and 261.125. per cent. ha ve haven divided during the last fourteen years. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. li oNotrueu Sin, BEG leave to inform you, that ever since the a.h i Year 1790, I h a d b een afflicted with the Lues Venereal, p res e " , from its ob s ti na t e ly r e s i s ti n g e very course of medicine cribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un severalsevere courses of -salivation, and twicb dis he—orfV, from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to • 'Re most inveterate nature. In the spring of last year tro Y disorder had got to such a bead, as nearly to put a period oneluYexisencel had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, mats erg each arm, and niv legs were broke o ut in a frightful *tat; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a t wo - / °I ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also surgear nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave as li e xcruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, Va4 arl Y to deprive me of rest ; in this lamentable state, I greatvemumended by Mr. J. •Thompson, (Who received lb wh ich a cure b y t h em here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, fort / 4 began to d o on th e 26th o. May ; in the course of a ( mtli:j' I began to receive benefit—in little more than a alt er e s licers on my head and arms were soundly healed ercr, c „ the s ores ova my legs healed also ; leaving, bow boti r l , si deralilediscolouration in the skin, and pain in the lot) ° "o , e left, w hi c h, b y t h e bl ess i ng o f G o d, and a little thegneor perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided; the n u des dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, and lultr T ur dal pains gradually going off.—l thus became, by r°rlue; era' advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my streno, t d alPlaints—have recovered my former spirits a nd eontiZ„ an) become jolly and fat, in which state hav ing ed many moollis, t 4) the astonishment of all who knew be v a nt zit a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but mythicru, for the goo d o f ot h er su ff er i ng mor t a l s , t o ma k e sl og Ca e as public as possible, as I shall on every oeca- V ° doing you will greatly oblige, Your grateful, obedient, Very h unable servant, sw an's Clnse, Hi ALEX. MURKER gh-street, EdinbUrgh. . - John TiWitnesses tothe above - ‘ ll( Pson, NO. New Poultry Marliet, Edinburgh, John /11‘Intosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. LePtsred and so l d by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY OR,hen l%Tember of th e R oya l C o ll ege o f S urgeons, at hi s con 7 a , N 0.9, New Bridge-street, London; \vilely, after a ie_,' ntresidenc e of more than 40 years,practice parti rly directed to th e cure of Venereal Complaints and those ncidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable lecre . sil, Crecy men c f hi• - profession should always observe in 1 b trat nit --- ot e i sj he flatters himself the advice and assistance he t iy administers to personc - taking this Medicine, will attainable., hy a disetTning Public, as an advaLtage seldom tii n s :itie . , and void of all ambiguity. r e i n seld,l4 his arpointment,tor the convenience of those 7 ,4_ . g__t a distance, at the Tovshop, No. 103, Oxford-street ; Cutp.isl?oroughts, No. 7, Fish-street-hill.; Mr, Baxter, 7:Q brldge, Edinb 1- NI C•allwel 's Dublin; and of e l a tt o rs . nif in every cli rg si ' d ' Lumb l iet ‘ own in &cat Britain and ~t h fi:illn boxes of only 2s. Pd. - each, staraped, and scaled up icy and plain directions,' 4/hereby persons, of either 1441'cure themselve s with ease, spted,sccrecy, and safet . MR. EDITOR,—In the situation to which a set of men, who conceal their project of overturning the present Go vernment, under the mask of humanity and patriotism, have reduced the country, it is of infinite consequence to lay aside every possible' prejudice, to judge coolly and dispassionately, and to view objects, not through the delusive medium of party spirit, but in the mirror of immutable truth. In order to at tain so desirable an end, it is absolutely necessary that opinions should be distinguished from facts ; a method of discussion seldom or ever adopted by popular demagogues, whose object is to mislir d, and not to enlighten, the unreflecting multitude, upon whose passions alone they endeavour to make , any im pression. In their mode of attack, the evil disposed shew their knowledge of the human mind, or rather, they prove that the examples given by their predecessors in the career of sedition, are not lost upon the present generation of perverse citizens, and rebellious subjects.-.. In their contest against religion and social order, the writers of the' present day generally employ the invidious forms of so phistry, and the envenomed shafts of ridicule ; and in this re spect they folloi the path pointed ont by the antisocial au& thors whose impious and blasphemous productions were hawk ed from one end of France to the other, and prepared the revo lution of that.kingdom. The advantages of modifying, in some measure, the too great liberty of the press, may be a matter of opinion ; but the incalculable mischief which its present free dom has produced, and may produce, is' a matter of fact. In discussing these points I frequently refer to the French revolu tion, because this terrific event should serve as an example to all ages and to every nation, and because the mode of proceed ing adopted by the propagators of Radicalism is nearly the same as that which was employed in France by the advocates of Jacobinism. The destructive causes which gradually undermined, and finally levelled to the ground one of the most ancient, and of the most splendid thrones in Europe, had long been se cretly, but actively, employed in preparing this awful catastrophe. At first sight, the means selected do not seem adequate to the proposed' end. To hold up to ridicule, to trample under foot all that had been hitherto vene rated by mankind : to eradicate from the human breast every religious and moral sentiment, to instill into the human heart the contempt .of virtue, and to plant there in its stead the love of a liberty which consisted in the gratification of every inor dinate passion, in the disregard of every law, both human an; Divine ; in a decided enmity to every lawful authority, in tFfe violation of private property, and to silence the voice of con science; by pointing out the certainty of impunity in the eter nal sleep of the tomb—such were the important purposes which the enemies of religion and of social order proposed to accom. plish. As the number of conspirators was comparatively inconsi derable, and as they had to dread the united efforts of every friend of religion and of loyalty, they did not venture to attack openly the venerable fabrics it was their intention to destroy. 'The destructive poison was instilled in a manner almost imper ceptible, and under the alluring form of amusement and relax anon. It was in the pages of pleasing tales, or amidst the lines of sportive poetry, that the deadly venom was slimly but se curely introduced into the mind of the unreflecting mul titude. Finding that these insidious proceedings remained unchecked, they now began a more open mode of warfare ; and the whole kingdom was soon inundated with anti-raigious and anti-social productions the baneful doctrines of w hi c h were brought within the reach of the meanest capacity. Such is the method now adopted in this country, a method which is here much favoured by the liberty of the press. Few of the advan tages which society can derive from the freedom of the press, can compensate for the mischief which it may eventually pro duce. The streets of the metropolis are now inundated with incendiary pamphlets, tending either to ridicule or to abuse. both the religion and the government of the country. To bring these productions more within the reach of the lower classes, upon whose mind they are intended principally to act, they are published either at a very low price, or in weekly numbers, and are hawked about with an impudence and an impunity which disgrace the police of the country. In this alarming situation of affair's, what checks- do we find upon this general propagation of the most pernicious doctrines ? None that is likely to prove . eflicacious. Sheltered by th e boasted liberty 'of the press, the advocates of radicalism fear lessly pursue their antisocial career. All they have to fear is a prosecution. But, independently of the many chances they have of an acquittal, even if they are condemned they are ,considered as the martyrs of liberty, and acquire a degree of celebrity Which turns to their own personal advantage. True it is that, if convicted, they may be confined for a certain period : and are subject to a heavy fine; but the increased sale of the condemned works, and the assistance derived from their friends, socaenal)le them to pay off the lie, and even front the place of their confinement they continue to propagate the most danger ous opinions. Such being the case, it becomes an imperious duty upon every loyal legislator, upon every patriotic.represen tative of the people, to strike out some more eMetualnictliodofpreventing the circulation and publication of irreligious and disloyal works. tl,ere are times when. even the Habeas Corpus Act, that Pallalium of British liberty, may be for a while suspended, som , :• plan must be devised more effectually to check, if not the liberty, least the abuse of the Press. It is not enough to clip - the wings of the propagators of such works as we have al luded to; the sting that might inflict a deadly wound upon the political body must be wholly eradicated. Ewhurst. A. P. (No. xiAO MEMOIRES DE VABBE MORELLET, &c.l. e. Memoirs of the Abbt Mo RE L LE T, a Mem)rerof tlieFrnch Academy, on the Eighteenth Century, and -on tire, French Revolution. Bvo. Paris, 1821. This 'work comes rather late, and people will not fail to ask whether, after all that has been written on the eighteenth century, and on the French-Revolution, the Abbe Morellet can have any thing new to say respecting them ? But was not the same question asked when the Memoirs of Marmontel were publiWed ? and yet they were read with avidity; Tihe success which at tended them was so great as to astonish even the friends of the author._ Their perusal, I con fess,;is interesting,l'isut iGfi3c clo we learn from them ? or What itsfermation furnish to the historian-of the eighteenth century and of the French Revolution ? It seems to me that at least in this respect the Memoirs of the Abbe Morellet will be preferred to those of his nephew Marmontel. Though not so pleasing, they are more instruc tive, they make us better acquainted with the 18th century, and give us a more just idea of the men and of the events of that period. A part of Marmon tel's Recollections are the work of his imagina tion. The various circumstances of his life were to him, if we may be allowed the metaphor, a canvas on which he painted beautiful pictures, in which you can always discover, even under the most affected attire, the author of the Moral Tales. This is, I confess, the certain way to please, but is it also equally instructive ? The Abbe Morellet has less art ; affectation, it is well known, was never laid to his charge. He tells what he has seen and done, and tells it with simplicity, and without premeditation.— Though he translated formerly romances, yet he does not know how to romance ; and such is his regard for truth, or what he believes to be such, that for fear of deviating from it, he refuses to embellish his tale. This strictness of principle may not perhaps suit. the taste of all readers, but it will be very acceptable to those who ex pect from historic memoirs something more than vain and unprofitable amusement. The Abbe Morellet completed his classical studies among' the Jesuits at Lyons ; but the years he passed at college, which so many others recall to memory with delight, only inspire him with sad reminiscences ; he cannot think of them without horror. Whence arises this horror ? " When I belonged to the fifth and sixth form, I was," he says, " constantly one of the lowest in the class, and was flogged regularly every Satur day." These floggings were his weekly allow anct, his privy purse ; and I admit they were not very pleasant ; but after the lapse of sixty years ought he not to have forgotten this petty vexation, which, I have reason to think, was at that period common enough? These things are seldom borne so long in the mind, but the Abbe recol lects them as if they had happened only the day before : you would fancy he was still smarting under their effects. It was doubtless done, observes he, as an ex ample and for the benefit of others ; for he is quite sure that this weekly penance was of no use to him. I doubt it, and with the more reason, because I perceive that he soon rose to the high est places, and obtained, at the end of the year, the first prizes in the upper classes. The receipt therefore was not so very bad ; but it should, perhaps, have been used with greater modera tion; every Saturday is too often. I do not know whether we ought to give the credit of it to the receipt, but it is certain that after finishing his studies the young Morellet wished to become a Jesuit; his friends, how ever, would not consent to his wishes, and the Society in consequence had one distinguished member the less. See now to what our destinies lead us. If it had not been for the opposition of his family, the Abbe Morellet would have been a Jesuit, instead of which he was a philosopher, which is rather a different thing. The Abbe Morellet, as a Jesuit, would have otsly known Diderot, D'Alembert, and many others, by name. Ile would not have laboured at the Encyclopwdia, but very probably at the Journal de Trevoux, published by the Jesuits, and in which the En cylopcedia and the very cloptedists were, we know, but roughly treated. It was otherwise decided; and perhaps it would be ungrateful to repine at it, for the Abbe has left us Memoirs which are rather interesting. The Pere Morel let would not have had the slightest idea of writing them ; and we should have lost, more over, a very pretty song of twenty couplets against the Jesuits, composed and sung upwards of twenty years after their suppression. Its appeaj'ance was, doubtless, very well timed. On leaving the Jesuits' seminary, where he became a very acute theologian, M Morellet en tered the College of Sorbonne, and soon acquired the esteem and good-will of his associates. " They always called me," he says, " Use good Morella." But what' did he do then, ask the wits of the day, who find it'very conv en i en t t o revile those studies, of which they have no idea? M. MOrellet has taken the pains to answer their foolish question ; and truly, it was his duty more than that of any other person to defend the school-divinity, which is the subject of their ridi culous contempt. It gave him more just and enlarged ideas ; it habituated him " to discover the objection, and to answer it :" that is to say, thanks to the school, he was the mast terrible arguer of his time. Woe to the ra sh one w h o dared to dispute with him ; violent in argument, as he himself acknowledges, he dealt hard hits The Abbe Morellet invokes besides the laws and justice. Both law and justice were certainly little regarded when they suppressed the Sorbonne, and deprived him of his share of the 50,000 livres annual rent, of the bread and of the wine, &c. The spirit of the age had many other arguments to advance ag ainst this instituti o n. M oreover , h e ougla not to have contributed towards the Encl. clopmclia. I know very well that the articles furnished by the Abbe Morellet to this collection do not smell much of heresy ; but a man of such deep judgment, who saw so clearly and so far, might hue easily foreseen that the spirit of the Encyclopaedia was incompatible NI ith that of the Sorbonne. In the Sorbonne the Abbe Morellet'became acquainted with many personages who ate fre quently mentioned in his Memoirs : Turbot, the Abbes de Lemonier, de Boisgelin, de Rohan and de Marbceuf. He expected that the Abbes, des tined by their birth to fill the highest offices in the Church, " would introduce him into the career of moderate fortune to which he might reasonably aspire." This expectation was never realized : they forgot their poor comrade, who was not, however, very difficult to satisfy, who only asked for some good ecclesiastical sinecures, the least laborious benefices possible, fur he did not wish to undertake the cure of souls. One has enough to do in taking care of one's own. Be this as it may, the moderate desires of the Abbe were gratified; rather late to be sure, but he lost nothing for having u aited. Including every thing, his pensions, benefices, not forgetting the handsome priory of Thhnor, he had at the time when the Revolution began thirty thousand livres (12504 sterling) a year. The Abbe Mo rellet was contented ; and he had reason to be so. Thirty thousand livres a year ought to satisfy the ambition and the wants of the man of letters. I. do not require more for those of the present day. I only wish they had the small income of the Abbe Morellet ; for it is right they should know how to. moderate their desires. Connected in early life with the Encyclopw dists, M. Morelle't thought himself bound . to defend them on. all occasions. It was, in his eyes, a duty of 'conscience, and he performed it very well. Pompignan was his first victim.— " lie kept up," he says," a continual tire against him : a paper appeared every eight days, and the poor fellow was obliged to go• back into the country." It was well he did so, for the Abbe Morellet would not otherwise have let him oil so quickly. Palissot had his turn. The comedy of the Philosophes had just been performed. Imme diately afterwards, the Abbe Morellet composed the Vision qf Charles Palissot, an ingenious pamph let, in which, however, according to his own ad mission, he passed the bounds of literary sar casm. " 1 feel some compunctions of con science," lie says, " for this transgression."— Well, ,we forgive the repentant offender ; and more especially in consideration of his confine ment in the Bastille, for M. de Choiseul, in a great passion, sent the Abbe Morellet there, not to avenge the honour of Charles Palissot, for whom the , Government cared little enough, but in compliance with the applications of the friends of a great Lady, to whom the author of the Vi ston had very indiscreetly made some allusions in his pamphlet. 46 What a pity," exclaimed Voltaire, " that such a brave officer should be made prisoner at the Leg;nning of the campaign." The loss was the more'severely felt, because this brave Ofli cer, when' he was arrested, had three more pa pers in progress nearly ready for the three fol lowing weeks. ".1 was quite prepared," he adds ; " and . should have followed up the game BANKRUPTS. J. Knowles and H. Walk r, Salford, Lancashire, machine makers, to surrender Oct. 5,6, and 16, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Willis and• Watson, Warn ford-court, London ; and Mr. Healey, Blanchester. J. Lavender, Leominster, Herefordshire, mercer, Oct. 9, 10, and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Star and Garter, Worcester. At tornies, Mr. Gillam, Worcester ; and Meisrs. Cardale, Buxton, and Pariby, Gray's Inn, London. J. Beeston, Drayton in Hales, Salop, mercer, Oct. 17, at four, 18, and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Drayton in Hales. Attornies, Mr. Stanley, Drayton in Hales ; and Messrs. Baxter and Bowker, Gray's Inn-place, London. • . T. Gibson, jun. Liverpool, ship-bread-baker, Oct. 15, IP, and Nov. 6, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. Attor nies, Mr. Blade, Liverpool ; and Mr. Chester, Staple Inn, London. . - H. Gird, Leicester, saddler, O c t. J, 10, and Nov. 6, at clever, at the Albion Hotel, Birmingham. Attornics, Messrs. Bout dillon and Hewitt, Bread-street, Cheapside ; and Mr. Sim Cox, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. Oat. 20, J. Mitchell, sen. West-end Cottage, Essendon, Hert fordshire, dealer, at twelve, at Guildhall, London—Oct. 23, 'l'. Kay, Princess-square, Ratcliffe Highway, coal merchant, at eleven, at Guildhall—Oct. 23, Hugh R. Roddam, North Shields, victualler, at eleven, at the Commercial Hotel, North Shields—Oct. 24, E. Phillip, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, linen draper, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, Bristpl—Oct. 23, W. and H. Webb, Bristol, linen drapers, at one, at the White Lion, Bristol—Oct. 24, T. P. Jones, Carmarthen, linen dra per, at one, at the 'White Lion, Bristol. • CERTIFICATES—OCT. 10. .7. B. Snowdon, Lynn, Norfolk, ltnen draper—J. Jagger, East Stonehouse, Devon, stone mason—R. W. Purchas and R. Tralwen, Chepstow, Monmouth, ship-builders—T. Kay, Princess-square, Ratcliff Highway, coal merchant.—J. Bass, Holbeaeh, Lincoln, brewer—C. Cope, Berkeley-mews, Port man-square, job master—H. W. Smith, Islington, tea-dealer— I. Voile, Beech-street; button-seller. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. S. Wilcox and T. J. Titterton, Theobald's.road, coach builders—E. Kendall and Kendall, Tooley-street, haberda shers—J. Westlake and W. Atkinson, brewers, I'lympton, Devonshire—A. Knight and J. Wallace, Lamb's Conduit street, dress-makers—C. Lucas, R. Christie, and It. Heath field, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street, wine -merchants, as far as relates to rt. Heathfield—G. Tinson and F. B. Feltoe, Little St. Thomas Apostle, wine-merchants—A. Gray, NI. Gray, and M. A. Baratta, Crooked-lane, Cannon -street, wine merchants—G. Collison and J. Dryden, Wood-street, Cheap side, silk-merchants. HORTICULTURE. On the 25th ult. the Ravensworth Goos e be rr y sho w was h e ld at Mrs. 'rodtl's, Cow-close, when the prizes were adjudged as follows :—Red—Mr. Richard Harker ' Ist with Crown-Bob, 22dwts. lgr. Green—Ditto, Ist with Green Ocean, 18dwts. 6grs. Yellow—Mr. Thomas Herbert, Ist with the Viper, 18dwts. 4grs—White—Mr_ Lionel Robson, Ist with Smiling Beauty, 17dwis. 2grs. On 'S'atirclay se'iMight the South Shields Flori s t S oc i e ty h e ld their annual show of Gooseberries at Mr. John Powell's, Lay Gate, when the prizes were adjudged as follows :—Mr. John Rowell, Ist with Gorton's Viper, 19dwts. 15grs. Mr. William Busby, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and sth with Oreive's Bloodhound, I9dwts. 4grs. ; Wainman's Green Ocean, 18dwts. 12grs. ; San der's Cheshire Lass, 18dwts. sgrs. ' • and Chadwick's Sportsm a n, 18dwts. Mr. John Rowell produced a fine red seedling, which he named Rowell's Earl Grey ; and on Saturday last they held their annual show of Carnations, when the prizes were adjudged as follows : -Mr. John Rowell, Ist, 2nd, and 4th with Sher wood's Corinthus. Harvey's Lord Ravensworth, and Gregory's Lady _Buidett. Mr. Peter Gray, 3rd and sth -with Sandham's Lady Kay, and Pope's Queen. On'the 25th ult. the North Tyne Gardeners held their an nual meeting for the show of Carnations and Gooseberries, at the house of Mr. Bell, Chollerford, when the pri z e s were ad,. judged as follows :—Carnations—Mr. John Grey, Ist. 2d, 3d, and 4th with Harvey's Lord Ravensworth, Ilvde's General Elliot, Frier's Britannia, and . Tucker's Lord Chatham; and Mr. Robert Charlton, sth with Maddox's King George. Gooseberries—Mr. James Scott, Ist with Gorton's Viper. Mr. Joseph Robson, 2nd with Boardman's Prince Regent. Mr. John Renner, 3d with Woodward's Whitesinith. Mr. George Robson, 4th with Mills's Langley Green. Yesterday, between one and two o'clock in the day, Mr. PETTIT, of Tavistock-street, Covent; garden, vas passing through Bishopsgate-street, near the church, when he was attacked by a set of robbers, one of whom took his silk handker chlef in the most barefaced manner, which ou Mr. P.'s attempting to recover, he received a se vere blow on the body from another of the gang, which caused him to fall with great violence it► the road, severely injuring one of his hands— he was taken up nearly insensible. The fellow, with his companions, made their escape.