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Robert Cockburn, Esq. Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq. David Skaiffe, Esq. Thoma s Young, Esq. Benjamin Boyd, Esq. George Webster, Esq. Peter Laurie, Esq. John Barnes, Esq. James Farquhar, Esq. J. W. Sutherland, Esq. W. P. Craufurd, Esq. W. M. Nurse, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Major -Gen. Archibald Robert- W. A. Urquhart, Esq. Bon, Hon. E. I. C. S. S olicitors—Messrs. Parken and Webster, 13, New Boswell-court ; Messrs. Johnston and Farquhar, 32, New Broad-street. The great success which has attended the establishment of Joint stock Banks in London, as well as throughout England generally, confirming as it does the large experience of what may now be said to have become the universal mode of banking in Scotland—the fast increasing and almost unanimous conviction of the public Mind in favour of that system which, while it affords the greatest amount of security to the customer, is found to yield an age 'Nate profit t o t h e proprietary—make it unnecessary to offer any statement explanatory of the grounds open which the Directors have been induced to undertake the organization of the Union Hank of London, as a bank of deposit in the metropolis, and for the transaction of all business falling strictly within the scope of banking. They will only observe, that in the monetary capital of the world there are only three establishments of a similar descrip tion, with less than 1,000,000/. of paid up capital, while in Edin burgh, a city, compared with London, of very limited commercial relations, there are no less than five joint-stock banks, having a baid u p cap i tal of 4,600,000 1 ., t h e stoc k of every one of which ears a very considerable premium. most of them having besides Paid large bonuses to the proprietors, and all allowing interest to ettsComers on their deposits. The following extract from the official share list of December 25, 1 838, shows the state of the five banks alluded to : Paid up Dividend. Original Paid Present Carat ‘I Share, up. Value. Bark of Scotland £1,000,C00 6 per cent. £lO2 £lOO £193 0 Royal Bank of Scotland 2,100,000 51 per cent. 100 100 1 6 2 0 British Linen Company 500,000 8 per cent. 100 103 240 0 Co mmercial Bark of N ation Scotlandal Bank of Scot. 600,000 6 per cent. 5 00 100 176 0 land 500,000 6 per cent. 100 10 16 $ The remaining 17 Joint-stock Banks in Scotland are in the same flourishing condition, and such, indeed, has been the progress of the system that of the many private Banks formerly carrying on business in Edinburgh only one exists at present. The Directors, having felt that an additional Bank of thi s de scription was ca ll e d for, have for some time been engaged in making the necessary preliminary arrangements, and, having received the Most flattering encouragement and assurances of support in busi sine's from capitalists in the metropolis and the country, they have now resolved to commence operations without delay, feeling assured that the judicious arrangements they have entered into, and the principles on which the Bank will be conducted, will obtain the confidence and support of the commercial and trading community, and the public generally. By taking advantage of the experience of similar establishments Which have preceded them, and avoiding whatever had been found faulty or inconvenient in constitution or principle of management, they anticipate that the same, if not a larger, degree of success will mark their progress, and open up to the shareholders, as well as to their customers, the combined and reciprocal advantages Which experience has proved will result from a Joint Stock Bank When . properly conducted. It is the intention of the Directors to allow interest en deposit accounts, under proper rules and regulations, which, with other details as to the transaction of business with the Bank, will be hereafter announced. As a sufficient capital has already been subscribed to enable the Directors to commence business immediately, they have resolved, in order to avoid the inconvenience which has been found to arise in other undertakings from an unrestricted application for shares, and to induce only those to apply who wish to become bona fide proprietors, that they will not entertain any application unless made In the printed forms provided by them for that purpose, and accom panied by a payment of 21, upon each share applied for, the Di rectors reserving to themselves a t the time of appropriation the !ight to reject or comply with such application either in whole or In art ; the money to be returned if the application be reje c t e d, end if a ccepte d t o be placed to the credit of the party in respect to the shares allotted to him. For the guidance of those who may wish to become proprietors, it may be mentioned that it is not in contemplation to call up more t han 101. per share for the next two years. The Directors have postponed filling up the direction to the full cumber of 21, in order to give them the opportunity of selecting in fluential proprietors, whose assistance and co-operation they may think it advisable to secure for the interests of the concern. Power is reserved to them for that purpose, and they are also authorized to complete all other arrangements necessary for putting the Company into immediate operation. Deposits, in accordance with the printed forms, may be paid as ander BANLS. . - London—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings. Liverpool—Liverpool Commercial Bank. Birmingham—Birmingham and Midland Bank. Edinhurgh—National Bank of Scotland. Glasgow—Western Bank of Scotland. Dundee—Eastern Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen—North of Scotland Bank. Dumfries—Southern Bank of Scotland. London, January, 1839. INSANITY. lINIV L The DENHAM.PARK Establishment of th• Institution is open for the reception of parsons of both sexes in the upper walks of life suffering under mental disturbance or nervous complaints, but "he are still capable of appreciating the blessings of social in- Ifteeourse. 74 invalids resi fami l de with the resident Medical Officer and his " one united y. The visits of the usual Medical At -"anti and F r i en d s are a d m it te d at a ll ti mes w i t h out prev i ous notice. The attendants are educated persons ; and recreation and amusement provided on the most liberal scale. Denham-park is a Proprietory Establishment, and managed by a Committee of Gentleman, and under the general surveillance of its Vice-Patrons, Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have no interest in the Institution but what is prompted by a desire to benefit Mankind. The Resident Medical Officer is • member of the College of Physicians, and hi: the sole direction of the medical treatment of the invalids, and has no I:?terest whatever in the emoluments of the Establishment. Apply for terms and prospectuses to the Secretary, James Tay lor, Esq., addressed, Denham-park, near Uxbridge, Bucks. FISHER'S BRITISH W INES , 16s . per Dozen. The high estimation in which his BRITISH WINES are held induces him to offer at the above moderate price. Delivered within five miles for cash. Ginger and Orange, Red, Black, aid White Currant, Grape Elder,',Cowelip, Mountain, Raisin, Tent, Raspberry, Gooseberry, Port, Sherry, &c. N.B.—Rottles Is., and Hampers Is. dd. per dozen, charged and Allovrad for when returned. Orders from the Country, with a reference for payment in London, executed with the utmost punctuality and dispatch. I. M. Fisher's Oil, Italian, and British Wine Warehouse, 407, Strand, opposite Adam-street, Adelphi. _BARFIELD'S DIAMOND PLATE POW -13F.11, warranted not to wear the plate. It instantly clears tarnish and dirt, and magically produees a I "st inimitable Polish upon Gold, Silver, Plated Goads, Brass, Tin Copper, and make: British Plate, Zinc, and Pewter, look as white u the best Silver. tac,tory, Sold, wh holesale and retail, at Halloo and Co.'s British Plate Ludgate -street. * . a . r illoaxt, Chemi s t t o th e Q ueen , P oo l e , Manchester. No. 8, Castle -street, Leicester- Holbrook, 115, Grafton-street, uarc.Dublin. happell, 84, Lombard-street. Parkinson, Birmingham. Wilson $7, Fenchurch-street. Nettleship, Lincoln. Warren and Son, Carmarthen. Bloomfield, Poole, Dorset. Nevrport, Isle of Wight. And at the Manufactor AGENTS WANTED for N.B.—Plate cleaned with this y, D 2, Fenetturch-street. every Town in the Kingdom. powder will not again tarnish. GENTLEMEN'S DRESS. GREAT COATS, FROCK, and DRESS ,„.„..COATS, and every other article of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS, for the present season, cut to fit in the most approved c a lls of fashion , and made in the best manner, at the undermen- Vg e i d, s moderatt; prices, for cash, at J. ALBERT'S, TAILOR and s DRA PER, 52, King William-street, London Bridge : '9erfino Coloured Dress Coats, from ~•£t 10 0 to £3 0 0 2 L ttn, the fine s t S axony , black or blae 7 0 -.rock c uts, with silk facings and velvet 0011ar......... lfi 0 to 18 0 vA._"thP;rioloutgohrouPtetersham Great Coat, lined 2 2 oto 3 II 0 ''°us excellent new Materials for Trouser s T he largest stock of any house in the trade of this most fashionable Waist casts, from • OlO oto 110 0 , Young G ent l emen ' s S u i ts, S ervan t s ' Liveries, &cc., made on the shortest notice, and upon such terms es will ensure future favours. :1 _ 5 2, King William-street, City. 016 oto 1 8 0 GLAND'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION, tgerit gold by all chemists, &c., price 4s. 6d. and I 15.., by its own . $ haa attained the very highest reputation, which is daily confirmed ;the extruordinary rapidity and certainty with which it cures 9onor orT. Gleets, be en: urethra and urinary passages. Strictures, Stone, Gravel, local slehility, and all diseases There is no preparation extant to se r ibL n Pared to it, for it cures when all others have failed, and is . pre. Ilraetl OP preference to every thing else) in hospitals, and the private 're..i!,t . Y.the most eminent medical men. rio r i ts ; montal.—We pledge ourselves to the safety, certainty, d supe. se x ,/ of Voland's Solution for curing all urethral diseaset, d: and both e fts .... and i earnestly advise our medical brethren So prescri b e _c.it in such As. se ' gned by Dr. Ley, Dr. Clarke, Surgeola Cooper, Dr. Green, Prer, ared at Mes srs . G ra h a m and Co's., 138, Holborn Bars, whe re the hysi r efr ee clan attend s as usua l f rom n ine till three daily, who gua ran t ee s to d tial t.. :'!ill cure Gonorrhoea, Gleets , &c., sooner than any other inch., with :.;rfeit all he m r ceive. 'Maud's Solution has recently effect_ weighiraost wonderful cure of at one in the bladder, having expelled one one ounce and a half, which may be seen , and all particulars had, A ent reference to patient, on application to the Physician ' as above. Asisgsto: fur the above medicine, Hannay and Co , fi3, Oxford - street; .________LCornhill; Dordoy, the Golder Star, itones'Aind, Borough. --------_ " Nocet empta dolore veluptas."—Hoe. 'OR the greatest ameliorations of civilized life, we in the y a • are indebted to the modern division of attention and labour „ any Howl pursuits of society, and in none have its benefits been so ligE s ` s e l t t as in the he3ling art. Early convinced of this great truth,_ London S. GOSS and Co., Members of the Royal College of Surgeons in have for twenty-five years confined their attention to the sue. 1 ,;11 l treatment of a few prevalent complaints, viz., the general and ( 17 1 deeilities of both the sexes, whether arising from the solitary in- Bence which a too highly inflamed unagiiiation brings likes destroying „`,"a over the constitution, the mind, and the affections of youth; or from F ri T_llif residence in hot climates, excessive drinking, or any other baneful .4",lence ; and from their daily experience they can with confidence 3 restoration of the debilitated to vigorous health. Married females r utin kure and affectionate disposition, whose " fondest hope" has been itropey iIY deferred, may learn with consolation that perseverance in a remedial course, will renovate general health, and remove hidden ra l !ments to maternal happiness. `o„.nisidious disorder, however inveterate, as also Gonarrhcee, sleet, e". S tricture , may be removed without material restraint 111 diet or xer c i se. „ Mus D de n ,. •••, ~O SS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their red, au.,2`Patients in thd remotest parts of the country can bo treated ssfully on transmitting their report, which will be immediately an ed; their lett ers must m i n utely describe the ease, gad contain a lellfittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any 0!! of the w or ld , h owever di stan t. N o diffloll ,tv can occur, as the Miselt 'fi.s Will he securely packed, and carefully prottoketed from observation. GOSS and CO. (M. A. C, Surgeons), 7, Lancaster place, a:trawl, London a r e .. Just published (Twenty-third Edition) -Ist. The it (.44S cf Arailiar commentary on the above I)4eases...-2d. The SYPHll.thi , a 'ettlitr Treatise on Liles Venerca, addressed YGEIANA, ridoliheillU mute 9,ez, May be ?" r#lerrirstairrow. ; ifit isoilstsial pia iN. eacL BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY.—The ex traordinary patronage with which this favourite beverage has been honoured by the Nobility, the Medical Profession, and by all classesof the community, since its introduction in 18211, affords, of itself, sufficient evidence of its unequalled merits. To this triumphant success must be attributed the fact, that each succeeding year has witnessed the birth and death of some new Brandy Establishment ; called into lif. by jealousy of the success of the Patent Brandy, and doomed to certain failure as a necessary lOnsequence ; being totally unable to produce an article capable of sustaining a competition with it. The only Establishment of J. T. Betts and Co. is the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street, where the Patent Brandy may be had either pale sr coloured, in quantities cot less than two Gallons, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gal lon, for Cash on delivery. THE MESSRS. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Op ticians and Aurists to the Royal Family, 90, Albemarle street, Piccadilly, feel themselves called upon to notice various ad vertisements, the evident produetion of mortification and malice, directed against their very superior spectacle lenses and instruments to relieve deafness; the success attending the use of Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' contrivance, which is remarkable for its neatness as well as its efficacy, is such as to completely supersede the use of large projections, which not only cause serious inflammation, but also a buzzing noise in the head, are alike offensive in appearance as devoid of utility. The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons beg to call the attention of the public to their Voice Conductor for deafness, so preferable to all others, it being the size of a seven shilling piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft, easy, and not more uncomfortable nor perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness. They also wish to call attention to the testi monies in favour of their newly invented spectacle lenses, from some of the most eminent members of the medical profession :—" We, the undersigned, have been for some time making use of Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle Lenses ; the astonishing relief they afford to imperfect vision gives them the decided preference to every other kind of lens—the clearness of the transparency brings every object very distinct, and enables individuals to view the most minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are particularly pleasant by candle-light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and soften bright and brilliant light.—Dr. James Blundell, M.D. 1, Great George-street, Westminster; Dr. J. Elliotson, F. R.S., Conduit-street; Dr. G. Sigmond, M.D., 24, Dever-street; Dr. J. Ramsbotham, M.D„ Broad-street-buildings; Dr. F. H. Rams botham, M.D., New Broad-street; Dr. H. Colbourn, M.D., 28, Harleyford-place, Kennington ; Anthony White, Esq., 3, Par liament-street ; T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., F.R. S., 8, Saville-row ; R. No'ile, Esq., 36, Albemarle-street ; W. English, Esq., Den mark-hill ;T. Day, Esq., Isleworth ;T. Griffith, Esq., Hammer smith; W. Jones, Esq., 15, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor square." Observe, 39, Albemarle-street. No connection what ever with persons of the same name. MR. COCKLE'S FA PIL. TATRONITJ MILY ANTIBILIOUS __________l3 BY TM! Duke of Grafton Bishop of Norwich Duke of Manchester Bishop of Salisbury Duke of Argyll Bishop of Peterborough Duke of Beaufort Bishop of Ely Duke of Rutland Bishop of Gloucester Duke of Buecleuch Bishop of Chichester Duke of Sutherland Bishop of Worcester Duke of Devonshire Bishop of Hereford Marquis of Lansdowne Bishop of St. Asaph Marquis of Tavistock Bishop of Bangor Marquis of Ailesbury Bishop of Llandaff Marquis of Blandford Bishop of Calcutta Marquis of Winchester Right Hon. J. A. Murray, Lord Marquis of Abercorn Advocate of Scotland Marquis of Normanby Right Hon. R. C. Fergusson, M.P. Earl of Eldon Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, M P. Earl of Harrowby Hon. Sir Edward lust, K.C.H. Earl of Mints Hon. Fox Manic, M.P. Earl of Carnarvon Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. Earl of Errol Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H. Earl of Mountcashel Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M.P. Earl of Darlington Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., M.P, Earl of Kinnoul Sir Robert Grant, Bart. ' Earl of Guildford Sir Henry Blake, Bart. Earl of Scarborough Sir Samuel Fludyei , Bart. Earl of Oxford Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. Earl of Thanet Sir Robert Buxton Bart. Earl of Athl one flit of Ro scommon Earl Cowp er Si r J o hn do Beauvoir, Bart. s i ir r J p o h h il n ip F ß or . b v e . s, B ß r :a k rt e . , K . c. B. Earl Amherst Sir John Tyrell, Bart., M.P. Earl of Leicester Sir Henry Smyth, Bart , M.P. Viscount Melbourne Sir Mathew Wood, Bart., M.P. Viscount Palmerston Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. Viscount Howick Sir John Macdonald, K.C.8., Viscount Fordwich Adjutant-General Viscount Torrington Sir Thomas B Mash, K.B. Viscount Canning James 11. Wildman, Esq., Chilham Viscount Alford Castle Viscount Acheson Col. Dolap, Stoke Park, Surrey Lord Arundel S. Grove . r s o Ae r r jr e ceh P a d.i r e i t c m oi e ~ a t l il l ni Colonel '1 yule, M. P. Lord Ernest Bruce Colonel Slbthorp, M.P. Lord fledesdale Captain Peohell, M.P. Lord Hill Lord Flunket Matthias Attweod, Es q., M.P. Reverend e Se r e lea i n ) t r . W F i r l e d n e e , Lord Murray Alderman Thompson, I‘ , L I'. Lord Bentincl Charles Walker, Esq., M.P. 01 1 i t i . rd, Lord Fitsroy Lord Middleton g. Grove Price, Es q., IIP. l'. Colchester Lord Barham Mr. Serjeant Ludlow Lord Frederick Gordon Lord Willoughby de rireeby Lora 7:Mnaird French , Lord SeyinoUr UPVerend Dr. Bens on Reverend Dr, Burney Lord Hartland Reverend Dr Birch Lord Western ii-;:rend Dr. Miller Lord Archbishop of Armagh Bstiop of Durham Robert Ren.:lo, Esq., M.D.Bishop of Chester C. Waddy, Esq,,lati M.P., Dulslin Bishop of Bath and Wells And Numerous Families of the highest Respectability. In 411 cases of Indigestion and Weakness of Stomach—in Gout, Flatu lency and Spasms—in Bilious or Sick Headache —in Disordered I iver.-... in Nervous Irritability--and as a Family Aperient, the superior efficacy of these Pills is too well known to require comment. They are pri!parOd by Mr. JAMES COCKLE, Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Serene Highness the LA NDGR AVINE of HESSE HOMBURG, a nd may Bodo}, had of all respectable Medicine Venders in Town a.d Country, in Boxe6, at Is. 15ac1., 2a. Sc., 4s_ ad., Its., and 9.:25. trr. Thee Pills ai,V 4lsa tp lia,d SILVERED, which renders them tastelesa without at all interfering With their Medicinal effects. They are admirably adapted for those Persons whit hive an aVerai" t° Medicine. P I RAW Qpitsiirffi.aptesi l Betwoßo-new, LoNnon, , + I N o. GENERAL POST OFFICE, JAN. i. 1839 OTIOE is Hereby Given, that her Majesty's L. Postmastar-General will be ready to receive TENDERS, an or before the sth day of FmaxuAaY NEXT, at Twelve o'Clock, for running a Mail Coach with Four Horses between London and Leeds. The Conditions may be seen on Application to the Poet Offices at Bedford, Melton, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds, or at the °Mee of the Surveyor and Superintendent of Mail Coashos in London. The Tenders are to be Endorsed, Tenders for the " London and Leeds Mail Coach," Sealed up and addressei to her Majesty's Postmaster- General. ay Command, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. CONTRACT FOR MAHOGANY. DEPARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, JAN. 9, 1839. THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND Ile hereby give Notice, That on THURSDAY, the 24th Instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into Her Majesty's Deck Yard at Chatham, one-third by the 31st March, and the remainder by the 30th June neat, 100 LOADS of HONDURAS MAHOGANY TIMBER. A Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for hint duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Mahogany," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac companied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 500/. for the due performance of the Contract. MR. LEWIS, of SAINT JAMES-STREET, Silversmith, having RELINQUISHED his late BUSI NESS in favour of Mr. W. H. OSBORN, bogs to state that his counting-house, for winding up his late concerns, is REMOVED to No. 7, GROSVENOR-STREET, where all accounts are to addressed, that they may be forthwith discharged, and all sums due are to be paid. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE TO SCRIPHOLDERg. Manchester, Dec. SO, 1838. The Serpholders, who are wishful to beeomo Shareholders in this Company, aro requested to apply, en or before the 14th day of January next, at one of the undermentioned places : In MANctrisviss—At alio Company's Offices, No. 21, Bond- Irma. In LITHILPOOL—Te Mr. James, Treasurer to the Cheater and Birkenhead Railway Company, foenwick-street. I* Lonnotv—At the Offices of Messrs. Roes and Ash, No. 0, Grist 'Winchester-street. Pis Seripholder can beisowis a Simreholdor after the day above limited. This Notioe doss not apply to the Holders of the newly jested Rod Scrip. By Order of flat, Board of Provisional Directors, THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. T HE BRITISH AND AUSTRALASIAN BANK. Incorporated with the AUSTRALASIAN LOAN COMPANT. Capital—One Million Sterling. In Two Series of Shares of Twenty Pounds each, a portion of which will be reserved for allotment in the Colonies. First Instalment £5 per Share. DIREC rolls. Frederic Boucher, Esq., Managing Director. W. H. Burnand, Esq. George S. Ogilvie, Esq. George Cox, Esq. William H. Scarnett, Esq. Daniel Fryett, jun., Esq. Walter Scott, Esq. James Brodie Gordon, Esq. George Whitcomb, Esq. With power to add to their number. BANKERS—Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingscote, and Co. This Company will carry on the business of Banking in all its various branches in Great Britain and in the several Colonies and Settlements of Australasia. Prospectuses, deicribing the business to be transacted by tke Bank, may be obtained at the Office, or of any of the Agents of the Company. By the incorporation of the Australasian Loan Company with this Society, the Directors have been enabled to appropriate a 'con siderable number of ths Shares of the First Series, and are pre pared to commence business immediately. Applications respecting business, or for the remaining Shares, may be mail. personally or by letter, post paid, to FREDERIC BOUCHER, Managing Director. 55, Ilfoorgats-strest, London, ith January, 1839. Agents will shortly be appointed for the principal Towns in the United Kingdom, and for other places, and applications for Agencies from Banks or Bankers will be preferentially considered. ,-- G..' o , //,Z~~ c1 . "".-••••• L- WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1839. CHARACTER OF M. THIERS. (From Etudes sur les Orateurs, by Timon.) When M. Thiers came into the world he was not cradled on the lap of a Duchess. As he was poor, he wanted fortune ; as he was obscure, he wanted a name. Failing as an advocate, he turned litte rateur, and threw himself headlong into the midst of the Liberal party, doing this more by necessity than conviction. Then be began to admire Danton. and the men of the Moun tain, and carried to the greatest extremity his hyperbolical, yet well-calculated, praise. Oppressed by wants, like most people of lively imagination, he owed the first beginnings of his wealth to Laffitte, and his reputation to his talents. How ever, had it not been for the revolution of 1830, M. Thiers would not at present be an elector, nor even eligible, nor a deputy, nor a minister ; no, nor an academician. lie would have grown old amid the esteem of a literary coterie. Since the revolution M. Thiers has changed his part ; he has become a monarchist, an aristocrat, a supporter of privi leges, a giver and executor of merciless orders. He has irre parably attached his name to the besieged state of Paris, to the mitraillades of Lyons, to the magnificent exploits of the Rue Transnonain, to the banishments of Mont St. Michel, to the laws agigst associations, public criers, Courts of Assize, and new*, rs,to all that enchains liberty, shackles the press, corrupts juries, decimates patriots—to all that has dis solved the National Guard, demoralized the nation, and cast into the mire the pure and noble revolution of July. He has quitted his friends ; he has disavowed his doctrines ; he has served royalty by making himself an instrument fit for anything—one of those instruments that bend but never break, that can bring both ends together, and then suddenly spring back into perfect straightness. When, in a monarchy, a man without character or virtue has received an education more literary than moral, and, car ried on the shoulders of fortune, mounts the steps of power, W.s head is turned by his elevation. As he finds himself iso lated on the eminence which he has attained, and does not know where to lean for support, having nothing around him, and yet not being of sufficient consideration himself, neither being nor wishing to be one of the people, nor being (although he wishes to be) one of the great Lords, he casts himself at the feet of his King, licks and kisses them, and cannot find servile contortions, supplicatory caresses, signs of devotion, genuflec tions, foot kissings, sufficient to express his humility and the depth of his adoration. Persons of this kind are like those who are predestined to " Gehenna" and have made a com pact with the devil. They are marked by his claw, and if they wish to turn their heads or break a link of their chain, the infernal master, to whom their bodies are delivered, and their soul is sold, cries out, " Ye are mine I" ACLERK is REQUIRED by the GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY. 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Nobody believes in him, not even himself, and his proverbial rouerie would destroy even the small moral illusion which may be produced by hearing him. Nature has mis used him ; neither friends nor enemies feel confidence in him, and thus he has everything against him • yet, notwith standing th ese d raw b ac k s , w h enever t h e little man mounts the tribune, he seems so much at his ease, has so much esprit, that, in default of everything else, it is a pleasure to hear him. He does not proceed by lively sallies like Dupin, nor has he the grave discourse of Odillon Barrot, nor the cutting sarcasm of Mauguin, nor the modulating eloquence of Sauzet, nor the superior reason of Guizot ; he has a sort of talent of his own, which does not in the least resemble that of any one else. His is no oration, but a kind of gossip (causerie)—a gossip which is lively, brilliant, light, voluble, animated, and sprinkled with historical traits, anecdotes, and pointed reflections; and all this he says cuts short, breaks, binds together, looses, and stitches up again, with an incomparable dexterity of lan guage. His thoughts come so rapid]) forth, one would think they were born before they were conceived. The vast lungs of a giant would not be sufficient to expectorate the words of this clever dwarf. It seems that nature, always attentive and kind in her gifts, has concentrated all his strength in the frail organs of the larynx. His words fly as if winged, and pierce you so swiftly, that you are wounded without knowing whence the dart proceeds. Sometimes he stops to answer those who interrupt him, and he darts forth his reply with a readiness which confounds t'iem. If a theory has many sides, some false and others true, be groupes them, jumbles them, makes them play and radiate before you, and that with such a dexterous hand, that you have not time to catch a sophism in its course. Ido not know whether the disorder of his improvisations, the incohe herent crowding of so many heterogeneous propositions, the bizarre mixture of all sorts of ideas and tones, be the effect of art ; but certain it is, that of all orators he is the most easy to refute when read, and the most difficult when heard. Of all our political roues he is the most amusing, of all our sophists the most subtle, of all our jugglers the hardest to detect. He is the Bcsco of the tribune. Sometimes he grows tender upon himself, and no one knows better how to play the victim. Sometimes he takes the tone of an honest man, sends forth deep sighs from his breast at the perversities of opinion. Marvellously well does he play the tender, yet at the very moment you think he will caress you, he claws you—the little traitor He loves to keep in power, not for the sake of power itself, but of the good things which are its concomitants. M. Guizot has pride—M. Thiers sensuality. The reason is, that for two-thirds of his life be has been kept from the enjoy ments of fortune, and now he gorges them with all the greedi• ness and selfishness of a starved man. M. Thiers is a demon of esprit. I verily think he has it at the corners of his lips, and the tip of his nails. His organisa tion resembles that of Voltaire ; it is fragile, nervous, rapid, sensitive. He has the caprices of a refractory child, and yet pretends to the gravity of a philosopher. He is more a man of letters than a statesman, and more an artiste than a man of letters. He will feel a violent passion for an Etruscan vase, but a very slight one for liberty. His former enthusiasm for our great revolutionists was but that of a young man and a scholar, mingled, though he was un conscious of it, with a spite at being nothing then, and a vague hope of becoming somebody. Consequently the abuse of monarchical enjoyments soon rendered his temperament ef feminate, and he has descended from the garret to the salon, and placed himself on fine gold-fringed sofas, just as if he had never sat on the straw. He is a great lord by instinct, just as others are by birth and habit. From very carelessness he is a sceptic in morals, in religion, in politics, in literature—nearly in everything, and hence there are no truths which touch him deeply; there is no thorough devotion to the cause of the people which does not awaken his laughter. Ile is a glittering stuff which reflects all sorts of colours in the sun, without having any hue of its own, and the light texture of which allows the day to be seen through. Do not ask him for convictions—he doubts ; nor for proofs of virility —his temperament refuses them. You wish not for his raillery, but still that all may to Lim seem comical. You wish him not to laugh at you, but then how well he can laugh at himself Intrust him, if you will, with the marine, or the war, or the interior, or judiciary, or the diplomatic department; but do not leave millions at his disposal, far less hundreds of millions, for they will slip through his fingers like water through a sieve. To the f ac ili ty w ith w hich he spends money he adds a certa i n method of rendering accounts which is not that a d opte d b y everybody, and this he wittily calls the art of grouping figures, I like vastly this natural speaker, who is so lively, and has such a free gait. He converses with me and does not de claim ; he is not always chanting in the same tone like the other preachers of the doctrine. True, he ends in the long run by stunning me with his babble, but still his lively chat tering is a great relief after the usual oratorical monotony, that eternal bore, the greatest for a hearer, for a Parliamen tary martyr, who is condemned to endure it from noon till a o'clock in th e evening. At every step of his road M. Thiers stumbles on fl owers , rubies, pearls, and diamonds. He has onl y to stoop, and at the same moment he collects them, groups them, and takes them up in his hands in the shape of a g ar l an d ; a clasp, a ring, a girdle,can or a le dini tahtiesmi diadem—there lia is so Melt riches, f ru itf u l ness , and He brilliancy meditate without effort, and produce without ea= liaustion ; he marches without fatigue, and is the most rapid traveller among ideas that I kn ow , Times pass before him in their pr hi c oper or d sought b v others, er and according to t h e i r own shape, and nature, ~ otu comes to him without awaiting his call, clothed in all her ma j esty and with all the graces of her smile. When in a steam - b oat hare you ever w h is noticed the watery mirror in which the banks are reflected ? There you may see beautiful vill ages, churches with light spires, verdant meadows , bushy mounta i ns, the trembling sails of the ships , the white ears o f t h e stan di ng corn, the flocks of the valley , the clouds o f h eaven, t h e cattle and the people. Such a scene exactly r esere bl ee M . Thiers ; he is a sort of Parliamentary mirror, refl ect i ng t h e pass i ons of others, and tear beingina his s himself without p ass i on. He can weep without a ,All is a mere sta ge -pl a y ; —b ut then, what a play, and Wililt an a ctor I Wh at nature I What flexibility I What flights of imi tat i on I Wh at sudden i nfiee, dons of tone! What light—wh a t transparency i n the style I draw one eye drop not ; What a negligent grace in his words I \ou deceive me, actor your design. You play but e a is part. I know this, and ft s e e iV d se uctions to lead Ine along, and the influence of your spells, and t )).:, h ioe a ui t rti pyur nevertheless a a dr entirely.! 1 ,. i 1 ar a la i n ti d i way in, t y o oy:en d rtd e e r truth farm the lips of another. sfrinoln your lips than the id ea o f a b ear dless w oman , a t? w we; l l l . 4. e Trl du bt e hic a er t rs ed boe a fta n er d nCgr u ri9v it er ty woman, who does not stand but sits at the tribune, and who prate s ahcut a thousand subjects with the most nimble grace, while her lips are ever in motion with out in the least betraying the workings of her mind. lkio spring of steel, however fine, is so flexible as he. He bends Pn d unbends, rises and lowers himself with his subject. In a spiral curve be runs round every subject, so es to moeut from the bottom to the top. He climbs up, hg descends, he climbs up again, he hams on the branches, squats himaelf PRICE sd. among the leaves, appears, disappears, and plays a thousar d tricks with the agility of a squirrel. I do not know it, not the least in the world; but I would affirm it nevertheless, that M. Thiers could discourse for three hours en architecture, poetry, law, navigation, and military tactics, though he is neither architect, poet, lawyer, sailor, nor soldier, provided he first had an apres-diner of preparation. He astonishes the oldest chefs de division when he talks about administration. To hear him talk of curves, assizes, abate ments, and hydraulic mortars, you would swear he was a mason at least, if not an architect. Ile would dispute a chemical point with Gay Lussac, and teach EArrago Low to point his telescope at Venus or Jupiter. Ido not exaggerate. Let him treat of what subject be will, he is never at a loss. The fine arts, canals, roads, finances, trade, history, the press, transcendent politics, street-business, theatres, war, literature, religion, municipal affairs, ethics, mat ters of pleasures, what does it matter? He is ready at them all, and this, because is ready at—nothing. He does not speak like other orators, because lie speaks like the world at large. Other orators prepare themselves more or less ; he speaks ex ternpore. Other orators have perorations, but he talks away ' at mace, and can guard against another prater such as you or I might he, better than anybody. Other orators allow a bit of the buskin to peep from the wing, and the reflection of the mirror shows the waving plumes of their crest. But M. Thiers —you catch hold of him as he leaves his bed, and you say, " Come, conic, make haste; all is ready—thepublic are impa tient and await you. Take up your mask and play a minister, a general, an artist, a puritan, whatever you will ; only do play something." M. Thiers will not even take time to wipe his forehead and drink a glass of eau sucree. He walks on the stage at once, dresses himself, and performs before the spectators ; draws his characters off-hand, spins his dialogue, unravels his plot, and learns his part while acting it. Some times he plays two parts, turns on his heel, throws off one mask, claps on another, and though always the same, he is always different; is always in his place, is always an accom plished actor. THE UNITED STATES' BANK, LETTER FROM NICHOLAS BIDDLE, ESQ., TO THE HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1838. My Dear Sir—The general resumption of specie pay ments presents a fit occasion to close our correspondence with au explanation of the course of the Bank of the United States in regard to that subject. This shall be done briefly and finally. On the 10th of May, 1837, the banks of New York sus pended specie payments, and their example was imme diately and necessarily followed by the other banks in the United States. The country was thus placed in a situa tion of extreme difficulty, from which it could be extri cated only by instant and vigorous measures for its protec tion. The dangers were—the total prostration of its credit and character abroad--the depreciation in prices of all its public securities and its staple productions—and, last and worst, that the defensive remedy of suspension might be protracted until it became itself a disease. It was ma nifest, too, that the calamity had outgrown the capacity of mero politicians—that the country must take care of itself, and rely only upon itself—and as, in times of peril, the voice of the humblest citizen may sometimes be heard above the tumult, my own personal position seemed to jus tify the assumption of instant and deep responsibility. Ac cordingly. at the very moment when this national misfor tune occurred, immediate measures were adopted to miti gate and to repair it. Of these in their order. 1. Aware that the first intelligence of the suspension would degrade the character of the country, and subject us to the reproach of bad faith and insolvency, I addressed to you a published letter, which went to Europe, at the same time with the news of the suspension, in which I ventured to pledge myself for the fidelity of our countrymen. In that letter, of the 13th of May, 1837, I said—" In the meantime two great duties devolve on the Bank and the country. The first regards foreign nations—the second, our own. We owe a debt to foreigners, by no means largo for our resources, but disproportioned to our present means of payment. We must take care that this late measure shall not seem to be an effort to avoid the pay ment of our honest debts to them. We have worn and eaten and drunk the produce of their industry —too much of all perhaps—but that is our fault, not theirs. We may take less hereafter, but the country is dishonoured unless we discharge that debt to the uttermost farthing." For this purpose—the early and total discharge of our debt to foreigners—the whole power of the Bank of the United States was devoted. In such a crisis it was evi dent that if resort was had to rigid curtailments, the ability to pay would be proportionally diminished ; while the only true system was, to keep the country as much at ease as consisted with its safety, so as to enable the debtors to col lect their resources for the discharge of their debts. For the same purpose the bank, though entirely out of its course of business, and in some degree of collision with its own exclusive interests, assumed an active agency in col lecting the debts of the Bank of England, gave every faci lity for the recovery of all debts, and stimulated our coun trymen to this duty by earnest and constant appeals to their honour aad their true interest. With what a generous emulation that appeal was answered you all well know—for it touched a chord which lies deep in all American hearts. If the universal distress which pervaded the community could not be witnessed without a painful sympathy, its melancholy was redeemed by the high and manly spirit which it roused throughout the country. For never, on its most glorious fields of battle, was there displayed a more lofty sentiment of honour and courage than was then exhibited. The honest payment of debt—the homely duty of private life, was elevated by its universality into a sentiment of national honour, as the whole country in mass pressed forward to its performanc e as to some sacred and patriotic obligation. Whatever could be paid was paid instantly and cheerfully ; what it was impossible to pay at once, was secured with ample interest for the delay, with an utter abandonment of mere selfishness, and a disregard of any pecuniary sacrifice necessary to fulfil their engagements. Accordingly, the manner in which the United States have settled their im mense commercial debt to Europe, is a lasting monument of their integrity. No country could have better performed its duty. Even in the calmest moments of prosperity such a settlement could scarcely be imagined as was accom plished amidst the general wreck and confusion of all its great interests with which the country was afflicted. The consequence is that the general credit of the country never stood higher than at this moment ; far it has now earned a distinction entirely exclusive and characteristic—that while the Government of the United States is the only Government on earth that has ever paid to the last cent. its national debt, the people of the United States have discharged their private engagements with an unex. ampled fidelity —a civil glory this, worth a thousand vic tories. In the midst of these troubles, the character of our in stitutions was threatened by a combination of politicians in Pennsylvania, who endeavoured to establish, as the basis of American legislation, that a charter or other engage ment made by any State legislature, was liable to be an nulled by any subsequent legislature and still more effectually by any political meeting called a convention, which is only another form of extraordinary legislation ; and an attempt was announced to carry that dogma into effect at a convention then approaching. The assertion of such a right by the State government, to annul all its en gagements to foreigners, put forth at a moment when the eountry was labouring under a temporary inability to pay its debts, was calculated to destroy all confidence in the in tegrity of our American institutions ; and I, theretore, said to you in my letter, " This must not be. It must be decided whether this Pennsylvania of ours is a virtuous community or a mere society of plunderers ; nor will the honour of the State be relieved either at home or abroad from the stain which a few small politicians wish to fix upon her, until the convention adopts some solemn declaration that there is eo power in this nation capable of violating the sacred en gagements of the State authorities. That should be done, and if any efforts of mine may avail, that shall be done, fur the honour of this state, for the character of her sister states, and fir the stability of our popular institutions." Accordingly, when the Convention met, one of its moat decided acts was the following resolution, passed on the 21st of November, 1837 Resolved—That it is the sense of this Convention that a charter duly granted under an act of Assembly, to a bank, or QUIDr private corporation, is, when accepted, a contract with the parties to whom the grant is made ; and it such charter be unduly granted or subsequently misused, it may be avoided by the judgment of a Court of justice in d ue course of law, and not otherwise, unless in pursuance of a power expressly reserved in the charter." The obligatio n of the State Legislatures to fulfil all their ongagements made with foreigners—and the anxiety of in dividuals to pay their foreign debts, being thus established, the next care was to enable both to comply with their con tracts at s s little sacrifice as • possible. It was due to foreigners that every debt should be paid—it was due to ourselves to make the most of our resources in the settle ment. Now these resources consisted mainly in the public I s ecurities, and the staple productions of the country. The shock of suspension would, of cour s e, sink both to the low • est point of depression, and it seemed expedient to save them from sacrifice by two Measures applicable to each. There can §carcely be any form of Lectulty more safe f than the pecuniary engagements of the States. They hay a most luxuriant soil, valuable products, infinite natural ad% anfages, untiring industry in developing them. They have every thing but money ; and for that they are able to pay, and willing to pay, much more than the less produc tive industry of Europe can afford to pay. Their loans too, instead of being wasted in wars or extravagance, go to the direct improvement of the borrowing States ; so that there can be no better application of the means of any Eu ropean capitalist than to double his income by American investments. Yet all these require knowledge—local in formation, the means of exciting confidence ; and it was thought most expedient to establish an American agency in London, as the common centre and the general support of all American securities, where, in addition to the ap propriate business of the bank itself, all the public and core porate stocks of the States might find shelter and protection. In like manner derangement of the currency placed the staples of the south entirely at the mercy of the foreign purchaser, who could have dictated the terms of the sale to the prostrated planter. It was thought proper to avert that evil by employing a large portion of the capital of the Bank in making advances on southern produce. This had two effects ; the first was to provide remittances to pay its own bonds in England, issued to the New York merchants in their extreme distress ; for as the Bank could not of course purchase these staples, it made advances upon them in the south, receiving in exchange, bills on Europe. The second effect was to introduce into the mar ket a new competition, and thus prevent the uncondi tional subjectio❑ of the planter to the foreign purchaser. These advances were made, not as in past years on tl:e mere personal security of the merchants —which the con fusion of all private credit would have rendered too hazardous—but on the actual shipment of the produce to an American house in England, willing and able to protect American property from the reckless waste with which it has been too often thrown into the market, with an entire disregard of all American interests. The combination of these causes—the application of capital on this side, and the prudent reserve on the other—have saved to the plant ing interest an amount which it is difficult to estimate below ten or fifteen millions of dollars. I believe, too, that nearly one-half of the commercial debt of this country to Europe has been paid by the mere difference between the actual sales of the securities and staples--and the prices they would have realized had they been thrown unprotected into the hands of Europeans. These measures were essentially of a temporary nature—they were measures of emergency adopted in the midst of a public calamity, and to be dis continued with the necessity which caused them. As soon, therefore, as the capital and industry of he country had time to subside into their accustomed channels these opera tions were relinquished, and now they have totally and finally ceased. 3. During these movements it became important to un derstand distinctly the course of the Government. In my letter to you of the 6th of April last, I stated my " con viction that there could be no safe or permanent resumption of specie payment by the banks until the policy of the Go vernment towards them was changed." The change was soon and happily made. On the 30th of May the specie circular, requiring payments in coin in the land offices, was repealed by Congress. On the 23th of June the Bill, sailed the Sub-Treasury, requiring coin in all payments to the Government, was negatived. In the month of July the Government agreed to receive an anticipated payment of the bonds of the bank to the amount of between four and five millions of dollars in a credit to the treasurer on the books of the bank—and arrangements were made for the more distant public disbursements in the notes of the bank, These arrangements, as honourable to the executive officers, as they were beneficial to the public service, brought the Government into efficient co-operation for the re-establish ment of the currency, and opened the way to the resump tion of specie payments. That resumption accordingly. took place throughout the middle states on the 13th of Au gust, and in many of the southern and western states soon. after. 5. It remained only to aid some of the south-western States for the same object. Their activity in extending their public and private improvements had made them debtor states, and depreciated their currency by its excess. But they had abundant resources, and perfect willingness, to pay—and all that was needed seemed to be a longer period to recruit their exhausted means—so as to derive from the approaching crops, by a short anticipation, ability to meet their engagements. The Bank of the United States has used its utmost endeavours for that purpose by making ad vances to the amount of many millions to the banks in those states, all of whom will, it is presumed, by the month of January resume specie payments, and thus complete the circle of resumption throughout the whole Union. And now, upon reviewing- the events which followed the suspension, it is a source of great gratification to see that all that it was designed to do has been done. It was proposed co protect the character of the country from the first shock of the suspension —to effect the honour able discharge of our foreign debt with the least samifice of the property of the debtors..--to vindicate the good faith of the State Legislature —to discourage all premature attempts to resume—but by a cautious delay for those states which were less prepared—accomplish a ur.iversal resumption. All these are done, and the troubles of the country have hap pily ceased. Of the future, it is difficult to speak ; but in that future the Bank of the United States will no longer occupy its past position. The Bank of the United States had ceased to be a national institution in 1836, and was preparing to oc cupy its new place as a state bank, when the troubles of 1837 forced it in some degree back into its old position ; and it then devoted all its power to assist in carrying the country unhurt through its recent troubles. Having done this, its extraordinary duti es cease d. F or the future, it o,ls,lleates this involuntary power. It has no longer any responsi bility to the Union. It has no longer any controversies with the Government of the Union. It nor: desires only repose, and it will take its rank hereafter as a simple state institution devoted exclusively to its own special concerns. I rejoice, too, that this new position of the Bank absolves me from many cares and duties. In the general confusion of public affairs during the last two years it has been my lot to be more prominent than my own inclination prompted, and often to assume a station which would have better fitted others. But public calamities justify the apparent forward ness they require —as great dangers are best met by defying them. My task is now ended, and I gladly withdraw from these responsibilities, carrying with me the only satisfaction I ever sought in them—the consciousness of having done my duty to the country as a good citizen. With regard, yours, Ste. N. BIDDI;E. COPY OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF THE LATE QUEEN CHARLOTTE. The following exquisite specimen of a Queen's epistolary style is said to be genuine MY DEAR Mits. BOSCAWEN,--I know you are always ready to come forward in distress, even when not called upon. I have, therefore, no hesitation in applying to yr kindness of conveying the small sum enclosed to Mrs. Moor, who I am sorry to hear is a severe sufferer by the fire at St. J. Thirty guineas are for herself, and ten guineas to be divided between the two housemaids. I beg this may not be talked of. I would willingly give you more, but have many calls upon me at present. You will also receive a parcel with two silk gowns for Mrs. Moor, and a small one for the two servants. But this may not come the same day, unless a good opportunity offers itself to send it by. I am glad to hear you have not suffered essentially by th e fright, and trust that our dear Lady Charlotte Finch will soon recover her spirits sufficient to leave her bed, as jam sure that remaining in it for any time must weaken her more and More. I trust to yr prudence in not naming our correspondence, and allll7l is the word. CHARLOTTE. Windsor, the 24th January, 1809. TtiE BREAD TAX.--At length this question is absorbing the attention of the community. The pinch has begun to be felt, The Ministerial papers have awakened from their apathy, and are crying out lustily, calling upon the people to look to themselves and save the population from famine, commerce from destruction, and the country from revolution, by insisting upon an alteration of the Corn laws. We are happy to find that the greater portion of the farmers are now convinced that the Corn-laws are as inju rious to them as they are to the rest of the community, and that they will not join those of the landlords (happily only a few), who have declared their intention to maintain their high rents at the cost of ruin to the country. We are happy to see that the Marquis of Tweeddale and other great landowners, following the example of Sir Thomas Leth bridge, are about to aid the effort to change laws destruc tive of commerce, oppressive to the poor, injurious to that farmer, and beneficial to none but the landowners— an d t ir , a few only of th em , an d to th ose f e w but its a small dTree. —Somerset County Gazette. 'minced in CWRW DA.—The year 1839 has co w Carnarvon with an extraordinary circumstance. Without. any reason assigned, or notice given, tl a lovers of that exhilarating beverage, Cwrw da, fount?, to their constermt tion, that the price had d risen with tile new y ear , an d t h at two-pence was demaned, instead of the ancient price of three halfpennies. war was the consequence, and the following was the first Sinners' Proclamation : " _Harmony Disconcerted, or, Sinners versus Publicans. " Whereas a combination is entered into by the Publi cans against the Sinners of the town of Carnarvon, by ad vancing the Cwrw from threepence to fourpence per pint ; and the latter fancying the former are brined by the Tee totallers, the Sinners call a meeting of their large fraternity from Whig -office and War-office, to meet this evening at the New Market-hall, to consider this most grievous breach of their ancient privilege, and to enforce the publicans to reduce their swipes to its last year's price."—Caritareo t Herald. /7//, i . -J, •r p s , I.' a i --- „: - , (4m..- ---- • ~......_ , ___ z ' Koc l i ) -,. , Le 4" , •' - ' ' "11 4 - - 4 . ' \ -'-'. A ; 7 4 TI _ (, , v ~I • -• 1 c ~:0 INS' -7 1 , ,) 0142 v 4 ; 41. 4- ~ (,' k„. . 1 ~,t, ' , ,z-- rc . ..i, 1111111. °41:t*4:17 teC2 ...1111 1111111 1 , 1'-;;- * . 1 :', t e . .:,:-..... Ir , ~_ -0 ,-, - 7 17 , r , Avhtoo,Hom _t nie,- -) . 0 - c: '''-- -. 1,7 ,-- '' IS s' , e . l ' '11 1 ,t , *;"4 , ~ .l ......„.,,,,,, , ~. , HAMPSHIRE. At NEW SPRING-ROW, MOUNTS-ROW, and SPRING GARDENS, near the TOWN of PORTSMOUTH. TO BE SOLD BY TENDER, by Order of the Right Hon. the Master-General and Prin cipal Officers of her Majesty's ORDNANCE, the undermentioned COTTAGES and LANDS, producing a rental of 2131. 6s. a year, viz.:— At NEW SPRING-ROW. FOUR HOUSES, in the several occupations of Thomas Rus sell, John Ridlington, John Worley, and Mark Chappell, producing an annual rental of 401. 10s. At the BACK of NEW SPRING-ROW. TWO COTTAGES, or Tenements, occupied by James Bowyer and William Glenn, producing a rental of Si. 4s. a year. In MOUNTS-ROW. THREE TENEMENTS, in the several occupations of Sarah Cooper, Edward Hankin, and James Green, producing a rental of 311. 10s. a year. ADJOINING the LANDPORT-ROAD. A Capital TIMBER YARD, Work-shop, and Tenement thereon, having a frontage of 160 feet next the Landport-road, in the occupation of Richard Hunt, producing an annual rent of 12/. 12s. SPRING-GARDENS—On the West Side. NINE COTTAGES, or Tenements, with the site of two others that have been taken down, in the several occupations of William Todd, Edmund Wear, Robert Gifford, Frances Ford, Joseph Eatll, David Fife, William Clark, William Scoffield, and William Sulky, producing an annual rental .f 651. On the EAST SIDE. SIX COTTAGES, or Tenements, with a small Garden, and the site of where two cottages have been taken down, in the several o.:cupations of William Blake, Robert Barkham, Anne Roberts, J a mes Wiltshire, Richard Hunt, and George Clark, producing a rental of 43/. a year. The above Premises have lately undergone a thorough repair, and are all in good order. - _ .. The Fixtures, belongin; to the Board of Ordnance, on the re spective premises, will be included in the purchase. At the BACK of SPRING-GARDENS. A capital walled GARDEN, with a small Cottage and Shed thereon, let to William S. Lawes, at the annual rent of 91. ADJOINING the LANDPORT-ROAD. A Walled a forta g e •f 24 feet to the said road, and 160 feet deep, in the occupation of James Green, at the yearly rent of 31. 10s. Tenders will be received, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall-mall, London, where particulars may be had ; also the Storekeeper, at Gun Wharf, Portsmouth ; and of Mr. Harts, Superintendent of Ordnaace Property at Hilsea. By order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. Office of Ordnance, December 31, 108. ITCH, Ringworm, and S ca ldh ea d are e ff ec t ua lly cured, in the shortest possible space of time, by the applica tion of two of SHARP'S ROYAL BRITISH CERATES and LINIMENT ; both sorts being free from anything in the slightest degree offensive, and perfectly harmless in their character and com position. 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Sold in Packets at 13 1 Ad., 28, 9 d., 43. 6d., and 11,-. each, , -- --- A MONSTER.—At the Stamford Baron Petty Ses sions, on Monday, the following charge was preferred ;-- A young man, named Sissons, was drinking some ale, nod sit ting by the fire of a public-house at Barnack, on Saturday evening, when a fellow named Stones, known for his fero cious disposition, entered the plape, and s ee i ng a man aga i nst whom he bore a grudge, he bea t him and th rew hi m i nto t h e road, fiitones, who is an immense man s returned t o th e room, and without the slightest provocation dragged §ig, sons from his chair, threw him several times on the ground, j ust a bove the nail s . Th e b rute t h en and then seizing his hand, thrlst into his mouth, and bit off two of his fingers fixed upon the man's arm with his teeth, an d attempte d to bite out a large plepe of the fle§li t in whiph he pearly sue, ceeded the pieces of the fingers could not bp foga, although a stria search was made for them. For this risonpd f of one m O nt h.p atrociou s conduct. the monster was sentenced to pay a fine of 3Ps? ? aP4 7s. costs, or to be irn J f j' ' ~` MONUMENTS As a SACRED MENIORIAL to the MEMORY of either RE LATIVE or FRIEND. T. ASHTON informs the Nobility, Gentry, • and others, that he has for inspection a variety of hand some MARBLE MONUMENTS, ENTABLATURES, &c., Sculptured and Plain, executed in the best manner, which will be DISPOSED OF on the most reasonable terms. To be seen at No. 28, Marylebone-street, Golden-square, St. James's. Tombs on an improved principle. Foreign orders strictly attended to. colts, s. to d Of 0 7 7 S ) 3 0 Mor- Pear" , jun., Esq• :_—_—, John ieard, ;eorge lelgea. relict ooch► ! year ophia Esq., iarn 9 , It, of e. itMeg Felix Ting- idow .......... N. lust 1 I