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F . . \ irfurg , ~•. _.,,_.' h. • o -,-- 7,9 , f •,.., ''',, *- ,„.„,) "irk._.... i t ,, , , 4 7/ il '4l ,%. / / . ,, ,2 0 . 1 , • f e7/4''--/e-r4 . , ( / /, 11 e, -ZOr - i -e,•t C/I r ee . ,';' '' ' ... "A . . , • „ -,•••;,' (*: ~.. ~~\ ~:~ \~~\ ~ ~ ~~ ~~~~~. ~~ . ~ ~ ~ NritTBER 8846.] • .4111 I 111.41..7'Y-OFFIOE, Dec. 4, IS-70. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Session of 7 Oner and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, for the Trial 411 , Offei n es con:mile:l on the High Seas, within the ..Turi,dic.. t : ut of the richniralt7 of England, will be held at the Justice t h e 01! B a rley, London, on 'Allonday; the Sth day of j ""cery next, at Eight o'Cloc.h /A the Morning. • J. J. CR OKER. CONTRACT FOR MOPS. 11 °Y. At HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN AT GREENWICH, Dec. 28, I S2O. Persons as may INC willing to Contract for Supplying this Hospital with MOPS, far Six or 4 Weke wails, may deliver in their Proposals to the Di rectors of the saga Hosr:ta!, at this Place, on SATURDAY, the Gt h Jan. next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon; and in M e mean time be furnished with Forms of 'Proposals, and aelLtainted with further particulars, by, inquiring at the Steward's Office here. Nu Propirsal will be receire!! after_tbe s liottr 'tifrtre '4rd)nor Will auy be attended to that are not agreeable tu the 346 1 Forms : nor unless the Parties personallv appear, -".'^; t ROYAL nosprrAt., CitIELSEA, Dac. .29, 15 20. IN pursuance of the Act of the 55th 'Year of his late Majesty, by which it is enacted, that the ut, r ensioners of this Hospital shall, in future, be paid QttOar -t!tiY, its advance, instead of Half-yearly ; Notice is hereby given, by order of the' Right Honourable the Lords- asiF Zthers, Commissioners for Managing the Affairs of the said 4 lospital, that all the Out-pensioners thereof, residing in Lon "n, of within the District of the Bills of Mortality, are re quired to appear personally and regimentally, with their In '',,ructions and Certificates of Admisslon, at the Secretary's' t ''Lve in the said Hospital, on the respective days, 'and in • different classes, accenting to their several Rates of eension, as undermentioned ; when attendance will be siren it 'ilts Ten o'Cloch its the Morning until Three in the After boon, for the Payment of a Quarter of a Year's Pension in 44 ance, to the 2tth March next, ytz. On TUESDAY, the 9d of January. L . T he Pensioners at sd. per day, an d th o se a t &L AG the end it the numbered Regiments. On WELY E SDAY R , the 3d o so fn anuar l'h ose at from the oyal Garri d ßattalio y. n, and the ae ntaittin g Regiments, or Corps, with those at 7d. and gd. 441 d all the Cavalry at Dd. per day. Oti TlitilsDAY, the 411 i of January. tiT4 4suse at 9d. per day, frtun the Ist Foot Guards, with ifie frotu . the ist Regiment of Foot, to the 60th Regiment acluaire. On FRIDAY, the sth of January. Those at On FRIDAY, , fraini the 61st Foot, and 411 the re- Regnne • tr. and Corps, as also those at 10d. per On SATURDAY, the 6th of January. ajliose at is. per day, froth the different Regiments of Ca with the Ist and ad Regiments of Riot duards. On MONDAY, the Bth of January. E nos at Is. per day, from the3d Regiment of Foot Gthirds, a ke 'l those from the tat Foot, to the end of the numbered '• i i , tents at that rate. On TUESDAY, the 9th of January. . 1 11 , 1 4 05 e at Is. per day, from th e R o y a l. Garrison Battalions, . 4 6 all the remaining Regiments and Corps, and a l so th ose ''.old. per day. On WEDNESDAY, the 10th of January. -ose at ts. Id. is. lad. Is. ;-.111. Is. 21d: and Is. 3d. per . . al . On THURSDAY, the llth of January. h . ose at Is. 3111. Is. 4d.. ls. 41d. Is. sil. is sfd. Is. 6d. Is .1 1)-i• Is. 7d. Is. 71d. Is. Bd. Is. Sid. Is. 9d. 9110.1. and - ' ) d• per day. , On FRIDAY, the 12th of January, 1520. asi i l ,"ose at Is. 100. per day and upwards, likewise the Pri at'7,,Uentlemen who receive Annuities Irons the late Ist and A t ' 'oops of Horse Guards, and those Pensioners who have l o atitinitted on account of Blindness. 1„, t , , s also ordered and directed, that all Out-Pensioners be ti a 5 the said Hospit .do pay particular attention to iostructiona ' which they are required to produce at the Itt: e n 'f Pavnient,lty'which those Pensioners residing beyond IN - "Ills of Mort a lity, are ordered to trqnsmit to the Pay 7 tit4'!r-General of his Majesty's Laud Forces in Loudon, kit e !' aktfidavits as therein prescribed, on or immediately L o t • eve Quarter Day without which their Names will a ll 4 41, ry entered on the Pay-Lists for the subsequent Quarter; ‘ l2, y are nut afterwards to chan ge th e ir Pl a c es o f Rest tyk'eee'' without unavoidable necessity, ani duly notifying the r, -rs - tier to take Notice, that in consequence of various i ) 4l, having been committed by Pensioners- in the Receipt 5 w,, "Nion and Prize-Money, it is ordered that all Pen t' .4,' so offending, shall be struck off the Pension List, and toe ever all benefit arising from this Establishment. RICHARD NEAVE, Secretary and Registrar. VIE LORDS of the TREASURY'S high aeprobation of our New Year's Lottery is fully equal tali," Ilea of the Public, who view with surprize the 'wipe- Number (in this Scheme) of 41 ; „ ' PRIZES of 21,0031. each is (steo of 20001. &c. &c. 95,940 Aria • Making, in Money and C onsu l s ,C284,940. altbough we have paid their Lord s hip s a l arge E xtra het f p s ' . Per Ticket for these unprecedented ad van t ages , we H ave r ;olv red uce d th e p r i ce o f Ti c k e t s an d Shares,' but the bou e 't iir le than Half, and the Prizes are increased to 41 -E e wh ss at any former Scheme could have contain e d,— at' oo b rawine begins 28d January, when THREE PRIZES' of *l,° each 'will be received Extra by the Fifth Prize, and Purchaser of a Single Ticket mar . obtain t tig6 j ' . R. 12 :1 4 :S of TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. vur former Schemes have been estimated, we trust Ittn,,r r its of thia exceeds them all, and we-hope to be as for . e for our friends, ash.] One Lottery Last Contract, when a. and J. 'SI VEWRIGHT, Zuld,lcoaNl-ILLI„ I 1, HOLBORN; Sr. as, HA YMARkET, the PRIZES of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS. ° NYII - 1 - SHOPKEEPERS and FAMI tEt 4, 4 are informed by JOHN BISHOP and CO. that j t t iqq." u 9ig SALE in their SALOON behind the 'Shop : ua•ta,if-;91 of ...!ILLY, next door to -the White Beat, London. Pocket Handkerchiefs, Roruolls, Pallicats, ao Shawls coninieliong at Is. per doz en . f'n Men'sand Women's Cotton, Worsted, and Lamb's '9op; °el Hose and Sock,, commencing at 4s per dozen. 3 / 40 I,,t,;:iini:toil g a a c - j a n ths, t - :•tltll, and . 6-4ths, Cambric Muslin, :d. per yard. t,t- %Vetch and other Flannels, commencing at 'to Per yard. A ls "I 4s vileut eaef Gingham Umbre llas , Brass and Plated mouot , it % scotch. Holland, and other Tapes, Bind !oiling 164,000 Picces, from fa:per piece. .thict astonishing cheap collection of Genlieun"'s. 41,4;aLt (44.°I,l,iildreits Boots and Shoes of the very best mad , 11, Per plies'but strong) make, comm as common encing '„ Ifss t i ock of a Milliner, consisting of the , latest fa .ll • u n. Cans, Tkers, Frills, and 1 urban Caps, (AretniVl, uywards, allucmade of the most superior Book, " „rad the cambric Muslins. y„ I "'-trait of her mates; Queen Caroline, the best h+ r% l l.; e r , a ) ved upon Cloth, at -sty each. t.. th usignment a Ton weiciht of fine Ginger, at Bd. at•e4„:9at i y , o War kle, l— `"PY; upwards of a thousand barrels of th e toed, in casks of telb. each at ad. per lb. zuu ...ole nt„ rioly of other Articles,. all at seventh weworth " of Dealers or Families residing n the ' Parts of the Ringdoui: TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1821. CH HONOLOGICAL Vi.EW (Jr THE - EVENTS OF isio, JANUAILY. JANthstlY I.—flochelm,!, , a (a new Town) begun on the banks of St. Lawrence, and contiguons to Montreal. Regulation' of the Landwehr, by or King of Prussia. .—.lnsurrectint: of the Spanish Army of Expedition. New Russian TaritTbecatne in force. Hurricanes in Newfoundland. Alarming Fire at Smyrna. 6. The Pope's Nuncio received at Paris by the King. • / Intense Frost at Glasgow. 7. The Birmit-sgbani Theatre burnt. 9. Burning of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. 10. Contiagration at Savannah. Accounts of Earthquakes its India. 13. East India Company vote a-Statue': in honour of War ren Hastings, to b e placed in the. Cotirt Room. 14. Society Instituted for the Relief of the Houseless. F.xtirpatiots of Negro Slavery in America. Twenty-four Prisoners arraigned at the Old Bailey. for Forged Bank-notes. 17. J. A. Curs-ol and A. Villemont both convicted at the Old Bailey for landing 200 Slaves in the Island of Mauritius, .Bout M.antipisear, tin .the Ist ot.,•lune,, - • -4.. hiblie Debt of Prussia fixed at One Hundred and Fighty Millions, Ninety-one Thousand, S;,sen liondred and,Twenty Dollars: and a sinking I.eizd created to liqui dat it. Public Dicrier at Sierra Leone. • 18. Outrages in Ireland. Emancipation of the Russian Peasantry confirmed by their Emperor. 19. New Constitution for the States of the Duchy of Bruns. wick agreed '.o. . • .Foreign Journals to. be prohibited in the Austrian Monarchy. 21. Decease of the Landgrave of Iftsse Homberg. Earthquake in tiro lonian Islands. 22. Overtures fur.conciliating the resident Jews. made by the Senate at. Frankfort. 23. I?ecease of his Royal Highness the. Duke of Kent at Sidmouth, in his 53d year, after a very short iltness. His de parting words wers. , --." I am quite prepared !" 24. Fifteen Housei burnt in Thames-street. • 25. Accounts of au Insurrection and Conflagration at Constantinople. - 28. Permission first given for Qttaters to settle iri Chris tiana, till the passing of souse general law, under the stipu lation of their tuaLing nu proselYtes. 29. Demise of his InOSt exci;ilent and gracious Majesty George the Third, in Windsor Castle, at 35 minutes past eight at night, in the 82d year of bis age, and the 60th year - of the most eventful reign recorded in our history. Accession of George tine Fourth, his present Majesty. 30. This day (although a Sunday) high Houses of Parlia ment met, in consequence kif the demise of the lat e Ki ng , but no roanntr of business was dun e . George the Fourth's first. Privy Council, at Carlton House, %chili lie aunouneedlbis Father's . Death. . Alterations in the Liturgy were agreed on in Council this day, which were entrusted to the Archbishop of Canter bury and the Bishop of London.' 31. Proclamation of George the Fourth, as eldest Son of the deceased King, in front of Carlton House, Pallmall.; and afterwards at Charing•croSs, Temple-bar, the end of Chan cery-lane,.and the Royal Exchange. Parliament usgt, by adjournment, for business. FEBRUARY. FtiattuatiY 1. Bulletin this day issuedannouncing the ill ness of his Majesty. Most of the ,Judges of the King's Bench, and King's Counsel, took the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to George IV, itsCoutt. 2. Parliament adjourned to the 17th of February. This day,a Grace passed the University of Cambridge for•granting to that of Cephalonia a Copy of all BoOhs issu ing front the Cambridge Press. • Address of Condolenceand Congratulation voted to his Majesty by the Common Council, on his Father's. death and his own accession. 3. Mourning for his late Majesty began. Arrests inn Madrid at midnight .• 4. Vice Chancellor took the usual oaths to George IV. in the Court of Chancery, at Lincoln's Inn. b. Mr. John Cam Huishouse brought by an Habeas Corpus into Court, when the Judges of the King's Bench declined to interfere with the decision of the Commons House, who bad imprisoned him. 6. Churches and Chapels in London hong with Mourning , . 7. Master of the Roils took the usual oaths to his Majesty, its the Court of Chancery. - S. Sir Vicary Gibbs, Chief Justice of the Comnion Pleas, died. 9. The last Bulletin, announcing the recovery of the King. 10. Princess (Marius and Alfred . both removed in their Coffins to the - Royal : Mausoleum at Windsor. Relief of inundations in Holland. - - Interment of the remains of the Duke 9f Kent, at Windsor. Proclamation from the King against Vice and Immor ality. 14. AssasSination of the Duke de Berri, in Paris, who ex pired at six o'clOck this morning. 15. Advises (dated July 17. 1819) 'from Sierra Leone, • This morning the Public were admitted to see the Body of hislate"Majesty lie in State in the Audience Chamber at Windsor Castle, where he had recently - died. . If. Public interment of the. Body of the deceased King, with mournful and solemn state, in the Royal vault, prep4red by his orders for his Family, in St..tjeore's Chapel, Windsor. • 17. Both Hennes of Parliament 'tnet, pursuant to adjourn meat., when a Message was delivered from the King; and Ad dresses were voted to him. 18. General Sir David Hondas died. 20. Resignation of the. French Ministertount Decazes ac- cepted. . . It. Decazes (Count) advanced to a Dukedora by Ennis XVIII, and appointed his Ambassador tothe Court of London, 22. Conversation on the Queen in the House of Commons. Apprehension of Radicals at Glasgow. 23. Thanksgiving forshis Majesty's convaleicence. Arrest, of several of•the Cato-street gang, and a Reward for the apprehension m' Thistlewood., .• M. Greffulh, nne of the French Peers, 'who gave the Ball at which the Duke tie Berri was upon the"evehing he was assassinated, died literally of grief in consequence of . i.t. 98: After the Royal Assent had been given by Commission to several Bills, followed with a Speech delivered on' behalf of his..Nlajesty by the'Lords Commissioners; both Hintses ttf Parliament were prorogued .the 17th of March ensuing. 19. Parliament dissolved by Proclamation. M ARCH. MARCH 2. High Winds in different parts. . • 3. Committal of the State Prisoners to the Tower. Dreadful Fire at Chatham. . . Murder and Arson at Woolwich, when . Mr. Parker anti his Housekeeper were murdered. 6. Exeter Theatre burnt. • , - , • • Ferdinand Vii. decrees the Cm - repetition of the Cortes. -- Spanish (New) Constitriiioli 7. Inquisition aboliihed by the Spanish King, who aetedeS to the.ConstantiOn 0: IEI9. • • , „ 8. Spanish Refugees, authoriied to return to their native country. 10. Massacre at Cadiz.. , • 44. Funeral of the murdered Puke de Berri, in the Boyal Clutch of St: Denis, at Paris.... ". 15.,ffible4 - -sent - as present's from `this Foreign Bible Society; converted into, cartridges by the Cbtassians. 17. Emigrants first arrive at the Cape of Good Hope•from this country. , . - 2t. Eeniamin West. P.R.A. died. F '93: P. Burdett ;mind guilt y,,ut Leicester, of ptiblfs!iitiii a• litre! in the letter to his Constituents on the occurrences of August Di, 1819, at Manchester. Apprehension of l'iesbitt,' at Ports4notith, as the;naiii deree'of Mr. Paritir . atid liis honSelieeper, at Wiinlie4i. 24. The ponorternin.lGoVerortient ,ny i kes, of the stq.ncstta;rd property eLftie Cattwlict..Chut!..:,t • i, • 27. If. 'Hoot, together with fouti - othAtf;" found . : galley at York, atter a trial 'of, ten difyi, of ' , a;:setitifilidOiitli uniaktittl, banners on the 16th of August, 1819, at Manchester, in order [.P .rcr SE-VEPENCE. to excite both hatred and contempt of the Government and Constitution of the.Realtu. 30. The new Law of Censorship was pasted b y the cb3a ) .. her of Deputies with regard to the French Press. Return of the Expedition agalact the Persliva pirate's. APRIL. Anitri. 1. Waller Scott (the Pizetj created a Baronet. Distorcrinces.'near ffuddersliild. Dein Milner died. • ' • --, Conspiracy at Glasgow, &c: &c. • • • 3. Conviction of Knight, I)ei.vburst, and others, at-Lan. caster. 4. Shock of an. earthquake at C'at'lz. - • ' 8. Conviction of Bruce and PrPlniiis, at •Chester, foi shoot ing- Birch, the Constable, of StoCkport. 10. Horrid catastrophe in India. 11. Parson Harrison and Sir Charles Wolseley found , goi!ty at chrSter, ofzt conspiracy. The keeping of his Majesty's Birth-day changed frau, the lith of August to April 23. Mr. Arthur Young died. 15. Trials of Thistlevrood,. and four others of the Cato street traitors. at the Old Bailey. 18. Parson Harrison once more convicted, at Chester, for • seditious language. • . 19. Thistle,woud found guilty of High Treasoo, VO. Messrs. Broirgbirm and Denman first recognised as At torney•Gerieral *and 'Soliritvizs'ftkCeraflar her Maje :-:• 'Roman Cathuiic_trtravel operre'd in Nloorfiehlg. " 4s.sernbling of the fit st Par tiawent of his present Ma=' jesty at Wettrainstcr. Shock of au earthquake at Brest. Hon...Nlr. Manners Sutton having been re-chosen as Speaker by the new House of Cc/unarms; is approved by the Lords CommisSioners for the King. '25. 'Mr. Patrick Colquhoun, Author of the celebrated trea tise on the'Police of the Metropolis, 07. The - first Session of the new Pariismelit was opened by George the Fourth, who. delivered a speech froze throne. as. It was resolved, at a public nieetiog, to erect a statue :o the memory of the Duk e o f Kent. Termination of the Old Bailey Trials,for High Ti C as,tr,. 29.' Warrants were icceived for the execution of wood, and four of his colleagusi in crime, by the keeper of Newgate.: E;plosion at Paris near the apartments of the Duchess de Berri, advanced it* pregnancy. Y. May. I. Execution of Thistira•uod. Tidd, Ings, Brunt, and - Davidson, in front of Newgate, for High 7 • reason. 5. Admiral Popham's reception at the Court of Hayti. .6. Jesuits sent out of Russia. 7. Algerines renew !hair piracies. to. Settlers first encamp at the Cape of Good Hope from Great Britain. Proclatuatlon of the Coronation of his Majesty. 15. Henry Hunt sentenced -to two years and six months confinement in lieliester Giol, and tw• 'securities, in ;Awl. each, for five further years—Sir Chailes Wolseley to eighteen months Imprisonment i ll Abingdon Gsol, and securities as in the former case—and Parson HArrison to eighteen months incarceration in. Clityni-rßiaol. • . . IS. First sitting of the Court of Claims. Motiuu made against her Majesty in the Court of Chan cery. 20. Sandi (Charles) executed, at Manheini, for as sa‘sinatiou of Kotzebue. Mr. Grattan landed at Liverpool, for the' last time, rvnr Dublin, to take his . parliamentary seat. Failure of Banks in the south of Ireland. The first Civil List Bill in the new reign, read a third uu, and passed, by ftle•House of Lords. • • ['Cu be continues:] , cLAVE TRADE. We _give the following extract from a letter, dated Sierra Leone, Nov. 13, 1820.. If the state, meats it contains are true, there can be no doubt that his Majesty's Ministers will take the neces sary measures in furtherance of that humane policy which has long distinguished the councils of this country on the subject of the Slave Trade " You are most egregiously mistaken in supposing that the- French have abridged their Shire Trade, for it is nosif carried on under their flag to a greater extent than ever. Had I time, I would give you a detail of the shipments of Slaves made by the Senegal and Goree traders since my last; but this I Must defer until the next opportunity: The grand de— pot fur expo: tatiOn now• is Bissoa; from thence the French residing in Senegal a,id Goree have lately despatched sererat vessels with full cargoes of slaves. I saw, myself, while theta in March last, a French brigantine (I have forgotten the name) commanded by Captain Conyam, belonging to Mr. Mill, an officer in the French Civil Departmentin.St. Louis (Senegal',) sail with a full cargo of slaves; and Mr. Gabbarl; the Put , tuguese com►nandant in Bissoa, was shipping another cargo, chiefly youths, on board a large Spanish brig from Haranaah. Being anEngliihmari, I dreaded goii.l; ashore in a place almost entirely inhabited by dealers 'in L!.fraar creatures.. my landing, I beheld such a scene of misery and woe ai I hilie 1 shall never again witness. It would reqnitte the pen of a Slialispeare to delineate the horrors attending the embarkiilg and stowing slaves at Bissos. The screa►us of the female., the piercing shrielis of the parents, the horrid eiths of w►fee!iug Europeans, and the noise of the chains, can only ba equalled in l'andernonhuitself. "Jar. Mill's vessel landud almost all her cargo in Senegal and Goree, from which places the slaves were sent overland, and down the coast, from Joal and Goree, by small trading vessels, to 13issoa, whiClr has now, become the grabd cups)• rium of the windward Slave Trade. Mr. Mill, being an officer under the French government in St. Louis, was, by his situation, enabled to adopt this plan; hut 'in general ,tlle French slave-dealers in Senegal are now ohliged to embark their slaves either at Little Portendick, Jual, or the island of from,which ports they are sent tp the Cape de Vied Islands, to be shipped off for their final lestination: I hesitate nut to assert that one hundred who are nnw expoited in this illicit trate endure more cruelty, and inhtt rnantty, both in the way iA which they are bidnapped,, and tbiriog thi-ir painful passage' across the Atlantis:, than a thousand dia during be ti.oe s ,while the, trade . was.geityrll. Thep there were,proper regulationsand fit preparel to 'transport tits: poor'unfOrtu,ate to ti,e V.:est Inthei ; but now, while the .1.1” s pvc“ ia!^ •:fricans litter cornmitteil •their bodies to the slumbers of the night, 01 . 0 r raxyjnit,s sadden!) , .set on' flam'es, in trying to escape (torn which :they are immediately, seized by a galig of the slats...di:ale& agent, ,and.v.li,thro it few !WM'S safely's:barbed, iri :the Itnidsfol. schoonvrs. I. have seen one ofdhe.sevesss)s, measur ing only 90 :016, which liad'iletwilly 196'slayes on" hoard: " our last utters from St:lll:,ry"s, Canihi4;l find' that out ,. titivful • cdono'erce hris 'star t :red greittq' iihritn; the )list years the waresapfiekhy the reriy:itig.ot the French Sta't'a Tra‘de, to.witolwarkhave aintuvp,p,.t, ao, end to the gold arid tradk. :None'ol*' the inhabit tradirls stare yr nt:ure near :the coast, for feat' of thiF , inlitacplng slave :re+l es,' • ‘ You have no dokt,ttt )leqvd vt a vessel tieing'l9l( . en by Sir .d . edrgr whose, cntio during, the cha4e, stovi T il 't slaves he had on hoartl'int6 stater' punihroins .5 . 140-;ed-ge.iliscoverecl 'this villainy hiniself.. Tile notorious yrar shipped so many slaves front Goree; circa 'actliallY branded the : hi with a tut icon, hits lately Raict true debt of nature." ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Established by Royal Charter, in the Reign of King George the First. December 1820. • 33ERSONS ; whose annual Premiums fall - clue on the 25th instants arc hereiLy informed, that Receipts are.now ready to be delivered at the .liompanv's Oilices, over the. Royal Eichange and in Pall-Mall, as well a, by their re spective 'Aonts in the several Counties; and the Parties as sured are requested to apply for the Ren e wal o f th e i r Poli cies on or before the 9th of January next, as the usual Fif teen Days glowed' for -Payment, beyond the date of each.Po !icy, will then expire. SAMUEL FINNING. Jun. Secretary, N. 13. Attendance is given, daily, at the said Offices, for the Assurance of Buildings, Goodi, Merchandive, and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while &lading, 'win Loss or Da mage by Fire; and also for the Assurance of, and granting Annuities on, Lives. N.B. Fire Policies will be issued free of ExpenCe to the As• sured, where the Annual Premium arnonuts to 6s. or up. wards. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY. LIFE DEPARTM ENT. ERSONS assured for the whole term of Life, will ltave an 'addition - made to their Policies every Seventh Year, on the principle so hemacially practised till lately at the Equitable Anuranee' Offs-eqv or the itnft4st thereat may be applied in reduction of the future payments of Premium. Policies may also be effected for the whole term of Life, on a plan peculiar to- this 011iCe, whereby the Premium is pay able fur a fixed number of years only. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Policies for 3001 . , and upwards, will be entitled, under the system of Assurance practised, by this Office, to participate in the surplus Premiums every fifth year, provided no claim has been made for loss. Proposals fully explanatory of, the principles and rates of tfie Company may be had at the principal,Offiee in Cheapside, London, and of the several Agents in the Country. DESROROUGII, Jun. Secretary. Cheapside, London, Dec. 40, MO. TO SOLICITORS, BANKERS, AND OTHERS IN THE COUNTRY. Gentlemen who are willing to act as Agents for the Atlas Assurance Company arc reque4trd to address their application to the Secretary, at the Office . in Cheapside, accompanied with a reference to persons in London. DRI:ADrur. Ac c IDENT.—YeSterd ay morning, between twelve and one o'clock, the following dreadful catastrophe took place at the house of Dr. Uwin, of No. 13, Bedford-row :—Mrs Leese, an elderly Lady, in consequence of indisposi tion, was lately sent up to London . from the country, and placed in the house of, Dr. Uwin, where she occupied apartments, together with her daughter, Miss Leese, in -order that she might be under the immediate attention of the Doctor. Yesterday morning whilst Mrs. Leese was lying sick in bed, and her daughter reading by the bedside, the female servant, who was in the habit of attending on the sick Lady, entered the apart ment with some medicine, which was intended for her, and having placed the candle in rather an awkward situation, the bed-curtains caught fire, which was. not perceived till the blaze spread over the apartment. Miss Leese was so much alarmed, that she immediately rose, and in great agitation opening the back window, she preci pitated herself to the pavement of the area, and pitching upon her head, fractured her skull in a dreadful manner. The servant perceiving no chance of escape from the immense body of flames which surrounded the door, followed the example of her mistress by throwing herself from.the 'same window, which belongs to the se cond floor back room apartment ; she broke both her legs and her back in the fall. By this time the flames in the apartment were increasing, which, together with the groansof theunfortunate females in the yard, attracted the attention of the persons adjacent to the spot, and assistance was immediately procured. Mr. Paine, of the Wheat sheaf, Hand-court, and his waiter, were the first who entered the house, and proceeding up stairs to the second floor, succeeded in putting out the flames. We are happy to state that Mrs. Leese did not meet with any injury save the ex cessive fright she underwent, and the effect pro duced by the melancholy catastrophe of her daughter. Mr. Paine, &c. with the promptest activity proceeded to the assistance of Miss Leese and the female servant, who were discovered in the most deplorable condition ; they were im mediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hos pital, where they now are lying without hope of recovery. Miss Leese is about 18 or 19 years of age. Mrs. Leese is, still at the house of Dr. lJwin, where the - most humane attention is paid to her in her present, distressing situation. The circumstance created considerable alarm in the neighbourhood. Several engines shortly arrived, but fortunately the fire was previously extin guished. Much damage, however, was done. A melancholy occurrence took place at Caris brooke New Village on Tuesday last:--It ap pears that two young Gentlemen (sons of a CaP tail' in the army) were amusing themselves with' firing at a trap-door on the roof of a barn, not being aware that any one was therein, when a ball from one of their guns entered the, door, and coming' in contact With a piece of quarter, it rebounded from the 'direction in' which it was fired, an , „ shocking to relate, entered the head of a man of the name of James Simmonds, of Carisbrooke, who was in the barn at the time with another per son. • The poor fellow lingerecL a short time, and then expired. It is wonderful to what a degree of perfection mechanism has arrived to, particularly in , :the cotton spinning business. At some of the - Cotton Mills in Man Chester yarn has been spun so fine as to require 350 hanks to weigh one pound avoir dupoise. The perimeter of . the common reel be ing one 'yard and a half, 80 threads or revolutions would measure 120 yards, and one hank' 7 tithes as much, or 840yards,.multipfied byr3so, givei 29,400 yardi; or 161 - miles and a . frietion.