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~~ __„ t "„ 77: . 4 . y.. t NUMBER 77P7.] OFFICE OF 0 I.? 11.1 7 4 -VC E, otg. 15, 1317. 1,-.61 - 1E PIciNCIP.H. OFFICERS of His .11.1- -1 .! Es TY'S ORDNANCE do hercbg give Notice, nat Proposals will be reeei, r I at their Offee in Pull-Mall, o» or infore Friday, the r , th day of September next, front such Perseus CS malt be willing to undertake the .S.ippy of COPPER FIOO S, for Service of this Department, for a period of One Year. Patterns of the :Ira, les MIT he viewed, upon application at the Principal Storekeepers' Ogee in die Tower ; and fUrther Particulars, together with the Terms and Con ditions If the Contract, may be known at the Secretary's Office, in Pall-Nall aforesaid, any day between the flours of Ten and roar o'Clock, where the Proposals must be delivered, scaled up, and endorsed, " Proposals for Copper Hoops ;" out no Proposal can be admitted after the said sth day of September, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon of the same day; neither will any Tender be noticed, tiniest the Party making i:, or an .argent in his behalf, shall attend. By Order of the Board, - R. H. c rr - , Scortary. • CONTRACT FUR KENTISH IMG STONES. N(!vy -Office, .4up, - . 11, 1817. THE PRINCIP4L OFFICERS and COM MISSICKVE RS of HIS MAJESTY's NAI'Y do ?well/ give - Notice, that on Thursday, the 21stlustant, at One tit:lock, they will,he ready, to treat with such Persons as ...lay be willing to C , l,dract for sap/dying his Majesty's Yards t D(ptford, frootuich, Chathczaz, and Shcerucss, with Ii.ENTISII RAG STOKES. a Form of Tender may be seen at this o;Tce. NO Ten der will be received after One o'Clach n n the day of Treaty, nor any not Led, unless the party, or an .dgcnr for Ithn, at- CV ds. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter addressed to the ..Vary Board, and signed by two respoatAiWe Persons-, evaging to become bound zei 7 h the Person tendering, in the Sam of 300/. for the due perforetanca of the Contrext. TO ANONYMOUS. APTAIN B has received his Letter, and ‘..1 he e - reatly obliged by any further Information on the same subject ; and if lie would appoint an interview with Captai❑ B. in France, or his Solicitor in London, he may rely on the strictest secresy being observed: ii EALTIT AND LONGEVTTY. R. :TA ANA LEPTIC PILLS are par. tienlarle recommended for Disorders of the Stonrach 7tnti 1301VVIS Head- ,chs arisinv from indigestion or fr,-e lie- For Bilious, Gouty, and Rheumatic Complaints ; and for colds, Might, Fevers, &c. By Lindly assist Nature in the due 11;scharge of the animal functions, they pmeserve Health and promote Longevity; they are the hest get - ,ern; Mefiieine, and are eery convenient far tratri!eri, they are mild -in their operation, mad do not. revire con- Prei;oi - ed from the original and only Receipt, tinder Dr. hand, 7 by his Exet titor and joint Proprtetor, Francis , :ewberv. They will be found exactly similar to those com plinodeil by the late Dr. James himself, both in their bright tiippea . ratice and their efficacy. so;d by F. Newhery and Sons, at their Warehouses, 4 7 5, PanYs Church-yard, Lot:du:1; and 29. Dance-street, 1)10i ; and ls it is their intentiwn to oiien a house for the ac emitniodtilion of Pereha,ers at the West End of tin: Torn. they in the mean time appoint. Mr. Aanger, 150, Oxford- Cr, et, to be their Agent, where the genuine may be de retided Charge, the name of F. NEWBERY is engraved is all the fit:nnps. LOCK AND SURGICAL DISPENSARY. His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK, President. SURGEON—Mr. fr . :it:man, Mernhcr of the Royal College, Lunttun. Co•-.T.11.Nons—Eatl of Egre;nont, Earl of Leitrim, Hon. Col. J. Barry, M.P. dohn Lawnche, M.P. rrITE Roy it awl Noble Patrons of the above IN`STrf UTION, for the exclusive Treatment of VE NEREAL COMP': ..UNTS, and their dangerous consequences, its ~ rder to insure the benefits t hat have resulted from it, .se lected Mr. KIERNAN as its Surgeon, (standing high on the /Ist of the Royal Coilege) front having directed his chief at• tenths!) to those diseases. It is the misfortune of Patients tinder such complaints, to he UM Often the !loins of illite nee Pretenders, who practise on the credulity by imposing titles :toil specious promises. Against this class (of late so numerous and daring' , , Mr. Kiernan conceives it a part of his vfiiriai duty to caution the Public, by pointing to the List of the Royal College, published in Fritillary lasi, as the only sure guide, and that no assertion of Persons assuming such titles, and publicly advertising them, without being sanc tioned by this List, are to be credited. The annual reports of the Lock Dispensary will prove, that some of the most dangerons cusses of Strictures, Debility, and other supposed locatable a fleet ions of OK-Genet alive Organs, have been here radically and successfully treated ; facts %shied) require no haclutr•ed testimony of affilavits to prove, but the mist re spectabie Medical evidence. Mr. KIERNAN sisal be consulted as usual, by both Sexes, at Ili:: house, H 7, Lower Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, ViLere Letters from Town and Country ire to be addressed, and the tweessary .1. deice and Medicine will be given, .or sent, to any part of the United Kinzdom. Just. published, • prier 45. Second Edition, ' , T actical Ob servations sin the a1....* Diseuses, by F. Kiernan : and way be bad at N0:174., Fleet-street, No. 20, Paternoster-row, and 7.;:o. 10, Cs osru-court, Soho. By MS MAJF.," , "TY'S TMYAL P.ITENT. J. 3 . .111i.. 1. ,AL — Fi'5 — .1).1 - F, - 1 : 11:VI'ING HAIR MtUSIIES, for binds of Uses. riiHE and Ut.iboundeti Pit ronor:e (beyond all, parallel) given to.. these New In vehtcd Blll. 7 Sti ES, by all Runlisin Society, is a wonderful instaoce of their CXCE Hvv ence o r every otter Ituplernent for Cleansing the 'Head from -Scurf,. therehv strengthening, Leauti:ving, and promoting the growth of the As lIORSE BRUSHES, they are approved and recom mended. hy Professor (7olninn. They are alit e esteemed for . rill hinds of• Personal .U.se.s, as for till Domestic Purposes, wherein a greater degree of clearliriess will prevail, and roar= Line ee-n o.y with exp , dition. They arc also. of "th!.! . greatest consequence f r Alatin fact are aiid Machinery, and are highly appreciated Iry a ;11fl11 1 1t!r nf the first • artisans in the (.111111- try,• the superia:;i;y of the .Patent Brushes is so great, that (in comparison ., ail others are wholly useless; as 'will he . . j;: nrctt , to trial. • (Alt nruslles• are worranted free from win , delione, or any an ,1 at ti:e sitnie price as genuine lirtislie? here tcf,re _ I , r'hail But:lit of tile'Patenre, O. SS, Great. Ninrylle. and at ()s.for(l-stre , t., ant 4:11 I , • , ,ctat)!F ofilrusltt.s in-the United I.ingdoln. 'napvsed ttt •••, •;; ;met (ittalil•;,, by s('l;*spli: St;lT ti! injlTcsscti oil it, pv,al Wh', CYk;c:,: .d, Detttl- p•t-t. Su ~.L -.~ :y, 12: *fi t ..' .' : r i:4 1„ ,r 4.4„ 4_ + , 4 4 'l 4 ; P" v o . • k 2u. 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The first part of volume first will be published on Mon-, day Ist September next ; and a part, or half volume:, will appear regularly on the first day of each succeeding three months. 4. The Atlas, consisting - of fifty-tbree maps, engraved in the first style of the art, will he published on the lst Septem ber next, along with the first half volume of the Gazetteer, price 11. 16s. half bound. Printed fur Archibald Constable and -Co. Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orate, and Brown, Loudon. 'LAW IN rELLIG - coml.* OF CHANCERY, AUG. 19. . . JUDG‘IENT iii the C AS E .j . thr OPERA• HOUSE. wATli. i liti V. : TAYLOR. The LORD CUANCELLOK, till: , day, on c.oming into Court, proceeded ,to, give judgment in tilts case ; the tacts of - which have - already been laid before, our readers. . . , . • • ••• Ilis Lordship in the coarse of his observations, said that it would he impossible t < O.cojime to a con chtsion as far as respected the claims . of the Opera- ottse. Mr. M I.Ls submitted, that as the creditnt-s upon _ . the Theatre had had notice given t bemfour,years ago to come in and clant their respective debts, it would be unreasonable to suppose that there were any outstanding debts. Thv LONI? CHANCELLOR observed c that wottltl: • be of ti ti iimiortaneein regard to the proceeditrgs of the present day, whether his Lordship were, or were not, totake'into his consideration the Re port which had been made by the Master ; his Lordship would therefore take the Master's port to be correct, without prejudice - to any pro ceediug3 that might hereafter take place. Mr. HART expressed his regret that his Lord ship should have been misled by the Master's re itort as to the claims against the Opera House, as lie felt conscious his Lordship had only taken into consideration the claims of Mr. Waters. The Low) CHANCELLOR.-1 take Mr. Waters to be an inenmbrancer to the amount of thirty• four thousand pounds, and therelore it would not he equitable to call on him to pay the whole of purcha , e money. Had any other person be come the purchaser, %vim was at the same time an incumbrancer, I feel confident he would not have been called ou to pay the whole of his purchase money in:4) Court. and I ant bound to deal in the ione way with respect to the present parties. As regards the title, I may say that the idea predo fllitliilll in my timid is, that Mr. Waters, the plain- • mus; ha.ve had a knowledge of it ; but still that does not affect hi, title to an inquity as to the title of 11 r. Taylor to the 9- 16ths and the silver tickets. A - licit I shall therefore refer to the Mast er to inquire into. As to the payment into Court of the 28,9751. 1 must say that I think but reasonable that I -hould order it to be pid, and when I say this, I tto so from the affidavi s which I hold in my hand. I have Inked into the other affidavits, and I find hem to be. very contradictory of each other. save also looked over, ‘rith attention, the letters A bleb have passed between these parties, and the phi.epee that I thaw from them is, that Ur. Waters had.agreed to pay the whole of his por hase money :fins Court, in the month of 'April ; lieretore think that he ought to pay this '28,900 itefore the Accountant-General's Office is closed, whh h wilt take place on the 23d of the present month. Sir S. RomiLLY, on behalf of Mr. Taylor, inti- Mated that he was wilting to go to arbitration. Mr. MILLS said it would be impossible to go to :►rhi:r.,tiou, as they had been already, and it only led to further LORD Cu A NCELLOR.-" If you do by your liti v,ation shut up •the Opera-house, don't say that 1 %vas to blame, or that I shut it up." His Lord ship, in conclusion, directed that the ease should befote the Master, to enquire as to ti►e title of Mr. Taylor to the nine-sixteenths ; that Mr. Waters should be ordered to pay into Court the sum of 213,9501. before the 23d of August inst.; and that the.tase should thus stand without pt•e judice to any of the other points involved in it. THE CHANCERY MANIAC. Yesterday this unhappy young man, whose name is George Turner, again took his seat amongst the Counsel, outside of the bar. Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor, his late master, observ ing him, went and spoke to him relative. to the i , ”proptiety of his intension, which made him boisterous, and he was carried out of Court, and trout thence to Batton-garden Police•office, by the Officers orthe.Coutt, appointed for the pur pose ot'preventinq, the business. of the Court be- • ing disturbed. The Magistrate refused -to take cognizatire of the charge without a special order front the ••Lord Chancellor, remarking at the same time (most properly) that if any person commit ted a•cootempt of Court, it vas in Us L+rrdsl►ip's power to commit bite. After he was released by the ordetof the :Magistrate he returned to the Court, and was about to he again turned out, when he applied to. his LOrdship to know whe ther it was by his direction that he bad •been so rudely treated. The LORD' CTIANCELLOP.—" Not by my orders, but the Officers thought they woe doing- their ditty i n p rev e n ti n g a lo tis e itt Court, which cer tainly cannot reflect on • its -dignity. Sit down young mart, and be rittiet, and you maybe assured cm will not be molested.", Ile then sat at one of the tables in the nail, and remained quiet during the remainder of the day. • SURREY- ASSIZES.—CauYoos, MONDAY, AUG. 18. Lot& ELLENBonoutt left the town ot; SAtur day evening, but the-Cairtolar +►ut Mr. .1 . DALLAS l'6ifittlitCd to i ry the e illder of the prisoners ; hut the erisei wcre unintr.restinv,. The Assizes concluded yesteidoy morning, and the Circuit 'finished. Tviestimy last being; the Birthday of his Royal 'on iligess the Pitt NCt REGENT, the troops in gar t i - son in Datdin %vete reviewed in the Plitenix ['Ark, by it ,S Eieelleney the LOED LIPUTENANT ) Ord lilt . Commander of the Forties.—The clay •tyas nolom monly tine. [PRIG SEVEICI'2,Nt,E. MR. O'CONNOR. Having been inilticed by a sense of justice !Ina humanity to inset t. this Gentleman's narrative on :Monclay last, the same sense at' justiZe induces tl3, ow to offer a few considerations in deteoce of the Pros'ecution, and therefore we s shall extract any article on this sohject• . front The Dublin Weekly Gazette of the . 16th .instant. Our Readers will observe Wilt we do not imitate some of our Com petitors, who , have often availed themselves of the contents of Provincial Journals, without acknow; ." • • ledging the sources. On the contrary, WC-feel much pleasure, and a ►legree of patriotic pride, in. observing the talents and knowledge which many of those Journals' dispky, and the more so, be cause the are the vehicles of so►►nd principles,. and are the determined opponents of"faction. It. has been the aim of. some - of the Public Punts in this Country and in Ireland to attempt to throw an odium on Government for its endeavours to bring offe3ders to justice ) and it has been too hastily interred by the unreflecting multitude that the acqUittal of a Jury is an. attestation of illllo - liCe, as if the arts of Faction had no influence upon the common mind, and as if Juries did not partake of the universal fallibility of our nature. We now proceed to our Extract from the above mentioned Journal . . " It is an argument of no' great respect for the laws existing among, the people of a Country, When the condition of it proSecutor is nearly as dangerous as that . of a critninal ; and we there fore most earnestly deprecate - the practice which has lately prevailed, of making the acquitted cul prit instantly change Places with Iris accuser—of - giving to the former all the honours cola triumph, and ofAmputing to the latter all manner of base and malignant MOtiVes. lo conformity with the humane maxim, thrt it is better one hundred should unjustly escape, tliiit one unjustly suffer, the guilty are- not quently at-critter!. inrors are constantly &- ie,cted, if they, can- entertain a doubt of a . soOtr'S gOilt, to let that doubt .outweigh all rir eilmstanees Of pro'nah lily in tine. oppo,in e ; and, bet,vven possible errors, in pctfet an error on the side of •tnetcy. Bo to Support' it ni tit's innocence of a robbery IM, , Sibli', is lip acknowledgment of exemplary desert ; and . an rrtj ‘v-1.1i.e.11 is 7.o,.:deci,i - ve e.:cOlpat too, eve:' • of, the et ime charged, ecrtdinly does not place ;t MAO any, the lea•t dg eree in o sciety ave bo the rank he would have heid had he lwen civet!. This consideration will, we thinit, suf ficiently answer Mr. 'O'Connor's el:lhn to. a Triumph, or even an Ovation; hot, if more is wanted, we may add, without in the least lies peachier the .terdict which has restored MN O'Coutaor to tin' place he hell among his Col;n -trytnen as a Met . et legalis homo, that two other persons who were acquitted uf, the robbery, with the contrivance of wuich that Gentleman was ehdrged, Were most unquestionaily Gaiity—ot course we allude to Owens and Waring. As to the prosecution, we think it needs no justiica- • Lion - before those who have read the Report of tl,.e Trial, and compared the narratives' of the t Approvers, between whose testimony there was such a coincidence as must have been tine clfect its truth—of some recent coolederacy and most ingenious prepartuion—or of a miracle. IVe re peat it, we do nut impugn the verdict ot acquit tal--the - learned Commentator .on the LOWS of Ellgbitld boasts it as one of the greatest advait, tapes .of . ou r mode of trial, that the Jcry have ant opportunity of observing the. manner as well as the matter of the es deuce. i• The manner ot the Approvers was therefore probtlbly such as to destroy the value of their tes timony' ; for otherwise, the verdict, however jas', would seem precipate. Burt of the manner ut witnesses the pioseentors could not judge iontnl t h e y sa w them on the table. One of the perso:-s too, Reynolds,M n.• O'Contior's female servant; on WilOSe 1:11orioatIMIS the pr{ , tectition was .inder• taken, T and whoit is said recanted tnerfirst teams. moo) (it is to he supposed for good•rettsou) mit;111 have set red to mislead the l'ost-02tice as to Mr. O'Connor's innocence ‘; and 'nor infor. mation proving (howevei fals,iy) an intimacy l:e tween the Approver Ovens nind • Mr. 0•Co ,, nor about the time of are robbery, woeld Lae, made .fue case apparently wore mita...wail:de Add to this, a • t ( T ort 0 hie!' l o ts (Marine: fur sOtne !time in the County of ;Meath, au iihieli might have reached the l'o•t Master Gvneral, that the executed robber and Mordert• Waring) the ker of the A ! Troyer, shoal after his ;Tin ehension some )•ears communi cated to a Aiag,stratc, who r{-tared to gibe it riS sworn itifoimation, a stalefoClit SilbStamtlally tt , sante as that s worn to by (hens and Isis broths at the trial ; and that, a felt' 'days before his uctition, he did swear, before the R.{ v. Mr. Vs'ait wrighi of Trim, a written information to the sets effect. " circum:tances Bre .• of wt .l' o ;r (, fast6l the c.harautt!t - tip ,, ti as al;til, 111 defimice (ii - 11,e'verdict 5 . ;1<11 . a .I.4ry ; but they al':, t 5 we prt.srd ()lir I(carters ttili thitik, a full ittstificatioll L ill VC til urs." DAVID Esq. has been n,ullinated tilt: Cm-For:v.:lml (..floucester o ll.l:ty , a at thnt to! the CLlV!hig . STEAM BOATS. [From the Qatbec Gazttle.] Extract of a Letter from St. Francisville r..a.) to the Editors of the Baltimore Federal Republican, dated 12317. " There was a Very serious and distrassin ,, ac cident happened. nearly opposite this phce.. v. Yes terday mdrning, about eight o'clock, the steam boat Constitution, (formerly the Oliver Eyans passing down the river from I.atchez to New Or leans, burst her boiler, and every 'person it; ,th cabin (eleven in number) was scalded to death — some lived t‘vo or three hours, some five or six, and two or three lived about 20 hours. The Cap tain of the boat, the Engineer, and one or two sailors that were in the utter part of the , boat, were tite only persons that escriped uninjured. 1 annex a list of the persons killed-, which you may. publish , icytin *please, viz Yarnell, Virgioia ; F.. Frazier, ,rnerchant, Gihson-port, M.T. ; Thomas Brown, Scotland ; M-Filr land, Washington County, Ky. ; Joseph D. ‘Vil son„ Maryland ; James Carptnter.: Alex. Phil-pot , Henrico - County, Va. ; William Steel, tnerehant, Warrenton, M. T.; Peter Hubert, N. Oilcans and Baltimore ; Larkin, silvetSillial; NatehrZ ; Robert Robertson, 18 years." Within Within the last year, we h a v e hail the painful .task to record several accithAns, ‘diich ha,v, tie eon eel on board of stt Om- packets, hot h in this cinnt -It:y and Enr.land ; and which has been chiefly iii trilAnycl to the boats' having in use'the hi L4 h. pres• , :;are ()) . gine. It is a latticntable fact that' not less than forty pttsonS have lost their ,lives ‘vithin the short svice — of• twelve nimiths, by the use of i'boilers pat tly wade of cast -- .• • • - - ';"ft - T;; - ,- • , --.•;•\<; • • -• ••/ , • f'.s! FleV. Nowt the iince 07. 5i '24 lotig S Ott s (Ai 03. oft