The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-19 00:00:00

`COTS HOSPITAL.—On WEDNESDAY, the StOth
O of November, the FESTIVAL of ST. ANDREW will be
held, within the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgatastreet,
being the Fiftieth Anniversary since the Re-incorporation of this
Ancient Charity, by his late hlost Gracious Majesty George 111.
and the One Hundred and Sixtieth since the First Charter of In-
corporation, granted by King Charles IL
His Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE and
sT. ANDREW'S in the Chair.

STEWARDS.
James Boner, E. .1. I, M`lntosh, Esq.
Captain Thomas Blair John llPLean, Esq.
IVilliam Duolop, Esq. Robert APWlllism, Esq.
J. B. Ferrer', Esq. George Reid, Esq.
Arch. Ilastie, Esq. William Speir, I.eq. M.D.
. Robert Kemp, Eeq. William Forbes Stuart, Esq.
Tickets. 20e. each, to he had o the Stewards; of the Secretary,
at the Hall, Ctane-court, Fleet-street ; and at the Bar of the
Tavern.
The Honourable WILLIAM FRASER, Treasurer.
By Order, ROBERT AULD, Sec.
4=last St. Andrew's Day, the Committee of this Chnrity have
i and relieved, upon an average, ore hundred and fifty-four
Caansiof Distress in each Month, besides Pensions feud to one
hundred aged and infirm Persons, natives of Scotland; and sea
passages granted to two hundred and fifty-four individuals, returned
to their native country.
..11'. KATHARINE DO' herei

-.111, K.—Notice is :eby Oren,
✓ that the Directors of the St. Katharine Dock Company will
be ready, on Tuesday, the 10th day of January next, at 1 o'clock,
to receive proposals from such persons as may be willing to contract
tor the construction of the Dock's Basin, Lock, Entrance Gates,
Bridge, Foundation Walls, and other Works, according to the
terms and conditions prescribed by the Company, and the specific'.
tions, plans, sections, and working drawings, which may be in.
spected upon application at the offices of the engineer and architect
to the Company, east side of Little Tower-hill, any day, Sundays
excepted, after Tuesday next, the '22d day of November last, be-
tween the hours of 9 and 4.

The Contractors will be required to enter into proper securities
for the due performance of their engagement, and no tender will be
noticed unless the parties making the seine. or sonic person duly
authorised on their behalf, shall be in attendance on the day ap-
pointed.
The Tenders to be marked outside, " Tender for Works," and
delivered to the Secretary, before I o'clock on that day, and the
Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept the lowest
Tender. JOHN HALL, Secretary.
SL Katharine Dock Office, November 15, 1825.

ROYAL STANNARY AND BRITISH MINING
ASSOCIATION.
A MEETING will be held at the City of London' Tavern,
Bishopagate-street, on TUESDAY, the 22d inst., at Twelve
o'clock precisely, of SUBSCRIBERS to the, above-named Com-
pany, who may be really desirous of in9uirtng into its formation
and the state of its affairs, and of organizing measures to enforce
either performance on the part of the Projectors of the Prospectus
issued by them to the public, or, in default, to compel restitution
of the Deposit Money obtained on the faith thereof.
The object of the Meeting being thus clearly defined, those gen-
tlemen who, at the partial Sleeting of the 10th inst., at the Free-
masons' Tavern, sanctioned the conduct of the Projectors and self.
elected Directors, in withholding Four Thousand of the original
Shares, upon which no deposit has yet been paid, in purchasing
One Thousand Shares with the Company's money, and in giving
2,500/. to one of their own number as Projector of the Company,
will, of coarse, bear in mind that they need not now attend.
The Shareholders will, of course, see the propriety of not paying
their Deposit" at present.
London, November 15, 1825.

ROYAL STANNARY and BRITISH MINING
ASSOCIATION.
No}iee is hereby given, that in consequence of the Public Meet-
ing of the Proprietors of this Undertaking, held at the Freemasons'
Tavern, Great Queen-street, on the 10th instant, the date for pay-
ing the CALL of TWO POUNDS PER SHARE, which was
directed to be paid on or before the 7th instant, intb the hands of
Sir John Perring, Bart. and Co. Cornhill, or of Messrs. Martin,
Stone, and Stone, Lombard-street, the Bankers of the Company, is
now extended to the hint instant.
The ANONYMOUS ADVERTISEMENT for a Public
]fleeting on Tuesday next, u entirely WITHOUT the KNOW-
LEDGE or SANCTION of the DIRECTORS, and they beg
to state distinctly to the Proprietors, that all Shares that are not
paid up by the day appointed, will be absolutely forfeited.
By Order of the Board.
L. GODDARD, jun. Secretary.
7, Angel-court, Nov. 17, 1823.

ROYAL STANNARY and BRITISH MINING
ASSOCIATION.
The Shareholders are recommended not to pay the call of 21.
per Share until after the 2.teeting advertised to be held at the City
of London Tavern, on TUESDAY next, at Twelve o'clock pre.
cisely, shall have taken place.
N.B. No Shareholder need be afraid of forfeiting hie Shares by
nonpayment, as the Directors have no power to inflict the penalty
of forfeiture, no Deed of Settlement having been executed.

ROYAL STANNARY AND BRITISH MINITG
ASSOCIATION.
An anonymous Advertisement, convening a Meeting of the
Proprietors of this Association for Tuesday next, containing most
unfounded and gross calumnies against the Directors, having ap-
peared in the Public Papers ; and another anonymous Advertise.
ment, to the same purport, appearing in the Papers of this day,
the Directors feel it their duty to state to such of the Proprietors as
did not nttend at the very numerous fleeting held at the Free.
masons"Favern, on the 10th inst., that a full report of the actual
state of the Company's affairs was laid before that Meeting, which
was approved of, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Sub-
scribers, and the unanimous thanks of the Meeting were given to
the Directors for the conduct pursued by them. Any Proprietor
wishing to obtain information of the real state of the Company's
again., may obtain a report by applying at the House of the Corn.
pany, No. 7, Angel-court; but the Directors feel it imperative on
them to state, that the works of the Establishment cannot be con.
ducted except by the payment of the call now made, and which
they therefore must require to be paid by the time appointed,
or the forfeiture of the Shares will be peremptorily enforced.
The motives which influence some of the few Gentlemen who so
strenuoualy oppose the Directors, may be estimated by the fact,
that one of them who signed the requisition for the Meeting of the
Proprietors on the 10th inst., and who was most ardent in his oppo-
sition to the Directors has, since that Meeting, offered to withdraw
all further opposition if they will purchase 100 of his Shares, at
V. each, they being worth in the market only 11. each ; or, in other
words, if the will buy his favour at the price of 3001., to be paid
out of the Company's funds. The Directors rejected the offer
with the contempt it merited, and leave this fact, with a copy of
the letter on the part of the ildividual alluded to, to the considera-
tion of the Shareholders, convinced that they will justly appreciate
the merits of an opposition flowing from such a source.