The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-02-21 00:00:00

WATCH and CLOCK-MAKERS' BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION for the RELIEF of AGED NECES-
SITOUS WORKMEN of good Character, and their Widows,
established March. 1815.

PATRON—His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX.
PRESIDENT—MATTHEW WOOD, Aid. Esq. M.P.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
J. T. Thorp. Esq. Ald. R. Waithman, Esq. Aid.
0. Bridges. Esq. M.P. W. T. Abud, Esq.
0. Ryng, Esq. M.P. T. Field, Esq.
E. Ellice, Esq. M.P. W. Robinson, Esq.
CHAPLAIN—The Rev. '. E. L. Faulkner, A.M.

TRUSTEES.
Mr. Samuel Archer, Kirby- I Mr. J. Taylor, lYilderness•row
street Mr. Robt. Stoddart, Red Lion-
Mr. Wm. Cozens, Hackney street
TREASURER—Mr. F. B. Adams, St. John's-square.
COMMITTEE.
Mr. Ashley Mr. Holmden Mr. Moore
Bracebridge Hoskins Nieltisean
Bedford Jackson, W. Pascall
Catherwood Knight Reed
Fuller Lowther Ratliff
Field lllacaire Storer
Hogan Slansell Tyler
HONORARY SECRETARIES—Mr. Wm. Webb, 54, Great Sutton.
street; and Mr. Wm. Hodson, 41, St. Jobn.etreet.road.
COLLECTOR—Mr. Thomas Eglinum, 44, St. John.street-mad.
The design of this Institution is to afford relief to decayed work.
men, who, from the necessary intensity of application in the menu-
' facture of %Vetches and Clocks, are labouring under premature im-
becility of body and mind ; and who, from various calamities
attending their sedentary employment, have been reduced from a
state of domestic comfort, and comparative respectability, to a state
of misery sad wpaidasloess. bordering on abject poverty; and who,
but for the timely aid of this Society, must have consigned them.
Relent to that receptacle of human woe, where all distinctions are
lost in one common degradation. Aril, it is important to state,
that, in too many instances, are the best workmen the objects of
our solicitude ; by being deprived at (nice of the inestimable bless-
ing of sight, and with this, the loss of all means of future support,
and consequently ate plunged in the vortex of premature penury'
and distress.

The Committee from time to time, by 'oalf-yearly election, have
been enabled to afford relief to seventy-three pensioners, allowing
ten guineas to the men, and six guineas each to the widows, per
annum ; and although it is supported chiefly by members of the
trade, they feel grateful for the assistarce the, have received from
many benevolent friends, who have permitted their names to be
enrolled on the list of benefactors; yet still the Committee have to
regret, that their limited means will not allow them to extend the
benefit% of the Institution to a numerous list of equally deserving
candidates without an augmentation of the funds; and they earnestly
appeal to a generous public, to aid them in alleviating the distress
of their aged and necessitous brethren, and of pouring the balm of
consolation and solace into the bosom of the afflicted widow.
Although this Institution may appear on a cursory view some-
what local, from its being confined to one trade, yet, it is presumed,
that persons engaged in the manufacture of Clocks and Watches
have a peculiar claim on the benevolence of the public : from the
various improvements in which they have been instrumental in all
kinds of machinery ; thereby facilitating Arts, .Manufacture, and
Commerce, and contributing in no small degree to National pros-
perity. It is with pleasure the Committee also state, that from this
Society have emanated two of a similar description, and with equal
pleasure they learn that many others are in contemplation, which
must in time Troduce the most happy effects; a good character is
not only a pre-requisite, but must be m
it maintained, to be worthy ob-
jects of this Society ; is therefore calculated "to improve the
morals of the workmen, an incentive to industry and sobriety, and
will prove consolatory in old age."
The Committee desire respectfully to announce, that a BALI. in
aid of this Charity will take place on MONDAY next, the2lstinst.
at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, and they earnestly solicit the
patronage and support of such as may feel inclined to aid their
humble endeavours to lessen the aggregate of human misery.
A Subscription of One Guinea constitutes a Governor, and a
donation of 'Pen Guineas a Life Governor.
Donations and Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Mr.
Adamsl Treasurer, St. John-square ; Mr. W. Webb, Great Sutton-
street ; and Mr. W. Hodson, St. John-street-road, Honorary Se-
cretaries; and by the Collector, 3lr. Eglinton, St. John-street-
road.
N.B. Tickets for the Ball may be had nt the Albion ; or of Mr.
Pascal!, 111, Wilderness-row, Clerkenwcll. Single ticket, 11. ;
double ticket, 15s. Tea and Coffee included.

ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS,
For the SALE of IRISH LINENS by the PIECE at the
Factor's Price,
No. 4, on the SOUTH SIDE of BLOOMSBURY-SQUARE,
Four Doors from the top of Southampton-street, Holborn.
THE IRISH LINEN COMPANY beg leave to an-
nounce to the Public, that the above House is their only
Establishment in this country ; whey: they continue to supply the
Nobility, Gentry. and the Public, with WA RRANTED GRASS-
BLEACHED LINEN, for Shirts and Sheets, of the best fabric
and colour ; and also TABLE LINEN, at a price considerably
lower than they can be procured through any other medium. They
also engage to return the purchase-money should any fault appear.
Good Irish Bills and Bank of Ireland Notes taken as usual.—
Country and Town Orders punctually attended to by
JOHN DONOVAN, 4, Bloomsbury-square, London, I Agents.
JOHN DOYLE. 31, St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin,

TO the very numerous Patrons and Friends of the ge-
sante VEGETABLE SYRUP of DE VELNOS.—In
ptoportion as this excellent Medicine extends its beneficial effects
and increasea its just reputation, the artifices of imposture are mul-
tiplied to profit by Public credulity. Mr. CANHAM believes
those who know him will not attribute his anxiety to prevent the
effects of these impositions merely to interested motives. From
accurate experiment and authentic information he can affirm, that
all the Imitations of the Syrup of De Velnos are vehicles for poi-
sonous metals. They discredit the genuine Medicine, disappoint
the afflicted, and often render mortal disorders that might be cured.
A person calling himself Pickersgill is now the worthy disciple of
these Impostors, and renews the same pretensions, with the same
truth anil honour. Mr. Canham, to extinguish all possible doubt,
has often offered, and he now repeats the offer, of I,OOOL to any
man in England who will produce a Deed, or any circumstance
that will prove that the Itecipe of De Velnos has been made known
to any person in England. except the late Mr. Swainson and him-
self, anti the proof shall be left to the judgment of Sir Henry Hal-
ford, or any other liberal and respectable Physician. The virtues
of the genuine Vegetable Syrup in Scorbutic, Scrophulous, and
Syphilitic Complaints, Pains and Swellings of the Liver, Diseased
Skin and Glands, and all Disorders arising from Impure Blood,
are too well known to need enumeration.
The genuine Medicine has a label affixed to each bottle, with
the denature, "Thomas I:tinhorn," in the handwriting of the
Proprietor, by whom it is sold, as it was by Mr. Swainson, his
rdecess", at No. L 2, Berner's-street, Oxford-street, at 13s. •
e, and by all the respectable Medicine Venders in Londog,
and every considerable town in the United Kingdom ; and tilk
Concentrated for warm climates, by his deputed Agents in the East
Indies, Messrs. Mackintosh and Co. Calcutta; and Means. Forbes
and Co. Bombay.