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London, England, 1820-09-15 00:00:00

chiefs should Poch ge ea board the vesoel, with a
bowie laden with begs. cocotte, end other provision.,
as presents and for traffic. •nd attended by eight or
ten resithste worriere. They we►e to affect the most
friendly disposition and peaceable inteutioes, entif
They should be ro dispersed ove► the ship that every
one of the crew might be singly and soddenly at-
tacked •nd stabbed with they arott.wood dagger..
Which were to be concealed ender their cloaks.
(To Ae continua-)

lI7YON 7 SELLERS AND BUYER. OF CORN.

Several statutes menet, that If au, person shall sell any
'sort of corms grain ground or injured, by any other bushel
but the Winchester bushel cmstainiug eight callous, which
bushel shall be round with • plain hottest', eighteen rued a
lalj inelasi icicle throughout, and eight Endo* dear strict;."
over by the brim, and without shaking the bushel Le t• e
burr, Shall forfeit 40s. to the use of the poor and ail i::e
corn or roam I. the perm* or persons complaining. Ts •
motion deserves the particular anemias of the growers uf
corn and eomisiusites of bread, because the ports for leap°,
lotion are opened or Ant, aid the price of bread set, ac.
cording to the average prier of car 'measured.
Every addition to the Winchester increases the price
in proportion to that excess—take for axample • legal bushel
of wheat, which is completed to weigh 671 b at 91 6d, per
bushel, and let the execs' be 4th., which will increase its
valise gds in thel bushel, rookies it Ins. 24. this increase
will Mare the effect of molawfully opining the pate fee ins_
portation, and of increasing the price of the peck loaf
•

MEETINGS OF CRRDITORS AT GVILDHAIL
TO-11/111MOW.
IL
R.Stevens, Ranotesd, eordirsiner
E. Williams, Edmonton, grocer
J. F Boyle, Pall-mall, limey paper manufaiettirer 3 11
D. Harrison and B. Coorsue, Lawrence Pountoey
lane, merchants
D. Reid, Spitathelds, ailk-nsannfarturer
R. A. Jones, Tottenham-court.ri,sd, linen.droper 2 11
C. B. Hall and T. Aldridge, Barbican, linen-drapers 1 1
J. Parker, Little St Mary Axe, plower and glazier 2 lo
C. W. F. Aubusson, Geurge.strect, Hanover-sqnsre,
patent aid form manufacturer
W. F. Page, Higb Holborn, Ititen-draper. . 2 10

DIVIDENDS.
E. Thomson, Rotherhoi he, shipbuilder
T. Creasy, Chelmsford, draper
J. Had, Lampit Hill, carpenter
T. Tbackray, and R. Burrell, Greenwich, linen-drapers 11
J. W. A. SnuEg., Lise•atreet, spirit-merchant
.1. Pugh, Holburn, ironmonger lO
W. P. Weise, Tuoley-stieet, hatter
T. Warwick, Hitchers, draper
.1. Lewis, Mincing-laue, merchant
T. Synumads, Strand, ' - -

S. Cockburn, Mary-le-Bone, merchant
J. Croft, RatelM-highway, wine.mercknnt
T. SisseB, Cripplegste, tailor.
J. and G. Sykes, Cu • ' Hall court, and Haddersfield,
clothiers i ll
J. Barker, Stratford, coasmos-brewer
J. Zimmer, Welln•ck-street, merchant ll
J. Henderson, Ludgate-hill, linen draper
G. Adams, sad T. Nuh, Gloucester, Jewellers lO
H. Chesney, Higb Holborn, fringe-manufacturer

CERTIFICATES.
W. Earle, jun. of the East London Theatre.—A. Boysoe,
late of Size..lane, London, merchant—J. Martin, of Emir.
pool, merchant—T. Lynn, of the Jerusalem Coffee. Hy Le,e,
Cornhill, London, late Master of the Albania, merchant
T. Perry and J. Perry, of Reading, Berko, ironfounder,
.1. Pigot, of Pintoes, Hants, linen.draper.—R. P. Cruden, of
High.street, Gravesend, Kent, slopselkr.—J. Sibley, of
Abelsurch-lane, London, dryaalier.—J. Bailey, of Watling.
street, London, merchant—C. Edwards, of Gough.iquare,
Middlesex, furrier.

TORPEDoca.—(From the Bolton Patriot.)-1t
was hardly to have been expected, that these de-
structive engines should hate been adopted in the
prosecution of one of the Aiwa thriving branches of
business in which navigation is now employed ; yet
we are inforimd, that a weave! has recently I ern
fitted at New Bedford, bound on a •haling vopgr,
with an apparatus ou hoard, for the liurpore of blow-
ing them up. Torpedoes of an arrow form, are
thrown fron► a gun on board the vessel, which are
calculated to sink into the body of the whale, and
there explode.