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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Dgoriognel3, 18211.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG-
LAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, do hereby giro
Notire,
That the COMMITTEE of BUYING and WARE-
HOUSF.S will he ready lu receive proposals in writing upon
or before WEDNESDAY, the 3d January, 1821, from such
Persona as may be willing lo supply Ilv Compnoy with

BRITISH COPPER;
and the Conditions of the Contract may be seen on nppli.
✓at to the Clerk of the said Committee, with whom the
Proposals most he left before Eleven o'Clork in the Fore-
noon of the said 34 of humility. after which boor the Com-
mittee will not receive any Tender.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

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MARKETS.

[From the " London Mercantile Price Current," of Meads',
December 12, 11520

WEST INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRODUCE. I
Corrne.—The market remains in much the same state as ,
described in our last ; the demand has been active during
the weak, though but little alteration can be made in our
quotations, as the holders dec:ine selling at any reduction. '
A public sale of 173 masks and 62 hags of British Planta-
tion was brought forward on Thursday, and nearly all was
taken in at the prices quoted; • few lots of fine ordinary
pale Jamaica which were sold brought 1245. and good ordi-
nary Dutch, not clean, 125.. to 1275. per cwt. The East
India Company has declared 6,505 bags of Coffee for sale en
the 3d of January, 1821.
The stock of W. I. Coffee is now 2,810 tons, being 630
leas than at this time last year, present prices 4s. per cwt.
higher.
The B. P. SUOMI market has been dull, and the holder,
appear more willing to take the prices offeied last week fur
soft Sugar. The sales which have been made, however, sup.
port our last quotations; ordinary brown Berbice having
been sold at 565.; ordinary brown Jamaica 565.; middling
du.62a.; attune middling St. Vincent's 645. per cwt.
The Stock of B. P. Sugar is now 10,700 casks less than
last year's at this time; present prices le. per cwt. lower,
per Gazelle average.
There has been nothing dose in Foreign Sagar.
Russ hare not been in good demand, and a public sale
of 130 puncheons of strong Demerara went about Id. per
gallon lower ; nearly the whole, however, was sold.
The present stock of Rum is 19,443 puncheons, and price
of proofs 2s. per gallon. Stock last year same date, 20,471
puncheon", sud price of proofs 2s. Id. per gallon.

LIVERPOOL REPORT, DECUlllill 9, 1820.
The COTTON market still continues very heavy, sod the
business done this week has been at a further decline Of 44.
per lb. in Brazils, and 0. to id. in Bowed. and the lower
deacriptions of Orleans. The sales are 7,500 bags, and con-
sist of 2,300 Bowed. at WI. a 1141.; 350 Orleans at 91d. a I2d.
and a fair at 14 I. ; 361 Tennessee. at 81.1. a 91d.; 175 Sea
Islam's at 171 d. a 2141 , and a few very fine at 2s. ; 1,450
Pernams at 12d. a 1314 , chiefly at 12d. a 121 d.; 970 Bahias
at 11.1. a 121'.1.• 850 31araiihams at 114. a 124, chiefly at
a 11441.: 300 Mina Germ-. at 104.; 125 Demerara.
at 11 id. a 1244.; 61 Barhadnes at 101 d. a lid.; 307 Car-
thago um at b 44. a 9J. ; 106 Madras at 841. ; 50 Surat.
at 71d. ;95 Bo ugals at 6d. a 74.1. per lb. About 2,000 Bra.
ails and 600 Bowed. have been taken on speculation. The
Import this week is 5,700 bags, six. 92 Demerara, 456 U. S.
5,114 Brazils, 20 Portugal, IS Ireland.
The Sugar market continues flat, and of 500 hhils. offered
at suction only 400 sold at rather lower prices fur brown
suit.; other kinds remains without alteration; the total
qiiantily sold is 450 casks: a sale of 127 chests of strong
low white and yellow Bahia Sugars was attempted on Wed-
nesday, when she first lot of fair quality was taken in at
40s. and the remainder withdrawn. We have little Coffee
off ring, and wily a few casks of gout! Domingo have been
mold by private trimly at 1195.; yesterday • small parcel of
Demerat• and Jamaica went uff at fair priers by auction,
viz. Dutch triage at 114 s. 6.1. middling at 133.. 9:1. and good
to fine middling at 135.. 9.1. a 136.. 9.1.; a fo w casks
common ordinary 'mixed Janie ica brought 121 s. 611. a 1245. 3,1„
Carolina Rice ha. sold in small lota at 18s. 64. fur goad
quality iv the growers, mml ordinary to 'middling at 16s. •
175.; 90 casks of fair quality ufferoa at auction were take*
is fur want of buyers at IS.. We have mill some inquiry
for good Brazil Cocoa, of whirls 200 bags have been taken
for shipment at 525. Rums continue very doll. Dyewood•
are Imams,' alteration; Jamaica Lugano.' was sold at
61.75. &L. Montreal Put Ashes bring 345. Pearl/ Ma. • 395.
and Stases Ashes 395. Tallow i cry dull. In Hides
nothing has hems done.
The demand fir Tobacco still "coutinnes exceedingly
being confiued to sundllutstaten by she trade. Th.
(',OM market (lii coast (pence of extrusive arrivals from
Ireland) has been less animord [ban last week; the sale* in
Wheat have been at Id. to V. per bushel decline un moat
descriptions. Good qualities of Oats have maintained their
former prices, but inferior are rasher lower. Very few sales
have bees made is banded Flour for export :•bout 320 bar-
rds fresh Philadelphia have brought 23.. per barrel. Yester-
day, abort 2,1100 bap of Sicily Shisruac were offered by
auction, and 16s. thl. being the highest prjee bid for the first
lot, it was all withdrawn, being held at 235. per cwt.

Ott.. —But little business has been dour in either Fish or
Seed Oils, acid prices have but little varied.
Fnory.—A large parcel of Figs was brought to auction
tart Tuesday, sad partly sold at lower prices, but a large
Kt/podium was lake. 1.. There tare beer several arrivals
Of Drees am/ tither Raisins, and also three cargoes of Cre-
mate.
Ititrinto Scoans have been in limited demand, and
large lamps have been sold for immediate delivery at a re.
domino 6f Is per cwt. Several contracts fur delivery to
the spring have beau made at 665. hi ISO. per cat.
• Corrow.--There has been little iuqatry fur Cotton, slum
our last ;_ the only salts made have beets of Pertinent and
East !edits, the prices remain without alteration Thy
wiles id the week are, about 41$) bags Pt ruamboco, ordiasry
to fair ltd • Incl.; 100 Surat, twiddling 6/J.; fair 74.;
very good $1.1.; tag Resist. very ordinary M., midllsug
t. fair bid. a 6141. per lb, all iu hood.

.
Postscript. Tooschty, Domeier 12, 1620, Four o'Clod.
Corms... The mullet remains very gaits, and me little

*business has been done that nor quotalions are quite
nominal. Fine ordinary Jllolfliell, it is reported, has been
sold conaiderahly under the price quoted for money.
' SUGAR.--.There were two public sales of Muscovado to-
day, consisting of Tortola mid Itobadnes of good quality;
both went off steadily, sad the former description at rather
bighe► pricer.
T►a —The East liedia Company's sale is ytt unfinished ;
11w &thee has wild /4. to Id. higher than at the last sole ;
low and middling Commit same as last sale ; fine Cougou
Id. to to I }d. higher ; l'irankayll.l.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY. IMICOLM.I lax,
111ameasgav, 1./serenest 13.
The LORD CHANCELLOR came hero Court at
half-past ten o'clock.
BENSLIET e. PiNNOCIC AND MAUNDER.
Mr. HART. Counsel for the Manua; said. there
never was a. case an clear for the interposition of
the Court as this. The gm:stigma for the considera-
tion .or the Court was, whether the Defendants had
tro conducted themselves as to art contrary to the
articles of the deed of patthership, entered into be-
tween them and the Plaintiff, so as to give the
Plaintiff the right, under the seal of that deed, to
give them notice of the dissolution of partnership
instanter. It had been said by his Learned Friend,,
that the Plaintiff had sworn to a circumstance that
was not true, but lie had done so through mistake.
He, however, would not accept of that cover for his
client, fur if the Plaintiff had averred to any thing
that was not trite, he would say, let the penalties
attached to such a crime fall on his head. k had
been also stated by his Learned Friends, that the
injunction had been granted on the affidavit of the
Plaintiff; that lie had lately discovered that the
Defendants had paid the debts of the old copart-
nership out of the funds of the new copartnership.
This was riot true, for lie ('he Learned Counsel),
when he moved for the injunction, put it 011110 such
ground ; and Mr. Wetherell, to prove that the pay-
ment to Tipper and Fry was made with the appro-
bation of the Plaintiff, produced a ledger that the
first payment made to Tipper and Fry was in
February, 18111, before the deed of partnership
was executed. He held in his hand that ledger ;
he had asked when it was produced., if there was any
person who would venture to make oath that that
entry was made in the ledger at the period it pur-
ported; he rots answered that such an affidavit
would be mode when it was necessary. Ile would,
however, undertake to assert, that such an affidavit
would never be made, fur this entry was one of the
many made by the Defendants to deceive the Court.
In fact, the ledger produced was not the ledger of
the copartnership. but that of the Defendants.
Mr. WETHERELL denied the assertion. Ile slid
it was the ledger of the firm of Beasley, Piiisiock,
and Maunder; and if the Plaintiff meant to assert
that the mitres were fraudulently made by the
Defendants, lie must do it out affidavit.
Mr. HART said. he used this in answer to the
argument of his Learned Frieud, that the Plaintiff
had sworn to a fact which was not true, through
mistake or inadvertency. if his Lordship would
look into the cash-book he would see that the
1,500/. was not paid to Tipper and Fry until the
mouth of February, 1819; but it, the cash-book
there were many items of a later date entered than
the items preceding them.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I see many thicgs
in the cash-book that ought soot to be there. It will,
however, be better not to go into any thing that is
not sworn to.
Mr. HART, in continuation, said, that his
Learned Friends had used some of the strongest
arguments, pledging themselves at lawyers to
their petition, without taking into their contempla-
tion that his Lordship was also a lawyer. They
had told him it was expressed in the articles of
coparternership that the Defendants were to pay
7,0001. and odd of their own debts, and that they
had debts due to theta to the amount of 5,0001. ;
and front that circumstance the Plaintiff must
have known they had 110 fund to pay the differ-
ence between the debt they owed and that due to
them. They forgot, that there was a convertible
stock of the old copartnership, to the otnount of
5,000/. Then, if the new copartnership used
that convertible stock, they must pay fur it. %Vas
it not as clear as the sun at noon day, that the
food to pay the deficiency between the debts owing
by the Defendants, and that due to them, was to
be raised out of this convertible stock, and nut out
of the moines of the Plaintiff? He hoped lie had
made himself understood by his Lordship, for
to attempt to satisfy the understandings of his
Learned Friends, he knew it to be impossible.
The Plaintiff had no advantage front the Defen-
dants purchasing their debt to 'tipper and Fry fur
1,0001. lea, titan its actual amount. as the Defen-
dants dome it for their own benefit, to purge them-
selves from the debt. The argument of his Learned
Friends went no further than to say to Ilia
s' You knew that the Defendants had no carpi-
tali therefore you must pay, and be the scarecoat
of their speculation." lie asked, would it be fur a
moment held by a Court of Equity that partners
entering into a business with ts butted capital, that
one of them should he allowed to plunge into a
speculation of 100,000/. and the other partners
should be mink answerable for it? he would under-
take to sly that there never was before such a wild
proposition laid down in a mercantile country.
The capital of the copartnership was not considered
sufficient in the first installer, for winch reason the
Plaintiff lent the firm a perpetual luau of 2,0001.
and because lie bad done so, was that a reason
that his whole fortune should become liable to
the speculations of the Defendants. The Dc.
/tridents had said they would not have borrowed
rummy from other persona if the Plaintiff had not
refused them advances. Ile had no doubt they
would not, as long as he furnished them with checks
on his banker but he contended they had no right
to borrow for a less time than six tnotiths, winch
was provided for by the covenant of the deed of