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ANTI-COAL MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE MARCH 22, 1839.
THPRIE
NCIPAL OFFICERS of Her
Majesty's OR I-) NANCE do hereby give Notice that they
will SELL hy PUBLIC A UCTION, at the Tower, on Tu F.SDAY
9th, and WEDNESDAY, 10th April, 1839, at Eleven o'clock in
the Forenoon precisely, sundry lots of Old Stores, consisting of
Militia Clothing, Great Coats, Boots, Knapstacks, Bedding,
Tents, Flags, and Buning, Sand-bags, Iron Bedsteads, Iron
Boilers and Pots, Anvils, Vices, Tools, Bellows, Scales and
Weights, Chairs and Tables, Old Brass, Steel, Iron and
Pewter, Rope, Canvas, Fire-wood, and various other articles ;
the whole of which may be viewed at the Tower, as expressed
n the Catalogues, one week previous to the Sale ( Sundays ex-
cepted), from Ten o'Clock- till .Four, upon application to the
Principal Storekeeper's Office at that place, where Catalogues
of the Lots, and Conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to
those Persons who may apply for the same.
By order of the Board,

H. BYHAIt, Secretary.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE
PUBLIC.
T IFE ANNUITY RATES,
. I CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! !

FOR EXAMPLE :
For every 1001. deposited, this Association will grant the An.
nuity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing.
From 50/. and upwards, in proportion.

Age3Oto 40 to 45 to 50 to 55 to 80 to 65 to 70 to 75 to 80

.£S I £ll 10 £0 0 £9 10 £lO 10 £l2. 10 £l5 10 £2O 0 £25 0
Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per
Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent.

LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE RATES,
Reduced 30 per Cent. per Annum.
LIFE ASSURANCE RATES.

Age '2O to 25 to 29 to 35

118 to 45 to 50

preinitim.lZ s. d. 1X s. (14,C s. s s. s. d.
11 11 011 15 012 o'ol2 6 012 10 012 15 013 5 0

This Company make. no charges for intermediate ages under
50 years.
FIRE INSURANCE RATES.
Common Insurance. s. d.
Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous) 1 0 per Cent.
Hazardous
Double Hazardous
Farming Stock
INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
Opposite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London.
South St. David's-street, and High-street, Edinburgh ;

Ingram-street, Glasgow ;
And Sackville-street, Dublin.
Established and empowered under the several Acts of Parlia,
ment of 14th Geo. 111. c. 48; 22d Geo. 111. ; 53d Geo.
c. 141; 3d Geo. IV. c. 92; and Ist Vic. c. 10.
CAPITAL, ONE MILLION.
In 20,000 Shares of 501. each.
MANAGERS.
James Alexander, Esq. Thomas Knowles, Esq.
George Anderson, Esq. H. R. Perkins, Esq.
James Drummond, Esq. Thomas Price, Esq.
Samuel Eyre, Esq. William Reid, Esq.
Robert sq. Edward W. Taylor, Eq.
Thomas Hope, Ferguson,isq. John Wilson, Esq.
J. D. Hustler, Esq. William Whittaker, Esq.
G. Williams, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Samuel Eyre, Esq. I John Wilson, Esq. I G. E. Williams, Esq.
SECRETARY—Mr. William Hole.
The Bank of England ;
BANKERS Bank of Ireland; and
Western Bank of Scotland.
StractEo isr —James Devereux Hustler, Esq., Park-street.
SURVEYOR—Simon Thurston, Esq., 9, Southampton-street,

Bloomsbury-square.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Williams and Son, 2, Hart-street,

Bloomsbury-square,

INSANITY.
INVALID INSTITUTION.
The DEMI AM.P ARK Establishment of the Institu-
tion is open for he reception of Persons of both sexes in the
upper walks of life suffering under mental disturbance or ner-
vous complaints, but who are still capable of appreciating the
blessings of social intercourse.
The invalids reside with the resident Medical Officer and
his lady as one united family. The visits of the usual Me-
dical Attendants and Friends arc admitted at all times with-
out previous notice. The attendants are educated persons ; and
recreation and amusement provided on the most liberal scale.
Denham-park is a Proprictory Establishment, and managed
by a Committee of Gentlemen, and under the general surveil-
lance of its Vice-Patrons, Noblemen and Gentlemen, who
have no interest in the Institution but what is prompted by
a desire to benefit mankind. _ _ _

_ .....
The Resident Medical Officer is a member of the College
of Physicians, and has the sole direction of the medical treat-
ment of the invalids, and has no interest whatever in the
emoluments of the Establishment.

AppliiOr terms and prospectuses to the Secretary, James
Taylor, Esq., addressed, Denham-park, near Uxbridge, Bucks.

It is not proposed that this Association should sell any
coals, but only supply its own members. It will have no
individual objects to serve. The gentlemen provisionally acting
disclaim any other interest than that which is common to the
community. They have advanced the necessary expenses of
its formation, which they expect to be repaid, but no more.
They will fill up no places or offices save provisionally, and
those without salary. The Association will be a Joint Stock
Company, but without the ordinary characteristics of Joint-
stock Companies. There will be no deposits—no responsi-
bility,no self-constituted directors or officers—no liability to
the laws of trading, partnership, or bankruptcy.
A gentleman or tradesman who takes tea or twenty consumers'
shares in this Association may, while he remains in London,
get his 50/. or 100/. worth of coals at their natural cost, with
the addition of 5 per cent. to the capitalist ; and, when he
chooses to go into the country, need not have one farthing of his
money lying idle or unproductive, but, by exchanging his con-
sumer's tickets for capitalists' tickets, will get his 5 per cent.
until he return, and then exchange again for consumers' tickets,
and save probably 30 per ce.it. in the price of his coals.
A self-protecting Association against the Coal Monopolists
was formed in Edinburgh the year before last, which had the
effect of enabling coals to be procured during the dreadful
winter of last year (when they reached the enormous price of
455. per ton in London) at a cheaper rate than during the
preceding summer and autumn, and which enables the best
Scotch Coal to be now procured in Edinburgh at 12s. per ton,
and the Newcastle Coals at 17s. 9d. per ton.
It is proposed that there shall ultimately be twelve Director s,
each holding 100 Shares, six from the Consumer's class, and
six from the Capitalists' class, with salaries to be fixed upon at
a general meeting of the Shareholders. Two Directors of each
class, eligible for re• election, to go out annually. All appoint-
ments of permanent officers to be made by the Directors thus
chosen.

The Duke of Wellington, in a speech on the finances of the
country, during the Administration of Earl Grey, said, "He
was not opposed to the repeal of the coal tax, or any other tax,
merely because it was a reduction of taxation, but the Noble
Earl, would recollect, on a former occasion he thought that the
best plan of reducing taxation was that which relieved the con-
sumer ; and, regarding the coal trade, he had said that the
best way was to correct the abuses to which it was subject, and
he was sure the abuses in that trade operated more than taxes
in raising the price of the article."
The machinery of the system to which his Grace alluded may
be traced in the following facts. In the North the great Coal-
owners enter into a bond, with heavy penalties to each other,
nit to send more than a certain quantity of coals to the London
market, and to sell coals to none who will not sign a paper
agreeing to conform to the regulations of waiting their turn.
In the South those regulations are, that, when coals are in the
Peol at 235. 61 per ton, only forty cargoes shall be sold—when
235. 9d. and 245., fifty cargoes—when 245. 3d. to 245. 6d.,
sixty cargoes—when 245. 9d., seventy cargoes—and a reduction
of ten ships for every shilling below 235. 6d. The operation of
this may be seen in the following table :
An Account of the Number of Vessels coal laden sold from the
Pool on the Coal-market each Market-day during the month
of December, 1838 ; the Price of the Best Coals (Lambton) ;
the Number of Ships waiting for Meters at Four o'Clock ;
and the Number detained in the different Sections of the
River, between Bugsby Hole and Gravesend :

AVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb.; Wax
Candles, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Cocoa Nut,
jOd. ; extra fine Wax Wick Moulds, 7d. ; transparent Wax,
Is. 9d. ; genuine Sperm, h 9d. ; genuine Wax, 2s. ld. ;
Yellow Soap, 465., Ms., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 625.
and 665. ; Windsor, Is. 4d. per packet ; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Old
Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Camphor, 2s. ; Almond,
2s. 6d. ; superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; genuine
Sperm il, as. per gallop.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63,
St. Martin's.lanc, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House.
BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT.
SWAIN and CO., 92, Fleet-street, TAILORS,
&e., to HER MAJESTY the QUEEN.
FOR GREAT COATS.
An assortage of Waterproof Milled Beaver Cloths.
FOR DRESS WAISTCOATS.
A splendid and rich assortment of Figured Velvets, Silks,
and Shawls, from Valencias, ot the choicest patterns.
DRESS SUITS OF THE BEST WEST OF ENGLAND
CLOTHS, From 41. 10s. to 61. es.
N.B.—Servants' Liveries, either for State or common oeca7
sioas.—Dresses of every desciption, tastefully and elegantly Em-
broidered to any device, in Gold, Silver, or in Colours.

Number of
DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb.; Wax Market)
Days. Ships sold
from the Pool Price of the Number of I
Decem.
Candles, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Cocoa Nut, Best Coats detained in
Vessels wait- Vessels.
10d. ; extra fine Wax Wick Moulds, 70. ; transparent Wax, 1838. each day • ing for Meters.
S:ction.
Is. 9cl. ; genuine Sperm, Is 93. ; genuine Wax, 2s. 13. ;
Yellow Soap, 465., Ms., s. d.
and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 625. 3 31 l'
and 665. ; Windsor, Is. 4d. per packet ; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Old 5 13 25 0 91s 0 1291 j perf Return not
ect.
Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Camphor, 2s. ; Almond, 7 44 21 3 94
293
2s. 6d. ; superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; genuine 10 C 6 24 3 94 375
47 6 Sperm il, as. per gallop. 12
14 55 24
24 9 101 340
106 3CU
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63, 17 59 25 0 100 3CO
St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House. 19 58 25 3 109 915
21 C 4 25 0 129 306
BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT. 21
Al
25 0
25 0 109
131 315
26 49
291
SWAIN and CO., 92, Fleet-street, :TAILORS, 23 47 25 0 143 297
&e., to HER MAJESTY the QUEEN. 31 50 24 9 152 299

Average'

GENTLEMEN'S DRESS COATS,
WAISTCOATS, and TROWSERS, cut and made
to fit in the most approved Style of Fashion, and made in
the best manner, at the following Prices, for cash, at J.
ALBERT'S, TAILOR, &c., a, KING WILLIAM-
STREET, CITY :

£. s. d. £. s. d.
Superfine Coloured Dress Coat ..... 210 oto 3 0 0
Superfine Saxony, Black or Blue ...... 3 0 0 3 10 0
Frock Coat faced with Silk, and Velvet
Collar
Various Excellent and New Materials

for Trowsers
Young Gentlemen's Spencer or Tunic

Suits
Suit of Plain Livery.
Gentlemen can select their Cloths, Kerseymeres, Waist-
coatings, &c., at this Establishment, from the largest and best-
assorted Stocks, without exception, of any house in London.
Every order executed with punctuality end dispatch.
52, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.

48 I 24 9 I 121

CHARLES ROWLAND, Harbour Master.
Average Detention of Vessels in the River—Twenty-three
Days. •

The effect of this system has been to raise prices to a great
exter.t, and to decrease the consumption ; —thus, whilst Lon-
don is annually increasing in population, there has been a posi-
tive decrease in this chief article of comfort and of necessity.
There were imported into London
In 1837..
In 1838.

2,626,997 tons
2,581,085 tons

Less in 1838 than 1837 by 45,912 tons
with probably an increase of half as many inhabitants !
_ _ _ _

IV. Resolved—That further subscriptions be entered into to
defray the preliminary expenses of forming the Association ;
and that the money so subscribed be repaid (without interest) to
the parties advancing the same, when such Association is
formed ; and that books be opened at the London and West-
minster Bank, and at Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall,
Provisional Bankers to the Association, to receive such Sub-
scriptions.
V. Resolved—That the thanks of the meeting be given to
the Right Hon. the Lord llayor of the City of London, for his
great, unwearied, and unparalleled exertions in the common
cause ; and that the Chairman and other gentlemen be ap-
pointed a deputation to wait upon his Lordship.
( Signed) GEORGE RENNIE, Jun. Chairman.

VI. The Chairman having left, and David Lewis, Esq, hav-
ing taken the Chair, it was Resolved—That the thanks of the
Meeting be given to George Ronnie, Esq., for his able conduct
in the Chair, and his persevering exertions in the cause.

31, OLD BOND-STREET.
MR. ELIASOLONIONS' VOICE CON-
DUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS have been en-
nently successful in the most extreme cases of Detective Hearing;
are worn unperceived, being only one quarter of an inch in diameter,
and convey the slightest sound so distinctlyas to afford the greatest
ease and assistance in all cases of Deafness.
The success of his Amber Spectacles (the exclusive disposal of
which is secured to his house by Royal Letters Pa,tent) has induced
parties to offer publicly as a mw invention, pro .eFfn ng to relieve vi-
sion, Deafness, and CATARACT WITHOUT' OPERATION,
common glasses of many years' standing ground on the principle of
the meniscus lens (employed for spec'aeles forty yt are act ), which are
highly injurious to the sight. These quack and a I surd inisrepresen-
tattoos might have been safely allowed to pass unt. of ii ctrl ; but as the
names of some medical gentlemen are used, it be'loses one to in-
quire by what means their signatures have bcen bt ;hied (if obtained
at alt) as sanctioning a direct untruth, by prof {aiming such as
thstt -yve:l3sm•:imn:enngtelads.Sespecct,faele3,.' which are unanswerably nothing more
areuricohrasiz
t a pink or reddish tint. 'I his fact may be
GLASS;
i,..stremreetat..iNn ecudierbriecrT:ti,elftii;Engß4thoerreeDslidrti.hneßg Eia,Aettßv4iDy)
nE,N,,,s,n,Steili'dEstlils.e'lle)ec'At SPECTACLE
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establishmentl'e nsa 7s. per dozen pair, or a single lair at Mr. E.'s

ADAMS'S IMPROVED SPECTACLES.
H. ADAMS, Optician and Spectacle Manufacturer,
has the honour to announce his REMOVAL to the BAKER_
STREET, BAZAAR.

To those Ladies and Gentlemen who have already honoured
him with their patronage he now has the pleasure to return his
most sincere thanks, and to solicit a continnuace of their kind
favours and recommendation.

The increasing sale of Adams's Spectacles proves their supe-
riority, the greatest attention being paid, not only to the excel-
lence of the Pebbles or Glasses, but, by his plan, the frames are
so adapted to the face that the centre of each Glass is brought
exactly opposite the pupil of the eye, which is of great im-
portance.
Telescopes, Opera-Glasses, and all kinds of Optical, Mathe-
matical, and Philosophical Instruments, of the most superior de-
scription, made to order. Charges very moderate.
Observe the Address—Entrante Hall, Bazaar, Baker-strcet,
Portman-square, London.

lAT a MEETING held at the Storey-gate
Hotel, Westminster, on Saturday, the 23d day of
March, 1839, GEORGE RENNIE, Esq., in the Chair, the
following resolutions were carried unanimously :
I. Resolved—That the most satisfactory evidence having
been given of the extortions and other abuses of the Coal Com-
binations, and of the means by which the same may be defeated,
this Meeting approves of uniting the Consumers of Coal into
an Association, with such Capitalists as may join them, under
the name of the " Anti-Coal Monopoly Association."
! 'IL Resolved—That the following gentlemen, having signified
their support of the cause, be requested to act as a Provisional
Committee, with power to add to their number :
CHAIRMAN.
J. T. LEADER, Esq., M.P.
Attwood, T., Esq. M.P. Pryme, Geo., Esq., M.P.
Blewitt, R. J., Esq., M.P. Rennie, Gee., Esq., No. 1,
Bird, J., Esq., Congreve House, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
Birmingham, and Dinas square.
Mowddwy, Wales. Smith, Dr., Geologist.
Elphinstone, Howard, Esq., Thompson, Col. Peyronnet,
F. R. S. Hanover-terrace, Regent's-
E wart, \V., Esq., M.P. park.
Galloway, Alex., Esq., C. E. Villiers, Hon. Charles'Pelham,
Lewis, David, Esq., 4, Ches- M.P.
ham-place, Be;grave-square. Wallace, Robt., Esq., M.P.
Liardet, J. T., Esq., Barister- Wilson, Thos., Esq., Bank-
at Law, 35, Southampton.. hall and Silkstone Colliery.
buildings
111. Resolved—That the following Address be issued as the
Prospectus of the Association ; that the same be advertiied ;
and that the Provisional Secretary be instructed•to-cause the
same to be left of the honSes of all Consumers of coal throughout
the Metropolitan Districts:—
" AIDE TOI, ET LE CIEL T'AIDERA."

PROSPECTUS OF THE ANTI-COAL-MONOPOLY
ASSOCIATION.
FIRST CAPITAL, 500,0001.
In 50,000 Consumer's Shares of 51. each • and 25,000.
Capitalist Shares of 101. each.
Each resolvable into the other when convenient ; and the
atter bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum ;
,he Consumer's Shares renewable for ever.
No Deposit--no Subscription Deed—no Act of Parliament—
no Debts—no Credits.
The object of this Association is to secure to its Members of
the consumers' class, Coals of every description, at the cheapest
rate at which they can be procured, without being subjected to
any of the monopoly regulations or exactions.
In order to effect this great object, it is necessary that the
Association should be self-dependent; that it should have its
own pits, its own vessels, its owif wharfs, warehouses, wag-
gons, &c. ; or that it should have contracts, binding down
parties for any of them at the lowest stipulated cost.
Great and praiseworthy efforts have been made by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, and others, to break down the Coal
Monopoly, and with considerable success ; but it must be evi-
dent to all that so long as the chief sources of supply rest in a
few combined hands—so long as the Public cannot command
their own means of production, carriage, and delivery—no iso-
lated efforts, however gigantic and persevering, can entirely
succeed in placing the necessary article of fuel, at the lowest
cost, in the cellar of the consumer.
The Monopolists have set at defiance the Legislature; they
set at defiance the Lord Mayor, and all other individual oppo-
nents ; they would crush any single-handed rival disposed to
open trade; they dare not set at defiance the combined Con-
sumers ; they cannot crush a Hundred Thousand Shareholders,
with the means of supply in their own possession.
Besides the enormous artificial cost laid on coals by the deten-
tention of vessels—the limiting the supply beneath the de-
mand—the agency of factors—the large per- centage of profits to
cover bad debts and long credits—there are great frauds in the
mixing of coals, by which the public are injured to a large
extent. This Association will save the cost and prevent the
fraud. Men who are their own Coal-merchants can have no
temptation to tax or cheat themselves.
The preliminary measures for this Association have been
going on for twelve months. Every inquiry has been made
necessary for the completion of the undertaking. Persons con-
nected with the monopoly in the north are desirous of breaking
from it, and have offered their pits at a valuation to be taken
in shares. Other mines of coal yet unworked are offered at a
low seignorage. Contracts are offered of the best Silkstone
and Flocktou coals of Yorkshire, of the coals of Staffordshire
and Derbyshire, and of the Welch and other coals of great
value for particular purposes. Contracts for freight., for wharf-
age, for delivery are offered ; and even now, before the posses-
sion of their own resources within themselves, excellent domestic
coal may be placed in the cellar of the consumer at from 21s.
to 225. per ton, leaving Is. per ton to pay five per cent. in-
terest to the capitalist, and all the expenses of the manage-
ment.

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