The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-29 00:00:00

T 1 URSDA .17, MAY 2g, 1806.

A.
T a'GENEIIAL MEETING of the SUBSCRI-
BRRS to the UNION or PROVIDENT INSTI-
TUTION, . • •
WM. PRAED, Esq. M.P.. in the. Chair,
It was Resolved Unanimously, That the New and Equit..
able System of Life Insurance and Annuities, as digested by
the Committee, is calculated to promote early Industry,
Economy, and Morality, to relieve Thousands from depen-
dence and want, and, effeding these Public Benefits, to be-
come
of considerable National Importance.
That the following Noblemen (friends to the Institution)
be requested to accept situations in the Honorary Presidency :
The Right Honourable Viscount Bulkeley.
The Right Honourable Viicount Chetwynd.
The Right Honourable Viscount Duncannon.
. The Right Honourable Lord Kensington.
That the following Gentlemen be added to the Provisional
Committee :
William Bell, Esq.
Scir opr Bird,
eßernarevas,Et Middlesexsq.LL.D.
Major Militia.
William Newcombe, Esq.
William Praed, Esq. M. P.
That the first Instalment, being 21. per Share, be paid into
il‘'s 91 Messrs.
t Praed,s t
where a Book is opened•for the Subscription of those desirous
of any of the few remaining Shares.
reet,Die yo,r Bbeott,reßethrnae riziitahnidnsNtaenwt:
the hands
oo.f.
WM. PRAED, Chairman.
1 Freemasons' Tavern, •May 21; tBo6.

GOLDSMITII's HALL.
TWENTY GUINEAS REWARD.

T OST, between Cheapsi4e and the Strand, on
Mednesday"Night last, a POCKET BOOK, .contain-
ing the following Bills of Exchange and Draft :
-17th May, 1806, H. Nodin on I: H. Wilkinson, at two
months, due 20th. July, 1501.
2.7 th April, ,806, I. R. Wilkinson on F. S. Nodin, at six
weeks,, due Ith lune, 741. z6s. 6d.
fotti May, 1806, I. R. Wilkinson on Thos. Davis, at two
months; due 13th July, 301.
price on C. BlackbUrn; due 25th May, 301. us. 3d.
May, 1806,, drawn by Medwin, Horsham, on Maybew,Lon-
don, 70 days, 1321. 125.
2801 May, 1806, Draft on Mess. Langston and Co. drawn
by Wm. White, fool.,
Whoever will bring the said Pocket-book, with its con•
tents, rb Mr. C. Wright, Beadle, at Goldsmith's Hall, shall
receive a Reward of Twenty Guineas. The Bills and Draft
are of no use but to the Owner, and payment of than are
stopped. No further Reward will be offered.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE;
„May 26, 0806.
MITE PRINCIPAL OFFICIERS' of HIS MA-
7ESTY's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice,' That they
will be ready to receive Proposals at their Office in St. ltlar
garet Street, Westminster, on oOefore the 711.; of June next, from
such Persons who may br "capalle and 'willing to undertake the
Construflion of certain BUI LUINGS which it is
.intended to
ereil at Colchester for the Ordnance Department,. crinforina44, to a
Plan-and Elevation which may' be seen at the Office en any
day
between the hours of Telt and .Four
The . Propoidls to specify the' Prices of each description of Work
to he included in the Buildings • also the time in which rbe Work
shall be completed under a Penalty, and the nature of the Security
to be given, in case of the non-performance of the Contrali„
Proposer's sealed up, and superscribed " Proposals for construa.
jug Buildings for the Ordnance Department at Colchester," to be
delivered at the Secretary's Ogice,• St. Margaret-meet,
iVest-
minster, on or before the 7th day of June next,
.but no Peoposals
be teccived after that day. .
By Order of the Board,
R. H. CREW, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE,
lllay 2t', eo6.
HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG-
LAND trading to the East Indies do hereby give Notice,
That a General Court 'f 'the said Company will be hell at •
their House, in Leadenhall-street, on Friday the iota
from Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon until Six in 11,e .Evenii:g, for
the determination by Ballot of the following Question, viz.
" That this Court having considered the Papers laid before
" it, most highly approves of the zeal manifested and the
" condud pursued by the Court' of Difettors and regardl.a
" firm adherence to the principles maintained by the Court
" of Diredors to be indispensibly necessary to preserve the
'" salutary authority over the Governments of India, 'vested
" by Law in the -Court of Diredors, to restrain a profuse
" expenditureot Public Money,, and to pre,ient all schemes
" of Conquest and extension of Dominion., measures which
the Legislature has declared to be repugnant ,to the Wish,
" the honour, and the policy of the Nation ;, anti this Court
" cloth assure the Court of Diredors of its most cordial and
" zealous support, with a view to preserve Unimpaired the
" Rights and Privileges of the Last India Company."
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