The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-18 00:00:00

ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, APRIL 9, 1822.

THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for the
1 AFFAIRS of this HOSPITAL do hereby give Notice,
that they are ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for SUPPLYING the HOSPITAL with
COALS for the current year, consisting in the whole, or part
of the following descriptions, viz. :
Killingsworth, Helburn Main, Heaton Main, Bewicks, Bell's
and Russel's Wallsends--about Five Hundred and Twenty
Chaldrons, more or less.
Those Persons who may be inclined to furnish the said Coals,
to be delivered at the Hospital and the Officers' Apartments
and Offices therein, are desired to send their Proposals in
Writing, at • per Chaldron, including all ex-
Pences, on or before THURSDAY, the 25th.instant, (marking
on the cover " Tender for Coals)" to the Secretary's Office,
where further Particulars may be known, or of the Steward of
the said Hospital.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ist of APRIL, 1822.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,

The DEPOT and PREMISES, belonging to.t his Department,
situated within a Quarter of a Mile of the Town of Derby,
ALL those Substantia.: Well-built BRICK
BUILDINGS and PREMISES, known its the ORD-
NANCE ARMOURY, with Trussed Barn Roof, Slated, and
lined the under side of the Rafters ; and contains two excel-
lent stories, 97 feet long and 30 feet wide in the clear; the
ground story 17 feet high, the upper story 15 feet (a little
Wore or less,) with lobbies at each end of both stories, and
Rood light, well adapted for a Manufactory or any other par-
•ll,ose requiring light and roomy premises. Together with
FOUR well-built BRICK DWELLING-HOUSES, consisting
ni Ground and one-pair Stories, and large light Closets ; good
Yards, with Privies and Sheds; two Magazines; Guard house,
1/ith attached Offices, Sheds, and Work-shops at each end ; a
rump, with a Well of good,Water, and Drains. The
a'hole
Premises well enclosed with a Brick-wall, and with Car-
tiage-entrance and bates front the Road.
The extent of the Ordnance Land consists of one Acre and
one Rood, the centre of which is covered by the Armoury,
Magazines, and other Buildings contiguous; the remainder
of the Ground is cultivated as Gardens.

Also to be disposed of, all the Fittings-up of the Armoury
and Accoutrement-room, and other articles ; Fittings-up of
the Smith's Shop and Furbishing-room, and other materials.

Plans of the Premises may be seen by application at the
Secretary's Office, in Pall-Mall, London, between the hours
of 10 and 4 o'clock.
The Premises may be viewed by applying to Mr., S. D.
meare, at the Depot, of whom particulars may be had.
Such Persons as may be willing to make Tenders for the
Purchase of this Dep6t and Premises are to send their Pro-
tosals to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall-Mall,
4410c10n, on or before the Ist day of May next, sealed and
111dursed, " Proposals for the Purchase of the Depotat
4-Perhy."

tr. BISH has already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE
Capitals in the present Lottery.
ALL MUST BE DRAWN LAST AND ONLY DAY,
NEXT TUESDAY,
THE /3d OF APRIL.
BlSH,.of,the'OLD STATE LOTTERY
• OFFICES, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, Lon-
calls the attention of his best Friends, the Public, to
the present Rich State of the Wheel, which contains
TWO PRIZES OF X 20,000 !
And 20 Other Capitals of k 1,000, ,500, &C. &c.
All of which must be drawn on Tuesday, the 23c1 Instant,
when the Lottery will entirely finish.
Tickets and Shares, Warranted Undrawn, are on Sale at
..nISI-I's Offices in London, and by his Agents in the Country.
-I'ery Ticket—Every Share—Every Capital—and every other'
Prize must he drawn
NEXT TUESDAY.

BRAMAH'S PATENT PORTABLE PENS.
A SPURIOUS Imitation of these PENS has=,
ing- recently. been introduced for Puhlic Sale, J.
BRAMAH and SONS, 124, PICCADILLY, the Manufac-
turereand Proprietors of the Invention, acquaint its nume-
rous Patrons and the Public, that in future every Box or
Packet of their Genuine Pens will be stamped with a fac si-
MMile of-the Signature of the Inventor " JOSEPH GRA-
AR. by Which means the Counterfeit will be easily (Hi:
4uvered--January 24, 1822.

" Air OCK NORWICH UNION SO-
CIETY."—" To the EDITOR."--Sin, Mr.
SAMUEL BIGNOLD having issued advertisements all over
the country, stating that the proceedings in Chancery which I
and other members of the Norwich Union Society have insti-
tuted against him, was the act " of four obscure individuals,
who were not members, and who were the tools of the Ex-Secre-
tary ; and who were put out of Court," I owe it to my own
character to call on Mr. Samuel Bignold to prove the truth of
his assertions. I declare them to be all false.

"As to obscurity, I own I am not so notorious as Mr.
Samuel Bignold, nor do I wish to be so'. I have never --
and destroyed a great and opulent Society, and enriched my--
self by the spoils ; but still I am-a member of the Norwich
Union Society, as I paid for the renewal of my policy last Mid-
summer, and the year is opt yet out. So far f'rom being a tool
of the Ex-Secretary' as Mr. Samuel Bignold sarcastically calls
his father, I voted for his removal in 1818; but what I have
since found out, I am inclined to think I was, with others, the
Son's dupe—not the Father's tool. The Ex-Secretary was
brought into odium, as much as any thing, by Mr. Samuel
Bignold's scribbling, by catchpenny statements which were
proved to be false as fast as they came out; and by scurrilous
and personal attacks on the respectable Managers of other
Offices. The old Gentleman was made a scape-goat of, and his
dutiful Son slipt into his shoes ; but the Father never dirtied
them a hundredth part so much in twenty years' service as the
Son has done in three years.
" Now, as Mr. Bignold, jun. prefers writing in the News..
papers to answering our pending bill in Chancery, I call on
him to answer the following questions in this Paper, and if he
can, without evasion i—lst, Whether the Society he is now ad-
vertising-under the name of the Norwich Union, is not, to' all
intents and purposes,' a new Society on a principle fundamen-
tally different to the Norwich Union, and conducted by a diffe-
rent set of Directors ? 2dly, Whether the whole power and con-
trol of the funds are not lodged exclusively in him and his said.
Directors and Shareholders ? 3dly, Whether the said Direc-
tors are not the Directors of the Old Norwich Office, formerly
the rival of the Union ? 4thly, Who were the Directors of the
Norwich Union at the time of transferring its effects to the Di-
rectors of the Norwich Office? sthly, Why did he not, as was
his bounden diity, call a general meeting of the members, to
elect new Directors, or to take such other steps as they might
think necessary for their interest and security, if the old Di-
rectors were unwilling to act with him in carrying on the So-
ciety any further ? 6thly, Whether the advertisements, bills,
pamphlets, marks, engines, agencies, and other expences, by
which the Society was brought to its great extent of sixty thou-
sand members, have not cost our Society considerably more
than one hundred thousand pounds—or what other sum ?
7thly, Whether such amount has been paid by the Share-
holders to our account as a consideration for transferring the
effects and Members of the Norwich,Union to them—or what
other sum ? Bthly, Whether any, and what separate consi-
deration was paid to Mr. Bignold for effecting the above revo-
lution secretly, in addition to the emolumints of his new ap-
pointment as Secretary—and what those emoluments are ?
Jthly, What are the names and residences of the Shareholders
in the new Company, of what Shares does each hold, and what
have they each actually paid for them ? 10thlY, Upon What
principle of common honesty does he defend the 'clandestinely
breaking up our Society, unknown to the Trustees and 51em-
bers generally, and converting their property to his oern use,
when just before the time of breaking up -he advertised the So-
ciety to be most flourishing, and in the advertisements he is
now circulating, signed by the Directors of his new office, he
acknowledges " the concefn might have lasted longer. "
1 1 thly, Upon what principle of common honesty does he ad-
vertise under our name, and quote the great increase of in-
surances made, and the returns and claims paid by our Society
for many years back, as, things done by his new Company,
whith has not returned a sixpence ; a'display of which is as in-
sulting to us Members of the destroyed Society as it is false
and tricking on the public ? I.2thly, If he and his party of
Shareholders have a nght to overturn our Society without our
consent or knowledge, and put two fifths'of the profits, into
their own pockets, what is to prevent their taking the remain-
ing three fifths, or their breaking up or selling the Life Office
as well as the Fire Office, whenever Mr. Bignold can get any
thing by it ? Lastly, I ask Mr. Samuel Bignold to produce,
if he can, a breach of trust of equal magnitude and barefaced
impudence, done by any other person. And unless Mr. Samuel
Bignold does give good answers to all these questions, without
shuffling, 1 do say that the Patrons and Trustees of our Society
neglect their duty to the Public, if they suffer him to continue
advertising their Names as Parties to the New Tricking Com-
pany. And if our Members at large, who have been sold like
a herd of swine in Smithfield; submit to be driven to any mar-
ket Mr. Samuel 13ignold may make of them, they deierve
no let