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VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Oct. 13, 1824.
T'E COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL-
LING His MAJESTY'S NAVY, &c. do hereby give
'N°tiez, That on Tuesday, the 28th Instant, they will be ready
to teceire Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the
untier-tnentioned Articles, to be delivered into His Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz.:—
Articles. Quantities. Periods of Delivery.
IIISCUIT I!IEAL `'3oo Sacks )One-half by the 15th of
NEW. OATME -20 Tons ,L Nov., and the other
NEN PEASE ..
... 1000 Qrs. ) half by the 15th Dec.
One-hal fby the sth Nov. I°l-111, (Kiln-dried) 800 Sacks - and the remainder by
t the Ist Dec. next.
The Pease and Oatmeal to be answerable to samples to be
Iroduced with the Tenders, the former of not less than two
quarts each.

The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office.
Each 'render must specify the price in words at length, and
be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and the
PeZIPli who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf,
DIV attend to answer when called for.
' M. WALLER CLIFTON.

• LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
THE DIRECTORS give Notice,- That, in
ursulnc. f the Deed of Settlemet. a GENF."'"
Ai EFT/ "
NG of the PROPRIETORS will ben held for General
Qi",es, at the SOCIETY'SOFFICE, in LINCOLN'S INN
Tiv .41)8' °I) FRIDAY, the sth day of November next, at
rive &Clock at Noon precisely.
JAMES ANDERTON, Sec.
of the Assurances at this Office are not confined to the Profession
loiw, hut are Open to Persons in every station of Life ;
ph' all Persons insuring fot, the term of Life are entitled to,
4),r:fifths of the Profit, which may at any time be readily
pheel in reduction of the Annual Eremi um.
Terms
1)1E4, 0f Assrances and. Prospectuses may be had at the
t„ of the Society,
Soety, and at the Offices of most of the At-
Leys in the Country.

PATRONISED BY THE HONOURABLE THE NAV Y
BOARD.
PATENT D E'rECTO It LOCK.
~llE lino. Sir GEO. GREY, Bart., K.C.13.,
:ma, (the (!ominissioner), and the Principal Officers of His
pe...,je:.t'.'B Dock Ymet, Portsmouth, have given the Patentee
iollsbstcal to publish the following Statement of Facts relative.
PATEN' DETECTOR LOCK; namely, That hay-
bY order of the Honourable Navy Board, lately supplied
...."Itiderable number of his Patent Detector Locks for the
ijairte of the Port:id/oath Dock Yard, and being Informed that
Portaita: a Convict on board one of the prison-ships at this
oori o was notorious for picking Locks, (being by profes.
yeit ek Lock Maker, and who has, till recently" for seyeral
LO
n hiefly employed in picking and repairing Locks in
ttieH° P, the Patentee requested the favour of Commissioner
tnight'llssurable Sir George Grey to send for this man, that he
the LA,' exercise his skill in attempting_ to pick his LOck ; and
qu --tnrni3sioner having been pleased to acquiesce in this re-
teteltt; the inan wa% sent For accordingly, and one of Chubb's Pa-
tent
was submitted to his inspection, at the Storekeeper's
_ siftere'e' the presence of several of the Principal Officers ; when,
*lc careful examination, he said, "he thou ht he could
i,h °Pen it with false instruments." He was t erefore fur-
r.re e< with files, and all the tools he stated to be necessary to
are the instruments for his purpose; and was directed to
:;,7110tice to the Storekeeper when he should be ready to
pi'vtertolie trial, for the. prioTontsiolitf
he
of ofswolcil.colotd,ad.lteAaVout
thlN,Aeee aunds wftaesr promised
itsrme,ll he sent to say that he was
fr,r7Y ; mud, a time being fixed on for the purpose, he coin,
his operations in endeavouting to pick one of the Locks;
'4 Presence of the Principal Officers of the Dock-yard ;
;14;hecould not succeed. Ile then stated, " that his failure
4,',.o,co?4equenccoflis
impediment,
not exactly fitting the
io remove this the Patentee offered to
LVY him with some blank. keys, which should fit two of the
10,4•2_,, in order to his making, another trial ; these were fur.
a cortfiv•ly together with a Lock exactly the same in
ml4d:end kind as those he had been trying, so that he
iti"s examine its construction, and make himself master of
iw„Pliiioe. Shortly after he made another attempt to pick
0;023'„ the Locks, in the presence of the Honourable Sir
)4 "Re Grey,- and the Principal Officers of the Dock-Yard
11.. 'sitcoms in this attempt was not better than the first ; but
overlifted the Detector of each Lock. Sir George Grey then
lshod him, what he would do in this case, supposing he had
rigt making an attempt on such a Lock, with an intent to coin.
thbbery ? He said, " I would go no more to the Lock,
~,lril robbery
set a watch and catch me.' He. still thought, how.
bantliats by a further alteration of the instruments he could
r44.1-re4eed more time was therefore given him, and every
•tl• afforded him. Sometime afterwards he again repeated
horr.l., in the presence of the same Gentlemen; but having,
tletilrevions experiments,' overlifted the Detectors, lie could
tad 'I„,Y means disengage them ; this was done for him seve.
ii;:•!es, with the Keys belonging to the Locks; but, as often
the-tii7 were regulated, on every successive trial lie detected.e
not ii
nutd4gain; till at last lie gave theta up, saying, "'that l
s utmost ability in his repeated attempts, and could
rnot bu—wctl, : that these I.ocks were the most secure he had ever
Pick and that he did not think it possible for any man to
11: „open them with any false instruments whatever.
4bset.,„4:atentee of the above Lock, in making the following
of oth.,,7l'sisl disclaims any intention of depreciating the merits
*44l' sucks, by describing their defects, or demonstrating
le ,in'teUrity hilt trusts the Detector Lock will entitle Imp
Pos434re in the attention and patronage of the Public ; " it.
Princi e 3) in a much higher degree than any other,
.the, four
pLtepi requisites of a good Lock; viz. SECUR IT I , 5D1(4.141•1‘,17,
(4.141•1‘,17, STRENGTH, and DURABILITY. Its SE-
irapre, Particularly, is increased beyond calculation, an
ise rin„enin,°,_nt, which not only renders it impossible to be tmcked
oy any false instruments, but also detects the first
whi- `cs °Pen it ; thereby preventing those repeated efforts„
thete ch even the best Locks lathery) invented are exposed. In
ranijol'°eka, the combinations admit of so izreat variety, that
413 y twri:lf them mal, be made, and yet one Key shall not pasa
for lids
Looks and the Detector renders that variety infinite;
the Instant that one or more of the tumblers are lifted beyond
txty_ ace lehere the bolt is at liberty to pass, it overlifts the De.
Ki`s'f: which then hooks the tail of' the bolt, preventing it from
ae it11!!!Pd thus gives incalculable additional security, (as well
(nen, il".(tate notice, the first time the true key. is put into it to
gitlii.aritS:ll;rlttteltni 4pttatetZetles
bsas; been made to pick it,) and renders
it being impossible to discover the
te,u'oeo_ !nnation, andsengg the Detector, or the second, to
4trbieebteoelttntr nothing but the true key can either re-
from its grasp on the bolt, or open the Lock.
t„rseference to its DURABILITY, it is not liable to be in-
-1)-1;i:41111Z constant use in any length of time ; this has been as-
-Bteriea.t:- 1?Y an Iron-rim Lock having been attached to a
erictrgine in the Dock-yard, Portsmouth (to try the effect
flitu hu,T(O7 by which it was locked and unlocked upwards of
tln u ed and sixty thousand times, without receiving the
'I,I(ITZ The STRENGTH of its parts, and the SIM-
or other , of hs construction are'such, that no False Key,
Instrument
i't introduced into it for the purpose ofopen-
lit;V,ln (without very great violence) injure
11004 to patent Detector Locks, of every size, and for all the
tee, ctiqp Locks can be applied, may be had of the Paten-
The 14LS CHUBB Portsea
tlgAliv,lil,Leelcs are also sold London, by Akers Dm and Mi-
t. ,
Messrs. Bailey and Co. 30, Cornhill ;
_'t°reli Holborn ; Mr. Colwell, 57, Haymarket ;
et, -ve 1 .96-, _
tt
Oxfordsew Bond-street ; Messrs. Ma" ad street; ,
; hlr. Phillips, l 3; Camomile- Mr.
'street. ti4l4•44orough Messrs. noncom° and 0, Skinner-
4,t,ttt. cLol°4llll • rrlessrs Boobyer and Co. C0.,14, Stanhope-
-141114M,70-tner. ; Mr.• Downer, 155, Fleet-street • Mr.
1•A Wood- s•-' ":t4ward-street, Portman-square ; Mr. Wilde,l7* Strand`;l",tle,ClieaNitie ; Messrs. Payenter and Hawke,
; fidainsiind Morris, 32, Parliament-
;?ir• Rape,. y and IVildc, Castle-street,__ lov.cryelo •
in, 11,1 pettsi Mr.. Parlor, London-lane, Norwich ,
on gets St. Edmond's ; and may be had of the principal
gets • .
In the Knigdorn.