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CONTRACT for WELSH COALS for the
COAST of AFRICA.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, April 22, 1847.
The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and. Ireland, do hereby give
notice, that on THURSDAY, the 20th May next, at One o'Clock, they
will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con-
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Places, the following- quantities of WELSH COALS, flt for the ser-
vice of her Majesty's steam vessels.
Sierra Leone ....... 2,000 tens.
Ascension . .
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St. Paul de Loando ••.. • • 2,000 „
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noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly autho-
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and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals,"
and also must be delivered at Somerset place, accompanied by a
letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 3,000/. for the due per-
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DR. CULVERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and
LONG LIFE.

In pocket volumes Is. each, by post (in stamps), is. 6d. each.
a OWTO BE HAPPY.
sYucande Vlvere."—Cic.
2.

Willa to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID.
(With Diet-tables for all Complaints.)
a.

MARRIAE and its MYSTERIES.
To:be, or not to be, tkat is the question."—Shakspeare.
4.

The PASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL.
" Cura ut valeas."

These publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are
adapted to the intelligence of the times.
To be had of -Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn-
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the Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta-
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at 10, Arzyle-place. Regent-street.

ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH Aof u
MATURITY.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, price
2s. M. or post paid, to any address, for 3s. 6d. in Postage tamps
direct from the Author's residence.
ELF. PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise
On the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
Illus.rated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy.
Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs,
explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and showing
the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, and other
excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
the Urethra,

By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.,

CONTENTS OP THE 'TREATISE.
Unarm. 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance:
and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.—
CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generative
Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, proving that grey
Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action
—CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the
Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function.
of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of tht
Mental Faculties. CHAPTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youti
and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness,
Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—CHAPTERS 5 and 6. Or
the Disorders arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonnorhcea
Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases 01 he Urethra.

REVIEWS OP TUE WORK.
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the trr ltment of the various disorders arising from the follies an
trailtie4 of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad•
dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which mu'
act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal
many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit f no ap-
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Season on the

SONGS OF SCOTLAND

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PART .FrasT.—My Heart's in the Highlands—The Bonnie House of
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CIENT FREE and.ACCEPTED MASONS

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Brother
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?THE SILENT FRIEND. A Medical Work
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.

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►LLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ANGRAVINIS,
Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope, price 2s. Gcl.. or free
by post, 3s. 6d.
CONTROUL OP THE PASSIONS : a Popular
Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its prelnature Decline,
with Instructions for its Ccmplete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various
Cases, &c.

By C. J. LUCAS and Co.. Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, London.
Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c,

CONTENTS OF Till WORK,
Chap. le—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idloey, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of-Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused by the practice
of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica-
tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate.
Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cases,
and concluding observations, Plates, Sec. 4

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ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
JUST PUBLISHED, THE THIRTIETH THOUSAND,
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(Communicated by the French Government.)
Hydrographic. office, Admiralty, April 15, 1847.
LIGHT ON CAPE FREHEL.—Notice is hereby given,
that, from the Ist of May next, the Revolving Light on
Cape Frehel, in lat 41 deg., 41 min. 5 sec. N. long, 2
deg. 19 min. 2 sec. W. of Greenwich, will be replaced
by a new light at the distance of 38 yards south, 60 deg.
(true), from the Old Tower. The flashes of the New
Light will succeed each other at intervals of 30 seconds,
instead of 21 minutes, but in ordinary weather will not
disappear totally within the distance of 10 miles. The
Lantern is elevated 259 feet above the sea at high wa-
and will be seen in clear weather 22 miles.

LIGHT ON LE FOUR ROCK.—The proposed improve-
ments in the Revolving Light on Le Four Rock, which
stands in lat. 47 deg. 17 min. 53 sec. N. long., 2 deg.
27 min. 56 sec. W. of Greenwich, were completed on
the 15th of last December. The flashes now succeed
each other at intervals of 30 seconds instead of one mi-
nute, but the light will not entirely disappear within the
distance of seven or eight miles. The Lantern is 70
feet above the sea at high water, and is visible in clear
weather at the distance of 18 miles.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Registered Paletot of
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We regret to learn that the health of the Earl of
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serious uneasiness to the family and numerous friends of that
most estimable nobleman, whose illness at the present
moment cannot be regarded as otherwise than a national
calamity.—Observer.

THE EARL OF DUNDONALD.
LETTER FROM SIR G. SINCLAIR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY.
Thurso Castle, 13th April, 1847.
SIR,—In a recent number of your respectable and
justly popular journal, I perused with deep interest and
lively satisfaction, a very powerful and pathetic appeal,
on behalf of my much respected and much iejured friend
Lord Dundonald, in whose esteem and regard I have for
many years deemed it an honour to occupy a place. You
will perhaps allow me to encroach upon your columns,
by troubling you with a few details, connected with the
transactions to which you- have been inviting public
attention.
On the morning after the trial in which his Lordship and
others had been involved, I saw Lord Cochrane in Oxford-
' street; and for a few moments hesitated whether I should
venture to meet him undersuch peculiar circumstances for
fear of exciting painful feelings in his mind. Being,
however, still more apprehensive, that, if I turned down
one of the bye streets, he might think I was desirous
to avoid him, I went up to his lordship, took him by
the hand, and expressed to him with mach emotion, my
sorrow and surprise at what had -occurred, adding, that,
having long and intimate knowledge of, and respect
for, his personal character, I was convinced that the
evidence must have been distorted by legal ingenuity,
so as to mislead and impose upon the jury, " Well,
Sinclair," replied Lord C., "I feel much gratified at
this trying moment, by the assurance of your sympathy,
but I should be sorry to rest my claims upon your
esteem (which I highly value), upon your kind appre-
ciation of my general charaeter. It has been my mis-
fortune, from possessing an unsuspicious temper, to have
mixed myself up in this business with others, whom I
supposed to be as guiltless as myself, and the same
feeling of conscious inilocence made me less careful'
than perhaps I ought to have been, in making proper
preparations for the War ' hvt there is no help
-tor these 'things 'now, isuti all that remains for
me to do, is to move, as I shall of course imme-
diately do, for a new trial, when I shall fight .my battle
alone. If I do not rebut every charge to your entire
satisfaction, and that of all other honest men, ram con-
tented to be branded with infamy, and shall never ex-
pect you or them to speak to me again."
I mention this occurrence, Sir, in order to prove how
convinced his Lordship was that when the case was re-
heard his character would be completely cleared. He
never would have staked it so emphatically on the issue
of a new trial, if he had not been entirely confident as
to its triumphant result. I may here add, that after the
conviction Lord Dundonald's uncle, the late Hon. Basil
Cochrane, with whom I was very intimate, bestowed a
great deal of trouble and expense in collecting informa-
tion with respect to his nephew's case, and, as the result
of much perseverance and diligent scrutiny, assured me
that he had obtained possession of facts so strong and so
conclusive as would completely establish Lord C.'s in-
nocence.
You are probably aware, Sir, that I lived -for many
years in habits of the most affectionate regard and un-
bounded confidence with the late Sir F. Burdett, who
was long the attached friend and colleague of Lord
Cochrane. I never knew any man who so thoroughly
identified himself with the feelings and interests of those
whom he loved; but at the same time he had so nice
and so scrupulous a sense of honour, and was so tena-
cious of strict principle both in public and private life,
that if any one, however beloved by him, had been
guilty of a base or sordid action, it would not have been
possible for him, in consistency with the impulses of his
noble and chivalrous heart, to have continued to live with
any such individual in habits of familiar intercourse and
friendship. Sir Francis, however, retained from first to
last the same entire and unwavering confidence in Lord
C.'s integrity, the same unqualified admiration of
his character, the same ardent desire to witness his
complete vindication from what he considered to be the
most cruel and groundless aspersions. A few years
subsequent to the trial, on one of the first occasions on
which his late Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, honoured
the late Countess of Dysart with his company to dinner
at Ham House, permission was given that Sir Francis
Burdett should be one of the party; and I remember his
Royal Highness said to me on that occasion, " Sir
Francis has entertained some extreme .opinions, but I
do him no more than justice when I observe, that he has
never for a moment lost sight of that respect which every
good subject owes to the royal family." When the com-
pany retired to the drawing-room after dinner, Sir
F. and I had a long conversation with the Duke, in
which both of us, particularly Sir F., dwelt at great
length upon the services and sufferings of Lord Coch-
rane; in fact, I never heard Sir Francis express him-
self with greater energy, eloquence, and animation. His
Royal Highness intimated his hearty concurrence in every
eulogium that was pronounced on Lord Cochrane's pre-
eminence in point both of personal bravery and profes-
sional knowledge ; but being at that time Lord High
Admiral, he abstained from stating any decided opinion
on the subject of the trial, though he listened with great

Lord Cochrane, and so far from being offended
earnestness with which we pleaded the cause of an absent
ng offended at the
and, as we thought, deeply injured friend, that when I
communicated to him, soon after the termination of this
discussion, a respectful wish on the part of Sir Francis
Burdett that his Royal Highness would do him the
honour to fax a day for dining with him at a villa which
he then occupied at Twickenham, the Duke at once re-
plied, "I will dine with him with the greatest pleasure,"
and immediately fixed a day for that purpose. The en-
tertainment took place not long thereafter, and Sir
Francis again renewed the subject with his royal guest
as earnestly as before. I saw them sitting tete-a-tete for
a long time on the sofa, whilst this matter was discussed
(as Sir Francis told me afterwards), but did not myself
hear what actually passed.
I trouble you, Sir, with these details, in order to illus-
trate the anxiety with which Sir Francis availed himself I
of every opportunity to stand forward as the champion 1
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entire innocence. He has not once, but often, assured
me that if the most painful
part of the sentence had
been carried into effect, he intended to have gone down
in his carriage to the spot, and to have insisted on
taking his stand by the side of his friend, in order to
enjoy the high honour of sharing his unmerited dis-
grace. I have frequently since that period met Lord
Cochrane at Sir Francis Burdett's, both at dinner and
in the morning ; and although Sir Francis was of all
men the most courteous and fascinating in his manner
of doing the honours of his house, even to the hum-
blest individual who entered it, I always observed on
his part a marked anxiety to distinguish Lord Cochrane
by the most soothing and gratifying manifestations of
cordiality and regard. Often, when Lord C. has left
the room, I have heard Sir F. exclaim—"Ah, Sinclair,
I cannot look at that man without feeling ashamed of
England's ingratitude and neglect. Cochrane is the
man best fitted to save the country
in any season of
perilous emergency—he has done much to promote her
honour and advantage—it is her own fault if he has not
done more. lam as convinced of his innocence as to
the charge brought against him, as I am of yours or of
my own ; and I feel indignant when I see the traces of
sorrow and brokenness of heart in the furrowed counte-
nance of that man, who has beau deprived, through pre-
judice and malignity, of the honours he has so signally
merited, and condemned to a punishment, which to him
is worse than death, and not less undeserved than over-
whelming."
When I mentioned at the commencement of this para-
graph that Sir F. had made up his mind to share the
punishment which (even had the sentence been just)
was, in the case of Lord Cochrane, one of such extreme
harshness and cruelty, I cannot say "idem trecenti jura-
viniuc," nor, indeed, do I believe that any man but Sir F.
himself has, in my time, been characterised by snob a
spirit of chivalrous friendship, as would have suggested
the adoption ors!' step so unexampled and so magnani-
mous. But if, as was the cafe in an earlier and less
refined period of our history, a large number of respect-
able compurgators might have been allowed to attest
their firm belief in the groundlessness of this charge, I
have no doubt that an overwhelming majority of
those to whom Lord C. was best known, and who had
private, his
promote his
witnessedheiisthienrtegprriotyfe,sshioisnaelalygernoressiato
would have stepped forward and exclaimed with one
voice, "not guilty, upon my honour!" I remember when
the late gallant and excellent Lord Napier came to pass
a few days with my father, at his residence in Ham Com-
mon, I introduced the subject of Lord Cochrane's merits
and misfortunes; Lord Napier emphatically replied, "I
would stake my life upon Cochrane's innocence—and I
don't see how any man who knows him can believe that
he is guilty."
I fear, Sir, that I have trespassed at far too great a
and
own time the patienceof
length upon your
readers—but I could not (though scarcely
able to commit
to paper so long a statement) neglect
to avail myself of
such an opportunity, not only for declaring ar my own
feelings of respect and admiration for Lord Dun-
donald, but for bringing before th e public a few
considerations, which may in some degree tend to pro-
motel will not
that tardy justice
(for
so kindly arll it favour)
which you have so ably and
advocated. For
,when I consider,dispassionately, the
personal own part,
of Lord Dundon ldand
a , the whole
personal character
tenor of his conduct both
public and private, as well as
the high estimation in which_ he has been uniformly held
by all who have seen him oftenest , knew him well, and
lived with him longest, I feel impelled, in reference to
against such
such a charge, when madenegative aa mtn
toadot
(with the mere insertion of a
exclaim, "Non
_celebrated ex-
pressionan and to
of Tertulli ,
Sir, your faithful and obedient
impossible."—l remain,
' servant,
GEORGE
SINCLAIR.

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(chairman), had an interview on Saturday with Viscount
tPhale mceorsntgorne,ssonofththeesuubnj
reference to the conveyance of passengers to the United
States.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence, in
Dovaunrstreet.