The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-10 00:00:00

:PICTUAI,LINO-OFFICR, Nov.
1R24.
FirrtE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL.
LING Hi: AL9.IESTY'S N4VY, eft.. do hereby give
Sober, that on !Perim's(loy, the Ist December nest, they will
'readyf to receive Tender: in writing (sealed up), and treat
r2he utpply, oa separate Contracts, of what FRESH
b 441" may be required tar the rue of if,: Majesty's Shipi
Pessels of the place: under-mentioned, froth the Ist of
'loNary to the 31:1 of December, 1134.5, itictuaive, via. :
toll; sad K. • 1
ctathan 1115tIte 1 Leith, Leith Roads, rind the
el Frith of Etlinhurgh
mpueltown
t.owits
F:it'lwairotsut h Liverpool
Londonderry and Loughsi,villy
Milford Haven
Portsmouth
41waY and err.' Greenock "en
Plymouth
filir with Sheerness
I(illitown and Dublin And To
the use of the Officers and Hen attached to the
td, 41/i, sth, and 6th Divisions tf the Coost:Bloch.
„4- far the Prevention of Smuggling, in the Counties of
'lll AV Susses,' on separate Contract: fat each Division.
The Conditions of the Contracts ,nay be seen at this Office:
°I; bYaPPlying at the Post-Office at Dublin to Mr.
IA Stokes, or .‘tfr. Dunsterville, Agents for
0: Victualling at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham. and
tespectively to Alr..elwin, Victualling Wharf, Do-
tter; Air. Deg! Yard; 3lr. C. Bartlett, at Brix-
Agoi ; to Captain 3,l'Culloe4. si Deal; nail to 1" Purvis
the respective Divisions ,of the Corer Ailoc bide ; or to the
Vollectore of His Majesty's Customs at each of the other
Placet.

-eoold Tender must specify Me prica in words at length,
4141 br delivered before One °Then on • the day appointed
a)la muet 6c accompanied by a Letter, signed by two responsi-
tti Perrone, engaging to betsome bound with the Party ten-
-11"41g, in the Penal Seems of 2,0ti01, for the due 4
perform
-
Alice
- the Portsmouth and Plymouth Contract:, of 1,0001.
"!`". Chatham and Sheerness, and of 5001 for each of the
Wiser Contract:.

?he Person who makes the Tender, or some Person o;
,
"41 6e4011; must attend to answer when called for.

At. WeII:LER CLIFTON.

ricrUALLiNG-oFFICE, Nov. 9, 1824.
THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL-
.
LiAro mg 111.4JESTTS ;Nil PT, ere. do hereby give
.-414441, That on Tuesday, the 16th Instant, they will be
r 4 to rweeive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for
"der-Mentioned Articles, to be delivered into His Ara-
Victualling Stores at Deptford, vis.:—
1, Articles. Quantities. Periods of Delivery.
4I LE NI ALT 400 (.quarterlßy the 81st December
1)111r0 sou --- 5 next.
LISA HOPS,} One•balf as soon as pos.
t-iit;,iii.
,4rowth of 100 Bags . sible, and the oilier
is
half by Dec. Dee. SI next.
'llkW IILAC 'One-half by the Ist Jan.
,1
UNA ItAISINS ('One-half
and the remainder by
• the 31st January next.
T 4.
"k to be anowerable to Samples to be produced with
h.
71.1"lerst the Malt of not less than two quarts, arsib
the naitpina rti net less than two pounds weight each.
' 7.4 Cc'eif4t. ions of the Contract; ,nay be seen at air Office.
444'h Tender nowt specify the price in words at length, and
74delivered bilore (Inc o'Clock on the day aPpointed ; and
4, Petro', Whoirs the Tender, Or. taint Person 055 /sir
lAaii; ?RIM attend to answer when called for.

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RISE OF STOCKS I. !,
of the Old State Lottery Offices, No. 4,
ao_ Corohill, and 9, Cluiring.Crosts respectfully calls the
scrtinn of his best Friends, the Public, to the New Lottery
114,.1nf) Which contains Two Prizes of 30,000 k, TwO of
est, and various other
area Capitals.—ll the Prizes, with the
lerPtion of the Two of 20,0001.,
iac to% part 3 per. Cents.; but Blau feels so confident of the
Sterling Money, those
value of the Public Funds, that he guarantees to the
*Llsers at his Offices, should he sell either of those Prizes,
to
1111 them at the rate
of 1001. Money for each 1001. Stock ;
thetr)d the 3 per Cents. then be above 1001., they may take
kb' etock ; consequently, Adventurers must gain by the
lstete being partly composed of Stock. When Br su made the
tras br.j.letnet he stated his reason for introducing 30,0001. Prizes
ausea generally sold them, and the result has proved he
Prial, "ea, he sold in the Scheme just decided,- 15,756, a
oq "' uu,105/. one Quarter of which was Sold in London,
izt aarter at Alaidstone, one Quarter at .Bawtry, one Eighth
one Sixteenth in Edinburgh, and 'one Sixteenth in
one 1• Bien also sold Eight other Capitals drawn the
and 16,056
in the preceding Month (October) he sold
t;e161056, Two Prizes of 20,000/., and 15 other
1ti441,!) Which were distributed over various parts of the United
%ion, "'ln, the partiehlars of which are too voluminous to men.
tikt '3lllli is now setting, for the New Scheme, Tickets and
LC. on a most advantageous plan for Adventurers; as the
than of 4. whole Ticket may, ultimately, be obtained for less
%ow a Sixteenth for less time Ten Shillings; arid for
leiriting sums both the 20.0001. Prizes must be obtained,
Van ther Capitals may be. Schemei of this excellent
1„,„tul be had gratis.---The Lottery draws and finishes next

de I.Plottish, Old Assembly (lose, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY-
Metuber of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his
house, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London' whete", after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti-
culctrly directed to the core of Venereal Cumplatuts and those
incidental to the Parts of Generation. °with-that inviolable
secrecy which men of his profession biluttld always observe in
gnat cases, he Bathers himself. the advice and as,istance he
sratuitowslv admitti.teri to persons taking this Medicine, will
Ire estts nicCl, by a discerning Public, as an advattage seldom
itt itnal.le, and void .of all ambiguity. .
Also sold, by his appitintosent,tor the convenience of those
living at a distance, at the Toyshop, No. 103. Oxford-street;
Mr. Disborough'i, 'No. 7, Fish-street-hill; alt. Baxter,
one person in tlVet V considerable to an in aruat Britain and
South 'bridge, Edinburgh; Mt. Call wel 's
110 ; and of
Ireland, in boxes of only 2s. od. each, stamped, and sealed alt
with fitti and plain directions, witetelsv pefsotts, of either
sex oqty cut et t hennelres with ease, speed, tectedvi and safetys

PATRONISED BY THE HONOURABLE THE NAVY
BOARD.
CH U BB'S PATENT DE'r E croft LOCK.
THE Holt. Sir GEO. GREY., Bart., K.C.8.,
(the Commissioner), and the Principal. Officers of Ilis
given the- Patentee
permission to publish the following Statement of Pacts relative
to his PATENT DETECTOR LOCK; nafnely, That hav-
ing, by order of the Honourable Navy Board, lately supplied
a considerable number of his Patent Detector Locks for the
use of the Portsmouth Dock Yard, -and being informed that
there was a Convict on 'board one of the prison-ships at this
port, who was notorious for picking Locks, (being by profes-
sion a Lock Maker, and' who has, till recently, for seer&
years been chiefly employed in picking and. repairing Locks ui
London), the Patentee requested the faVour of Commissioner
the Honourable Sir George Grey to send for this man, that be
might exercise his skill in attempting to pick his Lock ; and
the Commissioner having been pleasedao acquiesce in this re-
quest,Chubb's Pa.
tenLo ficieksmwaanswsausbrimenitttefdortoacristdminsigl,,tinozi
AI It. FAUNTLERO Y.
a°tllteh°erStorekeepn's
Office, in the presence of several of the Principal Officers ; when, The
4., ,
after a careful examination, he said, "he thought he could . "'PP Sympathy which the Cate or M.
pick or open it with false instruments." Ile was Chet
fur. ' FAUN TL4no ir has excited in every quarter of the kingdom, is
bifrintgetaldrib'
nulled with files, and all the tools he stated to be necessary to its honourable to m the. national feeling, as it is to the individual
heeforepehtiitsio3nuticshir
yi: pre-
prepare the instriunents for his purpose ; and was directed to in whose,bre.lt-ptlitrposels ntor
give notice to the Storekeeper when' he should be ready to i'ng fi a
make the trial, for the promotion of which a Reward of we are assureu, have its due weight. In this countr an ar.
Five Pounds was promised him if he succeeded. In about peal to the mercy f
°- -the' SoVerign, when Yd
1
support by the
three wicks after this . time, he sent to say that he was . wishes of the people, is never mane in y • I 1 principle
ready ,- and, a time being fixed on for the purpose, he coin- which we all adroit, that the previous character4l°. t la
a
and conduct of
rnenced his operations in endeavouring to pick one of the Locks, an offender, though'it does not
the
t e essence of the specific
rte the presence of the Principal Officers of the Dock-yard ; offence. May justly mitigate the s of the punishment.
but he could not sueceed. lie then stated, " that his failure No reflective man ever yet urged,eventY
nor ever will, that by
was in consequence of his instruments not exactly fitting the adopting this principle you give a sanction to crime, since it is
Lock." To remove this impediment, the Patentee offered to . a principle in every day's tract principle received, and
supply him with some blank keys, which should fit two of the acted ttpon, throughout the whore -coots©
of our popular jitris.
Locks, in order to his making another trial ; these were fur- prudence. We wellknoW that theerime of forgery is surrounded,
niched accordingly, together with a Lock exactly the same in , perhaps more inexorably than ar
here observe,--and
other with
with the terrors
speak
of
principle and in kind as those he had been trying, so that lie ' criminal justice; but we would
might examine its construction, and make himself master of it without fear of misconstrnctinn 'fm any w_e
front candid mind,—that
its principle. Shortly suer he made another attenipt to pick' the crime of forgery, which our la
two of the Lockit, in the presence of the Honourable Sir ' with this inflexi le rigour, is
oievifmeans exclusively to pursue
George Grey, anti the Principal Officers of the Dock-Yard : i the reason of tie distinction is manifest,forgery of bank-notes ; and
his success in this attempt was not better than the first ; but . currency of the kingdom is passin becaunse,i.as the pnadpee
he overlifted the Detector of .each Lock. Sir George Grey then 'hand, and .through all classes o trerPcer Y from
a to
community, not only
asked him, what he would do in this rase, .supposing he had , would their value be depreciated, but their circulationwould
been making an attempt on such a Lock, waken intent to coin- be at an end, if the public confidence in their '
mit a robbery ? lie said, o I would go no more to the Lock, were destroyed, by the frequency of forgery, theyffwnug ens:
ever would set a watch and catch me:" lie still thought, how- longer be received, in the mercantile transactions o life. The
,ever, that, by a further alteration of the instruments lie could j result to which this would lead, in a great commercial kingdom
yet succeed ; more time was therefore given hint, and every like this, is sufficiently obvious; to hence .the public safety,
facility atibrded him. Some time afterwards, lie again repeated as connected with public credit, and with the great circulating
his efforts, in the presence of the same Gentlemen ; but having,l medium of the country, demands not only that the crime of
,in his previous experiments, overlifted the Detectors, lie could forgin; the notes of the Bank of England should be made a
not by any means disengage them ; this was done for him seve- capital offence, but that the dread of punishment should not be
rid times, with the Keys belonging to the hocks ; but, us often j weakened by the prospect of pardon. When, therefore, it is
as they were regulated, on every successive trial he detected said; Mit Very connnonly 9f
that forgery is an offence never par..
there again ; till at last he gave them up, saying, ." That he cloned, the remark must hi understood as applying to that species
had used his utmost ability is his repeated attempts, and could of forgery, from which, owing to its peculiar evil consequences,
not succeed : that these Locks nitre the most secure he had ever it has been deemed necessary to Withheld the ordinary exercise
met :with, and that he did not think it possible for any man to of mercy. It seems natural hero to ask,--and the question, we
pick or open them with any false instruments whatever. • know, has not unfrequently been urged,—is it, then, consist.
The Patentee of the above Lock,. in making the following ent with the humanity of our law to subject the inferior of-
observations, disclaims any intention of deprechitiii 1 ' fence of forging other instruments, which have no
cosset.
tit tlemerits
at other Locks, by describing. their defects, or tlernonstratina tioa with bank notes, to the same punishment which itawie
art
titeir insecurity i but trusts the Detector Lock will entitle hiss, to the higher offence? If 'public necessity requires that the
to a share in the attention and patronage of the Public ; as it i latter should be punished with death, why is the former' to
possesses, in a much higher degree than any other, the tour which the plea of necessity does not apply, put on the same
Principal requisites of a good Lock ; six. SECURITY Sl3l. level and brought under the same sentence? Is not this crest.
rucITY, STRENGTH i
, and DURABILITY. its SE- in caPitaloffences without necessity, and dealing nagse same
CURITY, particularly,, 13 increased beyond calculation, by an 4,loastiro of punishment Without Attending to the tude of
improvement, which not only renders it impossible,to be picked tile crime ? There is much force, certainly, in these questions,
and th
or opened by any false instruments,. but also detects the first the involve. considerations of vital importance in the frame
attempt to open it ; thereby preventing those repeated eflbrts, of our penal laws. But the remark* of Paley on this point
to which even the best Locks hitherto in
arc exposed. in are striking{, and well deserve attentin. Speaking of the policy
these Locks, the combinations admit of so great variety, that upon which the law of England is constructed, he says, •' BY
the number of statutes creating capital offences, it sweeps into the
millions of them may be made, and yet one Key shall not patis net every crime which, under any possible circumstances, may
any two Locks ; and the Detecter'rendoes that.vatiety inflinte ;
'deserve the punishment of death ; Lot when the execution of
for the instant that °neer more of the tumblers are lifted beyond the sentence cornett to he deliberated upon, a small proportion
the piece where the bolt is at liberty to pass, it overlifts the De.
of each class are singled out, the general -character, or the pecu.
rector, which then hooks the toil ot clad bolt, preventing it from iiaraggrivations
.nf whose crimes, render them tit examples of
passing, and thus gives incalculable additional security, (as well
as immediate notice, thefirst time the true key is put into it to public justice. By_ this expedient few actually suffer death,
whilst the dread arid dange.r.of it heng over the crimes of many."
open It, that an attempt has been made to picket,) and renders
all farther attempts useless ; it being' impossible to discover the here then it is that the Fonditlon of the par t iculafcase—the greater
first combination, to disengage the Detector, or .the second, to ofguilt in the intention --.time or less degree
le
set the bolt; end .nothing but the true key can either re- the accused—the pursuits and habits of his former life,—are
lease the Detector from Its grasp on the bolt, or open the hock. brought under deli beration,and prescribes those rules for the exer.
In reference to its DURABILITY, it is not liable to be in. cise of mercy which the mere principles of penal law could of
jived by constant use in any length of time ...- this has been as. themselves never fix. "The ass of England," as Paley after-
certained, by an Iron-rim 'Lock having been attached to a wards observes, " are Wu"' of creating capital offences
Steatu-Engine in the Doek.yerd, Portsmouth (to try the effect' beyond those of other countries; " " but, as he emphatically,
of friction), by' which it was locked and unlocked upwards of and with great truth, remarks, " the charge of cruelty is an-
four hundred and sixty thousand times, Without receiving the swered by observing, that these laws were never meant to be
least injury. ' The STRENGTH of its parts, and the SDI_ carried into indiscriminate execution ; time Legislature, when it
PLICITY of its construction, are such, that no' False Key, establishesitslatit and highest sanctions, trusts to the benignity of
or other Instrument, introduced into 'it for tite pprpose of open. the Crown to relax their severity, as often as circumstances appear
Mg it, can (without very great violence). injure it. . '--- to palliate the offence, or even its often as those circumstance* of
The Patent Detector laicks, of every size, and. for all the aggravation are wantingwhicdt rendered this rigorous int 'Lion
uses to which Locks can be applied, may be,
had of the Peten. neces.sary." We quote the remarks, bGttortted as they are on the
tee, CHARLES CHUBB, Portsea, principles of eternal justice, as well as on the
eingestso and spirit
The Locks are also sold in Loudon* by 1%16'n. lye and Btu.. of our criminal code, for the purpose of applying them to the
bidge, 130, Fleet-street ; Messrs. Bailey and Co. 30, Cornhill ; eau of Mr. Fauritleroy, and as leading; to those reflections
Mr. Phillips, 54, High Holborn; Mf. COlWeli, 67, ilaymarliet ; which every humane and candid mind will bring to the cone.
Mr. Bowel', art New Bond-street; Messrs. May and 3lorrett, aeration of it. We glen not look up to the pardon of this *fifer-
-06, Oxford-street; Mr. 'Phillips, 13, Camomile-tinsel 4 mr, tunitte individual; the public anxiety rests upon the commute-
Hicka,l49, Borough ; Messrs. lianeorne and Co., 10, skinner. tins of the punishment of death to ati ; i
-_ ran,soment short of death,
street, Snow-11111; Messrs. owners and Co. 14, Stanhope. .1 and which, in the spirit of it just diurimitiation, or mingle
street, (ffare-market ;' Mr. Downer, 155; Fleet-street t Mr. . the exercise of mem with the dispeottation of justics,-(Br,
Benham No. 1, Edward-street, Portinan-sqUare ; :11r. 'Wilde, 144 Presi.)
29, Wood street, Cheapside f'3.lleissrs. 'Payetiter and Hawke,
1711 Strand ; dessrs. Adams and , M ems, 32, Parlianient.
Street; MeSsrs. 'Drury' and Wilde, Castle-street, Liverpool
.Mr. RapercLeeds; 31r: Parbar,.Lenion.lane, Norwich; Mr.
tirootn, Bury. St. EdMoild's ; 'and may be had eitthe prin.eipai
'lronmongers In the Kingdom* ..

JOHN SARGEANT, ESI:1•1 Chairman of the Wesi
Sussex Quarter Sessions, has resigned, and JAM
TWYFOitD, jun., Esq., of Trotten, has been una,
uhnously chosen to succeed Film.