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London, England, 1824-05-22 00:00:00

OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE
COMPANY.

Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, May 8, 1824.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a SPECIAL
COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY,
bill be held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, on THURSDAY, the 3d day of
June next, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, pursuant to the
Act of the 59th year of His late Majesty King George the
Third, for the ELECTION of THREE DIRECTORS of
this COMPANY for four years, in the room of Three Direc-
tors who will then go out of Office by efflux of time.
By order of the Court of Directors,
RICHARD GUDE, Sec.

N. B. The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Clock piecisely,
and the Ballot will continue open for four hours from its com-
mencement.

Bridge-street, Blackfriars, May 11, 1824.
MY LORDS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
HE period having arrived when our Situation
In the Court of Directors of the Gas Light and Coke
Company expires by efflux of time, we take the opportunity to
request the honour of your VOTES and INTEREST to re-
place us as DIRECTORS of your COMPANY at the
SPECIAL COURT to be holden at the CROWN and
ANCHOR TAVERN, on THURSDAY the 3d day of June
next.
We trust that our past conduct will be an earnest that our
-future exertions will be directed to promote the welfare of the
Company to the utmost of our power.
We have the honour to remain,
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obliged and humble Servants,
JOHN GEO. LOCKETT.
R. W. SILVESTER.

POSTPONEMENT.—CHURCH ENLARGING SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of the SOCIETY for promoting the ENLARGEMENT
sad BUILDING of CHURCHES and CHAPELS, will be
bell at tbe. FREEMASONS' TAVERN, on WEDNESDAY,
the ed of dune, at welve o'Clock precisely.
His Grace, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY in the Chair.
The ANNUAL REPORT will. be laid before the Meeting,
and as it witi then he proposed to take, into consideration the
Exhausted State of the Funds, the attendance of the griends
.‘f the Society is particularly requested.
W. JOHNSON RODBER,
Sub• Secretary.

15, Dukc-strect, Westminster,
May ls, 1824.

Ct OMERSETSIIIRE SOCIETY.—The
FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING of
the GENTLEMEN connected with the COUNTY of SO-
MERSET, will be on TUESDAY, the 25th day of May,
1824, at the ALBION HOUSE; Aldersgate-street
JOHN ASHLEY WARRE, Esq., M.P. in the Chair.
STEWARDS.

Sir T. Buckler Lethbridge,'
Bart. M.P.
Wm. Dickenson, Esq. M.P.
John Branscombe, Esq.
Wm. J. Broderip, Esq.
.Augustus H. Burt, Esq.
'William Dean, Esq.
Dinner at Five o'Cl(
`rickets, One Guinea each,
also at the Albion House ; or of
tarp, No. 7, King's Bench-wal

J. Alex. Frampton, Esq.
Bryan Holme, Esq.
Captain Jekyll.
T. Jones Mawe, Esq.
Wm. Moody, Esq.
Frederick Salmon, Esq.

)ck for Six precisely.
may be had of the Stewards ;
' P. Hurd, the Honorary Seers-
ks, Temple.

ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INS TITUTION,
For 'the Relief of Deciayed Artists, their Widows, and

Orphans.
THE SUBSCRIBERS and FRIENDS to this
INSTITUTION are respectfully informed, that the
ANNIVEKSARY FESTIVAL will be celebrated in
FREEMASONS' HAIL, on TUESDAY, the 28th Instant,
On which occasion

His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK and ALBANY
will preside.
STEWARDS.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Pomfret
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart. 1.1).
Sir John Fleming Leicester; Bart.
. The Hon. Wm. Twiseltou
Michael Hoy, Esq.
Thomas Lister Parker, Esq.
Wm, Bowles, Esq. Mr. C. A. Pettitt
James Christie, Esq. G. H. Robins Esq.
Win. Cotton, Esq. Francis Squibb, Esq.
James Davis, Esq. Wm. Tijou, Esq.
Wm. Delmar, Esq. Charles Turner Esq.
J. C. Denham, Esq. John Turner, Turner,
Thus. Gent, Esq. Raphael L. West, Esq.
"Simon M'Gillivray, Esq. J. Bazley White, Esq.
Thos. Grieves, Esq. Win. Williams, Esq.
J. S. Harford, Esq. Wm. Wilson, Esq.
Zdward Mack lew, Esq. 13. G. %Indus, Esq.
J. C. Mead, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
'rho' Musical Arrangements under the direction of Mr. Broad-

-
burst.
Dinner on table at Five o'Clock.

Tickets (with included), at One Guinea cash, may
be had of the Stewards ; at the Secretary's, 65, Upper Char-
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square ; of Mr. Roper, Assistant Secre-
tary, 14, Duke-street, Portland-place; and at Freemasons'
Bell.
N.B. The Tickets issued for the 30th of April will be ad-
Otitted. JOHN YOUNG, Hon. Secretary.

REDUCTION OF TAXES, &c.
This Day was published, price Is.
,IRRACTICABLE FINANCIAL OPERA-
TIONS, as suggested to his Majesty's Government;
having in view, amongst other objects, the REPEAL of
3111VEN MILLIONS of ANNUAL TAXES; Loans on
ld.„„ °nage at Four per Cent. Interest on the Resident Land
rropnetors of Ireland ; and both the Education and Employ-
,lieut of the Irish Poor, as the most salutary means of nteliorat-
'lng their condition.
By JOHN BRICKWOOD.
Sold by C. and J. Rivington, Waterloo place, and St. Paul's
Church-yard ;J. Ridgway, Piccadilly; Sherwood, Jones, and
Co., Paternoster-row; and J. M. Richardson, CornhilL

REDUCTION OF TAXES.
This Day were published, price Is.
RRORS IN OUR FUNDING SYSTEM
with the mode of retrieving them, as pointed out by the.
New Edinburgh Review for January 1823 ; being a Critical
-Examination of a PLAN of FINANCE, sent to Members of
Parliament.
By Mr. BRICKWOOD,
Formerly a Merchant and Banker of London.
" We cannot suffer ourselves to doubt that it will be adopted
his Majesty's Government, it being the most powerful and
carious Plan for paying off the National Debt ever submit-
ted to their consideration."—New Edinburgh Review 1823.
Printed for. Waugh and Innis, Edinburgh ; J. Hatchard and
8411. Piccadilly ; Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternoster Row;
;lad J. M. Richardson, Cornhill, London.

•,111400K MUSLINS OF INDIA TARN.-
- Jur DULLARDS, in the City.—The attention of the
Nobility, of Ladies, and especially of Proprietors .of Fashion-
able Millinery Establishments in London and Paris, are most
respectfully solicited to MILLARDand COMPANY'S NEW
A. I. BOOK MUSLINS, made with India Yarn, with the
advantageous aid of European manufacture, the result of many
years experience in the India Trade, the retentive transparency
of which, durability of Colour, and Cheapness, is admirable,
and surpass every thing of the kind yet produced. They may
bo seen, together with the India, in the various widths, and
are sold by the piece, &c., exclusively at their Wholesale and
Retail Warehouse for India and British Goods in the City,
No. 10, Cheapside, with the usual'allowance to Merchants for
exporting. Their new importations of Foreign Goods, Holland,
Russia, and Silesia, sets of Table-cloths and Napkins, Sheet-
fogs, Linens, and Cambrics; rich embroidered Muslin and
_Lace dresses, Chantilly Veils, and Foreign and British Shawls
for superior Presents ; India, French, aiid new articles of
fashionable British manufacture, are in daily arrival, with new
fancy coloured Muslins and Cambrics of unique deSigns pe-
culiar to the house, with those adapted for the Parisian and
West Indian costume; extra fine Linens, French Cambrics,,
and Crairat Muslins, for'the use of Gentlemen of the Law, the
Army, Navy, &c.

Chartered to sail from Gravesend on the 15th June, direct
FOtt THE ISLE OF FRANCE,
THE coppered A 1 Ship
t.
1-11BBEKTS, EDWARD THEAKER, Corn-
'7' kN4 wander. Burthen 450 Tons, lying in the
City Canal. This Ship has most superior ac-
commodations for Passengers.
For Freight or Passage, apply to JOHN LYNEY, Jun.
Sworn Broker, 6, Birchin-lane,