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CONTRACT Vo DELIVER CbAtg bIBRALTAR
AND IN TUE 'WEST INDIES.

Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers,
Nov. 15, 1826.
4.Q UCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting with
ir•-.7 the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to deliver COALS
at GIBRALTAR, RARBADOES, and. TRINIDAD, may re-
ceive. Particulars of the Contracts at this Office, between the
hours of Ten and Four, and deliver their Tenders, sealed up and
directed to the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, marking there.
on " Tender for Coals ;" on or before Thursday, the 80th inst. ;
but none will be received after Twelvik o'Clock on that day ; nor
will any Proposal he noticed, unless made on, or annexed to, a
printed Particular, 'and the prices inserted in words at length ;
mor unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal, signed by Two
Persons of known property, engaging to become bound with the
party tendering, in the sum expressed in the Particulars for the
due performance of the Contract.

VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Nonsense. 18, 1826.
THE Conitnissiouers for Victualling His Majesty's
Navy, &c. do hereby give Notice, that on Tursnay, the
21at inst., they will be ready to receive Tenders is writing (sealed
up), and treat for the supply of the under-mentioned quantities
of Provisions, viz.:—
Thirty-five Tons of VIM BLACK SMYRNA RAISINS.
Fear Hundred Quarters of KILN DRIED PEASE.

Fifteen Tons of NEW OATMEAL.
Thirty Tons of COCOA.

Eight Hundred Sack. of BISCUIT MEAL, and
Fifty Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM.
' The whole to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores
at Deptford, by the 2EO of December next.
Slemples of the Raisins and *cos, of not less than three.
Pounds each, and of the Pease aud Oatmeal, of not leas than two
luarts each, must be produced with the Tender.
"The Conditions of the Contracts toit be seen at this Office.
Each Tender must specify the price is words at length, and be
sriellvered before One o'Clock addle day appointed ; and the Per-.
roit who makes the Tender,. or some Person on his behalf, must
attend to answer when called for. ..

M. WALLER CLIFTON.

BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL.

E GALLERY continues open, with the
-11- COLLECTION of PICTURES frinn CARLTON PA-
LACE, which HIS MAJESTY has been graciously pleated to
allow the Directors to Exhibit.

AdMittance (from Ten till Five), h.—Catalogue, Is.
WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.

l'hie day was published, in one Vol. Svo.—Price 14e. in boards.
PENTALOGIA GR]ECA. Sophoclis
pits Tyrannus, GAN' Coloneue, et Antigone; Euripidie
PhorniAsm; et /Eschyli Septem contra Thebas. Quinque
~,at pralines de eileberrinsa Thebaide Scripts.
Anglica Scriptis illuetrayit, et Lexicon vocum difficiliornra

adjecit
GULIELMUS TROLLOPE, M. A.
‘Aristi Orphanotrophie Suhpreceptor, et Aule Pembrolciensis
spud Cantsbrigienses nuperrime Alumnus,
Printed for C. and J. Airington, St. Paul's Church-Yard and

Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall.

OCTAVO EDITION OF BISHOP MANT'S FAMILY
COMMON PRAYER-BOOK.

This day is published, in Two large Volumes, Sva. price U. 4s.
in boards, or on Royal Paper, price 1/. 16s. in boards,
.rpHE BOOK of COMMON PRAYER, with
NOTES Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from ap-
proved Writers of the Church of England, selected from the
Quarto Edition.
fly the Right Rev. RICHARD • MANT,
Lord Bishop of Down and. Connor.
Oxford, Printed for J. Parker ; and C. and J. Rivington, St.
Paul's Claureh-yard, and Waterloo-place, London ; and sold by
all Booksellers in Town and Country. Of whom may be had the
Quarto Edition, price 1/. 16s. in boards, on medium paper; and
al. 121. on royal paper.

pOCKNELL'S POTTED SHRIMPS, from
T the 'SLR OF WIGHT and CALAIS, Is. 6d. per Put.
ii.ilel4l Shrimps have long been proverbial for their delicacy awl
'en"; and what renders them peculiarly grateful to the taste,
tmd far superior to any others, is their being potted on the spot,
Immediately after being caught ; and as a wholesome and delicious
accompaniment to the Breakfast, Luncheon, and Supper Table,
!iey are confidently recommended to the notice of the public.
7,0 d• wholesale and retail, at J. POCKNELL.II Shell and Dried
Fish Warehouse, 173, Fleet-street ; and retail, at most of the
!!!alleethble Shell Fish and Italian Oil affarehouies in London.—
Lliters, the very best Natives, be. per Barrel.'

NORTHUMBERLAND.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC AUcTION,
A" the Turf Hotel, Collingwood-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on
YUr3nA Y the 98th day of Novae's's. instant, at Oxis o'clock
RI the, afternoon, if .not previously ,disposed of by puivate con-
tract, of which due notice will be given;

(By Mr. SNAITH,)
`A
A that Capital MANSION HOUSE, with
the GARDEN and GROUND thereto attached, now in
the occupation of Mr. William Row. Also all that valuable
"AY or WHARF, with the whole of the 'Ground behind the
sine ; and the complete New Built CROWN GLASS HOUSE
ereon erected, situated at Saint Peter's Quay, adjoining to the
et Tyne, where vessel* of ten feet water may deliver ; together
wl.th the WORKMEN'S HOUSES, STEAM ENGINE, for
tWing all the material., and Nut's Months stock of Pots ready
work.
AP* to Mr. Row, Saint Peter's, who ie prepared to give
"ti*factor ' •
y information to any persons inclined to become Fur-
or to Mew.. Bainbridge and Tappenden, or to Masers,
‘l2' and Jobling, solicitors, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Nov. 14, 182 G.

ASYLUM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
70, CORNHILL, LONDON.
DIRECTORS.
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M. P. Chairmss.
THOMAS FRANKLAND LEWIS; Esq. M. P. Deputy
T, Chairman.
Henry Yates, E..
Henry Fred. Sterthe I*
4'verpool Capt. Ceo, Harris, C.R.
Thomas Meux, Est. The Hon. W. Fraser.
`John Kymer, Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq.
Francis Kernble, Esq. Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq.
George Parrett,
.: 1 PA.
- Resident Director.
AuniTorts C. W. Hallet, Esq. Foster Reynold: r .1!
PHYstctati—John Mason Good, M. 6, J. "Wharum., E4(l.
u. S. Guildford-street.
Sumaamss.—Benjainin Travers, N.
Herbert Mayo, Esq. lu, ticorg;.siqt.eillatrillerr-ustoluna-rest..
PECULIARITIES OF THIS COMPANY.
The business is cenfuied to quies rejected by the generality of
(Arcs.

PERSONS GOING ABROAD.
The Assured may go beyond the limits of Europe at any time,
at settled rates of Premium ; only paying according to the table
or the Economic Life Office, until embarkation.
The premiums have been calculated from complete data, thus
the rialto of the East and West Indies,• North and South America,
Am. hive been carefully distinguished, and different prices
fixed for Civil, Military, and Maritime services.
PREGNANT FEMALES.
44a4rances granted without notice to the parties, and without
PL• aorance before a Medical Officer.
i,
RSONS-. of DELICATE HEALTH, or PECULIAR FORM.
nut slight cases the premiums am in many instance* tower than
rharged by the generality of Offices to
,persons of robust
eslth and frame.
vh
0n11,01411 from the Country to be sent to the Resident Director,
twill soip tten gdanceive all rironeformation, to save the necessity of per-
. •
• a before the Board.

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ZZift TEMPLE Csuncti.--A congregation more
iti than usual was drawn to this Church on
ii,u,Nlivto` hear the new Master, the Rev. Mr. Ben-
",'" M
ll idi his first sermon in that capacity. Lord.
Fouhlanque, and almost all the Benchers
°t" Temples, with several other eminent Barristers,
te titrlY in their places.

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THURSDAY IVEkiNG7, NOVEiliißra i 6, 1826:

ROADS AND MULLING.

In whatever foreign country
an Englishman travels,
'he complains of the roads, and proceeds thence to
draw Comparisons between the track on which his car-
riage is then goingi with the hard, smooth, and firm
roads of his .native country. Whilst drawing this
comparison, his patriotism(always on the alert abroad,
though inactive enough at honze), receives additional
stimulants as he is every now and then pretty foicibly
reminded of the execrable state of the road by a vio-
lent jolt; and it is well, indeed, if the breaking of an
axle, the destruction of a wheel, or some other unto-
ward accident, does
not leave him at leisure to pursue
his comparison, sitting by the side of the
object of it,
and gazing in despair at the apparently interminable
.straight line 'it is his fate to travel, before the sight of
g‘iod cheer shall,bless From the roads,
the transition is easy to the beasts of the draft (mis-
called horses), lie sees united, seemingly by the hap-
piest chance, to his carriage, and from the beasts of
draft he goes to the vehicle (if not his owii), and
curses the ill-starred event which perched him a pas-
senger on the crazy laudeau. Of all these compari-
sons, the travelling and the roads, the horses and
travelling vehicles of England, form the burden ; as
if England was the only place in the world where a'
road, properly so called, was to be found, or ever
had been, and as if this was the tic plus ultra age of
road-making and travelling, even in England. Poor
man ! how entirely mistaken he is, the Romans knew
and practised as much of both one and the other as
we ourselves, for it was a grand maxim of Roman
policy, ?layer to consider a country conquered until
means of easy and rapid communication between it
and Rome had been formed. Accordingly, we see
that all the chief cities of all the immense provinces
forming the Empire. of Rome were connected with
one another, and filially with the capital, by public
highways, which issuing from the Forum of Rome,
traversed Italy, and pervaded the provinces, and ter-
minated only by the frontiers of the Empire; nay more,
the distances upon these roads were alternately marked
by mile stones. The toads ran in a direct line from
one city to another, and with very little respect for
the obstacles either of nature or private property.
Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown
over the broadest and mast rapid streams. The
middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which
commanded the adjacent country; consisted of several
strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with
large stones. Such was the solid construction of Ro-
man hiFhways, whose firmness has hot entirely yielded
to the influence of fifteen centuries. The several Ro-
man roads (viz, the Ichnil way, the Watling-street,
and many others) which now traverse the United
Kingdom, may be cited as good proofs of this fact.
In this Manlier a regular communication. was
ed from Edinburgh' to Rome, anti thence to Jerusa-
Jere, being a clistance•of 3740 English miles.
Having thus secured roads, the advantage of receiv-
ing the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their
orders with celerity, induced the Roman Emperors :to
establish throughout their extensive dominions, the
regular institution of posts ; houses were every where
erected at the distance of only five or six miles; each
of them was constantly provided with forty horses, and
by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel 100
miles a-day along a Roman road. The use Of these
posts was allowed to those who claimed it by imperial
mandate, but though originally intended for the public
service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or
convenience of private citizens. Thus, in the time of
Theodosius Ctesarias, a magistrate of high rank went
post from Antioch to Constantinople ; he began his
journey at night, was in Cappadocia (165 miles from
Antioch) the ensuing evening, and arrived at Conitati-
tinople the sixth day about noon ; the whole distnnee
being 665 miles. ['he use, however, of the public
posts by private persons must have been of rare occur-
rence, as Pliny, a favourite and a minister, made an
apology for granting post-horses to his wire on the
most urgent business. We have not been able to
trace the establishment of stagacoaches to the Romani,*
but it seems hardly possible, that so populous a city
as Rome, a place from and to which so many persons
must have been constantly going and coming, could be
with Out conveniences of such a nature, to facilitate
and' expedite loco-motion.

he `lf the writer of this interesting article will turn to Juvenal,
ill find that the Satirist makes a passing allusion to the habit
of familiarly jerking up the elbow, which the stage coachmen—
for ha mentions a public vehicle—had of old, in common with our
modern whips, whensoever they wished to give the go-by to an
acquaintance. The passage is unimportant, except from this little
characteristic trait, and may easily escape detectio4.---Eolroa.)

From a register kept since 1797, November is
proved to be the dampest month of the whole year.
A very, numerous meeting of the Shi p-owners of
Sunderland was held in the Exchange at that place
on Friday last,
at which it was determined to co-operate with the Ship-owners of
the Tyne, in instructing the Coal-factore in London not to sell
any more coals at the present ruinous prices. It was also deter-
petition Parliament to adopt some means for improving
thrnined to
the foreign trade, which is at the lowest ebb, and also that .a
deputation should, if necessary, he sent to London, to represent
the state of the trade generally to Ministers. ,
We know not who may have the appointment or
cootroul of the watchman or porter who is stationed it night
to the door leading
enreteon Saturday night last, as
maY possess such contrail,
4,11 scandalous conduct on
twoitthhienßthoyeaanAtracandceemtoy
;Sobmuterwseht-oehvoeuree, close
we
hee would
do
fbst hge
can wall be exposed. An old respectable-looking man, who evi-
dently midge within Somerset-house, came n..
to call tehtaeitrioantedtenttiho
o to the iron gate,
which Warn elo*Cdo about twelve o'clock, pursued en,by a rott wh
struck hint several blows. The old man demanded.of the watch-
man
inside, who clearly knew that he was a resident of the place,
to open the gate And protect him against his bnitai
assailant,
who
was a powerful young man; bet instead of opening the gate, the
fellow Stood inside laughing at the attack, a
an`• it Will several mi-
nutes before even the indignant remonstrance of the passers-by
could induce him to let the old man in. He did, however, at
length open the gate, but in lotting the old man in, he also took
care to admit his assailant, and they cloned the gate. The old
man, now without the protection of the crowd outside, was again
furiously attacked, and knocked about in a most brutal manner,
while the Watchman stood b enjoying the amusement and encou-
raging the unequal conflict, although several genue„, were call-
ing to hint from without to interfere, and threatening to report ,
him, but he heeded them not, until, four
, Or C'e had actually cow-
rneneed sealing the gate to rescue the old luau, when the fellow,
at length, opened the gate and let out his fillow-rufflan,"who was
isstantly eel* by the indignant spectators, end !,,t-ter
a.tiesptwate
resistance was lodged ittthe opposite watch -house. Ought such
a porter or guardian of the night as this to be continued in his
office?...- Times.

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