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UNCLAIMED SHARES OF BOOTY,

.zAt Money, Head Money, Bounty Money, and Salvage
awy, and of 'L‘leney arisen from or distributable in re-
, set, of any capture or other warlike service whatever. be-
mging to Officers or Soldiers, and Commanders, Officers,
Sailors, or ether persons in the Military and Naval service
f the East India Company, which since the passing of thit
let of lat and 2d of his present Mtjesty, cap. 61, as come
oto and is now remaininx is the hands of,toy Prize Agent
,f Agents, or any other person or persons whomsoever,
esiding in the L nitesl Kingdom, are to be paid over to the
4kl Court of Directors, in London, within aix calendar
'moths after the passing of the said Act, which periol
yin expire on the 15th day of January next.
And they also further give notice, that all ittch Un-
%limed Shares of Prize Money as aforesaid, which may
tereafter arise or become distributable Ira resp,•ct of any
rapture made in warlike service already performed, and
vhich shall hereafter come into the hands of any Prize
kg-Ent or Agent*, or any person or persons whomsoever,
eidiog in the United Kingdom, are directed hy the same
tt,4, to he paid over to the Court of Directors, in bm.ko,
ssix ea radar months next after the receipt thetrof,
,y such Prize Agents or other persons, to he applied to the
Arpows of " Lord Fund," and the " Poplar
iospitzl."

All
preons who Aro required by this Act to pay over
ny money to the iii Court of Director:4 are required,
intim= ferther notice., to deliver a true and correct account
hereof to the Secretary, in Lon:lon, with a list or lists of
he nainee, rank, regiment, or ether *efficient description
f the persons entitled thereto, which accounts and lista
re to be verified by affidavit on with of the party or one
t the parties requiresl to deliver the Name.

JOSEPH DAR f, S4,eretaty.

LLOYD'S, DgC. 31, 1828.

AT a GENERAL MEETING of the
SUBSCRIBERS, held this day, pursuant to notice,
'he Right Honourable WILLIAM THOMPSON, Lord
Mayor, in the Chair;
t 'vas stated o Cie iileeting, that -Al,,a,:rs. and
tussell, insurance brokers, had recovered returns for short
oterest on certain policies withoat authority from their
Tincipals, and even after such principals had advised them
,f the arrival of the whole property insured, by which pro-
eeding the underwriters had been defrauded ; and that
4eBsrs. Hoskin and Russell had generally admitted the fact.
Resolved, with only one diAsentient, That the names of
'mei Alexander Salisbury Hoskin and Richard Russell be
rvied from the list of suliscribera to thin estahli,hment, and
hat they he deprived of all the privileges of the I lth by-
and thereby rendered ineligil.le to be agtin elected
rlernbera of this house.

Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meet-
nit be given to Robert Dewar, Esq., for the real and
ttention which he has uniformly devoted to the general
Rterosts 41 the subscribers to this house, and more par-
irularly in detecting and publicly exposing, after a minute
avisstigatisn, the frauds of Messrs. lioslcin and Russell.
Resolved unanimously, That the sum of 50/. be voted
tom the funds of this house to four boatmen of the. Coast
luard Service, at Dingle, and a man, formerly in that 'Tr-
ier, who went off in a four-oared gig, at the risk-of their
vex, and saved (after great peril and exertion) the tnastcr
id crew, emsisting of 18 persons, of the Brig Veronica,
fklelf.t, from Liverpool to Charleston, wrecked in Die-
;t.,..b,ty, during a violent gale, on the 7th inst. ; and that
to thanks of this Meeting be presented to Lieutenant John
61wie, R. N., inspecting Cutnmander of the Coist Guard,
t Dingle, for his meritorious conduct on that occasion.
Resolved unanimously, Thnt the best thanks of this
lecting be given' to the Right Hoolurable the Lord
'layer, for his very able and impartial conduct in the Chair
lie day.
Resolved unanimously, That these resolntions be pub-.
shed in the London Morning awl Evening Newspapers,
rid in the Papers of tie principal Ports of the United

JOHN BENNETT, Secretary.

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by their exact imitations of animated nature, the wonder-
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The whole of the Exhibition for Sale; also several Felt-
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THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE

GREAT TEA-DEALERS.

The differences which have for some time existed
between the Bon. East India Company and the
most considerable tea-dialers of the country, are
daily becoming more inveterate and irreconcilable.
The complaints to by the latter are, that fair play
is not given to them, and that advantages commen-
surate with those derived from their body to the
powerful monopolists are withheld. In consequence
of the very active competition in the tea-trade, and
the very small profits arising from it to the whole-
sale dealers—profits which are certainly, if we judge
from the Company's own books of sale and theirs,
trivial in comparison with the profits of other trades,
without taking into calculation the losses contingent
upon it, or the large capital required for keeping it
alive—the tea-dealers came to a resolution, in the
beginning of October last, to address the lion.
Court of Directors. The East India Company are
in the habit of charging the wholesale buyers very
enormously, for what is (-abed " lotting" the good,t,
a spec es of operation from which the buyers derive
not the slightest advantage, according to their owa
showing, the benefits being all upon the other side.
The letter they sent in is as fullows:—

To the Honourable the Court of Directors of the 111
India Company.

" Gentlemen,—We, the tunlersigned Tea-dealers of
London, beg reskiertf:i!y to call your attention to the
very heavy chaige of ' Jot money,' to which we are sub-
jected, aod which we are aware cannot be supported by
any claim of right or of advantage to the trade.
" It is true that this charge, originally, we believe, a
perquisite to one of your respectable servants, hits been tOr
many years, when the trade was very differently circum-
stanced, submitted to; but in the unexampled competition
whirl, at present pervades every branch of trade, the most
rigid attention to economy, by the reduction of every 'un-
necessary charge, has becotue indispensable, and the Tea-
dealers of London cannot be expected to continue any ex-
pense paid in their own wrong.
" We Leg to submit to your Honourable Court, that you
are not to any extent the warehouse-keepers of the goods
of others, so that the charges oi West India Dock, and
other public companies, differ as widely in principle as
they are comparatively unimportant in innount.
" The teas are lotted solely with a view to the advantage
of the sellers ; and in proportion to that advantage is the
disadvantlee to the wholesale buyer.
" We beg, therefore, respectfully to request that your
Honourable Court will direct the charge for lot money to
be discontinued. And we remain, with the greatest re-
spect, lion. Sirs, your obedient humble servants.

(llcre the names of the 19 greatest tea-houses
in London.)
" London, Oct. 7, IS2S."

Similar remonstrances and requests were made
from the principal tea-dealers of Edinburgh and Leith
to the Court.

The Court of Directors hesitated about the pro-
priety of granting this request, and the ten-dealers
waited in anxious expectation for the presumed ac-
quiescence of the honourable members.

On tile last sale day, at the commencement of the
present month, a partner in one of the most eminent
tea-houses in thu kingdom addressed the Chairman
(Mr. MuTratt) upon the subject, and begged to be
informed whether the wholesale buyers were to be
liable, upon that occasion, to the usual charges for
" lotting."
To this Mr. Muspratt replied, by stating that the
subject was one of very great importance, and was at
that moment under the consideration of the Court of
Directors. .

There wasiitill further delay, and the dealers con-
strued the hesitation rather tno advantageously for
themselves. On Saturday all suspense upon the
matter was quite at an end : the memorializing party
received the following explicit communication from
tile lion. Court :—•

" East India flouse,.Dec. 26, 1525.
" Gentlemen,—l have laid before the Court of Directors
of the East India Company the letter from yourselves, and
other tea4enlers in London, dated the 601 of Octutser last,
requesting that the Court will direct the charge hit lot or
loading money upon tea to be discontinued.
" And I am commanded to acquaint you, in reply, that
the Court have taken your letter into due consideration ;
and as the charge in question appears to be a very moderate
return for services rendered by the Company in the deli-
very of the goo is out of the warehouses to the buyers, the
Court do not see it expedient to comply with the applica-
tion proposed for its discontinuance.

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" I am, gentlemen, your most ohedieut humble servant,
" P. AUBER, Assistant Secretary."
This answer, it is unnecessary to say, gave the
greatest dissatisfaction to the tea-dealers, of whom
it is said there rill be in a few days a mectin7, upon
the rubjcct of this rejection of what they cousider.a
most equitable claim, and upon other points which
more immediately and intensely affect their interests.
The cry which they hare raised against the mono-
poly comprehends all the charges xvhic'h have been.

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not loudly, but dceply—marle against this almost
omnipotent association of :traders. Amongst those
'whoaire said to he great sufferers are several of the
:Company's own officers, who, if t hey vetiture to spe-
iulate a Lttle, are taxed by their masters to the most
'ruinous extent.
The lot money was, in the infancy of the Corn-
praiy, given to -one
.of the -servants of the concern,
4t!! the Company Gulling that it was extremelypros
ductlve, took it to ihemSelves, 'and although not
warehousemen, laid on charges which are, in the
present state of the trade, SoinuLto be oppressi-se and
iii!upportillile. The servant alluded to lost this va-
luelde perquisite in rather -an odd way. lie was so
struck with the libarality of the Directors, in throw-
ing him an addition to his salary, that he determined
to invite them to dinner at his holise at Blackheath.
The entestainment which his gratitude dictated was
such, as even the Directors. themselves were unac-
eirstoraed to. - There was not adelicaey o: the season
W'ra' Dot on the hospitablt'-iitta' The Direc-
tors were all astonished, and after congratulating
each other on the magnificent treat, they returned
home silent, but in deep thought.
Next morning an inquiry was instituted into the
amount of the salary and fees of their generous en-
tertainer, and the "let money" was immediately,
struck off from his office, and adopted into the ge-
neral concern. They, however, had so lively a feel-
ing of the warmth with which he gave them a taste
of his gratitude, that they increased his salary, we
are told, about 1,5001. or 2,000/. a-year.
It may not be unnecessary to state, that the East
India Company charge on a lot of tea of six chests,
Is. Gd., and on a lot of tea of nine chests, 2s. 3d.
While other companies, who can derive no such ad-
vantage as the monopolists do, charge no more than
6d. a lot, whatever may be its extent. Upon Ben-
gal sugars, in lots of 20 bags, the Company charge
3s. 4d. a let ; while, on a lot of Mauritius sugar, of
20 bags, the charge at the West. India Docks is 6d.
The following is to brief account of the last sale at
the East India Company's benevolence. The sale
was the greatest since 1814, when the quantity sold
was precisely the same—namely, 93,774 chests, or
eight millions of pounds. It consisted of 15,771
lots, which produced, according to the charges of
the East India Company, the sum of 1,2681. 6s. 2d.
At the warehouses of any other company, the lot
money upon this quantity would not have exceeded
899/. ss. Gd. Unforinnate Ireland, which buys about
one-seventh of the quaiaity of tea imported by the
East India Company, suffers her proportion, and yet
the tea-dealers there will not concur With those of
this country, in the attempt to resist the hitherto ap-
parently uncontrollable, but now, it is said, wavering
authority of the monopolists.
It is, we understand, strong matter of complaint,'
that a name is given to some tea, mentioned in the
" Book," which it does not deserve. We mean
that the quality is worse than tea of the denomina-
tion set down really is—for instance, Bohea Tea is
set down in that book, which ought to be an uner-
ring authority, us " good ordinary Congeal," an
article which invariab!y fetches a higher price. By
this mismanagement, the public are sufferers, and
therefore the discussion which must soon take place
upon this subject will be of mare general interest and
importance than any which has been provoked by
the alleged oppression of a few.

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71).

WINDSOR CASTLE.

This splendid palace becomes, daily an object
of greater attraction and admiration, as the works
proceed towards completion, and as the furnish-
ing and full decc:ation of hit; Majesty's private
apartments draw to a close ; for, notwithstanding
ell that has been said, the latter have not as yet
been brought to a final termination. The diffi-
culties that stand hi the way of all approaches
by strangers to obti,in a sight oNhe interior em-
bellishments arc perhaps without a parallel ; and
this may, in a great measure, account for the very
imperfect, and in many respects, absurd attempts
that have recently been made at a description of
them ;• and we have one remarkable instance of
this in a newspaper printed and published itt the
immediate- 'netglifittrho'od of c' Castle. A
Windsor paper the other day, hazards a descrip-
tion of that which it is clear the writer never
could have seen--the King's private apartments
and the approaches to them. Thee apartments
are there described as opening upon a double
staircase of solid oak, and lighted by one large
lamp, when it is well known to any one who has
ever in reality had access to this part of the pa-
lace, that the staircase alluded to is of solid
stone, and lighted, not by one, but by four
magnificent lamps, that could never have escap-
ed the notice G f any person who had ever seen
those stairs. So much for speculative de-
scriptions.

We gave some short time ago a partial but
most accurate, as far as it went, description of the
exterior appearance and internal embellishments
of the Castle, nearly to the extent that they had
then proceeded, and we shall not fail from time
to time to resume the subject with an accuracy
and faithfulness of detail in which exclusive op-
portunities must prevent the possibility of mis-
ieadiag, until the final accomplishment of this
magnificent national structure. The corridor or
gallery which we before described as extending
round two entire sides of the quadrangle that
forms the building, is now completed, and very
nearly furnished with specimens of the rarest.
works of art ; these consist of pictures, by Zof-
fani and Canaletti, which ornament its walls, the
greater number by the latter artist. ; acid although
the works of this master are not now held in
any very high degree of estimation, there are here
some beautiful specimens of his art : these pic-
tures, we believe, were all the property of his
Majesty, and on that account possess a more
sacred interest. and value with tacir present owner.
There are besides these hung round the walls,
to be seen, the portraits of Nelson, St. Vincent,
Pitt, and many other great mines distinguished
in the history of their country. In different
parts of this corridor, too, as you walk along, the
eye occasionally rests upon some almost animat-
ed bust, from the perfectness of its resemblance,
in marble or in bronze; these are all of some
wAinera men, and of iris Majtsty'm personal and
private friends. Amongst the latter arc busts of
his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, and
the late Marquis of Hastings, and there is one
very recently executed by Felines, of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cumberland. At the
head of the corridcr, near to the door leading
into the music gallery, stands a magnificent least
in bronze of King James 1.: there arc besides
these busts, a number of figures in brcmae, most
exquisitely executed by the hands of the first
artists, and here and there the attention is fra-
quently arrested by cabinets of ebony of the most
lavish and costly taste and workmanship, which
are understood to have been once in the posses-
sion of Cardinal \Volsey, for whom they are said
to have been made, and they are indeed well
worthy the enormous expenditure of that princely
priest.. These cabinets have all been newly po.
fished, and are so admirably well arranged in
this gallery, that on quitting one after a close and
minute examination of its beauties, you are
' quickly again gratified by lighting upon another
of still more exquisite attractions; the interme-
diate spaces between these cabinets are occupied
by the busts we have already named, tripods,
canidelabra, settees, Sze., so that not an inch re-
ma us unappropriated to sonic delightful speci-
mcll
of taste and art. At each door leadiag
out of the corridor to his Majesty's apartments,
are two tripods, richly careed and gilt, each
tripod bearing three lamps ; aad the effect of
these at night, when lighted, on the surrounding
ornaments, is said to surpass belief in its magni-
ficence. There are also placed in the corridor
at convenient distances several very rich or-molu
clocks, by Vulliamy, so that the eye in this place
never wanders, one rich or rare work of art im-
mediately succeeding to another, and the whole
presenting a constellation of the most magnificent
and costly grandeur. From the number of gems
with which this corridor is now studded, and the
pneral richness and splendour of its appearance,
it has become an object of especial interest and
general attraction to every one of the few who
have the good fbrtune to find occasional access
to the interior arrangements of this magnificent
building. We on a farmer occasion described
this gallery as being 16 feet wide by 14 feet in
height ; the ceiling is of the most elegant ap-
pearance, divided into compartments of propor-
tionate dimensions, each compartment separately
gilded, and having in the centre a rose or orna-
ment similar to those that are to be seen in
Henry Vll.'s chapel at Westminster Abbey.
We have not as yet been able to learn that the
ultimate situation of his Majesty's beautiful
collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures is de-
' cided upon—whether they are to occupy a part
of the Waterloo Gallery, which report
speaks of as intended to be built, or
some other part of the palace. That
this gallery will be built is generally be-
lieved : and in any application to Parliament for
a grant for the purpose (and no great sum would
be required), we make no doubt that an assur-
ance will be given that the public will be allowed
the advantage of occasionally viewing the beau-
fill works of art it will contain. The proposed
site of this gallery is most favourable and:con-
venient : it is still, as we before described it,
only a sort of court-yard, into which look the
windows of some offices of little importance.
These removed, the gallery would require no-
thing but a dome roof and some embellishments
to complete it; but should even the cost be sup-
posed to exceed our contemplation, it would be
a niggardly sort of parsimony to deny the money
for an appendage so suitable and indeed lICCCS-
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