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ICTU4I,I ING-oFi' ICE, July 7, IslS.
E C 0.411111 ISSIONERS for VICTU.... LL IN
llat jfi' • 211.4JESTI'S lrdlrY do hereby give Notice
" 3fonday ncx6 the I.lth Instant, they will be really
ifte:eive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for
s of BLACK SMYRNA RAISINS; to be answe,r-
"3aniples (°f not less than Two Pounds weight each),
Produced with the Tenders ;
Diumsand Five hundred Sacks of Kiln-dried HOUSE-
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FLOUR; to be suljeet to the usual Warranty of
Dile 7,,
ve Months; and
4 nousand Five Hundred Sarks of BISKET EAL
deli"'red, in the space of One Month, into his Ma-
:di ' ''ieturelling Storrs at Deptford, and to be paid for by
7,LPlYable,tvithout interest, sixty days after dale.
Crisqlitions of the Contracts may oe seen at the Secre:
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1: to wilt he had to any render-in which the Pri ,e
44(41 he inserted in Word, at length, or that shall Rot I,C
444:4.(t to the Board before One o'clock on the said
kl/44:.7 4c-rt, the 13th Instant ; nor unless the P,rson who
4, "4 Tender, or sortie Person on his bei;alf, attendJ, to
when called fat.

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[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

former was frequently three weeks or a.month,
St. Domingo being to windward of Carthagena.
It appeared that the orili.,ary premium of insur-
ance at thilt time upon a risk in those seas, was•a
guinea and a half per cent. The letter above-
mentioned having' arrived here on the 23t! of .
March, the plaintiffs employed their broker, a
gentleman named Hunt, to-effect ins-tsranCes, and
in the course of the Same- day he went to Lldyd's
Coffee-house, (lacing previously made nut a slip,
tinder the expectation that he could get 'a
policy
subscribed at three guineas per cent. He-com-
municated his wishes to the defendant and other
tinderwriters, and laid before them the Captain's -
letter. It appeared, that in the course of the p e-
ceding day news had arrived that Carth,agena had
surrendered into the hands of the Spanish•Roal-
ists, and that news;lticiS published in the N'.,Vr."*.•
papers of the day. When Mr. Hunt called upon •
the defendant and the other under.vtiters to sob- •
scribe the policy, he was asked if he had heard
the news of the day respecting Carthagena,. and
he replied in the negative, it appearing clearly
that he, did not till then know of the fact of Car-
thagena being in the hands of the Royalists. tin-
der all the eiresinistances of the case, however,
the •(defendant and others underwr.ote the policy
at 5 guineas per cent. underialking all risks. It
appeared that the ship, upon her arrival at Car-
thagena, broke through the blockading ships, anti
the Insurgents' flag being then hoisted on the
towers of the town, it was concluded that the In- •
surgents were in possession, and accordingly the •
ship entered the harbour ; but immediately upon
her entrance it was discovered that the Royalists .
had ,taken possession—that the Insurgents'' flag
was merely a deception, and in the re-suit the
vessel was seized and condemned by the Royalists. ;
Under these circumstances the action w is brought,
the underwriters having refused to pay the loss, -
on the ground of an silleged false representation
on the part of Mr. Hunt, the broker, at the time
the policy was effected, that the ship was intend-
ed to supply the Royalists, and not the Insurgents,
with provisions.
The whole gist of the defendant's case rested
upon a contradiction of Mr- littn.C..s.evidence by
other witnesses, as to what passed at the time the
insurance was effected. The principal circuni-
stances to which the traverse-of his evidence ap-
plied were these :—Mr. Hunt swore positively
that'he did not represent to the under-writers
that the ship was destined to supply the Royalivs
with provisions ; that at the time the insurance
was effected, he did not produce a paper purport-
ing to be instructions from his principals to effect
the insurance—and that be believed he had shesvn
them the original letter from the Captain to the •
plaintiffs. To this lasi fact he did not swear poi
sitively, but he stated, that front his usual habit
of doing business, he believed he had shewn the
letter to-the underwriters.

To contrartict Mr. Hunt, no less than six wit- -
nesses were called on the part of the-defendant,
v►z. Mr. Champion, Mr. John Robinson, Mr.
Benjamin 131aydes, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Martin, Mr.
Beverley, and Mr,. ; most of them un-
derwriters upon the policy; and the effect of their
evidence went to shew—lst, That Mr. Hunt had
not produced the Captain's letter to the under-
writers. 2d, That instead thereof, he bad pro-,
diced a -paper apparently fresh written, bearing
the appearanceof instructions to effect insurances.
3d, That he had in effect represented this ship's
destination to he for the assistance of the Roy-
alists, by saying when the question was put to
him—" Ohl yes ; they (meaning the provisions) ,
will be received ; for they (meaning the Royalists),
are themselves in a state of starvation ;" and, 4th,
That after the loss was known, and wtien the
defendants desired to see the original instruc- •
tions upon which the insurance was effected, Mr.
Hunt sheaved reluctance in producing his .au-
thority.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN and Mr. SCARLETT de-
livered very able speeches on behalf of their re-
spective clients. The trial of the case lasted up-
Wards of five hours, and

The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direc-
lions, immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff
—Damages 2001.

DREADFUL REPORT.—A street report prevails
very generally, that the great'objeFt of those who.
meditated the attack CM Mr. GRATTAN'S life, was
to throw him over Essex bridge, when the pro-
cession bad arrived so far,but that although it was
known that both be and Mr. SHAW had a large
bag each of silver to'throw amongst the crowd,
yet their avidity for the aged Patriot's life was so
strong as to urge them to the attack, without
yielding to the avarice which would incline theta
to wait for the money, or the contemplation
gratifying revenge by immolating a man, who,e
only crime was sounding the alarm of the danger
which threatened his country, by proclaiming that
there was a French party in it ! That a French
party was in it no one can doubt,, and that the
same party exists in it still, is equally true, so tar
as the views of that party had extended. But
there is a.party in it, thank God, still, who were
then, and now, able to repel and keep down their
insidious attacks, which neither the attempt on
Mr. GRATTAN'S life, nor the violetat measures they
hare pursued in dictating to tire several Candi-
dates as to what course , they should pursue in
Parliament, will he sufficient to prevent.---(Hi-
bernian Journal, July. 6)

We are authorised to state, that the award made
by the arbitrators in the cause in which the Larl
of KINGSTON is plaintiff, and the Countess
Dowager of KINGSTON defendant, has been set
aside in toto by the Master of the Itolls.---(Dub.
lin Paper.)