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London, England, 1823-05-02 00:00:00

EAET-lADLd HOUSE, April '40,114«.3.
ZIIIE Ct, Urt7' of DIRECTORS' of Me UNITED
CO.MPAA Y of HEEdUANTS #. ENGLAND, trading
to ne EAST INDIES, do heregy give Notice,
That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said Com-
pany wilt be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, oa
WEDNESDAY, the 14th May next, at Eleven o'Clock iu the
Forenoon, for the purpose of 'laying before the Proprietors, for
their avprobation, a Resolution of the Court of Directors of the
9th instant, granting the aunt of (C 60,000) Sixty Thousand
Pounds per Annum to his Majesty's Government, with a view
of relieving the Finances of the Country from the charge in-
curred for Retiring Pay, Pensions, &c. on account of that part
of his Majesty's Forces which is maintained in the East Indies,
from the 30th Apt 11,11122; to be paid out of the Territorial Re-
venues of India on account of all Retiring Pay, Pensions, Etc.
granted, or that may be hereafter granted, in respect of his Ma-
jesty's Forces serving in the East Indies.
Copy of the said Resolution now lies open at this House for
the perusal of the Proprietors. •
. ~-The Court of Directors do also give notice, That the said Ge-
-natal Court is further nude Special, for the purpose of submit-
ting for confirmation the-Resolution of the General Court of the
10th Marcts, approving the Resolution of the Court of Directors
of the 18th December last, granting to Major James Rivett
Carnac, of the Madras Establishment, the sum of (30,000)
Thirty Thousand Bombay Rupees, at the rate of 2s. 3d. per
Rupee, nyon the grounds therein stated.,
The Report required by the Bye Law, cap. 6, see. 20, toge-
ther with the Documents upon which the said Resolution has
been formed, are open fur the inspection of the Proprietors at
this House. • JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

. 41DMIRALTY-OFFICE, tillth April, 1823..
lI.EFEIt AIN the Notice from this Office, dated
lit the:slsdt 7tute, 182l,telative to the reception of Chrono-
meters in,a Depot opened at the Royal ObservatOry, at Green-
wich ; the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby make
!cirotrn, that afta'a eonsidexation.of the rates of the Chronotue-
toes which have been compared for twelve months at the, Royal
Observatory (including the time that several of diem were sent
to else Island of Madeira), their Lot dships have, with-the advice
of the Board of Longitude, ordered the Chronometer of Mr. Rat-'
aaun, number 957, to be purchased at the first preadtim price
of three hundred pounds; and the• Chronometer of Mr. Pawlitma,
TON, number 154, to be purchased as thi second premium Price
ef two hundred pounds. • • ' •
. /tnd fheir Loedsbips farther make known, that the following
Rules wild. Regulatipas,mill, during the present year, and until'
farther notice; 'be'observeci'in comparing the rates of the Chro-
nitizeters•-deposited.tiponcrial at the goys!. Observatory, and in
assigning:the, premiums for the chronometers which shall have
kept the best and the second best time, viz..,
"'The mean of the daily rates for each month in the year shall
be separately computed, and the difference between the greatest
and least of these mean rates being taken for each Chronometer,
this difference shall be doubled,, and added to the mean monthly
variation, that 15,.t0 the mean difference of the greatest and least
daily rates in each month ; and the eseellence of the Chrono-
meter shall be determined by tha smallness of this sum ; but no
Chronometer shall have a claim to the first Prize if it exceed adz
seconds, nor to the second if it. ezceed ten."
J. W. CRO r E rt.