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London, England, 1813-12-17 00:00:00

A PPItEN TICESIIIP LAWS.

Mr. QUIN said, that the subject he hat to submit
to the Court was one of the very greatet importance..
He was well aware that there was. great difference of
opinion, and that many great men were of
that it nearly r:..laled to civil liberty. lie would 11,1,
at that late flour, enter into a histor7 11,..w the sth cf.
Elizabeth became part of the kw a tlse ; but he
was of opinion that it should not be rvpealed, since
under it, for near :1!(.0 years, the trades and manufac-
tures had so pyeatly flourished. The dcetrines of
Dr. Adam Smith were, indeed,. quoted against it ;
but when he heard him assert that a few weeks, per.
haps a few days, would be sufficient w learn a young
rakol to.make a watch or clock, be must say, that
Dr. Adam Smith was nut an authority to be trusted.
-WhesiGentlemen said, that it was part of a man's
natural liberty. that he should employ his talents for
his best advantage, they forgot that they cannot.
leave this country, and shake off their allegiance
when they please. He then moved, that it be refer-
eed to the Committee of General Pnrpases, for them
to prepare a Petition against the Repeal of the sth
of Elizabeth.

'Mr, NV/unman said, he felt some surprise at find-
ing his worthy Friend the mover of this question.—
.ThatGestlentan had confessed there were many great
.names ag4inst it, but he was disappointed •st lien he
fnund that he did not refute the doctrine of even the
only oue of them he qui led. All he bad done was from
Abe absurdity of one passage in Dr. Adam Smith, to
declare, that that great man was no authority at all.
.This measure he considered as,nothing more or less
than a grois infraction of the natural liberty which
every man ought ;st enjoys He had asserted, that un-
der this Act of Eliiabeth Ole trade and commerce had
arrived at the present pitch of petfection ; but did he
mean' to sayittat that perfection was the consequence
of the operUtion Of that 'Ack?. Had be forgot the
name of Ferguson, who. was at gist a poor lad, travel-
ling about the country, snensitngclocks and watches,.
but who after wardi cane to be one of thegreatett me-
chanics in, this country, *itbont haling sei-!ed any,
apprenticeihip at 4111 I lie would -ask his worthy
Friend how be could exercise the trade of it 'printer,
when he had not served s:ven years apprenticeship

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td that Wit ? 1441 r. Wahlimia test guava Lord
Mansfield and otheas, who'codsidered the sth of Elia
beth as an infraction of natural liberty. There could.
not, however, exist a doubt but that it was qecessary
youth should serve apprenticeships—there ought to
he no dread on that head. But the case was simply
this, that by this law, a person, from change of Cir-
cumstances, being obliged to lay down one profession,
is deprived of using his hand in another ; so that what-
ever his abilities might be, he must go to prison him-
self; and his wife and family to the workhouse. There
was something so abhorrent in this, that he was sur-
prised that the worthy Gentleman, who had so‘often,
and Fe elegantly harangued on the liberty of Eng-
lishmen, should have countenanced it for a•moment.
This regulation was made by Elizabeth to lessen the
number of vagrants, which was then great. Besides,
the woollen was then almost the only manufacture of
this country. In a branch of trade which came
im-
mediately under his inspection—the calico printing,
hundreds c.f thousands must have been thrown out of
employ within a few years. He concluded by oppos-
ing the motion.
Mr. S. DixoN said, one consideration which, as
much as any other, was in favour of the Bill, was the
necessity which existed that yoaths from the age of
14 to 21 should be under some restraint. To take
away the inducement to persons to serve as appren-
tices (he observed) would be equivalent to an aboli-
tion of apprenticeship altogether.
Mr. Jacks supported the motion. He feared that
if the lists of the culprits at the Old Bailey were read
it would In found, that the proportion of them who
were from 14. to 21 had much increased, since ap-
prenticeships had been comparatively disused.
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH observed, that the Petit
tions in faYour of the Statute of Ap,.renticeship to
the House of Commons had been signed by near
60,C00 persons, and wondered that the Honourable
Gentleman pin Waithman), so celebrated for his
parental ca►e of the people, should in this instance
• act in a manner so contrary to their wishes.
Mt. Davis opposed the motion, and said, that
from an experience of thirty-four years in a manufac-
tory in that.city, in which he had employed 300 peo-
ple, he was convinced, that without an infraction of
the Statute in question, it was impossible to carry
it on.

Mr. Alderman Boot and Mr. HERNE opposed
the motion.
At the request of Mr. Dam, Mr. RECORDER read
a list of the persons reperted by him in February ;
whence it appeared, that about one half of the un-
happy persons then reported were between fourteen
and twenty-five years of age.
Mr. Butz opposed the motion, and observed, that
but for an. allowed contravention of the Act, vie, the
binding apprentices to the mill, the paper making trade
could not go on, u combinations of the paper makers
were sometimes so effectual, thit at dross not one coulrl
be procured to work at a particular manufactory.
Mr. DAVIS then submitted an amendment, viz. 'that
the subject be referred to a Committee, but it was
withdrawn, after an irregular conversation between
Mr. Dixon, Mr. Favell, and C. Smith, and a short
reply. from Mr. Quin, an amendment proposed, with-
out any preface, by Mr. Alderman Wood, was finally
adopted, to this etfect—" That it be referred to the
Committee of General Purposes to consider the ex-
pediency of petitioning Parliament, that the Act of
the sth Elizabeth remain in force, and to report
thereon td the Court. Adjourned.
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There are new in Chester Castle eight boys ; three
convicted of house-breaking ; two for trial, for pick-
ing pockets to a large amount, and three charged with
privately stealing in shops: their united age:amounted
to 96 years—average 12.
Yestei day morning, about half-past four Oclock, a
tire broke out on the premises of Mr. Goodman, a
tallow-molter, in Chick-lane, near Holborn-hill, which
entirely consumed the same, together with three Ad.
jwiling houses. A valuable horse and some pigs fell
a sacrifice to the flames.

Mumma AT VAUXIIM.L.—The Magistrates and
officers of Bow-street and Union Hall have been, and
are call, very active in their endeavours to find out
and bring to condign punishinent the perpetrators of
this horrid deed, and we hope will ultimately suc-
ceed. It was by the perieverance of the police, that
Patch was brought to punishment for the murder of
Mr. Bligh, the Coroner's Inquest h'aving in that case
brought in a verdict of Murder, against some person
or persons unknown, as WAS the case in the murder of
Mr. Murray, at Vauxhall. In the case of Patch, Mr.
GIEIIIAU, . the Magistrate, went to the spot, and in-
vestigated the circumstances in the most minute and
pat teular manner ; and by the exertions and perse-
verance cf the late Anthony, the Bow-street officer,
uncier the direction of the Magistrate, sufficient cir-
cumstantial evidence was procured to convict Patch,
and in which a dirty pair of stockings was very es-
s.2ntial evidence. In the case of the murder of Mr.
Murray, at Vauxhall, Mr. BinNic has acted in a simi-
lar manner, by visiting the premises, and investiga-
ting persons on the spot, &c. On Saturday Guff,
Collingbourne, and another of the Union Hall offi-
cers, apprehended two men on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the murder, and the same day they under-.
went an examination before Mr. BIRNIE, at Union-,
Hall. On Tuesday the same officers apprehended
atwitter man, on suspicion of being concerned with
the ether two men in the same offence. He under-
went an examination that day before Mr.
The prisoners were all proved to be connected toge.
ther, and there was a chasm in their *Cantata. Alter
the examination, Mr. Dame went to Vauxhall, exa-
mined the premises, and every person wbo could give
the least intelligence of the perpetration of the horrid
decd. On 'Tuesday evening Stnith'elotarty of the pa.
trots belonging to. the Plaids; Office, Bow-street, who
gitoded Vatashall and Lambeth, apprehended a man
un suspicion, of being concerned in committing the
murder. On Wednesday he was examined before
Mr, NAM and Mr. Btatug. Yesterday the same
party of the patrole brought another man to the Office,
on the same charge, before Mr. limas. These two
men are proved .to be connected with the three men in
custcdy at Union hall.. They left 'Losuion the day
after the murder—went to Gravesend4-agreed Wen-
ter die East India serhice--hut afterwards altered
their mindsoand returned to Londo'n on Tuesdayr—,
Sense of the min in custody at Union Hall have been
proied •to have 44* ran' an the neighbourhood of
Vauxhall on the' nlheor morning of the murder.—
They are all committed for further examination.

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&MAT OF CI4ANC.BRY, DECEMBER toi.
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OPIBAIIIOII2I7IrATERS v. XAYI.O2.
BIS:STANCE 70 MI AV7WORI77 OF TIM cJder.
Mr. HAnT, Counsel for the Plaintiff, moved thi
Conrt upon an extraordinary occurrence that took
place since the last Seal, when be obtained an ordet
for the plaintiff to send into the Opera-House, then
in an unprotected state, one or two men to guard the
concern from destruction by fire or other accidents ;
but which order he now found wholly ineffectual, as
Mr. Taylor, in continuance of his spirit of resistance
to the authority of the Court, had by his men re-
sisted the entrance of the plaintiff's men, by the (sr-
gumentum bacculinum, or actual force. All that could.
now be done was, to make a special order for the ad-
mission of the plaintiff's men into the Theatre, and
if resisted, to state the circumstance to his Lordship
at his next sitting. —A special order was accordingly!
directed to be forthwith issued.
ADMIRALTY COURT DECEMBER 16.
Aurora, Cold master.—The Court allowed the'
claimants time till the first day of next Term to pro-
duce further proof.
Matilda, Rauten master.—Thin American vessel
came under the description of a private ship of-war,
having on board 11 guns, and 74 men ; and the ques-
tion was as to head-money, which' the Coitrt pro-
nounced for.
Zealous, Van Dien master.—This vessel, tinder'
Dutch colours, was laden with oats and hides.---Preo
perty. restored, subject to the captors' expenses.
Anna Dorothea, Mandronsen master.—This us-,
sel, under Prussian colours, was laden with fish, oil,
hides, &c. and bound from Guernsey to Nantz.—Ship
condemned, and cargo restored, except the oil, of
.which the Court required further information.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH; DECEMBER 16.
WILLIAMS v. SHEF.
This was an action on a policy of insurance on
goods on board the Sir Sidney Smith, at and frow
ondon to Berbice, with leave to touch at and upland
and take in a cargo, at any port or ports whatsoever.,
The Sir Sidney Smith sailed under convoy of his Ma-
jesty's ship the Narcissus, and arrived at Madeira.—
Here the Narcissus drawing too much water to al-J
low of her entering the harbour, the Captain gave
permissioi to all the vessels so inclined to touch, and
promised to wait off and on for them for a specifie
time. The Sir Sidney Smith, and seven other ves-
sels, took advantage of this permission, and on the
Saturday evening entered the harbour. Here they
were detained till the Wednesday, and, on coming
out of port at that time, it was found that the Nar-,
cissus, from some reason or other, hacrsailed. The
Sir Sidney Smith, therefore, was obliged to sail alone
and was afterwards captured. It appeared, from th;
evidence of the Captain, that the Sir Sidney Smith'
was specifically bound to Madeira, and it was now.
contended, that the underwriters should have been in-
formed of that circumstance at the time the policy
was underwritten, as they would then have been able
to judge of the risk she ran of losing convoy ; and it
was now contended, that stopping thus at.Madeiest *a ;
a mercantile speculation, WAS a deviation.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH held it to be so, and the
plaintiff was nonsuited.

=SEE V. DAVIES. -
This was an action to recover ten tons of flag,
under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff. it
appeared, had eighteen tons of flax consigned to him,,
which had been landedvat the defendant's wharf. The
plaintiff had contracted for the sale of ten tons. of it
to a person named Brown, on the 23d of September,
1812. The contract' was, to pay with a bill at three
months, ancrthe plaintiff wrote an order for their de.
livery to Brown on the 7th of October. On the 17th
of December Brown stopped payment, and on this
circumstance reaching the plaintiff's ear, he imme-
diately instructed the defendant not to complete the
delivery of the flax. In November following the
plaintiff applied to the defendant for the flax in ques-
tion, who, though he had not delivered it to
refused to let the plaintiff have it, on the grounds that
a sale had been made to Brown,,and that it was tl:e
property of the assignees, who were, in fact, the real
defendants in the present action.
Mr. SCARLET now contended, that the sale had cot
been completed, since, by the usage of the flax trade,
fourteen days were allowed for delivery, which term
had not elapsed when the plaintiff declared off the
bargain. It would also have been necessary that,
though at the time of making me sal:: the flax was
weighed, yet at the time of Lavery it should have
been re-weighed, which bad not been done. The com
modity, the Learned Counsel therefore contended,
could not be sold, not being in what, according to
the usage of the trade, was called a saleable state.
The Learned Judge observed, that the commodity
not being in what was considered by the trade as a
deliverable state, at the time of the countermand, no
delivery could have talon place.
The Jury, therefore, under his Lordship's direction,
found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £l2OO,
being the value of the flax.

/ PROVIDENT ANTICIPATIONA journeyman cloth-
' worker, in perfect health, applied the day before the
illumination, which took place last week in Leeds, to
his master, who is ...Trustee, for a recommendation to
the Infirmary, alledging, that as he got drunk for joy
' at the last illumination, and had one of I,:s ribs broken
in a boxing match, it was very probable he should do
the same again, and therefore thought it adviseable to
be ready.
It is in the months of December and January that
Surgeon r/SDER particularly recommends the use of
the Prepared STRANIONIUNI and OXIINIEL in his valua-
ble Treatise on the Causes, Cure, &c. of Asthma,
Consumption, and Winter Cough. Those invalids
who are subject to attacks of the chest during winter
and spring, this experienced Author observes, will
remain perfectly free from any symptoms, if they have
recourse to the use of the Prepared Stramonium and
Oxymel at the commencement of the winter season.
In order that the pubic may be regularly supplied
with these Remedies, Mr. R. BUTLER, No. 4, Cheap-
side, corner of St. Paul's, is appointed the Wholesale
and Retail Vender ; whosename on the stamp will
enable the public to distinguish the true from the
spurious kind. They may also be obtained of Mr.
HARRIS, corner of Jr.udgate-hill ; Mr. BACON, ISO,
Oxford-street ; and most Medicine Venders in the
country, price 4s. W. and Bs. 6d. each.

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Aff.optx•it, T. Allen..9buteri of *dolt.
-... . . fie TM:WM TA ViAIR, 'ESQ.
T Brnteive tointbrin you, that ever since the year
.2- 1790,1 laidbeentflikied with the Lues Yenerea, Which frcm
,s obstinately misting every course of medicine prescribed by the
most eminent df the faculty here, arid undergoing several severe
zoniiee of salivation and twice discharged from the,Hospital, with
!Idle relief, would appear to be of the mow inveterate nature. le
.qns oprizer of dart year sty 4isoider had got to such a head, as
nearly to put a period to my ezistence. In this state, I was rr.
commended by Mr. I. Tleimpson, (who received septet a cure
by them here,) be take your Leake's Parent Pills, which I began
to do on the 26th May ; in the course of a fortnigle. I inian to
receive benefit. In little more than a month I becury by
your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free frow ty:dur-
mer complaints, have recovered my former spirits sad strength,
and am become jolly and (at, in which state hiving cOntiteded
many months to the &installment of all who knew ate, I net
at a loss in what teems to express my gratitude, but beg yon tee
the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case as
puLUc as possible, as I shall on every occedon—in as, iiinnt pal
willgready oblige, Sir, your gratefid obedient vary bumble ser-
vant. Al-EX. MUXXEIt.
Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor Th7mus Taylor;
MeMber of the Royal Cogged' Surgeons is awriea, at his hcnue
o. 9, New Bridge-amt.
They are also sold by his appointment, at the Perfumer's, Ne.
36, St. Alban's-street, Pall Mall; the Tuy-shop, No. 103, Oa.
turd-street ; Mr.Disborossibrs; N 0.7, Fish.street-hilt,nearives..
posite the Monument; and by one person In every considerable
town in England, &c. in boxes only 2s. ud. each, sealed ap with
full and plain directions, whereby persons ofelther sex may cute
themselves w'th ease and secrecy.
N.B. Every Box sold in Great Britain la seilei up with a stamp'
:Which ,by favour of the Cosnailsolonem. Is printed at the Stamp
Once " T. Taylor, N 0.9, New illidge•ale9t.t'
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ADVICE. . . , .
WHEN Men of Education and professional stilt
use perseveeng endeavours toeliesmetbe mit safe atsl
..urcou method of w•aef ng a fat prevailing Disuses, eke eaccour-
ful result of their experience is the best proof of y.
Messrs. DOSS and Co. Surgeons, have been to meta
the cue .f the Miming the objes of do* particular study, oft.
a certain Disaster, frequently contracted in a moment of Mon.
cation, and its concomitant; Strictures and Glees, obit;, by
an improved pia are speeddy and effectually cured; as also de-
bility, whether arising from Bac •thenalian indulgences, king oil-
&nee tr tivra &Mate; or a Scree solitary vice, too OM gm-
hapPily ptirietel by the Teeth of both sages,ihe cm main
sterility, of barrenness. and in the otter a autocross train of por.
roes diseases, if not thusly rernedkd, terminate in inns-
tenae*end consumption. Is that distreteiog site of debility at
deficiency, whether the consequence. of such banefal babies, ex
arising from any other eon; by which the (*Min ea* word-

CertieW7al iPterolto64;(l3l6ll6-1011
sigoroui headth.
Messrs. Doss and Cp. exclusively professing the tore of thew
particular complaints, in *der that they rimy not be, by a
mistaken few; muted with the obloquy •se kind? attached to
the ignorant empiric; think ft bet justice to themseltee to scats
that they have been properly educated led Initiated Mee ewers
branch of the profession (cerilicates of which, from ditereth
Hospitals, and testimonials :rent -le most eminent Phasie lhe.
they have to e/mai/It* any inquirer)• that the success renaltreg
from their endeavattrs first induced them to quit the Frartira
the general Prictitiouer, and they presume that their prectasione
constitute a lair levant for the unprecedented 000fideace with
~which they have, by. thi Public. been so liberally isonaemeL
The result of a long and eateasite practice has isaabltd utters,
by a superior method, tovemove venereal edmplairek however
hivettiate ate G 06,116.004, without indatecting the pullout to the
least restraint tn diet or exercise; and to recent L.%ses obese
early appitc.xiorf h nsideon discovery ofoli seleettoo, they fts-
quantly perform a et re in the short spec* of two-days. The toe
pr thedented sueuoess of their Mode of treatment (which has emir
heed knows to fail 1k coesingle losterice in a mictica et 1511484
durkig. which period re any thousand persons ef bode ism; Len
'Dien cured; evierilVielevereinethijorieuse methoch 'bedtime
pnrsped by other Practitioners without effect), induce, them as
time padstaly offer their adejese.. _ • • '
To be censuitetlitaily Patient; of ehlseiter;ot/th cede y.
delicacy, and attention.—Leteirs from the country, con:aoilag!
the particulars of Cie case, age, and manner of !..ving. inelegant
a remittance, duly attended to, and advice and Medicine tor-
ward•ol to arty pat t of the leingdoste •
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,MATRIMONV...
NO Disorders have epaributed reoreessentlaliv to
destroy Hymeneal Happiness than tistiee which. are the
consequence of nitguirded pleasure. People of every rank pay
adorloon to the Shrine of Wedlock, but where the Coustitunon
has Wert tainted by Disease, a renovation of stability its indispen-
sably.requisite. Twenty years .have we devoted our practice to
the exclusive treatment of the following Disorders, and the sue-
castled result-of our plan gives us additional ardour to oppose, as
tar as we are able, the ravages of those Complaaits which are the
mos; important in the catalogue of Human Infirmities. Af •.".
initiation into every branch, as Navy Sargeoni, we formed a wish,
at an early period of practice, to rescue individuals from the ig-
norincesif uneducated men, or the equally dangerous precspitancy
of general Practitioners.
"lite Disorders to the cure of which we have devoted our at-
tention, comprlce every species of Venereal Infection; all kinds
of Debility, whether arising from the habits of school boys,
or the indulgencies- of •matuter age; that derangement of the
System in Women, which is calk d tarremees or Sterility;
Seminal Weaknesses, Gkets, Obstructions in the Urethra •
as also Strictures, whether recent cr est long duration, a
hwhich have baffled the skill of other Practitioners, are by
our present improved plan. of treatment effectually and peruse-
nensly cured, without the patient suffering .the eierucialing pain
and alarming Hemorrhage which frequently fellows the arylica.
tion. of the /ARM Caustic. In the course of our extensive practice
in this metropolis, numerous cases of S I kIC IttiEs have be:n
and arc daily under our care, the total eradioation of which is ,f-
-fected by a safe, certain, and expeditious mode of cure taperer
to any ether yet adoved. 'll, weakness, Mention, and
lity, proceeding from this eon:plaint are speedily removed, a d
the Petit-tat restored to sound and vigorous health. But w...re
the debility bas fur years exited, * proper perseverraice in our
restorative remedies is indispensably requisite, to revivethe slum-
bering sparks of life, and to reanimate the constitution.
Numerous-Diseases are the result of ignorance or haste in the
treatment of a simple Gotinrrhea, and it not uttfrequeutly hap-
pens that the seeds of life are poisoned by the indiscretion 40 an
unguarded hour. By a superior method such complaints are
easily cured ; and even where others hive failed, we mist that
we may presume to offer a radical re-establishment. Few, how-
ever, are the cases of complicated distress la this disorder, com-
pared with the calamitous situation of men, who, from an indul-
gence in a solitary vice, or the prevalent gaieties of a fashionable
life, acquire that state of debility which is the unavoidable cone&
quence of such pernicious habits. Where the unhappy titterer
broods over his misery, but carefully conceals Isis misfortunes, tt
may be some consolation for him teshnow, that although It be
object of doubt or uncertainty with other Practitioners, the re-
moval of these deficiencies by the gradual progress of Reuovatien,
is the acquirement of our experience. if the 'hes of Bacchus er
Venus ha: e begun to teduee Manly rigouts, much anxiety will
be prevented by an early counteraction of this languid wee, and
In these Mies RC great difficulty will occur.
Married Women, who have long been dirsepoiated in tlapiti
expectetions of a family, may be aitsitreal, that in must instarct:a
such defects are curable by Medical skill,
The secrecy which is so essential to our undertaking, and the
quai.fications which see have presumed to state, (Gnu the bass
of our pretensions. and in coincidence with such this intimation
is given, that Messrs. Currie sod Co. may he consulted by Pa-
tients of either sea with the greatest secrecy and honour, at their
House, No. 107, Hatton•garden.
Patients in the Country arc requested to state the particulars
of their case, age, and general habit of living, and enclosing a re-
mittanee for advice and Medicines, when the state will be given
or sent to any part of the Kingdom.
CUitatlE act Co. Surgber.s, No. le:, Hatton-garden.
September 8, rft 13.
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