Star.
London, England, 1820-02-22 00:00:00

orrzcz OF oftumearer, Rims:try 9, 1920.
THA PRI.VCIPA!; OFFICERS of his MA-
JESTY'S ORDNANCE d. hereby ;ire Noti•e,

That Propcsals will be received at their Office, in Pall-mall,
en or before WEDNESDAY, the 2:2 instant, from inch per-
sons as may be willing to undertake the supply of IRON-
NONGERY TOOLS, for Service of this Department, for a
retied of Three Years, determinable after the expiration of the
first Year, upon Notice of Three Months, at the option of
taker Party.
Patterns of the Articles may be viewed upon application at
the Principal Storekeeper's Office, in the Tower, and farther
r.rtienl;rs, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Con-
tract, may be known at the Secretary's °Mee in Pall Mall afore-
rid, any day between the hours of Ten and Pour o'Clock, where
the Froposab mast be delivered, sealed up, and endorsed" Pro-
posals for Ironmongery Tools ;" but no Proposal can he admitted
after the said :2.34 instant, at twelve o'clock at noon of the same
day, neither will any tender be noticed unless the party making
it, or an agent in his behalf, shall atteed.
By Order e the Avant, It. H. CREW, Seat:eery. .

OFFICE OF ORDN4NCE, February 0,1820.
THE PitINC,IPAL OFFICERS of his MA-
. • Ave.."

JESTY'S Oat:VANCE do her. ',lire Notice,

That Proposals win be received at their Office in Pall Mall on
or before WEDNESDAY, the 23d instant, from such persons
as may he willing to undertake the Supply of WOOD HOOPS,
for Service*: this Department, fur a period of Three Years,
determinable after the expiration of the first Year, upon Notice
of Three lonths, at the option of either Party.
Patterns of the Articles may Le viewed upon application at the
Principal Storekeeper's Office, in the Tower; and farther Par-
ticulars, toLether with the Terms and Conditions of the Con-
tract, may be known at the Secretary's Office in Pall-Mall
af0re..:.1,1, any dal between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock,
where the Proposals must be delivered, waled up, and en-
dorsed, " Proposals for Wood Hoops;" but no Proposals can
be adulated after the said a„d inst. at Twelve o'Clock at Noon
of the same day, neither will any Tender be noticed unless the
Party mai:4; it, or an A;cnt in his bchaif shall attend.
11,y Or h: of Ms Baird, R. H. CREW, Secretary.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY,
INITIICTID 1774,

To Collect and Circulate the most approved and effectual Me-
thods fur It ECO V ERING PERSONS APPARENTLY
DROWNED or DEAD; to suggest and provide suitable
Apparatus for. and bestow Rewards en all who assist la, the
Preservation or Restoration of Lite.
PUSSIMMT,
His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. K.G.

AT the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL COURT,
holden at the Society's Office, St. Paul's Church=yard,
Feb. it was Resolved,
That the following declaration of the sentiments of the Court
en the Death of our late excellent and venerable Monarch be
entered en the Minutes.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq. Treasurer, in the Chair.

" At this General Court, one prominent and melancholy event
irresistibly presents itself, with grateful and mournful recollec-
tions, to the minds of the Governors and Directors now assem-
bltd—the loss of his late lamented Majesty, the early Friend,
and revered Patron of the Society.
For nearly forty years it continued to receive the benefit of
his patronagc—a patrcnage never lightly bestowed, and which
was the more distinguished and effecth.e, because, wisely and
judiciously reserved for Institutions which he deemed of pre-
eminent benefit to his Country.
" In expressing their profound sense of the loss which the
Society has sustained, the Directors and Governors now present
would gratefully record—that If the Institution were originally
lountled on the, most enlightened views of science, and the purest
principles of benevolence—if it have since beceme•the means of
inethodising and perfecting, to a considerable extent, the pro-
cesses of Resuscitative Art, and of extending those processes,
within a period of forty years, to the restoration of several
thousands of lives—if, in addition to this, it have given birth to
many similar Associations, both in various parts of our own
country, and in foreign nations—to the late revered and la-'
3-tinted King belongs the glory of having taken it by the hand
when but an infant If.stitution, and of having led it through
:he dangers and difficulties ui its first establishment, and inci-
pient efforts.

" Now, indeed, it has displayed a series of facts, which con-
stitute a splendid memorial of the successful exertions of Hu-
inanity and Science, in cases of Apparent Death; but the foster
'n!,, care and kind patronage of his late Majesty were extended
uvtr it at a period when ignorance, iucreduiity, and prejudice,
avere opposed to its success, and when the evidences of its utility
avere necessarily confined to few and partial results.
" The penetrating and decisiva mini, however, of its Royal
Patron, enabled hint, then, to perceive and appreciate its ilit•
penance ; fur it was peculiarly characteristic of his late Ma-
jesty to judge and decide for himself. ,The clamours of preja-
•iice had little influence over him. And, whenever he did lend
tile sanction of his illustrious name, it bad a %t eight arising froin
the very circumstance, that it was indicative of his own sense of
the high importance of the vane he had determined to support.
" Thus, in becoming the Patron of the Humane Society, his
.7a'a*:esty distinctively and prominently recommended it to public
ranee and encouragement ; to him, therefore, is to be justly
arcribrd a large,misasure both of its SUCCC2S and glory.
" It was consistent with that paternal tenderness towards his
reerle, by v;itich his late Majesty was proverbially distinguished,
he slfauld feel a strong interact in the principle and ,ucceu
e 5 an Institution, the object of which was, to preserve and to
tastote Life to perishing Individuals, end ur.speakable happiness
Sr distracted Families; an Institution, to which, as applying it.
e.pecially to cases of apparent death from drowning, was
-;.,:ticulasly commended to the Interests of a population of
..ci:ndets, and the first of Maritime States. To such a pop ula-
tian residents must be frequently happening, upon their navi-
gable 'livers, in their nun roux seaports, and on the
vairre so many Englishmen pas the uni3or portion of their *lives.
" It was, therefore, befitting the dignity; and worthy of the
aristian huinauity of the Monarch of these Realms, to vr.ear
as the Patron of such an Institution ; and among the many in-
s:anees by which his late Majesty evinced his paternal anxiety
:far the welfare of his People, his early and fostering care of the
inyal liumaae Society will not be recorded as the 'cast con-
aaicuous and important, in a life fruitful of deeds by which his
Ceeatry was benefited,' and for which she will long pronounce
Ll* name with veneration and gratitude.
In new paying their heartfelt tribute to the beloved and,
lamented 'loyal Patron of their Society, the Directors and Go-'
--a:aans would express their hope and confidence, that hia bent:-
•alent eitaini,:e will oat be lust to its interests. It is by afford-
i 'a it the liberal and continued support, to which it is so justly
entitled, that the loyal, and grateful, and mournful fotlings in-
scpar,.ble hoist the present subject and occasion, will be most
.elficaciously and most raspecttully expressed.. It may thus be
;antlered the blessing of a future age—may remain an imperialt-
-.'ale monument of tat virtues of its ifiustrigns Patton, and of
the humanity and benevolence of his People.
" JONATHAN BARBER,
Itegiatrar and Secrstary.
" Society's, Oficea 4111, St. Paul's Church,yard."