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London, England, 1817-12-24 00:00:00

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Mr. Brook,
• Mr. Junes
Mr. W. E. Smith
Mr. Swift
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Mr. Habertat
Mr. Heath
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FARRINODON WITHOUT.
Mr. Robot Waithnsan g *Mr. Beckwith
R. Herring, Esq. Deputy SI I Mr llamas Reeve
Mr. James Williams 500 Mr. C. Augestus Savage
Mr. Crook 197 I Mr. William Pawnee

Mr. Wilda= Vale 196
W. J. Reeves, Esq. Deputy 195
Mr. James Grifiltis 192
Mr. John Stickel 189
Mr. Abraham Young lea
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Mr. i'►..mu Oak Smith
Mr. William Parton
Mr. 1 bonus Kuper
Mr. Willi in Murrell
•Mr. Sparrow
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WALBROOK WARD.
Mr. Deputy Williams lIS Mr. W. Russ .
Mr. E. Haywood Si Mr. W. Ryile
Sir T. BM - 78 Mr. W. Woodward
Mr. W. Pearce - 77 •Mr. G. :•hwtlewnrch
Mr. C. Has • 7.5 •Mr. T. N. Williams
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The LORD Mayon has given directions that the
prisoners in the several prisons in London, shall re-
ceive each ewe poend of beet, cnie pint or porter, ansi
hilt a three-penny loot, for their Christmas dinner—.
their number amounts to about 900!

The Magistrates and Parish Officers of Windsor.
on Thursday last, it the invitation of their Royal
Highnesses the rincesses AUGUSTA and EtizAnevni,
viaited the Manufactory for Preparing and Spinning
Flax, established by the direction of their ltoyal High-
nesses at Old Windsor. They derived the greatesr
satisfaction at witnessing the healthful and combos
table employment of forty poor men, women, and
children, who would otherwise have required paro-
chial assistance.

CORN EXCRANOR, MARK-LANR• Dac. 24, 1817,--
The supply of Wheat was rather large this morning
from Suffolk, for which the sale was heavy at Mon.
day's prices. Although we had a considerable•arrir.l
of Barley, yet fine samples met ready sale upon full
as good terms as Monday. In Beans, Peas, and
0416; there is no alteration.

The Merchants of Jamaica have presented a Me.
morial to the Board of Trade, complaining that cer-
tain Acts of Parliament prevent British• vessels from
importing Tobacco and Rice, Grain of all sorts, and
•Flour, from Foreign Colonies into the British West
India Islands, while these And other commodities
may be imported l'-from any of the said Colonies cc
Plantations• into certain ports in the West Indies, its
any foreign vessel not having more than one deck,
and owned and navigated by persons inhabitiag any •
of the said Colonies or Plantations." the Memoria-
lists a humbly insist, that this preference given to
foreign vessels is not only injurious to them as Br►tish
merchants, .but inconstent with the obvious and ac..
knowledged policy of Great Britain ; and they .have
further to observe, that in the preseut distracted state.
of South America, the frequent captures at '64, by
the contending parties, render it'nearly equivalent to
an interdiction of all commerce with the foreign colts•
nies in the articles of tobacco, vice, grain, and flour."
In the same Memorial it is also represented.—
" that vessels and their cargoes trading to and from
Island, are frequently se►zed by .the Officers of
the Navy and of the Customs, on grounds which,
however legal, can scarcely be defended urin any
principles of justice ; and that the British Logisio.
titre. 'sensible of the rigour of the existing statutes, .
hats, by the Act of the 51 Geo. 111. e. 96, given to
any four or mere of the Commissioners of the Cus.
toms the power to restore the property seized, in ease
they shall be of opinion that the claimant had no
fraudulent intention, or that he acted in conformity
with the orders of the Governor or Chief Officer of

the Colony. This eqnitable jurisdiction is exercit;cl
it too great a distance; and is attended with too
inudi delay to be often resorted to, and unless the
property seized be of considerable value, it is the in-
rerest of the claimant rather to abandon it to the

Seizing Officer then to embark in the expense of *
protracted litigation. Your Memorialists therefore
submit, whether the power vested in the Commis.
!loners might net, consistently with the •iews of the
Britishs.Lrgislature, be transferred to the Colonial
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