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London, England, 1826-06-09 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE' 9, 1826.

VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Arne 5, 1 8126.
•
THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING
his MAJETTI"S NAVY, tte. do hereby give nodes,
' That en TUESDAY, the 13th instant, they will he ready to receive
Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the undermentioned

articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at
Deptford, viz.
BISCUIT -MEAL, 3,000 SACKS,

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One-third by the Stith instant, and the remaining two-thirds by the

!Bth of July.
FLOUR (Kiln dried), 200 SACKS,
By the I Sth of July.

The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office.
Each Tender-must specify the price in words at length, and be
delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed, and the Person
who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend
to answer when called for. if. IrdLLER CLIFTON.

ARMY CONTRACTS.

TREASURY CHAMBERS.

Chasnussariat Dqtartment, May 28, 1828.
OTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of
contracting to supply the following Articles fur the use of
the Army, ♦is.
BREAD.

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To his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and
Barracks, in the undermentioned County :
Monmouth.
BEEF and MUTTON.

To Ms Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and
Barracks, in the undermentioned Counties :

Cambridge
Devon
}buts

I Salop
Westmoreland.

OATS.

To his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses, in Cant meets
and Quarters in the undermentioned Counties r
Monmouth I North and South Wales.
FORAGE. vie.

OATS, HAT, and Stow, to his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery
Horses in Barracks ;and OATS in Cantonments and Quarters, in

Counties :

Warwick.

EUROPEAN LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY
OFFICE,
10, Gummi-rim; Bwenw►iis, I.OIIDOL

THIS COMPANY is formed on principles combin-
ing every degree of security, with advantages superior to any
previously offered to the Public. It consists of a number of Pro-
prietors, who are required to assure on their own Lives, or on these
of approved nominees, sums proportionate to their respective
Shares, on every Transfer of which a new Insurance Is required to
be effected. This system, by the perpetual renovation of policies,
secures the stability and growing prosperity of the Company, and
is productive of great benefit to the assured, wk. participate in the
profits arising from this regulation, without being responsible for
the engagements of the Company, which are secured by a large
subscribed capitaL
In the year 11119, when the European Company was formed,
the Directors caused rates of Insurances to be calculated from the
amalgamated life tables of all Europe, which produced results lower
than the rates of any Company then established, and which will
still be found lower than any of the Tables of Companies mere
recently formed, which admit the assured to a participation in the
Profits ; and this difference is so considerable as tube in the nature
of an annual bonus to the assured. _ _ _

The affairs of the Company arc managed by a Board of Twelve
Directors, which sits "very Wednesday throughout the year, at the
Company's Office, No. 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.
Prospectuses may be had at the Once, ur of any of the Pro-
prietors.

This day was published,
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF RECENTLY
DECEASED BRITISH CHARACTERS, emoseoeing
with the Accession of Geo. IV. comprising Two Hundred and
Thirty Subjects, Chronologically Arranged, with a List of their
engraved Portraits.
By WILLIAM MILLER.

Among the numerous distinguished Persons who have a place in
this Work, will be found—
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
Viscount Curzon, Countess of Huntingdon, Earl of Harewood,
Marchioness of Tkomond, Earl of Itlakr.esbury, Viscount Chet.
wyad, Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Sheffield, Countess of
Jersey, Queen Caroline, Countess of Besborough, Mr. Coons, Sir
John Warren, Sir H. Englefield, Sir Isaac Heard, Duchess of
Newcastle, Mr. Angerstein, Earl Beauchamp, Lord Glenbervie,
Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Hopetoun, Earl of Bridgewater,
Lord Yarborough, Lord Erskine, Countess of Carlisle, Countess
of Harrington, Earl of Clarendon. Duchess of Devonshire, Lord
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- LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SUMMER ASSIZES.—HOME CIRCUIT.
Before Mr. Baron OIRANAM and Mr. Justice Ilowtors.
liertfordsbire--Wednesday, July 5, at I leitford.
Rssez—Monday, July 10, at Chelmsford.
Surrey—Monday, Jul 17, at Guildford.
Sussex—Weduesday,July 26, at Lewes.
Kent—Tuesday, August 1, at Maidstone.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNI B.
IMENIOROUGH V. THE BISHOP OF LONDOI.

The LORD CHANCELLOR this day partially delivered
judgment in this case, which underwent so lengthened
;In argument some days since. He hesitated much
whether it sv,ul4 not be better to send the matter to a
July to ascertain the mode of election which should be
adopted. There appeared to be three classes of electors ;
first, those who paid the church and poor rates; those
who paid only the poor rates; and those who paid
neither one nor the other. • After going through the
greater part of the documentary evidence, his Lordship
postponed his final opinion until to-morrow.—The
Court ruse soon after two o'clock.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Juxa 9.
SIR F. BURDETT V EIR•GERARD NOEL.

A verdict had been obtained in this casein an unde-
fended action against the defendant for 4891. 151. the
amount of a bill of exchange, together with 341. costs,
making in all 5231. 15s. and an application had been
subsequently made to tke Court, for an order to the
Sheriff to pay over the money to the plaintiff.
Mr. ALEXANDER now rose on behalf of the defendant,
to resist that application. It appeared from the affida-
vits that transactions had frequently taken place be-
tween the parties, in the way of accommodation bills,
drawn in fAvour of a Mr. Gaythorne Butt, and the bill
in question was one of that description. Sir Gerard
Noel had applied to the equity side of the Court for a
bill of discovery relative to the transaction, which would
lead, he thought, to important disclosures.
The Conn. were of opinion that the answer of Mr.
Butt could not be allowed as evidence for the defendant,
And that an injunction could not be granted him after
Sir Francis Burdett had sworn that he gave consider.
ation for the bill.
The opposition not allowed.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jun s.
THE KING V. G. RAWLINSON, ESQ.

The ATTORNEY GENUAL moved for a rule to shew
cause why a mandamus should not issue, directed to
George Rawlinson, Esq. one of the Magistrates at Marl-
borough-street Office, commanding him to hear and
determine a certain information exhibited against a
hackney coachman, for obstructing the King's highway
in Howland-street, Tottenham-court Road. It appeared
from the affidavits on which the Learned Counsel
mined, that formerly there was a hackney-coach stand
in Howland-street, when that part of the town had been
but half built. Latterly that coachstand had become
a nuisance, and had been ordered to be removed by the
Commissioners of Hackney Coaches,' who were em-
powered to make such order by the 12th Geo. 111. cap.
'69. The order so made prohibited any hackney-coach-
man, under a penalty of 10s. from placing his coach for
hire in Howland-street; and several hackney-coachmen
having infringed this injuction, they were summoned
before Mr. Rawlinson, who was of opinion that he had
not jurisdiction; but recommended that a Mandamus
should be obtained, in order that it might be ascertained
whether he had authority to interfere or not. Under
those circumstances the present application was made.
—Rule granted.

THE KING V. JOHN ARMSTRONG.
The defendant, who had pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment filed by his Majesty's Attorney General, charging
him with having committed a violent assault upon two
Excise Officers, named Webster and Richardson, who
had, in the performance of their duty, seized an illicit
still, and a quantity of spirits, in a cellar in the defen-
dant's house, at Manchester, was brought up to receive
the judgment of the Court.
The Armitage Gemara having been heard shortly in aggrava-
tion of punishment,
The defendant put in a paper, stating that the Excise
Officers had assaulted his wife before he committed any
act of violence'; and he trusted that the provocation
which he had received would be considered as some
palliation for his offence. •
Their Lordships having consulted together for some time,
Mr. Justice BAILEY observed, that the offence with
which the defendant had been charged was one of a
very serious nature ; but as tare defendant had, by
pleading guilty, and thereby saved the Crown the ex-
pence cf a prosecution, shewn that be was aware of the
enormity of his offence, and was willing not to aggra-
vate it by pleading not guilty, the sentence of the Court
was, that the defendant should be imprisoned in Lan-
caster Castle, and there to be kept to hard labour, for
the term of nine calendar months.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jens S.
SNOW V. SADLER.

Mr. Sergeant WILDII hAd in this case obtained a rule
to show cause why a new trial should not be granted,
on the ground that the Jury hid been undUly biassed in
finding a verdict for the plisintiff, from peculiar cir-
cumstances which were involved in the consideration.

Lord Chief Justice Bear read his notes of the trial,
which took place before. him in Guildhall. About
twelve months ago, Messrs. Stone and Co. lost several
Bank of England notes, and they were duly advertised
accordingly. Four of these notes for 301. each had beeii,
after an interval of several months, paid into another
banking-house, and two of them were traced to the
defendant Sadler, who was a stable-keeper in Oxford, and
who said he had either received them from his banker,er
taken them in payment of bets at the list Doncaster races.
It was proved that, he h Id not obtained them at his'
banker's, and there-was only his own declaration that
they had come into his possession at Doncaster. His
Lordship had left it to the Jury to say, whether the
defendant had nvd the due caution required by law in
taking notes of that value? and they had found fur the
plaintiff.
_ _

Mr. Szrjeant WILDS, in support of his rule, urged,
that the sane caution which Was required of a trades-
man at his counter, ought not to be' expected in the
hurry and eicitem.nt of a Race Course; where ihe party

[Paws SEVENPEN CE.

had lawfully gone' in pursuance of his business as a
dealer in horses. He made this remark in consequence
of its being said that the Bank notes having been re-
ceived out of an illegal transaction (betting), had not
properly come into. the defendant's possession.
The COURT granted the new trial on the terms, that tint cl.efopvd-
int should pay the costiofthe application, as well as the amount of
the verdict. Into Court.
CAPTAIN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

We are sure that the friends of Captain Franklin and
his party, and the public at large, will be gratifi-d
with the perusal of the following letter from that ex-
cellent Offico :

7th Sevember, ist.S, lat. 6S. t t. N. long. 123. 33. W.
MY DEAR Stn—l do most heartily congratulate you
on the prospect we had from Garry's Island, of a per-
fectly open sea, without a particle of ice, as it is another
step gained in confirmation of your much-contested
hypothesis. We saw nothing to stop the ships, bu-, on
the contrary, everything around us strengthened my
hope of their effecting the passage. The India•is,
indeed, have a report, that between the Mackenzie and
Copper-Mine Rivers there is a point that stretches far
to the northward, which is gener.illy surrounded, with
ice. If this be true, the ships perhaps may be checked
in their progress for a time, but I thiuk they will cot be
altogether stopped, providing they have been eaabled
to get at the maid shore to the eastward horn Regent's
Inlet. No Indian, however, with whom I have spoken
on my recent visit to the seas can speak of this point, or
of the obstruction, horn his own observation; and the
report seems, like many others current among them, to
have passed from genera-ion to generation, which at the
first had but little ground to stand twit. The Indians,
in fact, know nothing of the coast, the knowledge of the
sea shore being entirely confined to Vie Esqui matt x. with
whom we have not as yet had any communication.—
They are employed during. the summer in catching
whales, and in other marine pursuits, to the eastward-of
the Mackenzie, to which, I believe, they re:urn in the
winter. Their neighbours, the Quarellers of Macken-
zie, or the Lancheose of the traders, resemble them very
much in appearance, dress, and manners, and many of
the Equimaux words, which Augustus understood,
were in use among them ; but, as is too orten the case
with the neighbouring vibes of these Aborigines; they
are almost always at war with each other. Fortunately
for us, however, terms of peace were settled last sum-
mer between them and the Esquimatix, which we shall,
of course, endeavour to strengthen, if we meet them
together. The Quarellers were quite delighted at seeing
Augustus with us, and assured us thete would be now
no fear of the Esquimaux receiving us in a hostile man-
ner, as they had already been apprized by them of our
intention to visit their lands; and the reason for.our
doing so could be more fully explained by him than
they could do.
We saw many moose and rein titer, and large flicks
of geese and swans at the mouth of the river, which,
no doubt, are to be found on its low shores (luting the
whole of the warm season ; and probably the anirnals
retire to the woods in the winter, which are not far
distant from the coast. The long track of al'uv al
ground which is passed in the descent of the Mackenzie
is well covered with pines, even as high as 61 north,
which world afford good shelter for any animats.
The Rocky Mountain range is seen through nearly
the whole course of the river after passing the south
branch of the Mackenzie, at no great distance from its
banks, running in about W.N.W. true direction; but
they do not appear so high as I had been led to expect
till you reach the sea, and then they attain an immense
elevation, and seem to form the sea coast to the west-
ward. We shall probably pass very near them next
summer, and be able to give some account of them.
If a judgment might be termed from a very distant
view of two or three of the highest peaks, from their
shape and appearance, I should-suppose these to be
volcanic. On Garry's Island we found plenty of coal
and bitumen, embodied in the black earth of which it
is composed; but I find Dr. Richardson has given you
a cursory outline of the geology of the river and this
lake ; my imperfect information on this point may
therefore be spared. I can only assure you, I have
more than once wished the expedition could transport
some of the fine limestone cliffs that bound the liver,
to the vicinity of the Thames ; we might then soon be
enriched by contracting not only to supply the material
for the new London Bridge, but also to satisfy the pre.
sent rage for building, at a very cheap rate.
We are now is the very bustle of finishing our own
buildings, which, however, are not of stone, as you may
suppose, but of wood. The house is situated close to
the borders of the lake, for the convenience of the
fishery, which is to be our main support, though we
hope to catch a few rein-deer, on their march to the
south next month. My land friends, dur ng my ab-
sence, have named the house Fort Franklin, .which, at
their solicitation, I have permitted to stand, or I in-
tended to have given it the name of Reliance.
I have discharged All the Canadian voyageurs that
Mr. Dease could spare, in order to reduce our establish-
ment to as small a number as possible ; we are now,
therefore, nearly a British party. All the men hare
conducted themselves extremely well, and they quite
enjoy the service. We must endeavour to kelp them as
merry and active as we can during the winter.
I cannot sufficiently praise the Officers, who have
been constantly on the alert; and most zealous in the
cause, as you will suppose, from our having done what
we have, and got seated hete at . such an early period,
neatly a month before the Company's servants get to
their winter quarters. We were just six months from
leaving Liverpool to the Arctic Sea.
• JOON FRANKLIN.

Letters from Buenos Ayies describe the blockade of
the River Plate, as having desti oyed the rising comae:.
cial prosperity of Buenoi Ayies and its dpenclenciii.
The communication from one place to another is ►lw:
cut off, and the usual supply of flour, liquor, spirits,
tobacco, and other foreign produce, is wholly excluded.
The consequence is, that foreign goods have risen to
three or four times their former value, and hying is new
twice as dear at Buenos Ayres as it is in 140M1011.
war is stated to have been .taihly provoked .s Vim any
pupa ations being made for carrying it on; on fore-
thought of its consequences.