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THE NEW EMPPI Si OF FRANCE.

A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT of MARIA
LOUISA, Empress of France, engraved by A. Cardon,
from a painting by Cuirard, of Vienna, is this day published, and
may he had, price Ss. 6d. plain, prnors or In colours 7s. Gd. at R.
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This day was published, price .2s.
ASTATEMENT delivered by LORD COCH-
RANE, in the Howe of Commons, on the 13th of June,
1310, if, the detente of the Rights of the Navy hi Matters of Prize.
Sold by C. Chapple, No. 66, ; and by all Booksellers.

This day uas published, price Is.
A REPORT of the TRIAL of an INDICT-
•L-1. MENT, the KING against BENJAMIN 'FANNER and
VICHOLAS TOMLINSON, of the Royal Navy, for Forgery,
whereby the Navy Office was defrauded of a sum of Money. •
By J. JENKIN, of Gray's Inn.
Printed fnr Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-row.

This day was published,
In One Volume, limo. price 7.. fd. In boards,
THE HISTORY .of LINCOLN, Ancient and
Modern. •Embelli,hed with numerous Wood Cuts of the
principal Public Buildings, Lite. &c.
Planed fnr John Richardson, Royal Exchenga ; and ernkby
and Co Stationeri'-court, Loudon; and E. Baron, Bu.dcseller,
Lineal!).

NArr-OFFICE, lime 20, 1810.
THE PRINCIl'ilf, OFFICERS and COMMIS-
SIONERS of hi, .2114JESTro NAVY, hereby give Notice,
That a Plan of Education has been established at the Royal
Naval College, at his Majesty's. Deck-yard at Portsmouth, for a
auperior class of Apprentices to Shipwrights.
The number of Students in the superior class of Shipwrights'
Apprentices shall, in the first instance, be limited to twelve, but
will gradually be increased to twenty.five. The period of ap-
premiership shall be seven years, but for a Student who may
have previously served in the inferior class of Apprentices in his
Majesty's yards for the space of two years, it shall be only six
years, and only five years for a Student who may have prevously
served in the said class for the spice of three years.
An Instructor in the theory• of Naval Architecture will be
added to the present establishment of the Royal Naval College,
to assist particularly in the instruction of this class of Apprentices.
The Caedidates for admission must produce certificates from
two respectable Physicians or Surgeons that they are of sound
health ar.d constitution, and likewise proof from the register of
the parish in which they were born of their being at least 13, aid
not more than 17 years of age, excepting candidates from among
the Shipwrights' Apprentices of the Yard, who may be allinitted
if they shall not have served more than three years of their time.
Candidates shall be examined on the first Wednesday in Novetn-
bur in each year, by the Professor of the Royal Naval College,
assisted by the Instructor in the Theory of Naval Architecture,.
in the presence of the Commissioner of the Yard, the Lieutenzat-
Governor of the College, and Master Shipwright, who shall
jointly report the result of the examinatitnt to the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, carefully inserting the names of the
Candidates in succession according to their respective merits.
The following shall be the subjects of examinvico, with which
every successful Candithte must he perfectly aaptainted :
.Ist.—Reading English, and writing it with facility front clic-
tation.

2d.—The first four Rules of Arithmetic, anil. the Rule of
Three in whole numbers, and also iu vulgar and Decimal Frac-
tions.

3d.—The first three Books of Euclid's Elements, !so It. Simp-
son, with the exception of Propositions 42, 44, 45, Book I. s:itl
of Propositions 8,9, 10, 11, 14, Book 2. In this part of the ex-
am:nations, besides giving the most precise demonstrations, the
Candidates will be expected to make the constructions in a prac-
tical manner with compasses and ruler.
4th.—The French Language, a knowledge of which, although
not absolutely required In the Candidates who may present them.
selves at tit first examination which is to be hell, will, never-
the•less, 0.4 a preference to those who are in all other rest acts
equally qualified; at all subsequent examination;, however, the
Candida es will be required to read and translate French with
facility.

After admission into the Superior Class, the Apprentices shall
attend at the Royal Naval College three or four hours on the
mornings of every day in the week, except Sunday, and the esta-
blished 14-lidays, where they shall be instructed in such parts of
the following Subjects, as shall appear to she Professor of tins
College to be best adapted to the object of the Estahlishinuot, viz.
the Formation of able and useful Ship Builders s
Geometry, Fluxion,
Algebra, Tht;ory of Naval Architecture,
Plane Trigonometry; Drawing,
Mechanic., ' l'he Funds Language.
Hydrostatics,

On Mondays, Tuttsdays,. and • Wednesdays, the Apprentices
shall be employed at the College during the hours abovemen-
tioned in the Study of Mathematics, under the Professor or the
Instructor; on Thursday and Uri !ay n:ornin,zs in Drawing, un-
der the Drawing Master, the art of Ferule:Jive being most par-
ticularly applied in drawing the different parts of a Ship ; and th.•
morning of Saturday shall be apprepriated to the Study cf s•.:ch
books and exercises in the French I.arzeAge, und+•r the French
Nlaster, as may perfect them therein, and at the same time it.l-
- their professioual knowledge. This d:vi.ion of time ;I-
lotted for their studies is, however, to bu subject to such u:tcr3-
dons as shall appear to the Professor best calculated for proniol:Dg
.the object of the Institution.

Id tie remaining part of the day, when not attending at the
College, they shall los employed under the h,laver slnpo ribl:t nr
Instructor of Naval Arch:tecturt, in the r; e
various kinds of manual labour connected with S'Ap•huldi:D. ;
in acquirement of a complete knowledge of the &trot t t
parts of a Ship, and of the method of constructing and faltc. 'mg
the same, as well as In discriminating her different prop mes
deducible front theoretical calculations ; also in the
ment and conversion of timber, and generally, in such o bee
manner as .he Master Shipwright namiconsider as best ad tr ed
to ma :e them fully acquainted with :dram detail of the duties of
a practical Shipwright.
To ensure the punishment of offences commlued by them dar-
ing their attendance at the Cr,liege, a hook shall he kept by the
Instructor, in which such offences shall be entered ; and at the
eid of each week, or oftener if there be occasion, this book shall
b: sent to the Office of the Conunksioner, who will order such
punishment to be inflicted, as may he conformable to the usual
treatment of Apprentices in the Dock Y.u.d.
And at the end of each year, a public Examination s'ca't take
place in the presence of the Officers mentioned in the 3d Art;cle,
and a general statement of the improvement of the retoectise
Apprentices in the theoretical part of thtir profession shall be
transmitted by the Professor of the College, and of their pro-
gress in the practical part by the Master Shipwright, through
the Commissioner of the Dock Yard to the Admiralty 0:lice;
to the end that, if it shall appear that an Arprentice has parch-
col lay distinguished himself in any of the departments of his
profession, the lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may cal-
ler on him such mark of their approbation as their Lordships :may
dee.n expedient.

The 1;q year of their Apprenticeship, or ouch part thereof as

. .. .
the Lords Commissioners .of the Admiralty may think prop: r,
shall be served at Sea, in such of his Nl;:jeAty'. Ships :Is their
Lordships shall direct, with a view of o.):.iiiiing some practical
knowledge in the stetting, sailing, trinimin;;, and ballasting of
ships; in making remarks on the motion and working of a ship,
in all her parts, ta bad weather, and on a high sea ; th; ..tandivg
and straining of the masts and yards under such circinn•aances ;
the placing of the fixed blocks, with a view to the props.r leading
of ropes, dec. and, gener.-.lly, in obtaining such information as
the Captain, Capenter, and other Officers of the ship may, by
their experience, communicate, and such as their own observations
may suggest.
During the time that such an Apprentice sila7l be on board a
skip he will be requited to keep a jonenal of his remarks and
observations, arranged under distinct beads; noting such im-
provements in any part of the ship, or any thing connected there-
with, as may suggest themselves to him, from a minute attention
to the circumstances by which a ship is affected at sea ; a copy
of whish journal is to be transmitted to the Admiralty.
A cabin or birth will be allotted so him in the gun-room, or in
' some other suitable part of the ship s he shall mess with some of
the Officers, and be treated in all respe,Cts as a Gentleman.
Salaries to be allowed Apprentices of the Superior Class.
If the Apprentice If the Apprentice If the Apprentice
shall not •have shall have seev,.:d sip!" have served Sum
served 4 years in two years in that three years in that
the inferior class. clam. class.

•
The day of Examination Is fixed for the first Wednesday in
November next (7th November, 181 G); a certain number of Ap-
prentices now in the Dock Yards, ~re to be excused front manual
labour to prepare themsehres for the examination, and this politic
notice of she qualifications experted from thme who intend to
become Candidates.atil of the elay on which sods Candidaes w;11
he examined, i 2 given, in ore* that the number to be entered in
the superior Class of Apprentices (which in the Ana year is to be
limited co twelve) may be elected front tl.w,t best qualified, wisy
ther belonsing rethpoct Youth or not.
Such Persons u t e descripdou before mentioned who may by
dt mous of becoming CztAlidates far aimission to the superior
Class of Apprentices, to belong to his M4jes!y's Duck Yard, at
Portsmouth, are therefore hereby in:on:led, that they win be
required to settd notice of their inters:ion to the Navy Board, or
the Commissioner of his Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth,
oa the ulth of October, I'Blo ; and they must be prepared with
ev.:ry document and qualifieaTimi men limed in this Advertise-
ment, and ne at Portsmouth Duck Yard at Eight o'Clock in ilia
Morning of the day of tsaminution, viz. the 7th November, 1810,
alel wait for further directions irons tie Commissioner tur their
proe..editigs,

iii: BRITISH HERRING FISHING CUM-1
-I. PAN V, intended to he incorporated by Act ni Parliament.
Capital i:: Thousand Shares of £lOO each; and
no tudivic al to hold more than '! w, uty .:hares.
PATIi.,,N S.
liis Grace the Dukt- of Athol.
The It tht Fl mourable the Earl of Chiche.vv.
'3 he Right Hoitourable I.ortl Viscount N...brillea
• I
The Right honourable Lord De Don-tasitillir.
1 he Right liunioarable Lord Mashersle.
The Most Noble the Marquis Hunch%
The Right I lonourable turd Jocelyn.
Pass' h'l Fhe Right Hunottrattie the J.ord Site ;
Vic st-Pa EstnUlT.—Jushua Jepson Oddy,
Dli CToa
Timothy Stanfie'..! Esq.
~Vtiliain•Hry ate, Esq.
John Opel. a.sq.
Thomas Cre.sw,ll, Esq.
Janet Eheti:•zer a iunders, Esq.
XV illiam Wilson, Esq.
ALIDITOKI.
The Right Hon. I.erd George I Charles Welstead, Esq.
Seymour. James Bowen, Esq.
Francis Fretting, Esq.
The Directors hat.: the plea-aire to inform the Shareholders,
that one of the Company's vessels has arrival with a full cargo
of lire Herrings, cured in the Dutch method; and under the
impress on that maby of the P. oprietors may wish to possess
some of this first cargo, a few barrel. will be repacked into small
kegs for that purpose, and so soon as they are ready public notice
ll be given.
The Directors also respectfully inform the Shareholders that a
forth, r deposit of £ per Cent. to be paid at the Comsany'.. office
on or before the lat ul NrortnaSer n:xt, is deemed by them sta.
etelit for the accomplishment of their present plans.
THOMAS SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Fishmourrs' Hall, August I 5,1,110.

William Smith, Esq. M. P.
W. A. i‘ht.locki,i.ll. M. P.
NI. Wood, ksq.Shcrlti and Ala
George St.lushy, Esq. Alder MAU
Nathaniel Brickwoud, Esq.
'Collard Smith, Esq.