The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-05 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONIALS.

" Your Brandy is free from uncombined acid and astringent
matter, which exists more or less inmost of the Brandies im-
ported from France.
" JOAN THOMAS COOPER,
" To Mr. Betts." Lecturer on Chemistry."
" I am bound to say, and do assert it with confidence, that
for purity of spirit this cannot be surpassed, and that your Pa-
tent Brandy is also quite free from those acids which, though
minute in quantity, always contaminate the foreign spirit.
" JOSEPH 111.31E,_

"J. T. Betts, Esq." v Chemist to his Majesty."
" I do not hesitate to express my conviction that your Patent
Brandy is fully as free from every thing injurious to health,
and contains as pure a spirit, as the best varieties of foreign
Brandy. " EDWARD TURNER,
Professor of Chemistry in the University of London."
" John 7. Betts, Esq."
J. T. BETTS and Co. deem it expedient to caution the Pub-
lic against the many spurious imitations which abound both in
town and country ; and in consequence of the name of their
Distillery having been pirated, it is further necessary to state,
that their only establishment is at No. 7, Smithfield Bars,
(leading to SCJohn-street,) where orders for Two Gallons and
upwards will be promptly executed for cash on delivery.
*.,,* A liberal discount to the trade.

WEST OF ENGLAND
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Chief Office, EXETER.
Office in Loudon, 21', Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
13-ERSONS insured against Fire to the extent of £3OO and
r. 4
.11L- upwards, will be entitled to a S are of Half the Profits,
derived from Fire Insurances eve th year.
LIFE INSURANCES are al; ffected on the approved
plan of giving to those Insured for 'IUO and upwards, a Share
in the Profits, which may be added to the Sum insured, and
payable therewith, or applied in Reduction of the Annual
Premiums.
Rates and Conditions may be had of the Agents.
CHARLES LEWIS, Secretary.
Those Persons whose Policies fell due on the 2,lth JUNE, are
respectfully informed, that they should renew the same within
fifteen days from that date, for their own security.
WM. WHITEHOUSE and SONS, Agents,
12, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool.

IMPRISONMENT FOTt DEBT.—By the return of persons im-
prisoned for debt in 1832, in England and Wales, it appears
the gross number was 16,470; of whom 4,093 maintained them-
selves; three-fourths being too poor to provide themselves. By
the fourth report of the Common Law Commissioners, dated
March 1, 1232, it appears that of persons in execution for debt
in 1831, more than 25 per cent. were for debts under £23, and
more than 45 under £3O
A depu tatioa. Crum- a committee-of commanders and_ () tiers
of the East India Company's maritime service waited on the
President of the Board of Control on Saturday, for the purpose
of advocating the claims of the service for compensation under
the new India Bitl.—The Guardian. •

A grand dinner was given to Sir Richard Vyvyan by his
constituents of Bristol on Wednesday last, Mr. Alder man
Daniel in the chair, on which occasion he was presented with a
handsome snuff-box, on which is the following inscription :
" This Snuff-Box was made from part of an oak beam dug out
of the ruins of the late Custom-house, in Bristol, which, with
two sides of Queen-square, and property in various parts of the
city, amounting to One Hundred Thousand Pounds, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 30th of October, 1831, by a
lawless mob, under the influence of passions excited by the
watch-word of Reform, and is preserved in melancholy remem-
brance of that event, and as a warnino- of the dangers to which
a community must always be exposed, when factious dema-
gogues find means to tamper with the people, and snake them
dissatisfied with that state of life unto which it bath pleased
God to call them."

We understand that Marshal Bourmont, the Minister of War
of Charles X., is arrived in London with his aides-de-camp and
staff, ou his way to Lisbon to take the command of Don Mi-
guel's army. 'I he marshal is supposed to have come last from
Holland, and is said since his arrival to have been in frequent
communication with another marshal, whose connection, mili-
tary and with Portugal is well known. It is proper
that the English merchants connected with Lisbon and Oporto
should be aware of these facts; which may materially, affect
their interests, as well as the future prospects of Portugal. The
assistance that may be rendered to Don Miguel by an officer so
distinguished for his military talents and experience as General
Bourmont, nut to. speak of the etat major that attends him,
cannot fail to prolong the unfortunate contest so fatal to British
interests, which seemed fast drawing to a close by the triumph
of Donna Maria.—Globe.

The late Lieutenant-General, the Earl of Pomfret, whose
death occurred a few days since, enjoyed his honours but a few
years, having succeeded his brother George, the third Earl, 3d
of April, 1830. The noble earl, as the Hon. Thomas William
Fermor, was appointed to an ensig,ncy in the 3d, (now the
Scotch Fusileer Guards,) early in 1791. He served in Flan-
ders in 1793, and was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and
Dunkirk, and the Sttles of Lincelles and Fomars. He served
in Ireland during the rebellion, and in the expedition to the
Helder, where he was present at several actions. The lt;th
March, 18t%), he vras appointed to a company, with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel. fie was with the Guards in Spain and
Portugal, until his promotion to the rank of Major-General
obliged him to return to England. He was present at the
battle of Salamanca, for which lie had the honour of wearing a
medal, and he also was a knight of the Swedish Order of the
Tower and Sword. His lordship married, 23d January, 1823,
Amabel Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Richard and the
Hon. Lady Borough, by whom he has left George William
Richard, Viscount Leominster, (now Earl of Pomfret,) another
infant son, and two daughters, The noble earl had for some
time suffered from an attack of paralysis. His last commission
as Lieutenapt-General bears date ?jai of May, 18215.