Volume 2

Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr.

Date:
1864-
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Credit: Selections from Calcutta gazettes : showing the political and social condition of the English in India / by W.S. Seton-Karr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1797.] The 6th April 1797. M)\ r. ThihauU, Optician and Mathematical InstnmenUmaJcer from London, Who attended Lord Macartney, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Court of Pekin, in charge of the Mathematical Apparatus designed as a present to the Emperor of China, is lately arrived in Calcutta, and has fitted up a shop at No. 89, Lall Bazar, where he has exposed for sale a select and various assortment of instruments adapted to every branch of experimental philosophy, made by the most eminent Artists in London, which will be disposed of on moderate terms for ready money, and the workmanship warranted. Having* followed the business of a Mathematical Instrument-maker, for more than sixteen years, in the most various and complicated branches of the art, he flatters himself with being qualified to give satisfaction to any gentleman who may be pleased to intrust him with the cleaning, re- pairing, adjusting, rectifying, or regulating any optical, mathematical, geographical, astronomical, electrical, pneumatical, meteorological, hydro- statical, or other instrument in practical use by Surveyors, Engineers, or Navigators, to whom, and to the public at large, he takes the liberty to offer his services, engaging for the greatest neatness and precision in the execution of every order committed to him, as well as for fair and reasonable charges for his work. Orders from any part of India will be punctually attended to and executed with dispatch. The 20th April 1797. Death. In England, October last, Mr. Chapman, of the India House, well known by the appellation of'' The twenty-fifth Director. The 18th Mat 1797. Advertisement. His Majesty's Justices of the Peace having received information of several accidents from the bites of pariah dogs, some of which it is ap- prehended may be mad, have thought it necessary for the public safety to offer a reward for every pariah dog that may be killed between the