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30th December 1839

The Gas Affair

The Gas Company took possession of their works at midnight on Christmas night, the lessee's term (Mr.Bedborough) having expired at that hour, and the thanks of the inhabitants of the towns of Windsor and Eton are due to him for leaving the apparatus in full working order, and even allowing some of his own retorts to remain on the premises, for had he acted in the same spirit that others in his business have done towards him, our most Gracious Sovereign would have found Windsor in total darkness on her arrival on Tuesday night, excepting the light from the illumination purposely used to welcome her return to the Castle. With respect to the decision the shareholders of the company have come to, in not being disposed to re-let the works of Mr.Bedborough, supposing their proceedings have been guided with a view of benefiting the shareholders only, no one could censure their conduct; but when the contrary is known to be the case, ----- that such proceedings are base in the extreme; for ----------- of the spirit of the transaction, parties (shareholders) ------------ entirely innocent if such conduct must necessarily --------- with the guilty. That the property will be deteriorated -------- -----------, for Mr.Bedborough has announced, in a printed address to the inhabitants, that he intends erecting other works - and ----- his works will receive extensive patronage we do not for a moment question. It appears that some of the shareholders do not anticipate much advantage by the course pursued by the company, or they would not so speedily have parted with their shares, which has been done this week, and we hear that others are in the market. It matters ------- favourably the appearance of the company may be at present made to appear, the shareholders have not hitherto had any way cause to rejoice at the prosperity of the works while in their own hands, as a proof of which we give the following extract from their minutes of a General Meeting of Proprietors, held in May, 1830, before Mr.Bedborough became lessee:- "It was moved by Mr.Williams, seconded by Mr.Palmer, and carried unanimously, That the warmest thanks of the company are due to Mr.Bedborough, for his unremitting exertion, to which the very existence of the company, under a continuation of the severest of difficulties, may alone be attributed." - Surely the man that is worthy of such a resolution as the above, being unanimously ---------- , ought not to have been treated the way Mr.Bedborough has, neither we are sure would have been, had, as we have before stated, the interest, and that only of the company been considered.

WINDSOR POLICE.- On Thursday, two boys, named Smith --------- were fully committed for trial at the Borough --------- the charge of having stolen a clock from the shop of Mr. Jacobs, jeweller, Thames-street.