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At a time when public attenti in is so earnestly di rected to the progress of discovery, it may be interesting to notice some important facts regarding the Antarctic Seas, which have recently been brooght to light by private enterprise. While the splendidly equipped expe dition under Captain Parry was exploring the inhospi table legions within the Arctic Circle, and Europe might be said to be impatiently waiting the result, two small vessels, fitted out on mercantile speculation, were navi gating a sea, hitherto unknown, at the other extremity of the globe. On the 17th of September, 1822, the brig Jane, of Leith, 160 tons, and twenty two men, commanded by Mr. James Weddell, master in the Royal Navy, and the cutter Beanfoy, of London, sixty five tons, and thirteen men, commanded by Mr. Mat thew Brisbane, both provisioned for two years, sailed from the Downs on a sailing adventure in the Southern Hemisphere. James Mitchell, Esq. qi London, and John Strachan. Esq. of Edinburgh, were co-owners with Mr. Weddell ; and to these Gentlemen no small share of praise is due, for their liberal and enlightened conduct in making private emolument subservient to public utilitlP. On the 7th of November the vessels crossed the equator ; on the 7th January, 1823, ice islands were seen, and on the 11th they made the South 'Orkneys, which, on his return from a voyage made the preceding year, Mr. Weddell h id reported to the Commissioners foi the Navy. After ascertaining that no land existed between the South Orkneys, and the point of coast termed Sand wich Land, Mr. Weddell, early in February, proceeded farther South, determined to prosecute a search beyond the tracks of former navigators, On the 6:11 and 7th, in 1at.64 deg. 15 min. long. SO deg. 4.6 min. they passed many ice islands, some of which were of an enormous size. One was thickly incorporated with black earth, and had apparently been disengaged from land covered with soil to a considerable depth. On the 14th, in lat. 68 deg. 28 min. long. 29 deg. 43 min. 15 sec. ice islands were so numerous as almost to obsti uct the passage of the vessels. On the Oth the water appeared dis coloured, but the lead found no bottom. The weather became foggy, and it was only during clear intervals, whirl) were very short, that they could bear up to the sArthward. They were accompanied by all the birds common in these latitudes, particularly blue peterels, and by numbers of finned and hump-backed whales. On the 18th, latitude by observation, 72 deg. 38 min. ‘, not a particle of ice of any description was to be s.:en," and the we ober was mild and serene. On the 20th the wind biew freshly from the south, and the at mosphe. e became very clear, but no land was in view— let- 70 deg. 15 min. long. 54 deg. 16 min. 45 e:. Here Mr. N% eddell, taking into consideration the lateness of the season, and the length of his homewa si voyage, which included a thousand miles of sea strewed with ice islands, resolved to take advantage of the favourable breeze and return. He named this hitherto unvisited part of the ocean king George the Fourth's 'Sea. The Jane and Beaufoy wintered at the Falkland Islands, and arrived at Falmouth after an absence of nearly two years. These particulars, gathered chiefly from Mr. Wed dell's account of his voyage, prove that open navigation exists beyond the ice islands which opposed a barrier to Captain Co:.lt, and that unless land inters , . nes beyond the 74th parallel, a navigable sea probably r.xteirds even to the South Pole. It is to be hoped, that Government will, without loss of time, follow up this interesting dis covery by at least attempting to explore the new sea.— The enterprise and talent which Mr. Weddell has dis played, and the extensive infarmati in which lr may he suppoleJ to have acqnired respecting the S lath S-io, in two prctrac:ed vofa :es, point him out as a person eminently qualdi-d to accompany any expedition eqtfi e ).- ped for this 1)i:2-rose. Like Scoresby in the A?ctic he has she , . n 11.'w much may he achi-2ved by 'dual ability ; and he has also given _a guarairee, that, w:th the o! dissary advantages wl;ich the Adniiralty provides in such c•:ses, he would riot only rref i .usly discharge the difficult dirties of a Co.nnianclzr, but g e.i• I y rtten.; .)u: knowledge . 1 thf:Ant arctic reginns.—Ldiu.t,bservel. SLAV; fIY IN THE U.VIIED ST/111:S. T .c annexed paragrapl-s, which ate taken from the New Yank rs, for.. osiy illustrate the unhappy con dil;on of the Negio slave, even in the cottatry which has mace the most strenuous ((forts for its anielio.ation: The flowing facts have been commun:cated on such authority as laves no room to doubt their accuracy:— A Negro slave in Maryland was about to be sold for 300 dollars in the spring, to a Georgia planter, when a white man interfeted and purchased the Negro, who, 0:1 the payment of the purchase-money, 300 dollars, with interest, was to be manumitted. Late in July last, the purchaser came to Philadelphia, and induced the Negro to go with him to that State for the purpose of making, as he slid, some public official declaration, which it was necessary to have done in open Court. The Negro had repaid 110 dollars of the purchase-money. lit and the white man left this city together, and the Negro h ss never been permitted to return. Of him and his destination we have ascertained the following par ticulars :—The day after he left Philadelphia, at the first stage in Maryland at which they stopped, he was seized and put irons, 400 dollars were paid for him by a person said to have come from, and ta reside in, Alabe: ma, and he was rapidly taken out of the State. This is a known case of inhumanity!—Democratic Press. We witnessed a spectacle a few days since which is of too frequent occurrence in our country—one, how. ever, which we never view but with feelings of abhor rence—we mean Negro trading, or w huon vulgar par lance, is styled speculating! A dr-ve of Negioas, on their way to a market, passed through Raleigh last week, and cticsniped for the night about thirty miles &static. As the owner was about sects' lug them for the night, one of the Negroes took up a store, and struck him with such violence as felled him to the .:round. Its the confusion, five of them escaped in chains, one of whom only has been retaken.—lialeish Atm th Carolina Ilegisler. MEMORIALS OF LONDON BRIDGE. By the Saxon annals, it appears that there was no bridge at London in the year 993; for we a'e told that Anlaf, the Dane, in that year, sailed up the liver as fat as Staines, ss ith a fleet of 93 ships, and ravaged the countries on both sides. Whereas, if there had been a bridge at London, at the time of this invasio.t, it is not to be questioned but the citizens would have fortified it in such a manner as to have obstructed the passage of Anlaf, as they did frequently afterwarsis that of the most potent Danish fleets. Hence it is probable that a bridge was erected in the reign of Ethelred, between the year mentioned and 1,017, when Canute caused his canal or trench to be cut on the south side of the river for conveying his ships through to the west side of the bridge. The continual expenses in maintaining and repais a wooden bridge becomiag exceedingly burdensome to the people, who, upon extrterdinary occasions (when the lands appropriated for that use fell short of the charges) were taxed to make up the deficiencies*, it was resolved to build a stone brid l e a little to the west of the wooden fabric mentioned, whose head, in the time of William the Conqueror, pointed ashore at Bo tolph's wharf. Besid:s Peter of Colechureh, who was employed as the first architect, but who died before it WAS finished, one Isenbert is said to have bed► recommended to the citizens by King John to carry on the work. No ar chitect of that name, however, occurs among the no tices of our early topographical set iters ; and it is more generally agreed that the completing of the work was, at Peter's death, committed to the care of Seile Mercer, William Alm nine, and Benedict Bo:ewrite, merchants of Lon lon, who completed the tint st , ne bridge in 1209. It is said in the Camera Re„ es, when so finished, to have bad, with the drawl); idg,, twenty arches, made of squared stone 60 feet high, and 30 feet broad, distant each from the other 20 feet." Some houses and buildings were at the first erected on part of this bridge, and the revenues of those houses applied towards the expenses of finishing it. It had, besides, within the centre pier a leautiful Gothic Cha pel, which was dedicated to St. Thomas, the patron Saint of the bi Lige, and which had its chauntry Priests, and contained also the tomb of the founder. Arnold, in his Customs of London (1519), likewise mentions "an yrnage of Our Lady on the Brydge." Tne middle parts were anciently used for 'hew-, tournaments, and public diversions; and several year, subsequent to the bridge being finished, starlings were fixed round each of the piers, to prevent them from being injured by the flux and reflux of the tides. Northuuck (Hist. Lond. p. 561) wonders, as well be might, at the motives for building these habitations on so strange, so inconvenient, and N o perilous a spot, as on each side of a public bridge, over a wide river ; and at a time when terra Jima was not rendered pre (•) The expense of keeping up the bridge, for one year, in henry Seventh's reign, amounted to £3l s. cious by assiduous agriculture, or by a land-tax. " Yet so it was," he observes, " the b: idge was loaded by wooden houses, which reduced the passage over to a narrow street of twenty feet aide; and in this crowded state it remained tot five hundred years! That the A. surdity below might correspond wi•lt that above, the passage under the arches was contracted by enormo_ts platforms, built around the decaying piers, called star lings, which dammed up the water so muzh, that at the return of the tide the river above the bridge is nearly five feet higher than it is below; so that during the ebb the water through every arch forms so many cat cracts, pouring down with a tremendous roar, and whiffing round the lower side 13 framing eddies, as soon as disengaged from the confinement. Certainly a modern inhabitant of London cannot re flect without wonder on the absurd idea of a st; eet upcn a bridge ; and that his ancestors should for ages volun tarily obstruct their enly communication from shore to shore. What must have been the thronged passage for horses, carriages, and pedestrians saved from a space of forty feet wide, encumbered by buildings, and the weight pressing upon the piers aid arches? Yet this ahsuriEty, as well as the other inconveniences - of e e old bridge, were, by our ancestors, thought beautit s. Most early writers speak with wood, r of these houses, and the numerous arches of the bridge; but by none has the subject been so well described as in a para. p!irase in " De Lame's Account of London" (1681), from some Latin verses by Howell, inserted in his Londinopol s:" When Neptune from his billows London spied, Brought proudly thither by a high spring-tide; When be beheld a mighty bridge give law Unto his surges, and their fury awe; When he such massy walls, such towers did eye, Such posts, such irons, on his back to lie ; When such vast arches he observ'd, that. might Nineteen Rialtos make for depth and height ; When the Cerulean god these things surveyed, He shook his trident, and astonished said, " Let the whole earth new all her wonders count, This bridge of wonders is the paramount." Besides the di'covery of the elegant Gothic chapel mentioned (of which two plates, with a particular ac count, were published by t' e Antiquarian Society), there were found, on the demoliti.n of the old bridge in 1758, three ancient stones, in different parts of tt.e foundation, beating the dates 1497, 1509, and 1514, which were supposed to have been laid in at three seve ral repairs, made in the "years specified by these re spective dates. They were all as fresh as if just cut, and were committed to the custody of Mr. Hudsr n, the Bi idge-master. Stowe and his continuators have collected many par ticulipof casualties attending this first stone bridge ; but thef havejlaitted Lydgate's description of the re ception of Hen y VI. on it, by the citizens of London, on his return from France. We shall make a quotation from it, in lieu of their " tin ice•told tales." " Midst of the bridge there was a tower on loft. The Loan of Lords being all his guide, As he hath bin, and will be fall oft. The tower arrayed with velvet soft, Cloth of gold, silk, and tapestry, All things pertaining to regality; And nt his coming, of excellent beauty, Benign of port, most womanly of cheer; There issued out Empresses three." fie then proceeds to describe the allegorical person. ages hinted at, who each presented to the Nionarch gifts approrriste to the character she personated. " Grace gave hint first at his coming Two rich gifts—science and cunning; Nature gave him eke—strength and fairness; Fortune, prosperity and riches." The above, %%NI numerous other ideal beings (all characteristically and most sumptuously habited), then welcomed their Sovereign home in certain congratula tory verres, which they sang, accompanied by the sound of musical instruments. Alter which, and other ce remonies— " Thus restrayned—an easy pace riding, 1 he King entered into his city," &e. &c. The unfortunate Monarch little dreamt, at this pe riod, that he was so near the scene of his future impii sonnient and murder, the Tavver of London. Besidev being the scene of splendid festivities, the bridge was often, in old time!, as it has been occasion ally in our own, clio,en a. a place for the exhibition of ingenious devices. Among the King's pamph!ets at the British Museum, is a sort of advertisement, printed in 1647, of an experiment offered to be tried here by a Captain Bullmer. It k intitled The proposition of C.iptaine John Bullmer, remaining upon record in the Office of Assurance London, fur the blowing of a boate, with a man or boy in her over London Bridge in safety." The Captain thus t.tazes the particulars of his wonder ful perfurmance:—_ The said John Bulln er propoundeth, that he (by GOD'S assistance) shall and will, at, in, or wi:h a flowing water, set oute a boate or vessell with an engine floating, with a man or boy in or aboard the said boate or vessell in the river Thames, on the east side of London bridge; wl ich said boate or vessel!, ith the said man or boy in Of aboard the same, shall the same tide (before low water againe) by the art of the said Bullmer, and helps of the said engine, be blowne so high with a breath of man, as, that the same shall passe and be delivered over Loncl , ,n bridge, together with the said meg or boy in or aboard her, and floate againe in the said river Thames, on the other side of the said bridge, in safety," &c. We have not met with any subsequent account cf the means by which this feat was to be per formed, or whether it ever took place or not ; but it cer sainly (if not a deception) seems to give place to none of modern days. Among occurrences of more recent date which have taken place here, few are of sufficient importance to oc cupy the pages of the annalist. The following may please the lovers of eccentricity ; In 1722, when some decay on the drawbridge had rendered it necessary to prevent the passage of persons and vehicles, in order to its repair, the silence and de solate appearance of a place 50 much frequented at all other times, attracted the attemii n of some wealthy tradesmen, who entered into the whimsical resolution to have a table set in the midst of the street, where the , sat drinking for a whole afternoon, that they might ' enabled to say at a future period, However crowk the bridge is, I have sat and drank punch on it fur sr , part of a day." • they it be •drd ;teat 41