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~~'.~~ ;~,t. ~' - ... ~~ t . :47t, :Z* AP - • --- ' c ' 1.-zpl , , --;x , ,., .0 ~ ~...„- ,;:-, ..,..2,. ..„ / ir / . olvt iill' t ,lc' #4_ . e 411—ut Z, Gle.. eft. NUMBER 10,138. -‘ , A t '.,'4. , - - 4.„ ; -iy....x. 0 .--..5:- . , -- --- --.,,,,-0 qP:ri ji ,*'''.• , q ---,. ..., ,--::.,.., f-0-, -, ** ii:i,\,,,, rIC7'MILLLVG-OFFidE, Marc/z 4, 1825. THE COMMISSIONEnS f or VICTUAL LING !Ifs MAJESTY'S NAVY, 4^c. do hereby give A'oticc, That on Friday, the nth Instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (.sealed up), and . treat for (lie Minder-renti . wed Articles, to be delivered into His Alcticsty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Articles. Quantities. Periods of Delivery. 200 Sacks by the 1, 0131: (Eiln-dried) - COO Sacks2lst March, and the remainder by the ist April. (One-half of each . ZI,SCUIT MEAL - - 2 000 Sacks I by the Ist April, Ri n "W OATMEAL - ' :50 Tots ~..< and the other -rrLED SOAP - 20 Tons 'I • half by the Ist L , 11 ,, r i'l May. Ett - -.• .- 5 Tens Within 1 Month : , ALIC/ O - - - 5,000 Yards horn the date of I, O LANNEL » - - 5,000 --.-- , the Contracts. Samples of the Oatmeal Will be • required to- be prodaeed - with the Tenders; but Samples.of the Soap, Calico, and Flan , nel will he exhibited at this Office. 2 - 7,e Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Ojice ach Tender must .speefy the Price in words at len/, , th, and I, e delivered before - One ("Clock on the day appointed ; and the Person who .makes the Tender, or some-Pcrson on his b ehalf, mast attend to answer when called for. M. trell.LEß CLIFTON. pRITISH DISTILLERY. J A I CAPITAL - - £500,000. SHARES - - £5O each. DEPOSIT - - Apply for Shares in the above Company to Mr. SPUN", Soil.• • It till*, 49, Lothbury. March 9, 1825. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. rirll. GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS OPEN DAILY from Ten in the Morning until Five in lie Evenin, By Order,. .JOI-IN YOUNG, Keeper, Admission Is.—Catalogne The Subscribers to the Print from Mr. Ne'st's Pictine of " Our Saviour Healing the Sick in the Temple," who have hot already received their Impressions, may receive them "Pm. payment of the Remainder of their Subscriptions, at the British Institution daily. lIIGHLAND SOCIETY of LONDON, ellEr—His Most Gracious MAJESTY the KING. PRESIDENT. i s • Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSEX, EARL of INVERNESS. TICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. Viscount Arbuthnot The Right Hon. Lord Gwydyr Lieutenant-General Fitzroy Maclean, Batt. 'ir Charles Forbes, Bart. M.P. Colonel James Hamilton A Ranald George Macdonald of Clanranald, Esq. M.P. GENERAL COURT of this CORPORATION will he h' 'd at the FREEMASONS' TAVERN, on MONDAY, the c, ` l st Instant, to celebrate the Anniversary of the Victory of Alexandria. is Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSES, EARL of IN- VERNESS, President, in the Chair. Dinner at Six o'Clock. Members are requested to appear in the Highland Garb, UnifMrin. Visitors to be introduced by Members, but T entlemen belonging the Highland Societies of Scotland, nverness, Aberdeen, Canada, Madras, or Bombay, are ad qnssittle Without introduction. _ _ Tickets to he procured at the Tavern. JOHN WEDDERBURN,} s cr e tuies ALEX. MACDONALD, "e E XCELLENT COPYIIOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, BETH NA L-G RE EN. E Y TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION. AIL DENT, at the AUCTION MART opposite the Bank of England, on Friday, the llth day of March, at 12 Tock, by order of the Trustees of the late Mr. Dockwray. H E Premises consist of an excellent Roomy „ , bwelling-House, situate No. 20, on the East side and , 4 e f q nest part of Bethnal Green, containing two rooms on each bens stories, with Kitch e n, Wash-hou s e, and oth e r Offices 8 1 : r ',,c 1 , opening into a large Garden, at the bottom of which is ` au le, having a back entrance from Gretton-place ; the whole settod repair, having had a large sum expended by the pre 114ejellant, who has a Lease thereof, B t i years of which are Pert lired at the very low Rent of 281. per Annum. file pro te„V Copyhold of inheritance held under the Manor of a nc r i leY, subject to a quit Rent of One Shilling per Annum, fine of Ten Shillings on death or alienation. p 9Y be viewed by leave of the Tenant, of whom printed I,, e rt leulars may be had. Also at the Blind Beggar, near the t on tl 'ises ; at the Place of Sale ; of Mr. Wright, Solicitor, Stock 4to; of Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, Solicitor, Grays Inn ; " of hlr. Dent Land Surveyor, Camden Town. , • In a few Days will be published, The Second Edition of THE QUARTERLY THEOLOGICAL I~e' REVIEW, or ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD, Nun,- pri e 6 P r i • ed e for . C. and 3. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, ~ t 1 A aterhio-place, ko,..,;:the Second Number will appear in the course of this itlcTuftEs, &c. EFFECTUALLY CURED by an IN TERNAL RENIEDY. PII-MIE Efficacy of the URETIC POWDERS fur the CURE of STRICTURE, &c. has been proved t !' every case in which it has been tried. This Medicine en rt4Y supersedes the necessity for the application of the r.,°,Vjei Catheter, or other Instruments, aiid affords certain ~"!ef in the worst stages of the disease ; is a corroboi ant of qt, innocent nature, and may be taken without risk or incon venience. , t ' S ,y l (l in Packets of 11. 2s, each, by H. Styles, lid, Regent 4ti and Shuttleworth and Co. 140, Leatlenhall-street, TAll ample directions. sidi. E , l)llea ti'ms, post paid, from Chemists and Gentlemen re edutputletor, "g. the Country or abroad, to Mr. Roberts, the actiog 135 ; Reg ' entostreet, will be promptly attend tilet: For proofs of the great benefits resulting from this re- Xtrigrido Cases in Practical Observations o n the Cure o f " re ' 6c e. by '•• 4r g"" ) Wir . Reno, Mm eber of th e R o y a l College , IN • JOINT STOCK COMPANIES, AND RAILWAY COMMITTEES. The prospectuses of gambling adventurers, com bined with the too ready countenance, and not very .honest concurrence, of persons of better character , and fortune, together with the gross but not unparalleled credulity of those whose ca pital and integrity are greater than their wits, have excited /111 insane rage for Joint Stock Com panie; and all sorts of new speculations—which, instead of being restrained and moderated by the wisdom of Parliament, as was done in 1720, is in encouraged by the intemperance with which all parties in the Senate semi) to have agreed to indulge their hostility to the old principles. of trade. We are no advocates for the exploded mer cantile system. We partake, with the Elders among our philosophers, in the satisfaction they must feel in seeing the principles of TuncoT and ADAM SMITH become those of our Statesmen, and rejoice that we still distinguish ourselves from our neigh bours by being foremost in making philosophy practical. But we cannot sympathize with all the schoolboys and women, and juvenile senators, and new light tradeimen in political economy, who use or abuse the language of ADAM SMITH-turn his doctrines into dogmas, and adopting the rules of the philosopher, ,abandon all the ex ceptions which preserve, protect, and prove those very rules. There is a mad and foolish hu• incur abroad at present for Joint Stock schemes, and the . Railway projects are not among the least distinguished for folly and pernicious ten dency. We single them out for note on the pre sent occasion, on account of the particular inte rest excited by the parliamentary conflict to which they have given rise.. That there are canals enough, is beyond all doubt, and every body knows that projectors enough have been ruined by canals; and therefore nobody now projects a canal, or writes about canal-making, but every engineer in want of work or notoriety recommends and writes a book about Railways; and one has written a sort of rotnwwc about Trum-roads ! Thus is the public mind excited ; nod, by the in ordinate propensity of gambling, which has reach ed even those who ought to protect the public against delusion and ruin, it is still further in flamed. We do not agree with the Loan Ca ‘NCELLOR in thinking that legislative restrictions on these schemes are necessary. We hate, as much as M r . llt►st:issoN can do, restrictive laws in restraint either of trade or of folly ; but we do agree with the I,onn CHANCELLOR, as testified by his notice of a Bill against bubbles, and Lord LAUDERDALE, as testified by his Standing Order of last Session, and with Mr. HuntE, as testified by his motions and complaints, and Standing Orders about the conduct of Private Bills through Parliament, — that the schemes afloat, bubbles or not bubbles, should be deeply sifted and honestly dealt with by both Houses and their Committees ; and we won der that neither the Loan CHANcELLon, nor Lord LAUDERDALE, nor Mr. IlumE,4should hove dis covered that the obvious remedy is, in the labo rious, it is true, but constitutional duty of the Houses and their Committees to hear all parties --to receive all information, and to grant no pricileges, superiorities, protections, exemptions— in short, no Private Bills, except upon grounds strongly proved, that private benefit will result, without private or public injury or incouveni et►ce ; or that indubitable public benefit will be produced without more than mere trifling and compensable private inconvenience to indivi duals. It is a silly, tyrannical, and not very comprehensible. argument, for taking away by force private property, that it will be of more service to the public, than to its own e rs.— But the most ridiculous imposture in the world is, on the pretence of a philosophical opposi tion to a few old monopolies, to countenance, foster, and establish new ones without num ber, an d w ith ou t rhyme or reason. We feel confident that Members of Parliament will thank us for drawing their attention to This subject, and pointing out the misapprehensions into which they have been precipitated by the mercenary Cheva liers and arithmetical romancers of the last year or two. We can give a strong illustration of the danger and . injustice of those n►isapprehensions from the proceedingsof the Commit tee on the Liver pool and INlanchester Railway, which sat the PRICE SEVENPENCE. other day, and questioned the propriety of the vote of the House of Commons, in consequence - of which they were assembled—na • y, doubted whether they would entertain the subject at all, „ or even look into the petition referred to them • bytheHouse, complaining of the non-complianceof the Railway projectors with the mast just and im portant Standing Orders, which the House ever recorded on their Journals in respect of Private Bills. Parliament long since wisely and justly resolv. ed,—when the probabilities of mischief from their own or the public ignorance were infinitely less than at present,—to provide and guard themselves and the public against those mischiefs, and that ignorance, which they both had experienced,-- by passing resolutions, as Standing Orders, re quiring that maps on a large scale, descriptive of the intended line of road, canal, &c. and of diversions and variations of the line, together with lists of all owners, reputed owners, and even occupiers of the adjoining lands, should be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace of every district through ►which the road, &c. may be intended to pass ; and that a duplicate of them all should be lodged in the Private Bill Office of the House, also for public inspection ; and further, that certain notices upon the same subject should be pub lished in newspapers, and posted at the church doors in all the parishes and Counties convers ed. These resolutions are plainly intended, and fully and carefully expressed, to insure lull and accurate information to all persons in thJ least degree interested, in order that they may come to the House to complain, resist, modify, The H ouse is not or require compensation. content with all this provision against pri vate injury and care of the pnidic convenience, nor with inquiring into the fact of the corm lip ance with these orders by the petitioners after the introduction of a Bill ; but. they will not be induced even to give permission for the introduc tion of the bill, without first referring the peti tion to a CoMmittee to inquire into the fact 'alone, of compliance or non-compliance with the standing orders; and the House has beet' in the habit of requiring a special report from their Com p niittee of the grounds of non-compliance, if partial. and of strong grounds for waiving such partial non compliance, to induce them to consent to the intro:. duction of private bi Ils,w hen there has has been any failure of strict adherence to those orders. If the non-compliance is entire, the first step towards a Bill is not a petition for a Bill, but a petition for . leave to comply with the standing orders in all respects, except as to time, so as then to entitle the petitioners to present their petition for the Bill. Those who are ignorant on this subject would almost deem the House unnecessarily cau tious, and as throwing impediments in the way of private Bills—but those who know the difficulties, mistakes, impositions, and mischiefs of hasty legislation, on private business especially, will ap prove and invoke the continuation of this circum- spection. And there has been accustomed to be yet more of this wise and benevolent care of justice in these proceedings ; for the maps, and books, and lists, are usually made a part of the Act of Parliament by a clause to that effect : and by another clause in such Acts it is always pro vided and enacted, that an " omission, misno mer, or inaccurate description," shall only not frustrate the Act in that respect, when it shall be proved before a Justice of the Peace that the error proceeded from mistake only, or that the persons interested had notice. For a Commitee of the House, therefore, to decide that they will not receive evidence of non-compliance with the standing orders, because it may be doubtful how far the party who tenders the evidence will be a sufferer by the neglect ; or although it should be clear that his property would nut immediately, directly, unambiguously be affected, or even though he should have no interest what. ever in the Bill, but that of an amicus curia, is to frustrate the whole intention of tke standing orders—to contemn the policy and wisdom of the House itself—to close the doors against informa tion—to offer a bounty and provide a sanctuary for falsehood—to promote and multiply -all the evils and injustice that are meant to be prevented —and probably (considering the effect of the clause we have mentioned as usual in such Bills) to render null and void sometimes the provisions and purposes of the acts them selves, or to provide a fertile source of contra pbroic e o e f d e t d h e ( if such versy and litigation. The objection t deuce is so mischievous in principle, and so mon strous in its effects—that we are sure it cannot o such evi he countenanced by House of Commons, and mu a s n t y h M av e e m a case has occurred) from persons blinded by interested or factious motives. • * *.* THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1825. siderable number daily, yet not producing the handsome In terest of even One per Cent. " Public Ornament, and recreation for the Citizens." Is this less absurd than the 611,0001. ! ! !- - Prom what point is this Terrace to be seen by the Citizens ?—from the backs of the houses in the Strand, Fleet street, &c. What is to he seen from it ? why, by happy reciprocation—the backs of the houses in the Strand, Fleet -street, &C. With, when the day is sufficiently clear, a landscape of the yards, wharfs, manufactories e and the general rude, black, and ruinous buildings along the Surrey side. 'So much for the Ornament c now for the Recreation. In. Summer, the Citizens take their recreation in the country, or in the Parks, where they see verdnreS and the -well-drest world. A Dutchman might prefer broiling himself nap, stone-terrace in the sublime sunshine and eternal smoke of City ; an Eng• lislunan's tastes are of a better description, and Ire will not roast himself beside a canal, while he can find .a . green' field:. In Winter, who would think of promenading along the channel of .a great hazy; ague-givineeriver, covered over with exhalations of a host of forges, steam-engines, and manirfactories ? Is it not notorious that the value of houses in the neighbourhood of the River has been regularly decreasing, with the increase of the mephitic vapours from the crowd of manufactdries on both sides of the River ? Who walks 'for air or exercise on t Adiferhi tiieSomerset.. House Terraces, , Or on l'oelr. Build_ err on - cititct the five Bridges, where they can - go free widiout payingitty toll ? With respect to the Toll, the plan of the Company is very simple ; whether it will prove very satisfactory, remains to be decided. The Company having ascertained the number of people that pas s a l on g th e S tran d i n t h e course Of a day, argue thus :—these people Will surely have taste enough to prefer walking along a beautifidaerrace, to fighting their way through the Strand ; and when we ' have turned this " tide of ' human existence," then the toil, which they cannot be so un reasonable as to object to pay, , will be amazingly productive.— Now, admitting for a moment that the estimates' of the Com pany are comet, the consequences must neecssarily be, that all the Shopkeepers in the Strand must •be ruined. The ex pectations of the Company upon this point are well' founded, or they are not. If they are, where are the Shopkeepers of the Strand to find their customers ? If they are not, whence are the Subscribers to the plan to derive their profits ? So that the projectors are in this pleasant situation,s---they have no • other means of proving the innocence of their plan, but by ad mitting the fallacy of their calculations. People do not go into the City except On business—and for the convenience of meeting each other as they pass to and from the Exchange, will always all go one and the same road, no matter how narrow it may be, aye, and.on one and the same side of that road, for this reason, in all public streets, the Strand,. Fleet-street, &c. there is always a frequented side on which five times as many persons walk as on the other. If this Terrace should come into use, it will not only ruin the Commercial purposeseof the River, but must it not sink the value of every foot of ground; anti the property of every Mer chant and Shopkeeper between Charing-crass and Cornhill, to an amount beyond all hope or possibility of compensation ? • If it should• not come into use, must not the project bank rupt ?! ! If London were now—what it was three hundred years ago __a small City, lying along the banks of it Great River, and commanding a view of it rroin almost every point, the opening and embankment of the Thames might add to the beauty of the Metropolis ; but to open the Thames nO W , one sid e o f the -whole range of Streets from Whitehall to Una* Bridge must I he thrown down, with all the multitude of etreets, Manufac- tones, and Warehouses, lying between them and the River— ' a project palpably hopeless. Briefly, the whole. scheme is feeble and misguided in its eonception e e-rash and unjust in its application,— ruinous to long-established individual interests—and of which the best thing that can be said is, that it is Impracticable. SIGNATURES to the Mennontan presented to the Right Hon. the LORD .MATOIt, ALDERbIEN, and 'CO:Ni s, of the CITY of LONDON, in Conniion Council assenibltd. Dalgleish and Tayler, Great Scotland-yard' Christopher Richmond, t;reat Scotland-yard Brooks and Penny, Scotland-yard Edward Wood anti Co. Northumberland Wharf Nathaniel Cove, Villiers -street Ellrabeth•Doughtye frenalowner of 60 feet-of Frontage. at the bottom of Buckingham -stre e t Maier, Nash, and Adams, Villiers-street W. Bent. Cannon-row Parkins anti Thompson, Adelphi Wharf • William Sant and Co., Adelphi Wharf '• William Barron, Salisbury Wharf Findlater and Pugh, Salisbury Wharf William Kitchiner, 31. D. Landowner of the Four Wharfs at Beaufort-buildings, Strand Thomas anti Benjamin Capper, Beaufort Wharf. William and Charles Cox and Judkins, Beaufort Wharf James Depree anti Son, Savoy Wharf, Strand William Holland, Savoy Wharf John Brown, Waterloo Bridge Wharf, Beaufort-buildings George Henry Ilelmore and Co., Beaufort-buildings' Wharf Robert Lumley, Hungerford Wharf John Hinxman, Savoy Wharf William Large, Savoy Wharf George Berry, Arundel Wharf Joseph 8011, Milford Wharf Thomas Gotobed, Landowner of Dorset St. Bride's Wharfs Paul Bevan, Milford-lane Windle, Milford-lane Charles Windle, Milford-lane William Suulsby, Milford-lane. John Evans, Milthrd-lane John Soulsby, Milford-lane Thomas George Ed ley, Essex Wharf, Strand Daniel Fearon, Essex Wharf, Strand John Pocock, St. Bride's Wharf Charles Thompson, Pig's Quay Charles Hoppe, Pig's Quay, Bridewell Precinct Charles Edgley Hoppe, Pig's Quay, Bridewell Precinct J. S. Capel, Bridewell Wharf, Bridewell Precinct James Yarraway.T Blackfriars John Edington, Blackfriars W. and G. Nichols, Sun Wharf, Upper Thames-street John Bovill, jun.. Milford-lane, Strand Edward Cole, Milford-lane, Strand Charles Hutchins, Water-street, Strand Thomas Stillwell, Arundel -street James Barraud, Wliitefriars New Wharf Charles Welch, Whitefriars' New Wharf \V. Harvey, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars William Napier, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars Josiah Ilarvey, Grand Junction 'Wharf, Whitefriars Thomas Napier, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars William Harvey, jun. Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars George Stapleton, Whitefriars' Wharf J. Rusher and Co., Dorset Wharf G. Warrick, Dorset Wharf Per Procurators of Grand Junction Canal Company, Rd. C. Sale, clerk anti solicitor—occupiers of Surrey-street, Strand, and owners of Grand junetion 'Wharf, Whitefriars Andrew Reid, Whitefriars' New Wharf Joshua Blackburn, Whitefriars' New Wharf Charles Laird Wigram, ‘Vhitefriars' New Ni'harf Thomas Johnston, Horse Shoe Wharf, Upper Thames-street . Robert Johnston, Horse Shoe Wharf, u pp er Thames-street M. Jegon, White Lion Wharf, Upper Thames-street William James Reynolds, St. Andrew's %% hall • John Howell, Queenhithe Wharf John Charles Reynolds, St. Andrew's Wharf Joseph Bell, Queenhithe Edward Bell, Queenhithe Samuel Pickering, Essex Wharf Hubert Philip Jones, Worcester Wharf Jonathan Monkhouse, tit. Andrew's NVha r f ' St. Andrew's Wh arf m Jegon, , ' o l n ' Charles 6ibbs, St. Andrew's Wharf rm i a Whitehla 17NmlP bitec°nLion Wharf, Upp er Thames-street w l Jegon, adk Lion Wharf, Upp er l'h ames-street \Wil u Peter Thomas Skipper, Lipper Thames -street Thomas Jonathan Charles Prior. Queenhithe Wharf Red Lion IntrE 's Hill, Doctors' Commons confidently rely on the ohn arf Strand 'en a i ri e d nt we 'tor the rejection of so ill digested hewti t ill t ig:l i t a li:be t tdSlY t :tn ii e e l I}l; i rseN n istd t e: ) .ex a rrw t bi l t l: a ;l s i n l t as t r l s t : 'r t i : e' o i Fleet-street, districts h the are s tre emostt Streets immediately threatened, leading front them to the Thames,. will, without delay, take s l t t ey i s s d t o o m andprotect Justice their sti ce Property, p p e a r r t i s; and dangerous a scheme. Any Person wishing for a copy of these Observations, may have them on application to Messrs. Fynmore, Clark e, :anti Fymnore, 43 , Craven-street, Strand THAMES QUAY. BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • y AM directed by the COMMITTEE ap pointed by the OWNERS and OCCUPIERS of WHARFS and PREMISES on the NORTH BANK of the• THAMES to request your insertion of the following Obser vations on the intended measure. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, THOMAS CLARKE, Secretary. 43, Craven-street, Strand, March 9, 1825. OBSERVATIONS on the Proposed TERRACE on the THAMES, called by•the Projectors "THE THAMES QUAY ;" hut that accurate expositor of the English Lan guage, Dr. Johnson, tells us that a QUAY means " an arti, ficial Bank to the Sea or River on which Goods are conve niently unladen." The proposed speculation is any thing ebut convenient, it is the most tremendous sacrifice of the Us- fill to the Ornamental that has ever. been, imagined. We, the Owners and Occupiers of Wharfs and Warehouses on the North Bank of the . Thames, having seen a Paper parer porting to be a proposal from a.Lieutenant-Colonel Trench, to build a Terrace along the said Bank from Bridge to Bridge, beg leave to submit the grounds on which 'we are satisfied that the plan is at once publicly and privately injurious, utterly destitute of all supposed advantages of profit or ornament, and in the strongest degree undeserving of public patronage. To give the fairest view of the case, we quote the leading points of Lieut.-Colonel Trench's proposals, in Italies, follow ing them by our own observations m the briefest manner pos sible, and stating nothing but pure facts. • Let us not be supposed to mean any thing personally uncivil to Colonel Trench ; we cannot suppose that, if he were aware of the incalculable injury the adoption of his plan would do to priVate property and public convenience, that he would press it ; but we must be excused if we say, that that Gentleman ap pears to he better qualified to draw beautiful plans than accu rate conclusions; as will appear from an inspection of his de sign, and a perusal of his statement. To avoid every thing, however, which may appear calculated to excite any unplea sant feeling, we will consider this plan as the plan of the Com pany, without reference,to any individual. hi, "A Terrace qf ICO or 80 feet wide, and 25 feet high, is to be projected into the River, closing in the present Wharfs, Warehouses, fc.; and the present receptacles for Barges are to be commuted for a Dock between the Terrace and the Bank." On this we ask, does not the Ricier answer all the natural purposes of navigation in the centre of a great commercial city, and carry all the Merchandise, Coal, and Canal Trade, that is required ? It has an easy current, anti a safe shore ; it conveys the vessels to the door of the warehouses, spread along its whole course ; its navigation is conducted with less hazard, and with more general mercantile convenience, than that of any other great River in the world ; and in its present open and free state, the Thames may be termed, ." The Lungs and Heart of the City of London." This Terrace must be as high as Waterloo Bridge, on which the first division of it ends-:-and therefore, instead of 25 it must be 35 feet bight—that is at least eight, and in several of the Streets from the Strand 14 feet higher than the pavement, con- Sequently, the ventilation which those streets (containing about 270 houses) at present receive and give to.the Strand an 4 Fieet street (containing near 700 houses) from the currents of fresh air brought up each tide of the Thames—will be shut out by a wall from eight to fourteen feet in height—and the people can only see the River by paying toll to the projectors of " tile 'Terrace on the Thames." The Projectors demand of Parliament to take away the Pro perty on the Thames bank, from - the ancient and legal Pro prietors, without their consent,. and vest it in them fof their own private advantage—under the plausible pretence, that they will improve the Navigation of the River—how can the sate, free, and convenient access to the Banks of the Thames he i l ia_ proved by enclosing them, and rendering them Inaccessible ! ! ! Such enclosure will not only greatly diminish the tVater-roour, hut will destroy the Wharfs almost entirely. If the Arches supporting the Terrace were all open, and as witk as those of Waterloo Bridge, and the 'Terrace projected into the River beyond the Wharfs, the evil would be very great ; as it is proposed, it is absolute annihilation. " Sovec qfthe Arches on which this Terrace is built will be appropriated as Stores, or as Offices, Stables," c. Will any man trust his health, or even his horse, in a cavern in the very bed of the Thames ? _ . " The principle of the proposed project is to interfere with Private Property as little as possible." It interferes with private property in every foot of its extent, and that, too, a property most important to the public—the supply of merchandise, provisions, goods, &c. The Terrace runs along the front of all the Buildings anti Wharfs.—the effect will be that of confining and darkening them in all instances, converting the Coal Nl'llarfs into Coal Cellars, and, in the great majority, e xti ngu i s hi ng t h e Wh ar f s altogether ! And for this manifest and extensive mischiefthere is to be no compensation, on the plea that the bed of all rivers belongs to the Crown ! that it is considered as the King's Highway !—if it is esteemed the King's Highway, it is so no otherwise than in trust for the useful- and inoffensive pur poses which it has been appropriated to for Centuries past " As to the private Individuals Cfr.:r objections and difficul ties appeal to be obviated." The direct contrary is the case.—as we prove by the an nexed Copy of the Signatures of more than nine-tenths of the Wharfingers and tenants in the First and Second Divisions— and many of those in the Third Division. And to the Company's statement, that they have satisfied the objections of the individuals residing at the opposite extremities of the First Division of the proposed Terrace, we reply simply by pointing their attention to their signatures at the bottom of this paper ! ! To say that the Proprietors have been satisfied is an extreme misconception. How is it possible that they should see this giddy and ignorant intrusion without a determination to expose and resist it ? But the immediate Proprietors on the River are not the only persons interested. . Such is the feverish delicacy of property, that the laying of the first stone of these short cuts, will lower the value of every tenement, of every part of ground, and of every Shopkeeper's business, from Charing-cross to Cornhill ! As to the opinion of the non-commercial inhabitants, we shall merely state, that the Terrace was originally to have included that part of the River, near Whitehall ; but from Whitehall it was driven by the direct opposition of the Inhabitants. It war then to fix itself at the end of Whitehall Place; but from this, too, it was driven. It was then to start from Charing Cross;—then from Nor thumbetland-street ;—and in every instance has met with the most marked disapprobation of both the Tenants and the Landlords. The changes in the detail of this fanciful and extravagant plan have been as various as those in the position. The Public may feel some surprise at the list of Persons of Rank and Character who have permitted their names to appear as.promoters of this scheme ; but it is to he presumed that those honourable Persons took all the suggestions of the Projector for Facts. It is to be further remarked, that not one of the honourable Persons whose names appear as supporters of the measure, Pos sess any property on the River's Bank ' • while the subjoined list contains not a single n ame b ut o f an Owner and Occupier, and contains nearly the whole of the names of those whom the Committee have had an opportunity of consulting on the subject. . GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. - The value of a free way in the River, and of easy access to its Banks, is scarcely to be estimated by even their present im portance; they have been rapidly increasing during the last half century; and from the rapid growth of the City, and the probable increase of communication by Steam Vessels, Ste., with the Metropolis, to all of which the River must be subsi diary, no present compensation could be adequate to the real loss of commer:ial accommodation, not only to the Proprietors, but to every Inhabitant of the City of London, for the price of every article must be increased, in the ratio that the charge of obtaining it is increased. The Profit to the Subscribers, they•say, is to be 51 per Cent. upon the whole outlay. Will it be believed that the Colonel's calculation for the building of this Terrace, or continued Bridge, from Craven-street to Blackfriars Bridge, with all its Gates, Sluices and connecting avenues, footways, and carriage-ways, balustrades, architectural ornaments, &e. is to be no more than 611,0001. !!! And this ridiculous estimate for a Causeway on which not a dozen people may w a lk in a year, is made with Waterloo Bridge staring him in the face, costing, though not fourth of the extent nearly One :Million and a half : and though leading to a populous district, and necessarily crossed by a con- NOTICE TO ARTIS'T'S. • ALF WORKS of PAINTING, • SCULP sm, ;0 3 11.E, awl AR('HITKTURE, 'intended fur the en tX/IIIIITION at the ROYAL ACADEMY, most be SiX ~O , SOMERSET-H OUSE on .MONDAY, the 4111, or by o' "ock on TUESDAY, the 5111 of April, after which "be none ea,, possibly he received. The Regulations necessary to be attended to may be seen hi the Last. Year's Catalogue, or may bj obtained by aPPii tat ton at the Ito)al Academy.. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. ; t ; •