The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-18 00:00:00

AMERICAN ENTERPRIZE. " The OFFICIAL REPORTS of the CANAL COMMIS SIONERS of the STATE of NEW YORK, and the •f the LEGISLATURE, respecting . NAVIGABLE (o . ‘imfNlC VI'IONS between the Great WESTERN 2,0RT11 ERN LAKES and the ATLANTICOCEAN; 000 s Maps and Profiles. Published at the request of the Board of Canal Commissioners. NVit 4 ` REPORT OP THE CANAL. CaMMISSTONERS. (Continued from Yesterday's SUN-) " Be g i then, at a point in the Little Buf falo Creek, marked 1 4 ', on the map, aml extending wo miles to the southern ext tenni y of Black Rock, marked G, the line of the canal passes over a marsh, of which more than two feet of the surface consists of light muck resting upon a strung bed of cky, suitable fur brick. The average depth of cutting, for this distance, will be nearly ten feet. To perform it will require the excavation of 33,350 cords of earth, which is estimated at Dollars,l42 1-2, • and would cost - Dollars, 37,518 " From G to E, on the map, is a ttZilc, and in chides the margin of Niagara river, at Black Rock. The rock here is composed of limestone, mixed, in the upper stratum, with flint ; and as . the average depth of cutting will be five feet, there must he excavated 49,960 perches of stone. At 62 1-2 cents. per perch, this would cost Dollars 30.600 " It is believed, however, that by erecting a wall near the river, and puddling it, for the lower 'bank, the Canal may be made, for this mile, at an expellee not exceeding half of the above esti- Mare. " From the letter E, at Black Rock Ferry, to L, at the Tonnewanta Creek, the line of the Canal continees along the margin of Niagara river, the distance being thirteen miles. A part of, this . distance will be completed, by moving earth enough to torn the lower bank of the Canal only; nevertheless, to cover the expence of makine; culverts and small embankments, at several Creeks which cross the canal line, the average depth of -excavation is calculated at five feet. This calcu lation will require the removal of 80,600 cords of -earth, which, at one dollar, would amount to Dollar 80,600 it is proposed to erect a dam across the creelt, Of sufficient height to raise the waters thereof to the level of Lake Erie. This height vould be four feet deep and sixty-eigth "hund redths ; and the expellee of the dam is estimated at Dollars 8,500 Such a dam would produce a level surface, of ft cell . .-fourteen to twenty perches wide, and an abun dant depth of water for seventeen miles up the Tonuewanta, to R. Beth banks of this creek are bold ; a towing path might he made on either for 600 dollars per mile, and would therefore cost for the whole distance 10,200 dollars. Thus might ,the Canal be completed for seventeen miles, by using the bed of this creek, at the expellee of Dollars 18.700 • To most, cases, experience is decidedly against making use of the channels of natural streams, on any part of the route of a Canal Navigation. -These streams are so apt to produce injury to the artificial works with which they are conheeted,by freshets in the spring, with a strong and muddy current, by want of water in the fall. and ti,e tudden changes to .which they are liable at all .seasens, that they should be avoided, except as f ee d ers , a l m ost always when it is practicable. But to these remarks the ,Tonnewanta affords an ex ceptiou. Alter the dam is built near its mouth, that part of it which it is intended to use, will have moch more the character of a quiet narrow bay, or an artificial canal, than of a natural steeatn ; anti to give it still more of this character, provi sion might be made, with very little expence, at the point where its waters are first subservient to the Canal, to turn all its superfluous freshets and H )(ls down the Oak Orchard creek into Lake Ontario. " The expence of a lock near the dam, for the purpose of facilitating the navigation. from Schlos ser to Lake Erie, would be Dollars 19,000 " At It, on the Tonnewanta, thirty-three miles from the west end of the Canal, the Lake Erie level terminates. From,this place to C, on the summit level between Lake Erie and the Ge nesee river, is twelve miles. In this distance locks mast he constructed for a rise of seventy-four leer and eighty hundredths. It would probably he expedient to divide this rise equally between ten locks, in which case the lift of each would b.: seven feet and forty-eight hundredths. Of these locks three might be placed at R, four at C, and the remaining three at-some convenient place or places between. The expence of them would not exceed - Dollars 100,000 Between It and C the country is remarkably even. The average quantity of earth to he excavated in each rude of this part pl. - the route, is estimated at 3,786 cords, which, as the plough and scraper might be almost exclusively - used, would not cost more than sixty-two and an half cents per cord. At this rate e twelve miles, the distance between R 211(1 C, -would cost Dollars 23,275 The length of the summit . level, from C to 13, is seventeen miles; and it_ passas over a country so very level, that an average depth of four feet of excavation is all that will be required. 'To eiY,llt t his, the removal 01.5.050 cords of earth per mile will he necessary, and such removal may be per 7 fornied for seventy-five cents per cord, amounting, for seventeen mik.s, to Dollars 64 387 From D, on the Tonnevianta creek, to C, on the west end of the summit level, it is intended to construct a feeder sixteen feet wide mitt foue .feet deep. The length- of this feeder, will be fouimilea and sixty chains, and 2,640 cords of earth per mile must -be removed in order to complete it; at, seventy-five cents per cord, this would cost Dollars 9,443 From the end of the canal, at Buffalo, t a x, at . the cast end of the summit level west of the Ge nesee river, is sivey,two miles. In his report reliting to this section, Mr. Ellicott observes, that . itt the preceding estimate of expence little- has ; ,sbern left to .conk.cture. The aggregate amount of these estimate , is Dollare 379,523 To vel.ich lie adds ; for grubbing: and clearing ; for enedeciitag Bigelow's and. Spring creeks into the summit level, near itt east - end; and for.,;pay of engineers and officers to superintend tile exe cution of the work, - Dollars 70.477 making the entire expence .of these sixty—two miles - Dollars 4-50,000 It will . he observed, that if the canal takes the direction here indicated, it will - be raised seventy four feet and eighty hundredths above the level of Lake Erie, in which case recourse must be had to other reservoirs for its supply of water. Common prudence demands, that upon this subject every doubt should he removed, before this route is de finitively adopted. Mr. Ellicott has had the sources of thiS supply guaged with great care, during the driest part of the last season, which has been more remarkable for severe _thought than any ever be tore experienced in that part of the State. Independently of waters deemed sufficient to repair the waste occasioued by eiaporation and soakage. these sources consist of ten streams na turally flowing, or capable of being conducted into the summit! level. Whet) these streams were guaged, they afforded in the aggregate 253,435 cubic feet of water per hour, which would lid six hundred and seventy-three locks every clay, and provide for the passage of 1,209,600 tons during eight months, in boats of thirty tons burden. Be sides, the raising of one of the canal banks to the necessary teighlh for a towing path, on tine summit level, would produce the flooding of more than a thousand - act es of land, whir , .n.as a reservoir, to .gether with the •hourly discharge ,ot the streams above mentioned, would be abundantly sufficient fdr all the wants of this level. From the east end of this level, down the valley of Black Cteek, and along the west batiks of Ge nesee River, to the point where the route c K.• plored north of the mountain ridge passes that river, the face of the cottony has trot been scien tifically examined. It is well known, however, to present no serious impediments to the construc tion of a canal ; and its facilities are thought to he such, that if the, difficulties occurring on the sum mit level do riot prevent ; the canal should cer tainly take this direction. The length of this unexamined section Avould be about thirty miles ; and it would require locks for a tall of one hun dred and thirty-nine feet - and eighty hundredths. The expence of these locks Might he estimated :it Dollars 150,000 and all other expenses of this distance at 6.000 dollars per mile Dollars 180,000 Making the entire cost from Lake Er to the Ge-. nesee River, in this direction, Dollars 780,000 [To be continued.] SHOCKING ACCIDEN NIELANCHoLY INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.— Mr. •Enwattel Honosotv, a respectable Master Printer, residing at No. 17, Pierrepoint-row, Islington, after going to church with hi. family on Sunday morning, returned home and dined gether, never appearing in better health and spirits in his life ; after dinner he had a glass of brandy and water, and then went c,it with his children and had a walk in the garden. On his return he was taken ill with a sudden pain in his chest. Mr. Clifton, surgeon, ,was sent for, hut before his arrival he expired. Yesierday an in quest was held on the body before Mr. STIRLING, 'at the Gun, Vierrepoint-place, Islington. Ver. , dicta pit() by the visitation of Ood-." The de ae,itaa a- a , 49 years of age. Mr. J PICKAIID, of %Vaal, near Doncaster, wlqo had been upwards of 26 years. head ma nager of Air. HALL'S livery-stables, in Down street, Piccadilly, we are sorry to state, died on the 29th ult. Hi, death was occasioned by the overturning of the Rockingham post-coach, in in which he was a passenger, at Sutton-upon- Trent, in Nottiaghanishire : he was killed on the spot. On Tuesday night a shocking accident hap petted at Knightsbridge. owing a great deal to the misconduct of the driver of a bread caravan. A young man, about twenty years of age, who was short sighted, was passing along Knights bridge, ay the Guards were marching off duty, and MIS walking in the horse-road ; a caravan was driving up at a quick pace, the young roan was apprised of his danger, but could not cross on one side of the road because of the soldiers, and on attempting to go on the other side the horse knocked him down and the wheel of ahe caravan passed over him: He died almost immediately. Yesterday evening, a fine boy, seven years of age, in going over the street at the end of Setscoal , lane, was run over by a brewer's dray, when one of the wheels passed over his head, and crushed it to pieces, and killed him on the spot. The dray man is in custody till the result of the Coroner's Inquest is known. On Thursday se-nnight, as a Post-bny, , who was driving a chaise up Chatham-hill, was walking to ease his horses- during Their ascent, he observed some boys hanging at the back part of the chaise, and snapped his whip at them to drive them away. The horses immediately set Off at full gallop, when the driver called to a young man. coming dOwn to stop them ; he endeavoured to do so, but failed in the attempt, - anti was . knocked down by the-horses, and the wheels of the chaise pass ing over the lower part of his belly, produced so great an interaal injury, that he died in two hours after the accident. Au inquest was held on the body, - when the Jury gave a verdict of—" Acci dental Death."--(Maids one Gazette.) COIRONER'3 iNQUEST.--Yesterday an Inquest was Itch! at the Duke of Wellington public-house, High -street, Shadwell, before J. W. thrwts, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Sarah Went Worth, a young woman, 27 years of age, who died in a state of intoxication. Verdict—Died from the effects of excessive drinking. A Gentleman, named SMART, from Ealing, 'was stooped abut the centre of Oxford-street by a gang of seven or eight ruffians, on Friday night, when they knocked him down, took from him his watch and silver, and made off in a body.— It did not take three minutes altogether. The gangs which infest this street at night, set the watchmen at defiance, and call for the assist .Rnce of the housekeepers, as the nights get longer. Tuesday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, as Mr. Turner, of Euston-place, N'ew-road, was ,passing along Grosvenor-place, from the house of her sister at Pimlico, she was stopped by'two men, having the appearance of soldiers, who rob bed her of -125. imaper , lll.l JI: OLD BATLEY, SEPT. 17. The Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced yes terday, before the Loan MAYOR, the RECoRDER of London, Mr. Justice HoLRoYD, Mr. Justice BUR ROUGH, and Jr. Baron GRAHAM. TIDAL OF JOHN BOND. At 10 o'clock John Bond was put to the bar, and indicted for-having feloniously stolen in the dwelling-house of William Howard, one Bank---of England Promissory Note for the payment of 201. and another for the payment of 101. the property of William Howard, on the night of the lst of December, 1816. _ Mr. ARABIN opened the pleadings, and Mr. ALLEY in stating the case, and alluding to the publicity which the circumstances of it had already acquired, took occasion to lament the practice of pnbli3hing er-pdrie evidence, as tending touch to the injury "of prisoners. Witnesses were then called, of whom the first, Sarah Randall, deposed, that .she had lived as housekeeper with Mr. Williatn Howard, now deceased, for - 40 years. -He was a farmer, resid ing in the parish of Hillingdon, a short .distance from Uxbridge. Its the month of Decemht.7 last the family consisted of Mr. William Howard,' witness, Thmnas Ayres, and the prisoner at the bar, who was grandson to the deceased. She re cone, ted that, on Sunday the Ist of December last, she saw the prisoner at about one o'clock, at dinner.time, but did not see him afterwards. In the evening of that day she saw Thouths Ayres at about six ''clock : he w, tit out to milk his cows. Wimess and the old man were then left alone in ti.e bouse.• - They had both just had tea, and were sitting by the fire below stairs. She Was sit ing with her side inclined to the door, and the old Gentleman faced her, and sat in his own chair. He sat opposite to the door. Witness lighted a candle, - in o‘der that the old man might light his pipe. She placed the candle on the table between them, but did Hot know what oecame of it atterwards. Soon after she heard the door of the room - open ; it was either pushed open or un latched, and being in expectation of seeing the servant boy, Thomas Apes, to the best of her re collection she said, " Is it you, Tom ?" Witness could not be sure whether she (lid or did not F ay so. No sooner had she spoken, or meant to speak, than she received a terrible blow upon tier heal. She received several blows, and lost her sens.2s. Soon after she had received the blows, she !Tl-.-t1 the old Gentleman, who had just enter!if: Aron the 91st year of his age, Inter a deep gr.Lt., - ;, She heard no more. She had no means y.`,:_~ towing who inflicted the blows, as she fiCV(';* saw any one. She could not say how long she remained in sensible. The prisoner spoke to her after she had received the blows, but she could not tell what length of time afterwards. Band always received the dividends of the old man at the Baik, and paid them to his grandfather very punctually. The prisoner regularly went to London to receive them, acrd on his return paid them to the old man. The money was always wrapped up cu riously, and put into a private drawer in the bu reau, the key of which was always kept in tin old man's left hand breeches pocket. Crass-examined by Mr. Bott-AND.---Witness had lived 40 years with Mr. - Howard. Vie pri soner lived in the family partly' in the capacity of a servant, and Was the son of her master's daugh ter. She had known him from his birth. Mr. Howard hail been extremely good to hint, and the prisoner's conduct always appeared respectful and attentive. The prisoner managed all the old gentleman's money concerns. She remembered Mr. Howard saying on one occasion to the prisoner, that be had provided for him in his w►ll, and lett him 2001., which was afterwards altered to 4001. st►►ck. The prisoner was careful, and Dover ap peared to want niney. The old Gentleman of fered him his wages on Michaelmas day, and the prisoner declined receiving them. In answer to a question fro►n Mr. Baron GRA• the witness said, she heard the old gentle man utter a deep groan; and that he was never sensible afterwards. Bond took a walk after din- ncr, as r:lis his custom on the day in question, and had nut returned before the blows were in- Iliac(' by some person who had entered the house. The conversation respecting the money be ipteathed w the prisoner had taken place a few days before. Thomas Ayres, the next witness, stated, that _ _ . - be had lived as • one of the servants with the de ceased. He left the house on Sunday evening, Dec. Ist, about 6 -o'clock. The prisoner had gone out. before to visit a Mr. Wyman, who lived at about a hundred yards' distance. Witness went out alone, - and left every thing in safety. His master and the housekeeper were sitting at the fire, in a room on time ground floor. He left the door closed upon a latch. A flail was fixed above, which any stranger •might see on entering, if he looked upwards towards the ceiling.— lie saw it in some man's hand when he re turned, deeply marked with blood. He met a stranger in his way near a small bridge, in such a situation as that he must have been proceeding to or coming from his master's house; he addressed him, conceiving that he had missed his way, but the stranger passed on without any reply. Wit ness then went to a public-house, where he re mained till the prisoner came in, and exclaimed, For G—d's sake come, for somebody has al- most killed the old man and Sarah." He went immediately to the house, accompanied by the pri soner and several other persons. The old people were found sitting in their chairs, unable to speak, and both very bloody. A great deal of blood lay on the floor. The prisoner got some brandy and rubbed the old Gentleman's forehead, when the latter seemed to revive, and said, '' Don't, John, it is so cold." The prisoner desisted accordingly, the deceased went to bed, and witness never heard him speak intelligibly afterwards. Criss-examine(' by Mr. BOLLAND.—The stranger wham he bad met on his way to the public-house ntinst have been going to or coming" from his mas - ter's house. There was a splash way in the lane through which he advanced, and the stranger passed through it instead of going over the hedge, which would have brought him close to the witness. The prisoner sat op all that night - with the old gentleman, and seemed much concerned and very attentive to him. Bond : as always active in the • i d pursuit of persons suspected of having coininilte the robbery. f for William Mercer confirmed several thepart °- last witness's testimony. With reg ard to ,70 pearance of the old man on his entrance, tor( eyes e d ' hearing of what had happened, his v a e n r d y v m e i r l y ch bi s o w o e d l y le . d , Onand his c rboesasd stated, that the old people sat in chairs each other, and the deceased looking towardsm door, so that he must have seen who entered room and struck the housekeeper. saw the deceased theri . were not the slig ht o o John Curtis, a sue eon deposed, that ‘vhenellse, hopes of his recovery. He declared this es s° o o as he examined him, in the hearing of the 'tor company. Some of the wounds appeared to u_ been inflicted by a flail, and others by a % , 1 6 11 e x m a i m i t a tbirouni.s,llll dow-bar. He was called in about seven o'c'a. in the evening. of -Joseph Alle n said, he watt a churchivardelthe the parisl► of Hiilin ;data, and rile house of the deceased on ewzity to sear cb . o o, The prisoner asked him to look at i t u lie citil)clistel l i t Ct; lie examined it accordingly, it had been b, l ' c ' re r , mixed with the papers its it. He open, and the padlock and key ivcre found ' il. / De Well and found nothing in it ; but there Wlsci secret drawer which he did not observe, n or ° to t any subsequent opporitinity tiiscovcriPig' the month &t August last, after the bureau 'l - sold. in 4 • He Mr. Baron GRAHAM, after commun'eat. with his brother Judge,, addressed the JurY , remarked, that he understood there was no a''' cg tional evidence except such as would go t° ► two particular Bank notes, formerly the Pr i l L ir i , of William Howard, to the posaes,ton of the 00 souer. ,As it was impossible to convict Litt' P ic e soner on the. evidence already received, evidel,,or searched which affixed on him not only the imputAti"" 11 1 ;0 in question, which was extremely serious, bil l 1 1 ,0 also of mordcring his relative and benefacwriod felt it his duty to state, that the mere posses;il of toe notes described i the i,,dictin e nt, Di" ) ; I r a . it might amount to pivot of a fraud on the resete ary legatees of the deceased, was not c" dell io. which could make out the charge stated in the lrl t a h eurlt(siteet details, i f s had-‘sits to tr ° a n t e t r o i I I n t i ( ) ) ;e i t ite ) ' dictment. He considered, t h ere fore, that it w °t ot i , be ittr t rred stand that his brother Judges cooe , opinion. —Verdict, Not Guilty. ,11( 1 The - prisoner appeared to be about 40 very stout, wall a dark complexio:;, but,°;„si open rustic countenance ; .he WA S dressed smock-frock, with a rough.; great coat n v -` 4 l , e ra His manner was perfectly composed, not' 'vas any change of lock or gesture when he heart' ji acquittal. He took up his hat, and wa lked Itit from the bar with the air of a man who is a"° his usual business. sa g! James Thomson, -a boy of 16 years of age' t he indicted for steating 7 pounds of cheese 10 0 as , shop of John Wright, of Lavton-place, in titet,or risk of St. Pancras.- The wife of the P ras r e si ‘ recommended the boy - to the mercy of the 1" flo° saying, that the boy had neither father' nor "ot. they, and had stolen the cheese from actual 14; Richard Keen,-aged 19, teas inflicted for s te- of , in the dwelimg-house of Jamei Greolroie 6 watches, value 151. the property of the said " t es, Green, and sevei al B an k an d p r omisso6 T vane 401. and a ri ng , va l ue s s . t he prO ell )i r ' Wm. Jones. The prisoner was servant Jones, who depos e d a s to th e ro bbery; (11 %ot saner had absc on d e d with th e mone y, and " . i 9' afe l seen for a twelvemonth afterwards. The called 'some respectable persons to speak character.—Guilty. rite Mr. Jones, th e pros e c u tor, recomme lld er e(l g o in t" :l , prisoner to mercy, on the plea of his loy al charactei, declaring, that, previously, it possible for there to have been a better ser"-- ------ • 16. ' Am 33 2 sterdam Ditto, at Sight 37 , z l l 5 . C. r ‘ Anistet data - Ditto, at Sight ll 1 1 2 I.l l ' d 11 15 0( 0 " Rotterdam 11 15.1%%.', Co. Antwerp Harnburgh . .. :35 Altona Paris, :3 Day's date Ditto 4 ,4 0 notsrdeaux, ditto 03- fAc•'-.114.1 Frankforton the Main ...:...... 14E7 f ifec . 0 Madrid Cadiz Sevilla I3ilboa Gibraltar .... - Leg - horn .. Genoa... 4(4 Venice Malta... ..47 —Naples 414 er 120 d. P Irlj's Palermo • Lisllon . • Oporto Rio Janeiro 0 qblin.... ..... 9;1.. ... C0rk..... 91 . per Cent. f 0 14. Agio oldie Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cen t. U 0 re' Portugal Gold, in Coin 1 A ~, „ 4 0 u Foreign Gold, in Bars , 0 p___ :_ 5 i . • ... ..../ . Silver, in Bars, Standard.. , ----__ . . BIRTH. o f r.a °•• On Monday last, at Sparsholt-house, Ilerks, the dY 7..............„, Dalton, Esq. of a son. .------- ill MARRIED. - / Os i 4 1, 41 14 On the 17th inst. at Christchurch, Spitalaelds , • M " to r- e ts Brown, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister -at-law, .s_strigeo, Jane, only daughter of William [ladles, Esq. of Pvia c i L ie oci ', On Monday, Sept. 8, at tho chapel of his lisee ool o l, l ,.. British Ambassador in Paris, ltolsert Baxter, Esq• °' a e In fr to Louisa Elizabeth, youngest daughter of .10h" Ge°- ` burst, Esq. and the late Dowager Lady Boynton. ,a 9 l On the 14th inst. at Bird-place, ar rii '"- 0 Barrett March, Esq. in the 73d year of his age. ',bol e On Tuesday last, Mr. Benjamin Torakins, of UPP er A of street, in the 60th year of his age. Oi l" De On the 15th inst. John Stanley, Esq. Signer of tli r e,, o lt °•Henley-upon• Middlesex, and for upwards of 40 years Clerk to th . ,„ ~ Or Judges of England. Mary, the ' On Tuesday last, at their house, Peckham, OOl of Mr. Joseph Frith. , Ste ve n On Monday last, at Turnhatn-green, Mrs. M ar i late of Queen-square, Bloomsbury. ~ gilba, 4l :l) On Wednesday.last, Mr. Wm. Selby, aged 40, at i lje 0 , , On Tuesday last, at, her ,housc, at Bayswater, la Aosie„ year of her age, Mrs. Ansley, wife of Mr. Alcierro t° the fl ey On Sunday last, at Wanstrow, in Somersetsh ire, r , Charles Goodwin Bethune. uis bo , e 4t f On Satnrday last, in con sequence of a fall fr0714-orecsk Charles, the second son of William Taylor, Esq. of —..0 0 .i Park. LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARS — TA — IR. ----- S, of N o. 99' S 1 P i t): Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published j/V-0 I/ SCRIPPS, of No. 7, S9utli Nloiron-street, at D' or der/` Office, No. 112, Strand; where Advertis ements; Letteri, &c. (pest-paid; roust be addressed. N o e M T he Vel% O U SE arHj ti gi , Ch ar u t fri m tiv 2o Eve CE N l'°4r tEa • Fi, t Li4c,