The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-24 00:00:00

._w_'_ =_-2 AIERICAN ENTERPIUZE. THE OFFICIAL rtzvo las .f tile CANAL COMMIS SIONERS of the STATE of NEW YORK, ;old the ;A.(' rS of the LEGISLATURE, respecting . .NAVIGABLE (ON.INIIINICATIONS betw"een the Grent WESTERN Nt )11To ERN LAKES and - the ATLANTIC OCEAN ; Perspicuous Maps and Profiles.— Published at the request of the Board of Canal Commissioners. REPORT OV THE CANAL CONEI/41ISSTONERS. (Continued front Yesterday's SUN.) ',thy No. 1 - 6, includes 8 mdes and 32 chains. — A! four little streams between the %vest end of !Li; !nap and the lock east of 13, small embank ments will be necessary, which, with steep side lying ground and sleep-cutting, in the sante dis tance, are estimated at - - Dollars 2,000 This lurk will have a lift of 9 feet, estimate;l 10,000 Adjoining the lock east, deep cutting 1,200 At the end of this deep cutting a feeder may be conveniently introduced, front Sherman's mill pond in Mud Creek. This- feeder must be 20 chains long and if it be calculated 4 feet in width, and the , ante in depth, it - will require the excavation at 782 cubic yards .of earth, at 15 cents, - - Dollars 117 Fur a small embankment at Clark's Creek 100 A nide east of this brook commences a piece of thep elating, 36 chains long, very favourably si tuated for disposing of the excavated earth, The depth of excavation no where exceeds 7 1-2 feet, and !he namber of cubic yards to be removed is 19,100; at 12 1-2 cents, - - Dollars 2,387 Other uneven Places to the east end of the map 4 bridges 10 culverts - Grubbing and clearing 60 chains 1.580 1,290 1,000 7:)0 Aggregate of extras on t-his map . 20,334 :\ 1 p No. 17. includes 10 miles and 51 1-2 chains. At the west end of this map must be a lf , ek of 9 feet hft, estimated at Dollars 10,000 Ail the small inequalitrof surface between the luck and the hill west of H, are estimated at Dollars 2,174 At Baftey's Brook, which is a perthanent stream-, a feeder may be brought into the Canal by a cut of 27 chains long. If this feeder is 6 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, it will require the excavation of 1,584 cubic yards, at 15 cents, Dollars 23S The hill west of H, and the one west of I, are composed of sand, and lie out the margin of Mud Cret k. To pass through them, the - excavation of 24,730 cubic yards is necessary, at 13 cents, Dollars 3,700' To secure a passage for the creek here, add 600 East of 111 1 is a shallow embankment required of 17 chains in length. The number of cubic yirds to be moved, 6,540. at '2O cents, Dollars 1,308 'To obviate the difficulty presented by side-lying ground between this embankment and K, is al lowed - - Dollars 1;000 West of K, a piece of excavation is necessary, of which the greatest depth is 16 feet. The earth liere consists of sand anti a yellow slate gravel, and there are 26,410 cubic yards of it to remove, estimated at 25 cents, - Dollars 6,602 At A, another lock is wanted, of five feet lift, estimated at - - Dollars 7,000 Adjoining this lock on the east, an embankment of 5,330 cubic yards is required, at 18 cents, Dollars 960 Near the cast end of this map occurs a place of deep cutting, 52 chains in length, through a swamp, which no where rises pore than three feet above the surface of the water in the Canal. it will require the excavation of 12,520 cubic yards, at 15 cents, - - Dollars 1,878 5 culverts - - - 500 5 bridges - - - 1,500 6 miles of grubbing and clearing 6,000 Aggregate of extras on this map 43,460 Map No. 18, includes 7 miles and 20 chains.— Near the west end of this map a lock of 0 feet lift is necessary, estimated at - Dollars 10,000 At the distance of two and an half miles further east, must be placed another lock of six feet lift - - - • Dollars 7,000 Smatl embankments and excavations from the west end of the map to the last lock above men tioned - - Dollars 3,700 Adjoining the hick on the east, an embankment over a Sill ill brook, to contain G,BOO cubic yards i required, at IS tents, - - Dollars 1,224 Between this embankment and I', for little ine quAties of surface, in the aggregate, Dollars 2,000 At P, au embankment over a black ash swamp, • Dollars" 630 From the east lock above mentioned to the end of this map, a distance of near four miles, some pro vision must he made against the highest floods of the Canandaigua outlet, with which Mud Creek intersects at the village of Lyons. This provision is intended to be wade by giving to the south bank of the canal an addition'al elevation of two feet, Which will require a proportionate increase of its Nvidib at the base. This enlargement of the south bank will require for every yard run of its conti nuance, an extra embankment of 9 cubic yards, amonnting in four miles, at 15 cents per cubic yard, to - Dollars 9,50-1 8 culverts, - • 800 2 bridges, - 600 'Grubbing and clearing six miles, 6,000 Aggregate of extras on this map Dollars 41,458 Map No. 19, includes 6 miles and 60 chains. From the east end of it to the east side of the Se neca river, where the section of Mr. Geddes ter minates, is two miles and 6 chains, which are not laid down on a map because they pass over a level marsh, where there is no difficulty in choosing time route. The first 3 miles and 76 chains of this map run on a side hill of a gentle slope, present ing few difficulties. For this distance, the whole e):pence of excavating the canal and formin4 its banks, may be estimated at 5,500 dollars per mile, in all; • - Dollars 21,725 At the end of this side-hill commences the Cayuga marsh, over which the canal is to be con ducted, for 4 miles and 60 chains. When the waters of, Seneca river are low, the surface of this marsh is abuut 3 feet above them whet - Cate; are highest, in the spring floods, it is near 2 feet below theta. At the west end of the marsh, the level of the canal is 0 feet higher than the surface of Seneca river, in low water. To secure a con venient passage over this marsh at all times, it is proposed to place a lock of 41 feet lift at its west end, estimated at - . - Dollars 6.000 From this lock-, eastward, there must he au em bankment sufficient to preserve the water, in the canal, 18 inches above the general level of the nThrsh. An excavation 40 feet wide, and V ; feet deep would furnish earth enough for these banks, calculating them to be raised 2 feet above thv top-water li ne o f t h e cana l, i n order to guard against floods. Bat the spongy nature of this earth renders it indispensable, that in both banks gi eat precaution should be used to prevent leak age.----At the Montezuma salt works', a canal has been dug through a part of this Sallie marsh, which was there found to rest uprm a bed of dark blue clay. Let a partition of pile plank, then extending the whole length of the marsh, be driven through each of the banks. It these planks are 7 feet long, and driven into the earth 2 feet 9 inches below the bottom of the canal, they will stain' 3 inches above the upper surface of the water within the banks. And this, it is presumed, would constitute an adequate precaution against leakage. Constructed in this way, the expellee of one chain in length of both banks is estimated as follows For removing 200 cubie"yards of earth, at 20 cents, - - Dollars 40 924 feet of 2 inch pine plank jointed, grooved, and driven - - - Gravelling towing path (which might be done by boats after the water is let into the canal) 8 Whole expence per chain, - Dollars 80 Amounting in 4 miles and 60 chains to 30,400 [To be continued.] SUICIDES. CORONER'S INQUET ON LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JA NIES PODE, OF THE SCOTS GREYS. Saturday an Inquisition was held at the sign of the King's Head, St. John's, Hackney, before J. W. UNwtx, Esq. one of the (stoners for the county of Middlesex, on the remains of this gal lant and much lamented young Officer. The first evidence produced was a letter from D'r. Munro to the Coroner, the substance of which was to the following effect : 'Edward Thomas Monro, of 64, Gowcr-street, Bedford-square, attended the deceased about nine months as an insane person, - in Brook-house, Hackney, where he had been confined, and whence he, had been discharged, at the request of his friends, about three days previous to his death, and tesided with .his wife and mother at - No. 21, Gloucester -street, Queen-square, whence he came to witness's house in Gower -street, about six c)-'clock on Wednesday evening, ani being shown into the parlour, he threw: himself on his knees before witness, and embracing his legs, in an agony ofgriet he wrung his hands and cried most bittedy,,saving he found himself worse and not fit to be .at large, and requested witness, in the most piteous manner, to send him back again to Brook-house, to be takers care of, to prevent his doing harm either to himself or any other person, as he knew be was not fit to be at large. He appeared to be rather stupified, as it he was in a state of inebriety.—With the consent of his wife slid mother, witness sent George Adcock, a trusty servant, to take care of him, and conduct him back to Brook-house. Adcock, on his return home, Informed witness, that all the way to Brook-house, in the carriage, the Colonel ap peared in a state of stupo faction, from which he concluded he had been drinking. The deceased was decidedly an insane person. William Bailey being swot n, said, " I am a surgeon, and live at Hackney. I have seen the deceased from time to time since he has been at Brook-house, which is about nine months ; he was decidedly an insane person. About a quarter past ten o'clock, on W e dnesday evening last, I was sent for to Brook-house ; the message was that the deceased was very ill. I went initnedi ardy, a nd found him lying on a sofa, supported by two keepers and Miss Pittingham, the proprie tor. She said she apprehended he had been drink ing. I examined him, and found that his illness was not produced by drinking, and suspected he had taken opium ; 1 administered proper remedies to him. 1 found in his pocket the little bottle now produced, which had contained opium. Dr. Bell was sent for, but the deceased was dying when he arrived ; he continued to get worse, and at a quarter before three, on Thursday morning, he died, I have no doubt from having taken the opium, and am confirmed in this opinion from having since opened his body, and finding a quan tity of opium in the stomach. Ile had attempted twice before to commit suicide--He was 31 years of age. Last Saturday he was discharged by de sire of his friends out of the house.- Dr. Munro was riot satisfied that he was fit to be at large ; and Doctor Power cane down, mid they had a consultation, upon ‘vhieli it was agreed th a t h e might be discharged ; he was accordinily deli vered up to his friends. Verdict—" Insanity." An Inquest was held yesterday at the Swan, Fulham Bridge, on view of the body o f M ar i a Cooper, aged twenty years. The deceased was a girl of easy virtue, and was walking acro s s the bridge, in company with a titan of the name of Jones, with whom she had been drinking at the Golden Lion at Putney, and a stranger, when, after some altercation, she lagged behind about twelve yards, and took an opportunity of throw ing herself over the bridge into the river. Ver dict---," Insanity." An Inquisition was taken yesterday, before Mr. STIRLING, Coroner, at the Board•rcrom, St. Giles's Woikhouse,. on the body of Maria Over, alias Barlow, otherwise Mad Maria, who, it was stated, had poisoned herself by taking opium. Verdict, " Died in convulsions, occasioned by excessive intoxication: , • The landlord of the sign of the Good Woman, in a town in the west of England, has been roused a license by the I.lllgistrates for keeping a disor, erl;; house. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ATROCIOUS ROBBERY IN IRELAND. WoßstuP-STREET.=--About nine months ago a band of robbers attacked the house of the resi dent Protestant Curate, at Foxford, county of Mayo, Ireland, and robbed it of all the money, plate, and erery thing valuable. The ruffians beat the Gentleman most dreadfully, so that his life for a long time after was despaired of. They violated the persons of the Ladies who were in the house, and most brutally had cut off his daughter's ears in taking out her earrings. One of them had been apprehendea soon afterwards, tried at Castle :bar Assizes in March last, found guilty, and Was executed before the Curate's house. The rest of the gang escaped totally from the coun try. They were headed by a daring charac ter, named Gal laugher, who, before he left the place, had the audacity and boldness to stop Mr. Patrick Kelly, an active Magistrate in the place, upon the highway, to whom he presented a loaded pistol, threatening his life, till he extorted an oath of secrecy from him, and a promise that he would not apprehend any of the gang. anstice, however, overtakes the guilty. Last summer a young man left the same neighbourhood to seek employment in this country. He came to London, and found out some of his countrymen about field, who procured a lodging for him at a*public house. lie remained there only two days, for want of money, or work, and the weati:er be coming fine, he went into the country to get hay making; having wandered from one farmer's"house to another, at last be met two of the above gang, James and George Walsh, brothers he itmnedi ately returned to town add inf orme d his cou ntr y_ men, who were shocked at the detail of the rob- berv, and they very properly athiised him to in form the Police. James Kennedy and John Creswell, officers at kVorship-street, went imme diately in pursuit of the Offenders, and they traced them from different farmers' houses ; at one place they were only discharged a few minutes in con sequence of a rainy evening, when the officers ar rived, but they. kept up the chase till they again rettirned to town. On the evening of the 20th of last July, they secured one of them in a garret, in Cow lane, and took the other next morning ; they also rook a man named Gallaugher, whom they thought to be the captain of the gang, and they were all examined before Jon N GIFFORD, Esq. Gallaugher' proved not to be the right person, and he was discharged ; Mr. Gifford then wrote to Mr. Hoblionse, the Under Secretary of State, to know how they Might be disposed of, and Mr. Hobhouse wrote to the head Police office, Dub lin, from which place a cotnmunication was made with the Magistrates of the County of ' Mayo, where the robbery had been commit ted; every necessary arrangement being made, Farrel, and another officer, from the head Police Office, Dublin, arrived in town on Sunday_ last, and on Monday they waited on Mr. Gifford at his country house, where the worthy Magistrate is confined through indisposition, to receive instruct- Lions how to proceed. Yesterday the prisoners were brought up from Newgate before Mr. DicKENsoN, and in his presence were delivered over into the custody of the Dublin Officers, who set off with them by - the Liverpool coach, to transmit them to their own country, to he tried for the atrocious crime they had committed.— Gallaugher, their,Captaiu, is suspected to have escaped to America. IVIARLBOROUGH-STREET.—ifenry Wiltshire and William Cavendish were charged yesterday with stealing fron► the house of Mr. Brandon, of Covent garden Theatre, a silver butter spoon. It ap peared that application had - been made to the em ployer of the prisoners, for the purpose of having Mr. Brandon's chimnies - cleaned. Wiltshire and Cavendish were sent to his house to (to the business ; the family were at dinner, and the spoon being left upon a table in a place through which the prisoners passed, they took the opportu nity of taking it away. It was missed in a short time, and the servant was in the utmost anxiety, fearing that suspicion would fall upon her. In two or three days after, one of these young thieves took it to the shop of a silversmith and offered it for sale ; the initials, of the name, and the arms of Mr. Brandon, were partly rubbed out, which ex cited the sulficion of • the person to whom they offered to sell it, and he bad them taken into cus tody.—They were fully comMitted. D4RING Rozneer.—A middle-aged mats, gen teely dressed, called at the house of Mr'. Fontain, in Gilbers-street, Hampstead-road, on Monday e vening . , with a gentee l d resse d f ema l e, a b out 15 years of age. On inquiry he was: informed Mr. F-- was Rot lv ithin ) and he exclaimed, " God bless me, I was aware he was going to the Whea ltre, and 1 had hoped to have been in time.'' Af ter a moment's hesitation, he desired a young fe male to go to her Mama in the carriage, and desire h e r to wait whilst lie scratched a •letter to Mr. F. He then began to talk of the consequence. of his neglect in not being more early on business of so much emergency, and he was shewn up stairs to write the said letter. To give a plausibility to hi s anxiety, lie pulled the bell in the middle of his letter to inquire if it was known what box - Mr. F. had gone to at the Theatre. In less than five mi nutes after he pulled the bell again, met the ser vant at the bottom of the stairs, and said he wou ld go ..to the Theatre. The fellow contrived to steal a' watch and 171. from the bed-room on the same floor, and two gold seals. He must have been informed that Mr. F. was at the Theatre. Yesterday evening, about- nine o'clock, as an elderly gentleman of the name of HARRIS, with a lady in company, was passing the end of Castle street, Finsbury-square, he was attacked by four f e ll o ws, who knocked hint down, and robbed him of his watch, chain, and seals ; and although the alarm was immediately given, the villains escaped with their booty. They appeared to he from 18 to 20 year of age. The ruffians had not time to rob the lady, but they struck her a violent blow in the face. PASSIBLE FEAT. --A few clays ago, a young plumber of Richmond, for a wager of a pot of porter, run along the top of the wooden railing of Richmond Green (which is scarcely three - inches in breadth, occupies a square of about half a mile, and has a swing gat - e iii each corner) in tour minutes. OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 23. Macdonald Smith, Thomas Gutteridge, Sophia Meyers, and Many Tarim were indicted fur bar glarionsly breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas Smith, and stealing three silver spoons, and divers articles of wearing apparel. Mr. Smith, the prosecutor, stated, that he kept a boarding-school at Kentish -town, called Gor don-house Academy. On the 19th of July the house was broken open, and the articles specified --in the indictment were stolen. His servant maids were last up in the house, and they could speak to the fastening of the dears.-lElary Denham stated that she fastened the doors on the night of the robbery, and in the morning her fel!ow-ser rant informe' her that ti►e shoe house had been' opened, and the house entered by means of that part being opened. She examined the several things produced, and said they had been stolen on the night when the house was broken open. The officer stated, that having received in formation of - the robbery, he met the two tnalc • prisoners the next moreing ; they had each a bun dle ender their arms ; having suspicion of them, he stopped thenr, and, on examining the bundles, several articles stolen from the prosecutor were found. The officer next searched the lodgings of the female prisoners, who were known to be con nected with the male prisoners, and in their apart ments several other of the stolen articles ►ere found. Ihe Jury fou n d the men Guilty, the women Not Guilty. Several other eases. were tried during the day, but none of any importance. MONTEGO BAY COURT.—An action of Clint; Con. brought by the Rev. Thomas Stewart, Rector Of St. Elizabeth's, against a Mr. Rippingham, was expected to have been tried at these Assizes ; but, owing to the absence of Mr. Lewis, a material evidence on the part of the plaintiff, it could Lot come on. The novelty of such a case in this country, together with the celebrity of the defendant, who was his own advocate, having excited unusual interest throughout the country, a vast number of persons, from all quarters, were attracted to Montego Bay, for no other purpose than to be present at the trial. Immediately after the open ing of the Court onTuesday, the defendint, in per-, son, respectfully addressed the Bench ,and,itia strairt of eloquence (which some of our Banisters would do well to imitate); represented the extreme hard ships lie should be subjected to by the postpone .nent of his trial. The Chief Justice having listen ed to him with much attention, observed, that however desirable it might be to bring the matter to issue, yet the established rules of the Court could not, in the present instance, be deviated from, and the cause must, of course, stand over. EXTRAORDINARY LUSH S NATURE.—A grouse was shot in Arran, by Lord ARCH IBALD HAMIL TON, on the 9th September, of a singular appear ance. Its bead, neck, and wings, quite white the body and breast mottled with white feathers; ;he rump, tail, and legs similar to the common grouse. It had been st:en several times, during :he last season and the present, amidst a brood of. ordinary grouse, and rose amongst theta when it `was shot. On SUnday morning, about four o'clock, the body of a man was found hanging in a pig -sty at Larkfield, near this town, quite dead, with his throat cut almost from car to car, and a razor and. a penknife lying by his side. It is conjectured that he cut his throat before be entered the sty, a 3 blood was traced from a short distance to the pl ace where he was,found but.no discovery ha* been made as to his person or connexions. The body was removed to the Bull Inn to he owned, an d also for the purpose of a Coroner's Inquest.-- (Maidstone Journal, Sept. 23.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, SSi'T. 23. Arnsterdlin Ditto, at Sight Anistel dam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam ' 11 15 2 Us. Antwerp ll 15Ex.Money Hamburgh 34 2 2- Us. Altona Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frank fort on the Main Madrid Cadiz 36 E:rective Sevilla Bilboa . 314 Gibraltar Leghorn • •• - 4Bi • Genoa... ...... 461—:--Venice 27 Malta... —47 —Naples 4ll Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro ' Dublin .. ...91.... • Cork. .... 91 per Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per_Cent. Portugal Gold, in Coin i .4 0 0 per.O.Z. Foreign Gold, in Bars ' 4 0 0 New Deahloons New Dollars 0 5 2 S. On Saturday last, iu Upper Berkeley-street, Portman. square, the Lady of the Hon. Alexander Murray, brother to the Earl of Dunmore, of a son. Sept. 23, the Lady of John Meyer, Esq. of Streatham, Sur rey, of a daughter. On Monday, at Stoke -Newington, Mrs. T. P. Swab, of daughter. MARRIED. On the 23d inst. at Putney, by the Rev. R. S. B. Sandi lands, Claud Neilson, E sq . only sun - of Claude Neilson, Esq. of Ardarden, Dumbartonshire, to Ilene, only daughter of the late Charles Clifton, Esq. of I)eruarara. On the 16th inst. at Witton-le-Lic:ar, in the County of Dar ham, George Hutton Wilkinson, Esq. of Lincoln's lun, Bar rister-at-law, to Elizabeth Jane, only daughter of the late Geo. Pearson, Esq. of Harperley Park, in the same County. Sept. 18, at Hamble, Edward Horwood, Esq. to Harriet, daughter of Captain George Spry, and grand daughter of the late Lieut.-General William Spry. DIED. On the 18th inst.. of a consumption, Miss Salter, daughter of Mr. Samuel Salter, one of the-Officers of Pembroke Dock yard. On the 2.1 d inst. Hugh Mackay, Esq. of . St. Martin's-lane, aged 80. At Brussels, on the 12th inst. Sarah, the wife of William Thompson, On the 12th inst. at his father's house, in Henrietta street, Covent-garden, Mr. John Erck, in his 23d year, from loss of blood, occasioned by the lancing of his gums. On the 18th inst. Mr. James Grant, jun. of Long lane, Bermondsey. LONDON: Printed by J. R. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published by W. A , SCRIPPS', of No. 7, South Multou-street, at: THE StN Office, No. 119, Strand; where Advettiseritetits, Ordcrs, Letters, &c; !post-paid) must 1)e addressed. •