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London, England, 1821-06-15 00:00:00

TUB THAMES FISHERY.

INTERESTING TO LON DOR.
MANItIONLFIOI.7Ir.
Tederday Mr. St/rage, the CITM,In Councilman of the
11'srd *lame tiw City of London Gas Work* are situate,
it'teniled upon the Lord Mayor, to answer the statenint
as bids had been made to his Lordship, as Conservator of the
River, by Mr. Nelson, th,• Deputy Water Bailiff, sad by
the fisherman, on a furnory Jsy.
Mr. Savage said, Ise had brioicht with him Mr. Adam., the
clerk of the works to the Company, who was ready to make
an affidavit in reply to the evidence g.ven on the occasion
in question. The disft of the affidavit was handed in
to his Lordship, The deponent awed in it, that he had
been clerk cf the work% to the Company helmets three end
War year*, and during that period he never sow a soiree
dead fish in the river, although he had been much engaged
at the waterside; but lie bad li-esteem!, :wen live eels in
the cistern from which the woks were supplied with water.
He further Mated. that he could at that moment produce:,
specimen of the red worm in a bucket of moil which he took
out of the Thames on the 13th. and that the hank of mud
rstending from and adjacent to the works, abounds with the
red worm. The deponent went on to state, that he" firmly
believed" that tie statement made by the fisherman, and
corroborated hy Mr. Nelson (if it were intended to apple to
the estahLalnurnl in which the deponent bad the honour to
be employed) to be utterly 'groundless, Ste.
The listed Mayor expressed his reluctance- to swear the
demment to this affidavit, whirl, appeared to he ao iujndiciuw•
one, that could reader the Compan♦ no service It wars
rather too much to set the bare belief of a man against the
statement made by individuals to frets of their own know-
lerhye. The terms of the affidavit were too hard, and such as
the individnals spoken of could not be expected to sit easy
under. But it was not against this establishment that any
complaint had been made, but against the several gas works
near the river generally.

Mfr. Savage Said, that the impression made upon the pub,
lie by the statement, was colculsted to do the Company the
greatest injury. He contended that the tr.aoitity of the -
lotion whirl wan hi oil onset) ineonsiiirrabk, in proportstur
to the great body of water, that it could nut possibly be in-
jurious. In fart, it was in the proportion of less than one
gallon In a million, which could not he contaminated 4 that
small proportion of the solution, if it were of arsenic.

The Lord Mayor asked what was the ge quantity of
the solution discharged into the Thames daily
Mr. Savage said, that it was about reveal hundred galling
ie the twelve hours, which qtthiltity st as let off at two tides-
on the turn downwards, so that it Was hardly possible fur
it to do say injury upwards beyond the ges.wolke. As
to the statement about the horse having been killed by
drinking of the gas water, with •Il due drfereuce In the
powerful authority of the enlightened Water bailiff, hr
could not help treating it as apocryphal, for he (Mr.
Savage) had some knowledge of the constitution of
It, how, and doubted whether any of those animals
would drink of any thins that wee so highly tanieonous.—
But the feet was, that a solution of him., so fir from be-
ing prejudicial, was the lint thing in the world for horses
that were thick winded, and what wa' constaistly give')
to them medicinally. lie did not Oontit that the horse
had died', bet not of drinking gas water. It was import-
ant to the Company that the impression produced should
he removed, es they were now under au indictment for the'
which bad been complained of. If the prejudice were suf-
fered to gain ground, the Company would be pot to the ex-
pense of eartins off the solution perhaps down to the fibre,
at an expense of npwarde of 2,0001. per eumint. Mr.
Savage said, the Company were ready to meet the ekmest
io-
aestigatioa in the matter, and they had no doubt that a attic:
inquiry would remove all prejudice.
The Lord Mayor Paid, there could be no doubt !bat the
discharge from the works of the Company CW1100141141 of
could not of Reel(' do the injury; but there were seve-
ral ether establishments of the same description by the
riverside of which the fishermen complained. His Lard-
ship said, Iliad there were thousands of his fellow-titivate
who drank of the water said to he en highly contami-
nated, besides himself, who drank it twice • day, without
being poisoned or disordered by it; therefore he could
nut conceive that fish or horses could be poisoned without
their participating in the effects. As the ease ....a. be
could nut certainly cumnder that the solution was so highly
injueintte as the Water Saila had been mule ill believe by
the &bermes.

The pgriiee then left the Office without the 0111i1 hawing
been administered..

A few days since we mentioned that Captain
FOWLER hat.
'loosed a renal ashore at Great Egg-
Harbour. From the Philadelphia (ruzate of yeb-
terday we learn that the vessel was the British brig
Waterloo. Copt: nit CLAYTON, of London, froCA
Haverinah for Cowes. Captain CLAYTON
been washed overboard several days before wink
assisting to rig in• the gib-boom. The mate to-
tended to put into New York. but being non:-
%moulted with the coast occasioned the loss. Of le-*
cargo of 864 boxes of sugar, only shout 400 wri
rived, and those damaged. No lives lost as befor,
reported. The Waterloo Watt etrooded on the stint
of April.--(New York Paper.)

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DEATH.
Os Sunday, the leth instant, at his mother's issate, at
Soualtgate, Middlesex, iu the 401 h yea, of his ale, Chide!
Parsley, E. late Major in the Hon. East India COMP.)
*min, sad Charge d'Affaires at the Court al Penis.

"'Hated rod roblisbod • THE BRITISH va sod TH
GLOOM Office, No. Siroo,t, by C.
of the Sirond.