The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-10-30 00:00:00

EAST L 04% IJUiV felt-WORKS.

On Monday lad, the 4.111 instant, this grand on,-
which has been completed within a
period of less than ten years, was opened to the
public with consideralde splendour mid solenioq.
The Court of Directors. I).re:inlet' by Sir Dame'
VI interns. Mien. Chsa:r.uau, and John Ord. Esq.
tht ir.Depti.y Chairman, rod • attended by Mr. 1.
ritleriug. the Chief Clerk, went troin the
Cointinny'e house, to the parish church of St.
Mary. Stratford-le-Row, where they lieurd Divine
denim.," and an excidieut sermon preached upon
the occasion, by the ReV. lifiW ril•Robson.—
Tbe proces...ion alter. slits comiiitusl, with the
Uliapinm, to the works, where a convertient stand
was erected for the accommodation of the
which wassuon tilled with beauty lord &shin's,
ear received by Colonel Beaufoy, of the lst Tuukr
Hankie .bliliint, and his regiment, with their ex-
cellent band of innate, and also that of the tZti
Regiment, a pity of the Royal Artillery., with
their C4llllOll, under the roitiumod of Lieutenant
Wheeler ; and by Capt., Ricks and Gentlemen of
the Loyal 'Bow Volunteers. 'file cowpony was
soon afterwards hoooured by the arrival of the Lord
Mayor, who wee innuediately co.v.ucted by the
Directors to the stunt. under a military guaralmf
...mous. His Lord.hip is a. then connu.:ted to the
sluices which loan the cominaui.ereu is between
the River Lea and the imine-,.e reservoirs. The
never-failing tide pressed 'tieing method those
entrances, as if impatient to ire mainlined.
The allures were, under the direction of the en-
gineer, opened by the Chairmen, /unlined by hi*
Lordship, and Father Thames poured in his ample
tr. awe. The reservoirs basing attained a proper
height of water, the so u petition. Stelae] %Vera
littniedintely set ui motion, iimnirs loch a Royal sa-
lute was tired by the artillery. These steam en-
gines. are both placed under otie root. in beautiful
mid, with the house which contains
them, are constructed without :he assistance of a
particle of wood, or other cointdaitible material.—
The machinery is awfully grand, and exhibits a
striking effort of human nip tttt ity ; and we view-
ed, with mingled wonder sod didight, the ins-
menet. apparatus wis-king, without any percepti-
ble friction, exerting the united power of one
oundred horses, and revolving with the ease and
Mprecisiou of all ordinary time-piece. The Lord..
Mayor, &t. veer now conducted to the top of the
lofty mound, over which the water is forced by
the engine.. through a spacious iron tube, from
whence, assisted by it °wit er.ivity, it rushes with
incredible velocity, into the mains and service pines.
extending over the whole of the ewstern districts ;
which curious proems was by the Engineer made
plainly visible, on this occasion, by an arierrure at
the top of the wound ; nod spin, on the other
side, after having pas.eil the height. A 'marquee
was pitched upon the mound. beneath the royal
standard, where refreshments were 'served out, and
the King** health drank in the trite English style.
The company of Propel. toes, tent their nume-
rous visitors, afterwards partook of a sumptuous
thinner, at the City of London Tavern.

At a meeting of the oakr rs of the eth Royal Ye-
teren Battalion, on Wednesday. it was resolved.
tt That, in honour of the happy event of His M AJI9.•
Tel haeiug entered into the dodo year of his reign,
the soldiers' children of that corps should be sup-
plied with shoes, and such other clothing, as • com-
mittee, formed for the oceasium should deem pro-
per; which should he paid from the food of the
corps."
To-morrow a sailing-mateh will take place be-
terren Mr. J. 14111.11:11.6 Illwe-eyed Maid, of Ro-
chester, and the Earl Spencer, or Gravesend. The
vessels shirt from Gravesend in the meriting, at
eight o'clock, and are to Sail round the4l; ere and
buck. • Inuneuse sums of money are depending on
the match, which has excited an uncommon degree
of interest. The Earl Spencer never has been
beaten, and is so pposed to be the fustest-seilingversel
iu England.
Mr. Anouws, of Berecburch•Hall, Ewer; has
offered a reward of 6004' for the discovery of the
person who tired at Mirt while sitting in his parlour
on the 4th inst. Sir G. H. Sawn' has offered one
hundred more, and the inhabitants of Berechureh
another hundred, for the same purpose.
The Isleivorth stage-coach was everset in the
fog; ea Saturday night, at Hyde-Perk Corner,
by which accident Wit. lit Amino, a men in
the employment of Mr.' Ettirt.lin, coal-merehatit,
in the Suomi,. was thrown off. and had hie leg
broken. He was taken to St. George's Hospital,
Wein every properottentiou vru paid to bias.

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FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
George Smith and Henjainia Dawson', Wells street, Ox-
ford-street, wine.nicrchants. Oct. to, I s-9.
Robert Massey and Juba Massey, of Drayton in Hales,
Salop, liesen.drap..cs. (frt. at.
Theism Reck stud Pacr Beck, of Salford, brewers. Oct.
23, sang.
Alexneder Campbell and William grades, of London-
strest, Landoll, merchants. Oct. 27, 13:9.
licorge William Cartwright sad Si.anuel Yates, of Ashford,
Etna, Mowers. Oct. 64,9.
l'hrimas Mosley and William Smith, of Stockport,.Cbes-
ter, grocers. Au-. Turd 1. 1109.
Tboromi Hilburn, of Murk-lane, London, and George Cle-
mention, of Neircastle.upou-Tyur, wiute.merchauts. Oct:
11, mg.
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Ileorc
Hill and Thomas Aldridge, of St. Brides Wharf,
1% hutsfriars, Loudon, coat merchants. Oct. lA, I 5(19
RAM Bowdon and trurge Children, of Exeter, 116611.•
draprrs. Oct. eti. 15119.
• BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

Thomas Smith the Elder and Thomas Snit It the Younger,
Make.field, Yurk, linen4rdpura, from Oct. to to Dec. 16,
at eleea, at the New Court holm., Wakefitkl.