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EARL OP ri.tvir(uriir.
Died lately, at Vienna, it RI) 11r.snc. Earl
of el. API Wi Liam, in the county of Cork, Ireland,
Viscount Cr. A awin LI•4, Ilarnn Gro vro en, and
a Baronet. His I.nrxichlp married, at Schissehitc, in
Bohemia, the Countess of Tut th nl daughter of
jowls, Count of THtiw N, alld WI I.tirI.SIINA,
Countess of thorny, one of the most anchmt
families in Germany. Her I.larship died in child-
hed, August N, Mt, and lett three childr.m
Rico tan, the present Earl. now ten years ohl, aid
two daughters. His Lordship married, sre:ln.liy,
LadySNrl.l)llAMr. who survives }llO/1. The Lire
t4suntcss WAS the ver- interevinz and amiable fo-
reigner who afforded Her ROly44lHighlieSlthe Princess
of Wstcs an opportunity of di-playing her benevo-
lence and affability, in her way to this c,,untry. By
some Accident, her Lad) ship had 10,t her clothes,
and was without money or friends. When Her
!tor At. 1;14111N es and her suite went nn hoard the
packet, to take their passage for Englan4, being in-
formed of the rank and situations of her fellow-travel-
ler, I ler Ro v • I. HIGHS, LSS supplied her with clothes,
and paid her Ladyship every attention during her
p issatte. Nn young Nobleman ever Lave o fairisr
promise." th In the deceased Lord ; his person was
extremely Fepossessing, and his manners were
pleasing. Ile was educated under the auspices of
his mother, the D.,svager Countess OfCLANWILLIAM,
who has been always considered a model of vir-
tue and propriety. As soon as he became of age.
he left his native cnuntry ; and, becoming attached
to the Continent, he resided principally upon it.
His Lordship was in his 311th year.

The operation of Bronc'intomy was successfully
peiformed in this city, by Crampton, Esq. and
respiration completely established through the ori-
fice in the tr,cheit, or windpipe. This is the second
time this must delicate operation has burn perform-
ed in Dublin, an,l success attended the first also ;
it was performed by the justly-celebrated Mr. Rich-
ards, to whom Mr. Crampton was pupil.
Luke White has just finished a beautiful mansion,
on lis estate, County Dublin, consisting of 1,600
acres, lately purchased, increased in value in con-
aerpt:,;ce of the military road running through it.
fb:•re is a very ingenious letter in very general
circulation, written by a celebrated medical cha-
racter ; it is a refutation of the charge of Material.
ism, so g •nerally avid unjustly attributed to that
profession. as their religit us creed ; it is Addressed to
a Right Hon. and Right Rev. ('relate.

DOVER. Ocrosea 9.
Monday, in the afternoon, our Volunteers were
called out preparatory to their grand field-day,
which is to take place to-morrow. Mr. Pitt was
ores 'mt. An accident happened while firing ; a
.ear-rank man having overloaded his in ee, it burn
tear the muzzle, knncke.l him ,mien, and hurt the
wo men in front, one in the hand and :arm, and
he other in the shoolder. Ye.tei-day, Prtt
lined with General Hope, who commands, the Vo-
enteers in this distria. A grand dis,:tcr was also pro-
'ided by Csipt. H. Bateley, on lio.ti st the . Iltdepe
goads, fora number' bt. :Ili:nary Gentlemen,
fw lett no this morning ; music o'4: 01
board. .1 he "Ytierloge, as Ciminnao:e, has now five
small ships and a brig in the the Roads, under her
coninain.l, and fires a morning and evening gun,
which is what we have not been accustomed to.
Sent in by his Maj 'sty's gun•britt Fur,un., th"
boy Refrain:, of CI icttel, Prussia, Johan 'Michaels,
with linen and alter merchandize, from Anwerdani
for Bilboa. Also the ketch chows Sophia, of Stral-
sund, Samuel Henry Waye, with wheat, hilts
for Tonningen
Otlr It AC.:'• hrg,lll ..sterday, but we have had
very little sport as yet.

The Atereeta Melanesia, and the Flora,
Cnsts-
TALL, Item Condon, for Smyrna, were all well,
with the .4reora frigate and convoy, on the 10th
alt. in ha. 41. SO. N. lung. 11. 101 V.
The liar',/,' Chief. Faseer t., from Tonningen, for
New York, is lost, on Helivland.
The grenadier company of the Fourth Loyal Lon-
don Volunteers, mustered at nine o'clock, yesterday
morning, in Furnivars-Lan, according to their
orders, to go to Sydenharn to fire with ball, for
two medals; but, on account of the rain, it WAS
p, stponed.
His Grace the Duke of (101IDOK so far recn.
erred from the effeelts of his late accident, as to
h are been able to bear the fatigue of removing
from his shooting-quarters to Gordon Castle, where
heartless' on Thursday, the ethh ult. His Grace's
tenons in the aAjacent country, and the whole in-
hrbitants of Fochabcrs, went several miles to meet
him on his journey BAiire they arrived within a
mile of Gordon Castle, the company insisted on
taking the horses from his carriage to bring him
home. The Fockabers volunteers, previously drawn
up on the square to receive him, saluted and fired a
silky as the carriage passed ; and in the evening
there was a general illumination in the town and
neighbourhood. On this interesting occasion, the
tenantry anti inhabitants vied with each other in
tattling tlielr attachment And respea to the friend
and father of his people, and in showing their com-
mon happinuss in finding him again at his family
sett.
Vester,lay sennight Ron ter,M A V I. elm Esq. was
sworn into the office of Alderman, or Chief Magi-
ItrAte of the borough of Bury St. Edmund's, for the
year ensuing ; on which occasion, an elegant gold
toain was presented to the Corporation, by J.oan es,
Lsq. to be worn by the present Magistrate and his
successors ht office ; for which the thanks of the
body were returned to the liberal donor, anJ the
Recosoca, in an arpropriate speech, invested the
Chief Magistrate with this antient mark of municipal
distintiion. After which ceremony, a very sump-
tuous dinner was given to the Geutlemen of the
Corporation, and most of the principal inhabitants,
Utile Guildhall, which was also honoured by the
pllfsence of Lord CNARldti FeTteuy and Lord
rearet.aeost, Members for the Borough: Baron
IlltioAst, a Swedish Nobleman (introduced by the
Racoanza), the Officers of the i.ld Regiment.
itc. Many loyal, local, and constitutional toasts
were given, and the day was spent with the utmost
roavitiality and good humour.

.1, •
cnornom
A Gentleman who is conversant in Netaral His-
tory, having, a few days ago, vieirel the works that
are going on upon this Canal, has favoured us with
the followine curious particulars i „
The beginning of the digging, At present in itand,
is abotit one hundred yards below the Deptford! and
Greenwich Loaf, under which it ;4 intended tq pass
by a bridge, that is put yet begun, stheut five fur-
longs from Deptfiral-toen's eud. This part of the
cutting is in a reddish-yellow clay, and the same
continues zeroes the road, arid up the dose for a
small distance, rewards Plow-garlick Hill, then a
thin stratum of thiii broken oyster-tike shells, are to
be seen cropping out, in the new cutting; above this,
a thick stratum ~1 clay occurs, of nearly the same
kind ; then a Oriel: stratum of very dark blue clay is
seen, interspersed with a few small specimens of
eeeitie evoiii, and plenty of ado-ire. Some of the
crystals of these are very well formed, and beauti.
folly embedded in each other. One single rhom-
boidal crystal, nhtained from the cutting in this
pl ice, weighed near a pound. Upon this blue and
seleritic clay, eight or ten feet thick of a reddish
clay occurs, forming the top of the eminence,
called Plow-garlic 11111; from the top of which, the
ground declines towards the S.E. and the Can i 1
put sues its level by a course nearly thereon, across a
1 arge field, and through an old and wide lane, at
ihe E. side of which there is a •111411 old wooden cot-
tage uhor:ly after passing this cottage, the ground
begins to rise up tweet is Br. ckiey Green, anti the
first thing oboe viable in the new I y•cut banks, is a very
minus stratum, of a yard thick, or mere, consisting
entirely of small bivalve shells, and long slender
strew shells: these are in very good preservation ;
but the greater pert of them are broken. Most of
the whole bivalves have the two shells adhet tog to-
gether, ate! closed. Some thin veins of these broken
shells exhibit a beautiful example of the process of
n more, in the formation of lime-.tone; and several
lumps, Although no harder than gingeriiree I, have
the eppeerance and fruaure of compael shelly lime-
stone, so exenly, that, in a cabinet, where it ould
he seen, but no: touched, it might deceive almost
every oar, in thinking it to he real stone. For 80 nr
100 yards further, the banks of the Canal are al-
most entirely formed of tle-se shells, and Oaring))
which, as well as the strewn itself, the weer will,
hereafter, leak, in Lire- ienantaties, it this rot r t the
Canal is not most Ca: etully line.l with puddle. In
ascending the hill, it appears that a stratuns of red-
dish Co sse sand, of several feet thick, crops out
above these shells ; then a clay of considerable thick-
ness is seen, and then a sager spring of mineral wa-
ter, very highly charged with iron, as appears by its
ochry deposit : this was apprehended to proceed
Rom a Layer of lunar hettraesPii; hut, Owing tea an old
pond, through w ich th Carrel has been here
Jug, and which has so cempletely slipped in, the
ti nth of this could not he a•-ertenied. •I'his old
pond had a considerable thicker s of agat formed in
its bottom ; and the same was 01)tet v.:4 in Another
old pond, in the clay, s few yard higher up the !11l ;
but there was no appearance of ochry-water. Aisne-
this clay is a stratum of very flee clay, with ircr"2
appearence and frunure, *lien dry, of iiallers'-earth,
but abounding with minute and shit.h‘g specks i.f
mica. Above this micacious cloy, tbe;s is ;a limb
stratum of yellow loamy clay, or brick-earth. This
thick oretum of yell iw clay is succeeded by two
layers, one about a yard above the other, of large
and curious lade, or clay-hall, very corn-
pact, containing but few replan-, and those mostly
close filled with wax-coloured spar ; but, on the sides
of sense of these sparry jeirits, but partly filled,
pointed and sm dl crystals W. so thickly and uni-
formly set all over the sinfece, as to give the eprear-
aece of a rich piece of velvet. About five or six
tee of -a resld•sh critmhlieg cl av succeeds upon these
layers of ludas and this forms the surface
of the lend for marry miles southward, as appears
by the cutting of the Canal, all the way from
Brinkley Green to the town of siirdeeham for, al-
though at this parr, I rom being now filed with water,
and in u.e, the clay-hills cannot be seen in the bot-
tom of abs Canal, yet the new-mate bricks are all
the way scattered with their fragments, and sudi-
ciently prove their regalf irity and continuance.
Phis canal is in use for conveying bricks, timber,
and other materials for the works, from within a
few miles of the town of Croydon, to Brockley-
Green. On SyJenham Common, near the London
road, is a ne.ir reservoir, whose head has lately been
made up so as to contain ten or fifteen acres extrnt
of water, which is brought by a ditch nr carriage
nut of the adjoining valley. that crosses the road to
town. After passing Sydenham Common, on the
bank of the camel, tevrards Deptford, the same en-
ters a large wood, and p tsys through it for
near three quarters of a mile, presenting the most
rich and delightful scenery, with fine views, at in-
terval., of the ne and elegant houses on Forest
Hill, that rise direcily up from the c anal. Several
of the paddocks, belonging to these houses, are now
extended down to the canal; aid fancy boat-
houses, and pleasure-houses, have been built n rs
b inks, so as to render a walk slung it truly de-
liglittral. At the termeretion of this wood is a cu-
rious lock, that can be uscd as a double fall or a sin-
gle one, according as the supply of w ter, or expe-
Union of the trade, may recd 'r most advisable ; it
consists of two locks, so joined together, that the
middle gates, which Jae of great height, answer her
both of the locks. After ilsocendirig several locks
of the common construelion, hut well built and ex-
ceedingly water-tight, we arrive at the preset ter-
minetion of the water, nest Brockley Green ; then,
in descending the hill, several hicks and length, of
the canal are nearly finished, and other locks, fur-
ther on, are in every stage of their progress, from
the laying of the foundations, to the completion of
the walk ; a sight truly gratifying to any one who
is curious in works of this sort. The canal is in less
forwardness, during the remainder of the descent of
the hill, from Brockley ; at the bottom of this, and
finwerds, to near the top of Plow.garlick Hill, the
canal is nearly finished. On the top of this hill the
canal is to be cut a great depth, a part only of which
is yet performed. As soon as you begin to descend
towards the Greenwich road, several other locks are
in hand, some of whose foundations are just laid,
and others have their wells almost built ; the deep
cutting, and immense banks of clay which have been
wheeled out on the slope of this hills have a very
singuler appearance.
The Croydou C anal, which we have been Jescrib-