The National Register.
London, England, 1814-09-18 00:00:00

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Tlit- f,,!lowing from Antwerp commtinieafes some
inte.rstio,z particulars, especi.illy in a commercial point of
if-AT, respecting that important city, which ate not generally

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" ANTWFnr. SEPT. 2.---Tite river which passes by MI. wetter.)
and looaesa aide, or rather the front of the city, has at low water,
an eyi.o 41,,pth of 25 feet in the middle.; the tide rises 15 fei't, and
ve-sel. ;.?0 fve! draught of water may lay close alongside the
wh,4, f of qua% 80,1 dkohara:e their cargoes, the length of suck ac-
eaninoolation i 4 about halt or k,nrths of a mile, besides several
car.:Ls gyro') the river into the city, each of which has at
waler, trom la feet of water, with wharfs and warehouses
4,0 earli ,i:le ; :hest' canals arc c!is•-ed at the ends next the river bv
douhle dia,.virridges of a peculiarly light and elegant construetion,
foiaithig miinterrep.cit rominnnication from end to end of
thi• principal quay or wharf before spoken of. The river is of
a'„,"l die siwe nren4llo as the T;iames et Illackwall; it has no briAga
r it, hot is passed ratter by terry boats or the floatiogsbridge,
1,0-teed av two prawns or goo hoots connected with each other by
at It ,o;.ino of considerahle width ; they go flon the soloil end of the
pron.! quay near the dock yaro on the-eastern side of the Scheldt
ever the il•te etch l'inalets, as it is ealle•!, outwork on the other
side 44 the rivt r eonialAulnot the toad towards (Mont aro: guardiea
tk,t, ryt, y. The ar-ena: or dock yard k situated at the smith end of
tl e city ,inti has slips for 17 ve,,As of the large t size, and room 14,r
foi miog 1 14 more ; If; ves,el:. all of the line, excepting two
friLeite •, are now on the stocks, and only one slap is unoccupied;
the dock yard ale the smith,' ,hops, sail loft', toast eve•
aed a most beautifol huildina, built of brick and slated. 1,2;0
French fret hn! by .lri broad havoig three stories erected as a rope
in.e,otactory. there is also spare within the walls to have ereetcd
el towr or hive times the cxtent of those now existing, hut
es!!!4er than incur so repeat all expense and occasion so long a detay,
comerted a col:ege or nunnery. arid a church adjoining,
t.“.stlier with many private houses, iota) warehouses for 114 val stores
:out are,:pm4•;:ts, Anialierrhurch in a daerviit part of the town has
to-en clreebt, and a chapel, standila in the tor-
the; dock yard., appropriated to the workmen. A college of
,14.sii•s in the ini.hhe of die town, has been turned into a ball room
1,, the pohle,l. The shops and counting home are mostly open all
Siaolay, tiraigh some a,e shut up part of the day. 1 was yesterday
UN ••ing much eritifivii by seeing one of the Frenen thr-e-deckers
FaPi. a d•on the risa r, at hale ebb tide, pant the city. although she
bad freqoently to eo considerably to one side oe other of the river to
dear tha essels whivi, were at ;meln in different position'; it was
that which cave me a much greater insight into its uniformity of
I be..ore entertained. At the extremity of the city, op-
posite the (look said or 'arsenal, viz at the north, arc two excellent
wet 41.4eks, havreg about 2 t 9.5 feet- of water each, the exterior
one :drool halt the :size of the London dock, and the interior about •
twice the size of the exterior, commithicitieg by- a short canal or
rot, d with gates, all within the fortifications ; between the
t‘vo locks stands the ancient Wilding, formerly belonging to the
liana town', eow used also as a naval store house for the fleet. In
the tHit'r clock yesterday evening %%ere Nina five sail of the line and
et,tl room tilt full as many more ; seven wail of the line bearing the
French flag. ate in the river fit for Sea, amid one of the five mentioned
wip4 ‘vaiting t':e next tide to get out, when she would be ready
elm). T: e hefore•mentioned dricks were began and completed by
Monaparte iojess than 18 months; cite (mterone is walled and pro-
p,•ety tinianed,-like the London Docks, the inner one has sloping earth
ekes, lik e the Isle of Dogs canal ; it is to be regretted, however,
that nuonaelarte did not finish the rand designs he had undertaken
for beautifyirig A-tamper'', as well as fortifying it. The .number of
the favourable terms
warehouse= ready .h• it 44;* the best.kiad,
of commerce, its vicinity .to the British metropolis, its advantages of
;rinse the best harbour ill Eirope, aoll its superior facility of com•
noolieation with the interior of Germany. Flanders, Switzerland and
FrAeee. eretAiire; to reader it in every respect the moat eligible, and
in I,e;;neer.. propod ion to its size, the most egtenslyelv.ennimerchi
city in the world. Part of the celebrated old boom thrown across
the Scheldt to prevent the British ships from sailing up from
flushing, is now bins in the Li Acyard.

The peace it is calcuted will finally throw out of employ.
meat 05,000 naval And military officers; 2000 Gwverninent
Clcrs; and 250,000 non-commissioned officers and privates.