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REPORT.

The Committee have to report to this Meeting, that since the
public Meeting in March last they have, prosecuted their great
design with unabated attention, and with all the success that
they anticipated. They first of all, agreeably to the resolution
of the Meeting,.applied to the Lords of the Admiralty, and
their answer, received soon after through Mr. Brandling, con:,
tained their approbation, but they declined interfering. The
Corporation of Newcastle, as Conservators of the River, became
the next object of their attention, to whom they then applied
for their sanction to the measure. Previous to their applica-
tion for a deterniinate answer (having presented a petition in the
usual form) the Committee thought it requisite to order ,a sur-
vey and report of the whole undertaking by a practical engineer,
and for this purpose they selected the acknowledged abilities of
.111 r. William Chapman, civil engineer, whose opinion in all q ties-
tions connected with maratime affairs is highly-esteemed. The
time requisite for making the survey and report occasioned a
little delay in the-proceedings ; but the Committee by no means
relaxed their attention in the intrim to their general business.
As soon as the report was received from Mr. Chapman, a copy'
of it was imthediately sent to the Mayor of Newcastle, requesting
the favour of his directing a survey to be made according to
the accompanying plans then handed him, and in answer to
the original petition. The Mayor most obligingly attended to
the request, anti with the most marked promptitude ordered a
survey by the River Jury- ; which was made the succeeding
day, and after a further strrvey by the Common Council an
answer was received in a week, which the Committee have the
greatest satisfaction in declaring to the Meeting to be favour-
able to the prayer ofahe petition, and in which the Conser-
Vators of the River give their full assent to the measure, only
binding the Committee to 'confine the erection to the heights,
and situations of the piers as laid down in the plan handed
them, and requesting a draft of the Bill containing some pre-
cautionary clauses. After this favourable result, the Corn-
mittee felt that having made every progress that could be ex-
pected, they were in the proper stage for laying their proceed-
ings before the public, and they have therefore called the pre-
sent _Meeting for that purpose.
Before finishing their Report, the Committee find it neces-
sary for the information of the friends of the undertaking, to
enter into a brief explanation of the Report of Mr. Chapman,
which, though differing in some degree from the original Re-
port of Capt. Brown, yet confirms in all material points Capt.
Brown's plan.. But before doing this, they find it right to
state, that the plan as prepared by Mr. Chapman, when pre
sented; to Capt. Brown, which the Committee thought due to
that respectable and ingenious projector to do met his most en-
tire Oprobation, even in the alterations, which are principally
of a Focal nature as relates to the placing of the piers for the
benait of navigation. Mr. Chapman, on the great question of
navigation, on which he was more particularly consulted, de-
termined on the propriety of altering the sites of the pillars as
at first projected. This increased the main span 80 feet, and
for an additional security to the bridge against pendulous vi-
bration, lie recommended the adoption of bars as side braces,
emanating from a column on each pier, or supported by cast
iron framing shored. from the piers.
These circumstances have led to a statement of the probably
increase of the estimate in the Report of Mr. Chapman, who
considers the contract may amount to 110,0001., or even less.
The Committee have felt it to be their most important duty,
that the question of capital should be revises with the utmost
caution in reference to the alterations, and they are satisfied,
from the closest investigation by Captain Brown and Mr. Green,
that the capital of 100,0001. originally proposed, is amply suf-
ficient for th cs completion of this great work, in which. Mr. Chap.
man aceords, on receiving the explanation of these gentlemen,
and also-from the causes explained in his additional observa-
tions, via. " The cost of the two high piers may be consider.
ably reduced, by supporting the Fide braces on cast fronframing,
shored from the piers, in lieu of extending the masonry at each
end ; also, as these piers will now be out of the way of the na-
vigation and of strong tides, there is no necessity for their cut
waters being nearly so pointed as before:"
The Committee cannot advert to the Report itself, without
pointing out the strong grounds it contains of the two great
features of the project; viz. its practicability, and the accruing
revenue. On the former, every doubt is removed by this accu-
mulation of evidence, snd the safety rendered certain by the in-
creased strength which is proposed ; and the question of revenue
is considered most fairly made out by the pains which have been
taken, under a Sub-Committee, to ascertain the facts, and the
data on which the calculations are founded. The result being
an increase from the original statement of from 6,0001: to
10,000/. per annum.
The Commistee, anticipating the auspicious effects which
have ensued from their labours, hare thought it desirable to de.
lay the furthering the subscription until they were enabled to
lay before -the public the several authorities and documents
which are this day brought forward. The subscriptiona, how-
ever, which have been put down almost without solicitation,
already amount to a pledge of the subject being held in due
estimation, and an earnest of its eventual success.

At a SPECIAL MEETING of the DIRECTORS of
the above-mentioned UNDERTAKING, held at, the Mayor's
ChiMber, at Newcastle, as above dated, it was resolved
that Captain Samuel Brown be requested to advertise for
Tenders for erecting the Towers and Masonry required for the
intended Bridge of Suspension across the River Tyne, from
North to-South Shields, according to the Designs then laid be-
fore the Meeting.
In pursuance of the above Resolution, Notice is hereby
giver., that a Model of the Towers, Sections of the Banks, with
other Plans, Specifications, and Conditions for erecting the
Masonryrequired, will be deposited at the Office of Mr. .Fors-
ter, Newcastle ; at Mr. Chisholm's Office, No. 36, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, London ; and at Messrs. Horne's Office, 10, South
Charlotte-street, Edinburgh, on the 10th Day of. October next,
where they will .remain till the 31st of October, for the In.
spection of Persons who may be disposed to contract to build
the same.

The Quantity of Ashler and Ruble Masonry will be about
600,000 Cubic Feet. Stone and Lime of the best Quality are
to be had in great abundance, within a short- distance, by
Water Carriage, by which the materials can be taken to the
spot at a trifling expense.
Tenders to be made in writing, sealed and addressed to the
following Gentlemen,. Viz. ; To Matthew Forster, Esq. Solicitor,
Newcastle ; WilliaM Chisholm, Esq. 36, Lincoln's Inn Eields,
London ; or MessrS. John and NiTilliam Home, W. S.,CharlOtte
Tenders for erecting the Masonry
street, Edinburgh, addressed "
for the proposed Bridge of Suspension across the Tyne, from
North to South Shie:tis."

But the principal blessing which this University has been,.
-under God, the instrument of communicating to the Christian
world, is to be found in' the exertions of many pious Ministers
of the Gospel, whom it has sent forth qualified, as far as hu-
man means could qualify them, for the discharge of those ardu-
ous and holy duties, which, when speaking of the Clergymen
of these North American Provinces, can be considered in no
other light, and 'called by no other name, than the labours of
the Christian Missionary.
Men equally learned, and of equal zeal, might perhaps have
been obtained from the Universities of England ; but men of
equal experience, and equally contented with their peculiar
sphere, men equally acquainted with the habits of the people,
and equally attached' to the country in which they were con-
tinually to preach and dwell, the Universities of England could
never have furnished.

Such was the origin, and such has been the past usefulness
of the University of Nova Scotia ; but it is now unhappily be-
coming daily.morc inadequate to effect its admirable objects
from several causes.

1. A temporary wooden building was all that, in the first
foundation of the College, it was deemed necessary or practi-
cable to raise: and that building, from a want of funds to ob-
♦iate the progress ofgradual decay, has naturally, in the course,
of nearly forty years, fallen into such a ruinous state, that it
can no longer be inhabited without extensive repairs, and is so
far gone as to be unworthy of being restored. It may be so re-
paired as to be occupied for a short timr, but must soon be
abandoned.

2. But even were the building in a more perfect condition, it
is now no longer sufficiently large to accommodate the increas-
ing number of students, or fit for the dignified purpose to which
it is appropriated, as the established University of a very rising
Colony.
The population of the Diocese of Nova Scotia is becoming
daily more numerous, and the demand for a liberal education is,
in consequence, proportionally enlarged. Men of sound reli-
gious principles and extensive acquirements are wanted for every
department, but particularly for the ministry in the Church of
Christ. An official Report, just received,shews that in one of the
five Provinces which are included within the Diocese, only six-
teen Clergymen are scattered over the immense extent of 27,000
square miles, where the population is increasing wonderfully
every year. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
has, at this moment, occasion for more than fifty additional
Missionaries in the North American Colonies alone; and the
formation of the two West Indian Bishoprics, and the earnest
endeavours which are so wisely making for the spiritual instruc-
tion of the Negro slaves, are likely to render King's College of
still more importance and use. They certainly render its pre-
sent building and its present means, altogether unfit and unequal
to answer its present and probable future opportunities of doing
good.
3. Without any imputation of improper hostility to other
forms of doctrine and Church government, it may be fairly
stated to those who love their own holy faith and discipline,
that if the College at Windsor be not supported by the pious
and benevolent, an attachment to the principles of the Church
of England and of our happy Constitution must, in Nova
Scotia, decline. There are other establishments rising up,
which are not conducted upon the same principles, and from
them even the children of the members of the Church of Eng-
land must, if this university fall, be compelled to derive their
education. Or, if they do not resort to the dissenting establish-
ments of Nova Scotia, they must gather their knowledge and
form their sentiments in the itepublican Colleges of the United
States of America. Thus nurtured and instructed, it is natural
to conceive that they will imbibe opinions which are any thing
but favourable to the religious and political institutions of Eng-
land.
_

It is impossible to blame others who conscientiously endea-
vour to propagate their own views of the Gospel and govern-
ment, even where they differ from our own ; but surely if we
have any reverence for our own, or any real belief in their
truth and excellence, we must conscientiously contribute to
prevent the utter ruin of an University, which is their principal
support in a very important Province of the empire. We shall
do our utmost to provide a sound Episcopal branch of the
Church of Christ in America, with the means of educating for
itself, what it so greatly wants, a succession of sound Episcopal
ministers.
_

.......
impressed with these considerations the Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel has founded scholarships for the educi-
non of Clergymen, and • grantedsool. to relieve the exigencies
of the College. The Society for PrQmoti„g
Christian Know-
ledge has also made a donation of 5001. for the religious
objects of the Institution; and several distinguished indivi•
duals have followed the example. .

temporary ,repair to the present Building,
But to give some
so that it may be used. until another is completed ; to engage
in the erection of a new and sufficient edifice ; to provide ad-
ditional Professors, Tutors, and Scholarships ; to furnish the
necessary Philosophical-Apparatus and Books '---these are ob.
jects, to which the Subscriptions already received are extremely
inadequate. It is, therefoic, to enlarge these funds, and procure
additional Subscriptions and Donations front the liberality of
those who are interested in the progress of SCience and the pro-
pagation of sound religious, and moral, and political principles,
that the Governors of King's College have ventured to make an
appeal which they are sure may be properly, end hope will not
be unsuccessfully made. . •.
Contributions in money, books, and philosophical apparatu
ofeernyearrydkatawmilll! bßeart inset
i‘i.p
tlia.,ukfitoV,lly received by
Vali Alai', who has been Sir Scrope
Bernard
the kind Agent of King's College for manyyears. Other friends
-of the Institution, in different places, will forward the object
of this Address, and supply information to.those who may ie.
quire it.

During his short stay in England, the Bishop of Nova Scotia
will gladly afford this information, upon aPPlication to hint at
200, Piccadilly. It may likewise be obtained from the Sezie-
airy to the Society for the Propagation Of the Gospel, 4, Castle-
ttreet, Leicester-square; from the Secretaries to the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, Lilicolit's-inn-Fields r. and at
CaMbridge from the Lord Bishop 'et' Bristol, and the Rev. the
Masters of Trinity and St. John's Colleges.
.
The following Sums have been benevolently afforded for
the commencement of a Contribution in behalf of King's
Coll.q.;e : •
'His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury - £lOO 0 ' 0
His Grace the Archbishop of York - 100 0 o
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel . 500 0 0
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 600 0 0
The Laid Bishop of -London - ' - 100 0 0
The Lord Bishop of Durham - - 100 0 0
The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia - - 10(10 0
Venerable Archdeacon Watson - - 50 0 0
Bev-.1.1. H. Norris - - - 100 0 0
Lord Chief Justice Downs - .. - 21 0 .....

Nathaniel Atcheson,-Esq. - - - 5 . 0
Robert Shank Atcheson -Esq. - - 5 0 0
The Rev. Anthony Singleton Atcliesoa - 5 0 0
The Lord Bishop of Winchester - - 50 0 0
The Rev. James Dalling - . - - 10 0 0
The Rev. J. Holmes - - - . 5 0 0
The Rev. Wm. Ackers . ' - - - 5 0, 0
The Warden of Wadham - - - 10 0 0
Wm. Cotton, Esq. - - - - 50 0 0
The Rev. Thomas Bowdler - - - 5 0 0
Sir Alexander Croke, Kt. - - . 5 0 0
The Rev. Thomas Sikes - - . 25 0 0
The Rev. Mr. Durell - . - 10 0 0
Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart. M.P. - - . '25 0 0
The Provost of Oriel - - - - 5 0 0
The Rev. Josiah Pratt . - A . 5 0 0
The Htm. Philip Pusey - - . 100 0 0
Mr. Carey - . - - . 5 0 0
Watts Russell, Esq. 111. P. - - - 100 0 0
Sir Scrope B. Moreland, Bart. 111. P. - _ 20 0 0
Mr. Richard Gilbert - - - . 10 10 0
The Rev. Dr. Burney - - - 23 0 0
The Lord BishOp of Worcester - - 50 0 0

To T. TAYLOR, Esq.
No. 9, New Bridge-street, London.

Ho...ED sift,
IBEG leave to inform you, that ever since the
year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal,
which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine
prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and nn-
dergoing severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis-
charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to
be of the most inveterate nature. In the spring of last year
my oisorder had g.ot to such a bead, as nearly to put a period
to my existence—l bad a large ulcer owthe crown of my head,
One on each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful
manner ; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a
state of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also
two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave
me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed,
as nearly to deprive me of rest; in this lamentable state, I
was recommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so
great a cure by them here), to take vour Leake's Patent Pills,
which I began to do on the etith o. May ; in the course of a
fortnight I began to receive benedt—ni little more than a
month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed—
soon atter, the sores on my legs healed also; leaving, how..
considerable discolouration in the skin, and pails in the
bone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, and a little
longer pet severance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided;
the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, and
the nocturnal pains gradually going off.—l thus became, by
your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my
former complaints—have recovered my former spirits and
strength, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having
continued many months, to the astonishment of all who knew
me, I am at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, hut
beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make
this my case as public as possible, as I shall on every occa-
sion ; in so doing you wUI greatly oblige,
Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humbleservatit.
ALEX. Al URKER
Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh.
Witnesses to the above Cure:—

John Thompson, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh,
John M'lntosti, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh.
Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY-
LOR, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his
house, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; wheze, after a
constant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti-
cularly directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and thine
incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable
secrecy which men of his profession should always observe in
such cases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance be
greauitotsslv administers to persons taking this Medicine, will
be esttimed, by a discerning Public, as an advaLtage seldom
attainable, android of all ambiguity.
Also sold, by his appointment, tor the convenience of those
living at a distance, at the Toysbop, No. 103. Oxford-street;
Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter,
South-bridge, Edinburgh; Mi Callwel 's, Dublin ; and of
one person in evi ry considerable town in Great Britain and
Ireland, in boxes of only 2s. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up
with full and plain directions, whereby persons, of either
sex may cui e t benigel yes with ease,speed, secret y, and safety.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

AN APPEAL `TO THE BAR.

Maltsiow-liouSE.—Yesterilay two gentlemen of this coun-
try, accompanied by 'a Brazilian barrister, Senhor Jacinto
Moreiro Severiano da Cunha, waited upon the LORD MAYOR,
to request his Lordship's assistance in procuring for the
stranger the means of returning to Pernambuco,
.from which
he had been expelled under circumstances of a singular cha-
-racter.

• Senhor da Cunha is wholly unacquainted with the English
language, but.he made himself intelligible in the Latin tongue,
in which he is quite perfect. The following is the substance
of his communication :—He has been practising at the Brazi-
lian bai upwards of two years, and had obtained a reputation
for the zeal with which he advocated several canes of a compli-
cated and embarrassing nature ; but at the Brazils liberty of
speech is frequently checked in an advocate, notwithstanding
the high privileges claimed by the the fraternity all over the
globe. In the course of his practice, he was engaged to-argue
in defence of a person charged with conduct hostile' to the lin-
pciial Government during the late disturbances in -the province
Of Pernambuco. He ventured to -reflect upon the circum-'
stances of the prosecution in the generous veherrience of his
address, and immediately the vengeance of the military police
was directed against him. An order was issued under some:
false but specious pretence, he was apprehended in the bosom
of his family. and confined in a marine piison, to which the
001/eminent has been in the habit of committing persons ac-
when a body of Mikan troops, dispatched to
cuSed or convicted of seditious practices: lie hadnbt been long
• in this condition
Pernambuco by order of the Government, for the purpose of
preserving tranquillity in the province; broke into his house
where his wife and children were expecting his liberation,
cash? plate,, and even of the
inaodkt he
naked.
robbed Which
The tunfortunateo were
hearing of this tie-
' sti-tiction of his property, way apprehensive that the next attack
iifurniture,
tritu
-necessaryre
av to prevent them from going
ocate, upon

The LORD MAYOR asked several question's of the two gen--
tlmen who recommended the tpplication to his Lordship,
answers to which perfectly satisfied his Lordship of the tru:-.
of the statement made to. him. He feared that what he could
do in such a case would be very limited,. but he had no doubt
that through the medium of the press, which was ever ready
to lend its powerful assistance where an individual was worthy
of it, the circumstances would be communicated to men ca.:
pable of appreciating the merits.
One of the gentltmen who accompanied the Brazilian said;
the latter merely wished for the means or living while he was
obliged to remain in town, and would with gratitude repay
whatever he might receive the moment he was re-established in
his business at home.

The Loma MAYOR thought the liberal members of the ho-
nourable profession to which M. Da Cunha belonged, would
most probably take an interest in his misfortunes. It was
seldom, he believed, that the gentlemen of the bar had time
to allow their sympathies to be awakened, and he should like
much to have the honour of bearing testimony to their him:-
nit)r in this unfortunate case, by 2eceiving a subscription for
their poor Brazilian brother.

Whatever effect this compliment may have upon the gentle-
men of the bar, his Lordship expressed two or three times his
readiness to receive pecuniary communications, and his hope
that there would not be a disappointm'ent. lie, however, beg:
ged to be understood not to mean to throw the whole onus upon
the bar, although he was convinced that there would be an
mediate and liberal competition amongst them on the subject.