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London, England, 1809-09-23 00:00:00

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The immense works erected on that part of the
coasts of Kent, which cannot be considered under
the protection of our shipping in the Downs, . and
which is immediately opposite to that great ren-
dezvous of the French flotilla, Boulogntto, are
nearly completed ; they begin with the ancient
castle of Dover, which from its peculiar strength
and elevated situation, has long been considered im-
pregnable; Government have, however, been em-
ploy* in construeling subterraneous works, con-
sisting of three tiers of batteries, casemates, &c. &c.
%;,ith barracks for 10,000 men. The height oppo-
site the barracks is also regularly fortified by flank-
ing redoubts, bastions, &c. &c. There is also a ci-
tadel with ditch and draw-bridge, and barracks for
5000 men ; a shaft of a most beautiful and conimo-
dious tieseription, hiving four different staircases
(round and open area which both lights anal .venti-
lates).communicates with the town, the height of
which is upwards of 300 feet. By this shaft it is
calculated that 20,000 men might pass from the
height, to the town, or vice versa, in a half an hour..
There are also four other oatteries called Guildford's,
Townshend's, Amherst's, and Archenffe, so that
Dover is now Ore most completely fortified,.except-
ing Malta and Gibraltar, of any place in the British
doinintons and forms a most novel and interesting
spedaele to the eye of a stranger.
Flow Dover to.Folkestone no works of defence
„are necessary, as the cliff inaccessible. • Frcm
Folkestin:e to Dungeness,forming an ope'n bay of
about 20 miles iii hreadih, a great number el mar-
tello towers are construded, which are of a circular
form, bomb proof, and have one gun of a very large
calibre ou the top.; they are so distributed that no
part of the coast
.which is assailable. is without the
range of their shot ; thirty men in each might defend
theinselves,,as long as their provision lasted in per-
fed security.. The old castle of Sandgate haS also
been greatly enlarged, and now contains,a number
got guns.

A redOubt,t onsisting of bomb-proof towers and
very formidable outworks, has also been erected at
Brockthan's Barn. At Shornchffe there is a battery,
called by the name; and at Hythe, Sutherland,' and
Moncriet, batteries which, with three others at
Dungeness, complete the line of coast. In addition
to the above, a milliary canal has been' cut frol)
Shot-116de to near Rye. Much ditference of 'opi-
nion has arise, a 5 to the utility of this canal, as a.
defensive miiitary work ; but thus much is certain,
that it opens an easy communication with a pats of
the country called the Weald -or Wild of Kent,
which, from the badness of its roads, and conse-
quent ditikulty of getting its produce '(consisting of
timber) to market, lids been cut off troni inferconrse
wtth the rest of the county, and which this canal
will most effectually obvi;ite. It also begins to be
of the ino“ essential sert ice for the conveyance of
troops and baggage, many regiments having passed
from Rye to Hythe, a distance of 25 miles, without
fatigue ; and iiiimdiately alter landing, a distance
of 15 miles farther by land, without halting, thereby
performing a distance of 40. miles in one, day, saving
a great expence to Government; and relieving the
inti-keepers‘, who are very thinly scattered in that
neighbourhond., 34 014pre‘4-iiv4i
The viliole of the works above described are per-
formed u the Most substntttial and skiltul manner;'
display gipt-science in the engineer department. It
is also-rnitter of pleasing reflection, that many of the
roads, canals, &c. unite great commercial advantages
with vast defensive preparations. ,

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The partisans of the Opposition Faa-lion are al- ,
ways busy in trying to depreciate those whom supe-
rior talents have placed in situations which are the
objeas of their' envy.. One of their new, but hi-
therto unsuccessful plans, is to stigmatize as up-
starts the illustrious Family if Wellesley, who now
deservedly enjoy so great a portion •of their So-
vereign's confidence. . The following statement
will contradid so unfounded a charge. The
Melleslevs, originally an English family, have flou-
rished for many generations in Ireland,; the male-
line becoming extinct, the property, together with
the name, was transmitted to the fatnily of Collev.
Sir Dudley Colley succeeded in 11137 to an anciellt
baronetage, and was father of Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Garret,Wellesley, Esq. of -Meath, whose only
son, leaving no iSsue, devised his whole estate to
Richard Colley, provided he used the name of Wel-
lesley. Sir Dudley was succeeded by Sir Henry,
• who dying 1700, left, by his wife Mary (daughter of
Sir Win. Usha) two sons, Henry and Richard.---,
Henry, in .171 g, married Lady Mary Hamilton,.
daughter of James, Sixth Earl of Abercorn, sister
of Lady Elizabeth, who married Wm. Brownlow,
Esq. M. P. father of Elizabeth, Who married John
Vesey, Lord Knapton, father of the late Viscount
De Pesee, and of Viscountesses Pery and Northland,.
and also of Jane, wife of Sir Robert Staples, Bart.
whose daughter married G. Fitz-Gerald, Esq. son.
of the late Right Hon. Col. Fitz-Gerald, by his
second wife, the sister and co-heiress of Alecia, who
married Stephen Cassan, Esq. of Queen's County.
'Richard, the first of the Colleys, Ivho assumed the
name Wellesley, was created 1746 Baron Morning-
ton, and %aS father of Garret, second Lord, who
was advanced 1760 to an Earldom. His Lordship
married Anne, daughter of Arthur Hill, Ist Vis-
cohnt Dungannon, and had Richard Colley, K. P.
the present Marquis, so created for his signal ser-
vices and brilliant operations in India; the next son
is William, who has annexed the name Pole to his
own ; Sir Arthur, K. B. born May 1,176 g, the
hero of Talavera, now 'Viscount Wellington ;
Gerald is Chaplain at Hampton Court ; and the
youngest son, Henry, was lately one of the Secre-
taries to the Treasury:
The following strange circumstance has lately oc-
curred in the neighbourhood of Bowes:—A man who
resided at a remote part of a common near that place,
and lived like a hermit, has buried himself alive. He
digged his own grave some months ago, and commu-
nicated his intentions, to only one person. Tile story
soon spread abroad, and many persons were induced
to g' and see the grave ; but the impression the affair
had made, had nearly subsided, and the people's cu-
riosity was almost satisfied. Last week, however, a
Gentleinan who was shooting near the spot, and who
had seen the grave before, went a second time, in or-
der to shew it to a friend, but to their great surprise,
they found the In2o dead in it, wrapped in a blanket,
with his face downwards. How long he had lain
there is uncertain, as be bad not been seen for nearly
I a week before.

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Notwithktandingthe uncertainty of tl'e wePthei,6
this charming pi ice continues quite hill.; many fats
unties have Teft us, but they ate soon replaced by
fresh arrivals, which are beyond all fernier piece..
dents. His Royal Highness the Duke of OLoDcEs.
TER is here on the score of health, lives q! lie pri-
vate, and has not visited any place of public amuse-
ment, bring afraid to encounter the damp evenings.
Our favourite, Mrs. EDWIN, had her benefit on
Tuesday last, which
.turned out, as was expeeied,
a complete bumper; all the fashionable of Chelten-
ham, and its vicinity, paid their lespetts to this
fascinating'atheSs. Indeed we never !‘ itnessed so
crdwdedand*illiant an audience here. The Play
and Farce were, The Honey Moon, and Devil to Pay,
in which she appeared in Juliana and Nell, both
of which she pourtrayed in the happiest style. On
the dropping of the curtain the. applause was
bounded ; she left us with the utmost regret for her.
engagement in London, where there is no doubt but
she will meet with that encouragement and support
the versatility of her talents merit from a discerning
and liberal public.