The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-10 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1825.

siderable number daily, yet not producing the handsome In-
terest of even One per Cent.
" Public Ornament, and recreation for the Citizens."
Is this less absurd than the 611,0001. ! ! !--Prom what point is
this Terrace to be seen by the Citizens ?—from the backs of the
houses in the Strand, Fleet street, &c. What is to he seen from
it ? why, by happy reciprocation—the backs of the houses in the
Strand, Fleet-street, &C. With, when the day is sufficiently
clear, a landscape of the yards, wharfs, manufactorieseand the
general rude, black, and ruinous buildings along the Surrey side.
'So much for the Ornament c now for the Recreation. In.
Summer, the Citizens take their recreation in the country, or in
the Parks, where they see verdnreS and the -well-drest world.
A Dutchman might prefer broiling himself nap, stone-terrace
in the sublime sunshine and eternal smoke of City ; an Eng•
lislunan's tastes are of a better description, and Ire will not roast
himself beside a canal, while he can find .a.green' field:. In
Winter, who would think of promenading along the channel of
.a great hazy; ague-givineeriver, covered over with exhalations of
a host of forges, steam-engines, and manirfactories ? Is it not
notorious that the value of houses in the neighbourhood of the
River has been regularly decreasing, with the increase of the
mephitic vapours from the crowd of manufactdries on both sides
of the River ?
Who walks 'for air or exercise on t Adiferhi tiieSomerset..
House Terraces, ,Or on l'oelr. Build_ err on- cititct
the five Bridges, where they can- go free widiout payingitty
toll ? With respect to the Toll, the plan of the Company is
very simple ; whether it will prove very satisfactory, remains
to be decided. The Company having ascertained the number
of people that pass along the Strand in the course Of a day,
argue thus :—these people Will surely have taste enough to
prefer walking along a beautifidaerrace, to fighting their way
through the Strand ; and when we ' have turned this " tide of '
human existence," then the toil, which they cannot be so un-
reasonable
as to object to pay, ,will be amazingly productive.—
Now, admitting for a moment that the estimates' of the Com-
pany are comet, the consequences must neecssarily be, that
all the Shopkeepers in the Strand must •be ruined. The ex-
pectations of the Company upon this point are well' founded,
or they are not. If they are, where are the Shopkeepers of
the Strand to find their customers ? If they are not, whence
are the Subscribers to the plan to derive their profits ? So
that the projectors are in this pleasant situation,s---they have no •
other means of proving the innocence of their plan, but by ad-
mitting the fallacy of their calculations.
People do not go into the City except On business—and for
the convenience of meeting each other as they pass to and from
the Exchange, will always all go one and the same road, no
matter how narrow it may be, aye, and.on one and the same side
of that road, for this reason, in all public streets, the Strand,.
Fleet-street, &c. there is always a frequented side on which five
times as many persons walk as on the other.
If this Terrace should come into use, it will not only ruin
the Commercial purposeseof the River, but must it not sink the
value of every foot of ground; anti the property of every Mer-
chant and Shopkeeper between Charing-crass and Cornhill, to
an amount beyond all hope or possibility of compensation ?
• If it should• not come into use, must not the project bank-
rupt ?! !
If London were now—what it was three hundred years ago
__a small City, lying along the banks of it Great River, and
commanding a view of it rroin almost every point, the opening
and embankment of the Thames might add to the beauty of
the Metropolis ; but to open the Thames nOW, one side of the
-whole range of Streets from Whitehall to Una* Bridge must I
he thrown down, with all the multitude of etreets, Manufac-
tones, and Warehouses, lying between them and the River— '
a project palpably hopeless. Briefly, the whole. scheme is
feeble and misguided in its eonceptionee-rash and unjust
in its application,— ruinous to long-established individual
interests—and of which the best thing that can be said is, that
it is Impracticable.
SIGNATURES to the Mennontan presented to the Right Hon.
the LORD .MATOIt, ALDERbIEN, and 'CO:Ni s, of the
CITY of LONDON, in Conniion Council assenibltd.
Dalgleish and Tayler, Great Scotland-yard'
Christopher Richmond, t;reat Scotland-yard
Brooks and Penny, Scotland-yard
Edward Wood anti Co. Northumberland Wharf
Nathaniel Cove, Villiers-street
Ellrabeth•Doughtye frenalowner of 60 feet-of Frontage. at the
bottom of Buckingham-street
Maier, Nash, and Adams, Villiers-street
W. Bent. Cannon-row
Parkins anti Thompson, Adelphi Wharf •
William Sant and Co., Adelphi Wharf '•
William Barron, Salisbury Wharf
Findlater and Pugh, Salisbury Wharf
William Kitchiner, 31. D. Landowner of the Four Wharfs at
Beaufort-buildings, Strand
Thomas anti Benjamin Capper, Beaufort Wharf.
William and Charles Cox and Judkins, Beaufort Wharf
James Depree anti Son, Savoy Wharf, Strand
William Holland, Savoy Wharf
John Brown, Waterloo Bridge Wharf, Beaufort-buildings
George Henry Ilelmore and Co., Beaufort-buildings' Wharf
Robert Lumley, Hungerford Wharf
John Hinxman, Savoy Wharf
William Large, Savoy Wharf
George Berry, Arundel Wharf
Joseph 8011, Milford Wharf
Thomas Gotobed, Landowner of Dorset St. Bride's Wharfs
Paul Bevan, Milford-lane
Windle, Milford-lane
Charles Windle, Milford-lane
William Suulsby, Milford-lane.
John Evans, Milthrd-lane
John Soulsby, Milford-lane
Thomas George Ed ley, Essex Wharf, Strand
Daniel Fearon, Essex Wharf, Strand
John Pocock, St. Bride's Wharf
Charles Thompson, Pig's Quay
Charles Hoppe, Pig's Quay, Bridewell Precinct
Charles Edgley Hoppe, Pig's Quay, Bridewell Precinct
J. S. Capel, Bridewell Wharf, Bridewell Precinct
James Yarraway.T Blackfriars
John Edington, Blackfriars
W. and G. Nichols, Sun Wharf, Upper Thames-street
John Bovill, jun.. Milford-lane, Strand
Edward Cole, Milford-lane, Strand
Charles Hutchins, Water-street, Strand
Thomas Stillwell, Arundel-street
James Barraud, Wliitefriars New Wharf
Charles Welch, Whitefriars' New Wharf
\V. Harvey, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars
William Napier, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars
Josiah Ilarvey, Grand Junction 'Wharf, Whitefriars
Thomas Napier, Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars
William Harvey, jun. Grand Junction Wharf, Whitefriars
George Stapleton, Whitefriars' Wharf
J. Rusher and Co., Dorset Wharf
G. Warrick, Dorset Wharf
Per Procurators of Grand Junction Canal Company, Rd. C.
Sale, clerk anti solicitor—occupiers of Surrey-street,
Strand, and owners of Grand junetion 'Wharf, Whitefriars
Andrew Reid, Whitefriars' New Wharf
Joshua Blackburn, Whitefriars' New Wharf
Charles Laird Wigram, ‘Vhitefriars' New Ni'harf
Thomas Johnston, Horse Shoe Wharf, Upper Thames-street
.
Robert Johnston, Horse Shoe Wharf, upper Thames-street
M. Jegon, White Lion Wharf, Upper Thames-street
William James Reynolds, St. Andrew's %% hall •
John Howell, Queenhithe Wharf
John Charles Reynolds, St. Andrew's Wharf
Joseph Bell, Queenhithe
Edward Bell, Queenhithe
Samuel Pickering, Essex Wharf
Hubert Philip Jones, Worcester Wharf
Jonathan Monkhouse, tit. Andrew's NVharf
' St. Andrew's Wharf
m Jegon,
, 'oln'
Charles 6ibbs, St. Andrew's Wharf
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Whitehla
17NmlP bitec°nLion Wharf, Upper Thames-street
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Jegon,adk Lion Wharf, Upper l'hames-street
\Wilu
Peter Thomas Skipper, Lipper Thames-street
Thomas
Jonathan Charles Prior. Queenhithe Wharf
Red Lion IntrE
's Hill, Doctors' Commons
confidently rely on the
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arf
Strand
'enairiedntwe'tor the rejection of so ill-
digested hewtitilltig:litali:bettdSlYt:tnii eel I}l;irseNnistdte:).exarrwtbiltl:a;lsinltastrlst:'rti:e'oi
Fleet-street,
districts h
the ares tre
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Streets
immediately threatened,
leading front them to the Thames,. will, without delay, take
sltteyi
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Justice
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ce Property, ppearrt
is;
and dangerous a scheme.
Any Person wishing for a copy of these Observations, may
have them on application to Messrs. Fynmore, Clarke, :anti
Fymnore, 43 , Craven-street, Strand