The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-16 00:00:00

REG?N7 'S aATNAE.

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Pursuant to promise,the now lay before the pub,:
lib the proof, as far as it has yet been adduced to the
Connnons' Committee; in support
.of the preamblii
to the Bill for authorising this important under-
taking.
Mr. Tate, an experienced Engineer frud cnntrac,
tor for the execution of various canals, and Mr;
Morgan, the Engineer to the Company, in several.,
long examinations by the few remaining opponents
to the measure, spoke to its•pradicability ;. anci
Charles Harvey, the .Diredor of the Grand Jtinr. •
t.on Canal; gave evidence' as to its great
fire result of the testimony of the two former Gen.;•
tletnen, who have bored, taken levels, and calcor;
hated the whole, is, that the ground in the line of
the Canal is fit for the design, and that the strata
Where... the tunnels are, to be, consist Chiefly of s
blue shade clay, per(edll eligible for that purpose i
and that th4e will not be the.sliginest difficulty
carrying- the Om into effed r—that no pumps;
drains, water-courses, or sewers, in the vicinity of
tie Canal, will be at all atfeded or injured by it
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as the bed of the tunnels will be many feet below the
springs by which they are supplied. That the fewer,
head wav,„ crillateral cut, reservoirs, and basins, May
all be construeled With equal safety And eligibility t
and that all dangers from flooding or overflowing,
will be precluded by means of waste weirs
sides of the locks of the Canal, and in the natural
Water-courses which run from the feeder to thei
Thames. The total estimated expence of the Canal :
280.0001. including compenta; ion for lands, houses;
&c. or about 223,0001. independent of these corn=
pensat ions, and including 50,3001. for contingencies.)
and both engineers stated 'explicitly, from Halal
survey and estimate, that, the work might be well
completed for that sum.

Mr. Harvey, whose, judgment, from his character
and situation, is much relied on, spoke to the utili.‘
ty of the intended undertaking, and his evidence not
only established that point, but contained much ge-
neral information. He stated the .amount of the:
tonnage of goods annually pasting on the Padding-
ton Canal (anno 1810) to be 180,000 tong, viz. in
the proportion of about 113,000 tons from the coun-i
try to Paddington. and 67,000 from the metropolis
to the country. Ot this immense quantity now
carted to and fro, through the principal streets of
London (so as to employ, on an average, two hun-
dred and twenty-three; carts or waggons daily for
three hundred working days in
_the year, loaded to
the weight of two tons each) he calculates that
114,000 tons would be convoyed through the me-'
diurn of the Regent's Canal. His conviction of this'
rests on the grounds of greater convenience to car-
riers in, having their goods brought to wharfs nearer
the city—of the advantage of being enabled to deli-
ier goods at once on board ships without unloading
or cartage—of the expence of land carriage gene-
rally saved, as fewer horses would be required to
take heavy articles from the Canal down hill to their
destination, than up hill, as now from the Thames
—of the facility which it would aff)rd for. the transt
port of inland coals downward, and Newcastle coals
upward, and the conveyance of every sort of :budd-
ing and paVing materials to all the northern parts of
the Metropolis, and also of oak and other timber for
the Navy at Deptford.
Mr. Harvey, in addition, stated his belief, that of
16i1000 tons of goods which now pass bet w(4.9 the
Suit ion Canal and the Thames at Brentford, about
one half would find the.way by the Regent's Canal,
making, with the tonnage to and froth Paddington
(as above) a grand total of 1 ob;000 . tons for !hat
Canal, all of which would be delivered,in London,
and to the assignees, of the goods wherever situated,
at a cheaper rate, and in better condition than they
now are.

On all these data, and many more, waled so muck'
in detail as to be too voluminous for a Newspaper
report, but of great weight, this Gentleman ey.press-
ed his firm conviittiun and opinion that the projeaedi
Canal would be of the utmost public utility, arra
contribute in an important degree to the promottorx
and acconnuodatio., of trade, and the general comtort
of all the. sUrrountig parts.