The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-15 00:00:00

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,

" object in which it can be invested to advantage, improve-
ments upon their premises may be carried on to altiost
" any extent that the Trade of the metropolis can be expeeted
1$ to require." This is very true baked; and it' funds.cOUld
be raised for the purpose, another Wraterloo Bridge could be
erected by the side of the present one; and " under a 'sys-
tem of fair and open competition, " the- toll-keeper at the One,.
was to demand nothing, while the extortioners at the other de-
manded a farthing per head for passing over, there can he little
doubt as to which of them would he most used by the public—but
people might entertain doubts whether 'the same thing would
happen with the Docks, and, if it did, whether it would prove,
that the object was one " 'which capital could be invested
with advantage," and then it would be discovered that capital
is not always to be found in this metropolis for sucit under.
inking:. "-The means of accommodation," says Mr. M. ". for
" West India produce, in the West India Docks, are un-,
" doubtedly complete and perfect."
'No.
This head seems only to have been adopted for the purpose
of introducing a garbled quotation as the foundation for a
splenetic remark :---" TheWilliditiDoilt Company, in their
" Memorial to the Board of-: 'Ade, mention the costly .31a-
-14 chinery which the Company have provided, and which %fag.
" adapted to the difihrent description of goods, under the able
" superintendence of the late Mr. Rennie;"--this is the quo-
tation, upon which Mr. 3larryat, after discovering:from the
evidence that " Machinery produces a great saving of manual
labour," And remarking that the mahogany to which it is -ap-
plied 44 is sot in fact the produce of the West Indies," comes
to this conclusion :—" From this o:vidence, it is clear that the
West India Dock Company, although intitledsto great credit
",ffr the masterly application of scientific prineiples to practical
" porpoises, in Many parts of their establishment, haYe no right
" to claim any extraordinary superiority, on account of the
" costly machinery mentioned in their Memorial."
The Dock Company in that paper were representing to his
Majesty's Government the then existing state of their Esta-
blishment ; they were not speaking of their machinery only
(although it has suited Mr. Marryat in this, as in other instances,
to take only a part of the sentence), they were detailing " the
system of accommodation and dispatch, " which had arisen out
of a particular trade being confined to their Docks.
The passage of the memorial is as follows :
" It must 'be obvious that work or business of any kind is
" transacted with the greater facility and dispatch, in proportion
" as the operations are similar in their nature, and confined to
" particular places, especially under able and experienced au.
perintendence. This is peculiarly the case at present at the
." West India Docks; where the dispatch which is universally
'" acknowledged, would be unattainable without the costly
" machinery which the Company have provided, and which was
" adapted .to the different descriptions of goods, under the able
$4 superintendence of the late Mr. Rennie. In furtherance 'of
$1 the system of accommodation anti dispatch, it has been found
" necessary to attend.minutely to the proper Classification of
" produce at the different wharfs and warehouses, and to the
" distribution of the work, so as to derive the full advantage of
" that machinery, and of the experience of the' Officers of Re-
" venue and Servants of the Company."
Do the Dock Company' arrogate to themselves " any extra-
ordinary superiority ", on account of their machinery, in this
passage ? Assuredly they do not ; and is it any answer to a
simple statement of the advantages they possess, for affording
accommodation to the public, that the same means may,
sonic time hence, be possessed by other establishments.—
All that the West India" 'Dock Company either asserted,
or meant to'tontend for, was that they, at that time, possessed
the means
.of giving every necessary accommodation ;. that
those means were all combined in one well regulated system ;
that that combination consisted, not of the judicious appropri-
ation of machinery only, but of an exprrienced superintendence
and a judicious distribntion of the work and business of every
kind, the whole being in a great degree dependent. upon that
business being confined to a limited number of the articles of
importation. •
They never had the presumption to state that their ma-
chinery was superior to any other now exis•' lg elsewhere, Much
less were they absurd enough to contend, m this age of im-
provement, that it was superior to any which could hereafter
be introduced.
Mr. MarrYat may reconcile this mode of comment to him-
self ; it requires no further notice here.
[To bc continuecl.l

Fi on; the 140 N LlO GAZ S,pt. 13.

A'ept. 12, 1323.

The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
fiam Lord Maryborough to be Master of his 'Majesty's Buck
[founds, in the room of Charles Itirquis.Cornwallis, deceased.

Foreign Office, Sept. 13, 11123.
The King has been pleased to approve of Mr. Antonio air-
alai as Consul.Gencral at Malta, for his Majesty the King of
the Kingdom of the Two 6icilies. '
The King has also been :pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph
Shee as Consul at. Gibraltar, for his Mikiesty.tha King of The
Spains.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
J. Frost, Newport, Monmouthshire, grocer.
BANKRUPTS.
'll. T. Lee, . Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe-highway, slopseller, to
surrender Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 25, at the Itinkrupts Court, lips.
ingball.street. Solicitors, Mears. Wilde, Rees, and Peacock,
Cellege-hill.
C. Watt, Sidney-street. Goswell-street-road, pen-manufac-
turer, Sept. 13. 20, Oct. 25, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basing.
hall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Butler, 'Watling-street.
A. Myers, Haymarket, tailor, Sept. 22_, 2:1, Oct. 25, at the
Bankrupts' Court, lasinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Morgan,
Great James.street.
• W. Johnson, Liverpool, merchant; Sept. 24, 25, Oct. 25; at
the George-inn, Liverpool. Solicitor, Mr. Bettye, Chancery..
lane. •
G. Roche, Liverpooloohaccenist, Oct. If, it, 25, ut the office
of Mr. Houghton, Liverpool. Solicitors,Litlestirs. Adlington,
Gregory', and Faulkner,- Bedford-row. •
J. Martin, Bolton; Lancashire, manufacturer, Oct. 3,4, 25,
at the Star.inn, 'Manchester. Solicitor, Sir. Willett, Essex-
street, Temple.
J. Telford and W. 'Anindell, Liverpool, drapers, Sept. 16,
20, Oct. 25, at the Bankrupts' Court,. Basinghall.street. Si_
licitors, Messrs. Green and Ashurst, bambrook-ceurt, Basing.
hall.street.
D. lisp, Shirehampton, Gloucestershire, dealer, Oct. 2,4,
25, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Solicitors, Messrs. Hicks
1 anti Braikenritise, lartlett'S-Imililings," !loth oiransin
ghall-street..
J. Merrell, King-street, Cheapsitle, stlk.manufactnrer, Sept.
16, 20, Oct. 25, at the Bankrupts! Court, j
Solicitor, Mr. James, Bucklersbury.
IL Horn, Cherry-garden.street, Rotherhithe, merchant,
Sept. 16, 20, Oct. 25, at the Bankrupts! Court, Basinghall-
Street. Solicitor,' Mr. iiirkett, Cloak-lane.

DIVIDENDS,
Oct. 7, S. and P. Privici4, prayton-in-Irales, Shropshire
bankers—Oct. 4, 0. D. Clark, Strand, merchant—Oct. 13, .1
Hopkins, jun. Clu4ey, Berkshire, farmer—Oct. 14, G. Wood
Gloucester, marble-mason—Oct. 4, J. Rangecroft, Ilinfielti
Ilerkshire, grazier—Oct 4, Nl'. Jones, Shoroaltch, chinaman.

CERTIFICATES, Oe'r. 4.
R. Baxter, Great Eastcbesp, Scotch factor—J. Ileatunont,
81'heathouse, Yorkshire, merchant—A. to, ilithdin, Parlia..
ment-street, mere.hant—E. Watts. Yeovill, tiumeraetsitire,
butcher--11. F. T. Miller, Frome-Selwood, Somersetshire,
money-scrivener. .
li. Longman, Garburton.street,
- PA RTNE R Sll IPS D ISSO LAI ED.
silutzarroey,
ISN:kiz;;:—I"J"
J. and Stidolph, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, seeds-
Nyhitc and J. Marbew,
men—A. Cane and B. • Longman, Mount-street, Berkeley-
Bulstrode-
mews- MarYlebanc, sawyers—J. Goostry, 1'001e,.8. Mount-
ford, J., Brook, and .I. Barlow, Burslem, Statlitrdshire, potters,
o far as regards J. Barlow.-..-.r. and S. Oarside, Manchester.
calenderer.s--411. and R. Johnson, Leeds, cloth-glossers—W.
Kasha!!, 111. Rod en, R. sficil, W. 'lethal', junior, anti It.
Bashall, 11ralton-m-the-DsID, banembire, Dutton-spinners .0
far as regards W. Bashall and M. Rndgett--8,. .T.,
and
Rochdale, flannel-manufacturers—F, }t 'en tat a.
chester, cahinet-rnakers--31. Mullins and H. M.
Hill; liareh.
ntoot.street, Bmnswick-square, milliners—S. Barker and J.
Thompwn, Thames-bank, steel-manufacturers—W. and J.
Squire, paper-stainers--31. Wood; I. Wigan, and P. IV.
Wood--11. Packer and E. Brand, Birmingham, vinegar-makers.