The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

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By this account one perceives that the ship Teresa, Ci-
tain Milossovich, has stepped into port with 15 feet of water,
at common tide, because drawing the vessel 131,E Venetian
feet, and the surface of the water being 11AI under common
tide, at common tide she might have had 15 feet without
running aground with her keel. Now one Venetian foot
being equal to metres 0,34773485, the 15 Venetian feet are
equal to metres 5,216, or to 16 Parisian feet.
Which be also said for proper direction to the sailors of
every country in the world.
Thus stated the facts, it assures unopposedly that vessels
which require so much as 15 Venetian feet of water at pre-
sent during the tide, can safely step into port by the new
entrance. About the vessels coming in at night I have to
say, that the obstacles at Malamocco shall not outweigh
those met at Duino, where " H. E., the Governer of Trieste,
Count Stadion, the night di Bruck, Director of the Lloyd's
Company, and the most notable merchants, werewaiting Mr.
Waghorn till half an hour at morning, because the night
was dark; and he could not steer towards Duino but by the help
of squibs purposely flung in the air from ashore," as the zealous
Briton wrote to the editor of the Times. See the Gazzetta di
Venezia, dated Nov. 18, 1845, No. 265.
Now, methinks that by such like cares had net proved more
difficult to land at Malamocco than it resulted landing at
Duino, and if Mr. Waghorn will land at Trieste, he shall
lengthen both his sea and land passage.
Let us recapitulate. Since the time of the eXperiment
that was made on October 2701-4 mean since Mr. Waghorn's
departure from Trieste or from Duino *—things remained
there unaltered; I mean that the mail that comes from Egypt
either landing at Trieste or at Duino, ought ever to run the
road of Romans, Codroipo, Sacile, and Ceneda.
But at Venice things areicome about, because now steamers
get in very easily from Malamocco, and the bridge built
across the Lagunes spares one hour's voyage to reach Mestre,
and from thence to Ceneda, where we can arrive from Venice
within four hours and half, or five at most, whilst twelve, or
at least ten hours, are required if starting from either of the
two other points.
The Government of her British Majesty will then perceive
that, in the actual condition of things, Venice, and not Duino
or Trieste, is the port where the post of India ought to land,
if they care to receive at London their dispatches six or eight
hours sooner than by landing elsewhere, which I wanted to
demonstrate with all possible exactness; and this is owing
in a great degree to the superior effects already obtained by
the grand work of the dyke, slot least of the monuments which
glorify the reign of our Emperor Ferdinand L, happily
reigning.
I will close this my letter, dearest Thomas, with one rec-
tification.

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ythietem concerning
Gozzettu,3the
dycembkere, altB4l.ls,alisramcc
No. 975,
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printed "that the dyke to the north had produced such an
effect in benefit of the port as to render quite useful build-
ing the second dyke at the south, which also makes an es-
sential part in the scheme of improving the aforesaid har-
bour."
These words would imply a contradiction, because if the
dyke had since then produced the best effects, it insured, of
course, that• the dyke to the south would be useless, or less
useful; and if the dyke to- the south were quite useful, the
: thed asso
south,
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other to the north either had not produced the best effects,
ot hf e
improvingre sul result t shoe
hrt theed that privi-
leged or but very scarce ones.
newspapers (among wrehpoic
In fact, the foreign
Gazaette of Vienna) that reported my aforesaid item
were puzzled at the same scrap, and some ontoe qreunitdeearlticieureitde'
the contents, others moulded them to the best of their under-
standing, but not according to what I had wished to tell
aforesaid The
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many studies by both native and foreign most clever
which
engi-
neers, renowned masters in the hydraulic art, did not an-
swer its own purpose, a few days ago we read that the dyke
uselesst o
buildingh ad produced
o f the
sae'
also makes an essential part in the scheme
aforesaid harbour."

Please to grant a most visible spot to these news, that, I
warrant you, are conveyed from genuine sources; and thus
you will contribute also to enlighten the minds of those who
are led astray by false opinions, hurtful to the prosperity of
our beloved Venice.

--- . -----
Yours truly,
(Signed) G. DEMBSIIER.
Venice, April 4, 1846.

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most circumstantial account of Mr. Waghorn's experiment, had :n- a
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stormy weather far as at Trieste, within 156 hears.
circumstantial
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"Departurefrom.;2'rieste, on the 27th October, about half an
past midnight, far as Innsbruck, &c." ' houi
And Mr. Wagliorn, in his quoted letter to the Times, says: "It is
generally believed that I had repaired to Trieste by the Austrian
steamer : erroneous I I have landed at the utmost end of the Adriatic,
at Dsveno (viz. Duino), &c."
That at Venice, Ceneda, Innsbruck, &c., people should believe that
Mr. Waghorn had landed at Trieste r can conceive; but that the in-
telligence should be printed at Trieste, this, indeed, is utterly beyond
the reach of my understanding, and nobody has yet explained it to
me. In the whole of his lengthened item, the Giornale del Lloyd does
not even mention DuMo, though he ought to have known that the
aforesaid illustrious people had repaired thither, if it were true that
the director of the same Lloyd went there himself.

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