The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-09 00:00:00

LARY BRIDGE, NEAR PLYMOUTH.

This Bridge was opened to the public on Satur-
day, the 14th ult. It being known that the Duchess
of Clarence would pass it on that day, a number of
carriages and equestrians, with a crowd of pedes-
trians, assembled at a very early hour to meet her
Royal Highness, and witness her passage over the
Bridge. At half-past six the Duchess appeared in
an open carriage, attended by Colonel Cooper, &c.
Loud and repeated cheers saluted her Royal High-
pegs, and after receiving the compliinents of the Earl
and Countess of Morley (who were also in waiting
to receive her Royal Highness), she passed with her
suite over the Bridge, followed by the multitude.

The Bridge has 6s arches of the following di-
mensions :—The centre arch is 100 feetispan, and
rises 14 feet •6 inches; the arches on each side the
centre are 95 feet each, and rise 13 feet 3 inches ;
and the extreme arches are 81 feet, and rise 10 feet,
which gives the roadway a gentle curve of five feet
between the abutments. The roadway over' the
Bridge is 25 feet wide, With a foot path on each
side three feet six inches wide, formed of coarse
quarry block paving. At the abutments the road-
way widens to 40. feet.
Opposite the Toll House' which is a Grecian
Doric, in black marble, on a fine granite block, we
observe the following inscription :

'chine Pcntem
Senatus Auctoritate uscepttnn
Novas et CoMmodas vial recludentem,
JOHANNES COMES DE MORLEY,
Stria Sumptibus
Struenduni Cur. vit
Opus inchoatum A.D. 1824,
Absolutum, A.D. 1827.
I. M. PENDEL, Architecto.

We must conclude by offering our tribute of praise
to the liberal views of the Earl of Morley, who has
added this very useful and most beautiful structure
to the many which previously adorned our vicinity.

CURIOUS EnsTr.r.—The following singular
specimen of epistolary composition was received, a few days
ago, by a gentleman of this town, from a labourer who was
formerly in his employment :
" July the-18thr—1 827

WORTHY AND DEAR hope you will parden
your Ould Servent for writing to your worthyness On this
Occesion.—l was a Servent to your Honrable Father before
he was marid*, and for several years after he was marid.
I was young and Strong at that time—but now I am struck
in years—and with the assistence of the Lords Providence
I intend to Go to See a Relation of mine that Lives in darby
Shiere. He has One hundrd a year for Ever by his wife—
and he Has 100—a year for Ever by his Sisterinlaw she is
very Ould and Lives with him his name is Major and he is a
Half pay Lieutenant I was with him three years back and
he Gave me-4 bank of England notes—One pounds each
and a top Coat—and if I would Go to his house in the
Cloaths I ware now He would not Own me— —and as I
have to answer in the presence of the Lord I bougt a Coat
Last Saturday—l paid the man For it—All but— —2s.
2d. end I Hope the Allniighty will Give your Hour—
and Family a Heavenly Reward and have the Goodness to
Consider your Ould Servt.—with a Small trifel of money
For—Christa Sake—that will help to pay a part of the
said sum —And the worst weastcoat—you Have in
the World that Would not be Fit to be Worn any Longer
by a Gentleman of your Consequence It would be very
Exceptable to me Going the Said Jurney—
" And as the times turnd Out very Contreary with me
I Cannot by the Cloaths I would wish to ware Or I would
not trouble any Gentleman. And Releiving me in what I
Remarkl-- —I trust and Hope your Honr and Family
will be For—Ever Rewarded by the Allmighty God
who has all Hearts on His power From your Ould Ser-
vent and well-wisher J. Bosos.

" I have a Character From my neighbouring Gentle-
men Magistrates For the County Longford that will show
that I am of the Church of England and that I Can pro-
duce And remain as before J. B.
" As Sure as the Lord made Heaven my Father Saml.
Burns and I was Rong.d of a fine Land property Some
years back by a Lease that was Ezpir.d And a false agent
that took bribes From Rich men and wus brook for bribery
at a Lose of said Laud was the Cause of my Reducemeht."