The Sun.
London, England, 1811-07-06 00:00:00

SOUTUTVIRK. 1111MGE.

. Considering bridges, as the most ornamental as
well as the most useful public winks to a great capi-
tal, we rejoice in-the spirit of enterprise,- which pro-
poses to. acid to the two already projected over the
Thames .Vauxhall and near Somerset-place, a
third, about Midway" bet Ween London Bridge and
Blaekfriars. We consider such improvemeal(s, at
this tune, the best and most solid refutation of the
treacherous or desponding calenlations, that infer
national ruin from a few instances of titivate cala-
mity, which, however painful to our feelings, have-
'no effeet on our national prosperity, Ve consider
it as the most satisfactory refloat ton of the tulle and
insolent boasting of our worsttnemy, that while he
assumes so much pride for having decorated Parrs
with
,one or two bridges, the expellee of which is
defrayed by the plunder of so Many commies, ra-
vaged by his ferocious arms, a greater number ate
erected in London by the contributions of private
citizens, at a time when he conceives every me of
those citizens overwhelmed with distress, and
re-
duced to beggary and starvation. We eunsider it
al;- of no small moment that these solid and lasting
monuments of public spirit and national wealth
should be constructed at.a time when the national
euirency is said to be depreciated ; when it is said,
by way of ridicule, that the restri6tion upon cash
payments having banished guineas: or driven them
into hiding holes, and left in their place only book-
notes, our circulating Medium .consists but apaptr,
already at a discount, and likely, in a little time, to
be of no. mOie-Value than /the rags of ><hich it is
made ! How much will posterity be astonished,
when, enjoying the benefit of these communica-
tions, to 'be informed that the-expences of them
were defrayed with rep! Indeed, we should re-
I commend, to place. an inscription over the centre
arch arch to this effeel :—" Southwark Bridge built
, with. Hags, 181 t---Eleventh year of Rag Money."
The following observations contain a sketch of
the advantages, to be derived from SouthWark
Bridge
This bridge will be the meow' of opening a flood
and convenient street of handsome houses, through
a part of Southwark of very info ior value, and create
in the Borough at large a mote rrseeaahle neigh-
-bourbood. It .will ditide the mate with Loudon
and Blackfriars Bridges, and consequently give addi-
tiooal convenience to passengers and to commerce,
by preventing stoppages similar to those which now
so frequently happen on. London Bridge, and in the
aVetill,:S in its vicinity. And it will enable the City
without interruption, to trade, to alter, or rebuild
London 'Bridge, the stability of which, iron' the
evidence rn Parliament, appeariao be very question-
able ; and also that the effect of its singular ,and
imperfea construction is such, fliat between twenty
and thirty lives, and'betWeen thirty and 40,0001.
worth of property,. are annually lost in the vertex-
created by that uncientific edifice.
It appears, therefore, that a Bridge in the,iiitua-
tian described, will be extremely useful and conve
nierit to the City of LorKon,. highly increase the
value of property, advance the commerce, and pros-
perity of Southwark, and amply remunerate the li•
beral spirit of the Subscribe's.:

LORD TIELL7GTON-

Every thing-that-relates to this distinguished eta-
ratter is so extremely interesting to the public at
the present Moment, that we cannot resist our in-
clination to lay before our readers the (Aiming
extrat from a et' e e r ni g- an cHnfitru &it'? e ar-
ticle, on Eliot's Defence of Spain anci'Portuial, in
the second number of the, British Review, lately
published
" And now what shall we say, in conclusion, of
the manwhn, under Providence, has been the chief
Cause of dour. brightened prospers in the Peninsula ;
of the brave, the enterprising, the prudent, and the
modest Lord WELLINGToN of the Indian General,
as BuuNaesaTE termed him, whom he was anxious
to chastise, by the hinds of his viddrions Marshal*,
but who has.chaced betoru him the most renowned
of those Marshals, burning with shame, and over-
whelmed with confuSion and disgrace, iletore the
battle of Rolcia, in iLe first of these campaigns,
Lord WacciNuTos never saw a French regiment
yet. so apt was his genius, so penetrating
his military coup d' that four days afterwards,.
at Willem, he fairly outminwuvred them, and bear
them at their own weapons, With great versatility
of mind and manners, and extraordinary talents for
civil affairs, be has the art of conciliating the regard
and exciting the affeetion and admiration of every
man in his army, from the General to the drummer.
.No praise-worthy action escapes his notice—no real
dety can be left unperformed under his rye. His
army, in short, must do their,dwy; but he knows
in %%bat that duty consists, end does not ge'verally
require more. And the natural consequence is, that
nothing of which !Rimini exertion is capable is found
too arduous for their aehieveMent when he leads
them on in the day of hot and perilous trial.- " With,
such 4 consiellaiion Qt talents, and with the ray of
glory which they now emit round his head, a e do
not besiinte to declare Our conviaion; that if ProVi-
deuce spare him to his country, he has a brighter
Carter to run than that through which the great
MArtutottotron sped his course. Their talents are
certainly in some respe6ts similar ; but the , field
upon Which Lord WELLINGTON aaS, and the ene-
mies he has to encounter, appear to us to place him
in a much more, arduous situation. We will not,
however, disguise our opinion, that his talents are,
upon the whole, of greater promise ; nor can we,
by any exertion of philosophy), bring ourselves to
,despair of beholding him the instrument of as much
good to prostrate,k;urope, as it teceived a century
ago through the medium of his renowned prede-
cessw."

Fiappy.—A Lady's maid, in a noble family, is
in custody, on the charge of having stolen and pledv
ed articles of plate, jewellery, and other ornaments,
to the amount of upwards of • 3001. She is the
daughter of a most respeclable tradesman, and had
lived several years with her Lady, and one to whom
all the other domestics were obliged to pay homage
as their mistresk. The affair was discovered by a
diamond ring having barn missed; and, .pawrk-
brokers being apprized of that fatc.t, it was brotight
to light, and the prisoner identified as having pledg-
ed it. Sixteen duplicates of various other valuable
articles were found in her possession, and others in
the apartments 'of a young tradesman; to whom the
prisoner was about to be married, but who' liad'no
'guilty knowledge of the Lady's maid's condua. 'Th6
affair will be publicly known in a few days, with
other particulars.

During the thunder storm in the night of yesterday
se'nnitht, seven sheep and eight, lambs;the proper-
ly of. Mr. alining, of Risby, were killed by the
lightning; also six sheep and a lamb belonging to
'Mr. Jiggens, of Waltham ; and fotir lambs the
property of Mr. Decarle, of ,ROsltbrooke, in Sue=
folk.

On Tuesday last, was committed to St. Augus-
tine's Gaol, Canterbury, Robert bled, charted upon
.the oaths of It. Ashbee and It. Slaughter, with hav-
ing feloniously killed and taken away ei rat, the pro.
perry of the .ait.l.ll. Ashbee.
A young man of the name of Genders was found
in the Thames, below Chelsea College, by some
ti,liermen, early yesterday morning.. He. was a clerk
in Mary-le-bioe.lane, and. bad been. missing about
ten days, but was supposed to have been drowned,
LIS he left his party at Putney-bridge, by taking away
their boat, after haVing drank freely on Sunday
se'noight, and the boat was picked up at Vauxliall.
the deceased was :le years of age, and the son of
respeaableparenti at Ashburton, Devonshire. His
person..was much disfigured frotn the length of time
the body had been in the water. •

, For several days past a lad,o years of.age,,belong-
ing to a respectable tr,idestnan in the neighbourhood
of Paddington, has been missing.- He was at school
near that place, and not returning home at his usual
hour, search and inquiry. wag made tar him No
tidings were hearduntil last Tuesday morning, when
he was 'timid dead in one of the vaults in. Si,
George's Chapel, Paddington. The.body was stand-
ing against the wall of the vault ; his bag, with his
school-books, was on his shoulder. There were
several cotliiis.in the vault. It is conjectured that
the boy had been led there by 'curio+ity, to see II
inrieral, and that having been inadvertently shut in,
he died of fright.
A tire broke out .at eleven o'clock on Monday
night; at the Louse of Mrs. AMOS, laundress, in the
Kilburn Road, _which was occasioned by wet linen
having been incautiously placed too neara brisk tire,
when then laundress Went to bed. The interior of
the. house tiati destroyed; and= a girl, anout 'were
years old, who slept immediately over she kitchen,
was so much burnt, that her life is,despaired of.
At Londonderry, on Stiturday last, Maty Quig,
wife of Richard Quig, an apprentice rope-maker in
that city, was delivered of iliree.chileren, two boys
and a girl, all of whotn, with the mother, are doing
well s her situation, however, k truly pitiable, hav-
ing no kind of clothing for theM. of
Derry, on hearing of the .circumstanee, sent the
mother. pecuniaty
,assisnince..