The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-25 00:00:00

MARGA TE.

On a block of granite, erected some months
ago at the eastern end of the Upper Pier, was
Placed, at the close of the last week, a copper-
Plate containing the following interesting notices,
exquisitely engraven :
Pirst--The Directors of the Margate Pier and
Harbour Company, desirous of providing a perma-
nent record of the great and successful efforts which
have been made during the last twenty years for the
improvement of the Port of Margate, have caused
this Stone to be inscribed; and they are bound to
liknowledge that the design and accomplishment of
Lthe great public works which have been carried
°Y them are mainly to be attributed to the talents
cand indefatigable exertions of their Chairman, Daniel
ar Pi% Esq., M.D., 1828. Stephen Sackett Chan-
celler, Cler.
Second—

Local Magistrates appointed lBl2
Steam Packets established lBl5
New Town Hall and Market built lB2l
Gas Lights introduced
Roads to the Fort and Hawley-square opened 1824
Third
ilaw le -square Grounds enclosed
Y
Igls. passengers. Population. Houses.
21
"••• 23,425
1188... 41347
7,843
27••• 77,765
Four th
Alarine Parade opened
Sf

Streets Macadamized 1825
Public Pumps erected .. 1826
Roads from Frog Ilill opened 1826
Marine Terrace Grounds enclosed 1827
Ostend Mail Packets re-established lB2B
Fifth---Old Pier destroyed by storm, Jan. 14,
IQ,-,
.'"8; First Stone of New Pier laid, April 6, 1810 ;
eninpletedJune, 1815; cost 100,0001.—John Rennie
and Josias Jessop, Engineers; Thomas Edmunds
and Edward White, Superintendents.—Promenade
designed by Thomas Edmunds.
Sixth...-.
COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE PIERS.

Old pler Length. General width. Depth of water.
iv_ ••• 580 feet
ew Pier.. 902 feet
Area of Harbour Area of Pier Cubical Content
en cres l Pier •
Ned w
v. ... i 4A 1
7 in Feet. of Pier in Feet.
21,250
Pier.. 7 3 21
r, Seventh—Jarvis's Landing Place erected, 1824,
ained and executed by Edward White; 1,120 feet
)tela!Tgtb, cost 8,0001., contains 87,332 cubic feet of
is'„gush oak. Pier Office and Light-house erected,
..o,`°; cost 4,.5001. William Edmunds, Architect.
b :4,.ighth---Stone walls and sea defences from West-
brook Gateway to Fort Point were erected between
the tears 1809 and 1827; their length, including
Rke der. is 6,443 feet ; quantity of stone used is
leing tons ; cost, exclusive of Pier, 20,0001.
laid .---Tlie first stone of Trinity Church was
inn. way he 28th of September, 182.5, and the build-
consecrated on the 11th of June, 1829.
ment L.
enth ---The total cost of all the public improve-
S s tuat are recorded on this plate amounts to the
lirn of 170,000/.
The above particulars form the outer circle ;
they are in ten divisions. The centre contains
a compass, enumerating the distances to many
parts of the world thus.
Dover Castle l9 miles SSW.
South Foreland lB
Boulogne
Tunis (Barbary) .... 1106
Calais
37
Naples
Gravelines 44
Dunkirk
Newport 64
Ostend 67
Cassel (Germany) 357
Berlin 137
Rotterdam 137
Amsterdam 165 ...... ENE.
CoPenhagen
k Point Texel
Kentish
Light 34
41••entish Knock Buoy 22
Orontheina (Norway) ....... 900
Orfordness
Felizton
Buoy Tongue Sand
Aberdeen
Colchester... 4l
Sli • Beacon
.. shoe: 2O
41anchester
Cheater • •••
218
Shrew.a.
Note Li
~'ore Light
London 66
Culver . • 8
kaidstonel 3B
Arundel
95
Canterbury
Beachey, Head 6B ... .. SW.
Dun
Harbour 42
iiungeness
Folkstone
Madrid (Spain) 1022
The centre represents a rosette of oak leaves,
With the words " United for the Public Good," in
small capitals, in the very interior; then comes an-
other circle with " Margate Pier and Harbour Com-
Pany, incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1812 ;"
and last of all--
Variation of the Needle in the year 1828, 23 deg. 21
ro• Westerly.
104 g.
t 1
deg.
of Margate is 51 deg. 23 m. 45 s. North ;
deg. 22 m. 86 s. East Greenland.

After the close of the last Old Bailey Sessions
circumstance occurred which offers a striking instance of
the little effect produced upon the minds of criminals at
large by the infliction of bodily pain, as a punishment upon
culprits in the hands of justice. Several convicts, during
eke sessions, were sentenced to be publicly flogged. After
elsessions had terminated the sentence of the law was
Pat into full execution before a large crowd, who appeared
Illuol affected by the sight of the severe sufferings of
tli
5 culprits. When the scene was closed the executioner
left the yard where he had performed his office, and he
bleat over to a public-house (the Bell) in the Old
tileY, whither he was followed by a number from the
:1-°". One or two of those who had witnessed the ex-
CPIo' just exhibited, seeing an opportunity, while the
pple of the place were occupied, got up stairs and
Cji""ed the house of about eighty pounds in money, with
mieh they got cheap off. So frequently are pockets
1
'eked, and other depredations committed, in front of the
ja"fs, that the officers in attendance generally find it a
vpruili precaution to take nothing in their pockets
bigich may be stolen. A boy who was passing down the
Bailey on the morning of the last execution, with a
h7"et full of goods on his arm, two men who were return-
ti! from the execution attempted to rob him, and one of
on his resisting, made a brutal attack upon him.
the'
was in the open day and thronged street. One of
thfellows against whom there was satisfactory moral,
I,:bugh not technical evidence, when taken before the
elution.''3AYOß, said he had just before been to see the ex-
-1,, " in the hopes it might be a warning to me, my
.--Morning Paper.