Star.
London, England, 1802-09-29 00:00:00

MARGATE, SEPTEMBER 27.

The promenade Taft night at the rooms was very
fully reforted. Abort 300 perfons were prefent.
The Overture to Ofiar and. Ma/vim was called for
by the irreligious part of the circle, and given in
very fine Rile by Wileesay.'
The 'Pier and the Cliff continue to be much
attended to. Yefterday evening the former bore
the palm, it being literally crouded by all ranks
and clef:Options.
A lallywell known in the gay part of the me•
tropolis, is here a folitary wanderer. Even the
infinnating eloquence of Capt. S. cannot prevail
on her to quit the enchanting retreat fbe bas flown
to, for the purple of veiling in obfcurity the fad-
ing luftre of her charms.
Among the flaming charioteers, we have a ca..
tain Gentleman from Broad Saint Giles's, whole
bad me down arguments have exalted him into a
high phaeton. In' this vehicle,ahe daily fports his
' figure up and down the High•ftreet, to the no
[mall terror of many fober pedeftrians who come
in his way. -
The Lord Nelfon and the Princefs Charlotte
came in this morning within .an hour of one ano-
ther. Very few paffengers were on board.
Among the lateft arrivals arethe Duke and
Dinh& of MANCNRSTIR° Lord EARDLEY, Mr.
Hon. Colonel EARDLIY, Mr. WODFROUSR, Mr.
and Mrs. Jamas Tams 'sou, Mr. COOPER, Captain
ELRINGTONg Mr. WILSON, Mr. and Mrs. BAKU,
Mr. and-Mrs. GRIMM. Mr. Mu sa a va, Mr. GARD•
N KR; Mr. and Mrs. B. WILL:, Mr. and Mrs.WRI..
TON, Mils CHALKIRS,' itC.

The fine city belies who fo conftantly bathe every
morning, are dubbed by the anti-aquatic fatirical
dames, the beldam Walkffwensex.
Happily the rage for Gallic novelties begins to
fubfide. The pesichent for French women and
French wines abates apace. Among the nunkber
who dally return here from P.tris, not one m ten
is fatisfied with his excurfion.

We have what is called New Ground oyfters :
they are of an uncommon fine, and although not
much liked by the natives, the cits devour .them
with eagernefs, fine. Sir WALTER Foony oat re-
commended them as atorroborant to Mr. Prrp.
It is a faa, that our" late-Premier is tery fond of
them. Three times a week they are forwarded
from hence to Walmer Caftle. ,
This illornibg the Public Breakfall, under the
aufpices of theDuchefs of D vox so aa, took place
at the Profpea Houfe.. Mr. Corr BRILL, the maf-
ter of the houfe, had previoufly made every ar-
rangement for the accommodation of his diftin-
guilhed gueßs, and had ftiared no expence to ren-
der it worthy of filch highsputronage. Tents were
ereaed on the lawn, and the promenade, rooms
I were fet out with great tafte, with the ufuil re-
eibments of tea, coffee, and chocolate. The
furrounding boxes and marquees were likewife ap-
propriated to the fame purpofe, and a choice band
of milk was Rationed in one of the fummer houfes.
The company began to afemble at two o'clock
The clouds of dull from the di (tont hillsannounced
the approach of the fathionables long ore they
came in fight. The following was the order of
I their arrival :

Hitt, the Devotaire fanuly, in their carriages, viz. a cur-
ride, las:daub:4 and poit chariot. In the Brit, came the Duke
and Lidy Harriet Cavendifhi-in the fccond, the Dodds,
Marquis of Hartington, Lady C. Cascada; and Lord Dun-
cannon—ln the third, Lady E. Rafter, Madque de St. jurist
and Mifs Farquhar.
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Earl and C;untcfs of Beiborough, In their chariot.
Duchefs at ManeHefter Mlfs Fitzroy, Mrs. Spacer, Mrs.
Townley, &c: In their eh:riots.
Curricies—Lady Heatheote, Mrs. Duff. Colonel anthhirs.
Orville. Lord Coleraine, Lord Eardley, Lady Young, Mr.
and Mrs. Baldwin.
On hods:back—Sir Charles and Lady Afgill, Lord Henry
Pattie, Capt. Mansfield, Mr. Loftus, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Duff,
Colonel Conway, &c. &e.
On the whole the company muttered about two
hundred perfons. During the time of breakfaft,
Wsivrsav, who was prefent, played feveral fa.
vourite pieces on the harp. At four o'clock the
leaders of the hart cos ordered their carriages, and
foon after the company departed. Lady Ascimi
was dread in a fearlet habit and black beaver hat.
Her Ladjfhip walked force time with the Duchefs
of DIVOISSOIsti j her Graie was dretfed in the
moR l'irnple and becoming manner poffible, in a
white muffin drefa, with a brown farfnet fpencer,
a round thaw bonnet, and white veil.
Bt. Peter's is the afternoon lounge for the cite to
Ake tea, fmoke, and drink Sandwich ale. There
'are three honks of fair entertainment, pleafantly
fituated. • Pat Eng that way a. few days fine, I
was (truck by the following-lines, written with a
pencil on the church porch,, under the head of
a rhapfodical Epigram :
Wine dppoike extremes
.Prod wine ABOVE and
Tine—bra* ebziety alb navy
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' TIPAIN•fterteTLI riser <zd INBAVNIATiVerrI/4:
• IlLisbanntar the edligainion able ha wine weeks adomOog
to ow ot ;be Wham *therm
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Ma. Entroa—The great works whicK are pro-
jeeted for the improvement of this country exceed
every thing of the kind in the billory of the world.
Therg will be more Bills introduced into Puha•
mem this next feflion for canals, railways, roadi,
bridges, ancl inclofures, than ever were known, and
fuch is the fpirit of enterprife, or of patriotifm, or
fuch is the excefs of wealth in the kingdom that
every plan, however eatentive, nay however ex•
itravagam, is inflantly grafped at with avidity, and
the fubfoription an hour.
Amidit there improvements there is none that
deferves more particularly the attention of the
Public and of the Government, than that of iron
railways. They prefent a means of irnprofe•
/Rent eafy, cheap, certain, and which brings with
it no one inconvenience. It is the only prone that
in its refult has gone beyond the original expeeta
tion of its utility. The Surrey iron railway is now
at work from Wandfworth to Garrat. On Thurf•
day !ail I faw one (mall horfe draw three waggons,
containing thirty-three quarters of linfeed, stis the
road ; and this before the iron has taken the polifh
which it will receive from work. I rejoice in the
fuccefs of this improvement fo near Londpn, be.
caufe it will give to the Members of the Legillature
the means of fatisfying themfelves of the praetica-
bility as well al the fuperior advantages of this
fort of contrivance over every other plan pf lam-
ing the expence of carriage.
I confefs I am one of thhfe who think that the

rage for. canals has-gone a little too far. I think
that interrupting, as they necelfarily moll, the
drainage of the country ; impoverifhing the natu-
ral rivers; expanding in a climate already too hu-
mid, sheets of lagnant water, by which peftilential
evaporation is increared, making marines where
there were none before ; and fubjeeting the Mott
produ&ive meadows to cafual inundation; they
ought to be maturely confidered before they are
agreed to by Parliament; particularly fo if the
fame facility can be given to carriage by other
means. It is certain that nothing tends fo much
to the purity of the atmofphere as running water,
and it would be a very material advantage to this
country if the current of rivers and (*reams was
not fo much impeded as it is by the mills and ma-
nufadories which they maintain ; for the rivers are
the natural drainers of the foil, as well as the fource
of a highly oxygenated air. But the mill-dams
are nothing in comparifon of the many hundred
miles of level water which the canals expofe to the
ation of the Sun's rays, and which from their
embankments oozes out and overfpreads the moll
fertile diftrias of the kingdom.'
The great argument for canals is, that more
than any other vehicle of conveyance, they give
the power of tranfporting heavy goods ; and ad-
venturers chiefly calculate on what a canal is ea-
table of carrying, not on what it is likely to be re-
quired to carry. The fuperiority of a canal'over
a railway is this—that one horfe with a barge will
draw fifty ton, whereas one horfe on a railway
will only draw eight or ten ton: but the rail way will
maintain five horfes, and carry the fifty ton at one
haft& pittiget of a canal. Cheapnefs of conveyance
is the firlt thing to be looked for by the manufac-
turer ; and the advantage of a railway is, that it
combines cheapnefs with extent. Let us fuppofe
a country for inftance (like that of the line betwixt
London and Portfmouth) in which the quantity of
carriage must be very limited. We hear of plans
for rival canals and railways out of number. I
think there are no fewer than two canals and two
railways aaually undertaken,. in order to make
navigation round the coal unnecefary—the nur-
fery for rewire% I fuppore being no longer necef-
fary to our maritime ftrength! Let ui enquire what
theft canals and railways will be called upon to do.
By a very accurate climate that I have Peen. the
utmol expeetation formed by the perfons belt ac-
quainted with the line of country is, that there
will not be more than twenty thoufand ton of
goods per annum to be carried through this line*.
Npw, Sir, I will undertake to fay, that confider-
ing the hills, or rather mountains, which mull be
pierced through ; the Tallies that mutt be filled up,
and (unlefs the canals are to he allowed to drain
the rivers) the fire engines that mutt be employed
to fill them with water, rzo,ocio tons per annum
will not pay five per cent. on the capital with which
a canal can be executed ; whereas 20,000 tons per
annum carried along a railway will pay feven and
a half per cent. to the proprietors. This is not
11 all : In the piercing of hills ror a railway every
fpring of water that is opened they fend down
to the adjacent river or dream according to its
natural gravitation, refrelhing the air, and frnai-
! fying the foil through which it pales, whereas a
canal dams it up, and de rives the rivers of their
natural right, as well as the neighbourhood of the
benefit of it. In piercing of hills canals murk go
to a depth which to a certainty lays all the wells
above their level dry ' • a calamity to the indivi-
duals thus deprived of the great neccfrary of life,
which is irreparable. I have known this happen
!in an hundred instances, and it is a rerinus mil:
chief. The extent of it is not to be afcertained.
I have known a tunnel through a hill lay wells dry
at the dillance of ten miles from the place ; and it
has frequently happened that if the hills are con:-
pored of chalk, lone, or metals which run in ftrata,
they open what are called fwallows, by which the
water finks deeper into the bowels of the earth,
itnd is totally loft to the rivulets which ruppty the
rivers in its neighbourhood. In a railway there is
ao fuch danger, as the great principle and utility
of this improvement is to ascend or wind the hill,
or to pierce it only near its fummit. There is no-
thing that Parliament should attend to fo carefully
as to prevent hills from being excavated in the vi-
cinity of towns or of rivers, for the danger is in.
calculable.
But it is faid—..what an advantage to °Dramas t Thor
may carry ftores to Needham*, when by heavy aOll4ll 6c ,
contrary winds, all intsreask by fea is as of. Be it So! OD
vernment may have the fame advantage mere muddy and
more upeditioally by a railwayt There is no Interruption on
a railway —Seaton' do not WA- thew—Tiers are as Jocks,
no ImmdWons, be droughts, no is to Rep them; and there.
pee by en iron railway Rorymay be carried from Deptcolt
Peetbseath in.twMt_pfeer been, in al ember, at the
10406Seeelo re eile• Warn any Webs. sake upon him
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v I throi out there few him for the Thribtll illtnie
ilderation of gentlemen before they hazard their-
, money, or commit themfelves in the many pro-
jeds which are now afloat for canals. Railways
ought to be fairly tried. The
from
with
which they are made all come from the bowels or
the furfdce of our own foil ; lone or oak and iron.
Of the laft our (lock is ilothaullibU, ani our ,
mines are more valuable to gngland in this very
production, than thofe of Pee are to Spain. Rail-
ways are more certain tha canals—They are.nci-
ther affeeed by frofts in inter, nor by droughts
in fummer ; and anoth material advantage is,
they do not fcoop out the earth, nor require one
half of the (pace that a canal occupies, and which
is all loit to agriculture. At a time' when the
fcarcity of materials for the making and mending
of our high roads is fo heavily felt, and is filch
that for want of gravel the Commiffioners for the
Roads near London are at!lually obliged to import
pebbles, (tones, and other materials, it becomes
a confideration worthy their notice, whether iron
railways, which completely remove this evil,
ought not to be introduced wherever the road is
wide enough to admit of them? I have known
250c1. per mile laid out in the repair of a road
near London, which in two years again wanted.
repair. The fame fum would gave made a railway •
in the centre of the very road that would laft for
a century, and take off all the heavy carriage,
leaving a gravel road on both fides for light and
quick travelling. A brAmiIIACTUALa.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, 34e. Ole

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

DOWNING-STREET, SEPTEMBER XI.
The King has been pleated to appoint Colonel Freon& to be
Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over his Mi-
kity's Bland of Dominica.
WAR-OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 2s.
4th Regiment of Dragoons—Cornet Lord William George
Hauy.Sourerfet, from half-pay of tht 4th Dragoons to be
Cornet, vice Faulkner, who exchanges, receiving the diffe-
rence.
aoth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Maximilian Joer-
ra, from ifornpdeles Mounted Riflemen, to be Cornet, vice
Campbell, deceated.
Hompefcies Mounted Riflemen -Lieutenant James Hughes,
from the both Foot, to be Captain, by purchafe, vice Choi-
let, who retires.
sth Regiment of Foot-.. Major Arthur Gore, from the 4oth
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchafe. vice Gooch,
who mires.
13th Ditto—Captain Tryon Bayard, from half-pay of the 4lft

'Foot, to be Captain, Sctiyler, who etc:bin/es, receiving

the difference. -
28th Ditto—Ailiftant-Surgeon A. Williams, from half-pay of
4th Foot, to be Ailiftant-Surgeon, vice Ste Wart, appointed
to the Hofpital.Staff at Jamaica. "
40th Ditto—Lieutenant William Balfour to be Captain, by
purchafe, vice Godfrey, who retires.
47th Ditto—Surgeon Thomas Gunning, from half-pay of the
4th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Loanc, dv3reafial.
69th Ditto--Affanat-Surgeon William Stone, from half-pay
of the Staff Corps, to be Affiftant-Surgeon.
4th Welt India Regiment—Captain William Clones, from half-
pay of the loth Foot, to be Captain, vice Yates, who ex-
changes.
GARRISONS.
Lieutenant Winckworth Touge, of the Royal Fuzileers, to be
Town-Adjutant of Cape Breton, vice Fitailmons, who refigns.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
M'NelU, from the 85th Foot, to be Surgeon

Surgeon
to the Forces.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
Nov. 5. Daniel Simpfon, now or late of Broad-ftreet Buildings,
London, warehoufeman, dealer and chapman, at ten, at

BANKRUPTS.
dward Roberts, of Bedford-court, near went-Garden, Mid;
illefez woollen-draper, dealer and cbapman, to furrendet
Odtober 3, 12, and Nov. 9, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Meffrs. Palmer and Tomlinfons, Warnford-court, Thror
morton-iireet.

Robert Wilkinfon and George Daniel, of Kingfton-upon.Hult,
merchants, copartners, dealer* and chapmen, Odlobcr 15,26,
and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the houfe of John Clarkhin, Silver.
ftreet, Kingfton-upon-Hull. Anomie*, Mr. Sandwich, Hull,
or Mr. Henry Roller, Kirby-ftreet; Hatton-garden, London.
John Beedzkr, late of Market-Deeping, Lincolnihire, brazier
and corn-merchant, dealer and chamnan,Odober 23,24, and
Nov. 9, at eleven. at lk; Black Buil-Inn, in Market-Dceping. ,
Attornies, Mr. William Taylor, Market-Deeping; or Har-
vey and Robinfon, Lincoln's-Inn.
John Hughes, of Woreefter, butcher, dealer and -char:lan,
October I, 8, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the 'h bot Inn, in the
parch of Clanks, Woreefterfhire. Attornies, Mr. Thomas
Price,Worceiter ; or Henry Barker, Efq. Gray's-kin, Londein:
t:.; , DIVIDENDS. •
Wither 20. johnitirkpatrick, of Liverpool, merchant, dealer
and chapman, at one, at the Globe Tavern, Liverpool.
Nov. 23. Daniel Girling. of Beecles, Suffolk, asopkeeper, dealer
' and chapinan, at one, at Guildhall, London.
Nov. z 6. Dudley Johnfon, of St. Paul's Church-yard, London,
, trunk-maker, dealer and chapmin, at ten, at Guildhall.
October 22. John Gilpin, of Wrexham, Denbighthlre, linen.
' After, at eleven, at the Lion-Inn, Wrexham.
Odtober zo. John Barker arnirJarnes Barker, late of Eaft Ret-
ford, Nottinghamshire, mercers, drapers, dealers, chapmen,
and copartners, at the White Hart Inn, Eaft Retford.
October 30. ink-ph Timmins, of Bowling-ftreet, parlay of St.
John the Evangeßft, Weaminfter, fhopkeeper, dealer and
chapmin, at eleven, at Guildhall.
October 22. Sarah Bird, of Manchetter, linen-draper, at eleven,
at the Bridgewater-Awns Inn, Manchefter.
Nov. 26. Richard Ockenden, late of Bexhill. Safe:, shopkeep-
er, dealer and chapman, at ten, at Guildhall, London.
October 26. • William Thomas and Henry Heiketh, late of
Cheitex, bankers and copartners, at eleven, at the Hotel, in
Chetter.
October zs. Joann Oldfield, late if Leeds. Verlaine, cloth.
merchant, dealer and chapman, at ten, at the Bull and Mouth
Inn, Leedi.
Oaober 23. Nathaniel Cockayne; of Derby, baker, at eleven,
at the Foz and Owl Inn, Derby.
October 21. John Haigh, of Low Whitley, Northumberland,
fadtor, at eleven, at the Shakefpeare Tavern, New cattle.
Nov. 6. William Chivers, now or late of Newgate-street, Lon-
don, upholder, at two, at Guildhall.
Weber z 6. Abraham inion Doncker Cuvelje, of Lancaftcr.
Merchant, at eleven, at the houfe of Francis ;Ridge, iu the
Market place, ManCluifter.
Nov. s. Lewis Sack, of Hatton-court, Threadneedle-ftreet,
1 Auden, merchant, at eleven, at Guildhall.
October 13. David Hopwood, now or late of Union-ftreet, St.
Mary-la-Bonne,Middleftx; grocer, at ten, at GuildhalL