Star.
London, England, 1831-09-26 00:00:00

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It is impossible to refrain from expressing our
sense of the virtue of the people of England.
Borne down to the earth by the oppressions of fifty
years' misrule, they were inflated with hope when
the present Ministry entered into office. They
expected immediate relief, but office is not power,
and every exertion was crossed by the grafted in-
fluence of the adverse faction. The pressure too
was not felt by the new Ministers as it was by
the people ; and to proceed with caution was more
safe than to indulge impatience. Jun 'us de-
scribed a faction in his time greater than the
throne, and in sixty years its power has been en-
creased tenfold. The two last Kings succumbei
to it for the sake of their peace, and if Knio
WILLIAM has taken the bull by the horns, the
victory was therefore not assured. Of facts of this
nature, the world can receive information only
in some distant epoch. George the Fourth de-
sired to do that which his patriot brother has dared,
bat his courage failed him ; and, unable to subdue
the faction he surrendered to it, and hence many
circumstances of his reign so inconsistent with his
amiable personal character. This will explain many
incongruities, and will also serve as an apology for
an honest ministry in not attempting many ame-
liorations which they know the people want, which
the people deserve, and which the welfare of the
country renders indispensable.

The faction which has so long preyed on the
people, may be compared to two wings of an army.
One has been defeated; but victory is not assured
till we have also defeated the other. The contest
begins on Monday next, and, if victory follow,
the King will then be able to be the father
of his people, and the talents of his ministers
may be solely and singly directed to the benefit
of the people. Till then, both King and Minis-
ters have, for half a century, been compelled to
consider the people only through the Faction ; to
serve it first, and leave it to its cupidity to do
what it pleased for the people.

This, in a few words, is tie suns and substance
of the History of the Government of England for
the past half.century ; and viewed thus. all the
events and circumstances are matters of easy solu-
tion.

How tremblingly alive, therefore, ought to be
the entire population of this great empire, on the
issue of the contest which commences on Mon-
' day nest. On it depend their hopes as a people,
for if the faction were unfortunately to prevail,
we may bid a long fmeeell to England's great-
ness ; and her industrious and enterprising eons
must seek the asylum of other climes.
To assure victory, the King and his Ministers
require the aid of the whole people ; and whatever
may be the urgency of public distress, this victory
must be achieved before there can be a chance of
radical relief. The Government will then be single,
and have no object but the public good ; while no
good could be unalloyed, if it first passed to the
people through an irresponsible greedy faction,
greater than the throne*. and severing the throne
from the people.
The Ministers have wisely commenced the con-
test by enlarging the public accommodations, that
the people may see that there is fair play ; and
they also propose that the discussions should be by
day-light, as most suited to the display and as-
cendancy of Truth. This is wise and politic, and
must tend to assure that public triumph which, we
conceive, cannot be forfora moment doubtful.

The Berlin Gazette of the 18th at leagtb hes
broken silence, emit Polish affairs. It corrects
some of its former snore, about the Polish armies'
being included in the Capitulation, and proves that
the Polish Cayes is very far from being last. It
seems agreed en all bands, that the %Isaiass lost
from 20,000 to *,OOO men, and some accounts
mention 28,000. The Censtitutieinsel "mass
seam Generale as killed and It now superaddel
the same of Marshal PASICIWITOCII-11 tittle

stance alluded to in late letters from Berlin and
Frankfort. A spent cannon ball struck him on the
breast, and a musket ball wounded him in the arm;
and it was understood that he was not publicly vi-
sible afterwards ; the accounts of his death are
therefore highly probable.
Now, can it be believed, that according to the
Berlin Gazette, the Russians celebrated in Warsaw
the name-day of Prince Alexander ; or that the
presenting bread and salt to the execrable Michsel
was a ceremony performed as a triumph, amidst
the dead and the dying ? To put forth such facts
as the Berlin Gazette has done, is a violation of
every proper feeling of mankind ; and it proves that
these Court newspaper-writers, and their employ-
ers, belong to the fourteenth century.
It would, however, appear that in burying their
dead, curing their wounded, and reorganising their
half-annihilated army, besides averting the hostili-
ties of the Polish armies, still entire and intact,
they have something else to do besides keeping
Saints' days, and receiving homage from a de-
fenceless Priest.: In fact it appears that so far
from the Polish armies being overcome in the
assault at Warsaw, they had left the city on a
grand expedition, doubtless -for the purpose
which we surmised on Saturday. Warta", ap-
pears, therefore, to have been defended chiefly
by its own National guard, and the artillery ;1
these brave patriots, like the Greeks at
Thermopylae, were to stand in the gap, till the
army effected the objects of the expedition, which
filled all with hope. No doubt, therefore, sotto
traitors in Warsaw, gave notice to the Russian
general, and he probably expected a very differ-
ent •ictory to that which the brave defenders
allowed him to gain. We must wait for Polish
accounts before we can completely understand the
whole affair.

This is certain—that the Polish troops which
remained in Warsaw, passed the bridge to Praga,
and thence to Modlin, having stopped in their
route at Jabloons. The main Polish army is still
estimated in the Berlin accounts, at 60,000 men,
besides the corps in other province,. In truth,
it may be doubted, whether the Poles in arms
are not equal in number to the remnant of the
Russians in Poland ; and such being the fact,
the occupation of Warsaw must prove a secondary
object. It is no: to be believed, that a single
Polish farmer will carry provisions to Warsaw,
while it is occupied by the Russians; and sup-
plies from Prussia, on which the Russians have
hitherto depended, cannot be conveyed one hun-
dred and fifty miles, while the Poles keep the
field in force.

If Easzawirscif be dead, as seems highly
probable, this circumstance alone will be worth a
victory to the Poles ; and with the other Russian
losses, will more than compensAte for the useless
feather which the Russians have acquired, by the
temporary occupation of the walls and houses of
Warsaw.

We are justified in these arguments and con-
clusions, by the statemenu in the Berths Gasette
and Paris papers. _

Louts Pinups's, his Minister Perier, and
the Chamber of Deputies, continue to pot the
French people, and the common sense of the
world, in the wrong. What purpose this is to
answer, we are at a loss to conjecture ; for the
people and common sense will return to the
attack, and will be sure to prevail. It is
monstrous to hear it alleged, that if the French
people fostered and protected liberty in other coun-
tries, they thereby would involve themselves in a
general war. The declaration of such fear is an
encouragement to despots to repress liberty, and
oppress its friends in all countries. What, for
example, would be the effect if a French army
were to march into Italy, with the avowed de-
sign of restoring the civil rights of the Italians ?
Would not all the people join them, and even the
Austrian soldiery desert to their standard !
In a word, would not the whole fabric of Aus-
trian Despotism tumble to pieces in a month ?
Nor would this be a war of aggression
on the part of France; for the aggression began
with Austria,in assailing the fundamental principles
of the French Governmenti n the persons of the Ita-
lians. Just so, if the King of Prussia dared to oppose
a French army, marching towards Poland, and that
army appeared as the friendsiawl supporters of
civil liberty in any part of the &simian dominions,
what chance could the Prussian Cabinet have in
such a contest ? The ground would slip from under
its feet; and we should soon hear of the King
of Prussia being again a fugitive at Koaingsberg.
We are far from instigating a war, so fatal to
the false pretensions of the Holy Alliance ; but if
they provoke, and volunteer it, they wnuld seek
and deserve the inevitable pasishmest of their own
crime. It never was suppmed that the French
army would pass its frontiers, without the
ally of its liberal principles, which would
double its number in every day's advance. But
if this be called propagandises, who are the
propagandists—those who "prase •tbe nations,
in those who merely awe • on the oppressors,
the principles on which Ise, make wanton
war ? We repeat what we have said illy times
within the last six mounts—that 50.400 French-
men, with the principles of freedoms inscribed on
their standards, might march ha bloodless triumph
Armlet the Spanish Peninsula; aid 100,000 from
sue Gad of Emits se she selter,if do Hely Al&
lace were do hadieeteet at II paella k.
We are aware that the liseily ware of Napoleon,

and the ultimate repulse of the French from all
their conquests, are quoted as proofs that mischief
would result from the French troops again passing
their frontier ; but there is no analogy between the
circumstancea.Napoleon was himself u great an en-
emy to liberal institutionsas any of the kingson whom
he made war ; and his victories presented no peculia
hopes to the people among whom he marched. But
how different would be the reception of French
armies, who appeared as champions of liberty, and
asserters of the just rights of oppressed people !

ROYAL EXCHANGR, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off on Saturday, at 82} fur
the Account, opened at 82} t ; at present they are
82, i.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols were looking up, and done at 82a for
Account ; have since receded to 82i I, and 821
for money, with a heavy market at present.
In the Foreign Market little is doing at present.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock, shut. Three per Cent. Reduced, abut.
Three per Cent. Consols, 823 1. Three and a Half per
Cent. 1818, shut. Three and a Half per Cent. Red.
shut. Three and a Half per Cent. New, 90 891 1. Four
par Cent. 1828, abut. Long Annuities, Jan. 1800, shut.
Annuities, Oct. 1858, shut ; do. Jan. 1880, —. India
Stock. ; do. Bonds, 1 dis par. South Sea Stock, 911.
New Annuities, 801. £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 11 10 12 10;
£6OO do. 11 12; £lOO and ‘2OO do. 11 12. Consols for
Account, 821 11. _

This day despatches were received at the Co•
lonial Office, from Van Diemen's Land, dated the
7th of May, and Jamaica, dated the 17th of
August.
Their Majesties left town about half-past three
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, escorted by a party
of Lancers, for their Palace at Windsor. Pre-
vious to their departure, their Majesties received
visits from the Duke of Sussex and the Princess
Sophia, and the King gave audiences to Lord
Hill and Lord Holland.

Circulars have been issued by his Grace the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. that in
various parishes, where the noble duke possesses
property, he is willing to let to small and industri-
ous occupiers from 10 to 50 acres of land each.—
Bucks Gazette.

Prince Lucien Murat, second sou of Joachim
Murat, the late ex-King of Naples, was married
on the 18th of last month, at Trenton, New Jersey,
to Carolina Georgians, the youngest daughter of
the late Major Thomas Fraser, of South Carolina.
The Waterloo bridge New Street Bill has now
passed both Houses.

New MEDICAL Paorsesoitsinre—The estab-
lishment of a Chair for Pathology, in Edinburgh
University, has joss been determined on. and Dr.
John Thomson is appointed Professor.
Planche hu a drama ready, founded upon a
French production called Victorine, nearly the
whole of which is supposed to represent the hero-
inter dream. She has two lovers in Act 1, one a no-
bleman, and the other a respectable person in
a lower rank of life, the last only having honour-
able intentions. At the close she goes to bed,
and dreams that she has become the mistress of the
nobleman, has been deserted, and has committed
the vilest crimes, and the whale promos of bee
vision is represented in action upon the stage.
OLYMPIC THILATIRE.—This theatre has been
decorated with much taste, in a style at once
novel and striking. The ceiling is in imitation of
an ornatnentedeilk canopy drawn tight bygarlands of
flowers held by lying cupids, behind which is seen
clouded sky. The whole has a most pleasing and
appropriate effect, and reflects great credit on the
artists, Crace and Son.

HATMARIZT TnlLlTaz.—The comic opera of
The Cabinet was revived on Saturday evening
with great success. Mr. Plumer, as Prince Or-
lando, put forth stronger claims to public favour
than he did when he played Henry Bertram. The
house was exceedingly full.
The Emerald yacht, with their Royal Highnesses
the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria and
suite on ►oard, passed into Portsmouth harbour
yesterday from Cowes, with the standard flying.
It was saluted by the fleet and garrison. After
they had viewed the ships in ordinary, by sailing
round them, the Emerald returned to Cowes.
Upwards of 6fty workmen are busily employed'
in erecting the galleries in the House of Lords,
which are to be the same as those used on the late
Queen's trial. The Committee have also deter-
mined that these galleries shall *nein permanent ;
and have recommended a special accommodation
for the public press.
At Garraway's, on Friday, the celebrated Pain's-
hill estate, near Cobham, the residence of the late
Countess of Carhampton, containing four thousand
acres of highly ornamental land, with a capital I
mansion, was sold for 28,0001.

DESTRIICTI Vg Ft RES. Yesterday morning,
about half-past two o'clock, a fire consumed the
house of Mr. Charles Crawley, a carver and gilder,
Whitehorse-yard, Drury-lane.
About three o'clock this morninitite shop of Mr.
Joint Goodburn, jeweller, 67, lAndon-road, was
entered by thieves, and property abstracted to the
*daunt of £l,OOO which the thieves attempted to
remove to an empty house in the rear of the pre-
mises in Prospect-row, when they were fortunately
discovered by the police, whn, entering the house
at the front door, the thieves decamped over a
high wall (by means of a ladder which they found
in the yard) leaving the greater part of the property
behind them.

PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS.—This mornint•b a
aneameas and highly respectable meeting of the ntee.peyen,
of this parish was held at Mr. Fairlle. the header's spacious
premises, in Augnewsmstreet, a Park, is take int,
consideradon the pope*, dwit any farther Paro-
chial Rates until the paelskiestes shall re ebtaired a full
RocLit
control in the appainement of Vestryanees, and all the rakers
edit pad* and in the menegmeeng ef their own affairs.—
Haws: isvice.i.. lb+ wee imegimeasly called to the
chair, and in as able a d ehrepteat speech of considerabl
barb, showed the manifeld sad' iteentanlated erne and
alms§ metelled apes the pethidne's by the existence
of emit-elected inespossibk body et MB, hiving thilettire
sashedel the parish tends, the appelatmem dal therell.
ehlal ears, and the management ea peembial affinity asst
erlos chimed the right tit taxing their haw reddish,'
witheat their emusat. The parish of Morp4a4teitare had ow
the &dens exam& of withholding the taw midi Ibllr
grievances ware embossed, and why ahead am Is. Peastas
Igiegt a similar course P It was bet right that every WWI
1 shril awe payer should knew how the wog exacted
teem hies by the Vestryq was expended, and that he shoed
hare a vote he the appoiitmeat.l all the preside' ellketts
Ile should dee knew who were the who romped
rilke pewee d been*, the keepers the pinata puree,
,Wror wheat the parteUeawe at loge Amid hare • dee
I wowed.

AM(JSE3IENTS FOR TIIF: WHIZ.
This Evening.-41aIrMallt ET. " King Lear:" LOW,
Mr. Kean—." John Jones," and " Ale Wifc or my Place."
—Anzutra: (last night but two)—" The Evil Eye"—" Old
and Young," and "Jonathan in England."—Suaamr.
( Mr. Falrbrother's Benefit) " Ivanhoe ;" Rebecra. Mrs.
17atzwilliant—" The Chestnuts," and " The Red Rover."..—
Querw's (first time)—" Austerlitz; or, I'hc Soldier's
Pride"—The Infant Trumpeter, and " My Wedding Supper
the Night before the Coronation" (and to.morrow.)—.
ClTY—(Miss Furde's benefit)—" Courting by Mistake"—
" The Sultan," and " The Slave."—Costreu (and To-
morrow)—" Dominique the Resolute"—The Spanish Her-
cules," and "Jane Shore."—Sartzza's Wrzzi (ditto)
" The Merry Maidens"—" Cupid turned Pnysician"—
" The Permits ; or Guager's Daughter," aid " The Ileart
oF Mid Lothian ;" Madge Wildfire, Mrs. Fitzwilliam.—
Pairiztou (and during the week)—" A Lon.l Trades.
man's Life"—ll Diavolo Antonio. and " D:i•riaique the
Possessed."—Pattaamowtow. " Tire Rivals"—" The Ly-
ing Valet," and Blank-Eyed Susan•"
TO-MORROW. —HILYKARICRT. " intrigue"—
" The School for Coquettes"—" John Jun ,t, ' and
4 Frightened to Death." Auer.rut. (last night but one)—
" The Evil Eye"— Wanted a Governess"—and " Jonathan
in England." Sumter and during the Week)—" The
Pedlar's Acre," with the Coronation, and other Entertain.
meets. Quarles, (and To-morrow) —" Austerlitz"—
The Infant Trumpeter, and " My Wedding Supper."
Ctrs, (and to.morrow)—" Conning by Mistake"—" Of
Age To-morrow;" Baron Willinghurst, Mr. Forrester
(first appearance)—and Eily O'Conner." FR1(1111110.
Ylolf..—" The Rivals"--and " Lear of Private Life."
WED MUD A Y.—Harman s az. —" Othello," Othello,
Mr. Kesn—" John Jones," and" Belles have at ye All."
ArteLrat, (Last night)—" The Evil Eye"—" The Virtu-
resque"--and " Jonathan In England." Cosuan—"
miniqun the Resolute "—and " The Orphan of Paris."
SADLWS Rochester"—" Mischief Making"—
and other Entertainments.—Paxastiontow—" Romeo and
Juliet"—and other Entertainments.
THURSDAY.HATMAIIIIET—" The Cabinet"—" My
Wife, or my Place," and "John Jonea." QUSEN'S (..nd
during the Week)--" Austerlitz"—" The Intent Trum-
peter," and " Tom Thumb," Toot Thumb, Master Man-
gum ; Lord Grizzle, first time, Mr. °TWO. CITY—
"Courting by Mistake," and other Entertainments. CO.
RIIRO—" Dominique the Resolute," and " The Victim of
Saint Vincent. Sant.ea's WILLS—" Rochester,' " Mis-
chief Making." and other Entertainments.
FRlDAY.—.H.meanate—" A New Way to Pay Old
Debte," Sir Giles Overresch, Mr. Kean—" Belles have
at ye All"—and "John Jones." Conuso—" Dominique
the Resolute"—and " The Victim of St. Vincent." Sao-
TAR'S WRLLII" The Heart of ]lid-Lothian"—" Cupid
turned Physician," —and " Rochester."
SATURDAY.—Dauer-Laxe.—" Honey Moon"—and
" High Life Below Stairs."
HArmaterr---" The School for Coquettes"—with " John
Jena"—and " No Song no Supper."
OLYMPIC—I' The Chaste Salute." Colonel' &flat and
Lisoine (first time) Mr. Horn and Mies Forde--with a
new buriesta, in which Mr. Liston will appear—and
The Olympic Revels," Pandora, Madame Vends.
Concract—g Dominique the Resolute—and " The Card*
Spectre."
OADLBR'S .WiLLIB..." The Heart of Mid Lothian"—
" Cupid turned Physician," and" Rochester."
PARLIsniENTARY DINNER,
i TO LORD ALTHORP AND LORD J. RUSSELL

Bsterds ,at half-past seven o'clock. 210 Members of the
House of who have supported Ministers during
the progress of the Reforms IW, sat down to a sumptuous
&neer in the Mutineers' Hall, Ludgate-bill. Mr. Lay, of
the Alban Tama. provided the feast.
Sit FILMIC'S BUDDIES'S took the Chair amidst gsseral
cheers. lb. Hunt did not make his apposeneee. and some
apparent consternation, followed by a betray laugh, was oc-
casioned by a gentleman taking up a and attached to a vs.
cant seat, adjacent to which there was a body of stinewbar
Aristocratic Members and rending the genie of Mr. Hunt
in lieu of the rail an Mr. O'Commell nerapied a coo.
spinosa place beside Mr. Hums. The Max was Axed up
most splendidly. Flags were onettemisil Sim =dam parts
of the Hall, and there was a wry rich Milky of The
paw, surrounded b a splendid stet, with gas,
=against the wall, which was hung with elms cloth,
the chair, Suet great Abet to the =me. In the
was a very excellent band, and a sesame
et nisissal gentlemen attended.
After the doth had been removed, the Ring, the Qecen,
and the nut of the Royal Family. and the Da= of Souses,
WINS drunk amidst great knee.
The Cuanteran tiro " she beelike of their dis-
=cgs Lad
ahals le
very and Lord J. Bu
mat tssmaa sed,"wed
at mane knigh upon the urbanity and the unexampled for.
barmen Nish Lord Althorp bad shown during the proves.
of the Rohm Bill, which conduct bad pined Ma sun the
einkatko sad esteem of his oppasata Wish respect to
Led John Russell, he the beet thanks of his
eIe=ALSHOILT returned his heartfelt thanks m the gee.
donne memenibled for the math of mums which they bad
sheers. Be was pond of it. He hod never been embeds=
to elide office int he had been, and was still, anradines
'blithe pp. y and pad s>tWet his esuoternia.
Mk lbel vain she poem when he mob
sub a minxisa, might he mgeonimmd.
Lard Join Rwerates, sai4 he was as peed of the se.
mini= he had rramind that day as his noble Mouth lima
physicalsseetieembd certainly been made by him' ad $e
collage's; but what would they not do when unissued by
each • body me the members then peesent t He coraiedeti
with a tray high encomium upon the public mama of Me
Psoads Ihrdoes, whose health he proposed.
Mk Fiances BURDILTS badly renamed ebonite, =4 in
wpreouldposing theref the Lord Mayor, hoped elks he
be again
The LORD MATO, suitably acknowledged she hate=
Sir Fiances, in proposing Grey and thesser of
his Majesty's Ministers," hoped that they would nes give
up dice for say tale.
Lord Awrsionie returned thanks en the pert of his eel.
les ur and limeelf.
IBILINOTOM pronounced a high Olosualem en the
of Ansey and the lash Goveninnest, and pee.
less Much yet remained to he dune fur belied,
what amid be door be was certain the pose= Govan.
meat weld perks.
Mr. OWMILIT returned thanks, and remarked that the
present bsd not gone by widow Wend receiving be-
nefit from k. Much did indeed remain to be dome, bat what
could be palmed would not be emitted.
Mr. illacees.ux proposed " the cause of Referee in a
Wirt epoch.
The Right Ron. C. Owl. gave '4 the beelike d the
four Members her the Cky of Lanai."
Aldermen WOOD and WAIIIIIMAW 7101111111 thradra
The Canna= gave " the Liberty of the Item" The
toast was 'imported by Lord iloararn.
Mr. Weitz, M.P. fur Ti , pursed "she kakis
d the Releasers of the United ,
Mr. C. Donnas, as an old Reformer. begged to return
hie thanks to Lords Aida" and Russell fee their academe
in the cause..

A Henna peeped " the health of Hr. Dundee."
Thanks were Mew meld is is *swards, and to the $ll.
doom' Company list do sat ef their Hall, after with* the
Company memsesist helf-pmt team
A select Consemisteeof the Lade have been sitting
on the London Coal Trade Bill ; and they have re-
ported " that it is expedient to proceed with the
Bill." FuTther progress in it is therefore fixed for
this evening.
Jest as lbe house was about to aJjoure on Sa-
turday mornint, though the matter was not beard
in the Gallery, a new writ was moved for Pem-
brokeshire, in the room of Sir J. Owen, Baronet,
whose election bad been that night deelared to be
void ; but the motion was resisted, on account of
being brought forward at such an uneesedy hoot,
and before the house even possessed the esidepos
respecting the extraordinary conduct of the Sheriff,
and the modes was eventually withdrawn. •
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compliant* with a aemenseeig gawped aequilidese,
have called a general meeting sky* Pospildbie
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A civil engineer, the correspondent of a morn-
iog parer, has 'written a series of letters, with a
viewview+to Ally the 'erroneous impression of some
'Persons, that the settlement in this structure ren-
'tiered it unsafe. He gives at the same time, some
additional memoranda on the fouudatinns of the
•ander-mentionedipublic works, as they are all put
iri on 'the same principle as London brides, and
..ntier the direction either of the late Mr. P.ennie,
nrlhis Son,. the present Sir John Rennie.
Works at Sheerness Dock-yard began 1816.
finished in 1831.. Contractors, Jolliffe and Banks.
This Royal arsenal (" once a mereswamplranks
lagli among our naval depots for extensive and,
commodious basins, magazines, &c. surpassing
that grand French marine depot Cherbourg, for
tr. ngth, convenience, and sire. All the-e foun-
dations are composed of sound beech piles, fir'
sleepers, planking, &c. well bolted or slam:
to7cther. On these twin.* well levelled the ma;
sonry takes its rise. At t:tis nlace there is a sur-
prising strong stone wall facing the sea, which has
inch] several violent storms, and not a err.ck or flaw
ran be seen.

Works at Woolwich Dock-yard, began 182.5.
Cnished 1831. The same contractors. A, strong
river wall, chiefly brick, extending a quarter of a
mile in lcrgth, large slips and ha-in, foundations
composed and put in as above. Ne settlement in
these works.

Works at Deptford yard, began 1809 finished
1812. The same contractors: a river wall, in
magnitude and workmanship little inferior t', Wool-
wich. Foundation as above : stands well. This
was a difficult job, bring sin-roulade: with strong
land springs.
Works at the Vic! nalling-vard, Deptford, began
1813, finished 1820. The same contractors :
•river wall, principally brick. At this place 20,000
troops can embark in a few hours fr-m off the
quay. As it is covered with heavy-goods constantly
it has been well tried. Foundation as abase. Not
a settlement, crack, or slightest failure is risible •
here.

Vest India Dock entrance. The same con-
tractors : remarks as favourable as above on the
state of the foundation, &c.
London Dock entrance. The same contractors :
remarks as favourable as above on the state of the
foundation, &c.

Southwark Bridge, began in 1813, and finished
in 18'20. The same contractors : all the founda-
tions of this bridge put in as above, and do stand
beyond the most sangaine expectations of most
professional men.

Waterloo Bridge, began in 1808, finished in
JBl7. The same contractors : This noble bridge
has been finished 15 rears, and on a recent exa-
mination of the foundations, at which I was pre-
sent, the piles, sleepers, and planking, when cut,
were as fresh and sound as if only imported yes-
terday from the Baltic. Previous to the investiga-
tion many proprietors were greatly alarmed, but
soon found the rumour arose from gross delusion
and ignorance of bridge architecture.

The British Museum- , Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, is the first large building on the right
}..and going from Bloomsbury-square towards Bed-
-I'OA-square. This great and useful national insti-
tution emanated from the liberality of Sir Hans
Sloane, who merits the hononr of being considered
its founder. The museum which this public spi-
rited. man left to the nation, cost him upwards of
r,0,0001. and he bequeathed it at his death, which
occurred the 11th of January, 1753, on condition
hoar Parliament paid his executors 20,0001. and
p ,rchased a house sufficiently commodious for its
reception. The Parliament readily embraced the
offer, and passed an act " for the purchase of the
museum or collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of
tl.c Harleian collection of manuscripts ; and for
providing one general repository for the better re-
oertion and more convenient use of the said collec-
tions, and of the famous Cotton library, and of
tire additions made and to be made thereto." The

Government immediately raised the sum of
100,0001. by lottery, purchased and established the

museum under its Present name, and appointed
governors and trustees according to the tenour of
• the founder's will. The trustees shortly after pur-
chased the mansions and gardens of the Montague
family for 10,0001. upon which they expended
nearly 30,0001. more in necessary repairs. :theta-
• lions, and conveniences for the reception of the
united *collection. This mansion, called Montague
House, was erected by John Duke of Montague,
keeper of the wardrobe to Charles 11. and who was
afteruards in high favour with King William and
Queen Anne. The assertion in my life of Sir Chris-
topher Wren, that it was designed and built by
Bobert Hooke, the inventor of spring clocks and
pocket watches, has been contradicted ; but it has
_'been corroborated by John Evelyn, who in his
Memoirs (vol. i. r. 484) says, " May 11th—I
(lined with Mr. Charlton, and sent to see Mr.
Mountague's palace near Bloomsbury, built by
Mr. Hooke of our socicy, after the French
manner."

The original collection has been much enlarged
by numerous and valuable additions to every de-
partment orthe Muieum, by donations, legacies,
and judicious purchases by the trustees, aided by
• • the liberislity of Parliament. King George 11.1
gave' many munificent donations, among which
are a large and valuable collection of pamphlets
. • .published during. the eventful reign of Charles I.
Among othei•s should be enumerated the collection
of Biography presented by Sir William Musgrave;
tie entire library of Clayton Ctacherode, Esq.
Mr. Garrick's collection of Old Plays, the Hama-
[OP Vases, .the Egyptian Antiquities; the Town-
ley, the Elgin, and the Phygaleian Marbles; and,
" though last not least," his late Majesty King
George IV.'s.splendid and nmuiticent gift of the
leiyate librirry.of his late tither, which had be-
_ :come his private property by bequest.
. . •The otiginal building has also been enlarged by
the gallerya•the Tewnley Marbles, designed by
. • 114, Seuuders.; . the temponsry • galleries of the
• Fslgikand Phygalttiau marbles ; the • new reading-
- ..ruonsac anti these for George IV.'s library, de.
siinsslsly•timirke. These additions are still in
progrstas,,i acid .the. old buildings will be ptogres-
- tsitelynakeil.tkwettakOal rebuilt, from .time to time,
Atlailitikal*foilllklUigootby Snsirke.
L. flown 40.0.4,144.8ritt51i Museum are,
C hiseritsary...the . Lord Chan-
.. 4,4141,041. e.i4l4ogslitßtetilditnt of- Au. Couopil, the
4ffilikit*4444l:foottary* the-toad -Wiry Seal,
*di First Loitsiott(t-tilf.tataitsit,7,-,41r0:%0rt! Hin'h

Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Speaker of
the House of Commons, the three principal Secre-
taries of State, the Bishop of London, the Chan-
cellcr of tic ENchequer, the Lord Chief Justice of
the King's Bench, the. Master of the Rolls, the
Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the
Attorney and Solicitor-General, and the Presi-
dents of the Royal Society, Collegi! of Physicians,
Society of Antiquaries, and Royal Academy for
the time being, ex officio trustees ; nine family
trustees, representing the families of Sloane,
Cotton, Harley, Townley, Elgin, and Knight ;
of which the present are, the Reverend
Arthur Annesley and George Booth Tyndale,
Esq. for the Cotton family ; Lord H. W. Ben-
tinck, and the Hon. G. Ellis Agar, for the
Harley ; Peregrine Edward Townley, Esq. for the
Townley ; tha Earl of Elgin, for the Elgin ; T.
Andrew Knight, Esq. for the Knight ; and that
for the Sloane is at present vacant. There are also
fifteen elected trustees, chosen by the other two
classes, which at present are—the Duke of Rut-
land, the 111drquisses of Stafford, Lansdowne, and
Camden ; the Earls Spencer, Hardwicke, Ash-
burnham, Harrowby, and Aberdeen ; the Lords
Grenville,.Farnborough, Stowell, and St. Helens;
Henry Bankes, Esq. M.P. and Alexander Baring,
Esq. M.P. The other officers are H. Ellis, Esq.
F.R.S. principal librarian; the Reverend Josiah
Forshall, keeper of the manuscripts c Frederick
Madden, assistant ; the Rev. Henry Baber, M.A.
keeper of the printed books ; Nicholas Carlisle,
Esq. second keeper ; the Rev. Henry Carey, M.A.
William Armstrong and John H. Glover, assistants;
F. A. Walter, extra assistant ; Edward Hawkins,
Esq. F.R.S. keeper of the antiquities and coins ;
Charles F. Barnwell, assistant ; J.l'. Smith, extra
assistant and keeper of the collection of prints : C.
Konig, Esq. F.R.S. keeper of the natural history ;
John G. Children, assistant ; Robert Brown, Esq.
F.R.S. keeper of the Banksian Botanical collec-
tion ; the Rev. Josiah Fershall, secretary ; J.
Scotney, accountant; and Messrs. Bray and War-
ren, solicitors. —Elmes's Topographical Dictionary
of London.