Star.
London, England, 1823-09-06 00:00:00

THE DESCENT.


1,

Last night, about eight o'clock, the two aeronauts
descended in a turnip-field between Stroud and Ro-
chester, in perfect safety. The packing of the balloon
occupied some time, when they instantly proceeded
for London, where they arrived about two o'clock this
morning. They both appeared in excellent health
and :pints after their aerial excursion, and Mr. Gra-
ham, in consequence of his success, and the approba-
tion he received, has iutimated his intention to re-as.
cend in a short time. The balloon contained the enor-
mous quantity of 2000 cubic gallons of gas.

We understand, that during the stay of his Royal
Highness the Duke of CLARENCE, at Chatham, a
number of rockets of a new invention will be tried
on Chatham Lines.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—By letters just re-
ceived by way of Halifax, from Mortier, Newfound-
land, we have an account of the Mount - house
schooner, of Plymouth, James Colman master,
bound to St. John's, being lost, from which the fol-
lowing is an extract am sorry to find that the
Vista, of POole, struck on a piece of ice and went
down. A similar accident happened to a schooner
from Plymouth, part of the crew was brought into
Burin. The loss of the latter vessel is one of the
most melancholy events that has happened for many
years. A piece of ice struck the rudder, broke and
unshipped it ; this happened in the longitude 45% :
the vessel became unmanageable, she bilged against
the ice, filled with water, and went down : with much
exertion tit! crew, consisting of six rnen.and two pas-
sengers got out the boat. The Captain's first object
was to secure a compass, quadrant, and chart, and as
soon as these things were in the boat, all hands found
it necessary to take to her; there was not time to•pat
a•biscuit of bread into her; this happened in the
evening, and they passed that night on a piece of ice
on which they hauled up the boat. In the morning
.the sea ran high and washed over them; they launched
the boat and shaped their course for the land, the
ind being easterly. The ninth day the boat had
advanced so far as the mouth of the bay, when. she
was fallen in with by the brig Matty, bound to Burin,
and only the Captain and tss o others were alive, one
of whom was the owner of the vessel, and he died
twelve hours after the arrival of the Matty at Burin ;
his son was a corpse in the boat when the brig fell in
with her. The Captain is teeovcring, his feet having
been very badly •frost-bitten ; the sailor is iu a very
dangerous way, both feet and hands are dreadfully
frost-bitten, and mortification is apprehecaded:',

CORONERS'

Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an Iriquid.
tion was held before T. *rIttLING, Esq. Coroner, at
the ll'ack Dog, Drury-lane, on the body of Edward
Reynolds, who died of injuries he received by a felt
from the works around the new Church,Lisson-grove,
George Damm, mason, proved that the deceased
was employed as a labourer on the works, and on the
28th of August, he was rolling a truck, and by some
accident falling, he rolled with the crock into a SAW.
pit, eight feet deep. Instant assittance Was afforded
him, and he was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, a
little tipsy ; his left arm was broken to piece;. •
Mr. James. Alexander, secretary and surgeon to
the Middlesex Hospital, proved that the deceased
was brought into the Hospital on the 28th of August,
with a compound fracture of the left arm ; both
bones were broken; the arm was bound, and berm
dered abortive all the attempts to cure him by con.
tinually tearing the bandages from his arm, and
completely disturbing the splinters of bone. lie was
visited by his friends, and appeared, Morn his turbo.
lent behaviour, constantly inebriated. On Sruirday
evening be created a ten ibte uproar in the ward, and
got out of bed and walked about, seemingly drunk,
Cono E It.-- Was he deranged? Witness..—Alb,
I certainly not : he spoke rationally, and when he tote
oti the bandages, Ire begged to have them repla -ed.
I rather think his ti iends must have introduced spirits.
Ile was an It ishman.

Juror.—After he died, did you examine his head;
he might have sustained some injury from the fall
Witness.—We were unable : in a short time after he
expired, a phalanx of lei, country people surrounded
the Hospital, and we were unable to resist them ;
they seized the body and ca►ried it away. (h was
here stated4o the Jury, that this happened in conse-
quence of the current belief, that all th'ose who ei-
pire in Hospitals are made, as vulgarly termed," sub-
jects," or, in other words, set apart for dissection).
The brother of the deceased was called, and it ap.
peared the friends and family had dete:mined that
the deceased should not be kept for dissection.
The Jury found a verdict of— Accidelltal Death.
Thursday; the 28th ult. an Inquest Was held at
Gainsborough, upon the body of Charles Jealous, a
pilot, who, it appeared, while smoking his pipe, un-
fortunately had it broken in his mouth, and the cnd
being forced against the roof of the palate, produced
a mortification. The Jury returred a verdict of—
Died by the Visitation of Gao.

Yesterday Sir HERBERT TAYLOR held a Levee as !
Secretary to the COMIANDERA!C-CHIEF, at his Office, in the
Horse Guards.
MESSRS. ROTHSCHILD.—We may form some idea
of the extensive and important business of this !louse,
and of the attention with which it manages its affairs,
when we learn that it has three light vess.ls that con-
stantly sail backwards and forwards between Calais
and Dover, in order to convey to the Houses in Paris
and London reciprocally the earliest information of
all important events in those two cities affecting •
the prices of the funds. On this occasion people
recollect how careful their House has always been
in former times, to obtain early information, and
adduce as an instance, that in 1815 it received
information of the successful issue of the battle o
Waterloo (which it was reported had been lost) sir
hours before the Government received the official
Dispatches from the field of battle. A traveller,
who has arrived here from England direct, states,
that when he landed at Calais, there was in the
harbour a vessel ready -to sail for England, the
whole cargo of which consisted of gold, and was
consigned to M. Nathan V. Rothschild in London.--
Frankfort Paper.
IDENTIFYING.—The annals of our Criminal Courts
present many instances in which individuals are found
so much alike in personal appearance as to be mis-
taken for each other. A case of this kind occurred
yesterday at the Police Office, Union-Hall, whenan
Officer in the Navy charged a venerable looking Geo-
' tleman, about 70 years of age, with having defrauded
him on the Continent: three years ago, under the fol-
lowing circumstances:
The Naval Gentleman stated, that about three years go
he was at Amsterdam, and became acquainted with a porno
who went under the assumed name of Wllsoll, with whose.
had some mercantile transactions. He advanced to that-pawl
from time to time upwards of WO/. in money and goods, nil
also put a watch into his hands. Mr. Wilson soon afterward.
stated that he wished to leave Amsterdam for Cologne, us
mercantile speculation, which promised considerable wiranniti
and previously to his departure he gave to the complainant
of exchange for part of the money advanced, drawn urn the
house of Rothschild in London, and promised to liquidate the
remainder on his return from Cologne. Mr. Wilson proved to.
be not so good u his word. The bill was presented to Mtlirs•
Rothschilds, but to the surprise and horror of the complainant.
it was pronounced to be a forgery. No tidings could be heard
of Mr. Wilson ; no Mr. Wilson was to be seen until the day en
which the complainant appeared before the Magistrate, and tare
old Gentleman who accompanied him was the very man.
The defendant, who appeared exceedingly indignant at the
charge, declared, in the moat solemn manner, that there was Sot
the slightest ground for the suspicion that he was the penes
who committed this act of theft and forgery. The complainast
laboured under the greatest error. He (defendant) never hal
seen him before, and never had visited the Continent since
year 1784.
The complainant persisted in Ills statement. It was, k
said, impossible that he could be mistaken. Of the coeatr
nauce he had the most perfect recollection, on account of el
baseness of the transaction. The only difference in the app
ance of the person was, that at Amsterdam the d, fendant drool
in the most fashionable manner, in compariio:. w.th which*
was now in complete disguise.
Defendant.—You labour under some strange illusion srlled
you thus positively say that lam the man lam nut. AO
declare to you that I am not the person you have a rim
accuse and deprive of his liberty. I could make you proven"'
words under a heavy responsibility ; but I am willing to rettiq
this dangerous error by evidence myself. 1 van prove. with td
utmost ease, that I have not been out of England these Irm'.

Still the plaintiff said be could nut he mistakini •
Mr. Young then informed the Magistrate that he Ito 41'
proprietor of a number of hoases in the neighbourhood of La
Mice, and was well known.
Mr. &eller, who lives in the neighbourhood, at this moms
entered the Office, and recognized the defendant as a nest re'
spectable man, whom he had been hi the habit of medial IA
London for the last twelve years most constantly.
Another Gentleman stated, that he was confident thrZeftsgt
ant had not been out of the kingdom for many years, and 1/11
be would be the last man that would commit the utr:Dce ~
putcd to him.
The Magistrate said he 0.. s perfectly satisfied
plainant was labouring under a mistake. Titel
milar cases upon record, and indeed almost
where, in consequence of resemblances, some
strong as to be scarcely distinguishable from .
not put into immediate comparison, the innocent
the guilty. This was one of the cases, and of
• discharged,
The complainant, on leaving the (Nice, said.
Man is nut 31r. Wilson, he unit be :kir.

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OPENING OF THE NEIV DOCKS AT
SHEERNESS.

Naval spectacles are in themselves so imposing, and
are so associated with British supremacy over the
waves, that they must always excite great in-
terest in this country. It was not therefore with sur.
prise that we yesterday found the busy walk on
'Change thinned, or St. Bartholomew reigning over a'
divided empire, since we were aware that the metro-
polis had sent its countless thousands to Sheerness to
witness the opening of the Docks, and that there was
scarcely a boat of any sort, from the stupendous
steam vessel to the smallest skiff, or a vehicle, from
a coach to a dog-cart, that was not in requisition.
Ever since the daring outrage committed by the
Dutch fleet that sailed up the Medway in 1667, it
has been considered as a matter of great national
importa:ice to render the mouth of that river impreg-
nable against any future attack on the part of an
enemy. For that reason it was, that the British Go-
vernment thought fit to erect a fortress at the wes-
tern corner of the isle of Sheppey, and convert it into
a naval station. So far as regarded the depth of the
water, and the excellent anchorage, no place could
be better adapted for such a purpose. But still
something was wanted to protect ships against the
violence of north-easterly winds. A small Dock-
yard was formed at Sheerness, but no vessels above
the rate of frigates could be built there; and besides,
the yard was, until within the last tenor fifteen years,
accessible to all persons, there being no other landing.
place for passengers. The Government at length re-
solved to obviate all those inconveniences, and a naval
depot, as noble and as commodious as any in the
world, has been formed, in a spot which twenty years
ago was a vast mass of swamp and mud. A large
space to the southward of the old Dock-yard, corn-
pri:ing nearly 100 acres of ground, a great part of
which w.:s formerly overflowed by the sea at high
water, and the remainder of which was quite useless,
is Now converted into as solid, as durable, and useful
a%sofk,as et er was formed by the power of art. It
may truly be called a work created and rescued from
the main,
Where the broad ocean leans against the land r

Immediately after this Dock-yard was projected, a
vast coffee-dam was formed : it extended farther than
the low-watermark, nearly in a semicircular form
from that is called Blue Town, and. communicating
tit!! the old Dock-yard. This was the area of the
new Dock-yard ; and the water was continually
pumped away by means of steam-engines. The works
contigi.oJs to the sea were then formed by great
,•
masses (A solid stone, resting on immense piles, 40 or
50 feet long, driven into the earth, and forming an
embankn,cnt half a mile in extent; and the greater
pats t.f the space comprising the new Dock-yard was
raised by rubbish and gravel to an elevation of seve-
ral feet above the level of high water. In the midst
of this the new Docks have been formed.
The works consist of a Basin, capable, perhaps, of holding
seven or eight line-of-battle ships, and three dry Docks, each
fitted to receive the largest ship in the British Navy. The ex-
tent ot this basin is upwards of four acres. The entrance into it
is sixty feet wide near the left corner, when viewed from the
sea, and is sufficient to admit a ship of the largest size. The
form of the basin is that of a square ; and on the east side of it
there are three large and noble docks, each of which is 225 feet
long, capable of receiving a ship ot the largest size, and atilapted
to the purpose of building a ship of any size. The sides of the
basin and the dock are formed of great masses of stone, similar
to those of the outward embankment. Their bottoms are not
farmed of maid, like those of the Isle of Dogs and Wapping, nor
are they likely ever to be subject to an accumulation of filth.
At the very time their foundations were formed, the bottoms
were strengthened by great piles driven thirty feet into the earth;
on these large planks were laid, the interstices were filled up
with bricks and Roman cement, and then the whole was covered
with the ponderous granites which constitute the bottoms of the
docks, and from which mud and hhh may be easily cleared
away at ebb tide. The basin is constructed in a similar manner.
The three docks are at equal distances, and each of the same di-
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infusions. They run inlaid from the inner side of tie basin, and
are separated from it by gates ; their entrances are ail 10 feet in
width ; the gates, which arc of east iron, and each of which weighs
70 tona, close so admirably as to admit scarcely a drop of water
into the docks when dry.
At high-water mirk the basin, when open, his six or seven-
and-twenty feet water in it; and the docks, consequently, would
admit of a ship drawing nearly that depth of water, if required.
As gates would be difficult to close at the entrance of the basin
in rough windy weather, a caisson has been constructed, which
answers every purpose extremely well, being perfectly secure and
worked with the greatest facility. It bears some resemblance to
two hatch or petre boats, united at the upper works, and what
was the gunwale of the boats forms the bearing of the caisson. It
is alike at both ends, having a stern at each, which fits into
grooves formed at the entrance of the basin ; and according as the
caisson is lowered to the foundation, or raised front it, the water
in the basin escapes or is retained. The pump for emptying the
Docks already completed, is worked by an engine, has eight feet
. f fetch, and such is its tremendous power, that it raises thirty.
tine hundred weight of water at each stroke, and is capable of
being worked at the rate of from between eighteen to twenty
intakes per minute. The water is delivered into the sea, and a
dock can be pumped out, when a ship is in, in about three hours,
when the place can be adopted as a dry dock. The whole of these
-works are of Welch granite, have a noble massy appearance, and
present a memorable triumph of art and labour over the most
unconquerable of opponents—loose sands and a restless sea.
—ln the new ground, which has been made about the Basin and
Ducks, and is appropriated for a Yard, a Chapel has been erected;
a large smithy is building; the foundations of a row of store-
houses, with the necessary offices, and officers houses, for a first-
rate Dock-yard, have been laid; and a variety of other buildings
are iatriatied to be raised. But the works completed, and those
we have just enumerated, are not the bounds of the extraordinary
improvements which his Majesty's Government have determined
to prosecute at this port, and which the consummate genius of-
the late Mr. Rennie has enabled them to proceed with. His ex-
aiellent plans are still* followed, and excavations are rapidly going
:forward for the formation of a second but smaller Basin, and also
two Duets, which are to be capable of receiving frigates. The
necessary buildings will, of course, be attached to the second
Basin and Docks, and other buildings are to be fire-proof, the
doors, joists, /cc. being of cast iron. The Dock-yard wall is to
be considerably extended, and such is the depth of water where
they are necessitated to drive the piles, that they have com-
stiemed with timber severity feet in length,an undertaking hat dly
aver before attempted; the workmen actually drove the first
pile yesterday. The nature of the ground in which the excava-
tions ate atade considerably retards the progress of the work: it
as one of those undertakings in which the power of science and
profuse expenditure of money surmount every physical obstacle,
e,:d justify the exclamation of the Poet—
" In vain great Neptune tore the narrow ground,
" And meant his waters for Britannia's bound;
" Her giant genius takes a mighty stride,
" And sets his foot beyond th' encroaching tide;
" On either bank the land its master knows,
" And in the midst the subject ocean Bows!"
The ceremony of opening the Docks took place
Itsteulay in the presence 01 an immense assemblage
of persons of all ranks.—The accommodations for the
Public were extensive, and admirably well-regulated.
Sir Thomas B. Martin, the Comptroller of the Navy,
superintended the whole. The works. which are
coinpleted, were enclosed with seats formed for the
occasion, the scaffolding having some resemblance to
an immzuse Amphitheatre: in shape, plan.. and ap-

pearance, ca2able of holding 10,600 persons. At the
finish of the platform a railing was run round, to pre-
vent the visitors from mingling with the men on duty
and approaching too near the basin and docks, lest
any accident should occur. At an early hour of the
morning, the Royal Artillery and Marines on duty
in Sheerness and the neighbouring depots, marched
into the new Dock-yards, where they were drawn up
in single files, so as to enclose the area in which the
new basins are formed: behind the military lines
were erected seats and raised platforms, which com-
manded a close view of the whole ceremony. Senti-
nels were stationed at the different avenues, and no
persons were admitted within the enclosure who were
not provided with tickets from the Ordnance esta-
blishment; these tickets appear to have been liberally
distributed, for nearly 3000 persons were seated upon
the platform an hour before the ceremony commenced.
The Ladies were elegantly dressed, and their gay ap—
pearance heightened the coup deed from the harbour.
For the entertainment of the fashionable parties
that wereexpected, the most splendid preparations had
been made on board the Howe, a fine new ship of
120 guns, and o the largest class. These we re super-
' intended by Mr.f Croker, of the Admiralty, who had
gene down two or three days before for the express
purpose, and the Howe was the ship destined to be
the first visitant of these noble docks. Lord Melville,
accompanied by the other Lords of the Admiralty,
arrived at Sheerness on the evening of Thursday,
and yesterday morning, at five o'clock, his Lordship
went on board the Home, which was moored a short
distance from the dock. A salute of guns was fired
from the ships in commission at this place. Some
time after, the Earl and Countess of Liverpool came
on board, and before ten in the morning, the entire
poop and quarter-deck were filled by Ladies, Officers,
and other persons of rank andiashion, among whom
were Sir Joseph Yorke, the Commissioners of the
Navy Board, &c. The breakfast tables were arranged
for about tour hundred, on the middle gun-deck.
There was a cross table, as usual, and six others,
reaching from well aft to the mainmast. The staun-
cheons were covered with flags, and the colours of
the different nations tastily festooned, and hung
round the backs of the seats. The cooking apparatus
was on the lower gun-deck, and the quarter-deck
and poop were prettily decorated with flags.
At half-past nine the Duke of Clarence arrived in
the Admiralty yacht, which he had boarded from
the barge. At this moment the view from the Dock-
yard was very beautiful. The morning was lovely.
There was a fair .moderate breeze from the S.W.
there was not a cloud above the horizon, and the sun
shone with great brilliancy. The Howe, of 120 guns,
and the Hercules, 74, to be docked, were nearest the
yard ; the Prince Regent, of 120 guns, bearing the
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir • Benjamin Hallowell, was
the next ; close to her lay the Genoa, a 74 gun ship,
full rigged ; at a short distance further off was the
Isis frigate, also rigged ; and at a similar distance,
in another direction, an 18 gun brig was seen, we be-
lieve the Sharpshooter. A variety of smaller vessels
were dispersed over the bosom of the sea, and being
dressed with their colours, they added much to the
beauty of the scene. The whole was extremely
heightened by a very elegant evolution, which was
performed on the Adrnir.al of the Fleet leaving the
yacht for the Howe, which he did immediately on
his arrival. On his entering the boat, at the boat-
swain's pipe, the whole of the ships which were rigged
manned yards. The appearance sof the men was ex-
tremely neat and clean. Each ship received the Ad-
miral with a Royal salute of 21 guns. At ten the
warps from the Howe were taughtened, the ship
swung, and pointed for the basin. The troops which
had arrived from Chatham for the occasion, consist-
ing of Marine Artillery, Marines, and the 12th Re-
giment of Infantry, with its band, marched within the
railing of the platform, and formed in line at a suf-
ficient distance from the works, not to intercept the
view of the spectators. The gates of the two docks
on the left hand from the sea were open ; that of the
third was closed, and the caisson being raised,, the ba-
sin and docks filled as the tide rose. At abou 11, his
Royal Highness left the Howe for the Prince Regent,
and another Royal salute was fired by all the ships.
At eleven o'clock, the tide having arrived at a suf.
ficient height, the Howe was towed by hawsers into
the basin. She moved slowly and majestically, and
on her reaching the middle of the basin, the guns of
all the vessels already mentioned fired a salute; the
sailors siho manned the yards gave three cheers; all
the company on board the Howe also gave three
cheers ; and a like salutation was returned from the
numerous spectators on land, and in the sailing ves-1
sels, which nearly covered the contiguous waters.
The soldiers presented arms, and bands struck up,
" GOD save the King," and afterwards " Rule, Bri-
tannia." It was a' grand and beautiful spectacle, such
as was never witnessed here before. This great ship
towering over all the others, and near which frigates,
and even two-deckers, appeared diminutive objects,
presented the image of a floating mountain. She
was brought up to the south-side of the basin, and
remained there until nearly three o'clock. The Her-
cules followed airnost immediately, and was at once
taken into the centre dock : the gates were closed at
about twelve. The whole of the seats were at this
time occupied, and there were from 15 to '20,000
persons on the ground and in the vessels. The entry
of the vessels was marked by the cheers of tile spec-
tators, and the ship; companies joined in the huzzas.
Several gun-boats and pleasure-yachts o ere moored
in a semicircular form in front of the dock, and the
gay colours of their variegated streamers had a beau-
tiful effect, and gave to the harbour a most pic-
turesque appearance.

" Crowds whelnitl on crowds dash'd wide the wat'ry bed,
And drove the eurreta to its distant head."

The whole ceremony had been performed just as
the ste.►m-boats from London (the Royal Sovereign
and Venus) hove in sight ; the mortification was great
among the passengers from town, who had hurrie3l to
the Tower-stairs before six o'clock in the morning to
be present, according to due form of contract, at this
ceremony. They heard the guns which announced
the celebration of the event; they saw (at least such
as had telescopes) the sailors descending from the
yards; but the disappointment was extreme at finding
that Neptune had not stilled the tide, and, obedient
to love a►:d duty, waited for two such visitors asVcaus
and the Sovereign upon so splendid an occasion ; but
the waters, governed by other laws of attraction than
those provided by the steam-boat proprietors, per-
, formed their steady course, regardless of the mortifi-

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' cation of 300 or 400 very worthy folks, who make
(and long may they continue to do so) occasional ex-
cursions from London-bridge to the outports. Not.:
withstanding the disappointment of the steam-boat
passengers upon being too late for the principal spec-
tacle, the entrance of the Lord Howe, there was some
consolation, however, in being in time for beholding
the Hercules, 74, enter the new basin and dock pro-
vided for her reception, and afterwards seeing his
Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and other
personages of rank, pass along the lines, and inspect
the different arrangements of these new Docks.
At mid-day the steam-boats heightened the sea
view, by the variety which they added to the scene,
by their ploughing through an adverse current, and
trailing along their murky vapour, occasionally ob-I
scuring the glowing colours which they. displayed
from their masts at the moment they most wanted
their exhibition, and by their rapid evolutions, suc-
cessively turning, if not breaking, the lines of small
craft which had taken up positions near the shore.
The crews were landed from the steam-boats, and
they got into the docks in time to see the parad.: of
the arrangement. The largest ship was in dock, in a
capital situation—:the basin was there through which
she had just passed—the bands were still playing—
the soldiers were under arms. The guns had been
discharged, it was true; but still there was the brist-
ling array of many of the warlike instruments, with-
out any of their terrors; Naval Officers in full uni•
form, armed cap-a-pie, but all pacific.—

." Their open brows no threaening frowns disguise,
" Uut gentler passions sparkling in their eyes ! '

The operations being accomplished, the drjeune was
next to be dispatched, while the Howe was warped
into the left-hand dock, and accordingly, at the word
of command, a very noble and elegant company as-
sembled on the middle gun-deck, when the Right
Hon.,Lord Melville, K.T. took the Chair. On his
right sat his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence,
and among the noble and distinguished characters
present were—

The Earl of Liverpool, Earl Darnley, Lord Erskine, Vice-
Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell, Vice-Admiral Sir George
Cockburn, M.P. Vice-Admiral Sir Joseph Yorke, M.P. Rear-
Admiral Sir George Grey, the Lord .tiayor, dI.P. Sire'. Curtis,
M.P. Sir A. M'Christie, J. W. Croker, Esq. M.P. H. Jolliffe,
Esq. M.P. Holme Sumner, Esq. M.P. Sir it. Seppiugs, Com-
missioner Cunningham, Captain Parry, Messrs. Rennie, Sir K
Banks, and Mr. Jolliffe, the Contractors for the Works, a great
number of Naval and Military Officers, Engineers, and other
scientific men.

The tables were also graced by the presence of a
large number •ol Ladies, whose beauty both in per-
son and dress fully supported Our country's claim to
unquestionable superiority in the more lovely branch
of the creation.

The health of his gajesty was received with the
warmest demonstrations of affection, and drank ‘,.ith
three times three.

On the Noble Chairman's proposing the health of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, Admiral
of the Fleet, and the company drinking it with three
times three, and general applause,
His Royal Highness expressed his gratitude fin- the
honour they had conferred en him. Ile had ever
been proud of belonging to the Navy, but he felt still
more from receiving so gratifying a mark of iheir ap-
proval. The works which had been that day opened,
and the attendance with which the ceremony had been
honoured, was a fresh and grateful proof of the esti-
mation in s hich the British seaman was still held by
his countrymen, and he knew of no company in
which he could more properly propose-1' Success to
the British Navy."

. The toast was drank in bumpers, followed by hearty
cheers, and loud applause.
" The Admiralty and Navy ;" and " The health
of the Right lion. the Earl of Liverpool," were next
drank. This latter toast was received with accla-
mations, and his Lordship returned thanks.
A variety of other toasts were drank, and among
them—" Prosperity to the New Works," was ho-
noured with unanimous approval.
At about three o'clock, the Howe being docked,
and the gates closed, his Royal Highness and Lord
Melville, the Earl of Liverpool, and the other dis-
tinguished visitors landed. His Royal Highness then
embarked on board the Prince Regent, where he was
received with manned yards and a Royal salute.—
After remaining on board for some time, he pro-
ceeded to Chatham.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, SEPTEMBER 6.

At an Ordination holden by the Bishop of Bristol, in the
Cathedral Church of Bristol. on Sunday, the .17th of August,
the following persons were admitted into Holy Orders, viz.

DZACONS.

Wm. Wood, S.C.L. Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
F.dmund Luttrell Stuart, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford.
John Baticoek, S.C. 1.. St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
Wm. Ilyde, B.A. Emmanuel Colieg., Cambridge.
Thomas Taylor, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
PRIL9TS.
Andrew Alfred Daubeney, B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford.
Thomas Ainger, B. A. St. John's College, Cambridge.
George Crookshank; B.A. Trinity CoUrge, nubile.
James Deraynes Wintle, B.A. St. Joba's College, Cambridge.
Zachary James Edwards, B.A. Wailham College, Oxford.