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London, England, 1810-12-27 00:00:00

EAS I'ELN.EXTENSION OF THg KENNET AND AVON

CANAL.
ink T a MEETING of the CO]
.11. the Ist insular, it was rewind,
tor Share in the proposed Canal, from the Keatiwtt and Aron
Canal, near Newbitrf; to the' tislargstoke Canal. lattendeito be
called for in ale said Hants Canal, shall be continued aped until
the 80th day of January, !till, on the terms agreed upon at a
Meeting held on the 11th day of October, old.
In pursuance of the above Itesrlution, Notice is.hereby given.
That Subscriptioa-books for Sham are aid left at Messrs. Har.
ford, Davies and Co. Erisrol ; at Mr. Henry Stokes's, Shorter's-
court, Throgmorton:otr. et, London ; and at our OM& at Marl.
borough; and that the same will continue open until the 30th
day of January neat.
WARD and MERRIMAN, Solicitors.
Marlboreragls, Dec. lit, 1810. .
N.B. A Subscription-book is alio left with Messrs. Whitehead
and Co. Bankers, London.

INTENDED STAMFORD ;UNCTION NAVIGATION.
AT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE for con.
a. ducting the Affairs of the projected STAMFORD JUNC-
'rioN NAVIGATION, held at the City of London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-srreet, Louden, cn Tuestlay, the lath day of Decem-
ber, 1810, and continued, by Adjournment, to the red of the
same month, at the same plug,

L JEPSON ODDY, Eel. In the Chair.
Resolved, That the Shareholders in this undertaking be re-
quested to meet the Conuntttee in General Assembly, at this
house, on. Friday, the 4th day of January next, at 12 o'clock pre •
cisely, at which time endplate such Share-holders e.re respectfully
requested to produce the receipts for their shores at the time of
t heir claiming admission.
This Committee raking into condderation the means so be used
for prowcutiog the Bid for carrying this work Into execution
through Parliament,
Do Resolve:that the object of their 'application to Parliament
is by forming perfect hots of navigarien in various directions,
from the Borough of Stamford, In Lincolnshire. to the port of
B4ston, in the same County, the City of Veterbordhgb, in the
County of Northampton, and the Town Of Oakharn, in the
County of Rutland, to open a navigable comminsievion between
the Puns of Boston and Lynn ou the east, and the River; Trent
and Mersey, and the Canals connected with the n on the wen,
which shall facilitate and moderate tlor exeence of conveyance
et the corn, henm, Oa-, and other agrieutturg products, of lin-
oolneltire, Norfolk, and Suffolk; and the general mershandize of
London and the Continent to the colonies of Northantpton, Rut-
knd, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham. Sraffotd, Lancaster, and
Chester; and shall open a course hip lily advmesgeous to the
Land Owners, Farmers, and Manufacturers, of the counties of
Chester, Derby, Stafford, and Nottingham; and of the opulent
town of Manchester and the surrounding country, for the
ew-
veyance of their salt, cheese, coals, lead, iron, marble, stone,
lime, china, earthenware, cotton, and other articles, th raw
and manufactured; actf for the Merchants of the port of Liver-
pool for the conveyance of their various articles of
duce to the counties of Rutland, Northampton, Nods.,
and Lincoln—while it shall afford both to the Land-Owner and
Consumer an improved acces to, and means of disposing of, thce
valuable oak and other timber, stone, and slate, of the comities tit
Rutland and Nor:hantpran in every direction.
Resolved, That this Committee will be ready to confer wlth
the Proprietors of the Bedford Level, the Merchants of Boston,
Lynn, and Wiabeach, and the Firoprietots of the Grand Junrtion
Navigation, anti of the Nav gation of the River Nene, and the
Nivigationarom Oakhant throush Melton Mowbray and Lough-
borough to the River Trent, and from Leicester to Lod;
rough, as to the means by which the interests of those estshks•t-
nients may be best promoted, cuns:stemly with the jutlicioos ei r-
cution of the project; and that this resolution be contra micattel
to them by the Secretary immediately
Resolved, 'Mat as It is the desire of this Committee to acconi-
modate the execution of that part of .the scheme, between
Bourne, in the County of Lincoln, and the port of Boston, to
the wishes and interests of the Proprietors of the South P.m !-
Foot Drain, as far as any suggestions on their part oats be adopted
without prejudicei to the execution of the main design of this un-
dertaking—Mr. Telford,-.he Engineer, unsteowliose advice art
directions the plan of the projected Stamford Junction Navigation
deposited with the Clerks ot the Peace, Was upped by chit
Committee, be requested to reconsider, as ,eon as possible, that
part of the proposed line between the Aslackby and Pointon
Drain, and the Swayton Eau, in Lincolnshire, in which a Dlr.
putation of the Forty-Foot Commissioners proposed to Colont I
Noel, Mr. Oddy, Mr. Blare, Mr. Browne, and Mr. F.atnn, eon
Deputation front this Coruntittee (ins conference held at Bourne
on the 29th day of NieVeruber last) that an alteration should bit
made ' • and that Mr. Telford du direct the necessary surveys to
be made thereupon, and report the result of his investigation to
this Committee. as speedily as the,nature of the business
admit, and that the Secretary do communicate this Reeolutino
to the Comnsiorioilers of the South Forty-Foot Drain through Mrt
Smith, of Hurls:in; , Clerk to the said Commissicuers.
Resolved, That this Committee will he ready to confer with
the Committee for conducting the projected Navigation front
Stamford to Harhorough on the ex:et:don of that part of rips
undertaking between Statuturd and Oakham, passing through the
parishes of St. Martin, Stamford-Eaton, Worthorpe, anti
Easton, near Stamford, In the County of Northampton, whhet
may probably be thought fit to be adopted in the litte.rona Stam-
ford to Harhorough, and that the Secretary do transmit this ro-
solution to Mr. Wartnaby, of Market -Harboroush, and to M-.
Torkington and Mr. Judd, of Stamford, the Solicitors of th
projected Navigation front Stamford to Harborough, to be by
them laid before the Committee, by whom, they are employes!.
Resolved, That the letters front Thomas Simps•n, Ewa. Mayer
of Stamford, to this Committee, In which he has declined to
confer with the Deputation anpointed by this Committee, on t:te
connection proi.:otted to be established between this irndertsltirg
and the 014,24avtgation from Stamford to East Deeping, isays:l4
left very 11-tle room for this Committee to hope that the iste.:ts
bees of the Corporation of Stamford have any inclination to Fo•
mote the public insproventent of the Country in gent rap, or of
the Town of Stamford in particular, it breumes the duty cf tint
Committee, by a sigarow prosecution ot their .applicatien to
Parliament, for its sanction to the exectitiorr o the project's:
Stamford Junction Navigation, to secure he their own ezenio.ts'
those benefits to the Public, in which it I:as been thoir utavan-
ing wish to have the concurrence of the Corporation of Staint.ol.
Ordered, That these Resolutions, signed by the Chairman, be
inserted in suck of the public Papers as the Deputation appoilite 1.
by this Committee for that purpose shall see expedient.
J. JEPSON ODDY, Chairman.
•,• There will be no admission to the General Meeting sue:
Otte ti-Clocks

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