Star.
London, England, 1803-09-13 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

On Friday laft a dreadful accident happened at
Ream engine, employed to of ill in clearing the works
from water at the Tide Mills, now ereaing in the
Marth between Greenwich and Woolwich. The
engine was on Mr. Terms ace's plan, and worked
by the expanfive force of the Ream only, without
employing condenfation. Unfortunately the high
pretkre of the Ream burß the boiler, and literately
blew the engine to pieces; by which accident three men . '
were killed- on the fpot, and three others, all that
were there at the time, fo much hurt, that iwo of
, them are not axpeaed to recover. It is thought there
moll have been Tome neglea on the part oldie pee.
pie who attended the engine. It was a resonate cir.
cumaance, however, that the accident happened at '
a time when the workmen were at dinner, or a much
greater number might have loft their lives. The
engines on Mr. TRIVITM ic x's plan require a boiler of
,immenfe firength, for they work with a power foam-
times equal to 6o pounds on the fqoare inch. (Com.
mon engines, even Mr. Wares, feldom work with ,
more than 51b.) After fuch an accident as this, it j
would be no eafy matter to induce manufaaurers to
employ engines farnifhed with boilers fimilar to tht
one that has thus exploded. We are happy, however,
to be able to Rate, that the public will not be deprived
of the benefit expelled from the principles on whids
that able Engineer has propored to work Item AY?
sines ; for another able Engineer, Mr. Woot.t, has
;et invented a boiler confillang of a combination of
cylinders, which unite the double advantage of ea.
poling a much larger furface to the *aim of the fire,
thms boilers on the common couftruaion with a des
gree of Rrength equal to any power of learn thee
may ever be wined to be ufed, were it even twice
that employed in the above engine.
The eapiofion was as fudden aid dreadful as that
of a powder mill, and was accompanied with a fiaip
lar noire.

The Rev. War. Moaner is appointed Chaplahe W
the RIPULSS, of 74 guns, Capt. Liao.,
Died, on Wednefday the 3 tR Anvil% left, Hemet
Husysa, Eq. of inhume, it the County of Derby
—a Gentkmaa much diftinguithed for the urbanity
of his manners and the benevolence and hofpitality
of his difpciation.

Ms ars no at Gos roa r—Poa r moor a and Losses
Ratcwar.—On Friday laft a Meeting was held at
the Crown Inn. Gorport, tithe principal Gentkmaft
and Inhabitants of that place, to confider of the co
partitive advantages of a Canal and Railway between
London and P th,Enss un 'Cosa Hv a ay. Efq.
in the chair. At this Meeting a paper which had been
tranfinitted to them by Patrick Drummond, El 4. foil-
citorfor the Canal, (bung all the adrantagesof *Canal
in oppolition to a railway, was read and carefully et.
amined. In this paper it was aferted that the Wand&
worth and Croydon Railway had coil 64001. per mile.
wherein it has not COQ more than 4sool. and that
vods coil very little lefs conveyed by the Railway
than by the common turnpike road 1 whereas the
espence is little more than one half, and will. when
completed, be no more than a third. Every fail hi
the paper was refuted in a manner fo clear and to fa•
tisfadiory to the Meeeting, that they came to an ena.,
nimous refoletion, that the authors of it had been
very mach atifinfortned, and that the Ratements ware
sot warranted by hilts. They refolved therefore, is
.conjnaaion with the Gentlemen of Portfrnooth, Chi-
thence, and Havant, that a Railway would healers
beneficial in that line of country than a Canal, and
that the Subferiptien be continued for carrying the
fame into elk& _ _ _

KwCaW24;On was appoioted to be held at the
fame place yeitaday.

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