Star.
London, England, 1804-10-24 00:00:00

MARGATE, OCTOBER 22.

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Aftending the heights above the town the eye is
Aidelenly furprifed with beholding from one thoufand
to fifteen hundred men employed in the different
branches of fortification: Tome hundreds with bar-
, rows, ihovela road pick-awes, railing batteries, breaft-
works, and cutting entrenchments ; others digging'
chalky which is convertea into lime, and ufed
upon
the fpot in the ereaion of barracks ; with the ame'
facility clay is alfo obtained, and bricks are made,
burnt and ufed for the fame purpok.
On this height, which is oppofite the Caflle hill,
rind is intended to be made equially formidable, are
ootaroped the Surrey and Middlefcx Militias, and the
various works are airport folely performed by the pri-
vates, who receive tod. per day above their pay.—
The barracks are in Inch a Rate as to admit the
mops from encampment almnit immediately.
There are between two and three hundred habita;
lions which ferve for the refidence of the foldiers' fa,
amities, chandler's fhops, Ike. which are limply exca-
vations in the chalk, covered with turf. Same of
officers do not even defpife thole humble cells, where
they form neat entrances with a fod wall, and a
'•white gate; one in particular has a cabin and a tent
upon a cliff, totleriag over the tovw, (jull above War-
ren's Library), in a temporary virdtn, as fine a crop
of orarrowfat peas, at prefent in bloom and pod, as
•will frequently be met with in July.
The femmit of Shakefpear's Cliff is to be pared,
and a battery ereaed upon it, oppofite Boulogne.
The Oxford and Leiceßer Militias are in the Caßle,
and are bufily employed in improvements. So aria.
Ore the orders for admiffion, that it is reported Mr.
TIVY was lately refufed an entrance.

The Coroner's Lupien have fet on the body of the
wnfivtunate man who was killed in the Duel fought
afar Deal on Tuesday fc'nnight, and brought in their
asilavOter.
We are happy to learn, by a gentleman just return-
-1....red from Invernefs-fhire' that the great inland navi- I
410014 the Caledonian Canal, is now fairly begun,!
bifida great number of men employed on the work ;
;die engineers had marked out about keen miles in
• 4h, in the neighbourhood of Invernefs, and the
diaance on the weR coats, in the neighbourhood
of Fort William. Betides the advantages which will
eventually arife front the completion of this naviga-
tion, it will, doting the time it is under execution,
adFird employment to all who are difpofed to be in-
dultioes- Our eorrefpondent onderßood from forme
perfons who have the management, that the work
was to be given off by meafurement, and all who
applied for. and wet e willing to work on reafonable
terms. were employed. Two roads are alfo begun,
from the line of the canal to the weft lea, and others
are espeeted loon to be undertaken. Tradefmen,
maims, and labourers will reap greatbenefit from the
employment thefe works will afford, during the en-
foing Ifiartf, as the valleys where they are fituated,
are to nearly cn a level with the fea, that little inter-
, ?option will be experienced from froth or fnow—
The mode of accommodation alfo drew our eerier
pondenes attention—fmall fir or birch-wood is fur.
stilted to the workmen, who, in a very (port time,
conflrua a number of huts on a place that is they
tered, and convenient for the work they ate employed
on—the walls are made with turf. and covered wi.h
turf or heather ; they have the appearance of (mall
encampments, and from the great quantity of digging
ti be done in a Ihort time, thefe accernmodations
will Terre for a confiderable time, and may be made
very comfortable. By means of the lochs, or deep in-
lets of the tea, provifionsand other articles are brought
from the (aliens and fouthern parts of Sotland, the
north-well of England, and the north of Ireland, at
very reafonable prices, the farmers of the adjacent
country king down fheep, which will afford a ftetod
fupply of mutton. Our correfpondeut alto informs
vs, that a butch et's (hop, a bakehnufe and brewhoufc,
as well as a comfortable inn, we t e immediately to he
eftal. (bed r.n the (Lore of Lochiel, where the canal
will enter the fee, Colonel Casts RON, of Lochiel, har-
ing gereroofly given up a large bottle for the purpofes
of an inn, &c.
It moll be a great fati:faehion to every well-wither
of his corintry to perceive, that at the fame time that
• Government is taking vigorous nicafures for our eta.
lineal defence, it is equldly attentive to the internal
improvement of the kingdom. and providing for the
comfort of its inhabitants in every quarter.
The dispute between the Grand Canal Company
end the Pipe Water Board of Dublin, has ken hap-
pily terminated, and the inhabitants are again amply
topplied with water. The Citizens of Duliiin were
originally induced to form the contrail with the Ca.
nal Board, to lecture them againtl the peible recur.
rcnce of an fcaleity of water, which was
once ore ifro,• d by the following very curious c ir-
eitnotance :—The City had been for emu,' ks
plied by a dream from the neighbouring mountains,
convey:el by an aqueduft, immediately from the
ponds and cafcades of a Sir Com rTOI6 DONIVILLi, at
T, inpleo.,;ll.-,three mile from the metrnpolii,dirointh
which the MolltilA n dream patf:d. A yowl Nolde•
man, Lord SAN Tar, nephew to Sir Cow Rood
convilted, before a Dublin Jul}-, ol the murder of
his gardener e.r iteward, under eiteumitanccs fo
atrucion,„ that the Jury refuted to veer iniriend the
Recorder to rep et his cafe favourably, and the Cvr-
poration declined to petition the Crown in his fa sow.
erstwithaanding the repeated overtures of his um
le
Sir Cnitrrow, who, at lan threatened, that. if 1..•
nephew was executed, the Arcata of water which fdp.
plied the city timid no longer pals through his do
mains ;.but that lie would cut it off, and turn it into
a deep ravine that would early it in a w idely dillaitt
chrethrin ; and lie aBtially prepared fflearOft, for Lai-
fillmg hi- menace. The conicqaen-ce was, that the
Mone:pality of Dublin were forced to a tacit corn
at.d Lord Starer was fort:red to efcape
from Ncw,..ste u. tle dead hour of night,when he
immtlatet) fur the Continent, cn board a veP
Id preotical km, and LC vet returned.