The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-06 00:00:00

WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE

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(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
Pasley's operations at Spithead terminated on Sa-
24th ult., when the divers were employed for the
after having recovered a considerable quantity of
be course of the week, the neap tides and the mild-
weather having favoured their exertions. Amongst
ents got up were several stanchions of the orlop
mplete floor timber (the only piece that had not
en by some of the numerous explosions), and a
antial half timber of the same description; also
-- ' its of beams. The whole of the wreck
st three weeks was piled in front of the
dockyard. On Monday, the 26th, the
e hulk and the two mooring lighters or lumps,
------ towed into harbour by the Echo steamer
eamen were paid off the same day, whilst
rs returned to their duty in the dock-
- !moon the stores supplied from Ports-
a landed, and the remainder put on
'earner, commanded by Lieutenant
all the Royal sappers and miners,

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assistants, and the Chatham riggers, who
employed at Spithead, embarked in the same vessel
landed in Chatham-yard next day, about two o'clock
bus his operations have closed for the present sea-
not with so much success as the colonel had antici-
• he had sanguine hopes of clearing away the whole
!ck before the beginning of November. This has
accomplished, for the shoal of mud noticed in one
ner numbers, in which the remains of the wreck,
o the value of nearly £4OOO. are still buried, has
ascertained to he about 150 feet from east to west (this
been the direction of the ship's length), and from 120
,tin breadth from north to south ; its extreme height
general level of the anchorage is 9 feet 6 inches,
iverage height is much less, and it slopes away gra-
all sides. These dimensions are according to the
gs taken by Serjeant Major Jenkin Jones, of the
ippers and miners, and Mr. Clewitt, leading rigger in
)uth-yard, on the 23d ult., in Colonel Pasley's pre-
•l they suffice to prove that at least one-half of the
^overing the wreck has been washed away since
'nd Mr. Clewitt sounded over it on the Bth
. measured 200 feet from east to west,
rly 300 feet from north to south, its ex-
-14 feet. Thus the half-anchor creeper,
rake, by partially raising the timbers
of, and enabling the diver to sling, and the
'hem, disturbs the mud, and gives greater
11 action of the tides, which washes it
n Col. Paslev commenced his opera-
wreck stood 33 feet above the level
otn was perfect above the level of
stern, and the whole starboard
same level, the larboard side
-rnents of the upper decks,

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.sen ins extreme satisfaction with all the men em-
ether divers and their assistants, riggers, sappers
or seamen : and he has expressed himself parti-
ased with the zeal and efficiency of the pensioners,
, have worked under him during the whole
I has declared that he will be happy to re-
next year, if not better employed. Many
inion that men of war may anchor over the
11 George, in its present state, with safety,
broken fragments of large timbers or light
found lately, which have not consistency
;ray a ship's anchor, or break a chain cable ;
`.ion of the tides, by washing away the mud
them, will lay the remaining floor-timbers
hick will be an impediment hereafter, so
can scarcely be considered in a safe or sa-
til the whole of the present shoal of mud,
s buried under it, shall be reduced to:the
n around it. When this shall have been
tides will have no tendency to effect any
I if any fragments should still remain be-
may be disregarded, if small, or broken
'onions in the course of next summer, if
of such very great explosions a have
hitherto is not, however, anticipated

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for the future.

antipathies appear to depend upon
the senses. The horror inspired by the
flowers may be referred to this cause.
5 relates the case of a monk who fainted
rose, and never quitted his cell when that
Scaliger mentions one of his rela-
iced a similar horror at seeing a lily. And
.s, that there are men who dread an apple
ket-ball. Zimmerman tells us of a lady
ure the feeling of silk, and shuddered when
ty skin of a peach. Boyle relates the case
a natural abhorrence of honey. Without
.e honey was introduced in a plaister sp-
ad the accidents that resulted compelled
withdraw it. Hippocrates mentions one
)ned whenever he heard a flute. Boyle
ward the splashing of water. Scalier
e sight of water-cresses. Erasmus
ex-
rmptoins when smelling fish. The Duke
_— d on beholding a leveret, although a hare
produce that effect. Tycho Brahe fainted at the
sight of a fox ; Henry the Third of France at that of a cat,
and Marshal D'Albert at a pig; and the horrors that whole
families entertain of cheese is well known. Julia, daughter
of Frederick, King of Naples, could not taste meat without
serious accidents.

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