The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

N.drlL INTELLIGENCE.
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F A suotiew, A ad.23.—Sailed the ship Piecinis,Titylor, for
Jamaica; ships Shark and Onyx. for Hayti hill Ferdinand
the Seventh, Captain Datley,and l'artagane twig Andorinha,
Captain Massa, for the fir:mils; his Majesty's brig Virago,
14 raw, for Cork; Wabinpham packet, Roberts, and Prin-
ce. Elisabeth, Kiddy with Mails for Lisboa; Duke of Kent
(1), Cousworth, with Mails for Cad's; Duke of Kent (I),
Laurnes, with Mails fur the Windward Islands; Prince
Adolphus, Bouldersan, with Mails for Rio Jairelro; Cites-
terficli packet, Gibbon, wish Mail, far Auttrira; Diana
packet, Moons, with Mails far Jamaica ; and Eliza, Hue-
st4l:, for Bristol.

Tionysuorvu, Atn. 2.s.—Arrived the Narcissus frigate,
lion. Captain Aylmer, from 'Weymouth.
S :tied the Christian li.e Seventh, Sr Joseph Yorke; War-
!Tor, 71, Caperiin Bowie- ; and the Zephyr, Capron par.
oo a cruise at Cherhurgit: and the !lardy, lieutenant
Douai, with a eanvoy far the Downs.
Si;nals have been constantly made this week of the capture
of ships by the esetov's privateers en the eastern coast, but
no ships were dispatched to sea in consetrenee; aad the re'd•
900 would appear to be, that the few ships that are lying
here are ruder erder, for special services, so that the Admiral
bits no d istrelson to depart from the ruic of service.
The ont,% ,ird• bound convoys all remain work!-hound.
Arrivrti the t)efeeder, Lieutenant Nops, from a cruize.

D••I1R, :tUG. 25.—Came i the Vrnw Jn:tnitnn, of Pap-
penbur4b, Stith calf, frnrn Liverponl, t•iken off Berseby
Head by a Frew's 1u;.....er privateer, and re-raptured by his
Majesty's ship Ber.:u
Passetl by for Louden, she ship Londiin Packet, Captain
R. nut 17 days from Gibraltar, RI th stsuinac, ba-
r:lla, wad, and silk.
to the Roads, die Bermuda, Rena, and Peruvian.

Drat- Avo 25.—Last high' his Majest.'s ships Revenge
and !Monarch arritrd is the Downs, and this tl,ty the Illas-
trigea, Eagle, and Hero also arrived, all trim off rloshing
they are tail to !hive a great many prisoner,, ani alto the
Ikk and wounied on hnard.

nis 11,1je.ty's ship Unicorn had sailed on a cruise. and the
Centaur and Tnevos, whirls arrived a few clays since Irons
aOw Tesel, 'slave again sailed to the eastward.

la the Down', hit Majesty's ship Lively. Vice- Ittlntiral
Cowbell: Ac•txtn, Dolehint.Eagle.Diana, Herr) 11-
tess, Monsen, t.ol Revenge ; Eperrier, gao-brit, and A
brpt et uatwxrd-bmpilil merchant-6h pt.

4 VERW.44%I SE4M.IY
SILLED BY A SHOT FRONI TILL• LEANDER
MAN OF %% AK.

We yesterday copied from a Morning Paper a
paragraph on the subject of the Motet beau suntan
who was killed by a shot from the Leamkr.
Of the assertion contained lii that paragraph,
the following contradiction appeared in isnother
Morning Paper of this day. The assertion and
contradiction being thus before the public—they
will decide fur themselves. To us the assertion
did appear extraordinary, and the
,fat improba-
ble. We have not the slightest doubt that the
shot from the Leander was thu cause of this
man's &alb.
Sla—A P.tyr ot yesterday, called Tie Thal,. (-notable
the Arnow ice on warmated and wham** paragraph
" It is otatedl from gond aato.witv, that the mats win war
Ouppesed to have born killed Mr 'Marti an .I,neriran sloop,
Its a shet died front he Leander man of ,s at-, some time
seam, al' the Chesapeak. rrerlred hi: death bv a blow of a
hancipplke from the Mauer of the (luny, who persuaded the
Irrew tnewcar that ile was killed by Ina Leander.
the motives of the wilier oftar abase par igr•iph may be
sastly ap.rscistedbrya liberal arliirk prsfie. h thbihe time
rs stlrnspe le widen Mc breacie hien* Iwo natiews, wheat
manners, whose biagusge, are alike. lied whose interests._ in
every view, both politic:ll rind commercial, lire the same / I
• 411111 la Nee- York n n the onfortu3 tte einvowaoce Abided
o to,k place; Sale Ms sufferer, 493 ear wound that rained
WS death. AN EMILIS-111 %N.
N. B. It was not of the Cheapest, bat off Swody Uook,
tbat atiformiate rent twin place.

Some transports with w'nutilleil officers anti men
of our army, and 147/0111 transp Iris a Ith French
prisoners, are arrived at Portsmouth from Portai
gal, after a very .short passage.
Nlonosn.—On Thursday evening an inquisil
Con was taken at the Royal Nlortar Tavern, at
Wool* icli, before J osspkt MI %ItTYtt, Esq. one or
the Coroners for the ru.soty of Kent, on view of-
f the body of Thomai Jones, a convicted ristitineer,
who was confitiod on board the Ret,-ibution hulk,
It appeared, on the inrestigatine, that one of the
:0 twirls, ho was enijill .yrd ith others in un.
loading b• irks from a barge, had thrown a part
tab ick at the overseer who was attending them,
and Mock Man on the hack part of his bead. The
• overuse tumid geoid nut tell tallish of the convicts
had thrown the brick, and the sonriets refused to
• disclose who was the guilty person, and in come-
epicure of such refuel, the convicts were deprived
of some inJulgencies they had been accustomed
to; and Captain Reed having, on Monday, ob-
tains's% information that if.. Coleman, another
eassicted mutineer, was the perm* who threw
the brick, he had Coleman pot into heavy irons;
and Coleman haring taken it into his head that
Thomas Jones was the person who had informed
against him, although Jones had not dune so, and
was his intimate (shad, Coleman In the evening
appeared much cowed, and said he would do
some mischief that night ; that he knew his man,
and would hats the life of two or three before
morning; but he drank some porter with Jones)
and they appeared very good friends, when Cole.
man weal to bed; but during the night he was
was to get op) anal go to a seat helot' ng to one
of the convicts, who was a shoemaker, from
whence he took a round pointed knife, the sharp-
ness of which he tried with his thumb ; he then
with that knife broke open a little bus, from
which be took a sharp pointed knife, and said
this will do for him." He next went to a ta-
ble, on which a lamp was bunting, and tried the
point of the knife upon the table. He then turned
to Jones's hammock, which hung near, and, rais-
ing his hand with the knife in it, stabbed Jones
in the neck with such violence as to penetrate
nearly to the blade bone ; the blood gushed from
the wound with great force, and in a few minutes
Jones died. The Jury, without hesitation, gave a
verdict of Wilfasl Murder against Coleman, who
was committed to hleidstone Gaol for trial at the
next Amines. A crest *ember of witnesses were
examined, and the investigation was not finished
till 11 o'clock.

infERICAN PAPERS. ;: •
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New Yon', Jo LT 4t.—Whether the With%
Minister exceeded the limits of his'atithorite in the
late partial arrangement which he effected with the
United States, we do not, nor can we, at prevent,
know. Bat if the fact be as stated by Mr. Can-
ning in the Houle df Common., Mr. Stikine is
perhaps not more blameable than onr own-Gabi.
net. The mode of managing diplomatia-mgoci.
aliens is. imprimis, for each of the !Ugh- Con-
erecting Parties to eschatige eretlentials.with the
other. Now, althongh Mr. E. may have misun-
derstood the import of Ms authority, it is not sin.
gtilar that it should hive escaped the sigacity of
our Cabinet, that he might be exercising an mute-
thotised agency. But if, on the other hand, our
Cabinet had not the, curiosity to peep into Mr.
Erbkine's instructions, and he imposed upon their
credulity by the assumption of an authority not
delegated by his Government, then he has acted
with the most reprehensible perfidy, and our Ca-
binot with the most pernicions fully. Bat if all'
have been done in honour here, and it is the oh-
litpie policy of the reigning Ministry in Britain to
disavow the legiiimate acts of her Envoy, then,
indeed she has profaned her ancient honour, and
will stand convicted of the most barefaced instance
of punk faith which modern Europe has rceorded.

(Palladium.)
Bonen, JULY 45.—8 y the recent arrival of
the Beverley from France, our intelligence from
that nation is nearly two months subsequent to
the arrival of the pacific propositions of our Go.
'eminent, by the dispatch ship Mentor ; and yet
we cannot discover that they have received the,
least attention from Bonaparte. We are probably
to be attended to when he ceases to be ambitious,
or when his ambition ceases to find food itt
E t-
rope. lie can at his head quarters find time fur
ally negociations but for those with America.—
( Berton Gazette.)
RALEIGH, Jury 18.—By the dispatch of Mr.
Purviance it appears, that the American property
in France is in the same situation as heretofore,
and no vessel can dear out from France without
givint bonds to an enormous amunnt not to yin.
late Bonaparte's Berlin and Milan Decrees. The
French Minister, it is said, is in favour, as far as
he dare be, of a relax ition of the decrees, but Do.
naparte would nut hear it mentioned.—(ldem.)
SatarD.l'ex.—'l'he Free American, with Mr.
Purviance, the Messenger, has returned from
France. By this vessel we learn, that the ships
cietured under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, are
„till detained in *Fenner. flow differently are
French 'egad% treated here! They are permitted
to cow freely into all our p With all our
cringing and Mean servilil to Bonaparte, he still
treats us uagraciously, and with the must sovereign
contempt. The dispatch by Mr. Purslane° affords
114 no consul stool far our hospitality, in admitting
Freoen yeas •Is into otir ports.
New YORK, Jur." 2l.—We shall neither at.
to conceal ()tor disappointment or regret at
this unpleasant intelligence, but we have heard
alarms expressed, which, unwelcome as this news is,
do not appear to lit justified by the facts before
us. The British Minister declares that Mr.
Erskine has exceeded his powers. Until we can
proilitau some evidence to the contrary. we
have no right to disdredit the atserficsa. That
being the COW, the Government does not hold it-
self bound to ratify his act. But are Americans
thus to be tempted to hazard their property abroad,
and then to surer for their misplaced confidence ?
No such thing: on the contrary, we have the :13-
titmice of Mr. Canning, that as the stipulations
I Mr. Erskine were confided in by our Govern.
went and people, they should not suffer for this
error—that speculations entered into by American
merchants, and th it shipments should have their
course unmolested, or the adventurers be intim.
tubed petil the real views of his Majesty could be
communicated to our Government. Then our
trade will go on subject to the operation of the
Order of April last, issued in amelioration of
those of a previous date, unless some new arrange-
ment is made. That is, our trade will have the
sa tie latitude it was to enjoy by Mr. Erskine's
arrangement, and as qoalifieil by our own laws,
cacao Hovland and French Italy.—(flew York
Gazette.)

On .Friday morning, about half-past eleven
o'clock, Patrick Wickham, convicted at the late
Assises fir IVarwickshire, of shooting Mr. Avert),
in Janeary last, on Sunk-hill, ucar Warwick,
and also of robbior, Mr. Gardner, between War-
wick and Long-bridge turnpike; and Susannah
Grunt, for having in her posses%ion, in Warwick,
en edger or instrument fur markihg seven-shilling
pieces round the edges, were executed pier the
door of the county gaol.
Wickham, although a young man, had been
' concerned in several robberies, besides those fur
which he suffered.. lie bad, since condemnation.
been penitent and resigned ; and, bring a Roman.
Catholic, was attended by a gentleman of that
persuasion, whose spiritual admonitions appeared
to have had their intended influence upon his
mind. He did not make any confession publicly.
When he was tied up, and just before the cap was
drawn rivet his face, he said—" God forgive my
Prosecutors, for I am Innocent of what I suffer
for." Ile was i Serjeaut in the 103 d Foot, and
only 41 years or age.
Susannah Grant was far advanced in yeses, be.
ing 64 years of age. She acknowledged that she
well knew that base money was concealed in her
house, having let one of her rooms for that ex-
press purpose : but sho positively denied having
taken any part in the coining of the mosey, or
that money was ever made in that house. With
regard to the instrument that was found in her
house, she pretended to have no knowledge of its
being there ; neither, she said, she W.lll aware that
the concealment of such an instrument in her house
wise capital offence. She was firm and collected,
and confident in the hope of forgiveness. Sho ex-
pressed her warmest gratitude to the Chaplain who
attended her, and prayed incessantly. The exc..
entioner performed the last sad alike, and they
were both lausabod into eternity, in presence of a
large commune of spectator.

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—...sewbar• .• 0••• • %
Gesteemsti--JainaeGibiltles) a porta; its the
service of Messrs. Heise!. and Cot, ssf.:llisines,,
street, was exavisin74l9l,lll•lllllPlllPbf stealing, in
his master's wa reb 01,) Npistiouli' uf,isindtlVis A
lie was long suspected stfisilfering various articles
the property of hilt employers, in wknse sersioeihe
had hems for three years ; end.ou Thereday.tnuf
of the clerks observed- him to have( seseetbing
bulky in his pocket,•which he desired till\ bei ro.
dime, be Immediately took oat *he( isiaglitsai On
tieing' in terrogated as to the thanner is which (be
disposed of articles thus stolen, he-said he sold
them to a Jew of the name of Cohen, in 01,4146
rough. This assertion, however, was denied 10.1
foie the Alderman, who, after dwelliwg• on' the
atrocity of the prisoner's offence, anti lecturing
him in a most severe manlier on his ungfaiefol
conduct, committed him fur a further esaini.
nation. -

M 111.f.LOROVOII-STRET:T.—Yesterclay. fall
grown buys, each nut less than ctt yeanti 4. 4iipo
named Ihnry Dodd, Cullum Neannnn,
Jenkins, were brought before the • Magic: by
Mr. Bell, the high coiettable fur St. (like. dig.
Met, charged with di,turbing the peaceable inin-
bitants of Holborn, by heating a tattoo on the
knockers of several tradesmen's houses.
Frorn the evidence of Mr. Bell and the watch.
man, it appeared that Mete young gentlemen, after
spinning. street yarn all the evening, were reeling
home along the pavement at a late hour of the
night, seemingly ripe for sport. and nothing having
offered so well calculated fur their amusement as a
project for rousPog the drowsy inhabitants of Hut.
burn from their slumbers, they commenced a tre-
mendous sonata on the knocker of every door 'they
passed. Their sport continued for some time uu.
til the guardians of the night, aroused by the thug,
tiers of their assaults, immediately interfered, and
ile,ired them to desist ; at this mild request they
were pleased to laugh, aad persisted in their
fun.
Mr. Bell, the high-constable, who was walking
on the other side of the street, came over, and
urged in vain a similar request ; but finding that
his wholesome advice was eot taken, he thought
proper to conduct them to the watch-house. Hail,
however, baring been procured for them, they
were released from their gloomy abode.
As the truants expressed great contrition for
their conduct, and as Mr. Bell said. thy behaved
very becomingly after they were in custody, the
Magistrate ordered them to be dismissed on paying
their fees.

A miserable looking inane, almost famished
Kith hittivr, was bro"ght up by a St. (tiles's
watchman, charged with being found the preced.
ing night in the street. Being called also* to give
an account of himself, ho stated, that ',front 14
months since he was a seamen in a Bremen iner.
chant ves•et, which vessel was captured by a
French privateer, as she was corning up Channel,
and carried into Boulogne. The crew, amongst
whom nu himself, wens carried to a prison-ship
in-the Isle of France, wherein they were confined
for the last 13 months, during which time they
experienced the most distressing hardships. Having
borne their hard fate with great fuaitudc during
their long Imprisonment, six others along with
'himself formed the desperate resolution of jump.
ing overboard and swimming for their liver.—
About r. fortnight since an opportunity occurring,
he and Companions jumped into the sea, atidswant
with great vigour out of port. Having ho fretted
the waves for a considerable time, they descried a
sail making great way towards them. By this
time they were nearly sinking with fatigue and
exhaustion, when a boat pushed of from the ship
in sight, which afterwards proved to be an Ame.
rican vessel bound for England, and picked them
all up except one of the unfortunate fellows, who
sunk, never to rise again. just as assistance was
extended to him. By this conveyance the nar-
rater of this melancholy talc found means to come
to England. On being landed, he came up to Lrin.
don with a view of finding out his parish. For
two days he had not eaten a morsel of bread, and
had actually fallen down with hunger when the
watchman found him in the street, and conveyed
him to the watch-house.

Thf!Magistrate interrogated him respecting his
parish ; bdt bo said he had forgotten the name of
it. • However, he knew that his fsther's•ettlemcnt
was in St. Giles's, to the Overseers of which pa.
tbu Ilegistratus directed him to apply for re.

The poor creature hobbled out of Cuurt, a
tao►ing monument of wretchedness and nintery.

The boat. 41 his Majesty's ship 3 Minotaur, Pro-
inetheus, and Caroline have taken at Arpo three
Russian gun-boats, and an Imperial brig, laden
with provisions.

A gentleman, named Wilson, residing at High.
gate, undertook, for a wager of fifty gnineaa, to
run thirty.five times up, and the same number of
times down Ilighgate.bill, on Tuesday last, in
twelve hours. The distance was computed at
abont forty-eight miles, which, on level ground,
could have been perfurmed without ddliculty.—
The only chances, therefore, against the perform.
ancc of the task, were the disadvantages of running
up the hill, and the shaking that must necessarily
be experienced in running down again. The cal.
culations against the performance, however, were
erroneous, as Mr. Wilson accomplikhtd his object
in ten hours and fifteen minutes, with apparent,
ease.
One of the lightlfingered gentry, well-known
on the pare between the India House and Temple.
bar, was yesterday detected in the ket of Witt
ilt
nto the pocket of a Naval Officer,' bight tsiik..,,
who immediately seized him by the collars aid
nut feeling inclined to split/ to the argumatitums
legal( fur satisfaction, administered such atfinti-
ful dose of the arguntenturs liavihutin te the
culprit, on the :pot, as left iiiiit•acticeltaNle.to
crawl off. He was afterwards encrustudortitii mud
by the mob, who seemed highly dellf.bied at the
discipline he had received, and were resolved atoafld
their mite to the already sarecajltligibakelli:' ' v.''' I ' 1
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EXIWAORDI V AILY CASE.

' On Tharedagt rie?nhight.at seven o'clock in the
1 vening, as a ni in w is pase.iste by the line-kiln of
. GiiillAlvrat Vinglas, near I).thlie, he saw, in a
irillnw ii•lisw She wall of the kiln, a passers I) tug
ltitibilfare on the {trowel. At first lie sit,yosed
ith tn. he:asleep, ior intoxicat..d ; but after so no
time, pereeiving he llama stir, he MitS illthirtNi to
exaisslite him rourrriesely, when he f ottel hies ap.
parently• dead. On turning him on his back to
,atoertain whit be alight be, a .4ig'it tho most awful
and horrid presented itself to his view : the person.
MILS' Met dead, hut on reinosing his coat, the
,wltule sedate., of his body seemed a itios big teats
lof worms; his face was much disfigured, app..
tautly from borne bruises indicted er her hi bl tall
lot by a fall,..and from every aperture of his heed,
ibilleyes, ears, mouth, anti nos., poured initiate.
raffle is ones. as if the interior of the sktill was
entirely filled with them. His eyes acre dissolveds,
and their cavities, as well as those of his ears,
Itheethl anti nose, were filled with a while moving
mass, more horrid and 4611056.1 g than it is peasl.
We for imagination to conceive without ocular is.
spectien. After some time. the miserahleibeing
recovered sitlficient strength to walk, and sh far
recovered his recollection and silica, that he ois.
finely answered several cuie_stions put to hitt. ; he
I told eho he was, where lie lifted, ike. ; that he
I was returning home on a car the evening before,
and having drank ton 'notch he fell off, an I lay
stunned with the fall till lie was disc..vered.
Ile could not accisent fur the wounds in his head,
nor for his' being so far off the road : ha. it is
must:yeobAble he had received the contusions on
his Nee from thsaall, or perhaps the car hail quite
over him, had be had insensibly crawled to the
plaice where be lay. The huntidity of she air and
the heat of the %Tether', had rapidly brott4ht min
iolitien of the solids in those bruised parts al..
ready pretlispeoteitto putrescency, and now I)i.ig
in contact with the moist earth. In this was spee..
dily deposited the eggs of innumerable insects,
whose generation waxes rapid as the nreil.sposing
causes were favourable; and thus, while the vital
powers rallied at the centre, and the Ilium!, yet
circulating round, the heart, preserved the v.tal
principle, the extremities, iii wilt, h all pulsa•iofs
bed ceased, were dissolving into their 'intuitive
element,, and the whole surface of the budy ea.
hiblied a mass of ani hated corruption. lie was
brought into' an mil-house and laid on bay—
the loathsome objects were removed, as far as that
could be done—he was washed with spirits and
vinesefe—had cordials po.teed down his throat,
which he swallowed, though with seem calve,.
In fact, every precaution was t his by tar Vitlr•
thy people by ahem he wasodisc,tvered, bat with.
out effebt —the poitreseency rsphily encreaseel, in
a veer efrorteime the spasms in his throet pee.
vented him swallowing—he gradually become in.
sensible, and at• le o'clock the next day be di.*
in a state of total solution, having heel bs time
dreedfitt situation 17 hears, from the tine he was
first discovered, and the Brea er !nut of that pas
nod in full possession of his senses—soenerh so,
that he at several timeS enquired eagetly for lies
pocket, in which he recollected he hail put souse
monev, end which, to .a small *mono', vies
fuunti. That Herod. Spa, &r. were deft) tied
by worms while yet alive, are facts record .:1 by
ancient historians, anti' that worms etigeeiler in
the flesh and in nude, &e. is also trite; but those
are not parallel cases, is they were the etfeet, of
morbid pendentes, and specific disorders. The
only case in modern (Imes, perhaps, of a hit eats
being !Ring ender each circumstances, is recorded
in the romantic adeentures of Iscerre Viciti; and
even here the incident throws a degree of discre-
dit on the authenticity of the work, although it
was attested by the annexed affidavits of persons
%she had seen it. Yet in that case the sr•ir•its had
only engendered in the lower extreatitii.s, while
the head and the viscera, necessary to initial life,
were free. But here Vie most essential organ of
the animal economy was dissolved, while yet the
living bring w.ilkeil and talked,.

" Th- crept in, awl the norm• crept nut,
And spurted his eyes and his te.nplee elbow,"
exhibitosg an appearance, even more awful than
the ghastly spectre of poetic 'origination.

The KtNo has issued his commingle for the dig-
tribution of a large number of ieri•to sheep, pre.
sented to hit MAJESTY by the F4u; reage Junta of
Spain, in the name of their King, FIitiIIINSISD
the SEVENTH. Some of than here at. e qty
at Portsmouth. Sir Josapa B.t .114 is to siiptirin.
tend the distribution, in order t.i the plating of
the sheep in the hands of those persons most !Rely
to preserve anti to imp►ove the breed. the ietra.
duction of which, it is hoped, will prove in time
a great national b..nefit, by remit ring the etionvry
independent of others for the staple of its woollen
manufactures.

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The SPanish sheep are removed occadbillity
from St. James's Park to the grounds Vrtitbit
Buckingham-house. The good order of !heir
,parch up the road in the Green Park to tlisekitt
/4st Hyde Park Corner is much nuilcee Two
shepherds come first, whom seldom anjr of the
sheep attempt to pass. Down the centre, at re.
gular intervals, move four stately rams, with bells
round their necks. Three shepherds and two
large dogs elute the procession, in wlhl'ch thc4e is
nothing of the noise, or bustile., the cafelessuess,
at one time, sad the vehiumilem et anJtherP of
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oar drovers. er ears,. #:, • • I.
k. ii • netting or the Directotlimi44becribers of
the Strand Bridge has lately taken ,p 1 pea, wit et
we 'indent:tad, they came to the determination
of erecting the bridge nearly opposite to the Ly.
east Theatre, and not fronting Catharine-streets,
MOM originally intytuletli as it n Lod I int,,rkie
~.ttk part of tibe buildings of Suesyr•et
:The arches are to be of the same dimensions, and
a Cansewny of some length to be ereeted•at either
ads, seat _tu.giva..an eisy declliatiun from the
Strand, and elevation on the opposite side. It
ryas originally Intended to have ertx:tcd 4 teopo-
yery wooden toll bridge ; but timber being scare,
-east-abo Wk. eau:sous, the plan has been given
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