A new East Indiaman, abou...
The Times, 1824-09-02T00:00:00

A new East In(liaman, about 600 tons burden, was launc'lc(l on Thursday from the dock-yard of Messrs. lBrindley an(d Go., Rochester. She is named the City go Rjclces/er, in compliment to the city, and she is built on a construction at once novel an(d economical: her bottom and zi(tes consist of separate thicknes3es of planks, worked fore an(d aft-ways, lapping over thc joints or seams of eacl otlher alternately; andl 4nder the last crating or outsidt plankinig, there are iron-hoop riJsi, worked at proper dis- tances, cressing at right angles the planking of the bot- torn, sides, and deck, and are irmly secured within side the ship wvith screw-nrts mode for thle purpose ; the wholr forming a combination of stretngth, which, upon calcula- tion, is estimnate(d to resist 80,000 ton1s, The shlip sails nexi week for the East Indies. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East In. dia.hou,e, when the following ships were thus timed, viz.-Th Atlax and flcrefordsliire, for Mfadras and China ; Valrsittart ant ffWind.or for Bombay and Chiina: be afloat the fth of November 1824, sait to Gravesend the 20th ditto, stay there 30 davs, and b in the Downs on the 26th of Derember. rhe Repuilse, for St. Hle lena, Benroolen, and China; the General IYyd and Hythle, for Ben gal and China; be afloat the 20th of November, 1824, sail to Graves end the 6tlh of December, stay tnere 30 days, and be in the Down the 11th of Jnnuary, 1825. The Royal George, Bridgewatcr, ant laterloo, for B1engal and China; be afoat the 6th of Derember 1824, sail to Gravesend the 20th ditto, stay there 30 days, and b in the Downs on the 25th of January, 1825. The K-ent, for Ben gal and C,hina; Farcqu,argon, for St. Helena, Bombay, and China andi the Killie Castlea nd Inglis, for Bombay anrl China; be afloa the 20th of December, 1824, sail to Gravesend the 4th ot January 1825, stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs on the 9th of Fe bru ary. VAUXHAI,L.-A grand union fete, combining the leadin1 features and amusements ot all the preceding festivals of the season took place at these gardens last night. From the prodigious numbe of lamps which blazed around in all colours, and the varieus device which every where met the eye, the effect upon entering the garden was extremely striking; and that effect was heightened by the ga appearance ofthe groups that paraded the differen^ walks. The flrC works were unusually splendid, and the concert and other amuse. ments gave equal satisfAction. The gardens were much crowded and the crush to witness some of the exr.ibitions was occasionalli quite tormidable. Till the beginning of the last century, music had al- ways been printerd with typcs, in the manner of letter-press. Thi was then, a8 it iS now', an expensive mode of publishing, excep when many imp;ressions were required, and deterred com posers tron going into the press, unless they could venture to print ofan edition of from tifteen hundred to two thousand copies. Engraving in cop per was thefi reso-tert to, without diminishingte cost: after which pewter plates, partly punched and partly engraved, wvere brough into tuse, and, ironi their extrenie cheapness, haye been employed fo the purpose ever since, except in Germany, where the demandl fo mnusjc is sct great, that the early method has never been discontinuec in cases where a large sale has bees anticipated. The extensive tradi with Leipsic, for the latter kind of publications, have inducedl z printing-office in London, that ef Clowes and Co., in Northumber rand.court, to complete a beautiful fount of musical type, far ur. passing any thing of the kind that we have seen. This revived man ner of prititing music, for distinctness, cleanliness, neatness, and- w,hen many copies are printed off-cheapness, is not rivalled by amn other method. THEIB SANDWICH NIAJESTIEs.-Between the hours o twelve and one o'clock yesterday morning, an alarm ws.s raised i the neighbourhood of St. I\fartin's-lane, in consequence of the fiol lowing circumstance:n-As one of the watchmen was crying half past 12 o'clock, he was accosted by a respectably-dressed man, wh, inquired if there was any pnassage fron.~ the grave.yard to the vaulti heneatit the church, in which the King and Queen of tite Sandwicl Islands were understood to have been placed until thev wen taken back to their native country? The watchman said that h, was not aware of any suClt passage being in the grave-yard, an( asked the seeming gentlernan what induced him to put go singular X question ? " Because," rejoined the other, " I have been for thi last half hiour here observinig the motions of three Men, one of whon clambered over the railings of the grave-yard as I came by Church passage, and, not thinking that I perceived the circumstance, he tool no nsotice of me, but stood quite still until he was joined by th, others, to one of whom he gave some long instrument that appeared at the tlistance I was trorni them, to be a crow-bar. The three tel lows then passed into the Stralnd, tLrned up St. Mfartin's-lane, ant stopped nearly opposite the King's-mews for some minutes, whet they crossed to the churehqyard, apparently with the intention o reconnoitring at that end: however, a man and his wife turmed int( th clsurch-yard immediately after, ansd knocked loudly at one of th, hallkdoors, whets the fellows wvalked rapidly away towards tie Strandi, ard all ttrther trace of themn was then lost. ' Search wa: made in every nook likely to affiord concealsxent to the supposed re lsurrectionistsor any paraphernalia they might have had; but nothint was fiound calculated to excite additional suspicions of any attemlpi of the kinrl described. Every avenue to the grave-van1 ant tin cliotch was perfectly secure; and as the watchman goes completch roun(l every half-hour, there conld be littlc likeihood of any petsor being anabled to proctre entrance to the churcll without detection lVsether the story was ititended nierely as a hoax on the watch. man, or whether any deeper design vwas concealed beneath this plau- sible pretext. we are by no means capable of deciding. One tning, however, is certain, that the etntombment of those iU.fated person- ages was, prior to that evernt, ia matter of verv anxious inquiry witlh several members of a certain profession that practise on the dead for the benefit of the quick. One gentleman in particular is said to have oftered no less than 5001. for either of the bodies; thia, how- ever, is questionable, though vwe remember a very recent casc, where 1001. wvas paid for a iimiinlrtive subject, the poor lit:le dwarf that was exlhibited in the Strand. In regard to aty sacrilegious design con- templated against the posthumnous repose of Sandwich royalty, whist in tic vaults of St. Martin's clhurch, we are enabled to say, on goott autherity, that nothing couldl be more futile or ridtculous, as every avenue is most strongly defended, and we make no dozubt it was in consequence of that very circumstance this cometerv waq se- lected in preference to all others is the termporarv depository of the ill-ft4tee Tamehhmalu and his Royal Consort. FAUX PAS.-A statementi, under this title, copied from nal-ttay,ti', Mfessetegrr of the 23d tilt., appeared in several of the Lan1on papers. In Galignanni's fessesnger. of Monday last is the following setter from one of the parties alludeu to " ro TH1E EDITOR. " Sir,-Severe indisposition, which now confines rie to mny bed, did not adnit of my being made acquainted with the paragzraph in your paper of the25th i;nst. till yesternlay, entitled Tine latefas/h- ilon6 Faux.r Pas aI Naples. It' tite initials L. AV. are meant to apply to my namne, I have to declare the assertions therein contained to be a gross mn4statemeentoffixt-. As it is not my itutention, nor ti I consider it, tinnier any circut-nstatsces, beconring, to entertain thle public with affairs of private transaction, 1 shall satisfy myself with this eeelarion, without being led throughl the mnedium of the public prints into any further details, ter sbtould I have taken this notice of the ab'e taisstatcmrnet, did it not involve the conduct of others. 'Saturday, August 28, 1824. ' W. 1, WELLESLEY. Hotel ?dirabeaus, rue de la Paix." Mr. Vandenhoff is enaaged at the Edinburgh Theatre, a salary of' 10 guineas per week. The announcernent of this cir- cumuitance to the Scotch audience wae received with thunders of ap- plause.-Scotch paper. This, is the same actor who was hissed so decidedly, but at the same titne so justly, from the Luondon boards. It is a fact, that not one solitary epistle in the hantdwrit- ing of George 11. is knowrn to exist. 'T'his circumstance is more rc- markable, i we refer to his gallantries and intrigues, so severely conrtnentad upon anid recordeAt hy WVitpole and by others, To Atr. Ugpcott, of the Jaondon Institution, anti Ilr. Dawson Turner the banker at Varrnouthl, the 'reatcollectora of autograph letters In Lkng- land, the discovery and tie possession of ani original letter by this singsdarSy odd lioaarch would be a desideratioin. On Tuesday se'iniglt a stotse coffin, whicll had been fiound in the morning in a vault or chaumber of the ancient Castle of Hastings, was opened, and found to contain the skeletous of a child apparently eight or nine yeara of age. Another coffin, discovered t2intimed atlgeto in ath7eainssigtuation,s whas also inpected; 9it Ceo.