306 Internal Improvements. 



this country but liberty and law?) it is impoffible to fet 

 bounds to its operations and to its fucceflcs. 



At a public meeting held at Horfliam in SufTcx on the 

 1 8th of Augufr, it was refolved, That acts of parliament 

 having been already obtained for making a canal navigation 

 from the Thames at Rotherhithe to Croydon in Surry, it is 

 defirable that a canal fliould be made, to commence at the 

 termination of that canal at Croydon, and to pafs from thence 

 to Portfinouth. A fubfeription was immediately fet on foot 

 to carry the deflgn into execution. 



A very numerous and refpectable meeting of gentlemen, 

 merchants, bankers, and others, was held at the Crown and 

 Anchor in the Strand, on Thurfday the 5th of Auguft, to 

 confider of the expediency of applying to parliament for an 

 act to make a navigable canal from the grand junction canal 

 aX Paddington, round the north of London, to communicate 

 with the "London Docks at Wapping. Sir Chriftopher 

 Baynes, bart. was called to the chair, and laid before the 

 meeting a very fatisfactory ftatement, not only of the plan 

 propofed, but of the means by which it may be accom- 

 p'lifhed, together with eftimates of the expenfe likely to at- 

 tend its completion ; after which a committee of fubferibers 

 was appointed to take the neceffary meafures for carrying the 

 plan into effect. We forbear, in this early ftage of fo im- 

 portant an undertaking, to prognofticate the various benefits 

 that may arife from it, although there feems an univerfal 

 opinion in its favour. 



We hope alfo to be able, at no very diftant period, to an- 

 nounce that the iron bridge of one arch over the Thames, 

 projected by Mr. Telford, is to be undertaken. A perfpec- 

 tive view gf the bridge has been publiflied on a very extenfive 

 fcale. It is an admirable production, efpecially the en- 

 graved part *. It has received the approbation of the moil 

 eminent mathematicians, as Dr. Mafkelyne, Dr. Hutton, 

 Mr. Robertfon of Oxford, Mr. Atvvood of London, Dr. Ro- 

 bifon and Mr. Playfair of Edinburgh, and Mr. Coupland of 

 Aberdeen ; which is a fufficient justification of the principles 

 of the defign. Among the great, the king, the prince of 

 Wales, the duke of York, and the duke of Kent, have ftood 

 foremoft in their approbation. The plate is now dedicated 

 to his majefty, by his permifiion, and with the approbation 

 of lord Hawkefbury, to whom it was at firft dedicated. 



If to the docks in the Ifle of Dogs, and in Wapping, this 

 imprcvejnerft in the upper part of the river was added, the 



• The back ground is in acruatinra. 



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