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Incidents in and near London. 



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increafe nearly in proportion to the extent 

 of fiirlace to which it is applied*. 



Fevtis and other analogous complaints 

 appear not to prevail at prefent, to that 

 extent which might be expefVed in Lon- 

 don at this period ot the lummer. It is 

 not the intenlity of the heat, lo mochas 

 the coTiplicaicd pollution with which, in 

 conftquence of it, the atmofphere of the 

 mefrapolij Is, moreefpecialiy in the «'arm- 



* The Ilcpoiter has lately received a 



'upy o(" A Treatil'e on tlie Operation ot' Cold 



III Dr. Stork of Briftol, 3 writer of merit, 



lio, altlioi'.gh not an implicit liifciple, ex- 

 hibits, in his work, a mind illuniineJ with 

 the rays of Bruuotiian philofophy. 



er months, impregmt^d, that tends to dif- 

 order and to debilitaie the conltitiition of 

 its inhabitants. 



" It is not air, but floats a naiifeous mafs 

 Of all ohfcene, corrupt, ofl'enlive thiiigst.'' 

 Happy are they, who, unconfined by 

 priifefhonal or anv other chains, aie, at 

 this feafon of the year, at liberty to ei.joy 

 the lalutary fragrance of vegetation, or to 

 feek refrefhment and relief in the ftili more 

 enlivening breezes, and iiivigoiatint: evhaU 

 ations of ilie Tea. J. Reid. 



GrenvilU-jlreet, Brunfvju k-fquare, 

 July 25, 1805. 



t ArniftroiiiJ. 



INCIDENTS, MARRI.A.GES and DEATHS in and near LONDON. 

 I'yith Biographical Memciri of dijlingui/hed Chara^en recently deceafed. 



AT the annual meeting of the proprietors 

 of the Grand Junftion Canal, held ac the 

 Crown and Anchor Tavern, it wjs ftited by 

 the committee, that the whole line oi canal 

 had been infjie£led, and that the works and 

 improvements to be erefted upon it were efti- 

 mated at upwards of 17,000!. The meeting 

 was alfo informed of the rapid increafe in the 

 revenues of the company, fince the opening 

 of the line by the completion of the tunnel 

 at Blifworth, the five laft monthly returns 

 of tonnage in I'oj, being — January, 731I. 

 February, jioil. March, 5105I. April, 

 5699I. May, 66oal. — The proprietors 

 Were then congratulated on the great ad- 

 vantages to be expefled by them, as well 

 as the public, in tiie more general intro- 

 duflion of Staftordrtiire or Paddington coals 

 (fo called from being now brought 0:1 the 

 Canal to that place); and, in order to fliow 

 the great comparative value of thefe coals 

 uver tlie fea or 1 hames, with which London 

 has been hitherto fupplied, a part of Mr. 

 Sadlet's evidence, lately given bef ire parlia- 

 ment, and in which he was corroborated by 

 Cither evidence, was read by the foiicitor. 

 Mr. Sadler ftatcs two tons, hy weight, ot 

 Paddington coals, to be equal to two chal- 

 drons, by meafure, of River coals : and that 

 the prefent cod of them is as three to four 5 

 tftit for evjporating, or boiling water, one- 

 ' Mrd Icfs in weight of Staft'ordfhire coals will 



■ J the fame woik as a given weigijt of River 

 iojIs. 



At a general half-yearly meeting of the 

 Society for the Support and Encouragement 

 •f Sunday Schools in England and Wales, 

 the Committee reported, that fince the laft 

 general mfctiiig, in Oftober, 1S04, they had 

 aifdcd 51 fchools, with the addition of more 

 th.in 60OD fchoUrs, to the ftatemeiit then 

 ";livrr-d; :<rd that from the rommencement 



■ this inftituMon, in 1785, the fticiety ha<i 

 Monthly Mac. No. i 3 z , 



afiorded aid, either in books or money, to 

 2380 fchools, containing 313,01 1 fcholars, 

 for whofe ufe they had diftributed 200,974. 

 fpelling-books, 46,465 teltaments, and 69;$ 

 bibles, befidesa fum of 4142I.4S. jd. granted 

 to fuch fchools as flood in need of pecuniary 

 aiTiftance. The eftedl of that attention which 

 the Committee paid to petitions for afiiftance 

 from the principality of Wales begins now to 

 difplay itfelf in a manner which ptomifcs the 

 moft extenlive and happy refults. It is already 

 afcertained that 115 fchools have been ef- 

 tablilhed by the fociety In the counties of 

 Flint, Denbigh, Anglefey, Merioneth, and 

 Caernarvon, in which upwards of 7000 fcho- 

 lars, who, in all probability, mull have ftill 

 remained^in ignorance, are now taught to read 

 and underftand their moral obligations both 

 to God and man. Accounts are alfo expefted 

 from all the other counties of a ftill farther 

 augmentation of this number. 



The building, called Wertminfter Market, 

 is to be demolilhcd, and on its file will be 

 erefted a new Guildhall. The workmen 

 have begun their operations. What they 

 have deftroyed of the Market will not be re- 

 gretted, but in digging below it, they toil at 

 the foundations of the ancient S.inftuary at 

 Weftminfter, which the antiquary in.iy now 

 fee for the laft time, and fome oi the public 

 will, perhaps, hear of for the firft. Till 

 1750, the old building remained. " In that 

 year," fays Dr. Scukcley, " I went tofurvey 

 the old church ac Wcftmimler, called the 

 Sanftuary, wliich they were then pulling 

 down to make a new muiket houfe. The 

 building itfelf is as extraordinary in its kind 

 as that we have no clear i<cciiunt concerning 

 it in the hiftory of W^cdminfter Abbey, to 

 which it manifeftly belong-). ' Tis compofcd 

 of two churches, one over another; each in 

 in the form of a crofs. The loweft m.iy be 

 called a double crofs." Dr. Stukeley then 

 K difcuOei 



