1811.] 
2! Died. At. Tooting, Christopher Wilson, 
esq. of Aldermanbury, 84. ( 
*-At Ewell, Mrs. smith, wife of Richard 
Carpenter, S. esq. 69. 
At Epsom, the Rev.-J. Thomas. 
~ At Kew, Mr. Wall, of Richmond, He 
sudiienly fell down, and instantly died. Mr. 
Wall .had come from Richmond to Kew, 
with two of his young children and a female 
servant, parposely to see the Prince Regent 
pass. © He fell down between his children, 
and was carried lifeiess into a neighbouring 
~public-house.. Mr, Wall.was a very worthy 
man, very much respected at Richmond, and 
shas Jeft.a widow and nine childrén to lamént 
his prematore death. 
‘known at Richmond for upwards of 120 years, 
2s booksellers, stationers, and newsmen, and 
keepers of thé circulating library, since the 
commencement of that institution. 
, At his howse at-Stockwell Park, after a 
long sesson of bodily suffering, in the 65th 
year of his age, Thomas Woodrouffe Smith, 
an eminent merchant. With an extensive 
knowledge of the world and its concerns, of 
which his success in business affurded an am- 
. ple-proo®, he?possessed, what’ was fauch more 
meritorious, a benevolence of disposition, 
which, underthe guidance of great experience 
and strict integrity, induced him to recder 
important services on many occasions, to nu- 
- merous individuals in the conduct of ‘their 
affairs. 
ful and long-continued infirmity, his mind 
Was vigorously intent-upon objects connected 
with the. improvement and well-teing of 
human society, and in this'trying period of 
his existence, his perception seemed to be as 
glear as his benevolence was ardent. His con- 
ection with the rélizious Society of Friends, 
was at a period of life, when his judgment 
aaight be supposed to confirm his choice upon 
the stable: principle of rational conviction; 
and, with a strong attachment to the profes. 
sion he had adopted, he maintained a libe- 
ality of sentiment worthy of the enlightened 
Christian. The loss of such a man must be 
_ felt. by the community, and is sincerely 
regretted by the poor in his neighbourhood, 
who were constant partakers of his bounty. 
ha: i GSUSEEX. 
The fate of the Grand Southern-Canal Bill 
(says the Editor of the Lewes fournal) has 
given general satisfaction; particularly to the. 
* landed -interest on the proposed line of the 
> €anal. It was thrown out at the “second 
Teading in the Howse of Commons, upon a 
division, by nearly six to one.” The project 
for cutting the above. intended extensive 
canal,. was according to the printed case of 
the land owners, &c. who successfully op- 
posed the bill, one of the numerous class of 
* speculative projects»set on foot by persons, 
_ whose principal object it is to make advantage 
«by the sale of shares in the infancy of an 
undertaking; and chis project would have 
_ affected landed property of the valee of mike 
-~ : 
— Susser? 
His family has been. 
Whilst his body lingered under pain- 
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lions of money! The professed object of the 
Bili was toconvey commodities by water frona 
London to j’ort:mouth; this was to have been 
effected by a cut of about 96 miles in extent, 
between Portsmouth and Tuabridge; from 
whence the remaining transit-to London, was 
to depend on other navigations, the first of 
which would have been thirty miles up tie 
tiver Medway, (a most defective. navigation) 
private property, the owners of which might 
have refused admittance of craft, unless upon - 
their own terms: the further part of the 
transit was to have been through the Thames 
and Medway canal, an unfinished work, and 
then up the Tbames, from below Graves- 
end to London, making a circuit of more than 
doublé the distance from London to: Ports= 
mouth, by land! To effect this work, four— 
teen hundred acres:of land, (the greatest part 
of it in the highest state of cultivation) would 
have been consumed by the c#nal and ‘se- 
servoirs, and-some of the first estates in the 
tountry have been literally cut to pieces. 
The estimated expence. of ‘this undertaking 
was 741,490]. and this: would in all pro. 
bability have beem swelled to uowards. of a 
million sterling!, How could the interest of 
such asum have been raised, ina country: 
without manutactures, and in which manure 
is at present procured-at a much cheaper rate 
than it could have been by the proposed 
canal. We have on. former occasions exe 
press¢d ourselves good wishers to a canal from 
London to Portsmouth; and are still of opi- 
nion, that a properly chosen line, (and such 
a one it is said is now in contemplation) ra- 
mifying, by the rivers Adur and Quse, to 
the ports of Shoreham and Newhaven, would 
be found not only convenient, but very ad= 
vantageous to the kingdom at large. 
The commissioners for Newhaven Piers, 
with a laudable attention to the public.con- 
venience, have not only ceused lights to be 
exhibited at proper hours in the night, on 
the Pier-head, but have also placed buoys in 
such situations, as to matk the channel most 
distinctly in the day-time. The lights ate 
upon the most simple construction, poiating 
out the direction of the channel by being kepp 
in che. 
Married.|; Mr. T.. Palmer, jun. of East 
Grinstead, to Harriet, only daughcer of the 
Rev. William Jackson, of Rye. 
_ At Hawkhurst, Mr, Thomas Cooper, so» 
licitor of Lewes, Sussex, to Lucy Elizabeth, 
‘second daughter of T. Durrant, esq. of Sule- 
burst Park, ‘ 
' Mr. James Skinner, jun. of Alfriston, to 
Miss Hawes, nieceand heiress of the late wal- 
thias Caldecot, esq. of Sherrington House. 
Died.] At Egieston Place, near Storring- 
ton, Mrs. Pacty Foreman, a maiden. lady, - 
aged 71. She possessed considerable property, 
bar, having no relation living, she bequeathed 
tre greatest part of it, upwards of 60,900). 
to her bailiff}; in addition to which she gave a 
Iogacy of 1WOUK. & ene vi his daughters, 
At 
