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On the pedestal is the following inscription :— 
GEORGE THE THIRD, 
Born and bred a Briton, 
endeared to a Brave, Free, and Loyal People 
. by his public Virtues, 
by his pre-eminent Example 
of private: Worth in all the Relations of domestic Life, 
by his uniform Course of unaffected Piety, 
and entire Submission to the Will of Heaven. 
The Wisdom and Firmness 
of his 
Character and Councils 
enabled him so to apply the Resources of his Empire, 
so to direet the native Energies of his Subjects, 
that he maintained the dignity of his Crown, 
preserved inviolate the Constitution in Church and State, 
and secured the Commerce and Prosperity of his Dominions, 
during a long Period of unexampled difficulty : 
in which the deadly Contagion of French Principles, 
and the domineering Aggressions of French Power, 
had nearly dissolved the Frame, 
and destroyed the 
Independence 
of every other Government and Nation in Europe. 
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City 
of London, 
have erected this Statue 
in testimony 
of their undeviating Loyalty, and grateful Attachment, 
to the best of Kings, 
in the fifty-fifth Year of his Reign. 
A. D. 1815. 
BIRCH, Mayor, 
4,—One of the pinnaces plying 
between Dundee and Newport, 
in Fife, suddenly sunk, about half 
a mile from the latter port; and, 
out of 23 or 24 persons supposed 
to have been on board, only seven 
were saved. ; , 
This afternoon an alarming fire 
broke out nearly opposite the East 
India House, in Leadenhall-street. 
The flames were first perceived to 
issue from the premises of a fancy 
waistcoat manufactory, which 
burnt with the utmost fury, and 
soon extended its ravages to the 
house of a carver and gilder, ad- 
joining, which was totally de- 
stroyed. By the arrival of seve- 
ral engines, and a plentiful sup- 
ply of water, no further injury 
was sustained. No lives have 
been lost, nor has any person been 
hurt. 
5.—A melancholy accident at- 
tended the célebration of the usual 
ceremony of firing guns in St. 
James’s Park, ‘in honour of his 
Majesty’s birth-day: During the 
firing, a immense numbet of 
boys contrived to assemble within 
