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rpose of taking seamen on 
Tort, Owing to erties unskilful- 
ness of the pilot, the ship struck 
on the sands, near the Denny, in 
Kingroad, where she remained 
several hours on her beam ends, 
and in the most perilous situa- 
tion. Five of the crew were 
drowned ; but the ship was ulti- 
mately got off, after losing three 
of her boats, and throwing all her 
guns overboard. 
4.—The foundation stone of the 
new building for the London Insti- 
tution, waslaid in the Amphithea- 
tre, Moorfields. The Lord Mayor, 
Lord Carrington the President of 
the Institution, and a great body 
of the members attended. When 
the inscription was read, which 
recorded the date ofthe edifice, the 
Lord Mayor addressed the meet- 
ing, on the great purposes which 
it was intended to serve, and the 
magnificent prospects which it 
held out. He then made some 
observations on the glory such a 
work would reflect on the city of 
London, and on the intimate con- 
nexion which subsisted between 
the cultivation of science and the 
prosperity of commerce, conclud- 
ing with a prayer that the metro- 
polis of the empire might conti- 
nue as celebrated for the extent 
of the one as for the success of 
the other, The company met at 
the City of London Tavern at 
half-past two o’clock in the after- 
noon, and went in procession to 
the ground in Moorfields. Thence 
they returned to the tavern, where 
an inaugural oration was deliver- 
ed by Charles Butler, esq. on the 
connexion of literature, science, 
and the arts, with commerce ; and 
, on the mutual assistance which 
they mutually lend to each other. 
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It embraced all the topics which 
the subject suggested, illustrated 
them from history with much 
happiness of allusion, and was - 
throughout appropriate, perspi- 
cuous, and elegant. The meet- 
ing properly appreciated its va- 
lue, and the Lord Mayor, in con- 
veying to Mr. Butler the thanks 
of the proprietors, added, at their 
unanimous suggestion, a request 
that he would allow it to be print- 
ed. To this he consented, with 
expressions of satisfaction at the 
manner in which it had been re- 
ceived. At six o’clock a numer- 
ous assemblage of the proprietors 
and strangers invited on the occa- 
sion, sat down to dinner, the 
Lord Mayor in the chair. 
An inquisition was taken at the 
Black Lion, in Berwick-street, 
Soho, by A. Gell, esq. the coro~ 
ner for Westminster, on the re- 
mains of the bodies of I. A. F. 
Seymour, aged eight years; Mary 
Seymour, aged six years; and 
Frances Maria Seymour, aged 
four years, who lost their lives in 
the dreadful conflagration in 
Wardour-street, onTuesday morn- 
ing. Mr. S. Lake deposed, that 
he was junior partner with Mr. 
Seymour, his brother-in-law; that 
they carried on the business of 
surveyors and carpenters, at No. 
79, Wardour-street. On Wed- 
nesday night they retired to bed. 
Witness and wife slept in the 
front garret, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Seymour slept in the front room 
on the second floor, with the two 
elder children: the youngest child 
slept in the back garret with the 
servant maid. About two o’clock 
Mr. Seymour was awaked by the 
smell of smoke, and instantly 
alarmed witness, who came down 
