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forae and fpacious, forming a noble and interefting objefl, 
which mult imprefs every one with an idea of the vaft 
magnitude of the branch of commerce to which they are 
appropriated. The warehoufes on the north and weft 
fides are ten in number, with partition-walls up to, but 
not through, the roof ; and are capable of containing 8000 
hogflieads of fugar each ; on the fouth fide are extenfive 
warehoufes for rum. The docks were planned and exe¬ 
cuted by William Jeffop, efq. civil engineer, and the ware¬ 
houfes by Mr. Gwylt, furveyor and architect. 
To the north-eaft of thefe are the East-India Docks. 
-The adt for ettablilhing this company palled on the 27th 
of July, 1803. Their original capital was too,oool. di¬ 
vided into ftiares of tool, each ; and they were authorifed 
to increafe the capital to 300,0001. if it fliould be found 
neceflary. In 1806 they were impowered to add ioo,oool. 
more to their capital, making in the whole 400,000!. The 
dividends to be paid to. the lubfcribers are, as in the two 
preceding companies, limited to to per cent. The con¬ 
cern is under the management of thirteen directors, who 
mull be holders of atlealt twenty (hares of the company’s 
flock, and four of them mull be directors of the Eall- 
India company. The firft (tone of thefe docks was laid 
in March 1805, and the firft (hip entered them in Auguft 
2806. The dimenfions of the dock for unloading inwards 
are 1410 feet in length, and 560 feet in width, containing 
about 18J acres; the dock (or loading outwards, which 
was a part of Mr. Perry’s dock, is 780 feet in length, and 
520 feet in width, containing 9^ acres. The extent of 
the entrance-bafon, which connects them with the river, 
is 2| acres; the length of the entrance-lock 210 feet, the 
width of the gates 48 feet in the clear, and the depth of 
water at ordinary fpring-tides 24 feet. Thefe docks are 
appropriated folely to the reception of Eaft-India (hip¬ 
ping, and the company undertake to deliver the whole of 
the cargoes. No cooking, fire, or refidence on-board, are 
permitted in thefe docks, the gates of which are (lint every 
afternoon at four o’clock. The diftance from the Eaft- 
India warehoufes being about four miles, the goods are 
conveyed thither in caravans of a particular conltruclion, 
by an excellent road, towards the formation of which 
20,000b was contributed by the company. 
Perrys Dock at Blackvvall, and Green/and Dock on the 
oppofite fide of the river, were private property, having 
been formed by enterprifing individuals, long before any 
public accommodation of this kind exilted in the port of 
London. The firft now forms one of the Eift-India 
Docks; and Greenland-Dock, hitherto appropriated to 
the purpofes of the whale-filhery, has likewife been pur- 
chafed by a company. The Surrey Canal Company have 
a dock at the entrance of their canal for iinall veffels, and 
have raifed a coniiderable capital. 
It affords a (triking proof of the wealth and profperity 
©f the city of London to find, that, in the courfe of about 
ten years, there has been expended a capital of between 
.four and five millions in thefe great undertakings for pro¬ 
viding accommodation and fecurity to its (hipping and 
commerce. By means of the Docks, alfo, a coniiderable 
fpace of diftance, of time, and much labour, are fpared, by 
fhortening the way to the centre of bufinefs, the city, 
from which the imported goods are fent to all parts of 
the united kingdom for hoine-confumption, or afterwards 
again exported to all parts of the globe. 
Leaving thefe ftupendous works, and returning weft ward 
towards the centre of our obfervations, we pais by the 
(pot where, fince the fire of London in 1666, this difaftrous 
element has made the moft dreadful havock. We mean the 
conflagration at Ratcliffe. (See p. 126.) The church, which 
belongs to this hamlet, ,is called St. George’s in the Eali, 
to diitinguifh it from many others; and was built between 
the years 1715 and 1729. It is a maffy ltru&ore, erected 
Jn a very particular talte. The floor is railed a confider- 
abie height above the level of the ground; and the prin¬ 
cipal door, which is in the weft front of the tower, has 
an aleent to it by a double flight of fteps, cut with a (weep, 
DON. 
and defended by a low wall of the fame form. But the 
greateft Angularity in this building is, there are four tur¬ 
rets over the body of the church, and one on the tower; 
the latter of which is in the form of a fortification, with 
a ftaff on the top, for an occafional flag. This church is 
a reftory, the patronage of which, like that of Stepney, is 
in the principal and fcholars of King’s-hali and Brazen*, 
nofe college, Oxford. 
The only remarkable building in this pari(h, except the 
church, is Raine’s hofpital; which is a very handfome edi¬ 
fice, (ituatea in Fowden-fields. It was erefted by Mr. 
Henry Raine, brewer, in the year 1737, who endowed it, 
by a deed of gift, with a perpetual annuity of 240I. per 
annum, and added the (urn of four thoufand pounds, in. 
South-lea annuities, to be laid out in a purchafe. The 
children of this hofpital, which contains forty-eight girls,, 
are taken out of a parifh-fehool almoft contiguous to it, 
erected in the year 1719 by the fame gentleman, at the 
expenfe of about two thoufand pounds, who alfo endowed 
it with a perpetual annuity. Thefe children are fupported 
with all the nc-ceffaries of life, and are taught to read, write, 
few, and do houfehold work, in order to qualify them for 
fervice; to which they, are put, after having been three 
years on the foundation. He al(o dire died the l'um of 
one hundred pounds to be given, every May-day and 
Chriftmas, as a marriage-portion to one of thele girls, to 
be chofen by lot out of fix. 
Nicholas Giblon’s fchocl for fixty boys, eredled in 1537, 
is a (landing monument of the liberality and good fenfe 
of our anceftors; and, with others, mult contribute to 
vindicate them from the ungrateful accufation of wifiiing 
to keep down the veil of ignorance upon the eyes of the 
riling generation. He was (heriff of London : and added 
to this little feminary fourteen almflioufes for as many 
widows; feven from Stepney-parilh, and (even of the mem¬ 
bers of the Coopers’ company. 
At a little diftance, and on the fouth of Ratcliffe High¬ 
way, is the pariftiof St. Paul, Shad well, which was anciently 
a hamlet belonging to Stepney ; but, being greatly increaled 
in the number of its inhabitants, Thomas Neale, eiq. erected 
a church, in the year 1656, lor their accommodation ; and, 
in 1669, this diltrift was, by all of parliament, conifituted 
a diltinct parifli from that of Stepney. The church, which 
is but a mean edifice, built w ith brick, is eighty-leven feet 
long, and fixty-three broad; the height, to the roof, is 
twenty-eight feet, and that of the Iteeple lixty. The body 
has a tew windows, with ruftic arches, and (ome very mean 
ones in the roof. At the corners of the building are balls, 
placed on a kind of (mall pedeftals. The tower, is carried 
up without ornament, and is terminated with balls at the 
corners, in the fame manner as the body of the church, 
and is crowned with a plain low turret. It is a rectory, 
the advowfon of which is in the Dean and Chapter of St. 
Paul’s, as ground-landlords of the whole parifli. 
This parifli is one of the Tower-hamlets. It received 
the name of S/'tadzjcll from afpring, or well, which at this 
time lies buried under a pillar, near the fouth-weft corner 
of the church, within the church-yard. The fouth part 
of the pari (h, denominated Lower Shadwell, beinganciently 
part of Wapping-marfli, was within the courfe of the river 
Thames, till it was embanked. The (Ireets in this parifli, 
called Old and New Gravel-lanes, were fo denominated 
from their being anciently ways for carts, laden with gra¬ 
vel, from the neighbouring fields, to pals to the Thames, 
where it was uled in ballalling (hips, before ballad was 
taken out of the (aid river. 
In the north-eall part of this parifli, in a place now called 
Sun tavern-fields, a Roman cemetery was difeovered, about 
the } ear 1615, wherein were found two coffins; one where¬ 
of, feing of ltone, contained the bones of a man; and the 
other of lead, beautifully embellilhed with (collop-flielis, 
contained thofe of a v'orrun, at whofe head and feet were 
placed two urns, of the height of three feet each; and at 
the (ides, divers beautiful red earthen bottles, with a num¬ 
ber of lachrymatories, of hexagonal and octagonal forms j 
