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would have been attended with many. ad- 
vantages to the public at large, would 
certainly have produced a vaft change in 
the value of property and’ the courfe of 
trade. The circumitance of its being re- 
built by different and jarring parties, who 
could not agree to employ the fame ar- 
chitect, or adopt. the fame plan or mode 
of proceeding, fpoiled the uniformity of 
the ftructure, and produced a narrow and 
inconvenient paflage. The confequences 
of thefe difagreements have been fubmitted 
to. for more than twenty years: but the 
truftees of the hidge have at length de- 
termined to improve the paffage, by ex- 
tending the arches to nearly the full width 
of the piers. After much deliberation, 
‘whether this fhould be executed in iron or 
in ftone, the latter has been preferred ; 
and, with the full concurrence of the cor- 
poration of Newcaille and the Bifhop of 
Durham, an engagement has been entered 
into with Mr. David Stephenfon, the-ar- 
chiteét of Alj-Saints-church, to execute a 
plan which combines much elegance with 
every defirable accommodation. It is ex- 
peéted that this will be completed in the” 
fummer of next-year. 
Of buildings for public amufement the 
aflembly-rooms are reckoned particularly 
elegant and commodious. Part of the 
building is alfo occupied as a fubfcription 
news-room, upon a plan peculiarly liberal . 
and acceptable to ftrangers. Here, be- 
fides the public journals of every kind, a 
confiderable number of books, particularly 
thofe iliuflirative of the public tranfaétions 
and events, and of the ftate of manners 
and literature at home and abroad, are 
purchafed and preferved, and will one day 
form a very valuable library of the moit* 
popular productions, on all fides, upon 
the various interefting topics of dilcuffion 
which, from time to time, have agitated 
the public mind. There is as yet no 
public room exclufively appropriated to 
mufical exhibitions. When the ingenious 
but unfertunate Dr. John Brown was the 
vicar, and Aviion the organift, of New- 
caftle, confiderable attention was paid to 
the cultivation of this elegant art: but 
the tate thus excited feems to have been 
a forced one, and funk with thele refpec- 
table promoters. For a few years back, 
however, a-mufical: fociety has exifted, 
which has purfued its cbje& with great 
{pivir; and its members are at prefent ex- 
erting themfelves to procure fub{criptions 
for building a mafic-hall, upon the plan 
of thofe at Manchefter and Liverpool. 
There is a neat and commodious theatre, 
ef a fize abundantly fufficient for the tewn ; 
Account of Newcaftle upon Tyne. - 
for invalids. 
[June 2, 
and a riding-fchool was built, fomei years 
ago, upon a plan well adapted to the pur- 
pofe, but it feems to have completely 
failed. 
The public baths are extremely well 
contrived, and much reforted to. They 
confift of hot and vapour-baths, inclofed 
cold-baths for ladies and gentlemen, and 
a large open er fwimming-bath. The 
grounds in which they are fituated are 
elegantly laid out; and in the bath-keep- 
ers houfe are excellent accommodations — 
To this eftablifhment the 
fpirited proprietor, Dr. Kentith (well 
known to the medical world by his inge- 
nious Effay on Burns), has lately added a 
complete pneumatic apparatus for the ap- 
plication of the faétitious gafes in the fe- 
veral cafes in which they have been re- 
commended by Dr. Beddoes and others. 
Of charitable inftitutions the infirmary 
muft undoubtedly take the lead. It is 
built in an open and healthy fituation ; 
and in- this refpect a model for charitable 
inftitutions, that, while it is fufficiently 
neat and handfome, it is withal fo plain, 
that not a penny can fairly be charged to 
the account of fuperfluous ornament. 
From the number of accidents which are 
perpetually occuring in the coal-mines, 
it unfortunately enjoys peculiar advantages 
as a School of furgery; and it has, from 
the firft, been under the direétion of men 
defervedly eminent in their profeffion. 
Whether the eftablifhment itfelf has fufh- 
ciently extended its advantages in this re- 
{peét, or whether its direétors have been 
as liberal as the eftablifhment would ‘have 
allowed, in the admiffion, as vifitors, of - 
thofe practitioners who were not concerned 
in the manegement, has been a fubject of 
feme difpute. It is, at any irate, to be 
lamented, that, in an hofpital where 
fuch a variety of interefling cafes during a - 
period of Silty years muft neceflarily have 
occurred, no accurate hiltorical record 
fhouid have been kept, from which felec- 
tions might have been made from time to 
time for the information of the medical 
public. Under the prefent judicious and 
ipirited dire€tors, however, a> new code 
of Jaws is faid to be forming ; lectures to 
the pupils have been introduced, on ana- 
tomy by Mr. Horn, and on furgery b 
Mr. Ingham: it is hoped that thefe will, - 
in due time, be followed up. by others on 
chemiftry and pharmacy; and that a houfe-. 
clerk will be appointed to keep a regular 
hiftory of remarkable cafes, under the di- 
rection of the medical attendants. By the 
particular recommendation of Dr. Clark, 
a medical library is alfo forming for Re 
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