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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, ann DEATHS, tw anp near LONDON. 
With Bigraphical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Charadlers recently deceafed. 
LEVEL has been lately taken to prove 
the practicability of making a canal, 
which may effect a junctien between | Padding- 
ton and the Weft-[ndia Docks. This canal is 
intended to be brought in a 
Paddington to the field below the New River 
Road ; then to proceed acrols the City Road, 
and (kirt shoreditch and Spital-field parithes, 
through the centre of the parith af Bethnal 
Green; and then to pats to Whitechapel 
parifh at the Mount, and to communicate 
with the commercial road ; and likewile with 
the London Docks, inthe parifh of St. 
George in the Eatt. 
On Saturday, June 26th, the firft ftone 
of that great national undertaking, the New 
London Docks and Warchoufes, was laid ia 
Wapping, by Mr. Addington, Chancellor of 
athe Exchequer,Lord Hawkeibary,Sir tals 
Neave, Edward, Folter, efg. and a number 
ef other Sentiemen, relpe sétable merchanuis, 
&e. 
‘bottles, containing the gold, ilver, and 
copper coins of the pretent reien, with a 
medal of the king’s recovery, were depofited 
jn 2 hole made im the ttone, and over them 
a tin plate, containing an appropriate in- 
{cription. 
Dr. Gordor has lately prefented a memo- 
rid! to the Court of Common Council, which 
{tates at large, the circumttance of his having 
difcovered the art of muking flour from a 
‘certain tubitance which abounds in. great 
plerity im this country; the cultivation of 
which may be eafily improved, fo as to fup- 
ply, at ail times, the iutinott demand, at one 
fourth the ufuai prices of wheaten flour, with 
which it is equally nitvicious and palateable, 
and will keep its qualities ae! years. The 
above memorial bas been referred to the 
Provifion Committee, to examine and report 
their opinion thereon to the court. 
The foundation of a new fchool for that 
excellent feminary of learning, the Charter 
Houfe, was dately laid, in prefence of Dr. 
Ramiden, Dz. Rain, the afliltant matters, 
and the principa! part of the icholars. The 
whole of the butiding is to be on a very im- 
proved fcale. It will be confiderably larger 
than the prefent fchool, and will, in other 
te[pects, be much imore convenient. The 
dimenfions are 70 feet long, and 35 feet wide. 
the governors of Chrift’s ofpital have it 
in contemplation to rebuild ene of the wings 
of that ancient edifice, in the eourfe of the 
bext year. 
At the final clofe of the poll for the city 
of Londen, July 14, the numbers ftood as 
- follows: 
Mr. Ald. Combe 33577 | Mr. Travers 1371 
Afr. Ald. Price 3276 | SirW.Lewes 652 
Mr. Ald. Cartis 2989 | Mr.Luthington 113 
Sir W. Anderton 2287 
“Fhe four former were of courfe duly ele€ted. 
dire& line from - 
When the itonc was laid, two giafs, 
Mr. John Graham, an auctioneer, ftarted 
asa candidate for the city of Weltmintter; 
the other, and fuccetstul candidates, were 
Mr. Fox, and Admiral Lord Gardner. 
By an addrefs to the electors, it appears 
that Mr. Horne Tooke liad intended to offer 
himfelf again as a candidate for the city ot 
Wellin: r, uf he had not been declared 
ipelimibie by Aét of Parliament. 
Mr. Thornton and Mr. Tierney were the 
two fuccetsful candidates for the borough of 
Southwark. The truly noble and public 
tpirited example which the eleétors of the 
firit commercial borough im the kingdom 
have fet, in returning their reprelentatives 
free from even the fmalleft expence, well 
deferves to be follawed and imitated through- 
out the empire. Sir'Thomas Turton was the 
unfuccefstul candidate. 
At the elettion for the county of Hertford, 
the Hon. Lambe, on the independent 
interelt, facceeded in being returned as 
member, againft Mr. Baker Mr. Plumer 
was the other fuccefstul candidate. 
The produce ot the Contfolidated Fund for 
the yeer ending July 5, exceeds that of the 
preceeding year by more than one million 
and a half. The laft quarter, which has 
been a period of peace, has been ese 
productive. 
The Surrey Iron Railway is now com- 
pleated over the high road through Wandf- 
worth town. On Wednelday, June 8, feve- 
ral carriages, of all deferiptions, pailed over 
the iron rails, without meeting with the leaft 
obftacle. Among thele, the Portfmouth 
waggon, drawn by eight horfes, and i oa 
ing from eight to ten tons, paffed over the 
rails, and did not < appear to make the flighteft 
haprefiion on them. The road will be im- 
mediately opened for traffick up to Mitcham, 
as there only remains the iron to lay down, 
which is conlidered to be a very expeditious 
procefs. 
‘The Import Dock in the Ile of Dogs, 
which is full 30 acres in extent, and the 
largeft excavation of the kind ever made m 
this country, is now entire ly walied in and 
compleated. Three of the immenfe ware- 
houfes with which this dock is mtended to be 
furrounded, are covered in, chiefly with 
copper ; and three others are nearly in a 
{tate of equal forwardnels. | 
Among the grants Jately voted by the 
Legiflature, was one of a fingular kind, viz 
47001. for the expence of copymg manu- 
{cripts found at Herculaneum and Pompeie, 
in the kingdom ot Naples. . A few thoutand 
pounds judicioully employed in objects of 
this ufeful and interetting nature, would 
indeed reflect honour upon the nation, and 
ferve the caufe of humanity in general. 
Account of the number of the cargoes of 
fith brought to the port of London, and fold 
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