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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS,’tn aND NEAR LONDON. 
With Biugrapkical Memoirs of diftinguifbed Charadlers recently deceafed. 
It has Wee lately announced by public ad- 
vertifement inthe London Gazette, and other 
of the London Papers, that applications are 
intended to be made to Parliament, in the en-. 
fuing fefion, for an at for removing the hof- 
pital called Bethlem, in the quarters or open 
grounds, called Moorfields, in the city of Lon- 
don, and for qiveder ae tne fame ina more 
convenient fituation, that may be hereafter 
_ fixed upon; for making a new fquare like that 
of Pintbuty, or erecting buildings ia fome 
other fhape or form, on the fite thereof 5 for 
making new ftreets to pafs from the fite of 
Bethlem- hofpital to Throgmorton-ftreet and 
the Royal Exchange, and another new fireet, 
to lead from Moorgate to Manfion Houfe-ftreet; 
or, for widening and improving the ftreets and 
paflages leading from and to the faid refpec- 
tive ftreets, &c. and for. improving certain 
Rreets, lanes, ways and paflages, leading into, 
or communicating with the above ftreets and 
places: Alfo for an aét for taking down-the 
_ prefent bridge over the river Thames, leading 
from the city of ‘London to the Borough of 
Southwark, called London Bridge, and for ré- 
building the fame, on its prefent fite; or for 
building a new bridge, inftead thereof, in fome 
more convenient fituaticn; for widening and 
improving the avenues to the faid, intended, 
43 bridge, if built on the fite of the prefent 
bridge ; or for making proper and gonvenient 
avenues and approaches to fuch new bridge, if 
built in any other fituation: Alfo for an A& 
for enlarging the market-place of Smithfield, 
in the parifh of St. Sepulchre, in the city of 
London ; for purchafing fuch houfes and lands, 
an the:faid parifh, partly in the city of Len- 
don and partly inthe county of Middlefex, as 
may be tound requifite for that purpofe ; and 
for the better regulation of the faid market: 
Alfo for.an a& for eftablifhing a free market 
inthe city of London, for the fale of coals; 
for parchafing fuch houfes or ph eal 
the wards of Billingigate e and the Tower, as 
may be necefiary for that purpofe.; and for 
pcb see frauds and impofitions im the vend- 
Ing of ali coals brougbt into the pert of Lon- 
don. 
Weft India Binks —On Monday, Auguft 30, 
about fous o'clock, the Weft ludia fscks, 
being confidered as complete, the water was 
admittes. .The firft aperture for letting in 
the water was made about a foot under she 
low-water mark, in the Preventer-dam, (the 
place that floodthe thock when the Coftre- 
dam gave way, fome time fince), but it was 
found necefiary, ‘in conicquence of the water 
coming in very flowly, to mike another aper- 
ture, of the fame dimenfions, on Tuefday af- 
ternoon. Such’is the extent of this vaft un- 
dertaking, that-alth ngh the water ran into 
‘the docks, after the’.ate of 500 to 2 1c00 
gallons im a feconc, yet the Great Dock was 
izot completciy covered by the next merning 
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at fix o’clock. No kind of form was ufed 
upon the occafion of letting in the water. 
Friday, September 3d. being the day ap- 
pointed fcr the grand ceremony. of. receiving 
the firfl ship in the Great Dock, at Limehoufe, © 
a vat acres of perfons of rank were 
prefent, to witnefs the ceremony. At one 
o’clock, precifely, the Henry Addington, 
Capt. Eas anew built Weft India veffel, 
i one. of the finett in the trade, the pro- 
perty of R, Milligan, efq. a merchant of greas 
ref{pe€tability, ana Chairman et the Company, . 
about 350 tons burthen, entered the Dock 5 
fhe was towed in by ropes, amidft the cheers 
of at leaft 10,000 fpe€tators. ‘The veffel ex; ’ 
hibited a fplendid and beautiful appearance, 
being~ decorated with the colours of all 
the different nations inthe world. She was. 
brought to anchor exaétly oppofite the ware- 
sui, No. VIII, which was then made 
eady for the reception of goods. Another 
Welt Indiaman, called the Echo, followed 
the Henry Addington, and moored within 
a fhort diftance. The motion of the fhip 
through the bafon was very flow. The for- 
mer was light, but the latter contained be- 
tween eight'and nine hundied hogfheads of 
fugar, Ashe will be the firft, goods depofited 
in the new warehoufes. The Earl of Rofs- 
lyn, Lords Hood, Pelham, Hobart, Hawkef- 
bury, Sheffield, Harvey and Glenbervie; Sir 
Sidney Smith, the Lord Mayor, Sir G. Shee, 
Mr. Alderman Curtis and Mr. Manning, 
honoured the ceremony with their prefence. 
An elegant cold collation was  previded. 
On the fore-tep-gallant-maft was the Admi~ 
ralty flag. At two o'clock they landed from 
the fhip, under a difcharge of fourteen guns, 
fired as afecond falute, and they afterwards 
returned to town, to dine with the Direétors, 
at the London-tavern. The Weft India 
Docks, thus opened, were intended for home- 
wardsbound flips, but in whieh théy will 
not be allowed to  ftay, after their cargoes 
are difcharged. It is 1600 feet long, 514 
wide aad 29 deep, built round with brick. 
work, five feet in thicknefg, at top, an& 
covered wit hlarge fquare flones, as coping 
to the wal ‘Asokbes lock is yet to be made 
for the AS fhips, which will 
be of the iame length, but narrower by an 
Rundred feet. A magnificent entrance or 
gateway to the quays ¥s intended, with alle- 
gorital Mikes and there wilt be a high 
wall round the whole, befides a floping ditch. 
The sumber of houfes, for rhe refidence of 
clerks and workmen, will convert the marfh, 
in time, into a town, fothat London will then 
extend from Paddington-turnpike to Black. 
wall, without any interruption whatever. 
It is now fomewhat more than two years 
fince the firft Gone of this great commercial 
improvement was Jaid, and it refle@s much 
credit on thefe employed in gasrying it inte 
execution, 
