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execution, that in fo fhort a time, they fhould 
have fucceeded in rendering the Dock fit for 
the reception of merchandize and fhipping. 
The depth of the water is twenty-five feet, 
at high tide. The Dock itfelf, appearing like 
2.great lake, is, at once, an obje& of beauty 
and aftonifhment. The warehoufes are the 
grandeft, the moft commodious, and {pacious, 
that ever were feen in this country, and are 
capable of containing a vaft quantity of goods. 
~The Committee for improving. the Port 
of London have lately advertifed to receive 
propofals from any perion willing to un- 
dertake the blafting, or otherwifé breaking 
and removing Blackwall-rock. THis rock is 
fituated in the river Thames, at BlackwaH, 
and the top is fometimes feen above water at 
wery lowtides. ‘The body of it extends about 
forty feetin length, and thirty feet in breadth, 
and isto be reduced or lowered cighreen feet 
perpendicular at the leaft. 
Since the commencement of that truly 
ufeful inftitution, the Society for the Relief 
of the Ruptured Poor, 1800 patients and up- 
wards have been admitted under the care of 
Mr. Turnbull, and received effential benefit: 
Tn a great number of inftances a radical cure 
hhas been accomplifhed. The applicants have 
exceeded 4000. 
Several old houfes adjoining to that fuperb 
edifice, the Eaft India-houfe, are pulling 
down, in order to make a ftreet to pafs through 
a part of Leadenhall-market, and fo into 
Lime-ftreet, for the convenience of carriages, 
ec, It is alfo intended to light the back of- 
ices of that building, which, ftanding alone, 
detached from any other ereéction, will add 
greatly to the grandeur of its general appear- 
ance. <9). ; 
According to fome letters lately received 
from the Baptift Miffionaries in Bengal, 
jt appears that Meffrs. Carey and his 
fons (formerly of Leicefier) Mr. Ward and 
Mr. Merfham are in good health, and bufily 
profecuting the ends of their miflion. The 
baptifed “Hindoos continue fteady to the pro- 
feffion of Chriftianity, notwithftanding the 
fufferings to which the confequent lofs of 
caft expofes them. Great attention is excited 
in the country, to the Gofpel, and many of 
the natives hear the Mifizonaries with eazer- 
nefs, and are very defirous of obtaining co- 
pies of the New Teftament. The firft volume 
of the Old Teftament is completed, at prefs, 
which contains the five books of Mofes, and 
‘the reft is in great forwardnefs. The Miffio- 
nary-fociety are exerting themfelves, to obtain 
contributions to defray the expence, as up- 
wards of 10001. is ftil! wanting, to enable 
them to publith the whole Bible in the Ben- 
zalee language 
On Tuefday, September 22, M. Garne- 
rin’s promife, of a defcent from a Parachute, 
was, at aft realized. Ata quarter before 
fix a {mall pilot balloon was launched from 
the place where the balloon was filling, an 
inclofure near North Audley-ftreet, to afcer- 
tain the current of air, which proved to be 
very light from the fouthward and weftward, 
with aclear horizon. The parachute con- 
fifted of a cafe or bag of white canvafs or fail- 
cloth, formed, by thirty-two gores, into 
a hemifpherical form of twenty-three feet 
diameter, at the top of which was a truck, or 
round piece of wood, of ten inches diameter, 
with a hole in its centre, faftened to the 
canvafs by thirty-two fhort pieces. of tape. 
At about four feet and a half from the top 
of the canvafs, a wooden- hoop, about eight 
feet diameter, was put on and tied by a ftring 
from each feam, fo that when the balloon af- 
cended, the parachute hung like a curtain 
from this hoop, and appeared cylindrical, be- 
tween the balioun and the car, or a cylindri- 
cal bafket covered with canvafs, about four 
feet high, and two and a quarter diameter, in 
which M. Garnerin afcended. Garnerin, 
who was dreffed in a clofe jacket and a pair 
of trowfergy exerted himfelf much in attaching 
the apparatus of his parachute, to the net’ of 
the balloon, and at about five minutes before 
fix o'clock he entered his machine and af-. 
cended. After being about feven or eight 
minutes in the upper regions, the cord which 
attached the parachute to the balloon “was 
cut; the parachute almoft directly expanded, 
and for a fecond or two remained nearly fta- 
tionary 5 after that its defcent appeared rapid 
for another fecond or two, when its motions 
became fo agitated, as feveral times to give 
the car an appearance of being nearly on an 
horizontal line with the parachute. The 
courfe the parachute took was over Mary-le- 
bonne ana Somers-town3 on ‘the pafling of 
which laft place it was not more than forty 
or fifty feet above the houfes, and at that 
height was borne over St.Pancras. ‘Here M; 
Garnerin was obliged to let out fome of his 
ballaft, in order to clear the houfes, and he 
ftruck the ground about two fields from the 
church-yard. So violent was the fhock as 
to throw him on his face, which was much 
eut and bled confiderably.. M. Garnerin ap- 
peared confiderably agitated, and trembled 
much when relieved from the parachute, 
which was probably occafioned by the un- 
toward circumftance of one of the cords, 
which were difpofed to confine the extremi- 
ties of the parachute, and by which ic pres 
ferved its umbrelia-like appearance, having 
given way, from which accident,-the violent 
motion which fo agitated the parachute took 
its rife. 
Married.| At St. Pancras, Henry Reye 
nell, efq. of Clifton, to Miis Fagg, of Gloue 
cefter-place, 
Mr. Theddie, of Duke-ftreet, to Mifs 
M‘Dougal, daughter of the late A, M*Doue 
gal, efg. of Invereft-houfe. 
W. Steptoe, efq. of New Brentford, Mid- 
dlefex, many years fteward to Sir Francis 
Burdett, to Mrs. L. Jones, widow, of the 
fame piaee, ' 
At St. George’s in the Borough, G. 
M‘Call, efq. to Mifs A. Wilfon, of the 
Paragon, 
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