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Extracts from the late
English Papers.
We are sorry to hear of the loss of the ship GANGES. Capt. THOMAS SCOTT, on the sands called the James and Mary, proceed- ing from Calcutta on a voyage to Columbo. She had all sails set when she unfortunately struck and was totally lost. The lives were happily saved, but no part of the cargo. [Times, June 17, 1802]
Application is to me made to Parliament in
the next sessions for an act to make a navi-
gable canal from the River Thames at shad- well to Waltham Abbey, and from thence at some future period to open a communication with Lynn, in Norfolk, by a cut from Bishops Stortford, into the navigable part of the Ri-
ver Cam. This canal is to commence he-
tween Bell Wharf and the saltpetre warehouse
Shadwell, and with a collateral branch to
Spa Fields. It proceeds through the parishes of St. Paul's and St. George's in the East through the Tower Hamlets, Ratcliffe, Mile and Old Town, Limehouse, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch. St. Luke's, St. Mary Islington, St. John and James Clerken- well, Pancrass, Hackney, Hornsey, Totten-
ham, Edmonton, Enfield. Cheshunt, Waltham Cross and to Waltham Abbev.
BRUSSELS.
We learn from good authority that a new plan is in agitation of making afresh divi- sion of the French Republic, which is to be
carried into execution in a short time. Ac-
cording to this plan, the Republic will he divided into thirteen grand governments
each Government to include two military di-
visions. The 24th and 25th divisions will contain Belgium and the country of Liege; and Brussels will be the chief city. It is said to be a settled thing that this Government is destined for Joseph Bonaparte. It is added
that the Prefects of each Government will
treat upon all affairs with the Lieutenant Governors, who will correspond directly with the Chief Magistrates of the Republic, from whom they will receive their orders and in
instructions.
LIVERPOOL
On the 14th September last, this town was visited by a calamity as singularly awful in its appearance as it was disastrous and
destructive in its effects, - - - About ten o'clock
in the evening smoke was observed to issue
from a room in the warehouse belonging to Thomas Francis. Esq. at Goree, whose spa-
cious and lofty front has long attracted the admiration or strangers and which, if equalled was not surpassed in magnitude by any singular structure in the kingdom. The alarmed fire was rapidly spread through the town, and an immense size crowd were soon assembled, where the danger had been first discovered. For a time appearances seemed to justify a hope that the tremendous mischief which had been announced and apprehended might be subdued without much effort - - - but no sooner were the doors and windows of the building
forced, than the flames, which had been smo-
thered, burnt out with horrid fury, extending their ravages in every direction with equal rapidity and violence. In a few hours this immense pile, together with that large and commodious range of warehouses, which was erected in front, at the distance of 16 yards,
as well as that which extends from it, in a line, to Water-street was a heap of ruins and a great proportion of all that rich and various produce, with which every apartment of these buildings had been stored and crowd- ed, was consumed. The mildness of the even- ing, and the tide, accompanied with light and variable breezes, being fortunately at flood, gave an opportunity to remove the shipping beyond the reach of the flames, and so prevented the devastation which was spread- ing on the shore, from being aggravated by a scene of confusion and ruin, which the ima- gination even shudders to contemplate.