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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.

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