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tical men, this does not admit of question. To them it is no longer a wild speculation; the experiment has been tried, and with complete success; tried in circumstances strikingly analogous to our own, and in some respects far more forbidding and repulsive: in the Irish channel, across which, notwithstanding the swell rolling in from the Atlantic amidst tempests and hideous perils, these vessels have been seen, during the whole of the present winter, ploughing their way without sustaining any serious injury, or exciting any well-grounded apprehensions for the safety of their freightage and passengers.

Various collateral advantages, arising out of the erection of a Pier, combined with this most important one, may be stated as strengthening the argument in favour of such a measure.

Brighton by this means will not only become a most desirable point of embarkation, but, by being in a direct communication with the mouth of the Seine, luggage of all descriptions can be forwarded by the cheapest possible conveyance from the metropolis of the one country to that of the other; and it is presumed, that as, by these improvements, the time occupied in a voyage from this place to France will be greatly diminished, and reduced to something like certainty, the mails, at length, with the consent of Government, will be transferred to this route, as the most eligible and desirable. For though the passage from Dover to Calais is much shorter than from Brighton to Dieppe, yet the distance of the one from Paris is much greater than that of the other, and the extra time that would be consumed in the voyage, will be far more than compensated by the rapidity and comparative shortness of the journey.

The safety of trading vessels and the facility of landing goods on our own beach, which will be secured by other plans connected with a Suspension Pier, (which plans Capt. Brown is prepared to detail and to lay before the meeting,) will greatly reduce the price of all articles of traffic. We may confidently state that the reason why the single commodity of coals, for instance, is sold by the vender at Newhaven and Shoreham, to the merchants, full fifteen shillings a chaldron less than the same vender will dispose of them on our shore, is the risk to which the vessel and property embarked in his concern are exposed, by the extreme danger of our coast. This will be obviated by the apparatus devised by the Engineer, and combined with this; so that it is not visionary to calculate on a considerable reduction upon all articles of trade, if the disadvantages of our beach can be overcome.

But in addition to these general benefits there are others which, though of minor interest, and merely of local character, are in themselves sufficient to justify the proposed undertaking. None surely will deny that a Suspension Pier will add greatly to the beauty of our town, while it will afford a highly salubrious and agreeable promenade to our visiters, and afford facilities to parties of pleasure for sailing in any direction they may choose, and of returning at any given period. We all know that the pier at Ramsgate is its every thing. This is, perhaps, the only advantage which Brighton wants. Let something of this nature be erected, and we shall concentrate in ourselves all the separate attractions of the different wateringplaces on our coast. Commanding the finest prospect of the ocean, air whose breath is balm, rides the most extensive and delightful, accommodations for every description of invalids, luxuries for the rich, comforts for the poor, gaiety and gladness for all ;-Brighton requires but a succedaneum for a harbour, and a pleasurable communication, with the element at its base, to be indeed the perpetual Queen of Watering-places, whose reign cannot be impaired by time, nor changed by the caprice of fashion.

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY

RESOLUTIONS.

I. That the Report now submitted by the Committee, originally nominated to confer with Capt. Brown on the subject of the Chain Pier is highly satisfactory; and that it is the opinion of this Meeting, that the erection of a Chain Pier, extending in a line from the East Parade of the Steyne, will greatly increase the attractions of Brighton as a place of fashionable resort, and multiply its local advantages as a point of transit to the coast of France.

II. That in carrying this desirable measure into effect, Capt. Brown deserves the thanks, and is entitled to the cordial support, of every friend to the prosperity of Brighton.

III. That the town of Brighton, here assembled, pledges itself to afford Capt. Brown every facility in its power, for the accomplishment of this important object.

IV. That Capt. Brown be requested to convene the friends and supporters of this object, to devise what may appear to him and them the most eligible means of effecting it.

V. That previous to the commencement of the erection of the intended Chain Pier, Capt. Brown and the projectors of the undertaking do make a Gap or Roadway, near the bottom of Manchester-street, for public use, and remove the capsterns to a suitable place for the use of vessels landing their cargoes at the East part of the Town, in order to obviate, as much as possible, the obstructions to commerce, which the said intended Chain Pier is likely to produce.

VI. That the Moorings, Steam-Engine, Chains, and Machines, proposed to be placed by Capt. Brown and the projectors of the intended Chain Pier, for the purpose of getting off clear of the said Pier all vessels landing their cargoes on this beach, be carried into effect; so that the protection shall be afforded as soon as the danger is incurred.

VII. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the High Constable for his ready compliance with the requisition to convene the town for the purpose of considering this project.

VIII. That the thanks of this Meeting are most cordially given to T. R. Kemp, esq., for his impartial conduct in the Chair, and for his liberal support in the present undertaking.

Subscriptions will be received at Messrs. Hall, West, and Browne; Messrs. Wigney, Stanford, and Co., Brighton; Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co.; Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., London; and Messrs. Ramsays, Bonars, and Co., bankers, Edinburgh.

CURSORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PICTURE GALLERY.

BEFORE We commence our promised account of this beautiful, and indeed magnificent, collection of paintings, we are sorry that we are compelled to notice the very inadequate support it has met with from the beau monde. We are the more surprised at this circumstance, since it rivals the first public exhibitions in the kingdom. The room is elegantly fitted up, and, in our opinion, forms a most agreeable recreation, and serves to dissipate the ennui which we are apt to experience at a watering-place. All the most celebrated magazines and reviews, and the leading journals of the day, are taken in: if, therefore, we view it in a literary point of view, it is far more eligible than the crowded, confined, atmosphere of a common library; and for ladies, in particular, it affords peculiar attractions.- -The first painting in the collection is that celebrated one of N. Poussin-Moses striking the Rock.This was highly valued by Lord Orford, and esteemed by him as one of the chief ornaments of the Houghton Gallery. It was remarked, of this picture, that it was very improbable that in so short a period the water should have worn so deep a bed. Poussin archly replied, "that it only betrayed a want of consideration in the representation of a miracle, to be surprised at meeting with miracles." The group which forms the most pathetic episode of this affecting piece is that of a mother, daughter, and infant child: the tear-fraught eye of the daughter declares that the "bitterness of death" is nearly past, in contemplating the sufferings of her child, clinging to her neck, and vainly pressing her milkless bosom; whilst the mother, in an ecstasy of woe, is imploring the assistance of her fellow sufferers. The powerful genius of Poussin is, indeed, powerfully displayed throughout the whole composition: but we must not suffer ourselves, with so many beauties before us, to meditate on the individual beauties of a single piece. After scanning, with an eye that knows not where finally to rest, the various beauties and splendid specimens of art around us, we are forcibly attracted by a second production of our favourite Poussin-The Death of Germanicus. The association of ideas which naturally force themselves on the memory of the scholar, when viewing, on the "living canvass," the delineation of scenes, over which his youthful heart hath glowed with triumph or indignation, we feel elevated by the subject; but the history of the unfortunate Germanicus is so well known, that it is needless to dwell upon it. He is here represented, on the bed of death, giving his last commands to his dying friends: "Strangers," he exclaims, "will weep the fall of Germanicus; but you are my friends, if you have loved me rather than my fortunes, you will vindicate your friendship," &c.

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ARRIVALS.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Dorset, Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Liverpool, Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Lord and Lady Gwydir, Lord Stewart, Lord Lowther, Lord and Lady Morpeth and Miss Howard, Sir C. and Lady Paget, Lord St. Helens, Sir W. Kepple, Sir T. Thornton, our Ambassador to Portugal, Lord and Lady Northland, Lady Sophia Heathcote, Sir C. M. Burrell, Col. Cameron, Hon. and Rev. W. Capel, Rev. T. Lloyd, Capt. Pipon, Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Knapp, Mr. Auchmuty, Mr. Hawer, Mr. G. Tierney, Mr. Goodall, Mr. Middleton, Mr. Greston, Rev. T. Forde, Mr. J. Kenward, Mr. Parkins, Lord Graves, Sir E. and Lady Colebrook and family, General Bell, Sir W. Peacock, Mr. Dering, Miss Baker, Lord Radcliffe, Miss Monson, Mr. Basil Cochrane, Miss Brooke, Rev. H. Fletcher, Mr. Mendham, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Roe, Mr. Young, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Blackwood, Mr. Mercer, Mrs. Cumming, Mr. Bostock, Mr. Brown, Mr. E. Goldsmith, Mrs. W. Burn, Lady Cochrane, Miss Simpson, Earl Glengall, Bishop of Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Boldero, Mr. and Mrs. Holland, Hon. Mr. Örd, Hon. Mr. Shore, Hon. Mr. Rodes, Mr. and Mrs. Webb, Mr. Irby, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Kiston, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Clagget, Mr. Glaughton, Mr. Farby, Capt. Shiffner, Capt. Bliss, Mr. Scutt, Lady Stanhope, Hon. Mrs. Knight, Lady Holroyd and family, Mrs. Sherer, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Sweet, Mr. Flight, Mr. M'Neilage, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Writer, Mrs. Thomson, Mr. J. Tylor, Mr. Carter, Mr. and Miss Reidon, Mrs. Sedgwick, Mr. Maxse, Mr. Read, Mr. and Mrs. Calvert Clark, Mr. Scott, Mrs. Norman, Mr. E. Blew, Mr. J. Blew, jun., of Worcester.

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At Bognor, Mrs. Ann Wheatley, aged 80. At Shoreham, Maria, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Clayton, of that place.

Mr. John Jenner, of Isfield, farmer, aged 59.

At No. 40, Marine-parade, Brighton, Robert, eldest son of Sir R. Wilmot, Bt., of Chaddesden, Derbyshire.

By drinking a quantity of spirits of brandy, Mr. Thomas Tapley, carpenter, and keeper of the Hornet toll-bar.

At Arundel, Mr. Chs. Henly, aged 27. At Weeks, near Leominster, Mrs.Shotter, aged 87.

Mr. J. Bray Cater, of Lewes, aged 69. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Rich. Hodd, of the White Hart Inn, Lewes, aged 25.

Mr. Hogg, surgeon, of Littlehampton. Miss Hunt, daughter of Mr. Hunt, auctioneer, St. James's-street.

At his house, at Wilmington, Mr. Rich. Lamb, aged 86 years.

At Horsham, Mr. Pearman, of the Anchor Inn,

In Heather's buildings, in the East Pallant, Chichester, Mr. Harry Smith, aged 84 years, well known by the appellation of "The 'Squire." He was a complete Sportsman of the Old School-skilful in the use of the cross and long bows, and at all athletic exercises-an adept at the single stick and quarter-staff, which last he would, till lately, turn with astonishing celerity. A well-known fact of his prowess in the last-named exercise we subjoin :--In the year 1779, a serjeant of Elliott's Light Horse being then in Chichester, and who was reputed one of the best swordsmen of the day, challenged his sword against the 'Squire's" staff, to draw the first blood; many are living who saw the encounter; when at the expiration of four minutes, "the 'Squire' gave his adversary the end of his staff in his forehead, which laid him flat on his back, and gained the victory. The staff, which is seven feet ten inches in length, is now preserved, and has thirteen cuts of the sword in it.

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