fufpicion of its having arrived at the fummit of its greatnefs on the contrary, when we confider the internal refources of an active and enterprizing people, the many public improvements at prefent going forward; but, above all, when our hopes of a Canal, from the eattern to the western feas, to be speedily begun, have almoft a certainty of being realifed, our profpects of the future grandeur of the fubject of our hiftory expand to our delighted imagination. Nor have we any doubts that the friends of the polifhed arts of life, and of useful feience, will continue and increase their enorts to diffufe their benign influence among the inhabitants of the town; and ardently hope, that every barrier erected against the interests of knowledge and virtue, by interested and defigning men, will fall to the ground. In looking over our work, we oblerve many miftakes, feveral of which were pointed out to us by our candid and worthy friends. A lift of the moft material errata is fubjoined. And as gratitude is one of the most amiable virtues, we cannot clofe our obfervations without fincerely hoping that we feel its influence, in its full force, towards our fubfcribers, many of whom are in the firft clafs for literary and fcientific accomplishments. For their kind and ufeful obfervations, their friendly corrections, and that partiality which they have uniformly fhewn towards our work, our best wishes for their profperity, in their various ftations in fociety, will ever attend them, and will be coeval with our lives. APPENDIX. IN APPENDIX. N our account of the glafs-works (p. 512) we accidentally ommitted mentioning thofe at Lemington, where there are two hufes for the manufacture of crown glafs, belonging to the Northumberland Company, under the firm of Waldie and Co. One of thefe buildings is faid to be the highest conical glass-house in the united kingdoms. The duties paid to government, for the Lemington glafs-works, amount to about two thoufand feven hundred pounds, every fix weeks. Nearly one hundred workmen are employed in these two houfes. To the manufactories in the vicinity of Newcastle may likewife be added the extenfive paper-mills of Mr. Robert Rumney, at Warden; Meffrs. A. and J. Annandale, at Haughton; and Mr. John Smith, at Langley; who make confiderable quantities of all forts of paper, and have large warehoufes in Newcaitle, conftantly Rored with that article. Three furveyors are ftationed at Shields, who, in rotation, hail all veffels that enter the harbour, to know their names, from whence they come, and their cargoes, for the purpose of announcing their arrival, at the Exchange, in Newcastle. The original life-boat, we find, was built at South Shields, by Mr. Greathead, about twelve years ago; that at North Shields was conftructed by the fame gentleman, fome time afterwards, under the patronage of the duke of Northumberland, who gives an annual donation of twenty pounds towards its fupport. It is about thirty feet long over all, and ten feet broad, built in a flauching manner, and decked at the floor heads, rows with twelve oars, fixed with grummets on iroh pins, fteers at both ends, and covered with cork on the outfile two or three ftrokes down from the gunwale, will carry thirty people well, and live in a most tremendous broken-headed fea. In page 563 we mention that fix or eight men are able to manage it; which statement we find, upon minute enquiry, to be crroneous, fourteen being the exact number. The fubject of the life-boat is at present under the confideration of parliament, and the merit of Mr. Greathead, for this truly laudable invention, will doubtless be amply rewarded. 4 G There There are four banks in Newcastle, namely, Meffrs. Surtees, Burdon, and Co. in Mofley ftreet; Sir M. W. Ridley, Bell, and Co. in Pilgrim-treet; Sir William Loraine, Baker, and Co. in Church-ftreet; and R. J. Lambton, Bulman, and Co. in Dean. Atreet. Among the cork-cutters in Newcastle, the moft confiderable are the following: viz.-Mr. Rowley, George's-ftairs; and Mr. Brafs, fen. Pepper-corn-chare, Quay-fide. A most ingenious and yet fimple combination of machinery, for the purposes of regulating the conveyance of waggons, laden with coals, down an inclofed plane, from Benwell colliery, on the north fide of the Tyne, to the taith at the border of the river, and for bringing up the waggons, when unloaded, by the fame power that refifted its projectile impetus in the descent, was, in the year 1798, perfected and brought into ufe by the late Mr. Barnes. The length of the rail-way, on which the waggon runs, is 864 yards, which distance it defcends in two minutes and a halt, and re-ascends in the fame space of time, so that a loaded waggon can be let down with eafe and safety, the coal dif charged, and the empty waggon returned to the pit, within the compass of seven minutes! The impelling and the refilling powers of motion are derived from a plummet, weighing 16 cwt. which the waggon, in afcending and defcending, alternately raises and lowers the depth of 144 yards. The rope, by which the wag. gon is impeded and accelerated, winds round the axis of a large wheel, in a niche or groove in the middle, that gives the rope only space to coil round upon itself, and thereby guards against all poffibility of entanglement. Near to the axis of the large coiling wheel, there is an oblique indention of caft iron, which correfponds with and works into a fimilar conformation on the rim of a smaller wheel, round which the plummet rope is coiled or warped, and is, in confequence therefore, moved round only ence in fix rotations of the fufpending and retracting wheel, which exactly corresponds with the elevation of the weight and the defcent of the waggon. To preferve the rope from injury, by dragging on the ground, rollers with iron pivots and brafs fockets, for it to run upon, are elevated in the middle of the rail-way, but fufficiently low to prove no obftruction to the waggon, which paffes over them. CONTENTS. The fuburbs of Newgate, Pandon, and Sandgate 124-140 The Means of fupplying the Town with Water 148 157 The Forth, Warden's Clofe, and Caftle Leazes Public Buildings Moothall and Newgate Gaol Exchange and Town Court Bridge, Manfion house Custom houfe, Affembly Rooms Theatre Royal, Poft Office St. Nicholas' Church St. John's and St. Andrew's Church All Saints or All-hallow's Church 183 St. Ann's Chapel 272 Diffenting Meeting-houses, 273 Ballaft-hills Burying-ground 276 Public Charities - Charity School of St. Nicholas 278 St. John's Charity School 280 Charity School of All Saints and St. Ann's 282 Sunday Schools, Private Schools 283-285 Public Inftitutions-Literary and Philofophical Society 288 St. Nicholas Library 293 Charitable Inftitutions-Jefus Hofpital 311 Mrs Davifon's Hofpital, Sir Walter Blackett's Hofpital 33-314 Mr Davifon's Hofpital, Keelmen's Hofpital 3.5-316 Infirmary, Difpenfary 32-336 Lying in Hofpital, Friendless Poor Society 34-343 Lunatic Afylums, Baths, Benefit Societies 343--348 Page. Charters, Privileges, &c.-Charters of Newcastle 352 Corporation of Newcastle, Courts 371-373 Reprefentatives of the Town in Parliament 377 Merchant Adventurers, Society of Hoaftmen 383-390 Society of Malters and Mariners 394 Twelve Companies, called Myfteries 403 Fifteen Companies, called By-trades 415 Other Companies not of the Fifteen Trades The various Branches of Trades and Manufactures For it appears to have been uniformly twenty-two feet, or a 19 For Troissart, read Froissard. 73 II 93 127 29 For foot of Westgate-street, read head. Dunston is erroneously said to belong to Morton College: it be- For Beverly Bulls, read first battalion of the Yorkshire West Add, the steeple of which is 194 feet high. For daily burial service, read daily and burial service. Read not only in Newcastle. 402 sec.col. In the year 1787, for Thomas Hogg, read Joseph Hogg. From the bottom, for ransacked, read ransacked. For two or three, read between one and two guineas. Read a distillery for coal-tar at St. Peter's quay is conducted by For Oxley, read Oxen. For peculiar to, read carried on in. For Turnbull, read Tunstall. Dele the at probablys, and insert a comma. DIRECTIONS for the BINDER. The plan of the town to face the title-page; the lift of fub- |