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The intended Regatta for a new boat, oars and skulls, a correspondent observes, is not so well calculated to serve the intended purpose, as it might have been, if proper persons had been consulted on the occasion. The more the people that are drawn together near Vauxhall to see the sport, the more will of course be nigh at hand to walk in when the sport is over. The method of conducting this business therefore should have been as follows:--Six pairs of oars and three heats for the prize—two boats to row at a time, the loser not to start again—the other boats, two at a time, within the space of half an hour after each heat—the loser of each not to start again; thus far being concluded, after an hour’s interval the three winners to row for the boat, the two guineas and one guinea. The men to start from Smith’s gardens, through the center arch of Westminster Bridge, around a barge to be moored about fifty yards from the same, and back again to a barge to be moored the opposite Smith’s Gardens. This would afford many hours diversion, and keep the spectators within a short distance of the gardens.
