Delaware Gazette And Peninsula Advertiser

London, June 3.

The Royal George.

On Wednesday, the weather being favorable, Mr. Fisher went down in the diving bell, with two men, at the time of slack water, at Spithead, to examine the wreck of the Royal George; and at the depth of about 8 fathoms, they made fast a chain to a part of the wreck, and set up a note for the bell, in a small wooden buoy, with directions for a six inch pipe to be lowered to them, which they hooked to the chain, for the purpose of this part of the wreck being afterwards hove up from the vessel above. They then continued their survey, and were moved about in different directions, by signals given by a certain number of blows with a hammer on the inside of the bell, which are distinctly heard and understood by the attendants above. In lowering the bell down to the full extent of the leather hose, through which it was supplied with air, about nine fathoms, a circumstance occurred which was rather alarming to the spectators, as the hose gave way, and no more air could be supplied. But there was no danger in this, as there is a valve in the bell, to prevent the escape of the air up the hose, and the bell itself contained sufficient air to last the men forty minutes without a further supply by the pump, and Mr. Carrol, the Master of the vessel, who directed the operations above, immediately, with the greatest coolness, caused the bell to be raised to the surface, which operation was performed in about seven minutes. The hose being made good, the bell was lowered a second time, when a Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte was admitted as one of the party, and they brought up a small piece of the wreck. The part of the wreck that was slung, being afterwards hove up, appears to be a considerable part of one of the channels with a chain-plate.—the woodwork much destroyed by the worms, and the iron-work much corroded. Mr. Fisher went down again in the bell, on Saturday, at the time of slack water, to the depth of ten fathoms, but the tide soon turning, rendered it difficult to steer the bell so as to survey the wreck, it was consequently safely hove up again, after being down about forty minutes. A gentleman belonging to the Dock-yard, who requested Mr. Fisher to let him accompany him down, reports, that he felt quite comfortable below, and that there was sufficient light to enable him to read small print,—While below he wrote a note, which he sent up as a proof of his statement.