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I .' NUMBER 12;65.84 fhtICE S 17CTUALUNG-OFFICE, Jit 11 1 .5, 18117. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING his IIiLnISTY'S NATY.4c. do hereby give wake, the barbarians on the Philhellenes who fell into their power. Returning to Smyrna in a Freed' vessel, ha. passed through Natolia to reach Constantinople, by way of Bros's. At the moment he was entering the port, le had the goad fortune to save the life of a Turkish girl, the daughter of a person of eminence, who had just fallen into the sea, and was carried away by the current. This act of humanity made the stronger im pression on the Mahometans, as Count Fernig himself was exposed to great danger ; but it did not astonish the Europeans of different nations, who recollected that the same French General, when Governor of Barcelona, in 1814, threw himself almost alone, when the sailors refuud,'into a alight boat, to save a Sardinian ship that was on the point of destruction during a violent tempest. The Notizie del Glorio says that the Turks and Arabs are constantly observed and harassed by small Greek corps, which occupy the defiles. Ibrahim Pacha had been obliged to reti:e to Modon and Coron. As he was in want of provisions and a m m u n i t i on , he rtsokeepl to buy some at 25inte, and had sent for that pocrial two European °Seers with veratl Egyptian shipe4 war to guard the convoy. This is the flotilla which ' Lord Cochrane attacked. The few details of the action, and the capture of the' corvette god schooner, agree with those we extracted from the Austrian observer. in pursuit of the rebels. General Manso will go at the head of the first corps; and the two others, which will act under his orders, will be commanded by Colonels Biza and Torres, the former of the 3d Regiment of Light Infantry, and the latter of the 10th Regiment of the Line. The day before yesterday some troops of the' first of these regiments took the route of Gerona. Jeps. del Estanys is with his band in the environs of Berge. That rebel Chief is anxious to get possessiosc of the town; but, though he has called to his assistance a number of the mouotaineers of the environs, yet, upl to this date, his attempts have been fruitless. 'The effotts made by the rebels to get into tire town of Tarrasa have all been useless. They hove been repulsed in every case ; that town is in a good state of defence. The Cap tain of the 3d light regiment. M. Velin, having lately fallen in with the band of Ballestra. near Catena, that rebel retreated to the mountains, although Captain Ver lin had none but -his company with him.. • That on . Tanzania', the 17th of Septesnber neat, they will be 'ready to receive Tenders in writing (laird up), and treat for the supply to tide DrOartrnent of a Quantity of IRISH SALT MEAT. equal to 11,090 Navy Tierces of Beef; and 10,000 Navy Tierces of PORK, all to be cured in the ensuing Season, and to be deli vered, Four-fifth Pans thereof In Tierces; and the remaining Fifth Part in Bench, into his Majesty's Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Cork, in such proportions as shall hereafter be re ',liked, one half thereof on or before the 20th day of February, and the other-half on or before thesist day of May, 1828: to be paid for, nesse!, by Bills, without Interest, payable at 60 days after date. The Condition, of the Contract may be seen at this Mice, or by applying to ilfr. J. W. DITNITIAVILL4, Agent for the Victualling at Cork; to the Collecten of his Majesty's Customs at Limerick, Belfast, Newry, and Waterford ; and to the Secretary to the Post. master General at Dublin, respectively. No Tender fora less quantity thaw shall be equal to 300 Tlettes of Beef, or 300 Tierces of Perk will be admitted, and lash Tender mew specify the rewire /WOWS it hark rad be delivered below One o'Cloch on the Day appointed ; and most be accent. period by a letter signed by two responsihie Persons engaging to , become bound with the Party tendering in the penal sum of One Third of the amount of the Contract, for the due performance of the same. • MOS( THE COURIER witANcAta. PARIS, Sm. 4. A letter from Ri.) Janeiro h.ts been commu , ,icated to us, bringing news up to the sth of July. The most in teresting part of its contents relates to the Imperil Vamtly. The Chambers have given the Emperor 1,000 ,contos de reis, the Empress 100; the Crown Prince, during his min )rity, 12 coati's de reis, and 24 after that period ; the Prince of Grand Para eight contos, during his minority, and twelve afterwards. Each of the other Princes and Princesses is to have four contos during innrity, and eight afterwards. PROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL. The Person who snakes tie Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must &acad.'s answer when called for. Y. ;TALLER CLIFTON. The RepublicOFßuenos Apes has ratified the Treaty of Peace with the Brazils, but this ratification had not reached Rio. A gun boat of Buenos Ayres, with twenty five English on board, had passed the Brazil-1 lien squadron. The frigate Isabella had recaptured the privateer Etoile, of Rio Grande, and the privateer Fils de Joillet. The brig- Gabocolo has captured the schooner Guillerman. The Diaro fluminease, of June 28, says that Admiral- Brown had quitted the ser vice of the Argentine Republic, and that several Eng lish, who were serving in the navy of Buenos Ayres, had joined the Brazilian squadron, with a vessel armed with two 24-pounders and twenty-four men. The Bra zilian Admiral has caused the vessel to be valued, and has paid the amount to those who had brought it.— Baron Villabella has written to the Minister of War, dated May 24, that on the 17th he had hoisted the Im perial Flag at .Maldonado. • • NEW AND UNIQUE — PREPARATION OF CARBO NATED EFFERVESCING CHELTENHAM SALTS. ri'HIS incomparable combination of all the said .1- contents of the celebrated Cheltenham Springs, producing the immediate dtiengagement of Carbonic Acid Gal, on the simple addition of Pure Water (a process never before effected), is now presented to the Public with a degree of confidence proportioned to the universal approbation it has already received from some of the most distinguished Members of the Profession, as uniting the peewits qualities of the Waters at the Folintain Head, with the peculiar Sable Ingredients of the Springs, and thus producing the most active, though mild and agreeable substitute for the Chel tenham Waters ever produced by Chemical Science. Messrs. }leaven and Perrin beg to apprise the Public and Fa tulty that this preparation Is now (after a long and very elaborate process) broeght to a high degree of perfection, and will enable Invalids and Travellers at a distance from the Springs to possess the superior adeantage of the Cheltenham Waters at the neatest state 6f approximation. Prepared by Mmsrs. Heaven and Perrhss, at their Laboratory, Nigh-weer, Cheltenham ; and sold in bottles at Oit. ad IC& 6d. and Al Is. each. by Meseta. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside. Corner of &. Paul's, London; St, SacJrille-street, Dublin; and 73, Princes•street. Edinburgh; also by Me. Sanger, 130, Olford street; an.l all the respectable Medicine Venders in the United Elogdem, It it unneceWary to direct the attention of the scientific world to the well known fact, that the Cheltenham Saks, as pro• cured by evaporation from Waters, are necessarily freed by the process trona all the gaseous and tonic contents of the Springs, arkich constitute so important a Medical Agent in their Adosi oistration.—N.B. Ask for Lizavan and Pamir' Chlitleilla Sak& IMPORTANT IN FORMATI9N. IN consequence of the high pop'uliirlty and eatestire Sale of ROWLAND'S ORIGINAL MAC.ASSAR OIL, also ROWLAND'S KALYDOR having induced Needy Pi rates to impose on the Public " sass IMITA11011111." A. ROW. LAND and SON, Solo Proprietors of • the ORIGINAL and, G ENU IN F, consider it an imperative duty to &Melia following fates as a protection to the Public: The Fabricators of them articles copy the Bills, Labels, and Bottles, and sign the Labels " ROW LA NDSON," omitting the' " dt" between Rowland " &" So, and sell the Oil at a less price; *acts purchase the empty bottles, fill them with trash, and sell them without Labels. TO GUARD AGAINST IMPOSITION, Purchasers ate respectfully requested not to take any without Labels, and to " Ask for Rowland's," noticing that each GE NUINE BOTTLE of Macassar Oil, or Kalydor, is inclosed in a Wrapper, the Label of which is executed at a great expense ; also the ESSENCE of TYRE, and A LSA NA EXTRACT, are' sealed with Red Was, bearing the Name and Address; also signed on the Label, In Red, "A. ROWLAND & SON, 80, HATTOPLGARDEN;" And the price ef the Oil is 3s. 6d.-75.-10s. 6d.—and 41x. per bottle. cp AU others are Frauds on the Public, and Impositions on the Proprietors. The Genuine Is sold, by appointment, by Mr. R. Hendrie, Per. turner to his Majesty, Titchhourne.street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Mr. Smyth, 117, Deltroix , 1.58, Gattie and Pierce, 57, D. Rigge, 35, New Bond -street; Butler, 4, Cheerily's; Pate'', Lembardstreet ; Bayley and Blew, Cocksper.street ; Berry and Lloyd, No. 18. 9reek street ; Low, 330, and Prost, 226, Strand; Barges., 68, Holborn hill; Atkinson, Gerrard street; Sutton, Bow Church yard ; Edwards, 67, Newberry, 45, St. Paul's Church yard; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet market; J. and T. , 63, Cheapside; Stradiing, Exehange•gate; Nix, fronting Royal Exchange; 'mite, 41, and Johnstone, 68, Cur nhilL FRENCH PAPERS. PROM THE GAZETTE DP /RAMC; SEPT. 5. PARIS, San. 4. We lately published the results of a comparative view of the number of vessels from foreign ports, or from the colonies, which entered the ports of France during the years 1825 and 1826. To-day the Minutia. gives the list of the vessels that have sailed, so that the reader may judge cf the whole extent of our maritime com merce during these two years. We see by this table that the exports by sea to foreign countries, during the year 1826, exceeded those of 1825 by 1.47 th only, whereas the excess to our colonies is nearly one.fifth. Comparing this table with that of the imports, cre find that the increase of importation has been chiefly advantageous to our great towns, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Havre, and Nantes; whereas the increase of exportation has chiefly taken place in ports of the second order, such as Bayonne, La Rochelle, Brest, Cherburg, and Abbeville. This circumstance seems to be not indifferent. It shews, in fact, that our great trad-1 in° ° por ports pre,erve all their import a nc e b y t h e i ncrease of the importations, and proves, at the same time, by the more active part which tile secondary ports take is the exportations, that there is a great improvement in theindustty of the country about them. Recent accounts from Constantinople announce the ' return to that city of General Count de F ern i g , b rot h er /slaw to Count G oilleminot, his Majesty's Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte. Gen. Fernig, who arrived there with him last pe4r,has;eturned from traversing Egypt to the frontiers of Nubia, the isles of the Archipelago and Greece, where-he had the grief to witness the fall of the Actopolis, and the dreadful cruelties perpetrated by EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. LISBON, Am. La. The Dictatorship pursues its hostile march. The nment Garotte published th e d a y b e f ore y ester d ay ( G trte ve l i fith), 1. A decree of the Regent, pronouncing the resignation of the excellent Bishop of Algarves, a Peer of the Realm, from his place of Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. The retirement of this good man has not been accompanied by those benevolent expres sions of consideration which, in Portugal, are usually given to Ministers who retire. The vacant office has been given, ad interiss, to Don Antonio de Cereal's°, Minister' of Finances. 2. Anoiher decree, which dis misses abruptly, and with disdainful brevity, Don An tonio Meo ,, el de Noronha front the functions of Minis ter of the Marine, which has been confided, ad interim., to the Viscount de Santarem, Minister of the Interior. It was impossible to pardon the Bishop of Algarves and M. de Noronha, for not having suppressed the expres sions of their grief for the disgrace of General Saldanha, and for having more recently, in unison with the mino rity of the present Council of State, maintained that it was proper to ;aspect, and cause to be executed, the' decrees of Don Pedro IV. BARCBLONA, Atm. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Although the administration of the police has passed into the hands of the Apostolic,, yet the wishes of our warlike Catalonians are not yet satisfied. They say that they will not lay down their arms until tbe Go vernment shall have reestablished the Holy Inquisition, and banished all those who Pied nay office under the' Cones. Jep del Estanys is besieging the fortress of Bergs; and it has even been runiouied that he 11.4 suc ceeded in getting possession of it. Our authorities have not, however, received, that l have heard of, any dis patches on the subject of so important an event. They are not, however, ignorant that this chief of the rebels has raised the mountaineers as smatter (companies of armed men, raised by a province for its own defence.) More than 3,000 men, armed and 'unarmed, already surround the town. Our authorities have also learned, that the Commandant of the fortress, in order to increase his-forces, which are insufficient for its defence, has taken the precaution of arming all the inhabitants, who formerly served as national militia, under the banners of the Cortes. It is certain that if the place does not receive speedy succour, the garrison will be forced to open for itself a passage by force, if it be at all able to pierce through the ranks of the enemy. I told you lately, that the manufacturing towa of Tarrasa had been put in a state of defence. General Romagosa has just made a representation against the measure. That General thinks that the remedy may prove more dangerous than the evil itself, seeing, says he, that the inhabitants of that town formerly sheaved so greet a devotion to the cause of the Constitution, and that from such a measure may flow most disastrous consequences. Sapires, better known by the name of Caragol, is nuking progress also every day. The check which he sustained on the 16th instant near Piera, by the move able column of the 10th of the line, under the orders of Don Julien Los Ida, instead of weakening his band, sterns to have given it new strength. The loss of men killed and wounded in the wile, has been repaired by an accession of two hundred fresh recruits. From the environs of Vich to those of Barcelona, nothing is seen but a crowd of small bands scattered abroad like so many swarms of bees. A company of the 3d Regiment of infantry of the line, which was marching yesterday to Grenollers, had several of its men wounded on their route. This recalls the disastrous times of the war of inde pendence; for it was thus that the French columns, who in this province traversed the roads in every sense, saw their soldiers fall, without discovering the aggressors, who, concealed behind the bushes and in the forests which bordered the roads, and wherever they could escape notice, sacrificed their victims with impunity. At Olet the rebels are organising, at this moment, a nume rons band, with the most perfect security. It appears that the horses of the diligences, which have been up to this date respected by the rebels, are no longer secure from their attacks. Yesterday they carried off a relay of six horses. The day before yesterday the third light regiment directed its march towards Gerona. In Ar ragon, on the side of Huesea, an individual named Tena is scouring the country, having tinder his orders two bands, which be has organised on the same footing as those in Catalonia. On the side of Segorleo, in the kingdom of Valencia, there is also another band. As these two provinces have been left without defence, by the absence of troops, it is feared, and not without foun- dation, that these bands, which augment every day, may renew in these provinces the disorders and excesses which afflict Catalonia. FROM THE QUOTIDIENNE. BARCELONA, Almost 27.—Panarz Coaassrompixca Three columns of 600 men each, infantry and cavalry, are organizing at this moment, and will speedily march ~.t., - Pm. Cent. .1: i . . , • - • : . ' /7.. ' 1 .r.-•r-N - , , . • • • •••• . • • - • 4 .t 2 i ' • • , .. ~..... . , k, ..'. . s • .. / / 4 7 • - ... • I ''' :-., •• . I. , , • • • • 4. N 4- Az . 4 4 . . . 4, \ , ,..,...4)*•10 4, :,;; • A s . _ - "3" • - ,itA i iii,d4C4 1. . " p , • . .1 ild -.... I # ---- -.---_ • - FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1827. diVRb. ) -... -al Maim will go at the his country, the liberality of the proprie , o-s at .... ND others, which will vessels, and the feelings of others well affected to s ~ --,, , ded by Colonels gation by the power of steam. After this declaratis, 3 , .., ' 4 Regiment of is it possible for Symington to pretend to any privi. i • cg ime n t of lege or right of invention from his letters patent ? Th;y ~, -ss of the were surreptitiously obtained many years after my fa titer -had made the discovery known to all the world, -.., -r thereby rendering his letters patent of no avail. The , • -,.. -titer person whose pretentions I find it incumbent on to refute is henry Bell, at HAensburgh. In a Lie . '.... -... -s to Parliament, praying for some provision in ". that person sets forth " That, in the year } ' •, ~ Ntly 23 years of age, he commenced expe- N view of propelling vessels by the power oursued these experiments for ten , ,_. -arson in this country who brought 'f secant in propelling vessels i ••. -lls this invention his oWn, -,. ' , ll larger capital had ` , itiging ruin ass hie , 1 , s the first person - lm navigation .., , I . 'am vessel, in the - , . , 'era. s.. • ~, . I . 1 . 1 i ° I I his country, the liberality of the proprie , cvs of steam vessels, and the feelings of others well affected to nevi gation by the power of steam. After this declaration, is it possible for Symington to pretend to any lege or right of invention from his letters patent ? They were surteptitiously obtained many years after my fa ther ,had made the discovery known to all the world, thereby rendering his letters patent of no avail. The •ther person whose pretentions I find it incumbent on .me to refute is Henry Bell, at ILlensburgh. In a Inc petition to Parliament, praying for some provision in 'his old age, that person sets forth " That, in the year 1789, when only 23 years of age, he commenced expe rimenti with the view of propelling vessels by the paver of steam ; that he pursues these experiments for ten years, and was thefirst person in this country trio brought into practice the power of steam its propelling vessels agailut wind and tide. He calls this invention his vain, and complains that others with larger capital had adopted the invention, and were liiinging ruin tin his heacl."• It may be true that Bell was the first person in this country who attempted to turn steam navigation to a profitable use, by building the Comet seam vessel, and ,bringing her to ply upon the river Clyde in the year 1811, for the conveyance of goods and passengers. But while I admit this, and in so tar as it can be consi .dered as a merit, I have no wish tryinjure him; com mon justice, however, to the memory of my late father seems to require that I should state the facts as they lay are. I have already noticed that my father was .thp first who introduced the practical use of 'wpm navigation, and that Symingtol I- was the mechanic' employed by him in constructing and putting onboard his double boat the first steam engine ever used for pet:o pening a vessel: that this took place in the year 1788. At that time Henry- Bell, who was origin .lly bred a one mason, was workin g wi t h Mr . James Inglis, engi neer, at Belisha, and afterwards as an engineer super intending some public works in Gfalgow ; and having bola applied to by Mr. Fulton from America for draw ins of some of the machinery used in this country, " that gentleman," as Mr. Ben says in a letter signdd by himself, and published in the Cakdonian Mercury, on the 28th October, 1816, " begged me (BM) to call on Mr. Miller, of Dalswinton, and see how he had suc ceeded in his steam boat plan; and if it answered the end I was to send him a full drawing and description of it, along with my other machinery. This led me to have a conversation with the late Mr. Miller, and he gave me every information I cold wish for at the time," &c. and he adds, " two years thereafter, (i. e. in 1801), I had a letter from Mr. Fulton, letting me know that he had constructed a steam boat from the different drawings of machinery I had sent him, vhich was likely to answer to answer the end, but required some improvements on it." In 1824, Bell gave a further ac count of his connection•with Mr. Fulton, in a letter addressed by him to John Macniell, E.q. of Glisgow, of which the following is a literal copy. It will not be overlooked, that, in this account of his scientific cor respondence with the American engineer, he makes no allusion to his intercourse with my father Mr. John 111,Nall, 44 lieleinbUrgb, lit Mar Ch. Info " this morning was fevered with your letter and In anger to your loqueres anent the lea Mr. Robert Fulton the American ingenair his father was from Areshair but what plus or familay I ennui tell but his self was born in America. He was different times in this contray and staped with me for some time but he pub fished a tritiez on Canal Declining Railroads acettiards. I have not his bona but you will finde it in lUr. Taylor Stashner Londcn it is els He published it in this contray in tacos I think for in tha letter end of the year 1803 he on his way to Frans called on me and in his return in 1804. He was brought up in the line of a painter and was the best hande scratcher and lickways a good mineter painter. He was not brought up as a ingenair but be was employed to came to this contray ro take drayings of our eattin and other meshineray that leaid him in to become en siva ingenar and was quick in his uptake of any thing. When I wrat to the Anse. recap government the grate yaudity that steam navigation wold be to them on their rivers they apointed Mr It Fulton to eorspond with me so in that way the Amerecans gait their first insight from your humbel servant . " lIRNERY BELL". --- Boats on Mr. Fulton's construction were soon aftir wards brought into general use in the United States of America; but it was no: till twelve years alter my father had employed steam in propelling the two boats erected by him, and after he had given public intima tion of the invention to every Court in Europe, that any of Mr. Fulton's steam vessels appeared ; and not till the year 1811, being ten years after the introduction of them into the United States, that Bell built his vessel called the " Comet" to ply upon the river Clyde, and which was soon after wards followed by many others.-- What I have now stated has been extracted from, and is supported by, the writings and memorials of Messrs. Symington and Bell, and seems to me quite sufficient to :hew that the merit of the introduction of steam na vigation rests with my late father entirely ; and that the only merit of these two persons consists in following out the plan he had adopted, and long before promulgated, of applying wheels or paddles turned by steam in Oro - pelling vesstls at sea. • was the very year in which the success of my father's experiments were very generally reported by the public press, and I front which the young, but invnanve, genius of Henry Bell, 4.t. rived no doubt much assistance at its origin, and in its growth; and which was likewise much and rapidly improved by frequent 1n• speedo° of my father's steam vessel at Carron in 1789, as Symington states. So much for steam navigation bring his invention, uhe is pleased to call it. t My father often regretted to me luring yielded to Mr. Taylor's recommendation of Symington, in place of having employed' Messrs. Watt and Bolton for his engines, and to ha►e availed him self of Mr. Taylor's very competent knowledge in mechanics, to have applied them to the wheels of h‘s vessels. After the violent disgust he received from Symington's coodutt at Carron, he used not unfrequently to reproach Mr. Taylor rather smartly for hulas ever thought of bringing such a person about him. This circumstance, as much as any thing else, contributed to check the progress of steam navigation In this country, from its introduction In 1788-9 till 1811, by damping my father's ardour at the time he had resolved to build another vessel sullitiently strong to undertake a sea voyage, and to support the weight of the engine, in which he proposed to have embarked at Leith for London; and thus at once to have made It manifest that steam was u apglicable to coasting as inland navigation. Such, however, was his bed fortune; and both Mr. Taylor and he lived long to repent afterwards, the ate foe hub; given, and the other for baring attended to, the recomnsendation ; but my father always felt strongly disposed to encourage and upper* genius, when he found it struggling with poverty ; and WI man. Tinkly had he to regret his mistaken kindness. • J MEMOIR REGARDING SYMINOTON AND BELL'S PRETENSIONS TO MIRED THE ORIGINAL INVENTORS OW STEAM NAVIGATION; Being an Appendix to a Niirrative on the Introduction and Prac tice of &eam Narigatiqp, ate. published in the Philosophical Journal for July 111113. By P. Miner, Esq. fall= 21011111ITROM YEW PHILOSOPHSCAL JOURNAL, ma ACICA. num Having, in justice to the memory of my father, the late Mr. Miller of Dalswinton, given a short account of his claim to the adaptation of steam to navigation, which appeared in the Edinburgh Philosophical Jour nal in July 1825, I now find myself, in consequence of the continued and unwarrantable pretensions of others, reluctantly compelled to obtrude again on the public attention, in order to set these pretensions at rest. In my former statement I have proved, that, on the re commendation cf Mr. Taylor, the tutor in my father's family, from whose advice alone my father at any time received the smallest assistance on this important sub- Wt, he sent for William Symin gton , t h en emp l oye d at Wanlockhead mines, in spring 1788, to superintend the construction of a small steam-engine to be used in the experiments he was then carrying on at Dalswinton, for propelling vessels with wheels. In October follow ing, the engine and machinery were completed, and put on board a pleasure-boat on the lake at Dalswinton, and completely answered the expectations of my father, and many other persons who had opportunities of see ing the experiments. So much was this the case, that, in 1789, my father resolved to extend the experiments; and, in June that year, sent Symington to Carron, with a letter to the Manager of the Canon Company, in or der to get a steam-engine constructed for a double ves sel, which had been built for him •at Leith some years before, for the purpose of ascertaining the power of wheels in propelling ships against wind and tide. This engine having been accordingly placed .on board the vessel at Carron, in December of that year, an ex periment of its effect was made on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Like that at Dalswinton, it com pletely satisfied my father of the practicability of his scheme, but the vessel having been too slight for the weight of the engine to attempt a voyage at sea, the ap paratus was unshipped and laid up in the storehouse of the Carrots Company. Here, as noticed in my former statement, my father's experiments stopt. Symington; who had been employed under him, being thereafter en gaged for a considerable period in the construction of Wanlockhead minei, was again, trier the lapse of twelve years, employed by the late Lord Dundas, the chairman of the Forth and Clyde Canal Company, to superintend a series of experiments his Lordship was then setting on foot, for dragging vessels along the ca• nal, on my father's plan, by steam boats is place of horses. In 1803, he seems to have completed a steam boat or tug called the "Charlotte Dundas," which took in tow two vessels of seventy tons burden each, and dragged them along the summit reach of the canal far nineteen and a half miles in six hours against a strong wind a-head. In 1801, Symington, whom my father always considered in the same light as he did every other labourer or tradesmen he employed about his different vessels, took out letters patent for the in vention—a proceeding of which my lather was not aware till a considerable time afterwards, and which excited his warmest indignation. Such being Symington's pretensions, he comes forward in the year 1824, long after steam-vessels had been erected by others, and successfully u.rd upon the river Clyde, and claims from the Glasgow steamboat owners a remu neration for the invasion of his patent right. " Being unable," as he says in his memorial, " to extort any thing from them by the effects of law," he resolved to put his great confidence for relief in the munificence of