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irto - c„4 , " A 1. 4\1 4 r . 11, 1-7 . 4 *. ti - %won>. ...a en 4•••••••• ••• i~ I . /I BUR 9316. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, .lii#. PRI( E SEVEN-PEN, OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, August 11, 1817. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of hit Md. JESM ORDNANCE de Array giwe Naiee, That Proposals will be received at their Office in Pall Mall on nr before Friday, the Sth day of September next, from rush per roll, as may be willing to undertake the supply of COPPER .":lOOPs for service of this Department, fora period of otie year. 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Put V.whick completes the Pleat Volume, of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA EDINENSIS ; or, bie 1 lONARY ed Alt IS, aCIENCIS, and MISCbLo I.ANEOUS LITERA I URI, in sia - Vela Quito, with need y Pell Plates. By JAMES MILL AR, M. D. &tor of the 4th and 3th Editions of the Incyelopiedia Britannia, with the assistance of the principal Coo , ribtuots to that work • • Exclusive of Biograpircal :,Itetches, and Miscellaneous No tice:in the various departments of Literature and Science, - the lest Volume ei.mprehnois the following subjects, more hilly de tailed, viz.—Abyssinia, Acoustics, Aerostadon, AfricA, Apicul ture America. Anatomy, Architecture, Astronomy , Bandan a kluitifaciory, Be.k Biography, Bleu log, Betsey, lii. From obis enumeration will appear, that the present Volume of this work contains as much matter as threoVos Of any Of itt uniterepdvarhis ; some at the subjects are dismissed at veater length thaw in larger works, mid all of than are treated in amens err adapted to the general Reader. 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They are, therefore, happy to announce to their Subscribers, that it will on no account exceed Wettest& Volumes; and that ao charge will be made for any additional sheets, if they should be found necessary to complete the Work. Eleven Volumes have now appeared, and the ranaluing ones will be published at as short intervals as poseible. The principal articles ht this Half Volume are, Hybernatioo, Hydrodyuaissiu, Hygrometry, Jamaica, Japan, Java, lee, Ice land, Ichthyology, Idria, Jedburgh, Jersey. Jerusalem, Jesuits, and Jews. In the article Hydrodynamics, the various subjects of Hydro statics, Specific Gravities, Hygrometers, Equilibrium of Floating Bodies, Capillary Attraction and Cohesion, Hydrostatic bistros meats, Hydraulics, Motion of Water in Tubes, Pipes, and Co asts, Resistance of Fluids, and .Hydraulc Machinery, are treated .1a a plain and popular manner, so as to be easily understood by those who have but a slight acquaintance with Mathemetice.... Among the parts of this article which have never before appeared in our language, are au amount of Laplace's Theory of Capillary' Attraction; of Gay-Lussac's Instruntent fur measuring the As teat of Water in Capillary Tubes; Ventures Etperintents on Floating Cylinders of Camphor; Guard's Experiments on the Item of Heat upon the Motion of Fluids: aid Proxy's at' Larches on the Motion of Water in Pipes and Canals. The Ex periments of Mr. Smeatnn, ea the Motioa of Water is Pipes, are hem printed, for the first rime, from the MM. of that edit heated Engineer , and the Descripti on of sweepers Hydrometers, of Burns's Overshot Wheel, without an sale; of Burns's Sluice Gamow ; and of the Screw Espana erected at the iludiest Alum-works, have never before bee n published.--New Tables for facilitating the application of Dubaut's'Formulas have also been eempeted for this article, by Mr. Lawcie, of Ulasgew. tide Hygrometry ceista:ns as account of the mew inveatiyabee st Gay.l.ussac and "km, and of many important discoveries amide by Mr. Anderson, of Perth, the author of the mils, edio.bee reduced into the form of a mimes a subject hitherto obeammemi bob uutlerstood. The article Ice tamales an account of the Obeereadoosof Mr. Beertaby on the Polar Ice, and thearticlitiouland is sap* by an eminent Traveikr.who lately visited that hessiering NW. 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Part 1. of ME D ICO CHI RU RGICA c, TRANS AC noNs, publisbed by the Medical sod Ctdrurgical Society of London. Printed 14 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. Of whom may be had, Volumes I. to VII. with IntlfitiOtl/ Plates, price £6 68.6 d bds. HISTORY OF THE SOUTH OF INDIA. This day were publishel, Vol.. 11. and IIL in Quar.o, price E 4. ths. tante, of HISTORICAL SKETCHES of the SOUTH' of INDIA. In an attempt to trace the History of Mysoor. From the origin of the Hinduo Governinent of that State, to the extinalon of the Mahommedan Dynasty Ya 1799 ; founde d on Indian Authorities, collected by the Aotbor wale officiating for several years as Policed Re•ident at the Court of Mysour. By Colonel MARK WII.KS. Printed for Longman, Hunt, Rees. Orme, and Brown. London. Of whom may be had, A few Copies of the Work, complete is S Vols. price in. half. bound. Russia backs, and lettered. “ This inttructive Work is entitled to much public attention, gratitude and approbation. From dneuments hitherto unexplored it brings into circulation many important facts conceramg the History of Kronor daring the Lst two centuries.*—Montisly Review. FOR INDIGESTION sad BILIOUS IRREGULARITIES. THESE common complaints , so productive of dis tress from costiveness, frequent muses, latulence, detec tive appetite, oppression or pain In the chest, weight or pressure over the eyes, lisdeseness and grim depression of spirits. are speedily relieved by TOWERS'S TONIC PILLS. - They gently relax die bowels, cleaves and strengthen the stomach, restore the affairs., ramose aviation, and a due and regular secretion of the bile. All they do not contain mercury in any Tons. they are equally safe es ellicaclous and require .00 unusual restraint or caution.... They are prepared by JobaTowers, Professional Che mist, 6, Little Warm -street, Gear Hattoniardeo I sod nsay be bad at the Genuine Medicine Warehose.es in London, and in roost Provincial 'Towns, price is. lid. es. 6d. and I Is. per Tbe lugyr sizes insure a great saving to purchasers. A•ROMATIC SPIRIT of VINEGAR, (the mi. Sing Invention of Mr. HENRY, and beau* by kis successive improvements to the highest palatine) matinees to be prepared and sold by Mews. Hama?, Manufacturing Claw mists, Manchester. . agreeable perfumed Liquor which is composed of highly concentrated Vhsego, joined with the wet pleasant Aromatics and cautious Antiseptics, may be kept unimpaired la any Climate and be any length of these. he pungent Odour-adapts k for affording relief in Head-ache. Paintings. Sec.; and renders it tressinarly grateful and refreshing In crowded rooms, In places of public resat, and in the apartments of the sick. ft counter. east also, the inenion of Contagion Danmes. ' As way spurious and Inferior preparstitas are sold under as same and *NW names, the public are requested to observe, as the only peed of its bring genuine, that the names of News Hem, Memkeetes. are engraved en the stamp. the Aroma* Spirit of Vinegar in beetles, price as. fed rush, stamp included, is sold wholesale and retail by Bayley and Blew. Cockspar•nneet. (the only Agents la London audsorised by the Proprinun ;) where may be had, Sponge Boxes of Gold, Meer, Cornchsa, Crystal, fcc. Aba liana es Caccuisa 14441111111.11 A in bottles at Its. ad. and hew with glass etymon, at bd. sick; their canes being oe the stamps. A CLEAR SIM AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION. LADIES are moat serioubly swayed, that all the comities seer yet discovered do not possess in an ben• dredell degree the good quatities of Mrs. VINCENTs 00w. LAND% .0 rtoN, as a clearer and beautifier of tee Skis Pim. pies, teeters, ringworms, spots, tan, eruptions in the face, red ness of the nom, he. are often peculiar to tender and delicate compleziem; by the molar application of this Lotion mice a day, or twice or thrice a week, the shin and fluids are gradually cleansed and cooled, and amense that dear transparent white and red, which denote them in a healthy mats. Nothing has ever yet been kw:tilt° compact to its elfirets and eacellence. From 3. DZA 9 Esq. late Captain In the Um East India Com. pony's &MX, to Mrs. Vince m —.edam—Since my arrival from India, I have been mkt abe are of meet of the eminent Physicians of Landes for the owe of a violent Scurvy and eruptions is the face, I went to issk Reston. Tenbridge Wells, Bristol, Cheltenham. and Harrowed, I used sea water fur three se.mons, bat without effect. Your Lotion ' was recommended to me, and in a few weeks! vie cored of a rancommus sod alarming scurvy in the face ; I am now perfectly *ear of all redness, or soy symptoms of marry as if I never had diair o s n disorder.-4 am, Madam, alo• I. DEA. Greve, Pa,ddimeon. .Edd by Mrs. Vincent, sole Proprietor of Dr. Onwland's MS. Zed" bie. 6, Davi...street, m iresvuos, Leaden; Dame and Cm. lie, Oaferthoutst; Smith, PerfUnter to Ms Majesty, llret Band.etreet ; Maier, Se 4, CLoopsitlo Soma. low Gera .yard ; Newbury and Edwards, St. Paul. Chards-yard ; Burflay, Fleet• Market ; and ail the most respectable Venders of gesning Medicines and Perfumers, in Quarts Is. ed. Pints es. ed. HaSpints its. bd. ets. To prevent counterfeits, see the name M. E Vincent upon the label on all that is genuine. - DR. JAMES'. FEVER POWDER AND ANALEP TIC PILLS. IBEG respectfully, as Proprietor of these iovaluabTe Medicine, to inform the PubUe, that I have ceasedto supply Messrs. Newbery and Sons therewith, and that I have appoloted as my now sole Agents foe the sale of them, both Retail and Wholesale, Messrs. SUTLER and Sous, Chemists and Druggists, l/loi 4, Cheapside, comer of St. Paul's Cherie-yard, London; and Na 34, Sekvillestreet, DOM. 'the Retail Sale is likewise condoned at the House in which the Inventor, my late Greed iest,' l'i Di. Lamas, resided, No. Si, Bentoiseireid, Berkeder square, where the Milii4lati li4vp bens exclusively prepared foe sped; u) pus spd Imin whines Meaty. Newhary and the Pie hankies hitherto uniformly applkod. I beg to add, teat is of Maitre. Nowletry and Sus having, sines I *soak so Withdraw from them she aloof my ktalleines. amotasai eadr lottolloo et TlMilifd ecierieltiona 411 c h ase awn, the *Me title, I feel lowlt e tp she phis; to provi a t. so r t a : 1 ass iik• cis dorms S ConomPlen!" cli takiasis" rem parodoes, sake the mistaken Impression of i t aim With this vkw, to my own serious loss, I have 1111 Rfelass,liiesari. Ender and Soma* enribanp for my Modems% am b is Are pf ibis epensmition.of Mow. Newberlo odd* (AO Wuxi wild co the The Pobile are rotpectiully forams is observe, that to enable Om to discriminate balms way Wi aniseed teem of Massa. Newbeey, sold under the nee deli ilimedlaiber.l 3l % James, / AA dm ay male ea do hod easel& sasket of dm P.ow4Yr. sod bessll Ross that is Nat to we "Is *my ilaboistwy ; Amd •WV Media Postbag and 'men have no liMurcet of mews in the mph* Media's prepare! by me. llnitc‘strea r lierfuleritate, A. O. JAMES. lighloth WM 11/01tTOAME TEN THOUSAND POUNDS WANTED for Firli.or &veto Years certain. at Four per Cent. Security, a Ilse FREEHOLD ESTATE, 90 miles west of London. Apply (post paid) to C. D. at Mesas. Entrants an 4 Eason's, Stationers, Temple. STERLING MONEY LOTTERY. JAND J. SIVEWRIGHT reqnen the attention . of the Public to the Small Lottery which is to be all Drawn in One Day, the 10th of SEP rEMSER, In which, as there are only who Numbers, and TWO Prizes of 420,0P0, the odds are less than were seer before known against gaining the immense Suns of sCrO,uou Sterling, by purchasing Two 'tidies of One umber. 'llse Scheme e ins Twenty Capitals, including the Two Prises of £,,000, which are to be annexed to the Prizes of 4116,000 t there is also the St.-rling Attraction of Tickets and Shares being once more sold to the Public at moderate Prices. J. ant J. siVEWKIGHT hope the Public wid experience a repetition of that good Fortune whkh has so misformly poised their 01.1.eatablished °Mew, No. 37, Cornhia, 11, Hol born, 38, Haymarket, and 141, Osfordocreet. XTRACTS from LETTERS addressed to Dr. E SOLOMON. Gilead house, near Liverpool, illustrating die EfSony of the CORDIAL BALM of OILEA1) in those difficult and complicated Disorder, for which it is peculiarly adapted, being administered to the tender intent, the pregnant female, sod to palsied agv, with safety and efficacy, hitherto unparalleled hi the annals of Medical discovery. Livtirooe.—Edward loom, of this town, says—My mind ins 'reseed with a I'Vtly kW* of gratitude tor the very great benefit I have received from your Cordial Balm of Gilead, in a nervous /ever, which reduced me to such a state of weakness, that I could not hold up my head I was in this situation (the most deplorable Imaginable) 14 months, when a friend advised me to try your Cordial Balm of Weed, MI" bottle of which, to sty great comfort, enabled mete folksy my usual avocations and by the use at two more bottles, completely recovered my he alth. Nears Waeas.—R. M. Willis, Peallin•Castle, near Cow bridge, writes thus:-1 feel It a duty incumbent upon ow to m il turn you my heartfelt thanks for the great blessing I now enjoy; and teethe good of the afflicted, request you will make my case public I have been seven years afflicted (ever since I had a dangerous lever in Jamaica) with a violent pain In the back pan end crown of my head, spasms in my stomach, nausea end ire • quent vomiting; pains in my thighs, legs, sad arme •' a dry cagh, disturbed sleep, and little appetite; ho which I h ave consulted the must eminent Physicians, without obtaining relief. flirough the use of your Cordial Palm of Gilead, and Gos's assistance, I feel myself beuer Mau I have been for the last sO years, it have recovered my long-lost health, solely through the great efficacy at your truly valuable restorative. I It is impossible to insert all the man and cures which De Solomon is in ponsondon of, as it would require some volumes : be contents Mow( with whit has beau Inserted, great experience having convinced Min, that ia all morbid affections of the blood sad lymph (the muse of almost every malady) so noble, safe, and gilicadous a rametly, was never offered to mankind. As Dr. Solosnes's practice has now become so great and seen. Jive. that bid gassiest engagements require &considerable portion of his t u ne madame:dance, he expects, when consulted, the usual cantonment of One Pounds but all written cases, or letters of advice, and usaceorepanied with an order for medicine and rot mlttasee, to be answered at his isi 6666 are required to enclose only half a •guinea.— Drafts may be ob tained at soy Post-Office. payable at Ltverpool, for small sums of money, which is a sure mode of conveyance Such letters should, for safety, be thus di- ' rected : " Money Letter. Dr. Solomon, Gilead House, near Liverpool. Pail Do..bte Postage." Sold by S. Leigh, IS, &rand; and by all Venders of Patent Medicines in Eutope and America, price i is. and s3s. a bottle, duty included. Of whom May be had, the Antl-Impetigines.,or Solomon's Drops, an absolute cure for the Stun y, Scrofula, Leprosy, &c. • Price I Is. and 3.1 s per bottle. moo's Abstergent IA km, an effectual cure for sco:budc eruptions, coarseness, redness, pimples, &c. on the face, bands, and MA. Price Is. ad. per bottle. Also, Solomon's Guide to Health, which explains in a concise and easy manner, the most simple methods of creamiest, and ef ficacious remedies, fur nervous, hypochondriac, and consumptive conipbbas. Price Ss. IMPORTANT ADVICE• Non se Invert dad /Mere aIta...—MARTIAd„ " Life Is only Life. when Nest with Health." THE finest system ofEt hies is to confine within des bounds, and thus template the PASSIONS• anresnalsol and insubordinate they impetuously destroy those Dart iers which Religion and Morality have made sacred; to curb bet not anal. hikes them appears the lesson of Prudence, best calculated la Mmk their effervescence. Every disorganisation of the human frame requires great me dical knowkdp to remedy, and the public welfare is promote 4 when Professional men (duaegarding the suggestions of the en vious and interested) devote their studies to the treatment of those complaints generated by imprudence s and the ebullition of the 'automat au unguarded moment. " The strength of a na tion assists to tlw health of the people ;" but it is melancholy o the daily sacrifice to the ignorance of unfeeling empyri. class;m4 ss Manterati as fu as paatible its further ravages, we sulkslog hesuelity, the result of our own experience in Ilse miss dismiss of Debility. The unwary victim of solitary vie,. (arty acipileml at schen,l, before Remota has asserted her right over the mind), will, in cootemplating hispowerkes state become smcepdble of enlivening sensations, in knowing that the most ssayllested state of exhaustion may be routed into manly maw Wises study—immoderate anxiety—long residence in tropical climes, and many other causes, will freq u ently derange the sea. VOUS STIITIM; in such cases we can hold out an assurance of re animation, by remedies which have long answered the sanguine bore of patients of both sexes. !'hat bane to human happiness Lots IigNIIIIPA, can now be treated fearlessly, the Improved mine ut Medical Science having divested its antidote of then digressing properties that an long 'rendered its exhibition uncertain and harassing. We h e n exp l a i n our method by observing to patients labouring under this malady, that a few days only are required foe the removal of early synsp toms ; that the most inveterate can will yield to our remedies within a month s and that is a person who tidily suspects himself injured, the disease may he prevented altogether from appearing; [ a skaitar remark applies to many other derangements of the row 81014 system, as weakens, ulcerations, Ate. especially structures, IBldnate IMP of 'thicken daily removedwithout the me aces ,pi et etbmilenti. Some peculiarities incidental to the totter sex oast oar attention; in which mildness cointiord witi: 4un4l ' d the means 'usually a4ppied. In finei our .is iqui, peculiarly entry tie, and eminently successful. its this our native city; schooled in our profesdonal :rsby its splendid medical characters; and hawk* Ores pirel ,` auy, to compare with admiration the British kopikel risk*, mishits, continental, our pretensions to supetiosity (10 ' a brands we ben selected) are matured by experience, width is evinced bt the daily applkatioos we receive, Men ken MOM countries. GOSS end Co. IL IL C. heress. IS. Saavarkostreat, Flesystratt, Leedom, •• roe the accommodation we do not linsk ourselves to s tated of practice, but may be consulted at all reason. aid! boars.—Country Patients ant requested to describe adeutely Misr sysoleeles. ike. *bee medicine , with advice, will be Lome diOvlf interenjad to any part of the kingdom —A Bank-now is •iPtindtehccOmpany the can. AT a MEETING of the ASSOCIATED APO• THECARIEi ,and SURGEON APO I HECAIUES I f ENGLAND and *WALES, held, by public Advertisement, at the Crown and Author Tavern, Strand, August uOth, ISt; Resolved, unanknoitely, flat the most sincere Thanks of this Association be given to Dr. Roney t: s, for the indefatigable seal, ability, and disuterestednese, with which be has 6114 the Chair since the formatiot of this Association in Dill: mid for the tr.mly perseverance with which be met all the dilllcultkis that were owned to the pass rot of a an Aet (fir the bett.at iegaladitf the Practice of Aliotheearie•;' &c. by which, the Ion:our and It spectability of the Protessiou have b..eu t.pheld, unit the FILL: intrre•t most Importantly served. IR .-d, unanimously, That a Purse of Five Huncl , ed I Guineas he -stoned to Dr. livarowS, •he late Chant:Dr:, as an acknowledgment ut the services he has rendered to this A5..01:14- lion, to the Prolessson, and to the Politic. Resolved, unatiimo•sl l , flat the l'hanks of the Assocladoa be given we /Ater.: Paartersob, Esq. for Limier accepted 17.0 Chair; an I for the able manner an wide% be has conducted :tee business of the Meeting, lANIF.S PARKINSON, Chairman. AT a GENERAL MEETING o f MANUFAC. URERS of COTTON GOODS, CALICO PRIM 'PLR% and WHOLESALE WAitIiHOOSEMEH, residing in 1.0ND../1 , held at the King's Need, in the Poultry, on ascii tifty the ueeb day of August, 1117, to receive the Report of ;he Col:unmet appointed at the General hi2eting, had on the 11;h day of July 14.1, and to lake the, sk.ue into cons•derarton, The following Report of the Committee was read— The Ripon of the Committee appointed at a Gentral Wetie.g of Manufacturers at Cotton Goods, Calico Priuters, and lA:hote -1 sale Warehousemen, held in the City of London on the 17th of July last, to carry into effect the Rebolutiona unautraut4 p%sseil at that Meeting, which Resolutions d.cla , ed, that the practice of the Sellers of Cotton Good., paying a Commis-ion to Lireitcti, Agents, and other persons, had a .endeney to rucresw the price of Coosa Goods to the Merchant or Buyer ' • atitl that th;• contlituntiog of Rich practice would tend to the benefit of !Kish and Foreign Merchants, and Buyer* in general, be:au e. in ease tie Bruits. or Agent were wholly paid by the Merchant or Buyer, the Broker or Agent would have a stronger toducemect to interest himself fur his Employer, sod to make lks purchases upon the best terms; and because, if he were paid by the seller, the Commission, and, lo some eases, mare (ball the Cotendwur, has been added to the price of the Goods; and which itesok - dons abo declared, that the dfscon !nuance of such prz.c!:ce would tend to th_ benefit of Manufacturers, Cale -printers, anti Warehousemen, because they could sell their Goods at lower prices, and so be enabled to meet rival Mairufacturt rs. - - . Your Committee report that neatly the whole of the weigh. y and respectable part et the fradehave acquie-ced on the Res.ile dome of the aeuetal Meeting; and they teel collides( that the -very few bowies who have not hitherto assented, will intimately ovate whh the trade, for the advantage sit the Matiulacturer and of the Merchant, and to support the character of British goods ; for your Committee cannot bring themselves to believe that any House is interested in the continuance of the brokerage or allowance, or actuated by the unwoi thy motive of auenay. lug to enigma sales throigh the favour of brokers or agents, in preference to the trade in sestet al. Although a few respeczable Houses have not yet subscribed to the Resolutions, yet when the number and respectability of those wha have, are put to cuispetitiou with the very trang number of those who have not, the balance is most decidedly In favour of the measure; besides which, an almost universal tailing prevails with the Ontotry Manufacturers, and it cannot be supposed au they will consign their goods to holm, acting in opposition to them; and your Committee wood ask, how far any house ern hold an even band to the sale of goods, it it has the p.swer to make an allowance upon one parcel and not upon another; ned how far sales are likely to be effected of goods of a superior quo. thy, without allowaute, when goods of en interior quality are offered at the saute time with an allowance? . The Committee have been, and are In correspondence w!th - - - . Manchester, and other principal manufacturing towns, and r•i.D correspondence has I,roduced a conviction in. the mind of y..*.r Committee, that the dua , lo•.vanee of brokerage, or conintissit.n by sellers, will be :Id. 1.t.,d, In eenelu , :r.n your (:orr.rnittee r. enmmend, tire the Rccolutinne of the Gefierai Meet:n,! 5b....1.1 be conthmeal and acted up•r7, Resolved, 'that the Report now read he pritred. an ! that tlits Meeting and the mature be adjust...tit t:;::':e lat day ut Getob t next. Tbat the foregeing Report and Resolution be published In the Times, Morning Chronicle, hay ar.d New I tines. Ledger, Star, and Courier Newspapers, scut be signed by the Solicitors, Messrs. Sweet end Stoke., - ~: SWEE I' and STOKES. MALLISON'S PRLURVER. Hawing been favoured with a copy of the OfficiAl Report respecting some experiments wi t h this appa ratus lately made at Woolwich, by desire of his Royal Highness the CotnntanJer-in•Chief, in order to aster. twin how far it might prove available towards the fu ture preservation of our °dicers And Troops, incases of shipwreck, we insert it fur the information of our Readers. We should imagine that the Army in pars titular will duly appreciate this attention to their safety, on the part of his Royal Highness. (COPY.) 64 rats' I.leutenmt•Ce«nl RAMSZY Woolwich, Alison 6, 1817. 1217. LleUt.Cokiflel FR All [LIM Colonel Sir IL JCR Silat,llA3l Wend EVANS M:401 CARET .r P.l ve Lieut.-Colonel PutrenaaD I Major EOILLTER. " Mr. ---, in acki uwledzing the receipt of your Teter a the Sikh ultimo, cominenieatiog the Master (;.nerars that 1 should convene a Committee of Col - inels and Field Offi cers of Artillery ti) examine and report their conion upon Mr MAL:motes Apparat us for Preservation of Lives Lf Shipwrecked Pasta's, I have now the hanour to acquain• you, far his Lord ship's Information, that the Colonels and Field Otficers above mentioned having assembled. Mr. MA LusoN attended and pro duced his Apparatus, of Jiff rent sizes, when the Committee ad• journed to Witlird, art e=periw.•nt its an ailjaining poad, wine feet deep in the mitre. Three atm who r.,e expert swinautun, assil of the following heights, viz. " ire di yin :and a half Incke., .4 l ise lei t and Circe quarters, - " Five :let sit mid a inches, • ti b e eni,e,e.ided each ori t otwot tie 6 :3eaman'sFrierisr over thin 4lutbes, consisting of thins, waistcoats, and woolpa t rowset 3, were directed to walk into the water, until they o,hesd,l fed themselves& it of their depth, which hating done, they S iated p..tfectly eprigh - , whhout the least ezertion, their heeds rmrt torts !a teing co.tq letrly aLove water. After this, One of the tar e men, having ott the apparatus, went in, and was es.ily ivrielt ted, hi placing his limitls on the shoulders cf one of the other men woo h•-1 the apparatus or. " A further rive:! Intent of the' Seaman's Friend' wag made by a rdati,Vio declared hr never was In the water hefore hew:let! In until he n a; off his feet Ly the bnoyi.r.ey of the a7pitt'a tits; and his head appeared above water, in the sum! mapr.er ::s before desciih.d. lie went iu a second time, and .wato acts.ts the pond and back again, baing altogether a distant* of aboat one hundresi yards. " One of the Switrnters was desired to dive u Jeep as he could, which he attempted, but was preowned doing ft irons the buoy ancy of the apparatus. " 'the Committee are of opinion, that as far as they had Ns opportunity of witnessing the efficacy of the 6 SLatnan's Friend, it may be useful in many situations.--1 urn, he. (Signed) ICm.f R:.stssv, Colonel and Lieut.. Senerat Ciitc rr: ardent. A " Litutenam•Cadmel Cliaptrza Us. bt.,.." 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