The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-18 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL 8.47.11 COMPANY.

The estsbli-hment of this Company has excited no aroa`l
interest, and we consider it of sufficient importance to give
the following extracts from their prospectus. It appears
not only likely to afford ample profits to the proprietors as
a speculation, but to offr at the same time a great national
benefit.

" Of the rtecewity which exists for the construction of
public baths, there cannot be two opinions; whether it be
considered as air >reline, the means of indulging in a recrea-
tion so essential to health, in a crowded neighbourhood,
with a dense and trolly atmosphere; or as the envois of
removing a great public nuisance, as respects the indecent
exposure of thoweands daily, which banishes the inhabi-
teuts from the most salubrious spots around the metropolis ;
in either case, these objects cannot but meet with extensive
public, support.
" Amonost the most serious evils which aria: from the
wart of porn baths, the numerous instances of drowning
cannot be forgotten ; the acellents which happen to
bathers in the Thames, the Serpentine, and other rivers,
from the inequality of the depth, &c.daily exhilti" melon-
eholy proofs of premature mortality, and involve whole
fanidics in grief ; these would he remedied by the forma-
tios of convenient baths, miller proper regulations ; for
w!lere all the attendants will be professed swimmers, and
the baths of a known depth, a fatal accident will be next
to an impossibility.
" The establishment of the National Baths can scarcely
be deemed a speculation ; unlike the building of bridges.
the excavation of canals and tunnels, or the snaking of
nods, whirl; in their progress meet with innumerable un-
foreseen difficulties, this undertaking is merely mechanical,
tad is susceptible of calculation to the last fraction of ex-
pense ; this enabba the projectors to demonstrate, the; the
Pfohsble 'norms to proprietors for capital invested will be
tame ample than those of the most promising undertak-
inr• In eakulating upon the patronage of all classes, it
roust not be forgotten, that what is loudly called :or Co all
bawls, as the means of gratifying the public, and what is
reemmostell by every member of the faculty as a re-
tywater vat preservative of health, cannot lose its virtue
by Poneni m, or its efficacy by facility of attainment."
"In the construction of the berths the Company will be
Is:steel by the practical experience of the most
tuembtos of the faculty, and the leading scientific
men of the age, and the Company do not propos: to enter-
°' for a moment any, of those schemes, the result of
which may he doubtful. Folly convinced, from the nnitel
homy of all ranks and professions, that the objects
they enntemplate will prove extensively beneficial to
the erromnnity at large, they confine themselves entirely
to plans which are known to be practicable, and to pro-
'fills's which cannot but be patronized by allre classes.
It iS Prollarsell to construct the baths of all the chief
e.stl.lishtnents upon a scale of magnificence which will do
:rem to the architecture of the country, and become
L'en'lnl ornaments to the metropolis ; to combine all the
arietks of hot, cold, salt, shower, vapour, medicated, and
hlett7re bathing, with the additional gratifications of
tea,
14N-roorns, 1:111,17, and other amusements.
,9ther Baths, suitable to the relative conditions of the
nanftants, will also be constructed in various parts of
I'e
,c:ty and sitheirbs, so that all ranks of the community
'" he netlikd to mejoy the benefits of bathing."

tow', •
.dsvcrt.-11itch interest is eveited in the aquatic
da " 1 r"v1; nitha. ch., hich is arrounced to take place to
4. 1 . 1,. fur an, crry and minor prIZCP given by the Lzalica
O,,,let•rn of Vatixtutll, South Lambeth, and Kennington, by
P, Pair, of oars, in two heats. First Ilcat —To *tart from Vous.
11,77,11 Fe at
1, ^.clock Preci•cly, up rcnnd a boat moored off
* ';',lse—return down the Surrey chore round a boat moored
▪ t," tr.anufaetory. hack to the Prise Wherry
„,...iniberlystl.ra,dcrs. The four first boats will he entitled to
o.,.Grand prin. The Second Ilcat the same as the tiro.
sadgains the wherry ; the second boat will be
sad 0,, ::I,r",";,^screitrns; the third tw three, the &Oh
.t,^
..^ll, and 7th, to one sovereign such. This ors,
whidi c' fur by. I'anshi,ll watennen onl . The Prise SI nert
b I)v;ng cuntwill be Presenl..
~,..I,,,cf.i.rtioiste winners in thenßoyal Uardtrs, Veuxiien, t."