The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-30 00:00:00

BENEFrr NocIETIES.

Just published, be ire;;;:iii:ssid K.-13.-Whittaker, Ave Maria-
lane, in one sheet Bvo. price Ose Shilling, and niay be had of all
Pookseller.., the Second Edition of
" -lONS I DERATIONS on tbe Necessity or appointinf
a BOARD of COMMISSIONERS for the PROTEC-
TION and ENCOCRADEMENT of FRIENDLY SO-
CIETIES." B AN ACTUARY.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PAMPHLET..

" Did banks for saviegis meet with neglect? were the depositors
left to themselves? driven to Wilk-houses for meetings, and to
landlords for treasurers ? as were the members of Benefit Societies.
No, school-rooms, chapels, and proper offices were selected for their
business, honorary subscribers ems forward to their support, house-
keepers and pansh officeri farmed their cormoiwees, Members of
Parliament their trustees, and Noblemen their patrons ; and then,
with all the disadvantages of ignorance and neglect on the one
hand, and the benefit of extensive patronage and encouragement on
the other the two institutions west compared, to show the superb°.
city of the Banks over the Benefit direttee.'
• •
" Will the advocates for savings banks be easily persuaded to
save their annual premiums insteadgtfinsuring their bduses against
fire ? Certainly not. Vet they temend the mechanic to place
his money in the bank to prol against sickness and old age,
whilst they know that sickness, like fire, though somewhat slower
in its operations, may, in p short doe. exhaust the savings of fifty
,years, and, like fire too, may mow suddenly before the first year
empires." • • Si
The best friends of the working classes will always introit
them to provide against the miliffold wants of sickness and of oltl
age, by means of respectable and well conducted Benefit Societies,
the payments to which eight to feria a part of their current and
positive expenses. To those who have anything to spare after this
a savings bank may be useful ; the necesraties os old age being first
secured by their c tub, the mechanic and labourer, through the me.
ilium of the bank, may be able to odd comforts • but no indivividual
either befriends his neighbour or his country, by enjoining a reliance
upon individual savings so a security against casualty, which may
overtake a man in an hour, and in a few maths sweep away the
avings of a whole life." • • •
" There are so few actuaries who can or will pay attention to the
rule, that this important part is igenarslly nosiected, and the rules
and tables are submitted with iliac faults of the former to the
magistrates of the county in which the Society is to be holden, whose
sanction sometimes rendes as it were the most intolerable contradic-
tions, the most abominable aonsenee•, pert of the jaw of the land."
• *
I do not recommend that additional powers be 'brew to the Com-
mission • the Magistreses am already enabled, by the authority of
an Act Of Parliament, to imbibe insesetions, to draw up Rules
for new Benefit Societies, to "cfusaist sanction Amendments to the
Rides of that already fanned, teal they are conformable to the
law, to encourage improvement, and so on ; but three-fourths of
these duties in some counties, awl atie whole of them in others, are
left unperformed. It is &hewn, I should hope, clearly, that this
neglect is highly injurious, and it is only the transfer of these
powers to an efficient Board which I advocate, and which I aeio
repeat, is necessary to the prosperity of friendly Societies.
In the press, and will be published is a few days, by the same

Author,
INSTRUCTIONS {be the ESTABLISHMENT and IM.
PROVE:IA:NT of FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, with General
Obeervation,s, Notes and original Tables,
BY HIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT.
HE SEL.FrILLUMINATING NIGHT or DAY
T
LAMP, producing Vermansnt Light by Touching a String.
This Invention combines utility, economy, ilurabihty, and safe.
ty : it is equally adapted to the drawing-room, the binary, the
:lumber of the invalid, and the office of the man of business, and
is expected to supersede everything oldie kind now in use.
When required far the night, the Lamp may be placed in any
part of the room, ad the string attaehed to the bed, by merely
pulling which lights produced. In the day it may be used for
sealing letters, &e. without the string.
To the Army and Nave, the Lew and the Faculty, the Student
at the ('nivenity and in disimbers, to Merchants and Bankers, to
Public Offices and Private Families, for every Bedroom, to Cap.
tains of Ships and Travellers in General, and for the Insides of
Carriages, it is particularly recommended ; and to the Lovers of
Novelty and the Quious m Eancnneot may teem an acceptable
present.
If allowed to bum, the Lama will yield a steady light for 18 or
20 hours without trimming. in is so portable, that it way be
carried in the pocket ; so that $ child may use it ; and so
cleanly, that it may be packed with the finest linen immediately
after use.
By shutting the boa, the works art so nicely fitted, tLat nothing
den escape in whatever position it may be placed. As a prof, of
this, it has been sent, when fully trimmed, and charged with oil,
acid, and matches, from London so,Edinbiugh, by the mail.coech,
as a loose parcel, and arrived in perfect enmity.
Sold by appointment by Noun. Savory, Moore, and Davidson,
1311, Bond-street; Mr. Dallond, St. Paul's Church-yard; Mr.
Lan 04, Chearside; Mr. Sanger, use, Oziord-street; Mr.
C0bb.,31, Regent-street; Messrs. let and Burbidge, 130, Fleet-
street 4 Mr. Gifford, 104, Strand ; Mr. Hudson, 21, Haymarket ;
Mr. complin, 41, Sinbeingate-street Within; and Mr. Macklin,
33, Whilechapel

JOHNSON SHOOTER'S COMPANION.

This day is published, a new Edition, considerably enlarged and
improved, price Os. in boards, illustrated with three Engravings,
by Landow,
lIIHE SHOOTER'S COMPANION ; or, a Descrip-
tionl_ of Pointeri and Setters, as well as of those Birds which
are the object of pursuit. Of Scent ; and the reason why one Dog's
acne or smell is superior to anther's. The Fowling piece fully
onesidelsd, pareicalarly as it relates to the use of Percussion Pow.
der. Shooting ilinstrated, and the Art of Shooting Flying simpli-
fied and dumaily Lid down. The Game laws familiarly explained,
Ike. Ike. By T. B. JOHNSON.
" This is a wen-written and well-arranged produetioc."—Lit.
Chrets.

C s.—Of DOGS: Setter, Pointer, Homier Pointer,
and Springer DISEASES to which they are liable, and methnds
of Cum. Of Soent. Instructions for Training, Iv. GROUSE
SHOOTING: Cock of the Wood, Black Cock, Red Grouse,
Ptarmigan. PARTRIDGE, PHEASANT, Snipe, Woodcock,
Quail, lismard, Wild FOWL Teal, Wigeon, Wild Duck, Plover,
&e. FOWLING-PIECE: Barrel and Breething; Patent
Breech sod Touch-bolt; the Percussion Gun ; Percussion Powder,
and best method of making it. Component parts of Gunpowder
Farce of Percussion, compared with common Powder. The GAIIE
LAWS, illustrated by a variety of Cases, &c.
bledao Printed for Sberweed, Joao, and Co. Patemester-rom

•• We eMbarkeil on the 2d instant io the Islet, and lolled at
tiny-light for England. with a fair wind, and every prospect ti is
trick and comfortable passe The ship we everythiog we ,
could wirlii and having closed my charge bey,/ twiich to my swist..
fs,:itn, it war one of the happiest days of my life- Wu Per,
perhaps, tno happy, for in the evening came a awl reverse. hophhir
tool jUN: gone to bed. and I bad thrown off half my clothes, when
a cry of •• Fire: fire 1" mused us from nut calm amtent, and in
fire minutes the whole ship was in flames! I ran to examine
wheiwe the ILmev principally iwurd, end found that tlte.be bad
its origin immediately under our cabin. Dawn with the boat;
where ia Sophia? Here; the children; hers. lope to dig .40;
lower Lady Raffles—give her to me, says one.:.-11i take her, SOWS
the Captain. Throw the gunpowder merboard; it calumet that
at; it 1. in the magazine, dna* to the ! Stand.oleur of, the
powder. Shuttle the water twaba. Water! water!! Wheys.*
Sir Stamford ? Come into the boat. Nebo, hltdohn, come imam
the boat. l'ush off, push t stand clear of the after-part of the
ship....

" All this peened much quicker then I can write it ; we prodigal
off, and as we did se the Imes were issuing front oar cabins, sae
the whole of the afpn.part of the ship wan in gems; the affairs
and sails now taking Are, we moved to • distance, sufficient le
ovoid the Immediate explosion, but the lames wele now
.a
out of the main hatchway, and seeing the rest of tha aucr,arut
the Captain. etc., still an board, we Asulkd back to her under tat.
bows, so as to be mom district from the powder. As we armed:-
ed, we perceived that the people from an hoard were spurns into
another boat on the opposite side; she pushed off; we hailed bet,
Bare you ell on board Yes, all sere one. Who is he Opt-
ima, sick in hia mt. Can we save him? 110, impossedet thin
bases were then Matting funs the hatchway; it this Mowed l
pane fellow, scorched, I imagine, by the lima, roared out meat
haying rim up oa dui. I will
ads fee hint, /LS
Captain. The two boots tees woe topsail/ and we
some of the persons from the Captain's bast, adult sus o
Ile then pulled under the bowsprit of the dil end pieWd *Ease
, fellow up. Are you all safe Yes, we've get the man ; lime
safe, thank God ; pill off from the ship; keep your tree oa•Mse,
Sir Stamford; there's one barely risible.
" We then hauled dose to each other, and found the C•plain
fortunately had a commis'', bet we had no light but from the ski
Our distance from Ilenamlen we estimated to be from le to
miles in a S.W. djtaxtipai there being no binding-place*
southward of Bencoolen, our only chance was to rige tiu,t
The Captain then undertook to and we to follow in a--N. E.
course as well as we could. No chance, no putibility being 14,
that we could again approach the ship, for she was now one spew:
did blue fore and aft and aloft, her masts and sails in a blues and
rocking to and fro, threatening to fall in an instant. There goes
her mixen.mest ; pall away, my boys ; there goes the gunpowder,
thank God!"

" You may judge of our situation without further penicubus ;,
the alarm was given at about twenty minutes put eight, and in loam
than ten minutes she was in flames : there was not a soul as board
at half.past eight, and in less than ten mintrrn afterwards she ems
one grand mass of fire.
"My only apprehension was the want of beats to hod( the peo-
ple, as there was not time to have got out • long boot, or made a
raft ; all we had tq rely upon were two small boats, which fortunately
were lowered without accident ; and in them two small open boats,
without a drop of water, or a grain of food, or a of
except what we happened at the moment to have upon our:
we embarked on the wide ocean, thankful to God (or his merrim,
Poor Sophia having been taken out of her bed, had nothiegess be
a wrapper—neither shoes nor stockings ; the children were** ad
taken out of bed, whence one had been snatched after the *Mom
had attacked it. In abort, there was not time for any one to think
of more than two things—Can the ship be saved ? No : let as
save ourselves then--all else was swallowed up in MK great min.
" To make the best of our misfortune, -we availed ourselves of
the light from the ship to steer a tolerably good coupe towable the
shore ; she continued to burn till about midnight; what the salt-
petre, of which she had 2.1(/ tons on board, took fire, and sent treS
one of the moist splendid and brilliant name, tliat was ever seen,
illumining the horfton in every direction, to an extent dm* be -
than ft ity miles, and casting that kind of blue light over as, which
is, of all others, moat luridly horrible. She burnt nod condrined
to flame in this style for about an hour or two, when we hat sight
of the object in a cloud of smoke.
" Neither Nelson, nor Mr. Bell, our medical frimili_mtejlimil
accompanied us, had saved their coots ; the tenet eebinelllbet
pocket-handkerchief, served to keep Sophia's foot unmits„filldilli
made breeches for the children with our 'masa row
came on, but fortunately it was not of keg Irk*
got dry spin. The night beeteas ism . _ ..We
were nog arta*, lia.ra,9loZ Val the
-thar sal* ' .
new did time --.lltik out m 4apl/21111 is hod
than we did.
" At day-light we ised the Coast and Rat Island, whit.h
gave us great spirits, and though we found ounieves much to the
southward of the port, we considered ourselves *boost at.besea
A bout eight or nine o'clock we saw a ship standing to ul from the
Roads; they had seen the flame on shore, and sent out veld* la
all directions to our reliof, and here certainly ems el Ilil
Providence, in the character of a Minister of the
Go._. f
first person I recognised was one of OUT Al iseiesieieh -rteg
us a bucket of water, and we took the Captain nil been, al ii.
The wind, however, was adverse, and we could ern reach the
and took to the ship, where we got some refreshment, abil ter
from the sun. By this time Sophia was quite eshattited, Ihinting
continually. About two o'clock we landed safe inA sound, sad no
words of mine can do justice to the expression of feelido,spnemay.
and kindness, with *high we were hailed by every le"- 41.1f7
proof had been wanting that roy administration bad limb sinep-
ftetory, here we hid it unequivocally from all ; them wasisie• Sty
eye, and as we drove back to our termer house, loud was the ay et
' God be praised.'

" The property which I have lost, on the moat moderate stionsts.
cannot he less than $O,lOll. I might almost say 3n,OPOL But she
loss which I tare to regret beyond all, is my papal and domain;
all my papers, of every description, including my notes and anakr.
rations, with memoir. and collections, sufficient for a fail alid
ample history, not only of Fumanti, but of loins., Mel every ether
island in these seas; my intended account of the establisk tof
;ingspore; the history of my own administration;
dictionaries, and vocabularies ; and last, not least, a of
Sumatra, on which I had been employed since my firsarrival here,
and on which, for the last MI months, I had bestowed almost my
whole attention ; this, however, was not all—all my esilectlanu.in
natural history, anti my splendid collection of ditavrings„ sliver&
of a thousand in another, with all the valuable papers and Isotee
of rny friends Arnold and Jack; and, to osncluds, I will
merely notice, that there wall seam an %atm auknal, bird,
beast, or tI,4Z or an interesting plant, which wo bad not is
baud. A living tapir, a new species of tigersplendid plisasanys,
&c. &c. all domrstirated for the voyage. We were, is short.
in this respect, a perfect Nosh's Ark., All-44—Ims mashed ;
but, thank God, our lives have been spot* and we du not
repine.

" Our plan is to get another ship u soon or possildo, and I
think you may still expect us in July. There is • olsonoskof •
pad
ship, called the Lady Flom, touching here on bar wirY
and there is a small ship in the Roads, Ws* OW be
into a packet, and take us home, at I hem • Corals !gem it
anasnond." '

NAST:MaI ors CREDfIOOII4
11. T TRU tAXIROPTII. COURT, SAIIRRALSoRTRRRT.

To-soaaow.

THIRD DEZTJXOB.
Austin, C. Litton, Bedfordshire, banker . .
Campion, H. Horselrdown-lane, StureY, moPer - -
Courthope, T. Ratherhithe, beat-btillder
Drabwell, J. West Rums!Lancet, Bkmosaberry, wine.
merchant - - . .
Dubois, C. King-street, Cov:=l;amsauctionaer -
Duke, J.'flasinghall-street,
Edwards, W. Hienbeim-street, Boudstreet, t
Fairmaner, J. Alfred-mewa, Totteeham•courr=nlasne.
Futon, F. Maddox-street, Homl-street, watch-maker -
Hale, W. Church-street, Spita/Selda, ea'hinet-maker
Hall, W. Layton's-buildings, Southern k, merchant -
Noyes, J. rooky-street, oil and colourinan
Smith, J. Church-passage, Fenebureh-street, and Ikea:-
shire-square, flishopagate-strest, meney.ocriveber - •
Symonds, N. W. Csutched-friars, merchant .

SECOND MEETING,.
Brett. R. now or late of Temple-place, Mackfrier's-rseid.
tailor
Crawford, W. jun. Chespside, bookseller . . .
Goniperts, 11. Clapham.raod, Surrey. merchant .
Laing, B. Froehurch-atreet, ship-owner . .
Mae th•gtor, W. Lower Pare-street, Lambeth. Weser .
Merchant, T. Brighthelmatsoe, Sussex, miller .
Winds, J. North-meet, City-rood, silversmith - •

FIRST lIVETINGII.
Air, IL Lowy/ Ella Smithfield, wine-rrerchant -
VII. W. IPeekharn, Surrey, type-hundcr -
LowireMon, D. Manor-tow, Rotherhithe, master mariner