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D 0 YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
k, INSTITUTION
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM
SHIPWRECK,
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Tier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
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CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.?.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, during
the past two years; the Institution has incurred expenses
amounting to £28,650 on various Life-boat Establishments
on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
During the past two years the Life-boats of the National
Life,hoat Institution have I een instrumental in rescuing
the Crews of the following Vessels:—
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose .. 1
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone
Brig Pallas. of Shields .. 3
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow _ 9
Smack John Buip, of Yarmouth „ 5
Schooner Cathetlne, of Newry
Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11
A Barge of Teignmouth
Brig George and James, of London.
Brig Zephyr, of Whitby
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. .. 7
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth 9
Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. 2
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland . 6
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. .. 5
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. .. 5
Brig Ann, of Blyth 8
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. .. 5
Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. 16
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis .. 3
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. 9
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5
Schooner Rose, of Lynn
Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn .. 7
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. 7
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham 6
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. .. 5
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives
A Fliliing-boat of Whitburn
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth
Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2
Schooner William, of Morecambe _ 6
Smack Gipsy, of Newry
Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. .. 4
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8
Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5
Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields .. 8
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. 4
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow . .. 19
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. 10
Brig San Spirid;one, of Galaxide _ 2
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. 8
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese 6
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. 5
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
Ship Danube, of Belfast
Schooner Hortensia, ot Hanover _ .. 4
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4
Brig St. Michel, of Marans 8
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) .. 1
Schooner Burrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) • . •
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) • • •• •• •• .• •• •• 6
Barque Frederick, of Dublin 1
Barque Peace, of London _ .. 2
Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft 11
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew
of four hands) .. 4
Siria3k Adventure, of Harwich.. 10
Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. 7
Barque Undaunted. ot Aberdeen 11
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish
coast, saved one man .. 1
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. 6
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. 5
Barone Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5
Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. 6
Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4
Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5
Brig Content, of Sunderland
Smack ]Glen Owens, of Cardigan ..
Galliot Epimachus, of Amsterdam _ .. 5
Total.. 498
For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £1,893 as rewards to the crews of the Lifeboats. It has
also granted re wards amounting to £515 10s. for saving 373
shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak-
ing a total of 871 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society,
and other means, since its formation, is upwards of 12,200;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 704 Silver Medals, and
£15,250 in cash have been aranted as rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £57,200 on Life-boat Establishments.
The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
now being made by the Society to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
Ihe Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-one Life-boats under its man-
agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions :
X s. d
Her Majesty the Queen • . .. annual 50 0 0
Clark, Mrs. •• •• •• •• •• annual 210 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. . • .. .. annual 11 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. • • .. don. 25 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Digby, G. W., Esq., Sherborne Castle annual 5 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Lambton, Messrs. W. li. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. •• • •• •• don. 15 15 0
Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. annual 5 0 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .. .. annual 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
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MB.DIGBF SBYMOU.R'S VINDICATION.

A great meeting of the inhabitants of Southamp-
ton was held at the Carlton-hall, on Tuesday even-
ing, the 4th inst., at which Mr. Digby Seymour,
after having addressed the audience at great length
upon topics of public interest, proceeded as fol-
lows :

" Gentlemen,—l have dwelt upon public political
topics—l have dwelt upon important local questions
—I am, by the cruel artifice of a dastard assailants
invited to dwell upon personal topics. Gentlemen,
I thought that when a man had honestly performed
his public duties—l thoughtwhen a man in his
public relation to a borough like this had shown
honesty of purpose and consistency of principle—l
thought that such a firm and faithful discharge of
public duty would, among a constituency like this,
shield him from the poisoned weapons of the anony-
mous libeller. (Loud applause.) Gentlemen, when
I came down from London to-night, it was not my
intention to enter upon matters of personal concern,
and I'll tell you simply why. I was quite aware
you all knew that after my enemies in Southamp-
ton had, by secret opposition and by venemous
character, slander, d
n eff
dune
effort their
rthad
worst to o damage my political
e made elsewhere—l
don't know whence the stimulus was received—but
that a deadly attempt had been made to stab my
professional reputation, and to vilify my personal
honour. But, gentlemen, I thought if I went down
to Southampton and stood before my constituents—
I thought if I said to them, ' I still am here before
you the member of an honourable profession—l still
hold upon my shoulders the rob of rank which Lord
Chancellor Campbell gave me'—l thought that that
fact was in itself sufficient to cope with ten thou-
sand slanders, and to save me from the dastardly
efforts of masked calumniators. (Loud applause.)
Now, gentlemen, I hold in my hand a bill which
has been posted throughout the town, and freely
circulated in this hall. It is addressed to the electors
and non-electors of Southampton,' and is signed ' A
Disappointed Elector.' (Loud laughter.) Well, I
am sure he is what he describes himself. (Hear,
hear, and renewed laughter.) I am sure of that
from the tone and object of this bill, and the spiteful
paltry animosity it indicates. (Hear, hear.) I am
sure he is ' disappointed' that the man who has
worked hard for the laurels he has earned has not
been struck down by the blows that have been
levelled against him. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Gentlemen,—I should like to see the " Disap-
pointed Elector.' (Tremendous cheering and cries
of Bravo !) If the ' Disappointed Elector' is here,
I challenge him to confront me—(renewed cheering)
—if the 'Disappointed Elector' is not here, I brand
him as a villain and a slanderer. (Renewed and
protracted applause ) But you are here, gentlemen,
and you have all read the questions put to me by
this Disappointed Elector.' I have been asked
whether certain charges were not made against
me affecting my honour as a gentleman and as a
professional man—whether those charges were not
such as had they been proved would have insured
my being disbarred—whether the result was com-
municated to me in writing—and whether as affect-
ing the honour of a gentleman representing the
town and county of Southampton, I am prepared to
give a copy of the decision to the constituency, or
to publish it in some manner calculated to allow
everyone connected with the town to see it. Now,
I answer to the questions of my anonymous inter-
rogator, that the printed evidence of everything
which took place during an eight months' investi-
gation with closed doors is open for his inspection,
or for the gratification of his curiosity—at any hour
or place he chooses to appoint. (Loud and pro-
tracted applause.) But I will also say this, that if
he expects me on this platform to-night to endeavour
in the compass of a few minutes to go over that
which occupied so long a time—to parade before
you, who could not without a full hearing, and
without due consideration, judge of their merits,
the details of this protracted inquiry—and to ask
you to sit as a court of appeal uponithe judges who
were appointed to conduct it, then I say I have not
come to Southampton to submit to such conditions.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I have now been nearly
16 years at the bar. I never won a laurel and
never obtained a promotion without a severe and
arduous struggle. I came among the members of
the Northern Circuit with that misfortune which
my countryman Grattan has described—l came
with the curse of Swift upon me'—l was an Irish-
man. I was made from my earliest time the mark
of a cruel and jealous opposition, and a determined
effort to keep me down if it were possible. But,
gentlemen, their efforts failed. Step by step I van-
quished one difficulty and another, and won by
degrees the honours which I have received, and the
dignities which I hold. (Loud cheers.) I obtained
a lead at my sessions ; I obtained the best recorder-
ship but one on the Northern Circuit—l obtained
my rank a short time ago from two judges, them-
selves formerly members of the Northern Circuit,
of Palatine precedence at Liverpool ; and, finally,
notwithstanding all my traducers—aye, and at the
very time when detraction was doing its worst, I
received the rank of her Majesty's counsel from the
hands of the Lord Chancellor Campbell. (Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I am asked what charges were
brought against me. I will tell you in substance
what they were; but I do this, not to please the
' Disappointed Elector,' but in compliment and re-
spect to you. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will tell you
the high crimes and misdemeanours which formed
the principal points of the recent inquiry. It was
my misfortune—or, if my interrogator likes, it was
my fault and error in julgment, to accept many
years ago the chair of a company, and connect my-
self more or less with commercial speculations in
London. Gentlemen, the charges, as they are called,
which were brought against me, arose out of matters
the youngest of which is seven years old, and others
dated back actually to ten years ago. (Loud cries of
shame and hear, hear.) The men who instigated
these charges never showed their faces—my real ac-
cusers never appeared—but, beginning with the
efforts of a few individuals on my circuit, scandals
were whispered about, which at last, by some means
or other which! have not been able as yet to detect or
expose, led to the investigation by the bombers of
my Inn. Those charges arose out of these by-gone
and past transactions, and they who alone, if the
charges were true, had a right or title to complain
were no parties to the institution of the inquiry. (Ap-
plause.) Gentlemen, without going into detail, I
tell
foot by foot, and inch by inch,
Il
disputed
youthis—thatthe
grou
nd with my assailants. (Hear,
hear.) I was upon 15 different occasions before the
benchers of my Inn, and I stood practically before
15 different tribunals, because upon no two occa-
sions were my judges the same. The examinations
were conducted within closed doors. I would to
God they had been conducted in the broad light of
day and before the face of my constituents and the
u (hear, hear)—they were conducted by
country—(hear, try—
sitting
down after dinner, varying in numbers
and attendance, and sometimes postponing the in-
quiry -
upon the most trivial grounds. But, g
men, whatever feelings were entertained towards
me originally, there were _ many among those
entl

benchers who, I believe, were men of the highest
honour, imbued with the spirit of justice, and ac-
tuated by feelings of generosity—and to them
mainly, and to their indignation at the monstrous
wrongs which I was enduring, I believe I owe at
last the verdict which even my interrogator will
not deny has been in my favour. (Loud cheering.)
Gentlemen, I do sincerely hope that that public
which claimed for a supposed lunatic the other day
a public examination as to his mental capacity—l
hope that public will declare, sooner or later, that
a man holding my rank should not be tried in the
dark, by a tribunal constituted like that before
which I have appeared, upon any charges affecting
his professional conduct or his private character.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I have now only, in
conclusion, to tell my disappointed' querist that I
have no objection on earth, if it pleases those who
were my judges, to the publication to the world of
everything which took place before them. (Loud
cheers.) I refer my ' Disappointed Elector' to those
benchers whom he has had the impertinence to name,
and I believe, if he makes inquiry with the idea
that he will gain any material to damage my cha-
racter, he will come away a doubly disappointed
elector. (Loud applause.) No, gentlemen, if the
truth must be told, mine is a hard lot. When men
had ceased to strike at my political character—when
men had ceased to disown my professional claims,
they have dared to assail my private honour; but, as
I conquered.the former, so I have succeeded in dis-
comfiting the latter ; and I tell this disappointed'
one in particular that if he will dare to show his
front and utter in plain language those slanders
which he has dared to insinuate, I shall make him
responsible before 12 men in a jury-box. (Loud
and protracted cheering.) Now, gentlemen, I have
done. I have gone over the various points which,
fairly or unfairly, have been pressed upon your
attention, and upon which I have come down, though
late, to Southampton, in the honest hope that I might
receive from you a verdict such as would tell at once
to the public that whatever cruelty I have encoun-
tered elsewhere—however the dirty fingers of cer-
tain members of my own profession have been em-
ployed in raking up the scandals of the past for the
purpose of dragging up something to damage my
repute, yet that you sympathised with your repre-
sentative—that you accepted the result—that you
saw me still the member of an honourable profession
in spite of malice, and jealousy, and of political hate
—still holding the rank which by such hard struggles
I attained, and that you would by your determina-
tion and by your pronounced opinion to-night
trample for ever upon this cruel attempt to call
public attention to a matter which hitherto, at least,
has been confined to a more limited circle, and has
never yet been brought forth and laid before the
glare of public day. (Loud cheers.) But the ' Dis-
appointed Elector' has done it, and I hope he is now
satisfied. Let him go home to-night to his bed, and
if he knows the Lord's prayer let him say, if he can
with an honest heart, ' Forgive me my trespasses as
I forgive them that trespass against me.' (Hear.)
Let him go home and ask at the throne of grace, or
teach his children to ask, ' Givens this day our daily
bread ;' but let his conscience remind him that he
has done his best, as others have for some time
been doing theirs, to deprive me and my children of
their daily bread, by traducing my name and slan-
dering my personal character. (Much cheering.)
Let him go home, gentlemen, and if he be not a
miserable hypocrite the words that I have uttered
will at least dispose him for a moment to a feeling of
contrition, and I hope, before he has done his prayers
he will utter an expression of repentance. (Loud
applause.) Gentlemen, I have no more to say._ I
trust I have not said too much. (No, no ; go on.)
I did not mean to 'weary you. I came here to dis-
charge a duty. I came here to tell you and lay
bare before you my conduct during the past session.
Gentlemen,hitherto, at all events, every effort of
the enemy has failed. (Hear, hear.) What was
the first slander against me ? Why, that I sold
myself for a mess of pottage to Lord Derby, and
afterwards that I sold myself to Lord Palmerston.
What has been your opinion of these slanders ?
Why, you found, when I challenged and defied
those who dared to make such charges, that they
slunk like this ' Disappointed Elector' in the back-
ground, and covered themselves either behind the
sheet of an anonymous poster, or sneaked into the
dark alley where the coward and the calumniator
hatch their wicked plots unseen. (Great cheering.)
[Some confusion here took place in the body of the
hall, and a young man connected with the _Hamp-
shire Advertiser was forced through the crowd to
the front of the platform.] Silence having been
restored, Mr. Seymour proceeded to say,—Gentle-
men, don't, I pray you, visit upon our young friend
here the sins of those who are his principals ; don't
panish the subordinate for that which, personally,
he is no more responsible for than any man here
whom I have the honour of addressing. If I could
read that young man's heart I believe it beats with
indignant sympathy for the outrage which has been
done me. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, let these things
pass. When I was last in Southampton I met a
man, whom I will not name, but you may all easily
identify him, for he has been long personally con-
nected with these attacks upon my reputation.
When I met him in Southampton he ventured to
make a bold prophecy in my hearing. He said, Mr.
Seymour may speak very confidently about coming
to Southampton, but I tell you I have strong reason
to know that he will never appear here again.'
(Laughter.) Well, gentlemen, whatever that indi-
vidual may be, it is quite clear that he is a false
prophet. (Hear.) That is quite clear, for believe
me this is no shadow you see before you—(laughter
and hear, hear)—this is not the ghost but the
reality of W. Digby Seymour. (Renewed laughter.)
Yes, gentlemen, I am here, and with God's help
I'll be here again—l'll be here always to maintain
the principles I have always avowed—l'll be here
to assist you to the utmost of my power in develop-
ing and increasing your local prosperity—l'll be
here to cheer my friends, as far as I can, by my per-
sonal opinion and my presence—l'll be here, the
fearless expositor of the views and principles which
I have never shrunk to utter, and when the next
election comes, whatever charming sounds I may
hear from other constituencies, I tell you that, so
long as 50 men in Southampton will honestly stand
by me, I would rather court an honourable defeat
tah
awiaitshticyoad
unthparnolwnningeda victory elsewhere.
lsewrhllerbee here,n nud-
. (E
I tell the men who now traduce me that what I was
before they will not find me on another occasion.
They found me then earnest and hopeful—they will
find me next time resolute and determined. They
saw me then animated with the spirit of a cham-
pion—they will find me next time fired with the
enthusiasm of a martyr. They saw me before ad-
dressing a constituency who knew me not—they
will find me next time borne onward by the wave of
a popular affection I have never deceived. (Great
cheering.) You took me as a stranger—you gave
me a generous credit for the unknown features of
my character—you paid me, by anticipation, the
dearest tribute of your affection. 1 have neither de-
ceived your hopes nor abused your trust. As an
honest man I appeal to an honest and independent
constituency, and I hope another election will prove
that when that gentleman signed himself A Dis-
appointed Elector' he was prophesying for me the
arrival of another victory, and foreshadowing for
himself a more signal disappointment."
The hon. gentleman resumed his seat after speak-
ing one hour and three-quarters, amid a most en-
thusiastic burst of applause, which continued for
several minutes, and culminated in three hearty
cheers, with one cheer more, for the. worthy mem-
ber, whose eloquence had from beginning to end
completely rivetted the attention of the largest
political meeting ever seen in Southampton.
Mr. T. P. PAYNE then rose, but was unable to
obtain a hearing, a great clamour being kept up by
the meeting, amid which sundry allusions to work-
house legislation were heard,
The CIIAIRM AN requested a fair bearing for his