The Sun.
London, England, 1814-07-29 00:00:00

NIALLINSON'S INVENTION.

• Sir F.'luttpstr',.alluding to, the motion of
he gave notice yesterday; respecting the.
returns olseaMen of the King's ships droWned by
the -upsetting of boats, was still of opinion,' from
furthe7• enquiries he •b ad • made, that nothing was
more easy than _to furnish such returns. He.read
a letter from-41 Naval Officer, who informed hint
that the retnrnS.of 'all casualties Were sent to the
Admiralty in the. .monthly log,bookS of every
ship. He. had. no %visit to object to the money
voted to capti!in Maltby for -his inventirm, nor
to that about to be employed in the laudable pur-
pose of carrying it into execution ; but the,inven-
tio,n. Of Mr. Mallinson, be would persist, was
equally worthy of patronage, as- it was, applicable
to --all stations, mid coilld be used at 'all times ;
and it was certainly of more' national importance
to save cle lives of men than to remunerate their

families for their loss. Experience :had shown,
that persons wearing this preserver -(,innot pos-
sibly sink ; and the strongest ground that could
he offered for its adoption by Government is, that
since the renewal 'of the War in 1803, not 'less
than from 10 to 12,000 lives had been lost by the
accidents in question. After many more ohserva-
tions in favour of the invention. Sir FranciS con-
cluded with renewing his motion,. for Return of
all Seamen, belom4ing to King's ships, ho' had
been drowned by the upsetting of
.boAs since the
sth of June, 18i 1.
Mr. cROKER regretted that he had. not been
able to attend when the subject was lately urged
by the Hon. Baronet ; as he.would have then, as
he sbould now, convince him of the utter impos-
sibility 'of making out such returns with any de-
gree- of accuracy, nor even at all, in less time
than from one to two years. As 'to the invention
so lauded by the HOll.-Baronet, be must say that,
in his opinion, it as little merit as any that
ever fell under,his notice; and that, of all the in-
ventions. for a similar purpose, which were nine
in number, that had been lreivl before the Admi-
ralty, this was the last which he should 'choose,
if in apprehension of drowning. The Right Hon.
Gentleman then entered into a description of the
invention, and urged, that if the opinicin of the•
public wefe in favour of it, it ought to be em-. •
ployed in the merchants'. service, where the ca-
sualti,!s which it purported to remedy, were much,
more frequent than in King's ships ; and till its
utility had thus been proved, the Hon. Baronet
shotild -abstain from forcing it upon Governinent.
Wort:r.“lzAn said, he should have.conceivecl •
that -ni)thipg could have been more easy than', to
inruish the returns required ; as the returns ".of
all. seamen w':o lose their lives are regulatly sent
to the Admiralty. He then repeated the high re-
commendation which the• Committee had given, of
this article in their Report, and in which they had
not scrupled to call it arfinvention ; and he hoped
the Right lion. Gentleman would not•he able to
persuade the House, that his single opinion, per-
haps. arising from some degree of prejudice, 'was
preferable to that of the whole Committee. lle
did not wish the Right lion. Gentleman to fall
overboard, .but if be should, and had as many.
lives as a cat, after "trying the other eight inven-
tions, he might owe bi's salvation to the ninth,
which he so much despiied. It .w.oold certainly
not: at all interfere with Captain Manbys inven-
tion, but while it would 'go in aid of it generally, -
it might also save thonsnuds of lives, under eir-
cumstr,nces where the other could not be employed.
at all

WYNNE was for protracting the adoption
of it till more general proof had Irecn adduced of.
. s
its efficacy.

After some explanations between Sir F. Butt-
nt:vr and Mr.. CROKER ; the Baronet, cdnetiving
that the returns would not be objeetedlo, If they
could be obtained, arid also trusting that it would
not be denied that great numbers of lives had
been lost for want of the adoption of sonic such
invention, consented to withdraw his. motion.