The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-20 00:00:00

GEORGE ROI3INS'S ROYAL FILTER

FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.
IHE Season of the Year is approaching when
the publie will have additnal reason to congratulate
Vann/Kiln"; upon this importnnt and national invention. So
Many attempts have been made to mislead thegood folks of the
Metropolis, by pretending to mire the crying evil of bad miter,
without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
many who remained sceptics:o as to the pretensions of the
Royal Filter, until we were led to seek ocular demonstra-
tion by leaving one fixed op in a large cistern, and we have
now no sort of hesitation in pronounning it QCTTE CON-
jpi,viE, and in giving it onn riQuALIVIPID
The names of the highest profeinional talent in the Metro-
poiin bare given the strotigeet teetimony, that they may be
ooneiciernd, in the metropolitan pity of London as an ab-
i4lnse .‘ God-eend," but we will illustrate their opinions
by ettibborn foots and proofs as strong as lioly Writ; and
(wet kt Ise cuarnine the ittnte of the water, as now drank
4 silo gumeargi end ten thousand persons who have not
yet availed themselves of this Filter, and our readers will
bear in mind, thist this evidence is supplied from evidence
giresi leitHeitenn in the arttrisrt 110USX OT PAIILIAMUNT.

The cellowing eminent and learned men in their voca-
tions leave given evidence, of which the following is ne-
cessarily a short extract, viz.
Sir Henry Milford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keate, Mr.
raonsne, Dr. Turner, Dre. Hums, Yates, Kerrison, Somer-
ville, Johnson, and Paris, &a. &a..—they prononnce the wa-
ter weft into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated
d,,yd ceqetable matters, end other substances pre-
judicial to health ; that such naatters in the stomach greatly
contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI-
Guirrtux and anICURITT Of ILOOD; that it is so FILTHY
and isiroux, as to be unfit for the breakfast table land
for culinary Napalms, and that it vide so much to the other
snwheleeoinit conatittients of broad, as to render . every
meal injurious to the health of thonsande ; that the water
sent into the oieterne during the hot weather frequently
Newton cm-rre rinsm; and they hare no doubt that the

continued om. of it wiernour FILTERING is capable of pro-
(lacing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ec-
tte-mely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the
great quantity al FILTItY MATTERS cONTINIJALLY FJUR-
n,G INTO IT FROM NUMEROUS SEwERS ; and Dr. KM.-
ri,on makes ns acquainted with a fact, the petui.al of
which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the
reader, :as we ouiseleiss feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thainm near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
lie sum " the foul and black stream from the litmelagh
sewer, parsing between the Company's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED W 17141 NO SMALL FoRTION OF UNDI-
viDND FLOATING FILTH FROM ratems;" from which he
concludes, that " A CONS4DERAELE QUANTITY OF DUMAN
I.:T:BEMENT, IK A SUEnirIDED AND UNDEcOMTOSBEI
STATE, ACTUALLY PASSIts INTO OUR CISTERNS."

Dr. Somerville, the pilvtirian to Chelsea Hospital, states
the crater to be very impure. " The tide," he eays,
"...STIRS UP THE MASS Or IMPURITY FRODUCBD BY ALL

THAT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE

WORLD, TOGETHER WITH- THE Nomors FILTH CV GAS AND
()THEE MANUFACTORIES, TKAT CONVTANTLY ILOW INTO
THE THAMES FROM BATTERSEA DQWN TO GRAVEREND..'

Dr. Jainee Johnson, the author of the " Treatise on In-
soys-" We sneer at the delicacy of the
Ilindoe, who slake+ his thirst at the same tank where
his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloaeina; hot what shall
we say tO the DELICATE CITIZENS OF WPATMINSTEL,
WHO YILI. Til ELL TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WA-
TER s•aolt THE TUAIIES, AT THAT TELT RPM INTO
WHICH A nuNtolian THOUSAND cLo.ia.aa, CONTAINING

EVERT ETECIEB OP FILTPII, ANT) ALL UNUTTERABLE

THINGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGINO THEM HIDEOUS AND

ABOMINABLE CONTENTS.

The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we
shall refer, is Dr. Paris, the anther of the popular work
on Diet. He pronounces the water to be impure and
offensive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come
in. LARUE QUANTITIES OF MATTEL ARE M7CHANICALLY
SUSPENDED /24 IT. "AS A PHYSICIAN," be says, " I FAN
?COT FIND TIMMS SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSLVE OF TIM