The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-21 00:00:00

GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER
FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.
THE Season of the Year is -approaching when
the public will have additional reason to congratulate
thourelvee upon this important and national invention. So
.many attempts have been mole to mislead the good folk; of the
Aletropolis, by pretending to cure the crying evil of bad water,
without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
'many who remained sceptical as to the pretensious of the
Royal Filter; until we tv.ere led to seek ocular demonetra-
tion by having one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have
new no sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE COM-
PLETE, and in giving it OUR, UNQUALLFIRO PRAISE.
.The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro-
polis have given the strongest testimony, that they may be
considered, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab-
volute " God-send," but we will illustrate their opinions
by stubborn facts and proofs as strong as Moly Writ; and
first let as examine the state of the water, as now drank
by the thousand and ten thousand persons who have not
Set availed themselves of this-Filter, and our readers will
tear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence
given last season in the BRITISH HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT.
The following eutinent and learned men in their voca-
tions have given evidence, of which the following is ne-
oesearily a short extract, viz. :
Sir Henry Halford, Dr. •Hooper, Mr. Keats, Mr.
Thomas, Dr. Turner, Drs. Home, Yates, garrison, Somer-
ville, Johnson, and Paris, &c. &c.—they pronounce the wa-
ter sent into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated
With decayed vegetable mattere, and other substances pre-
judiciel to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly
contribute to the produetien of that state of FAULTY Dl-
n.tiallON and lAATURITY Of BLOOD ; that it is SO ruerny
and sarruax, as to be unfit for the breakfast table and
"fur culinary pun poses, and that it adds so much to the other
unwholesome censtituente of bread, as to render every
meal injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water
-sent into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently
became apereu-: vustain; and they have no doubt that the
continued nee of it IVIOHOUT FILTERING is capable of pro-
dacing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ex-
tremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, front the
greet quantity of FILTHY MATTIIIRS CONTINUALLY F0UR-
.1,40 INTO ne FROM NUALEROUS SEWERS ; and Dr. Kat-
vhakes. tee acquainted with a feet, the perusal of
which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the
reader, as we ourselves feel iu narrating it. On in-
vesting the Thames near the lending at Chelsea
lie saw " the foul and black stream from the Itanelagli
sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED WITH NO SMALL PORTION OF UNDI-
VIDNI3 FLOATINO PH.TiI imog ?WILES ;" /TOM which he
soceludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN
14if2RIZIP.P4y, Its A SUBDIVIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED
SVACE, ACTUALLY PASSES INTO OUR CISTERNS."
M. Somerville, the physician to-CUeieca lospitai, states
the eretee to be very impure. " The- tide," he says,
" suite a r THE MASS OF IMPURITY FRODUCED or ALL
LIZAT ca CORRUPTIBLE /1,1 THE ANFAAL AND VEGETABT,E
/WORLD, TOONSTHXIIWITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND
AIANUFAVIORIEB, THAT CONSTANTLY 1.,L0W INTO
Is4E THAMES. FROM BATTIIRSEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.'
Dr. JaMes John,em, the author el.-the " Treatise on In-
eeetion," says—. We sneer at the delicecy of the
tldoo,
ware slakes his thirst at the same tank where
!tis neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina; bent what shall
we say to the DIII.ICATE CITIMENS OF WnetemiNeree,
WHO FALL THEIR TANTS AND STOMACHS WITH wA -
Tan CRITM ma THAMES, AT wear VERY SPOT INTO
WELTING A HUNT/RED TSIOI:9AND CLOACA., CONTAINING
EVERY 1-PEGeBld OF reeent, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE
ISHINGS, •RE DAILY DISOOROI,NO THREE ; kIADSOUS AND
ADT)MANADLE CONVENTS.
The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we
sbalhrefei, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work
on Diet. He pronotmoce the Wal4r to be impure and
offensive, and says that it stinks shortly after it Las come
in. LARGE QUANILTLES OF 'MATTER ARE MECHANICALLY
suailunna, se as. "As A ektYSlCiAat," he says, n I CAN-
Net FIND T&11555 SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE AW-
FEL IFFEATS LT MAY BE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE
IDIALTM, AND EVEN LIVES, Or Ilia INHABITANTS OP THE
ICNTEOPOLIS " And in the last edition of his work he
goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not ap-
plied to the evil, " RAVAGF4 0F SOMA faIDEITIC
MAY BE PALP-LY ANTICIPATED."

SUCH LB 'ME PICTURE—THE P.MeilltiFUL AND FRIGHT

'SHE eONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE

A MES7AS surrum BY 'ADE COMPANIES TO THEIR
CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest,
Moat populous city in the world--the seat of a more opu-
lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in
any other Metropolis—should, for so long a time, have
been contented to have SHEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR
CI ERNS, AND TO HAVE USED, FOR ALL DOMESTIC AND
CULINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OP LIFE, SO LOADED
WiTtl ALL SORTS OP IMPURITIES AS TO RE PRONOUN CHO,
Y PROFESSIONAL 311:N OF DHh FIRST EMINENCE, TO BE
Olt-lam/yr TO SLOE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination,
and destructive to the health, is a fact tbat would not
have boon credited, and that ought not to have been
credited, bat upon evidence unanswerable.
THE RESULT OF THNiR LAROURS IS We RECOISURN••
WiTsION OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILORATION•-•-.A SYS-
UM, NOT LIitLUSED TO THE FIFTY-.THRRIE THOUSAND
DAILY DRINEING TIE FNUSHY ELULD OF WHICH
WE DAVE LEEN SPEAKING, BUT EXTENDING YSSELF TO
nwanltrio AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF
XIE NEW RIVER AND OTHrilt COMPANIES, CONSUMING
IHE TWENTY.-NILNE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP-
PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS.
Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners
Were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal
Ater for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, OR It WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER READ-
ING THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT MUST HAVE

roultrio AN I IitORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON..
(=LESION TO THEIR LABOURS.-The subjoined extract from
aProspectus, issued by the Proprietor, WILL BE SERUSED
'WII 'SHE LIVELIEST I,NTERBST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER.

CLEANLINESS VS BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND '.17.1E
I•uRITT OF TIM ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ARE TUEATIOG,
TO BE YEARLY GF EQUAL TISTGETANCE WITH TIDE ANR
WE BREATHE:—
," The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior
to all filters hitherto invemed, inasmuch am it not only
TOSSESSIIS %WE POWER OF CLARIFYING THE WATTIE, IN A
Pah-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT 01' COMPLETP.
suRIVICATION, RISNDE-1:4NO TINE MOST TURBID, STAGNANT,
AND TCEVID WATLIt, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,
BEpaITENG LT OF BEERY Noxious INGRRDFENT, AND, IN
UCINO ' NATITE.F.'S NECTAR' IN T.HE HIGHEST
FAGT, Tii.OD
yosstaLE P.R.RFICI4ON THAT IS TO SAY, eNLEAR A:vo
BESTITELE OHTASIE AND SMELL.,
The rapidity of the proees may he understood by a
single observation, " THAT SO VAST AS THE WATER Is
bUrPLI&O AT ERE TOP OF THE CISTERN, SO FAST IT WILL
DIsuLIARCE ITSELF FROM THE BOTTOM."
" But where," the reader will naturally orelaisn, " is
.the /1 rocif of ail this to be found ? We must have some-
thing 1110 re 24141 And eatWattory than bare aiwrtions."--