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cidents in question. After many =ors observations
in favour of the invention, Sir Francis concluded with
renewing his motion for a return of all seamen be-
longing to King's ships, who had been drowned by the
as/netting of boats since the sth ofJune, 1811.
CROKER regretted that he had not been
able lo attend when • the subject was lately urged by
the Hon. Baronet ; as he would have then, as he
should now, convince him of the utter impossibility
of making out such returns with any degree of accu-
racy, nor even at all, in less time'than from one to
two years. As to the inventions so lauded by the
Hon. Baronet, he mast say that, in his opinion, it had
as little merit as any that ever tell under his notice ;
and that, 'of all the inventions for a similar purpose,
which were nine in number, that had been laid before
•the Admiralty, thii 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 it the opinion of the
public were in favour of it, it ought to be employed
in tke merchants' service, where the casualities 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 should abstain from forcing
it upon Government.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, he should have con-
ceived that nothing could have been more easy than
to furnish the returns required ; as the returns of all
seamen who lose their lives are regularly sent to the
Admiralty. He then repeated the high recommen-
dation which the Committee had given of this article
in their Report, and in which they had not scrupled
to call it an invention; and he hoped the Right Ho:
nourable•Gentleman would cot be able to persuade
the House, that his single opinion, perhaps arising
from some degree of prejudice, was preferable to that
of the whole Committee. He did not wish the Right
Hon. Gentleman to fall overboard, but if he should,
and bad as many lives as a cat, after trying the other
eight inventions, he might owe his salvation to the
ninth, which he so much despised. —(A laugh.)
It would certainly not at all interfere with Captain
Manby's invention, but while it would go in aid of it
generally, it might also save thousands of lives under
circumstances where the other could not be employed
at all.

Mr. WYNNE was for protracting the adoption
of it till more general proof had been adduced of its
efficacy.
After some explanations between Sir F. BuaDsrr
and Mr. CROKER, the Baronet, conceiving that the
returns would not be objected to, if they could be
obtained, and also trusting that it would not be de-
nied that great numbers of livts had been lost for
want of the adoption of some such invention, con-
sented to withdraw his motion.

0 )VERNOR coRR.

Mr. GOULDBURN was unwilling the House
should separate before he had had an opportunity of
stating the cause of his not being present yesterday,
when an Honourable Member presented a Petition
complaining of the conduct of Governor Gore in
Canada. He had been every day waiting in the
House for some time past, with a variety of papers
about him, which would have enabled him fully to
meet the charges contained ht the Petition, and to
spew how utterly absurd snd impossible some of
them were. He had yesterday attended the Housei
and waited some time, when, neither seeing the Ho-:
nonrable Member who had presented the Petition "in
his place, ncr the Honourable Member for Coreiltryi
he had left the House to go to his office, not thinkin
the subject could be brought on at that time, anJ
had returned as soon as the business which had call-
ed him away enabled him to do so, when. he found,
with some surprise that during his absence the Peti-
tion had been presented. He was now only desirous
that it should be believed that his absence had been
purely the result of accident, and that there was no-
thing in that Petition which would not be met with
a full and complete refutation.--Adjourned.