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London, England, 1807-04-21 00:00:00

HUMANE SOCIET r.

The anniverlary feast was held on Indnefday,
at the London Tavern, which was attended by a
anon terpeflable and numerous company. Two him
dred and fifty guineas, new fubfcriptions, Were re-
ceived, and after the folemn procetlion of thofe per-
lons recovered by the means rec(•mmended by the
Royal- Humane Society, the honorary medallions
were prefented by the Chairman, Alderman Hankey,
The fecond was prefented to Dr. Thornton, au,hor
of The Pliilelophy of Medicine." whole name, the
Chairman obfewied, was univerfally known, and who
delivered to the Syciety the following addrefs :
,c steri.tura—t cannot receive inch a fignal mark of your ap
probation, without attempting. although in very inadequate lan
goose to exprtfs the high fenfe I entertain uf the honour t day
his a
conferred upon Inc, and my grateful acknowledgment for te
theme Cicero .
a remarks," That man in nothing fo much refeniblea
Di si Ys by confer' ing of health." What would have been
his exclamation, had he known the Reufcitative Art, by which
life,-appart tidy gone for ever' is reltored This Art or Science,
appears truly divine, and wasfirit in situ among us, to thm
e glory
of England, by the salve penetration qf tha truly bencvok
for Hawes, aided by the learned and philanthropic Dator Lett-
font ; and by ritablifhirg this Royal Humane Society. which re-
wards medical writings on the Refefcitative Art, and individual
endeavours, hundreds of Meryl lives tatbe community are annu-
ally preferved ; and having reviled from you, by the hand of the
Chairman, this honorary medallion, my exertions, in grateful ft-
membrance ,will be Rill further simulated, for the advancement
of the Refukitative Art, the good of mankind, and the honour,
glory, and profperity of one of the moR ufeful of all public muffin,-
dons, the Roy* Humane Society.
An account of Door Thornton's remarkable re-
covet ies of perfons, who c.therwife muf have pet inteJ,
by means of the viral air, is given in the Annual Re-
port of that Society.

LITERAKY Futio.--Saturdiy, the Friends and Pa-
rr, ns of the Literary Fund, dined together at the
Freemafon's Tavern, and (pent the day with much
conviviality. The objarft of the Inflitution, we were
plod to . underfland, was aided by a confiderable
fuliferittiett. After dinner there were recitations, as
Oita!, td praife of the benevolent pnrpofe of the
SoCieti. The- following is an extra([ from that
written by WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD, Efq.
I.et not the foot of Vanity and Pride,
The (tarring Authot's poverty deride;
In life, perhaps, negleteted he may roam,
Without a friend, a comfort, or a home!
Though dull obfeurity his days o'ereaft,
Yet time does juftice to his fame at lag ;
And many a bard, a moralift, a Page,
Survive the memory of their thanklefs age !
For, when corroding time in duff (hall meuld
The muftis rotary and the nave of gold;
The wretched miler to the grave dcfcends,
And. with his wealth, his worthies Rory cods :
Not lb the man. who, rich alone in mind,
Bequeaths his all—his talents to mankind!
When genius dies, oblivion does no* tread,
With heavy footfteps on the Poet's head;
Some (park will rife immortal from his urn,
To light the lamp which (hall for ever burn!
Some portion of that pure etherial flame
Afpiring mounts to beav'n from whence it came; •
•While groffer matter leeks its native earth,
Alike unnotie'd in its death, or birth.
The following Extraa of a Letter from an Officer
of rank in the fquadron under the command of Sir
J. T. Ducewoexa, affords, we believe, a eorrefi
aceennt of the melancholy lots of his Majelly's late
(hip Ajax
Our force has lately experienced a diminution from an event,
which I new with grief relate to you. The Valentine's Day was
indeed a fad one for the unfortunate Ajax. At half paft nine on
the evening of that day, the Ajax took fire in the bread•room, and
in ten minutes the was in a general blaze from Item to (tern : the
w hid blew teeth from the N. E. which prevented the boats of the
(hips to leeward from rendering any affiftance ; but from chore to
itindriard, and near her, the was well enough fupplied to fare
upwards of eon of her people; and thole may confider themfelva
as aloft proviientially preferved ; as it had blown a gale all the
day, and for two or three days before, and fell fctmewhat mode-
rate town& the evening—a continuance of the gale would proba-
bly have rendered afilitarse impoffible. The fire it appears had
been for fame time (comparatively (peaking), a light in the bread-
room berme the alarm was given; for when the Fiat Lieutenant
and many others broke open the door of the Surgeon's cabin, the
after bulk-head was burft down by the accumulated flames and
(mote abaft it, and fo rapidly made its progrefs through the cock-
pit, that it was with difficulty be could regain the ladder, and
molt of theft who accompanied him were fuffocated in the at-
tempt. On reaching the quarter-deck he found the fire had out-
run him, and Captain Blackwood agreeing with him that the was
paft all =adj. they both ran fotward where the majority of the
'work were affembled, calling moft pitifully on their GOD for that I
Jodi they depaired of getting; althnugh many boats were ap-
proaching them (fo rapidly did the fire work its way forward),
and Ic-apt froin the (grit-fail yard, when the Canopus's boat fortu-
timely picked them up. At this time the boats were affembling
seder the flaip's bows, and raved moft who ftill clung to them
though mar.y, naked, benumbed with cold, and peered on by
others, let go their hold and perifhed, as did everyone who im-
prudently on the firft alarm jumped overboard. The boats, how
ever, cleared her bows, though many of them were in imminent
danger of fwamping, from the number of the poor creatures who
were clinging to their gun-wales, and who were obliged to be
forced off and left to ptria, for the fafety of the reit. The (hip
burnt all night, and drifted on the Maud of Tcnedos, where Ike
blew up at five next morning, with a moft awful explofion.
The unhappy lidera"' of her Ward-room are Lieutenant Rowe,
Lieutenant Sibthorpe, Captain Boyd, of the Royal Mantles, Mr.
Owen, Surgeon, and Mr. Donaldfon, Matter. The Gunner, un-
happy father ! had thrown one child overboard. which was raved,
and going down for another, perilked in the names. Of forty-
five Midfhipmen of every deferlption, about twenty are faved ; a
fon and a nephew of the late Captain DuCand who was with him
in the Mars. when be glorionfly fell in the adion off Trafalgar, are
among the furvivora. Three Merchants of Conftantittople were
on board, two petilhed ; alfo a Greek Pilot One woman, out of
arm,th fared heed/ by following her hufband with a child in bis
sown a rophfrom the jib•boom end, Ihe Puffer's Steward
and kis mate, and the Cooper are miffing. The =anon of the
accident cannot indeed be exadtly afcertaitsed, but that there was
a liOtt in the bread-room when there ought not to have been one
is certain Several of the people died after they were got on board
the different (hips, the reft are diftributed among the fquadrea." •
: Twkwrt Toon:min POUNDS for the firil-drawn
Ticket on Thurfday next, :3d of April. The many
'refpeaable Patrons of Port's Old Eftabliflted and
Fortunate Office, No. rz, Cattle-alley, Royal Ex-
Change, are earneilly and fpecially folicited not to
'delay making their purchafes, as a fpeedy and Coe-
31DERABLI clirance in the price of 'rickets and Shares
'ay affuredly be expefted in confequence of every
Ticket drawn that day being a Peas.
Beau NIA, etft of celebrity in Bath, is recorded by
I.lr. ADDISON to have made one man happy by a
gift of lot. oily ; but the little rum of ii. 6s. 6d.
each, made ten perfons, on Tuefday lad, both happy
and Independent for life : they gained, in fhort, ten
Oxteetiths of the 20,0001. Prize. Yet this obtain.
assent is inconilderable, compared with what will
otoft probably be gained in (hares, from the abun-
d,nce of Capital Prizes it due—and which
Amndance *di be but little . diminifhe4 by tbc.
ic:0031- milso the fu drsivrto slumber oit Thud:
, •
dal, neat.
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