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PROSPECTUS OF THE METROPOLITAN
MARINE BATH COMPANY.
CANTAL—Xsuomo.
Uni.rctous.
Ast Horsars, Esq. MP. R. C. BARLOW, Esq.
Lord Viscount LOWTIIIIII. WILLIAM SOMERVILLI, M.D.
Admiral Lord CoLVII.Lt. Major KATIR.
SO WM. CONGIULIIII., Bart. M.P. ALLICA/IDER BLAIR, Esq.
Janos H. Bois', Esq. BRIISAIIIN OAKLEY, EM.
Wawa( Boss:, Esq.

AUDITORS.

G. A. Sharp, Esq.—William Busk, Esq.—.. Robert Ord, Esq.
Batnnms. -
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Mansion-house-place ; and
Messrs. Hanunenley, Greenwood, Drew, and Co. Pall-mall.
ENGINICIRS.
Messrs. George and John Rennie.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sweet, Stokes, and Car, 134singhall-street.

Sneorro RY—George Wright, .Esq.
AMIDST the various Improvements of modern days,
introduced to increase the convenience, benefit the health,
a:sd add to the beauty of the mighty Capital of the British Empire,
it seems strange, that one so important as Public Baths, in some
measure proportionate to the population, and corresponding to the
opulence and taste of the country, should have hitherto remained
a desideratum.

The cleanliness, health, and enjoyment to be derived from the
e4e cf the Bath, in its different forms, have too generally received
the assent of all ages and nations to need comment.
The Baths of the ancients were amongst their most costly, superb,
and recherché productions. The remains of these works are amongst
the choicest and most splendid of their monuments.
Scanty, imperfect, and insecure in the extreme, are all the means
at the ready command of the inhabitants of this great City, for the
enjoyment cf any species of Bathing. Hence the frequent loss of
11.. e, both in the Thames and the Serpentine River: and hence also
the temptation to thousands, in the summer season, to pollute the
main supplies of the beverage of Multitudes of his Majesty's subjects,
and daily to outrage decency by uncovered exhibition, in the New •
River, and the other open waters in the vicinity of the town.
From the deficiency of safe and decorous opportunities of prac-
tice, and of due tuition, but very small is the proportion of the re-
sidents within the bills of mortality, who ever attain the useful and
manly Art of Swimming.

Of all delcriptions of Bathing, that in Sea Water stands confessed
by the world at large to be both the most extensively and most ef.
&iently beneficial, and also the most highly grateful.

The constantly renewed annual migration of nearly the whole of
the affluent orders of this island from the Interior to the coast, and
that under nudism' sanction, if not advice, decidedly attests the
conviction of the benefits of marine ablution, in the mind of the
great majority of our own enlightened Public.
Many disorders incidental to this climate, affecting the poor as
well as the opulent, demand the use of Sea Water ; and thence the
origin of the truly benevolent Institution, for supplying the afflicted
pennyless patient with the means of conveyance to the shore.
To diminish the' frequent needless sacrifice of human life—to
improve the manliness of our youth—to rival antiquity—to foster
the health, and extenirthe sources of legitimate gratification, of all
classes of the community—to render the whole of the million and a
half of population of this wonderful hive of mankind the more
cleanly—to preserve the purity of the prime ingredient of their
aliment—and to remove all excuse for, and temptation to, the
monstrous and growing indelicacy of the naked exposure of person—
it is now proposed, by adequate means, to bring a copious and con-
s:ant stream of Salt Water from the ocean to London; and to construct
Eve, or more, different Establishments of Baths: in the most eligible
ant. convenient situations in the Metropolis, upon a scale of extent
and elegance, which shall at once be worthy of the informed and
refined age in which we live, and afford every desirable accommo-
(ation to all ranks of society, from the highest to the lowest ;—and
!to, ender wholesome regulation and superintendence, and upon
te-nis which, whilst subject to judicious variation in scale, shall,
epos the whole, be most strictly moderate to all.

it i, intended to meet the ample cost, which so considerable an
enterprise must incur, wholly by the Subscription of public-spirited
individuals, who, however, it is confidently felt must, in addition to
the ratification of thus highly benefiting their countrymen, secure
t. themselves a liberal pecuniary compensation for their expense and
:.hour, which, at a moderate estimate, cannot be less than 14 per cent•
Al the organization for realizing these ideas, it is contemplated
to form an Association and Joint Stock Company, under high
rtronage and sanction, with proper Visitors, and with Directors,
and 'other usual Officers, and to raise the sum of £500,000, by means
of iO,OOO Shares, of £5O each, limiting however, to check specula-
ton, the number of Sham to be subscribed in any one name, not
to exceed two hundred.

Tu provide the needful supply of Salt Water, it is proposed to
lift an adequate quantity by means of a powerful Steam-engine,
from the sea, to a sufficient elevation; and thence to convey the
same to London in large metal pipes, and afterwards to distribute
by corresponding means, amongst the different proposed Estab-
..s!iments.

It is intended that each establishment shall embrace Warm Baths,
1 pour, Medicated, and Shower Baths; private and distinct Cold
:;4 h s for Ladies awl families; the like, single ones, for Gentlemen;
.tery large public Pleasure or Swimming Bath, wholly of Sea
~'Ater, coveted in; and a secor.d very considerable Swimming Bath,
the like water, for the use of the less opulent; and also at each
establishment, to p:ovide competent instruction in swimming.
With a view to extend the utility of the plan as widely as pos-
sible, it is intended that Hospitals and other Charitable Institutions
of all descriptions, and belonging to all Persuasions, shall he sup-
Plted with such quantities of Sea Water as they may require for the
gst of their Path:lts, to be carried home to their respective estab-
lishments either gratis, or at the lowest possible rate of actual cost.
I: is further intended, upon one day in each week, to open the
,ccontlary Swimming Baths, for the use of the journeymen trades-
men and other classes of the populace, at a rate of charge not to ex..
cred three-pence, or at most four-pence for each person.

A payment of One Pound upon each Share will be required upon
- ring the Shares; further calls will be mule; the first not to ex-
(-id Four Pounds per Share, or any subsequent one Five Pounds
1.. Share, at rvasouable intervals, at the discretion of the Directors.
inst.i:ments will be forfeited, unless subsequent payments
,;;4?,.: for by the Directors shall be made good.

The atldirs of the Company will be conducted by Twelve Direc-
'''s, with liberty to add to their number, with the assistance of Five
-vdtccrs.

4)irec:or; ronit hold not less than Twenty Shares each; Auditors
tk: lesr than fen Shares each.
Every Shareholder having Five Shares will be entitled to one
,
—lVeen Shares to two Votes—Thirty Shares to three Votes
4lity SI. gyres to four Votes—One Hundred Shares to five Votes
,--and Two Hundred Shares to six \'utes in the concerns of the

It.ru kles will be allowed to rote by proxy.
t.ll,lications for Shares may be made by letter (post-paid) ad-
* ,td to the Directors of the Metropolitan Marine Bath Com-
-411 Y.at iessrs. Sweet, Stokes, and Carr, No. 6, lialitighall-street ;
4essrs. C.pet, Cuetton, and Cundy, Stock Brokers, Royal Ex-
.4"lt Mein& Wolfe and lAnintith, No. 9, Change Alley ; Messrs.
i^bete thd Rochas, No. 80, Old liroad-s:rett ; or Messrs. Gale
taturet, Nu. 89, Pall Mall.

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