Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-04-29

The diving boat IN the ccnitrueti-
onof which he is now employed, will be
capacious enoushto contain eight men, ana
provifons enough for twenty days, and
will be Of Efficient itrength and power to
enable him to plunge 100 feet under wa
Ter, if necefary. He has contrived re-
ieryoir fer sir, which will enable eight
raen 70 remain under water for eight hours.
When the beat is above water, It has two
fails, and locks jua like common boat.
When iheaisao dive, the MATS and fails are
truck.
/" In making his experiments at iIavre,
MIR. Fulton rot only remained whole
hear order water with three Of his COM
paDions, but held his boat parallel to the
horizon at any given depth. He proved
that the comrais points as correctly under
water as on the furface, and that while
under water The boat made way at the
rate of half league an hour, by means
contrived for that purpoie.
II is not twenty years fnce all Eu-
rope was aiionil.ed at the frft Attention Of
men in balloons perhaps in a few years
they will not be lefs fnrprized tofee fo-
tilla of diving boats, which on a given
fgnal, fhall, TO avoid the pu1iuit of an
enemy, plunge under water, and raife
again feveral leagues from the place where
they defended
S The inventions Of balloons has hi
therto been OF no advantage, becaufe no
means have been found to direct their
coune. But if iuch means could be diff
covered, what would become Of camps,
cannon, fortreGes, and the whole artsof
war?
" But five have not fuceeeded in feer-
ing the BALLOON, and even were it poGble
to attain that objed, the cafe is different
with the diving boat, which can be con-
dutted under water in the fame manner as
upon the, iurface. 1T has the advantage
of failing like common boat, ard alto of
diving whenit is purified. With thetc
qualities it IS dtfor carrying iecret orders;
to fuccor blckaded port, and to examine
the force and petition Of an enemy in their
own harbars. Thefe are fure evident bene-
FITS which thed;yingi boat at prefsnt pro-
mites.
!" But Who canifee all the consequences
Of this difcovery, for the improvements
Of whichit is fufeeptible'? Mr.. Fulton
has already added tohis boat a machine,
by means Of whichhe blew up large
boat in the portof Brett and if by future
experiments the fame effect could be pro-
auced on frigates or'hips of the line WHAT
will become of maritime wars aid will
Cailors be found to man fhips of war when
il isa phyiical certainty, that they may
every moment be blown sinto the air by
means Of a diving boat againf which no
auman fore6ght can guard them
Exor5itaaf Salaries! This was the
Weapon which the Knights of Echnomy
. fucceEfully welded again9 the federal
administration. The many piteous foil
oguies pronounced BY them over loft cents
and mills, gained iome credit for fincerity
among honelt men. When they came in-
% Office, therefore, they food pledged to
he country to fet about this goodly work
ofrcducing ialaries. They had proleied
% make new and different principles the
ground of their administration, and talked
ss.feriou1y about extravaganza and prodi-
sality as a Spartan would over his bowl OF
slack broth. Under their reign we were
arght TO exreaa difplay of the fern viz
ues of an honeR republican, who loved
his country better than money, who like
or ADAMS, or PIcKERINc,
might be found at the plough. But while
their tongues droop mamma, all is falle and
hollow within. Marx that they RATE Ia
alies in the hrR year Of their Republic
6 Then be the Judging fends no more believed