Patrick, the Rev. George Lee, the Rev. William 

 Severn, Messrs, Spence, Hill, Broadley, Boileau, 

 Watson, Fielding, Simpson, Frost, Stovin, 

 Wilson, Snowden, and many other gentlemen of 

 acknowledged talent and information. On the 

 dissolution of this society, a few of its members 

 formed themselves into a Literary Club, which 

 met weekly, first at Mr. Wallis's Museum, in 

 Myton-Gate, and afterwards at the houses of its 

 members, during the winter season, for many 

 years. I ought not to omit to mention that, in the 

 years 1804 and 1805, a society, consisting of a 

 few scientific men, and of which Mr. Robert 

 Simpson acted as secretary, met weekly during 

 the winter months, for the delivery of Lectures 

 on Chemistry, illustrated by experiments, for 

 which purpose the Society had provided itself 

 with a laboratory and suitable apparatus. From 

 this statement we may conclude that there has 

 existed, throughout the last forty years, a strong 

 desire, among many individuals in this town, to 

 unite for the purpose of obtaining information on 

 literary subjects. Such a desire still exists, and 

 manifests itself at this time with increasing spirit 

 and energy. It becomes, therefore, highly interest- 

 ing to inquire what real pretensions the town of 

 Hull has to literary fame ; and whether those pre- 

 tensions are of such a nature as to justify the hope 

 that our present Society may at least maintain, if 



