460 On saving the Lives.of Mariners. 
Mr. Bell’s invention ‘is totally inapplicable in cases of 
vessels being stranded,’ and that Captain Manby’s inven- 
tion is new. 
<6 Tn justice therefore to the memory of Liemenant Bell, 
and to his surviving family, and with respectful deference 
due to the judgement of that honourable committee, the 
concluding of the seven observations inserted in one of 
the papers of Lieutenant Bell’s account to the Society for 
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 
is subjoined in his own words as published in that Society’s 
Transactions, and in the Repertory of Arts for 1808, page 
318; by which observations it appears that Lieutenant 
Bell then proposed what Captain Manby has since so ably 
and so successfully carried into effect. 
“¢ There is every reason to conclude that this contrivance 
would be very useful at all ports of difficult access both at 
home and abroad, where ships are liable to strike ground 
before they enter the harbour; as Shields Bar, and other si- 
milar situations ; when a line might be thrown over the 
ship, which might probably be the means of saving both 
lives and property: and moreover, if a ship was driven on 
shore near such a place, the apparatus might easily be re- 
moved to afford assistance; and the whole performance 1s 
so exceeding!y simple, that any person once seeing it done, 
would not want any further instruction. I have the honour 
to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, 
(Signed)  ** Vauc. Luoyp, Col. Com. 
OR. Tidorew, Esq. Ore, eeceneec. Lt, Gen.” 
In consequence of the preceding Report, a motion was 
made by Mr. Wilberforce, on the tath June, and carried, 
foran address tothe Prince Regent, praying that he would be 
graciously pleased to order that Captain Manby’s invention 
should be stationed gn different parts of the coast, &c. and 
assuring him that the House would make good the expense, 
Tn 1807, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 
&c. also rewarded a Mr, Daniel, for an apparatus to secure 
persons from sinking in water, or to act as a life-preserver 
when shipwrecked. This contrivance consists of a bag 
made of water-proof leather, in the shape of a broad girdle, 
encircling the person’s body under his arm-pits, kept in its 
place by iwo straps over the shoulder and one passing be- 
tween the legs. {t is also furnished with a tube to blow it 
up by, and a cock to retain the inclosed air. This con- 
trivance will certainly prevent a man from sinking, and 
eyen enable him to carry some weight along with him ; but 
, it 
