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LXXVIII. Intelligence and Miscelianeous Ariicles. 
SAFETY-LAMP CONTROVERSY. 
Ix our last Number we laid before our readers the Resolutions | 
of Mr. Stephenson’s friends, held at Neweastle on the Ist of 
November ; also the Resolutions of a Meeting held at the house 
of Sir Joseph Banks, on the 20th of the same month, for con- 
sidering the facts relating to the discovery of the Lamp of Safety. 
Since that time we have received a Report upon the claims of 
Mr. George Stephenson relative to the invention of his safety- 
lamp,’ published by his Committee, to which are prefixed the 
Resolutions first alluded to above. 
At present we can only find room to notice in this Report a 
palpable case of piracy elicited by the questious as put by Mr. 
Stephenson’s own Committee. Mr. Stephenson admits his hav- 
ing published sketches of lamps different from those he really 
tried, and having adopted the safety-screw and trimmer of Sir 
H. Davy. His friends did not venture to ask him whether he 
had not also given a texture of metal the same as Sir Humphry’s 
gauze to his chimney and air-feeder. 
In our next we shall lay before our readers some further ob- 
servations on the groundless claims of Mr. Stephenson, In the 
mean time we submit to their inspection the proceedings of an- 
other meeting held at Newcastle since Mr. Stephenson's friends 
published their Resolutions. 
© Assembly Rooms, 
* Newcastle, Nov. 26, 1817. 
«¢ At a General Meeting of the Coal-Owners of the Tyne and 
Wear, convened ‘ for the purpose of taking into consideration 
certain Resolutions passed at a Meeting of the Friends of Mr, 
George Stephensou, on the Ist inst. the tendency of which im- 
pugns the justice and propriety of the proc -eedings adopted at 
a Meeting of the Coal Trade on the 31st August 1816,’ 
“ John George Lambton, Esq. M.P. in the Chair: 
«© It was resolved,—That this Meeting feel themselves called 
upon, as an act of justice to the character of their great and dis- 
interested benefactor Sir 1!umphry Davy, and as a proof that 
the Coal-trade of the North in no way sanctions the Resolutions 
of Mr. Stephenson’s friends on the Ist November 1517, to state 
_their decided conviction, that the merit of having discovered the 
fact that explosions of fire-damp will not pass through tubes and 
apertures of small dimensions, and of having applied that prin- 
ciple to the construction of a safety- ae belongs to Sir H. Davy 
alone. 
** That this Meeting is also decidedly of opinion, from ie evi- 
ence 
