i8oi /. Huddart; J. C. Hippisley; Admiral Young 2 1 1 



invented a new and greatly improved method of making 

 cables and ship-ropes, and this invention yielded him a 

 considerable fortune. Such a career might well interest 

 the recluse philosopher who brought him to the Club. 



Sir John Coxe Hippisley, another of the President's guests, 

 was a barrister of the Inner Temple who had performed 

 diplomatic duties for the government and, for his services 

 in negotiating the marriage of the Princess Royal with the 

 Duke of Wiirtemberg, had been created a baronet. 



Admiral Young, invited by the Treasurer, after varied 

 service in the North American Coast and among the Lee- 

 ward Islands was for some time commander on the West 

 African Station and had then the opportunity of being one 

 of the explorers of the ancient burial-places on the Peak of 

 Teneriffe. Thereafter he did duty in the East Indies, 

 became commander of the Royal Yacht and after the action 

 on the Dogger Bank in 1781 was knighted. He became 

 rear-admiral and ten years later admiral. In 1792 he gave 

 evidence against the slave trade before the bar of the 

 House of Commons, and he was associated with Sir Joseph 

 Banks in his efforts to establish a colonv in New South 

 Wales. 



1801. At the General Meeting held on 2nd July 1801, Sir 

 Joseph Banks, President, in the chair, and seventeen members 

 present, the Treasurer submitted his accounts, from which 

 it was shown that the expenses amounted to 63 os. 2d., 

 the receipts to 40 195., leaving a balance of 22 is. 2d. 

 due to him. To clear this liability off and to provide funds 

 for the ensuing year it was resolved that the annual con- 

 tribution of each member should be for this year two guineas. 

 The entrance fee on election was raised to 2 2s. 



Three vacancies were reported, two arising from the death 

 of Sir George Staunton and Bryan Edwards, and the third 

 from the resignation of Master Holford. They were filled 

 by the election of Owen Putland Meyrick, Viscount Lewis- 

 ham, and John Lloyd Williams. The first of these new 

 members had been elected into the Royal Society in 1776 ; 

 the second in 1781, and the third on 2ist May of this year. 



