1809.] 
calculations solicited. But here I may 
be too presumptuous and sanguine. The 
calculations | solicit may be a work of 
more labour than I am aware of. 
Your’s, &c. JM: 
Dumbartonshire, Dec. 5, 1808. 
— 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
a OTWITHSTANDING the public 
prints have lately teemed with ad- 
vertisements, &c. calculated to ridicule, 
and put every one out of conceit with 
Joint-Stock Companies, I venture to pro- 
mulgate a discovery, which L have for 
many years enjoyed the benefit of; but 
deeming it of such national consequénce 
to the health and pockets of my tellow- 
citizens, I can no longer refrain from in- 
forming the public, that, having long 
been obliged, by the duties of my pro- 
fession, to lead a sedentary life in Lon- 
don, by which my health was greatly im- 
paired, I resolved to try some method, 
whereby, since [ was unable to visit the 
country, I might cause the country air to 
visit me; and aiter much trouble and ex- 
pense, | have the pleasure to announce, 
that I have so completely succeeded, as 
now to keep myself and some particular 
friends in sound bodily health and men- 
tal vigour, by resorting to the air of dif- 
ferent parts of Great Britain, which, by 
a new contrivance, is bottled, and sent 
to me in jts utmost purity; so that by 
means of the stock now in my possession, 
if I wish to taste the air of Scotland, I 
reach a bottle from the Highlands, and 
after drawing the cork, employ my-power 
of suction, to convey its contents tu my 
lungs, when, in a few minutes, I find 
myself another creature, and as hungry 
as if I had gone to bottle the alr on its 
pative mountain; but, by the bye, ‘this 
sort of air has caused a terrible length- 
ening of my butcher’s bill for the last 
year, 
In like manner, I can resort to a bot- 
tle of pure air from any of the watering 
places, or other salubrious parts of Eng- 
land or Wales; but, after all, | am parti- 
cularly partial to the air which is bottled 
on Hampstead Heath, when the wind is 
in the north-west quarter, and that de- 
scription of air (though other sorts may 
be kept for the sausfaction of different 
eustumers), 1 would recommend to the 
inhabitants of London and Westminster, 
as asure mode of saving the intolerable 
expenses, and answering all the pur- 
poses of journies to watering places, 
Montury Mac, No, 189, 
Imperial ltr Corporation. | 165 
riding out twice a day, taking stomachic 
lozenges, and other numerous medicines, 
for strengthening the bodily system, and 
exhilarating the spirits, &c. &c. 
A central and happy spot is fixed on 
for building a repository, or cellarium, 
to hold, at least, five millions of bottles ; 
and it will be contrived with such sin- 
gular convenience fur the dispatch of 
business, that every customer may be im- 
mediately supplied with a most salutary 
draft of fresh country air, at the easy and 
cheap rate of one shilling per bottle 
only ; and from whence hampers will be 
delivered to every part of the town, ac- 
cording to orders; the air contained in 
which, may be bottled in any particular 
month of the year, as there will be di- 
visions if the cellarium, for the air of 
each respective month and place of 
bottling. 
If the vigour of the nation can in any 
degree be restored by the above. bene- 
volent project, I shall think myself amply 
rewarded for the trouble of my wakeful 
researches. But as it is obvious that my 
plan cannot be carried into execution, 
unless by public subscription, and there 
is a plain act of parliament making such 
subscription illegal, and highly penal, £ 
should be discouraged from proposing it, 
were I not certain that ministers would 
forthwith advise His Majesty to grant a 
charter to the company which I intend 
to form, by the name of ‘¢’ The Imperial 
Air Cerporation ;” for the mere perusal 
of my prospectus must shew them, with 
what facility they may lay a heavy tax 
upon air-drinking, and, in truth, we shall 
be very well able to afford it, for after 
paying a duty of three-pence per bottle, 
a profit of five hundred pounds per ceat. 
will result to the subseribers. 
T send you this communication, that 
the public may have an opportunity of 
avoiding the unprofitable and illegal 
schemes, which every passing day brings 
forth ; and of embarking their property 
in a legal undertaking, so certain to be 
beneficial to themselves, and of such ima- 
nifest public uulity. A prospectus of 
my plan, may be had at the banking- 
house of Messrs. Efail, Rain, Sleet, Fog, : 
and Co, near Temple-Bar; where each 
subscriber, paying one guinea per share, 
as a deposit, may enter his name for any 
number of shares, not exceeding fifty, 
until all the shares are subscribed tor. 
Your's, &c. 
Busiertus SALUBERRIMUS. 
Serjeant’s Inn, seas 3, 1809. 
To 
SRE 
