1796

Thomas Beddoes to the Editor of The Star and Evening Advertiser, 13 June 1796

SIR,

I request permission, through the medium of your widely circulating paper, to inform the Subscribers to the Pneumatic Institution, that the plan will certainly at length be set on foot. The benefit which persons well known in public life have appeared to receive, from the use of factitious air, has drawn some attention to my proposal; and a few hundred pounds have been subscribed in addition to the sums already advertised in the STAR. The whole, though inadequate to an object of such immense concern to mankind, will, I trust, if judiciously expended, purchase knowledge of useful application. My present intention is to draw up a statement of my own views, and to disperse it, in order to obtain the assistance of ingenious men; and as soon as a proper plan can be arranged, I imagine there will be no objection on the part of any subscriber, to proceed to its execution.

I have at present to request, that those who have not yet paid their subscriptions, would take an early opportunity of transmitting them to MR COUTTS, Banker in London, in whose hands the greatest part of the money hitherto contributed is lodged.

THOMAS BEDDOES

Mall, Clifton, June 13, 1796

Published: The Star, 13 July 1796, p. 4, column 1