§ Sir Francis Burdett presented a Petition from William Henry Mallison, of Saint Michael's Alley, Cornhill; setting forth, "that it is with the highest gratification the petitioner learns a committee is appointed to investigate a mode of giving relief to shipwrecked mariners and vessels in distress, so many thousands perishing annually on the coasts of these islands, leaving their wives and children too frequently victims to want and misery; and that the petitioner having formed a plan for this laudable intention, founded on the invention the petitioner calls "The Seaman's Friend," which in June 1811 was unanimously acknowledged adequate to this great purpose by the committee then appointed by the House, he humbly presumes to request his proposed mode of giving relief to shipwrecked mariners, which will be found as simple as certain, may be investigated, in order that its merits and practicability may be ascertained."
§ Ordered to lie on the table.