The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

Mr. Fulton, an American, known in this country, by his improved canal-locks, and by a book on canals, pretends lately to have discovered a method of navigating vessels at any depth under water, and of enabling the person who navigates them, to continue immersed for seven hours, without the access of fresh air. He intends, it is seriously asserted, to apply this invention to the purposes of warfare, and, from his ability to approach them unseen, in a state of security, he proposes to blow men of war to atoms!

The experiment has not been repeated in this country; but the invention itself was made the subject of a very formal notice to the House of Peers, without, however, producing a very grave effect upon that assembly. Should any further particulars of this curious business transpire worthy of notice, we shall not omit to lay them before our readers.—Lon. Mag. June.