July 1794

Remanenti

Terms upon which they may be permitted to outstay their time: as

the amusements and the difficulty of finding an Asylum

elsewhere may induce many.

Paying down the price of a Cabbin with furniture? that

the means of accommodating pregnant ones may not be lessened.

Or else double or treble rent?

Consulenda

M rs Charlotte Smith Miss Burney that was

M rs Moore. M rs

Barbauld? M Ann Ratcliffe? M rs

Fenhault. Authoress of Ellen?

CABBINS — Furniture

Stove

one of Hempels 3 G: l ones? N.B. There must

be means of heating drinkables, such as cawdle &c.

If a common fire the air to come in under the grate, that it may

not draw through at the door and window

Timber for the purpose to ascend before it descends, that it may

not choak, shew the light through &c.

Ventilation in the Bed place to be performed by five apertures in

the ceiling one at each corner, and one in the center,

the apertures closed by square wooden tubes with a horizontal arm

on the outside, and a perpendicular one

descending from it

Sliding cover in the inside of twice the length of the aperture

— one half close, the other loose or canvas as at the Hospitals.

The window near the fire-place not to open — lest a person

sitting with his back to it should catch cold.

The window on the other side the door to open as a sash window

Window-Shutters up sliding — Hendon-wise.

Dishes &c to be washed at the Common Kitchen or in each

person's

Servants' House.

The door to be listed and from the top of it a board to slope

inwards and upwards to point the current of air upwards to the

Ceiling on the opening of the door.

Cabbins Furniture

Carpets — two foot Carpets to be provided

— a Carpet to cover the whole room to be hirable

Room for a small Piano-forte, which must be either between the

unopening window and the door, or on the side opposite the

fire-place.

Interstitial Stuffing for Side-Walls

1. Chaff. 2. Chopt strace or Heath or thirds 3.

Cork chips & shavings 4. Sand with Lime in a pulp pound upon

it to make it bond 4. D o with Plaster

of Paris 5. D o with Coal Tar.

None to be received who are not reported pregnant — that it

may not be employd by men as a receptacle of kept

mistresses But will not the £100 or £50 advance for the child

answer that purpose sufficiently?

Cabins.

Mem. to build one or two immediately for

experiment sake. They will serve for J. B. S. B. Upsal, M rs & Miss F: They must be stationed at

first within the protection of the Night-Watch.

Dimensions to be determined by the dimensions of the things and

persons to be contained: ex. gr:

Width

1. Piano Forte 2. Chair stationed at the Piano Forte 3. Room for

passing to the Bed-place 4. Table standing by the fire 5.

Competent space between the table & the Fire.

Place the above articles, and from them take the measurement.

Depth

1. Chair between Window and Fire place 2. Fire-place 3. Another

Chair 4. Coal-Scuttle

Height

need not be above 7 foot. A Cabin of the largest Man of War is

scarcely above 6 foot. The higher pitched the room, the more fire

it will take to warm it

Colour

1. Some invisible green 2. Some blue with white

flowered shrubs. 3. Some white with blue flowered shrubs.

Accommodations on the spot

1. Ice at 1/2 price: viz: 1 d or 1/2 d per lb. 2. Poultry 3. New

laid Eggs. 4. Milk 5. Wine 6. Fruit fresh gathered 7.

Vegetables fresh 8. Hot Rolls. 9. Washing cheap.

So long as they were not numerous, they might be supplied with

liquors from some neighbouring public House ex. gr: the Falcon:

J. B. supplying the Public House with the liquors wholesale,

in order to ensure the goodness of them.

Advantages

1. Fire — security against 2. Thieves and Robbers security

against 3. Situation healthy 4. Situation pleasant 5. Amusements

— see List of Amusem ts 6.

Accommodations with regard to consumables — see List of

Accommodations. 7. Exercises — see List of Exercises 8

Cold Bath

9 Warm Bath. 10 Sotimion Coffee-Room (for

Members only.)

Russian Ice- Flying Chariots

As different degrees of rapidity would be agreable to

different people

quere how to regulate them? 1. By Channels of

. 2. By Rollers and Channels of

different degrees of smoothness

. Velocity how determinable: the length and depth of the

inclined plane being given The first

supposition must lay aside the consideration of friction Ice

or Iron upon ice would come near this.

The channels will be like the Rail Roads

An artificial observation for the fliers to set out from, and for

the rest of the company to view them from It must be

extensive, in order to hold a number of Chariots ready to

follow one another.

The Flying-path may be ornamented by an Avenue of Trees on

each side

As it must be in a strait line (i:e: without lateral

curvature) it will cut off communication between the grounds on

each side

there be enclosed over or under.

Visitors

No person to be admitted to any Member without sending in his name

to her (sealed or open) and her signing an order for his or her

admittance.

No person to be admitted making entry in the Porters book of the

Member whom he or she comes to visit: notice being taken whether

Male or Female and whether he or she has been before.

Visitor to pay a fee (say 1 d) to the Porter

for his trouble in making the entries together with the use of

pen, paper, sealing-wax &c.

A place to be provided where the Member may see her Visitor before

he can see her, in order for her to be assured that he is a

person whom she has no objection to be seen by.

The Member enquired after to be called by the Porter by a

Conversation-Tube.

Visitors who come to see the establishment, either out of

curiosity or with a view of taking a Lodging, to come within

certain hours, at which times the Members to have notice that

they may be on their guard Such Visitors to pay a fee —

say 1 d

Visitors

No stranger, male or female to be admissible to the common amusements:

females, by universal consent, after

being viewed.

As all or most of the amusements will be to be paid for, the

Mistresses and Independents might be admitted to earn their

admission money by taking in

Woman's work

Woman's Works

1. Needle-work 2. Millinery 3. Mantua-making 4. Ironing. 5.

Clear-starching 6. Making the produce of the Garden into pickles

and preserves.

Precautions to be taken against the admission of thieves &c who

may be for introducing friends for the profits of plundering

Sewels

For a screen from the Road if at Sewels

Moveable Slabs or Lattice-work, invisible green colour, the bottom

beginning where the top of the close Quickset Hedge ends When the

Shrubbery in the inside is fully grown up, these may be

removed

The Poplar trees will serve as supports.

Jalousies better than slabs — lighter,

cheaper more picturesque, & more

piquant.

Doors in them here and there to be thrown open occasionally. For

instance fronting the walks — to be opened on certain public

hours.

Russian Flying Chariot

Illuminated on rejoicing-days they will make a striking

spectacle

They might be charged with Fireworks, & so set off with

or without a Rider.

Return of the Flying Cars at first by the Common Road: afterwards

when money is plenty by

an almost level Rail-Road, assisted by a

Barrel and Winch. No: by S. B. counterpoise

perpendicular. The traction may be favoured by a descent

of a few feet. Passengers may be landed at the point of junction

between the two Rail-Roads from the Panopticon Machine:

paying extra [6 d] if they choose to use

the Flying Car in going. Calls may be

made to the Upper Starting-Post by a

Conversation-Tube. Rail-Road of hard wood greased — that iron

may run well in it.

The Panopticon Flying Car, may it not be prescribed as an exercise

by Physicians?

History of Flying Steeple-Flying by Ropes Try and exhibit the

flying by Parachutes. This Rail-Road must run, from the

commencement of the ascent, under

under a Tunnel: unless the Canal is continued so

far, and the Rail-Road runs by the Canal.

Quere a House with the Side-Walls of Wyat's tinned copper double

the supports and girders cast iron

outer plate painted white or enamelled to as saves it

from being too much heated by the Sun in Summer time.

In winter steam to circulate between the plates to

warm the inside of the house.

Russian Flying Chariot

The velocity may be regulated, by setting off at a higher or lower

point of the course: the number of miles an hour may thus be

predetermined within a mile or two. Say from 12 to 24

Cars may be of one, two, or four places.

Cars for persons 4 places 2 8 2 places 4 8 1 place 9 9 Total Places 25

Cost say £6 a place = £150

The perpendicularly ascending Car to be wound up by barrel and

winch with a

paul to prevent falling in case of

accident to the Winders.