Bygone Masonic Amenities.

London Docks , when they landed at Gun Dock , opposite Dr . Daniel ' s residence , and received three hearty cheers from the surrounding multitude . " Bro . Daniel ' s invention svas brought to the notice of the Royal Humane Society and was at once awarded a

medallion . It svas also laid before the Society of Arts , and upon a full investigation of its merits and mechanism , " The Society unanimously agreed in opinion that such a valuable discovery merited the highest prize , the gold medal . " The gold medal svas awarded , but certain jealous

individuals , according to the inventor ' s biographer , raised the question as to his being justly entitled to it , alleging that his life preserver svas not a nesv invention . This involved the doctor in a long and expensive lasssuit , which svas eventuall y decided in his favour , and not

only ss'as the gold medal returned to him , but some fesv years later he received the honour of knighthood for his valuable invention , svhich had been the means of saving a great number of lives .

Judging from the remarks of his biographer , Sir Francis svas as svell known in sporting circles as in his profession . " His favourite breed of horses has been the cream-coloured Arabian svith black legs , a pair of svhich he has driven for years in his chariot , generally accompanied by one or two beautiful spotted clogs . " He was also the owner of the

celebrated trotting mare , Phenomena , able to trot seventeen miles in fifty-three minutes . " Soon after settling at Wapping , Sir Francis had an affair of honour svith an army surgeon . The parties met , and one of them received a wound above the elbow , the ball

passing by the side of the os humeri , and coming out in a slanting direction near the axilla . This circumstance Sir Francis always mentions svith regret . " We must confess to being a little puzzled over this paragraph . The biographer leaves us to our choice as to svhich of the combatants came to grief , and to what extent over the encounter , and also as to svhat particular

circumstance Sir Francis most regretted in that connection ; whether it was the fact of "the ball passing by the side of the os humeri , " & c , or whether he svas sorry it didn't take a different and more satisfactory course . Our lire-eating friends across the channel , who are so

very fond of duelling , might do worse than take a lesson from the "Nation of shop-keepers" as they used to call our forefathers . They didn ' t waste best part of tsvo days in trying to skewer one another and then make a lot of fuss over a scratched hand—they settled their affairs of honour in a fesv minutes in the early morning before business began ,,

and went back to the shop to work—at least one of them generally did . Business must have been rather slack svith the doctors in those days , for sve are told that Sir Francis had a similar affair on hand " svith a surgeon of celebrity , in practice at

the west end of the town . " This " affair" seems to have been brought to an amicable conclusion by the exertions of the seconds on the ground svho svere the means of reconciling the parties without damage to the " axilla" or any other portion of the human anatomy .

The portrait of a boy , to svhom Sir Francis is pointing , in the picture , is that of Master David Humphreys , an orphan pupil in the school established iu 1808 , who seems to have been a boy of remarkable powers of oratory , and was presented by the Duke of Sussex with three medals at different anniversaries of the Institution .

The large cup or tankard so convenient to the elbow of Sir Francis svas probably placed in that position more for exhibition than actual use . It doubtless represents the silver cup ,- valued at . £ 20 , given him by the Royal Naval Lodge , on July 6 th , 1808 .

Without this explanation , it might possibly be thought that the habits of the worthy knight tended in some degree towards conviviality represented in the shape of a constant and liberal supply of liquid refreshment . HENRY SADLER .

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