Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks!

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in PNEUMATICKS! - or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air. -\nPub.d May 29.th 1802 - by H. Humphrey, S.t James's Street-\nPriv. Landes In. [...] No. 32/ London June 8, 1802/ Doctor Young, Prof. d. Chemie an der kön. Instit. takes Sir John/ Coxe Hippesley by the nose. This baronet is a very popular courtier at St. James's; he accompanied the Duke of Würtemberg through England when he was here. At the time Dr. Farnett was still at the R. Inst. he made Sir/ J.C. Hippesley breathe air, and the accident here presented really happened to the/ Baronet. - The young person with the bellows is the famous chemist/ Davy also professor at the Institution. Right next to the barrier stands Count/ Rumford with the star. - Behind him with the glasses is the Jewish writer d'Isra-/ eli. - Immediately below him is Lord Gower, the last English envoy to France/ under the monarchy. The three ladies are not known, they only fill in. - The gentleman in black with the seeing-glass is the famous Earl of Stanhope, to whom what is written in the book lying there refers; it is known that he communicated the alleged discovery of the American Fulton to keep a boat 7 hours under water and thereby to blow up warships to the House of Lords very secretively (just as the debate about the Definitive Treaty was to begin) and after sending away all listeners. - The fat man next to him is Lord Pomfret, a diligent seeker of the Royal Institute. - Immediately beside him sits Sir Harry Englefield, a man/ of much knowledge of art, which he has lately proved by his Walk thro Southampton/ wherein he describes the ancient monuments, buildings pp. of that beautiful city. Here/ Sotheby has also dedicated his Oberon. But he is a worldling who has a notorious/ Crim. con. with Mr.s Crewe, a celebren beauty, whom Fox sang of./ The lady in the yellow feather is Mr.s Locke, city-famous among the blue stockings/ The rest of the persons all around are nullius numeri; but they visit/ Once the Royal instit. Gillray saw them there, and knows not even their names/. The man with the crutches is an Academist. But Gillray has also attached one/ of his friends who attends the lectures incessantly: The excellent bull-seeing man is Mr. Thöllden, a wealthy German,/ who lives in London with his German wife for his pleasure and is a very good chemist, also in other respects a good man, whom Gillray appreciates excellently.