of
the
to parliament, fail
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which he thought could not
to recognise the utility of the invention. "
The President
observed
that,
up
to
parliament had certainly got on very well without it but, as they did their business on a very large scale, he had no this time
;
doubt they would gladly adopt the improveHis only fear was that the machine ment.
might be worn out by constant working. " Mr. Coppernose called the attention of the section to a proposition of great magni-
tude and interest, illustrated by a vast number of models, and stated with much clearness
and perspicuity in a treatise entitled Practical Suggestions on the necessity of providing '
some harmless and wholesome
relaxation for
the young noblemen of England/
His pro-
position was, that a space of less
than
ten miles in
ground of not length and four in
breadth should be purchased by a new company, to be incorporated by Act of Parliament, and inclosed by a brick wall of not less