The ingenious Mr. Spalding

The ingenious Mr. Spalding, accompanied by one of his young men, went down twice in his diving-bell at the Kishbank, Ireland, where the Imperial East-Indiaman was some time since wrecked, for the purpose of recovering some of her materials. He did nothing more, however than examine her situation, &. determining to go to work next morning.

Accordingly, Monday morning, about six o'clock, he and his young man went down, and continued under water about an hour, in which two barrels of air had been sent down for the supply of the bell; but a good deal of time having elapsed without any signal from below, the people on deck, apprehensive that all was not right, drew up the bell, and Mr. Spalding and his young man were both discovered to be dead.