Note 377 — Chapter XXI · Application of Steam-power to Navigation—Miller and Symington—Boulton and Watt’s Engine adopted by Fulton.

Symington continued to struggle for many years under the burden of debt which he had incurred by his experiments; and though a sum of 100l. was granted him from the Privy Purse in 1824, and 50l. a year or two afterwards, he remained in a state of poverty during the rest of his life. He died on the 22nd March, 1831, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London.