Page:A Letter on the Subject of the Cause (1797).djvu/46

 conſtructed Engines totally without condenſers, as good or better than their own, they have juſt candour enough to admit the fact, and pride and avarice enough to claim them as their invention.

This, my Lord, I aſſert with boldneſs, as the whole of it was proved to you both by the Plaintiffs’ evidence and their Counſel. And thus your Lordſhip muſt ſee how the wiſe ſhall be enſnared by their own craftineſs; the ſtrong things confounded by the weak; and the things which ſeem the greateſt brought to nought by thoſe which ſeem not to be.

Thus far your Lordſhip has been conducted by the Plaintiffs’ dying declaration and confeſſion, confirmed by the above practical elucidation. I will now ſtate, as briefly as poſſible, the ideas which have been eſtabliſhed by my practice, reſpecting theſe myſterious condenſers.

I have built Engines ſtrictly on Newcomen’s plan, without any part that can be called by other name than the eduction pipe (except we give it a new name). By throwing into this pipe, inſtead of the body of the cylinder, a jet of cold