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 for ſuch conduct, beſides being a diſgrace to them, was an unpardonable inſult to every man of real diſcernment preſent. This, my Lord, is a truth recorded in the minds of many good men who attended the Court on that day; and who, if not poſſeſſed of ſo much ſagacity and perſuaſive eloquence as the juſtly celebrated Serjeant, who ſo curiouſly pitched his mouth of all works in uſing theſe expreſſions, may, perhaps the leaſt of them, be as uſeful in their day, and to their generation as himſelf.

I have now briefly run over the neceſſary deſcription of a few of the moſt prominent features of this intricate Machine. But although I ſay briefly, I expect your Lordſhip may think me profuſe. However this may be, I do here teſtify, as a man neither defective in theory or practice, that all I have ſaid by way of deſcription, does not amount to the fiftieth part of what would be highly neceſſary, in giving ſuch a definition as would enable even the moſt experienced mechanic to complete one of theſe Engines as perfect as they are now made by Mr. Watt. At the ſame time, I can take my pen and make a ſketch in twenty minutes of this machine, in its organized ſtate, that will convey to your Lordſhip, with the help of