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 handſome ſum of your Lordſhip’s money.—For if I had received as much for clearing each dwelling-houſe of a deadly ſmell, above the payment of my account, as Mr. Watt has had for building an Engine, (and it is ſurely worth as much); having done it in about ſix thouſand inſtances, it would amount to ſomething material, and added to one third of the ſaving, occaſioned directly and indirectly by the application of my Patent Locks, and Extinguiſhing Engines, I believe it will be readily allowed, would have produced an enormous ſum.

After theſe obſervations, your Lordſhip and the Publick may perhaps be ſurpriſed, that a claim, ſuch as that made by Mr. Watt, ſhould have been ſubmitted to for twenty-three years—Perhaps, however, the time is approaching in which the courts of law may more accurately examine into the title on which this claim is founded; and convince the world that it is totally inſufficient.

Having given your Lordſhip my ſentiments on the imperfections of this Specification, I will beg leave to cite the opinions, as far as my recollection will enable me, of three of the firſt perſonages that ever graced a judgment