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 Theſe are facts, my Lord, which cannot be controverted, and which I am ready to prove by actual experiment, having a Newcomen’s Engine at work, without any condenſer or eduction-pipe, which performs its office in a manner ſuperior to any Steam Engine I ever ſaw on any other plan. And I affirm, that the air pumps uſed by Meſſrs. Boulton and Watt, in their Engines, are not on a proper principle; and that the application of pumps to theſe Engines is not their invention, but was, as I have ſtated, the ſubject of a patent, previous to that obtained by Mr. Watt.

Of the vague inconſiſtency and abſurdity of Mr. Watt’s Specification, which I have ſet out by expoſing, I have little doubt your Lordſhip is by this time fully convinced; confirmed as it is by the many elucidations I have adduced. If then Mr. Watt has failed, even from ignorance, to give the neceſſary price, he muſt, according to the above-quoted indiſputable authorities, forfeit his pretenſions to the monopoly.

With no other wiſh, my Lord, than to be inſtrumental in promoting univerſal juſtice, I have preſumed to occupy ſo much of your time. With your Lordſhip, I am ſenſible this will be a ſufficient