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190 with, nor will I take up more of the reader's time by a detail of the very earnest attention paid by the French Government to this object. If our rivals in Commerce and Arts should rob us of the honour as well as the first advantages of the discovery, I hope it will be admitted that the fault is not mine: and I likewise flatter myself that I have now furnished sufficient materials for the justification of my