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Rh of the result of the said trial; during the whole of which, as he alleges, it went very considerably within the nearest limits prescribed by the 12th of Queen Anne, and therefore praying (as he hopes the trial will be satisfactory) to have a certificate for the remainder of the reward.—And the said Mr. Harrison's Son, who was attending, was called in, and acquainted that the Board do not think fit to make any alteration in the mode which they have already fixed upon for the trial of his Father's timekeeper; and that no regard will be shewn to the result of any trial made of them in any other way.

From a copy of the memorial, before the Author, it appears they were not correct in making him lay all the stress upon the result of this trial; for he also refers them to another, and of Mr. Kendall's Watch, which came likewise, within the nearest limits of the Act, but which in their haste to demolish the Memorializer's expectations, notwithstanding the high quarter he was supported from, they pass by. Had they confined themselves to declaring, 'that they did not think fit to make any alteration in the mode of trial they had fixed on,' it might have been alleged they were asserting their privilege to decide, as Commissioners, but the clencher that follows is redundant, unnecessary, and unpardonably hostile towards the applicant's gracious Patron; who, whatever difference of opinion might prevail, was manifestly entitled to the