Rumseys Pamphlet, which will discover, to every impartial person who will take the trouble to examine the subject, that he hath no sort of just pretensions to the claims he hath exhibited. -- His skill in the mechanism of a Steam Engine, may possibly be greater than mine, and in the article of Condensation I freely acknowledge he is my superior, having acquired the art of condensing (with the dash of his pen) one whole year into the compass of six days.

JOHN FITCH. Philadelphia, 10th. May, 1788.

ORIGINAL

STEAM-BOAT

SUPPORTED, &c.

It is the duty of every man not only to avoid the commiss'on of a crime, but so to conduct himself through hfe as to bear tl e strictest scrutiny.

In a Pamphlet published by M^. James Rumsey and lately circulated in this City, as well as probably in other States, I am charged as the perpretator of crimes attrocious in their nature, but of which my conscience fully acquits me. It is an exercise of malevolence in the extreme thus publicly to prefer charges against an innocent person without previously knowing or enquiring for the defence of the supposed offender, and shows an inability in the accuser to support his charges. Unfortunately for M*". Rumsey, I trust we are now before an impartial Public, where Justice, unbiassed by party or undue influence, will decide between us -- Conscious of my conduct, in the prosecution of this business, beino that of an honest man, it is incumbent on me to recite the circumstances, and facts relative thereto.