M"" Rumsey's third page will tell us -- In March 1785 he informed General Washington by letter that he intended applying steam to boats ; in December following, Messrs Barns and Morrow swear the boat was ready ; and his exhibiting this boat, he confesses was hurried on by the intelligence received from M^' Buckley ; consequently this work and this " Encreased ardor" was subsequent to the date of the letter from M^" Buckley. Then if I can fix the time of M"^ Buckley's writing the letter, I shall establish a certain fixed period at which M"" Rumsey acknowledges his works were not on board his boat. And I felicitate myself in being able to do it so incontestibly as to prove from his own writings that he has given false dates and assigned false reasons for his movements. He knew at the time of inserting that quibbling account, that it would not bear the light, and therefore did not dare to give the date of M' Buckley's Letter, wrote at that "Critical minute," for M' Buckley's letter, would have shown this "Critical minute" was not in 1785, when they swear the steam-boat was ready, but in the summer of 1786, full twelve months after I had made my plans public, and was procuring patterns for my present cylinder, and had made a complete model of a steam-engine in brass and iron. -- I have been at the pains of walking 66 miles to Pequa and Lancaster to see M'" Buckley, that I might obtain an additional proof (to the many others I shall produce) that M^ Rumsey has transposed the order of time and antedated facts. M^ Buckley frankly toiii me all he knew of the matter and fixea the time of writing his letter, so circumstantially ^ to have been in 1786, and not in 1785, that not a doubt can remain -- and it will further appear from the certificate he ha.«< givw me that the colouring as to tact^ as well as to da<*t, iiitu