pery, ready to be put on board. -- A Steam-engine is a complex piece of work, and his subsequent transactions show that he found it so ; for it has taken him from the summer of 1786 (when he removed his works from Frederick-town) to the winter of 1787 to make them ready for a fair experiment. No person therefore can be brought to believe, that his first machinery could have been conjuied together in little more than 30 days. -- No such thing happened -- 1 have already sufficient proof to the contrary, and have no doubt but a multitude of corroborating witnesses will voluntarily offer themselves, when this pamphlet gets down to Frederick-town and Shepherds town, where I shall take some pains to have it circulated. It is truth alone I am in search of, in order to wipe off the imputation from^ my own character ; for as to stability of title to my exclusive rights, I shall not cast away an anxious thought about it. -- I am secured by my laws -- and my ' coadjutors,''^ as M^ Rumsey is pleased to term them, I am sure have no sort of apprehension about the monies they have risqued ; and only wish that I should remove any aspersions that may

be unjustly cast upon me Thus far it may be said they

have an interest in my success, because a law in my favour in Maryland is yet depending.

I must not yet quit the subject of M''. Buckley's letter in his third page, from whence it is plainly to be gathered, that subsequent to his letter of lOth March 1785, to General Washington he meant to tell the world he was busily employed in private experiments on Steam Engines, and that although his first setting pole boat " Bore the pelting of ignorance and ill nature," yet he did not set about making a Steam-engine, for this boat, until (as he calls it) the critical moment when a M^.