Rumsey has shifted his dates, and has got two of his workmen to swear to it -- for Messrs. Barns and Morrow, if they had consulted their accounts, must have found that they had made a lapse of a whole year at least, and that the December, 1785, which they speak of must have been December, 1786. -- The circumstance of being stopped by the ice proves it to have been in the winter, and therefore must inevitably have been in the winter

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of 1786, But this was too late a date to serve their purpose of supplanting my claims and just rights, which I mean to maintain under the laws I have already obtained and have no doubt of succeeding in my applications to the other assemblies when they come to see my proofs and M^. Rumsey's false datings. He has mentioned the obtaining part of his works from Baltimore, where I can also shew he has used the same want of candor, and it will confirm the proofs from Frederick Town.

It appears the four large cocks for his steam pipes and works, were bespoke of Christopher Raborg, in Baltimore, by M^ Barns, who the better to conceal the " designed purpose of the cylinders," told him they were for the warm springs in Virginia, -- perhaps a little mental reservation might cover this deviation from fact. -- But M'. Raborg had no account thereof and could not give the time with precision -- though he believes they were made in the fall of 1785 ;-- the certificates, N°. 20 and 21, which follow, prove that the time was certainly in the spring of 1786. As these certificates appear to refer only to cocks made for the warm springs, I had considerable doubts about admitting them into my defence ; because M''.