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''. Rumsey on finding that I proved them to be made in March, 1786, might (if he pleased) adhere to M^. Barn's declaration of their being made for the warm springs and not for the steamboat: But I am now happy in having a confirmation under M". Rumsey's own hand, published in M'^. Oswald's paper of the tenth instant, where he informs the public, " Mr. Raborg was the person who undertook to make cocks for my steam boat, and by him 1 shall prove that they were finished at the time he mentioned to M^ Fitch, viz. the fall of 1785."

Christopher Raborg's certificate is as follows : No. 21.

This may certify, that Mr. Joseph Barnes did bespeak of me four brass cocks, which he said were for the warm springs y that being disappointed by my journeyman, I got them made by Mr. Charles Weir & Co. -- said cocks I do beheve were made in the fall of 1785, but have no charge made of them to ascertain the time with precision -- this I assert, as witness my hand, at Baltimore this 26th day of April 1788.