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Thus I have laid before your Lordſhip in full detail, the circumſtances of this caſe, and the various facts to which I am a witneſs; with thoſe opinions in addition to my own which cannot be diſputed. I now humbly hope you will have the goodneſs to let the very elaſtic ſubject on which I had to treat, apologize for the expanſive length of this Letter; and kindly extend your patience a little further, while I draw a ſhort concluſion; in which I will endeavour to condenſe the whole without a ſeparate veſſel; and if poſſible cram it into a ſpace much leſs than even an eduction-pipe. I then think my Lord, it will be unneceſſary to ſay more to unveil the intentions of Mr. Watt when he took his patent; and what right it can give him to maintain his monopoly.
It will be neceſſary my Lord preparative to the concluſion I propoſe, firſt to ſolve one material point, namely, at what period of creation do the works of man begin? The anſwer is, juſt where the independent works of God end, who by his own ſecret principles, and methods (that ſurely none will have the hardihood to claim) eſtabliſhed the elements and their properties; and ſtocked the univerſal ſtorehouſe already mentioned; out of which the ſame cre-
