The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-03 00:00:00

to the People, of this Country, much less to tisycl‘
at present on ,any grievances, real or iinaginary
was not the time to talk of things of that nature. 1,
He was so well convinced of this, that if we were
now in the worst of times for Constitutional Free,
don—when we were deprived in. a great measure
of the privilege of meeting to discuss public topics—
when the Habeas Corpus Aft was suspended, yet
even under such circumstances of the abridgement of
our Constitutional Freedom, in a moment like the
present, he should have felt it his duty, even then.
to be silent ; degraded as he should have felt
he should notihave murmured against c;,,_
vernment : he should rather have converted his
chains into an offen6iVe weapon to resist an Invader,
such as now threatened us. The Gentleman who
now threatened us, did not come-forward with the
ordinary doctrine of hypocrisy of an Invader : he
did not think it worth his while to profess that he
came to redress out Grievances, nor did he hold out
the customary lure to the most profligate part of his
own Followers, by promising tti divide the spoil
with them; but he had with a candour that was new
to him, declared that he had meant it all for himself.
Mr. BYNG said he had nothing more to say than
that he never felt greater satisfaCtion in his life than
having the honour of attending the Sheriff on this
occasion with this Address to be presented to the
KING.
The question Was then carried for the Address
and Amendment, that Mr. BYNG should attend,
and accOMpany the Sheriff to present it to His
MAJESTY; the first unanimously, the latter with
the dissent only of about half a dozen persons.
The Thanks of the 'Meeting were then unani.
mnusly voted to the Sheriff for his impartial con.
duet, for which that Honourable Gentleman made
an handsome acknowledgement in an appropriate
Speech.',

Thanks were in like manner voted to Mr. Al.
dennan SKINNFR and the Reverend Dodor Ro.
aen rs, the one for composing, the other for bring.
ing forward this Address. These Gentlemen also
made very handsome returns, which were received
with great approbation. The proceedings of the
day being ordzred to be printed in all the News.
papers, the Meeting was dissolved.

PATENT STEAM ENGINE MANUFACTORY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Leeds, July 19.
1 feel myself called upon to vindicate my charac-
ter as an Engineer, against a foul insinuation, in a
paragraph inserted in some of the Newspapers of
last week, that every improvement, which Was
really new and useful, and deserving a Patent, in the
one which I obtained in the year 18ot ,* was in.
vented and praelised at the works of Messrs. foul.
ton, Watt, and Co. and that I surreptitiously
obtained a knowledge of them from some of their
workmen. Ido positively deny, that I ever 'got
the least hint of the improvement in question from
any one : indeed, a little observation is sufficient
to refute the assertion. If I knew that these im-
provements had been invented and praCtised at
,Soho, I must have been dein:lent in common sense,
as well as honesty, to obtain a Patent for what
knew I could not hold. Had they used my invert-
Lions in the manner 4scribed in that Patent,, prior
to the date thereof, they certainly would haverar?.'
tised them in the Engines they male before that
period, or taken out a Patent fur the Improvements
themselves.
The reason of my not defending the Patent, was
not from any fear of losing the trial, as they seem'
to insinuate, but that I did not think proper to de-
fend it with such expence, as. I should most proba-
bly have incurred in contending with such rich and
powerful opponents as Messrs. Boulton, Watt, and
Co. But had I ben guilty of obtaining a know-
ledge
I do not believe they have made any worth.notice,
since Mr. Watt, sen. retired front the manage.
ment), it would only have been a return in kind.
Mr. Storey, Manager of their Foundry, and
liarn Murdoch, Superintendant of the workmen at
Soho, some time back visited out works at Leeds,
and from their assuring us of Messrs. Boulton,
Watt and Co.'s friendly disposition, were admitted
into every part of thecintufaCtory by Mr. Wood
and myself; they were even permitted to take pat.
terns and specimens of our workmanship; and we
know, that upon their return to Soho, many of our
Improvements were immediately adopted, and the
Engines made after that time by them were in part
construCted on our plans. Mr. Murdoch, upon
taking his leave of us, expressed a wish, that as
they and we were certainly the best Engine-n-14(0.s
in the kingdom, we should always be upon good
terms ; and that, if ever I should go to Soho, they
would be very glad to thew me all their works. I
did go to Soho,- and was refused admittance into
t teir M.inUfaClory of Steam Engines. But the world,
I believe, cares very little about Messrs. Boulton,
Watt, andCO.je stealing my inventions, or my steal.
ing :theirs. What people watt alas is good Errgine;
and I am confident I can tn.dee good ones ; and as
they hint that no one can do that but themselves,
I am willing to end this dispute, for the good of the
Public, in a similar mode to one they proposed to
Mr. Hurnlilower, with whom they had a dispute
some years agn, when Mr. Wilson, their Agent in
Cornwall, gave him, a challenge £m toog,. that
Messrs.. Boulton and Watt would produce an Engine
superior to that Mr. Hornblower had et etted at Tin.
crolt Mine; this challenge Mr.,H. did'not accept.
Now I offer, (by way ot and proof of tnge.
nuity and workmanship) to make an Engine of one.
horse power, •tig,firlit any ot the same power, cm).
trived and niadelsi :ffJulton, Watt, and Co. ; and I
do further offer to deposit in the hands "
of any-
Banker in London, it, they will do the same, one
hundred guineas, td Heroine the property of the
party whose Enginel; declared to be to .st perfed
useful by twelve prteticad Etigifie.m
to be chosen by Boution, Watt, and Co. atc.i a!>; by
.tne.