SCIENTIFIC NEWS, 



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Reward of Twentj/ Founds for the Jrtificial Frodu^ion of 

 Falludium, 



JL HE following is a copy of a paper received by me under , 



cover, by the two-penny poft. It is written in the lame hand 

 as a note which covered a fmall piece of the palladium menr- 

 tioned to have been received by me laft Midfummer. (See 

 Philof. Journal, June, 1803, Vol. v. p. 136.) Upon inquiry, 

 I find, that Mrs. Forfter has received the fum of 20c£'. with 

 inftruflions conformable to this paper. This original is cut 

 indent-wife on the margin, and has part of a manufcript 

 flourifli or paraph on each border, but no fignature. 



(COPY.) 



December 16, 1803. 

 SIR, 



AS I fee it faid in one of your Journals, that the new metal It Is infifted 

 I have called palladium, is not anew noble metal, as I have faid ^'^*' P^^J^dium 



. . . cannot be 



it is, but an impofition and a compound of platina and quick- formed by art; 

 iilver, I hope you will do me iuftice in your next, and tell ^!i-^ ^ reward i» 



T -r y c ^r. n ■ ^< T. ^ oflerfd for any 



your readers 1 promile a reward of 20^ . now m Mrs. Forlter s procefs t© that 

 hands, to any one that will make only 20 grains of real palla- *^*^*^» 

 dium, before any three gentlemen chymift's you pleafe to 

 name, yourfelf one if you like. 



That he may have plenty of his ingredients, let him ufe 

 20 times as much quickfilver, 20 times as much platina, and 

 \ in ftiort of any thing elfe he pleafes to ufe : neither he nor I 

 can make a fingle grain. 



Pray be careful in trying what it is he makes, for themiftake 

 inuft happen by not trying it rightly. 



My reafon for not faying where it was found, was, that I 

 might make fome advantage of it^ as I have a right to do. 



If you think tit to publifti this, I beg you to give the names 



of the umpires, as I have dbfij;ed Mrs. Forfter to keep the 



' money till next Midfummer, and to deliver it only in cafe they 



can aflure her that the real metal is made by a certificate 



figned by you, and by them, on this check. 



I hope a little bit of whatever is made may be left with 

 Mrs. Forftcr. 



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