422 Description of an efficacious Temporary Rudder. 
this country to Barbadoes in January 1811, to which place he 
was conveying 235 of His Majesty’s troops : 
We consider that it would be doing Captain Peat a great deal 
of injustice, were we not to give him every credit due for so valu- 
able and simple an invention, the efficacy of which has been 
proved by the distance run in so short a time, and the docu- 
ments we have in our possession, with the information received 
from many experienced nautical men of great respectability, who 
were aboard at the time, and had an opportunity of witnessing 
the great ease with which the vessel was steered on the different 
points of sailing under all sail, and from the high terms with 
which it has been spoken of in this country by nautical men of 
the greatest experience and respectability, it cannot fail of being 
of great utility to the public ; and we consider that great praise 
is due to Captain Peat for his perseverance and daily improve 
ment in substantially fitting the machine, from the idea which 
first suggested the-fonstruction of it, , 
We have the honour to inclose a letter received from Mr. Lock- 
wood, of His Majesty’s Naval Yard, Barbadoes, accompanied 
with a sketch from that gentleman on the subject. 
We have the honour to be, sir, 
Your obedient humble servants, 
, THOMsoN, OsBOURNE, AND Co, 
Billiter-square, Nov. 12, 1812. 
To C. Taylor, M.D, Sec. 
GENTLEMEN,—I HAVE the honour to forward a sketeh of the 
temporary rudder, by which Captain Peat governed the Cornwall 
to this island. 
The apparent ease with which the ship reached this anchor- 
age, the direct course she made under a press of sail, even stud- 
ding-sails, and the account of its action, led me to investigate 
the circumstance minutely, and enable me to speak very confi- 
dently of its properties; and, in order that you may have yet 
more information than I have time to write, I inclose the sketch 
with a Barbadoes paper, It was my first intention to send the 
plan to Mr. Robert Blachford, Chartseller, Minories, for imme- 
diate impression, and to propose giving him a right or title to 
the plan, by sending me 200 copies, Captain Peat suggested 
the idea of my sending it to you. 
_ I therefore, gentlemen, beg your acceptance of my humble 
labour; my sole wish was to render it public for the good of 
society, as in my opinion it not only supersedes Pakenham’s. 
rudder, which stands in such high repute, but every attempt of 
that nature “hitherto made, and reflects the highest credit on 
Captain 
