348 Genet’s Meniorial. 
are satisfied of the novelty and ingenuity he has displayed 
in each of his experiments and applications, but this remark 
is particularly applicable to the part upon which it may be 
said, that the whole labour of theorists and machinists has been 
during nearly 60 years concentrated, to find out themeans of 
directing and. regulating the course of a balloon after it is 
launched in the atmosphere. We have abstained from the 
privilege of reviewers, who might have caught some cause of 
censure and criticism, altho ugh we are aware of a few inac- 
curacies, and of some material objections that might be of- 
fered against the theories of the author, as well as with re- 
spect to his mechanical applications. We think it better and 
more honourable to keep these under consideration, until he 
can avail himself of a farther revisal, and until the public 
opinion may have had a proper chance to be formed. There 
is no doubt but a sufficient number of qualified judges and 
experimenters may be found in this country, where mec ani-~ 
pursuits and ingenuity are so often successfully apphed to 
public SE peaceueents. A different course would appear to 
us exceptionable, inasmuchas Mr. Genet is not a philosopher 
of common stamp ; nor has he departed from any principle 
in hydrostatics or in dynamics, that could not be supported, 
even with some g aecepups to the Newtonian law of gravita- 
of a patent which ieee Genet has affixed to 
his discovery, vil sufficjently ct him against any im- 
oroper invasion, as well as the ible pin against any dau- 
rous error or application that could be ap prehended from 
his speculations, and we should add, against unqualified wit- 
ticism pointing at ridicule, or conde emning his memorial to 
be dead stock i in the booksellers’ shops. ‘* Quzeque ipse mi- 
serrima vidi.’ 
