Mr. Genet’s Reply to Dr. Jones. 314 
new, a suspension of censure and condemnation, until the 
whole scheme could be ented and rectified by actual expe- 
riment. 
This attack upon my Yespectdble friend, and old fellow 
citizen, and his ‘determination to observ e ‘only silence, has 
laid me under the double duty of assuming his defence 
and my Own, a , Sir, to beg the favour, 
up, in your columns, my upward forces, against the eflorts of 
those who endeavour to put them down. alflhi 
task, however, discarding all igs of invitation, and un- 
willing to retaliate illiberality, I will pass over the ) stigma, 
puns, an smots, both in 2 and ‘in » With 
which Dr. Jones has ornamented his remarks; I will not even 
expose his faults in the French lexicography, having ‘been 
brought up to consider such minute revisals as unmannerly. 
Rejecting, therefore, all that extraneous and offensive mat- 
ter, incompatible with an impartial investigation of truth, or 
of a delicate detection of error, I will only select what is 
tangible by science, and attempt to show, that if, as Dr. Jones 
says, and unintentional} confirms, ous les docteurs ne 
sont point docté,” all critics are not exempt menue criticism. 
There is, Sir, in Doctor Jones’ last remarks, a precious 
confession, ‘which in ‘good tactics, I must plate in front of 
my line of defence, because it will throw some light on the 
Views and interests of my assailant, namely that the doctor 
is committed on certain doctrines midie systems, on the steam 
power, ‘which he has publicly taught, and that his impar- 
tiality, on the trial of another power, offered as a substitute 
iad dangerous and expensive force, 
be questionab 
In veil spresent pac odor Jones, seems to have ‘a- 
bandoned the chase of the zronaut or sorbet vessel, long ago 
dispatched tothe moon by the Boston reviewers, antl my 
friend Eugene Robertson shall recall it to the geological erust 
of our own globe. The hydronaat, or water vessel, moving 
by combined wrostatic and hydrostatic forces, has’ become 
the pointed object of bis satire, and ‘as, according to rule, 
the identical matter of a libel must be laid im substance be- 
fore a court and jury, I beg leave, Sir, to place before you 
and your readers, as an indispensable prelimmary, for my 
Vindication, the ‘following quotation from the Franklin 
‘Journal, No. 1. Vol. If. January 1, 1827. 
