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reason, a double pleasure in doing justice to both of 

 them. 



Mr. Joseph Manton has completed another patent 

 detonater, which, for a self-primer, is by far the best 

 and most simple invention I have yet seen. The 

 workmanship is most beautiful, and if ever any kind 

 of self-priming detonater will answer, without giving 

 trouble, it will be this of Mr. J. M. who will still, I 

 trust, continue to be, what he always has been, the 

 leading inventor for the whole trade, and the cham- 

 pion among all real judges of a gun. 



Were I merely to observe that Mr. Joseph Man- 

 ton's guns (at all events for the workmanship) are so 

 far before those of the gunmakers in general, that 

 those, who cannot see this, are like indifferent judges 

 of a picture, who, for want of profound science, would 

 be as well pleased with the gaudy painting of some 

 young artist, as with the picture of a fine old master, 

 I should appear like a hireling of this maker. But 

 I only beg of whoever differs with me in opinion, 

 when he next sees any other first-rate gunrnaker or 

 mechanic in town or country, to say to him, " Now 

 tell me, on your honour as a tradesman, whose guns, 

 NEXT TO YOUR OWN," [mind this] " are the best, 

 and most scientifically made ?" and if they do not say 

 (or think) " Mr. Joseph Manton's," I will resign all 

 claim to judgment of a gun, or to the kind patronage 

 with which my work has been honoured. In short, 

 let any one look (not with the naked eye, but with a 



