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notified to appear.and show cause if any they have, why said petition 

 ought not to be granted. 



Ordered also that this notice be published in the Union and 

 National Intelligencer, Washington, (and several other papers) once a 

 week for three si/ecesstve zvceks previous to the Third Monday in February 



next. 



Edmund Burke. 

 Commissioner of Patents. 



P. S. — Editors of the above papers will please copy and send their 

 bills to the Patent Office with a paper containing this notice. 



To insinuate that all these proceedings were " secret " or" covertly" 

 done, either designedly, or in fact, is a perversion of the truth, and an 

 insult to Congress. 



P'rom the foregoing evidence, the candid reader will judge what 

 degree of reliance can be placed on any of the broad charges and sweep- 

 ing denunciations of such a " counsel " as this. He appears to practice 

 on the principle that the " end justifies the means,'' regardless alike 

 of facts and figures; or, he manifests a degree of " ignorance," wholly 

 inexcusable in one who undertakes to enlighten even the mechanic, 

 much less the Congress of the United States. We are aware that 

 advice unsolicited, is rarely appreciated; but will venture to suggest to 

 this gentleman, that if his _/??/////^ proceeds from m;/ " ignorance," it 

 might be found profitable to resume his studies before again attempt- 

 ing to practice. If he would designedly xm^o^^Q his incorrect statements 

 on'iMembers of Congress and others, we would say to him— and from 

 a longer experience with the world than he has had,--" Honesty is 

 always the best policy,"— whether in getting claimsthrough Congress, 

 or in his intercoLirse with " the rest of mankind." 



As before remarked, it is brought as a grave charge against Hussey 

 that he was ignorant of the ''sixty rt'^y.y' rule,"- the man confined to 

 his workshop, and compelled to labor with his own hands for his daily 

 bread --while this same " counsel," a resident of the City of Washington, 

 and whose occupation is to prosecute or defeat claims,>r a considera- 

 tion, and as the case may be, is still more ignorant. 



We opine that " Othello's occupation's gone," unless he finds out a 

 way to manage " a case " better than this. 



He tells us that the business was all done in the " most secret quiet 

 manner:" they did not "know that the petition to extend the patent 

 was before the Committee,"— did " not know that it was published, 

 until divulged by accident;"— that, "the Committee, of course, when 

 relieved from their labors, desire to sink the shop and obtain recrea- 

 tion—and would not speak of the business," &c., &c. 



Now we would z.'^V^whose business was it to know before invading 

 the rights of others, and " investing millions of dollars " in what they 

 ^/^ know was never invented by them? What would it avail the 

 Pirate on the hi^h seas, before a court and jury when indicted for felo- 

 niously taking 'the property of others, to enter the " wretched excuse 

 about ignorance" of the law, and allege the plea that he " was artfully 



