from the Report of the Committee , See. 805 
demonftrates that a broken communication will occafion 
the lharp point to receive an explofion ; and fo far it muft 
be owned to be conclufive. But if it was intended to fug- 
ged:, that whenever fharp points do receive an explofion, 
it is owing to this circumftance, and, confequently, that 
Mr. Wilson’s experiments at the Pantheon were unfairly 
made ; in this view it has no weight, becaufe we have 
already feen that an interrupted communication is not 
the only circumftance that will produce an explofion, for 
that increafing the quantity of electricity will have the 
fame effect. 
I cannot omit the opportunity here offered me, of re- 
marking the unfairnefs of the infinuations that have 
been thrown out to the prejudice of Mr. wilson. Had 
there been any juggle in making his experiments, it 
would certainly have been detected by the committee 
appointed to examine them. And in cafe of fuch a de- 
tection, it was the duty of the committee to lay open the 
impofture both to the Society and the Public. Inftead of 
which, inftead of difputing or even doubting the fair- 
nefs of them, they have in a manner admitted it, by only 
faying in their report, that they appear to be iilconclu- 
five. This, I fay, is admitting the faCfs to be fairly 
ftated : unlefs we could fuppofe their regard for Mr. wil- 
son, and tendernefs for his reputation, had induced 
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