1802: | 
MR. DEARBORN’S (BOSTON) for STEEL- 
YARDS. 
Are faid to promife to be of great uti- 
lity. On thefe, pieces of ordnance weigh- 
ing 8000 pounds are eafily fulpended and 
accurately weighed. The whole apparatus 
is fo compact, that two men may readily 
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tranfport iton a hand-barrow to any dif- 
tance. Iathe ordinary mode of weighing 
with fcales, a great number of weights 
mutt be twice handled, and the common 
beams could fcarcely be made ftrong enough 
to fuftain fo great a weight, as is eafily 
managed with thefe fteel-yards, 
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EEL Ee RS. 
Continued from Page 561, Vol. XIII. 
[In the latter leaf (on which was the di- 
rection indorfed) was that which feems to be 
intended as a cover to the other leaf as in- 
clofed. | 
HONEST WAT, 
Refer you for news to the inclofed, which 
I befeech you ‘to take care to fend. 
Only I had forgot to fay, that here isa 
peftilent libel got hither, called I think 
Obfervations, which fo takes their mali- 
cious humours, that they mean to print 
it here again, with fome alteration, to 
make the fenfe -plainer in fome places. 
For they fay it is all printed. The au- 
thor who ere he bee had a mind to curry 
favour here fure, at leaft he hath made 
his court as much as if he had. Your 
la(t letter of the 6th gave great fatisfa€tion 
to your friends, and fo forth. 
For I mutt cut fhort off, being in 
danger of lofing my dinner with ftaying 
to intreat you ngt to forget afluring my 
dear confidant I can never forget her nor 
our children nor our friends. 
28th June when I write, when it will 
at the poft-houfe I cannot tell. 
The latter of the enclofed letters, with 
one in it, was thus, in another hand from both 
the former. 
For Mr. Fobn Williams. 
_HOND. SIR, London. 
A friend of mine begs the favour of you 
to caufe enquiry for one Mr. Wilfon. 1 
think he was faétor for an Irifh bankrupt 
marchand, and if you can find him deli- 
ver this letter to him, if you cannot hear 
of him "tis no great matter, for "tis only 
the importunity of my friend that obliges 
me to give you this impertinent meflage, 
for which I beg pardon, and am, 
Your moft humble Servant, 
‘J. Briot. 
This lafi Fune, 1690. 
Pray write no news. 
In this was inclofed that which follows,® 
which feems to be all but the fuperfcription 
of the fame hand with the outer-cafe of 
30 June, 1690, and is partin cipher, which 3 
decipher between the lines. 
For John Wilfon, Merchand, thefe 30 Funey 
Qo. 
SER, 
T am forry to find your letters come as 
irregularly to me as it feems myne do to 
you. By laf poft I had non from you, 
Sir Will, 
but was glad to know by ****#* [[#*® 
Sharp 
*#*, who left you only ro days ago, that 
you was welle, this was comfortable newes 
to your poor friends heir. You will fie 
Braidy 
or hear from one Mr, ***#****, aliag 
Cunningham 
#**¥#*4**%, who is to fettle a correfpon- 
dence by a nearer and furer way—you 
M. Mathews 
may truft him. Ther is one ******#** 
who will fie you, aud is ordered to follow 
: Cel. Philpot 
your directions, as alfo ***#***#** whom 
you are defired to truft in what he will 
a commiflion 
tell you, of his having ***##** for 
raifing a regiment 
SHEREEEE KHAEXEEE, Te has been 
Queen pee 
writ twice to ****** that Wilfon is 
fhortly to return, but that comeing only 
from Clarendon and that gang, it is be- 
lieved they defyr to be rid-of him, and 
that there is a irick in ther defign, thus 
Queen 4 
***#***, who therefore defyres him to be 
more on his guard with thefe people. 
The gentlewoman who came latt here, 
and faw you ten days ago, informs us 
Scotland 
that our intereft in ****** js ail wrong, 
and that little is to be trufted to the pro- 
mifes that were- made us, it not being in 
; three Commiffioners 
the power of the KEREEK KKKFKEE 
to do what they promifed, you are there. 
fore defired to be on your guarde with 
them, | 
