| Description | Enclosing (b) below. Has been to Bedworth Colliery and seen both Boulton & Watt’s engine and the old one, which is having its pumps bored in preparation for the trial. His favourable impressions of Boulton & Watt’s engine. Mr. — is jealous of people coming to the works and asked him if he had connections with Soho or if he was an engineer. Edgeworth thinks the man attending the engine is cunning and not be depended on, and he may be pretending partiality to Boulton & Watt. They should be on their guard. Encloses a letter from the Marquis de la Poype concerning the amount of bats’ dung removed from the grotto at Dauphine. |