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[The reasoning of your Paris friend is just: the only ground for hope was from knowing that Copper is cheaper in this country rather than I could execute all their present wants in much less time than they could in Paris. I have just read a sensible speech of the Bishop of Autun upon universal weights and measures and money: his ideas coincide exactly with my own except in his Eloge upon Droz, who I find has struck some Halfpence out of french Bell Metal and out of my Dies, and sent them to the Bishop. It is a mortifying thing to foresee that Droz will transplant my inventions of Coining Mill &c. and gain all the honour and the profit. I delivered Notices to Mr. Droz, to quit my house and to perform certain things. He came to me today and said he would deliver the Dies.] |