The application of this power to the telegraph is original with me.

If the electro-magnet is now used in Europe for telegraphic purposes, it has been subsequently introduced.

All the systems of electric telegraphs in Europe from 1820 to 1840 are based on the _deflection of the magnetic needle_, while my system, invented in 1832, is based, as I have just observed, on the electro-magnet....
"Should the Emperor be desirous of the superintendence of an experienced person to put the Telegraph in operation in Russia, I will either engage myself to visit Russia for that purpose; or, if my own or another government shall, previous to receiving an answer from Russia, engage my personal attendance, I will send an experienced person in my stead." As a specimen of the vigorous style in which he repelled attacks on his merits as an inventor, I shall give the following:-- Messrs.

Editors,--The London "Mechanics' Magazine," for October, 1844, copies an article from the Baltimore "American" in which my discovery in relation to causing electricity to cross rivers without wires is announced, and then in a note to his readers the editor of the magazine makes the following assertion: "The English reader need scarcely be informed that Mr.Morse has in this, as in other matters relating to magneto telegraphs, only _re_discovered what was previously well known in this country." More illiberality and deliberate injustice has been seldom condensed within so small a compass.

From the experience, however, that I, in common with many American scientific gentlemen, have already had of the piratical conjoined with the abusive propensity of a certain class of English _savans_ and writers, I can scarcely expect either liberality or justice from the quarter whence this falsehood has issued.