REMARKS ON PAPER MAKING. 7 



After eftablifhing this facl, it will be equally evident that the 



paper and book trades will not be effectually relieved by giving 



up a part, or the whole of the laft additional duty. 



The former administration of this country by impofing an France has fuc- 



additional duty, did not teach the French the new art of ceeded b y im " 

 J ' provements in 



paper making ; nor did it fupply them with abundance of raw the arts of paper 



material ; or fliew them the art of equalizing the different making and 



qualities of rags by ChaptaPs mode of bleaching ; — neither was 



any new light thrown by the additional duty upon the mode 



of printing and type cafting, as now practifed in France. 



Before the commencement of the late war, paper-making The Britifli fine 

 in this country, ftriclly fpeaking, was a mechanical art. The ? a P er , f ? rmer,y 

 fuperiority of Englifh paper arofe from the fuperior linen the finenefs of 

 worn by Englifh people. Their rags were fuperior to the our llnen ra S s > 

 rags collect ed on the continent. The decency of the Englifh 

 populace, compared with the populace on the continent, 

 could not be better fhewn than by an exhibition of Englifh 

 and foreign rags. Rags called London fines, the refufe of 

 Irifh linen, &c. could fcarce be equalled in any other coun- 

 try. The original linen of thefe rags had been highly bleached. 

 They were confequently calculated to make the fineft and 

 whiteft paper. Rags at an Englifh paper mill previous to the 

 war, were forted according to their colour and finenefs. and our careful 

 Pains were taken to cut off the feams and offal parts ; and fortm S them « 

 thefe parts were deftined to make inferior paper. This ftate- 

 ment alone is almoft fufficient to give a clear notion of what 

 I am about to eftablifh. 



I conceive that a reprefentation of the mechanical necejfaries, Our machinery, 

 as the dufler, the knives placed in the engine roller, the 

 plate, the vat, the moulds, and laflly, flannels and preffes, 

 although indifpenfible in a paper mill, are neceffary to be 

 noticed in this account ; as an imitation of them in France, 

 could not contribute to the prefent alarming change in our 

 paper trade. 



The Englifh flaple, fuperior rags, Englifh cleanlinefs in attempted to he 

 cutting and afforting, and better engines and knives, confli- * ransferrcd *° 



general to the progrefs of fcience and literature, leave no doubt re- 

 fpecling the propriety of inferting it in our Journal, though its 

 moft prominent feature relates to political regulation. On this laft 

 fubjeel my conduct as a Journalift cannot be fuppofed to exprefs 

 any opinion as an individual. «--N. 



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