ap4 Procefs for extra&ng a Gum from IJchjnf. 



With this view, I invite you to meet me at the Black Bull 

 inn, Glafgow, at twelve o'clock, on Tuefday the 28th cur- 

 rent, when famples of the raw material and prepared gum 

 extract fliall be mown you; directions given how to prepare 

 it, as well as information from whence a fufficient fupply of 

 the raw material is to be had. 



My life has, in a great meafure, been fpent in purfuits 

 which appeared to me calculated to advance the manufac- 

 tures, commerce, and agriculture of my country : to the 

 attainment of thefe objects, it is well known, I havefacrificed 

 what fortune I pofleued. It would therefore be affectation, 

 in me to fay, that I am independent of fuch pecuniary re- 

 compense as the communication offered to be made may be 

 thought deferving of. This I leave to yourfelves, and to the 

 other calico printers and confumers of gum in Great Britain 

 and Ireland. Exclufive of any confiderations perfonal to 

 myfelf, it gives me fatisfadtion that I have been able to 

 render you independent of foreign nations for the fupply of 

 an article fo indifpenfably neceffary for your manufacture, 

 and that at a rate not exceeding i -12th part of the prefent 

 price of gum Senegal. 



I am, gentlemen, 



Your obedient fervant, 



DUNDONALD. 



Lord Dundonald's Gum Subjlitute. 



Glafgow, May 7, iSor. 



AT a meeting of calico printers, called by public adver- 

 ti Cement, to confidcr of a plan of recompenfe to the earl of 

 JDundunald, for laying open, in the handfome manner he 

 has done, his difcovery of a fubftitute for gum Senegal and 

 other gums, James M'Dowall, Efq. in the chair, the meet- 

 ing came unanimouily to the following refolutions : 



1 ft, That the difcovery of the ufe of lichen, &c. as a fub- 

 ftitute for gum, is likely to be of great advantage to calico 

 printers, and of national importance. 



2dly, That Lord Dundonald mould be liberally rewarded 

 for that difcovery; and that an annual fum per table, and 

 prefles that ufe gum, is conndered by the meeting as the belt 

 and moft certain method of recompenfe. 



3dly, That the meeting, either by themfelves or in con- 

 junction with others, are willing to fupport Lord Dundonald 

 in an application to Parliament for an a 61 to fecure to his 

 Jordlhip the benefit of this difcovery on fuch conditions as 

 may be previously agreed to. 



UBS M'Dowall, Praefes. 

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