manufaaure, at the cheapeft rate— Would it be wife in the legiflature 

 of this country, to interfere, and impofe fuch a duty on cotton warps. 

 as will fecure to the manufaftures of this country, at leafl, an equality 

 in the home market ?— The proprietors of machinery fay, that this ought 

 to be done. The weavers,, on the contrary, loudly exclaim, that this 

 would be a ruinous meafure to the cotton manufafture ; fmce the mills 

 and machinery, now fubfifting in Ireland, are wholly inadequate to fup- 

 ply the confuraption of the country, with cotton yarn and warps. 

 The folution of this queftion is not eafy ; either way it mull be pro- 

 duaive of coufiderable prefent inconvenience. I (hall content myfelf 

 with obferving, that the ereflion of cotton mills and machinery, being 

 an undertaking of fuch expence and hazard, as I have dated, and 

 yet, the extenfion of fuch undertakings being fo neceffary to the prof. 

 perity of this manufafture, good policy feems Xo diftate, that perfons 

 fliould be alluredi to embark their capital, in fchemes of fo much 

 public utility and private rifque, by a particular folicitude of the 

 legiflature, to proteft and indemnify them, againft loiTes, 



With refpea to the means of diffufmg a knowledge of this manu- 

 fafture, it might be proper, to ereft, in every charter fchool, and 

 orphan houfe, in the Foundling hofpitai, and other feminaries, where 

 the children of the poor are brought up, one or more fpinning jen- 

 nies, in proportion to the extent of the foundation, with ikilful infpec- 

 tors, and mailers who might inftruft the children in the ufe of thefe 

 machines, and employ them conftantly, until their encreafe of fize and 

 ftrength Ihould call them away to other talks, in the bufmefs of fpinnmg 

 cotton. V 



As a great part of the cotton manufafture, and indeed the produc- 

 tion of the fabrics in moll general ufe, both for garments and fur. 

 niture, confifts in, or is converfant about llamped, printed, and painted 

 cottons, and callicoes, it is obvious, that a knowledge of the arts of 

 copper-plate printing, and defigning, and an intimate acquaintance with 

 the quahties of dying materials, and the power and combinations, of 



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