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quences, in the improvement of the metallic manufa£lures, were a. 

 judicious feleclion made from the German writers, on thefe fabjefts, 

 and tranflated into Englifli, at the public expence, for the ufe of 

 mineralogifts, minors, and artifts in metals. 



Would it not be wife and practicable to adopt a hint from the 

 praclice o£ Spain, and to avail ourfelves of the improvements of every 

 country, in every branch of manufacture, by felefting the moft pro- 

 mifing and intelligent artifts, in each department of manufafture ; 

 caufing them to be inftructed in fuch foreign languages, as might be 

 neceflary for their deftination, and fending them to travel, at the 

 public expence, for the purpofe of improving themfelves, in their 

 refpeftive arts, and coUefting all the knowledge and ufeful difcove- 

 ries refpcfting them, that might be gleaned in foreign countries. 



Farmers' Societies have been eftabliflied, through mofl: parts of 

 Great Britain, and in fome few parts of Ireland, with the happieft 

 effeft ; it is fomething lurprifing, that the merchants and opulent 

 manufafturers have not thought of eftablifhing focieties, on fome- 

 what a fimilar plan, for the advancement of commerce, and manu- 

 facturers ; it is furprifing, that government has not thought of es- 

 tablifhing a chamber of commerce, in a country, which poffeffes 

 fuch commercial advantages ; fuch inftitutions, direded by an en- 

 lightened patriotic fpirit, and kept reUgioufly clear, from a bafe and 

 ruinous degeneracy, into monopoly and combination, muft produce 

 the happieft confequences, in the regulation, and improvement, of 

 commerce and manufaftures. 



Intelligent manufadurers, under the direflion of tliefe focieties, 

 might be appointed to take circuits, for which purpofe the kingdom 

 fliould be divided into diftrids, they fhould vifit the manufaSurers, 

 in their refpective diftricts, and confer with them-, on the ftate and 

 progrefs of their manufactures, the capital they employed, 'the num- 

 ber of workmen they retained, the progrefs they ufed ; the refult of 

 their examination fliould be carefully noted down, and communi- 

 cated 



