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physical CHl)inet, orangeries, a depart- for its iron ; one elook-maker ; one dis- 



mental nursery, a laro^ecollese,!i1lieatre, liller of kirciienwasser, a liquor made 



and mineral waters of Repes, lint iiltle from ciierries; one [laper-mannfKcturrr ; 



frequented. - three harduaremen ; seven tanners; five 



We arrived at Befort in the evening, wine and brandy merchants ; one priri- 



It is a slron<^ fortified town, the theatre tcr ; one bookseller; five fiietors for 



of a late sald-to-he conspiracy against dispatchin;; S""''s; five inns; six colfce- 



thc family of the IcKilimates. The honscs; three lawyers ; lour aHorneys ; 



nei^hhonrhood ahonnds in roal-mines, and a trihnnal of conimrree. pairs on 



which supply the manufactories of Mid- Mondays for cattle, ami, pardcnlarly in 



house, Belort contains 3000 inhalii- autumn, for sheep. The cfarden ot the 



tanfs: seven roads lead to it, and i(s lawyer Bo-iiilot is worth observing ; and 



proximity to Gennanv and Switzerland there are many other prelly gardens, 



gives it life. There are Ihree jewellers ; —We finished our jonrnry by reachuig 



four brewers; two tallow-chandlers; Mnlhouse at midnight, where we foiuid 



two haflers ; three wax-chandlers ; four the amiable and expecling family of my 



drajjcrs; nineteen grocers; three iron friend Mr. W. in good heallh. 

 and copper dealers; one forge, famous (To be continued. ) 



EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMiMITTEE ON ARTIZANS 

 AND MACHINERY. 



Mr. Bryan DonJdn, Mr. Timolliy 



Brama'h, Mr. Philip Taylor, Mr. 



Henry Mandslay, and Mr. John 



Hague. 



AVE yon, jNIr. Donkin, in the 

 course of your business, received 

 orders for tools and mackincs to go 

 abroad ? — Yes. 



Have yon executed all those orders? 

 — No, not all. 



Why have you not executed them? — 

 On acconnt of the legal prohibilious to 

 certain kinds of machinery. 



(Mr. Bramah.) I think I can fake 

 upon myself to say, t! at within the last 

 seven years, or less, in consequence of 

 the prohibitions, we have been deprived 

 of employment to the amount of up- 

 wards of 10,000/. I have an order, at 

 this moment, for a eonsidi-rable quantity 

 of machinery, not any part of which 

 vnn be exported, unless the (jrohibitions 

 are removed. 



(Mr. Maudslay.) I have received 

 orders to the exteni of 20 000/. which 1 

 might have executed, but fiir the prohi- 

 bitions of the Art. 



(Mr. Donkin.) I was last year on the 

 Continent, and could have taken orders 

 for a great many screws, but for (he 

 prohibition. 



If the profits on iron works continue 

 for any given time at less than the 

 average profits in other businesses, 

 wonid not the mastc rs withdraw a por- 

 tion of their capital from that emplo}- 

 ment?— I have always understood that 

 a considerable part of the capital has 

 been withdrawn: I have heard, for thrco 



or fonr years hack, of a great many fur- 

 naces in Slalfordshire having been put 

 out; that is a certain indication of the 

 fact. 



Would not a repeal of the laws pre- 

 veijting the exportation of machinery 

 tend to increase that branch of trade? 

 — Most undoubtedly: I was on the 

 Continent last year, and in a part of 

 Germany; I found a manufactory at 

 Wintzluirg, in a suppressed monastery, 

 established for machinery; I found :i 

 foundry established, and the iron they 

 used, with very little exception, was 

 brought from Kngland ; all the coke 

 they used for the melting of that iron 

 was also brought from England, and this 

 for the production of machinery, for 

 which there was a demand, at that ex- 

 travagant rate which they must neces- 

 sarily charge it iu order to get any profit 

 at all. 



Has such machinery as you have 

 declined taking orders for been made in 

 foreign counliies? — Yes. 



(Mr. Hayne.) I refused one order 

 from airoad, of about 7000/. and after- 

 wards they had drawings and woikmen 

 from this country, and it was made 

 there. 



(Mr. Bramah.) Several things that 

 would have been ordered from our 

 house, have been afterwards made from 

 tlie drawings obtained from this coun- 

 try. I had some machinery to send out 

 to Mr. Baird, an English gentleman, at 

 St. Petersburgh, who de<;lined the 

 trouble of making them: the first I 

 made was seized at the Custom hou.sc, 



and, 



