1792' •« t^^ cotton manufactures. t6$- 



is as regular a relief of hands, watch and watch 

 about, as in a fhip. The thread yarn is in univer- 

 sal demand. Mr Arkwright's sales, alone, are not 

 lefs than from L. 12,000 to L. 15,000 per month. 

 His gains in some years are said to have exceeded 

 L. 40,00a sterling, as may be well imagined, so long 

 as he could retain a monopoly of this valuable discove- 

 ry. The trade was still farther extended by invasions 

 made on Mr Arkwright's patent. Some bought the 

 privilege of him at L. 7 per spindle ■, others disputed, 

 the discovery with him, and foiled him at law. The 

 patent not extending to Scotland, several engines 

 were soon erected there. Nottinghamlhire, Der- 

 bylhire, ChefKire, and Yorkfhire have many of' 

 threm ; they are erecting every where. A new en- 

 gine is also discovered which goes by the hand, and 

 unites the properties of the jennies and the spinning 

 water engines j. and is therefore called a mule. It is 

 capable of spinning yarn ten {hillings in the pound 

 weight finer than the water engines, and equally fit 

 fbr warp. I heard of one pound of yarn so spun, 

 being sold for L. 2 : 12:6. Neither this nor the en- 

 gines have lefsened the number of spinning jennies 5 

 but, on the contrary, greatly increased their number. 

 The one spins only warp, the other woof; so that 

 tiiey mutually aid each other. 



When it was first discovered that cotton cloth 

 could be woven, lord Howe, at the desire of his Not- 

 tingham friends, obtained a remifsion of the double 

 duties paid on printing cloths entirely cotton, if 

 manufactured in Britain ; and a few years a^o a 

 ^unty was given on Britilk cottons when printed 



