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ture, are now about to be establifhed inthe Hebrides, 
merely for the profit of the. manufacturer, the only sure 
foundation on which they can ever stand. These, it is 
to be supposed, will gradually: extend themselves. The 
people will then find employment at home. Instead of 
being a uselefs burden upon the land, they will be- ~ 
come respectable purchasers of its produce. Those fet- 
ters that have chained them down to idlenefs and’ poverty 
will be broken, and they will become active citizens of 
the state. 
Mr David Dale, and Walter Campbell of Shawfield, esq. 
proprietor of the island of Isla, two men whose names 
will long be revered in the west of Scotland, have effec- 
ted this desirable change. Mr Dale, finding that his de- 
mand for manufactures far exceeds what he could supply 
by means of the hands he can obtain in Lanarkfhire, ap- 
plied to Mr Campbell, who resides nearly one half of the 
year in Islay, to see if he could find any weavers in that 
island who would engage to work to him; offering, if Mr 
Campbell would become surety to the amount of L.2000, 
that the goo ‘s he ihould entrust among his people to that a- 
mount thould be faithfully accounted for to him, he would 
in that case engage to find constant work’ for fifty looms 
in the island. Mr Campbell, who isever attentive to the 
welfare of his people, and the improvement of his estate, 
and who knows their dispositions, as they do his, hesitated 
not one moment to close with the proposal; and every 
thing is now going forward to carry the agreement into 
immediate execution. 
No sooner did other manuafcturers hear of this, than 
they naturally wifhed to participate in the advantages they 
Jetters. When the Ed‘tor said that the duke “ used the figure of pars 
pre toto, well known in vulgar rhetoric,” he had the misfortune not te 
be understood by some of his readers, - Note of lord Hailes. 
