196 manufactures tn the Hebrides. Det. $4 
foresaw’ Mr Dale would derive from this enterprise. No 
Jefs than four of these have already | made offer, each ta 
send over to the island-of Islay am overseer, well acquain- 
ted with, the. businefs, who would) ¢ach of them unders 
take to teach. thitty. apprentices. in ‘the art, of weaving, 
if Mr Campbell approved of, the undestaking, and would 
erect. convenient houses: for their accommodation, Mr 
Campbell, on his part, was satistied, if,the terms they ofs 
fered, fhould be such as to satisfy the other persons con- 
cerned. The manufacturers offered to take apprentices; 
if of fourteen years of age.or upwards; to be bound for 
four years ; or for five years, if they were from twelve to 
fourteen. years of age ;—to find them in teols, and imstruct 
them in the businefs, and to allow them at the rate of L.& 
a-year, wages, during the whole time they were boundy 
and to give them, at the euwd of their time, the loom and 
apparatus they had used free to themselves, These terms: 
pleased the people.. Mr Campbell on his part undertook 
to build the houses. Apprentices are engaging ;, and the 
whole businefs is. to. commence as soon a$ the necefsary’ 
accommodation can be provided for them.. Thus wilh 
there be establifhed at once, in the island of Islay alone, 
no lefs than an hundred and seventy weavers, who are cer- 
tain of finding constant employment. How many more 
may be formed under their auspices, time only can dis- 
cover. ling 
It is in this way I have always contended that industry: 
fhould be establithed in these countries ; and not by means 
of premiums, bounties, bribes, or charitable contribu- 
tions ; all of which are limited in their operation, and li- 
able to such abuses as to give more room to frauds and 
deceit, than to steady and unabating industry. At the pre- 
‘seht moment, the demand for the manufactures of Britain 
is such, as to render it impofsible for master manufac- 
