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received his portion of the price, with more lively 
satisfaction, than any amount of money had sub- 
sequently conferred. Indeed, at this period of his 
life, he appears to have been entirely dependent 
upon his own strenuous exertions, and to have 
passed through the stern discipline of hard fare, 
indifferent lodging, and coarse apparel, for which 
his early nurture and rank in society could have 
but ill prepared him. At this very time, his 
elder brother was Envoy at the Prussian court. 
In his brief Journal, Mr. Ewart has touchingly 
observed, “I sometimes lost heart, when I con- 
sidered the difference of our situations, and the 
low ebb of my own prospects.” But Mr. Ewart 
was not of a temper of mind to be easily dis- 
couraged. He struggled manfully with the diffi- 
culties of his position, and his industry, talents, 
and tried moral worth had already procured him 
many warm friends in London. 
Mr. Ewart went to Soho, in 1788, in the em- 
ployment of Mr. Rennie, to erect a water wheel 
and other machinery for Mr. Boulton’s mill for 
rolling copper, silver, and plated metal. He was 
afterwards employed by Mr. Boulton in the con- 
struction of the millwork and machinery of his 
new mint, where great improvements were intro- 
