THE LATE PETER EWART, ESQ. 117 
duced in the processes of coining, and were 
soon after applied to the execution, at Soho, of 
coinages for the United Kingdom. The per- 
fection of their workmanship, and the just prin- 
ciples adopted, put an end to those counterfeits, 
which the laws, by frequent executions, had been 
found insufficient to prevent. Mr. Ewart’s services 
were then transferred to the firm of Boulton and 
Watt, in their steam-engine business, and he was 
employed by them in the erection of their en- 
gines at Manchester, Leeds, and other places, in 
1790 and following years. The sons of Mr. 
Boulton and of Mr. Watt having been admitted 
into partnership with their fathers at the end of 
1794, they resolved upon a great addition to the 
manufacturing powers of their establishment, and 
availed themselves of the assistance and skill of 
~ Mr. Ewart in the planning and erecting of new 
works at Soho foundry, in 1795 and 1796.* 
He thus’ enjoyed the singular advantage of 
being formed in the best school of practical me- 
chanics and engineering, which this country then 
possessed. His residence at Soho must have 
* For this record, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. 
Watt, of Aston Hall. 
