22© INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING ARTS» 0&. jgl 



Jritelligence refpedling Arts. 



COTTON MANUFACTURE. 



The cotton manufacture in this part of the country is extend- 

 ing more and more. Several people from Germany and Holland 

 have been lately hei-e, giving commiffions for goods of that' 

 fort to a very confidcrable amount, fo that the bufinefs is now 

 io briikly carried on, that the demand for cotton yarn from 

 England can fcarcely be fupplicd. Although there are now 

 many cotton fpinning machines in Scotland upon a pretty 

 large fcale, yet it has been foivnd by an accurate inveftigation 

 lately made, that Scotland, in the courfe of one yearpaft:, has 

 paid no lefs than three hundred thoufand pounds for cotton yarn 

 brought to it from England. In confequence of this faft be- 

 ing made pvident, it has been refolved on to ereft a cotton fpin- 

 ning macinne, upon a very large fcale., in the neighbourhood 

 of Pailley : the building, it is faid, is to be three hundred feet in 

 length., and other dimenfions in proportion. Might not thofc 

 who are emigrating from the Highlands to America, find a 

 fettlement in the neighbourhood of fuch manufadories ? 

 Would it not be worth the while of the undertakers to invite 

 thefe people to come thither to fettle ? 



So far has the cottoji manufaflures in this country got the 

 better of thofc of Bengal, that in fpite of the duties that were 

 impofcd on thehi, with no other intention, as many perfons be- 

 lieve, than to favour the competition of the Eafb India Com- 

 pany with our own manufaftures, that there is reafon to hope, 

 ■ from- the following fafts, the conteft maybe now reckoned 

 fully decided. A gentleman, as I have been credibly informed, 

 who lately returned from Bengal, brought over with him cotton 

 ooods to the value of one thouland pounds, prime coft in Ben- 

 gal : thefe were lately fold at the Eaft India Company's pu- 

 blic fales, at a lofs of three hundred pounds below the price they 

 really coft, reckoning nothing for freight or outlay of money. 



We want nothing now to give us a decided fiiperiority in 

 all the branches of this bufmefs, but abundance of the finefl 

 cotton wool, which is now fcarce in Britain, and it is probable 

 that article will not be long wanting. Africa is peculiarly fa- 

 vourable for the arowih of the cotton pknt. — The Sierra Leone 



