s6o en tra^e anJ mantifaclures. Feb.\$ 



collect. Upon second thoughts I believe the pot ought 

 to be seasoned at the time the mutton is put in. 



Receipt for dying cotton ajine buff colour. 



Let the twist be boiled in pure water to cleanse it J 

 wring it, run it through a dilute solution of iron in the 

 vegetable acid, what printers call iron liquor ; wring, and 

 run it through lime water to raise it \ wring, then run it 

 through a raw solution of starch and water j wring and dry, 

 wind, warp, and weave, — send it to the taylor, or to Ger- 

 many, where it will pay well. 



SPECULATIONS ON TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. 



Extensive speculations in trade, are generally hurtful, be. 

 cause they produce, for the most part, bankruptcies \ bu^ 

 monopolizing speculations to a large extent in manufac- 

 iures, are still more destructive ; because they not only oc- 

 casion frequent bankruptcies to the parties themselves who 

 engage in them, but also so much derange the operations 

 of others, as to throw many industrious persons out of 

 bread, which is one of the severest maladies that can attack, 

 the body politic, and is attended with the most destructive 

 consequences. 



Never, perhaps, was there a nation on the globe in which 

 monopolizing speculations were carried to such great 

 lengths as in Britain. It is not many years since a large 

 manufacturing company in Manchester, engaged in a spe- 

 culation on cotton, so deeply, as to occasion a failure, and a 

 lofs to their creditors of several hundred thousand pounds. 

 It is unnecefsary to add, that every enterprise of a sinular 



