320 on thé woollen manufacture. Oct. 36. 
be brought at lower rates to market. Thus every 
individual in this country will find the advantage 
resulting to the whole kingdom, from such a wise 
and truly politic measure. 
The laudable attention which the society institu« 
ted at London for the encouragement of arts, has 
constantly paid to the promoting the manufactures 
of these kingdoms, deserves the highest commenda- 
tion, and has been attended with the most beneficial 
effects. Happy would it be, if that society were in 
such circumstances, as to enable them to offer 2 
premium of sufficient value, to stimulate the inges 
nious meehanics of this country, to perfect a machine 
equally well adapted to the preparing and spinning 
wool, as those iv use in the cotton works are to the 
preparing and spinning that article; but whoever 
hall be fortunate enough to complete such an en- 
gine, will richly merit a reward far beyond the ay 
bilities of the society to grant, 
After having considered various modes of raising 
a sufficient sum of money to reward the person who 
fhall produce sucha machine as will effectually an- 
swer the intention required, I beg leave to suggest 
the expedient of an adequate premium being offered 
for it by parliament, as was formerly done for the 
discovery of the longitude, or any other manner 
as to their wisdom fhall seem more proper ; and as 
there is every reason to believe, that the first hint 
of machines for spinning a number of threads of — 
wool, cotton, tc. by one hand, at one time, origi- 
nated with the socicty for encouragement of arts, see 
the first volume of their transactions page 33. it 
