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' In memory of Mr. Joseph Manton, who died, 

 universally regretted, on the 2Qth day of June, 1835, 

 aged 69. This humble tablet is placed here by his 

 afflicted family, merely to mark where are deposited 

 his mortal remains. But an everlasting monument to 

 his unrivalled genius is already established in every 

 quarter of the globe by his celebrity as the greatest 

 artist in fire-arms that ever the world produced, as 

 the founder and the father of the modern gun-trade, 

 and as a scientific inventor in other departments, not 

 only for the benefit of his friends and the sporting 

 world, but for the good of his king and country.' 



For some years before his death, poor Joe made 

 many attempts to re-establish himself in business, and 

 such was the esprit de corps among his fine army of 

 workmen, that they rallied round him till the last, rather 

 than serve under any director in whose abilities they 

 had less confidence, and who, perhaps, knew not half 

 so much as themselves. His leading man, poor old 

 Asell, the father of the working trade, died in Mary- 

 le-bone hospital ; and some time after, his unrivalled 

 barrel-borer, John Hussey, died in distress. Penn, 

 the prince of lock-finishers, died in 1843. But Green- 

 field, the emperor of mechanics, is in greater force 

 than ever, with a son as clever as himself. He has 

 opened a large factory as an engineer, at No. 10, Broad 

 Street, Golden Square, where he works not only for 

 the trade in general, but also for Her Majesty's service. 

 And his son lately came home from Turin, where he 

 has been putting the Sardinians on their legs by taking 

 out to them the machinery for making copper caps." 



