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mit of the District, and even to the distance of many mites 

 (or the purpose of being manufactured. Stocking weav'^ 

 ers, dyers and fullers are much wanted— Slmuhi industri- 

 ous men, well versed in any of the above branches, come 

 and reside amonjist lis, any where in or near to the 

 District, they certainly would find as much encouragement 

 as they could wish. 



Georgetown, July 11, 1810. 



From the Aurora. 

 In April, 1S09, a manufactory of woollen cloth was 

 begun in the vicinity of Newport, Delaware, and there 

 were put in motion one carding machine, two hundred 

 spindles, five broad looms, and one fulling mill, &c. The 

 last year they made seven thousand yards of cloth, which 

 afforded a profit of 25 per cent, on the capital employed — 

 which, including the fixed capital for Iniildings, amounted 

 to nine thousand dollars — they en»ploy about twenty 

 hands, onehalf of them boys and children — they have ex- 

 perienced no difficulty in procuriiig common wool — hut 

 fine wool is scarce. The introduction of the Merinos, into 

 tlie neighbourhood, promises very soon to remove 

 any difliculty on that score. The proprietors expect 

 that by increasing the machinery, and employing anum^ 

 ber of country looms, the present year they can manu- 

 facture from fifteen to twenty thousand yards of clofh^ 

 cassimeres, and cassincts, which will be a sufKicient quanli_ 

 ly to make a coat for every taxable inhabitant in New 

 Castle county. This for the village of Newport and slate 

 of Delaware, you will say is honorable, but it is not all , 

 in addition to these, in two weeks they will have at the 

 same place in operation 240 spindles, impelled by water, 

 employed in the cotton spinning — in the two establish- 

 ments there will be emi)lo3 cd about thirty-five hands — 

 one half of which are children under fourteen years of 

 age — willi which they can perform as much labor as 

 Mould require bOO persons in the common way. Consc* 



