A. D. 1787. 



rmportcd from pounds. 



British West-Indies * 6,600,000 



French and Spanish colonies 6,000,000 



Dutch ditto 

 Portuguese ditto 



East-India, procured from 



Osteoid 

 Smyrna or Turkey 



1,700,000 

 2,300,000 



100,000 

 5,700,000 



Worked up in 



Candle wicks 



Hosiery 



Cotton goods mixed with silk 



pounds. 



1,500,000 

 1,500,000 



or linen 

 Fustians 

 Calicoes and muslins 



2,000,000 



6,000,000 



1 1,600,000 



22,600,000 22,600,000 



At this time the number of water mills, or machines, for fpinning 

 twiil; cotton yarn for warps, as near as intelhgence could be obtained, 

 was as follows. 



Berk-shire 



The rest of England 



41 

 22 



In Lancashire 

 Derby-shire 

 Nottingham- 

 shire - 17 

 York-shire 1 1 

 Cheshire 8 



Stafford- shire 7 

 Westmoreland 5 



Flint-shire 

 Pembroke-shire 



6 



—119 

 3 

 1 



— 4 



Lanerk- shire 

 Renfrew- shire 

 Perth-shire 

 Edinburgh-shire 

 The rest of Scotland 



In all England and Wales 1 23 



In all Scotland - 

 Mann 



4 

 4 

 3 

 2 

 6 



19 

 1 



the whole being 143, the cost of which was estimated at - ^715^000 



There were at the same time 550 mule jennies, or machines of go 

 spindles each f , and 20,700 hand jennies of 80 spindles each, for spin- 

 ning yarn for the shute or weft, the cost of which, and of the auxiliary 

 machinery, together with that of the buildings, is stated to have been 

 at least _ _ _ 285,000 



the total expenditure being at least - - ^1,000,000 



Thefe eftablifhments, when in full employment, were eflimated to 

 produce as much cotton yarn as could be fpun by a million of perfons 

 upon fingle wheels ; and, inftead of diminifhing the employment of the 

 people, as was apprehended, they called vaft nuinbers from idleneis to 

 comfortable independence. At this time they were luppofed to eiriploy 



26,000 



133,000 



159,000 



31,000 



59,000 



90,000 



childrea 



53,000 



48,000 



101,000 



total 



110,000 in the operations of fpinning, and 

 240,000 in the fubfequent flages of the manu- 

 fadure, there being in all 



350,000 perfons employed in this moft benefi- 

 cial manufadture, and nearly one halt of them in the calico and muflin 

 branches, wherein the value of the raw material is advanced, by induftry 



* It appears from the Report of the committee a deduftion of what he fuppofed the quantity of 

 of the privy council upon the flave trade, that the foreign cottons imported from the Britifh Weft- 

 cotton, imported from Jamaica, Grenada, and Indies. 



Barbados, in the year I787, exceeded the quant- f * This machine admits of a great number of 



ity here dated as imported from all the Britilh 

 Weft-Indies. The author 



d from all the Britilh • fpindles ; the greatell yet known ii 304.' 

 of this eftimate made ^^Aikm's Difcriptlon of Manch^Jler, p. 26'^.'\ 



