A. D. 1800. 



529 



The yarn annnally spun is valued at ^1,256,4 12 



The cotton, 4,6ig,043 lbs ; average value 2/ 462,904 



The people employed, are estimated at 25,000 of both sexes, young"] 



and old, but the greatest number under 15 years of age, whose I . 



labour, aided by machinery, thus improves the value of the raw f ' J '^ 



material in the first stage of manufacture 



from which deduct wages, estimated at 500,000 



and there remains, as compensation for the cost and wear and tear ofl 



the machinery, and proprietors' profits, the sum of j -^ ' 



The annual value of calicoes and muslins, now deservedly esteemed the staple of 

 Scotland, when finished, including the excise duty on sl part of them which are 

 printed, and the cost of tambouring and needle-work on about a third part of 



them, was then estimated at ^3,108,549 



The value of the cotton yarn, as above ^1,256,442 



to which add for yarn got from England 520,000 



1,776,412 



The wages of weavers, tambcurers, needle-workers, the charges, the") 



profits of the manufacturers, and the revenue paid to government, > * 1,332,137 



thus amonnted to J 



which great sum is produced by capital, ingenuity, management, and labour in the 

 subsequent stages of the business. 



The cotton manufacture in Scotland employs 38,815 weavers, 



for winding warp and weft 12,g38 women, 



and, supposing one third part of the muslin adorned withi ,^_ ^ , 



_ tambouring or needle-work i 10^:000 women and 



girls, mostly children. 



besides those employed in the spinning branch, 25,000 persons. 



Hence it appears that 181,753 persons derive 



their immediate fabfiflence from the cotton manufadure in Scotland, 

 and alfo a proportional number in England employed in producing 

 yarn to the value of /!'5 20,000 ; befides the innumerable people of all 

 clafles concerned in providing necefTaries and accommodations of every 

 kind for that great multitude, and in conftruding and repairing the 

 machinery and buildings ; and the cultivators of the cotton in the Eafh 

 and Weft Indies, feamen, nierchants, &c. &c. Vv'ho are all wholely or 

 partly fupported by this moft beneficial manufixdure, whereby the cot- 

 ton is raifed, taking the whole manufadure together, to be about feven 

 times the value it was of when imported f . 



* Mr. Brown, my author, makes the weaving feveral hundred thoufands of women. B'Jt the 

 and charges , e£5Q2,l^J anfwer is, that fearcely any women would be em- 

 printing, tambouring, and needle-work 840,000 ployed in that way at all, and confequentiy no 



weavers, printers, tambourers, &c. as was the cafe 



^1,-132,137 before the machinery was invented. As for thofi; 



If he iS right in t/jefe numbers, the total mult be who repine at the improvement of the condidon 



jf 100,000 more. of the people and feel themfclves unhappy at 



■J- This account of the cotton manufafture of feeing a poor girl have a handfome gown acqnireJ 



Scotland is extracted from Bro-xm's Hi/lory cf Glaf- by honeft i.idullry, (aad m.iny fuch there ar; who 



gow, V. ii, pp. 240-245. affe-^ tj pafs their malevolence for a regard to rc- 



X ^ growler at improvemenl may fay, that fo ligion) they are unworthy of any anfwer. 

 miich vsrn fpun by the hand v/ould give bread to 



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