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LETTER XXI. 



T Was no where more difappointed than 

 ■*■ at Birmingham ; where I could not gain 

 any intelligence even of the moff. common 

 nature, through the excefiive jealoufy of 

 the manufacturers. It feems the French 

 have carried oft feveral of their fabricks, 

 and thereby injured the town not a little: 

 This makes them fo cautious, that they will 

 fhew Grangers fcarce any thing; it was 

 even with ibme difficulty that I gained the 

 following flight intelligence. 



Manufacturers of all forts. 



Men earn js. to 3/. per week. 

 Women, 2J - .' 6d, to ys. 

 Children, is, 6d. to /\.s. 6d. 



About twenty-eight thoufand fouls cal- 

 culated in the town. 



The manufacture more flourifhing than 

 ever in the war; fell upon the peace, and 

 has of late arofe again, but not near equal 

 to its former height, 



From this town I pointed my way to the 

 Leafowes, the feat of the late Mr. Shenjione, 

 now of Capt. c Turnpenny *. In that line of 



* Arriving at Hales Owen, we walked up to 

 the Leafozves; but here I fhould intimate, that as 

 the late Mr. Dodjley gave a particular account of 

 thefe grounds in fo popular a book as ShenJio??e > s 

 Works, I fhall only minute a few circumflances, 



T 4 either 



