3 i2 B A L L Y M O A T. 



Then it was that Mr. Fitzmaurice, in the 

 year 1774, determined to exert himfelf in push- 

 ing on a manufactory, which promifed to be of 

 fuch effentialfervice to the whole country. To 

 do this with efFed, he faw that it was neceffary 

 to take it intirely into his own hands. He 

 could lend money to the manager to enable him 

 to go on, but that would be, at beft, hazardous, 

 and could never don: in the complete manner in 

 which he wifhed to eftablifh it. In this period 

 of confederation, Mr. Fitzmaurice was advifed by 

 his friends, never to engage in io complex a bufi- 

 nefs as a manufacture, in which he muft of ne- 

 ceifity become a merchant ; alfo engage in all the 

 hazard, irkfomnefs, &c. of commerce, fo totally 

 different from his birth, education, ideas and 

 purfuits ; but tired with the inactivity of com- 

 mon life, he determined not only to turn manu- 

 facturer, but to carry on the bufinefs in the mofl 

 fpirited and vigorous manner that was poffible. 

 In the firft place he took every means of mak- 

 ing himfelf a complete mailer of the bufinefs ; 

 he w T ent through various manufactures, enquir- 

 ed into the minutiae, and took every meafure to 

 know it to the bottom. This he did fo repeat- 

 edly, and with fuch attention in the whole pro- 

 grefs, from fpinning to bleaching, and felling, 

 that he became as thorough a matter of it, as an 

 experienced manager; he has woven linen, and 

 done every part of the bufinefs with his own 

 hands. As he determined to have the works 

 complete, he took Mr. Stansfield, the engineer, 

 fo well known for his improved faw-miils, into 

 his pay 3 he fent him over to Eallymoat, in the 



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