in the United States . 
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his money. The fondness for this bewitching beverage, 
and the repugnance to any excise upon it, raise in the 
mind a curious association between the free use of it and 
of political freedom. And it deserves the consideration 
of all the thinking part of society, how far disease, idle- 
ness, immorality, and other mischiefs incidental to 
strong potation, may not degrade freedom to rudeness 
and something worse. 
A few other important objects disclosed by an exami 
nation of these papers, remain to be mentioned. 
The number of water and horse-mills employed in 
spinning cotton, on this exhibition, amounted to 330, in 
the month of August, 1810, and working one hundred 
thousand spindles. These, on an average, will spin an- 
nually between four and five million pounds of yarn $ 
and that yarn would be sufficient to weave eighteen mil- 
lions of yards of cotton cloth, three quarters of a yard 
wide. And this is wholly independent of what may be 
spun in private families, although it makes part of what 
is wove there. 
The fulling mills returned amount to 1630 ; and the 
wool-carding machines, going by water, to 1585. 
The number of looms returned exceeds 330,000 ; and 
the total number of yards of cloth made of wool, cotton, 
and flax, as returned, exceeds seventy-five millions. 
Gun-powder mills are enumerated to the number of 
&07. Some of these are, indeed, small ; but they count, 
and, in addition to the larger ones, they prepare yearly 
1,450,000 pounds of gun-powder. 
Five hundred and thirty furnaces, forges, and bloome- 
ries, are enumerated. 
The paper mills amount to 190. 
I cannot forbear to express the wish, that these impor- 
tant papers may fall into the hands of some person who 
may have time and ability to derive from them more ex- 
tensive information than I am able to give you. But 
