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Weaving. 
invented stacking. loom— and printing in single colours engraved 
patterns by roller work. Such an establishment should peace 
come to-morrow, under protecting duties of 25 per cent, must 
succeed so as to satisfy any reasonable wishes. Remember, at 
present cotton is our staple : the day is fast approaching wJhen we 
shall even become exporters of wool as a raw material. The peo- 
ple of this country are not aware, that we shall never conquer Eng- 
land but by means of our manufactures. To this mode of warfare, 
they are driving us with all their might ; and it is not too much to 
apply to them, Quern Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. 
By the inventions above mentioned, the greatest of all our dif- 
ficulties in the manufacture of cotton goods, viz. the scarcity of 
weavers, is now obviated ; and I hope the information here given 
will spread and be made use of. 
Having introduced the Rev. Mr. Cartwright (not major Cart- 
wright the Duke of Richmond’s correspondent — the ptrsevering 
advocate of a parliamentary reform, who will never live to see the 
persons in power reform their own abuses) as an inventor of steam 
engines and of looms worked by machinery, I now introduce the 
same Gentleman, as a physician and a poet, the last character be- 
ing the earliest in which he received the well-merited reward of 
public approbation. 
His proposal of curing typhus and typhoid disorders, by yeasty 
as the vehicle of wine and bark, deserves more trial than it has re- 
ceived. Dr. Pertival and Mr. Henry of Manchester used it fre- 
quently, and commended it highly : they used yeast also as an ap- 
plication to ill conditioned ulcers, with good success ; though I 
suspect, that of local applications of this nature, Mr. Walker’s car- 
rot poultice is one of the most efficacious. I am persuaded how- 
ever that much may be done in those disorders also by oxygen, by 
nitrous oxyd, and by oxymuriat of potash and soda. The gasses 
have not yet had fair play as medicines : the failure of Dr. Bed- 
does and Mr. Watt inPthisis, produced something like a preju- 
dice against them : though the cases of Dr. Thornton surely de* 
serve repetition. 
I insert the poem of Armine and Elvira, because I do not re- 
collect that it has been published in this country : because at 
•any rate, it is little known : because it contains some images s» 
beautiful, as hardly to foe excelled in the whole range ©f descrip- 
