
tion to the fuccefs of the undertaking, 
Mr. Bouttron’s laudable ambition to 
excel'and improve extended irfelf. He 
refolved to render his works a feminary 
of tafte, and {pared na,expence to pro- 
cure the moft able and ingenious artifts 
m every branch. He imitated the French 
or moulu in a great variety of elegant or- 
nainents, and fabricated fervices of plate, 
and other pieces of filver, both light and 
maffive. 
By hi, conneétion with that celebrated 
and inzenious mechanift, Mr. Wart, 
he added a very capital and ufeful manu- 
i faétory to the works of Soho—that of 
fieam-engines on an improved plan, now 
adopted in numerous concerns through- 
out the kingdom, to the great mutual 
benefit of the makers and employers, 
A. moft ingenious and capital apparatus 
for coining or ftamping has alfo been 
erected by thefe gentlemen, which, after 
feveral ineffectual offers, has at length, it 
is faid, been really fet to work on a new 
copper coinage for the public, to be exe- 
cuted in a very fuperior manner. B 
fucceffive additions, the buildings of Soho 
now cover feveral acres of ground, and 
lave fpread plenty and population over a 
large tract of barren heath. The num- 
ber of perfons employed in them muft, 
of courfe, greatly vary with the fiate of 
the general trade. It has been carried 
> 
to upwards of fix hundred. 
At no confiderable diftance from the 
Soho manufactory is a neat whit@ edi- 
. fice, the refidence of the ingenious Mr. 
Eernton, where the art of ftaining or 
painting on glats, with vitiified colours, 
is brought to adegree of perfe€tion, far 
fuperior to any of the ancient produc+ 
tions now remaining. z 
The converfion of St.Paul, &c. in St. 
Paul’s chapel, Birmingham, the large 
window in the banquetting-room atArun- 
del caftle, the refurre€tion of our Lord 
in Salifbury cathedral, the fame fubjeét 
in Lichfield cathedral, the ea window 
dna St. Alkmewd’s church, Shrewfbury, 
the monuméntal and hiftorical windows 
in the parith churches of Hatton and 
Afton, in Warwickthire, and a great 
number of other confiderable perform- 
ances, have already come from the hands 
of this excellent artift, and procured him 
_-a very great fhare of public approbation. 
An hifttorical and minute account of the 
- above manufaétories, and their parifh of 
Hand{worth, will foon appear, with large 
engravings, in the’ fArft volume of Mr. 
St&BBING SHaw’s Hiftory of Stafford. 
fhire. ; 
Soho Manufaétories....Elerical Machines. 
[May, 
To the Edstor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
‘N> the Monthly Magazine for March 
1796, one of your correfpondents pro- 
pofed an improveiment in the cofiftruction 
-of the prime conduétors of ele@trical ma- 
chines, by fubfticuting three boards co- 
vered with tin foil, inftead of a cylinder, 
which is generally made ufe of; being 
defirous of making trial of this kind of 
conduétor, I procured three iron plates, 
which were about half an inch thick, 
fifteen’ inches long, aod twelve wide ; 
thefe were placed at about five inches’ 
diftance from cach other, in the manner 
recommended by A.- D. in the lerter re- 
ferred to above, except that the upper 
plate was fupported on glafs props, in- 
ftead of being fulpended from the ceiling, 
but had a metallic communication with 
the ground. But, to my great difap- 
pointment, the middle plare did not give 
a {park more than half an inch in length, 
although my glafs exciter is more than 
nine inches in diameter, and, with the 
old conduétor, will yield a pretty lone 
fpark. As I conceive the failure of this 
xperiment muft, have. been owing to 
fomething wrong in the manner of con-~ 
duéting it, I fhould be greatly obliged to 
A. B. or any of your corre{pondents, who 
fhould give a more complete defeription 
of the length and the width of the 
boards, and the diftance they fhould be 
placed from each other. |’ xe 
Iam, fir, your’s, &c. 
May 17. A Constant READER. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, Z . 
AS apart of your ufeful Magazine is 
“* occafionally taken up in noticing 
exifting abufes, I beg leave, through its ~ 
medium, to cali the immediate attention 
of our magiitrates (efpecially thofe re= 
fiding in the country) toa nuifance of a 
very terious nature—and one which has 
much too long been a difgrace to our po- 
lice. J allude, fir, to the thameful en- 
couragement given toa notorious defcrip- 
tion of fwindiers, who fwarm about-the 
country at this feafon of the year, with 
EO, Rovge SF Noir, and other gaming = 
tables, at every fair or race in the king- 
dom, of the lealt celebrity.—Thefe blac 
iegs attend in confiderable numbers, and 
it is aftonithing what fums of money 
are drawn from the pockets of our fimple 
ruftics, by their {candalous manoeuvres. 
—And itis a faét, fir, that will not) ¥ 
am certain, be contreverted, by thofe 
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