460 
11. The greateft part of the workers 
are lodged in their parents’ houfes in the 
village, in the immediate neighbourhood 
of the mills, or in the town of Lanark, 
one mile diftant; the principal part of 
their food, as is ufual in the country, 
confifts of oatmeal. 
Thofe who get their maintenance, in 
lieu of wages, are lodged all together in 
one houfe. They confit, at prefent, of 
three hundred and ninety-fix boys and 
girls.: There are fix fleeping apartments 
for them, and three children are allowed 
toeach bed. The cielings and walls of 
the apartments are white-wafhed twice 
a year with hot lime, and the, floors 
wathed once a week with fcalding water 
and fand. The children fleep in wooden- 
bottomed beds, on bed-ticks filled with 
firaw, which is in general changed once 
a month; a fheet covers the bed-ticks, 
and aboye that are one or two pairs of 
blankets, and a bed cover, as the feafon 
requires. ‘The bed-rooms are carefully 
_{wept, and the windows thrown open 
every morning, in which ftate they re- 
main through the day. Of late, caft-iron 
bedfteads have been introduced in place 
of wooden ones. The upper hody Moth. 
‘ing in ufe in fummer, both for boys and 
girls, is entirely of cotton, which, as they 
have {pare fuits to change with, are 
. wathed once a fortnight. In winter the 
boys are dreffed in woollen cloth; and 
they, as well as the girls, have complete 
drefs fuits for Sundays. Their limens 
_are changed once a week. For a few 
months in fummer, both boys and girls 
go without fhoes and ftockings. The 
provifions are dreffed in caft-iron boilers, 
_ and confift of oatmeal porridge for break - 
faft and fupper, and milk with it in its 
. feafon. - In winter, its fubftitute is a 
_compofition of molaffes, fermented with 
fame new beer, which is called fwats. 
For dinner, the whole of them have 
every day, in all feafons, barley broth 
made from frefh beef. The beef itfelf 
_is divided amongft one half of the chil- 
dren, in quantities of about feven ounces 
Englith to each; the other half are 
ferved with cheefe, in quantities of about 
five ounces Englifh to each ; fo that they 
have alternately beef or cheefe for dinner, 

In1792 - - 270 boarders. 2 deaths. 
3793 - - 288 ----- 
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Management of Cotton Manufaétories. 
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excepting sow and then a dinner of her- 
rings in winter, and frefh butter in fum- 
mer. ‘othe beef and cheefe is added a 
plentiful allowance of potatoes, or harley- 
bread, of which laft they have alfo an 
allowance every morning before going to 
work. 
12. and 13. As far as obfervation, with 
regard to theie two queries, has ex- 
tended, the workers, when too big for 
{pinning, are as ftout and robuft as others. 
“The male part of them are fit for any 
trades; a great many, fince the com- 
mencement of the war, have gone into ~ 
the army and navy, and others are oc- 
‘cafionally going away as appientices to 
fmiths, joiners, &c. but efpecially to 
weavers, for which laft trade, from the 
expertne{s they acquire in handling yarn, _ 
they are particularly well fitted, and of 
courfe are taken as apprentices on better 
terms, “The females very generally leave 
the mills, and go to private family fer- 
vice, when about fixteen years of age. 
Were they difpofed to continue at the 
mills, thefe afford abundant employment 
for them at reeling, picking, &c. as wel] 
as to many more young men than ever 
remain at them. 
; Se — 
‘On THE EDUCATION OF DISSENTING 
MINISTERS, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SERS. 
TF you do not think it will be occupying 
too much of your agreeable Mifcellany, 
with the concerns of a particular body of 
men (a body, however, among whom, 
“I believe, the Monthly Magazine has 
feme of its moft cordial friends) I thall 
beg your infertion of a few refieétions 
upon a matter touched upon by two of 
your correfpondents—the education of 
Minifters among the rational Diffenters, 
I fee, without furprife, much un e- 
nerous triumph over the failure of the 
college at Hackney, in certain diurnal 
and periodical writings ; among which, it 
is natural, that-a monthly publication, 
now moft diftinguithed for deviating from 
the charaéter affumed in its title, fhould 
ftand foremoft in bigotry and {currility. 
But thefe worthies may reft affured, that 
. what they moft dread, namely, the fpi- 
rit of oppofition to civil and ecclefiaftieal 
ufurpation, is ftill alive and vigorous ; 
‘and ‘that, however circumflances may 
vary its mode of operation, its grand ob- 
ject ts by no means abandoned. This, 
however, is a digreflion from the proper 
fubject of my letter. 
Various 
