4801.] 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S I conceive the following queftion 
to be of importance, you will oblige 
me by inferting it in your Magazine ; it 
has been frequently agitated in a fall 
circle of the conduétors of a public {chool, 
where both males and females are employ-.. 
ed as afliftants, and ftill remains unde- 
cided. 
Are women who a& in the fame {tation 
as men, apd with equal ‘fuccefs, entitled 
to the fame pay ? 
It has been urged on one hand, that as 
in almoft ali cafes the labour of women 
can be had cheaper than that of men, 
(which is very obvious,) to give the foriner 
equal pay with the latter, would be an 
improper appropriation of public money, 
“with which every purchafe fhould be made 
on the loweft terms. 
And, on the other, the principle of juf- 
tice has been advanced which, it is {aid, 
would give a price for work, without any 
regard to the fex or the quality of ‘the la- 
bourer. 
Perhaps fome of your correfpondents 
may let the public have their opinions or 
the fubjeét, in one of your future num- 
bers; but I would obferve, that opinions, 
without reafons, will have no weight with 
the propofer of this Query. 
Your’s, &c. S. S, 

For the Monthly Magazine. , 
AVirwiofthe MANUFACTURES of GREAT 
Britain, with rcfpeet te their EXTENT, 
and the NUMBER of INDIVIDUALS ci 
ployed therein. By J. J. GREtLIER. 
Tee employment created by the prin- 
cipal ‘manufacture of this country 
has lately been enormoufly over-rated ; 
and if the number of perfons, which the 
feveral manuiactures have at different 
times been reprefented to employ, were 
added together, they would make the 
population of the country far exceed 
the moft extravagant ailertions refpecting 
it, It is highly probable, therefore, that 
almotft every branch has been exaggerated, 
and a little attention to the fubjec will 
prove this to be the cafe, both with re- 
ipect to the annual value of the different 
manufactures, and the number of hands 
mployed by them. 
Vhe Wootten manufactory, which is 
the moft ancient and important, has in- 
ereafed during the lait twenty years, and 
appears to be itill increafing, notwith- 
ftanding the high price of the material, 
and the precarious ftate of fome of the 
foreign markets. On the late examination 
of the principal woollen manufacturers, 
by acommnittee of the Houfe of Commons, 
4A View of the Manufa@ures of Great Britain. 
498 
Mr. W. Haftler eftimated the quantity of 
wool grown in this country at 600,000 
packs, of 240 Ibs. each, which, at rl. per 
pack, makes the value thereof 6,600,00e!. 
He jaftly obferved that it is difficult to 
afcertain how mucn the wool is increafed ~ 
in value by being manufactured: fome 
sorts are increafedrather morethan double, 
fome nine times or even more; but if the 
ayerage is taken at only three times, 
which will be under the truth, the total 
value of the wool manufactured in this 
country wil amount to 79,800,0001. ‘This 
calculation is founded on a {uppofition 
that, in 1791, the number of fheep in the, 
kingdom was 28,800,000, which, as far 
as any idea can be formed from the piro- 
portion of the confumption of the metro- 
polis to that of the whole ifland, and the 
ftock requifite for the fupply, greatly ex- 
ceeded the truth at that time; and it is 
the general opinion, particularly of per- 
fons in the wool trade, that of late the 
number of fheep kept has been confidera- 
bly reduced. ‘he calculation is likewife 
made at an-unufually high price of wool; 
for though during the preient year the 
out eleven gui- 
neas, the average of the laf three or four 
years has certainly not been more than 
from ten pounds to ten guineas : upen 
the whole, therefore, the eftimate will be 
much lefs obje@tionable, if formed on 
§00,000 packs at rol. ros. per pack, 
which will make the value of the wool 
5,250,000]. the manufactured value of 
‘which will be 15,750,000], |That the 
total value of the manufaCture does not 
exceed this fum will appear highly pro- 
bable from the exports. The value of 
woollen goods exported from Great 
Britain in the laft three years was as 
follows : 
1797 - — &- 45936,355 
1798 3 ©,499339 
1799. ; 879.939 
The average is 6,104,211]. Moft of the 
cuftom-houfe values of goods exported 
are greatly below the prefent value, but 
not fo much fo in this. article as in fome 
others; an addition however of tweaty- 
five per cent. may be made to the above 
fum on this account without exceeding 
the truth; the value of woollen goods ex- 
ported will then appear to be 7,630,263). 
‘The value retained for home coufumption 
may be nearly equal to the value exported, 
although in quantity the former may 
greatly exceed the latter, a very confider- 
ble proportion of which confifts of fuper- 
fine and fecond cloths, whereas the con« 
fumpftion of fine woollens in Great Britain 
has much diminifhed of late years, from 
the general ufe of Manchefter manu- 
factures of cotton in clothing, particularly 
for 
