404 
for waiftcoats and breeches. "The whole 
‘value of the manufacture thus appears to 
be about 15,260,000l and, as a medium 
between this fum and the amount before 
ftated, it may be taken at 15,500,0c0l. 
Dedutting fr ei this amount at the rate of 
ZO per cent. on the coft of the goods, for 
the profits of the manufacturer, ‘including 
the a) of his capital, there remains 
ge ae I. confifting of the coft of the 
material, and the wages of labour; the 
walue ef all the wool employed we have 
feen is about 5, 250,000], and including 
the Coft of fome other neceffary articles, 
the materials cannot be valued at lefs 
han this fum; the remainder, therefor re, 
or 8,340,909]. is the amount of work- 
taanthip, or the wages of all the perfons 
employed in the manufacture. It is 
fcarcely poffible to affume with precifion 
an average-rate of wages, with refpect 
to any n manufacture, as they vary in dif- 
ferent parts of the country, and the pro- 
portion of the diffe rent claifes of perfons 
empleyed is in no inftance known with 
certainty. In the Weit, where the wool- 
len manufactory i is at prefe nt im a yery 
depreffed fla ate, few workmen get above 
¥4s. per week, and many much lefs, from 
not bemg fully employed; m Yorkthire, 
good workmen earns from 16s. to r&s. 
per week, children 38. older children and 
women irom 5s. to 6s. and old men from 
gs. to 12s. Lf, in’ taking ail clafies toge- 
ther, 8s. per week is not thought too 
bigh, . it will appear that the whole num- 
ber of perfons employed does not exceed 
£25,043. R 
The value of the 
%aSure was, fome years ago, ftated at 
0,500,000] and from the ftate of the 
arede.of late, and the high price of fkins 
of moft kinds, it cannot be fuppofed 
tes ‘ss than that fum at prefent. De- 
iudting 954,5 OF for the profits cf capi- 
tl employed herein, aus 3,500,000]. 
coft of the raw article, there re- 
mains 6,045,4551. for de wages of per- 
fens employed therein, which, at 25]. 
per annum for each perfon,’ makes the 
number employed 241,818. 
wicThe Corton manufactory was for- 
Terly of little importance in this country 
in comparifon with its. prefent fate. The 
tctal quantity of cotton wool imported 
into England, on an average of five years, 
ending with 1705, was 1,170,881 lb. and, 
even fo late asthe year I 781, it amounted 
to only 5,101,9201b. About that time, 
however, the Britifh calicoes, which had 
been introduced fome years before, had 
arrived at fome degree of perfection, and 
the branch of muilins being added, in 
which great improvements were ie 
after made, the whole manufacture ex- 
For the 
A View of the ManufaGures of Great Britain. 
LEATHER manu-_ 
perienced fuch a rapid and great increafe, 
that previous to the commencement of 
the prefent war the confumption of 
cotton wool amounted to upwards of 
30,000,000lb. per annum. In the years 
1793, €794, and 1795, the import was 
confiderably lefs, and during the laft four 
years has been as follows: 
1796 - 31,280, coo tb. 
1797 - 43,175,000 
4798 - 31,592,000 
1799 - 353,689,000 
The average is 30,434,000lbs. the 
value of which, when manufactured, can- 
not be lefs than 9,500,0001. allowing for 
’ a confiderable quantity exported in a par= 
tially manufactured ftate; deducting from 
this fum 363,636]. for profits of capital, 
at 10 per cent. and 3,804,2501. for coft 
of the raw material at 2s. 6d. per pound, 
there remainS 4,832,114. for wages, 
which, if divided at the rate of only r5i. 
per annum for each perfon, on account of 
the large proportion of women and chil- 
dren employed, makes the whole number 
322,140 perions. 
The Sirk manufactory has not expe- 
rienced any very confiderable fluuation 
of late years: the quantity ef raw and 
thrown filk imported in three years pre- 
oe ig ue 5th of January 1797, was as 
17 4 - 906,626 Ibe. 
1795 - 935,059 
1796 : 758,970 
The average of thefe three years is 
833438 Ibs. and thongh the quantity in 
7797 was itill lefs than in 1796, the 
importation has fince been greater, and 
the ufual quantity cannot be ftated at 
lefs than 900,c001b. the value of which, 
when manufaCtured, is about 2,700,000l. 
The coit of the filk to the manufacturer, 
if raw and thrown are taken together at 
- only 28s. per pound, amounts te T, 260,000). 
and the prea: of the manufacturer to 
245,454]. at the rate of 10 per cent. om 
the colt when manwfactured. It may be 
faid, that though this is the ufual pro- 
fit charged by the manufacturer in caft- 
ing up the felling price of his goods, they 
are frequently fold much under this price ; 
which muft be admitted: but, as an ad- 
vantage ts taken on moft of the coms 
ponent parts of the price before the ro 
per cent. is laid on, it is probably not 
Jefs than this rate on the whole, in this 
and in moft other manufactures. The 
number of perfons employed in the filk 
manufactory has been itated at 200,000 
and upwards, but there appears no rea- 
fon to believe that it exceeds 60,000 of all 
deicriptions. 
The Linen manufactory of Great 
Britain is chiefly confined to Scotland, 
though 
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