t 
1802.] 
Jealt 150,000 fpindles, were conftantly at 
work. But they did not ftop here ;_ the 
Eleéter engaged ‘an able Englith mechanic 
of the name ot Whitfield, to whom he al- 
lows an annual falary of roco rix dollars, 
for fuperintending the ereétidn of cotton 
mills on a large feale ; and from the fuc- 
cefs of thofe already executed under his 
direction at Chemniiz, {uperior to any be- 
fore attempted in Germany, they begin 
to flatter themfelves with the hope of foon 
rivalling the Englith, The Saxon Mini(- 
ter of State, Count von Ejinftedel, has 
likewife made fome very fuccefsful expe- 
riments with thefe large machines at Wol- 
denburg ; and Weils and Co, in Langen- 
falza have fome excellent imitations of 
the Englith machines for fpinning wool. 
The principal manufaétures of cotton 
cloth and ftockings are cftablifhed at 
Chemnitz, and the circumjacent country, 
and the towns of Mitmeida, Frankenberg, 
Glaucha, Hohenftein, &c. and are car- 
ried on to much greater extent than the 
muflin manufactures, whole chiet feat is 
Plauen. Indeed, the merchants and ma- 
nufacturers of Chemnitz excel .in_ tatte, 
invention, the art of giving a high finifh 
to their produttions, and in a well-di- 
rected {pirit of ipeculation. They fupply 
Saxony, and other parts of Germany, 
with cotton and half-cotton manufactures, 
equal in goodnefs and beauty to moft fi- 
milar produétions of the Englifh looms: 
and their exports to the North and the 
South amount to many miliions of florins. 
Tn the printing of cottons, in particular, 
they might, in fome inftances, have dil- 
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puted the prize of excellence with the 
Englith ; and are daily aiming at the pro- 
duétion of better and more beautiful co- 
Jours. In the little town of Franken- 
erg only, where twenty years ago this 
branch of manufacture was not even 
thought of, about 45,000 pieces ef cot- 
ton were printed in the year 1800—almoft 
3000 more than in 1799. In Chemnitz, 
13,000 pieces more were manufactured 
than in the preceding year. In the y-ar 
1300, there were in that town 1500 looms; 
but in 1803, the number had increaled to 
1740, befides 4500 ftocking-frames. Even 
when, fome years ago, the Englifh monoe 
polized all. the cotton of Smyrna and Ma- 
cedonia, the Chemnitzers ftood their 
ground. Giving up the fabrication of 
fuch of the finer articles as they could not 
rival the Englifh in, they applied their 
capitals to the manufaturing of the mids 
dling and coarfer forts, and in particular 
producéd a large quantity of variegated 
ltuffs, for the ule of the German peafants, 
the more wealthy of whom begin to wear 
cotton inftead of woollen cloaths; ftill 
retaining, however, their predilection for 
glaring colours. At the laft Eafter-fair, 
the Chemnitz merchants found, on the 
whole, a good fale for their merchandize; 
and thus it appears, that the Englifh could 
not boalt of a complete triumph over 
their competitors; except the German 
manufaéturers of fine muflins, who were 
thrown into a flate of defperation, as there. 
was no demand for any but the Britifla 
aflortments. 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS: 
— ie 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS Of the late 
THOMAS BUTTERWORTH BAYLEY, 
e/g. FRS. &c. &c, of HOPE HALL, near 
MANCHESTER. 
HE recolle&tion of a friend, who has 
fiuified his earthly career with dif- 
tinguifhed honour, and recently paid the 
lait debt to nature, is accompanied with 
a mixture of reverence and love, beyond 
what the moft exalted or molt beneficent 
actions during life infpire. We cherifh 
the contemplations of departed excellence 
with pleafing iorrow, And it becomes 
even a grateful talk, to communicate to 
others fome participaticnia the fceiings, 
which occupy Our minds on the mournful” 
oceafion. Thefe refleStions have been 
fuggefted by the much-lamented death of 
Thomas B. Bayley, Eig. whofe talenis, 
character, and conduét, have long been 
regarded by the public with no ordinary 
degree of intereft. He was feized, at Bux- 
fon, with a diforder in the bowels, which 
terminated fatally, on Thurfday the 24th 
of June, 1802, at the clofe of the sth 
year %f his age.” The ilinefs was fhort, 
but fevere ; and fupported by him with 
exemplary ferenity and fortitude.’ His 
progeniters were perfons of fortune and 
great ref{peciability ; and, on his mother’s 
fide, he was defcended from the Duken- 
fields of Dukenfield, in Chethire; an 
ancient family, ‘in the: male line of which 
the dignity of Baronet has been tran!- 
mitted, in regular {ucceffion, fince ‘the 
reign of King Charles If. Mr. Bayley 
was educated to no profeffion ; but, be- 
ing fent to the Univerlity of Ediaburgh, 
' say Nobis ‘ and 
