1802.] - 
having been thrown into the fea, kept its 
pofition, and came fafe to fhore, without 
manifefting any inclination to overfet. 
He thewed me a letter which he pre- 
fented to the Literary and Philofophical 
Society at Newcaftle, in which he claims 
the invention of the good properties of the 
boats built by Greathead, and challenges 
him to declare to the public, that his 
model had any cork attached to it, or 
that it approached, in the leaft, to the 
form in which he builds the life-boats now 
in ule. The public will naturally be 
furprized, that Wouldhave has put off 
his claim till now, when eftablifhing it can 
be of no benefit to him. This will ceafe 
when they are informed, that the eccen- 
tricity and roughnefs attached to the 
manners of this ingenious and fingular 
poor man, have (inttead of gaining him 
friends) been the means of procuring him 
enemies; his tale was liftened to by thofe 
alone who had it. not in their power to 
advife, much lefs to affift him in his en- 
deavours to appear before the public, 
which he attempted through the medium 
of the Newcaftle papers, but was refufed 
the infertion. 
It would be conferring a favour on the 
public, as well as rendering common juttice 
to the merit of an ingenious charafter, if 
fome of your correfpondents, adequate to 
the tafk, would give their opinions on the 
merits or defects of his plan or model, 
with fome of the particulars of which I 
have here endeavoured to furnifh you. 
Should any inveftigation of the fubjeé& 
lead to a more ufeful application of the 
invention, or a better form,-the public 
will be benefitted, and I doubt not but 
Wouldhave himfelf, from feveral hints he 
has given me, has a ftore of improvements 
in his mind, which the-leaft encourage- 
ment would prompt him to communicate 
to the public, one of which: is to empty 
her of water, if filled by the breaking of 
a fea, in a few feconds, by means of 
fome curioufly contrived valves, the na- 
ture of which he has not communicated 
to me. . 
I ought not to omit, that he difcovered 
the geometric method of the trifection of 
an angle or arch, which he communicated 
to Sir J. Banks, and is in poffeffion of a 
letter from that gentleman, acknowledg- 
ing the ingenuity of his method. 
Your infertion of this in your next Ma- 
gazine will be the means singing this 
important fubjeét-betore the public, and 
will exceedingly gratify 
Your moft obedient fervant, 
South Shields, A SHIPWRIGHT, 
Fuly.14, 1802. 
Solitary Impri onment-— Leipeig Fair. 99 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I WISH fome of your correfpondents, 
learned in the law, would explain, 
through the medium of your Magazine, 
whether the recent practice of fentencing 
criminals to folitary or /ecret imprifon- 
ment is fanétioned by any pofitive Aét of 
Parliament ? 
If it is not fo fanétioned, I could with 
to know whether writs of Habeas Corpus 
could not remove the fecrefy of imprifon- 
ment, and whether actions for damages 
could not be fupported, in the name of 
perions thus illegally punifhed, againft 
juftices of Quarter Seflions who pafs fuch 
fentences, or againft goalers or fheriffs 
who execute them ? 
If fuch fentences are not clearly legal, 
and actions were brought, I have no doubt 
but the good fenfe and honourable inde- 
pendence of Englifh Juries would inflict 
‘exemplary damages, and thereby put an 
end to a fpecies of punifhment which is 
alien to the feelings of the people of this 
free country. 
York, I am, your’s, &c. 
Fuly 29) 1802. PuH1LO-LEGIs, 
— ES 
For the Monthly Magazine, 
ACCOUNT of the LEIPZIG commercial 
FAIR.—EASTER, 1802. 
(Continued from Page 8, No. 90.) 
11I. CLOTH-TRADE. SAXON WOOLLEN 
MANUFACTURES. 
HE fineft and moft valuable’ forts of 
Englith and French cloth had a very 
quick fale at the laft Eafter-fair; the 
greateft part being greedily bought up by 
the dealers from various parts of Germa- 
ny and the North. Onthe contrary, the 
fale of the middling cloths manufa&ured - 
in Saxony, Pruffia, and Bohemia, and the 
flight forts, flannels, friezes, linings, &c. 
for the markets of Italy, France, Switzer 
Jand, and the Levant, was very inconfi- 
derable, owing to the uncommonly high 
price of the raw materials. For the laft 
twenty years the woollen manutactures of 
Bohemia have been fo much improved, 
that they now rival thofe of Saxony and 
Pruffia,.as plainly appeared at the Jaft 
Eafter-fair. The Saxon manufacturers 
a{fcribe this to the exportation of the finer 
forts of wool and woollen-yarn; great 
quantities of which are annually fent to 
Bohemia, and likewife to England, France, 
and the Netherlands. A memorial on 
this fubjeét was. addreffed to the EleGtor, 
in which it is afferted, that to prevent the. 
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