1810.] 
Difficult as it is to form an estimate, 
it is inferred from a comparison of all 
the facts which have been communi- 
cated, with the population of the United 
States (estimated at six millions of 
white, and twelve hundred thousand 
black persons), that the value of all the 
goods made of cotton, wool, and flax, 
which are annually manufactured in the 
United States, exceeds forty millions of 
dollars. 
The manufacture of cards and wire, is 
intimately connected with this part of the 
subject. | Whitemore’s machine for 
making cards, has completely excluded 
foreign importations ofthat article. The 
capital employed in that branch may be 
estimated at 200,000 dollars; and that 
the annual consumption amounied, till 
lately, to twenty thousand dozen pair of 
hand cards, and twenty thousand square 
feet of cards for machines, worth to- 
gether about 200,000 dollars. ‘The de- 
mand of last year was double that of 
1808, and is still rapidly increasing. But 
the wire itself is altogether imported, 
and a very serious inconveniency might 
arise from any regulation which would 
check or prevent the exportation from 
foreign countries. It appears, however, 
by the communication, that the manu- 
facture may, and would be immediately 
established, so as to supply the demand 
both for cards and other objects, provided 
the same duty were imposed on wire, now 
imported duty frée, which is laid on other 
articles made of the same material. The 
whole amount of wire annually used for 
cards, does not at present exceed twenty- 
five tons, worth about 40,000 dollars. 
Hats.—The annual importations of 
foreign hats ‘amount to 850,000. The 
annual exportation of American hats, 
to 100,000. 
The domestic manufacture is therefore 
nearly equal to the home consumption. 
‘The number made ia the state of Massa- 
chusetts is estimated by the hat company 
of Baston, at four times the number re- 
quired for the consumption of the state: 
and from other information it would ap- 
pear, that in that state alone, the capital 
applied to that branch is near three 
miilions of dollars, the number of persons 
employed about four thousand, and the 
number of hats annually made 1,550,000; 
of which 1,150,000 are fine hats, worth 
on an average four dollars each, and 
400,000 felt hats, worth one dollar each. 
That the manufacture is still profitable, 
appears from a late establishment on 
Charles river, calculated to make annu- 
Mr. Thelwall’s Reply to Mr. Smart. 
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alfy 35,000 hats, at five dollars a-piece, 
and to employ 150 workmen, 
The quantity made in Rhode Island, 
is stated at 50,000, worth five dollars 
each, exclusively of felt hats. Connec- 
ticut and New York, make more than is 
necessary for their consuinption; the 
largest establishment being that of Dan. 
bury, where 260 persons are employed, 
and to the amount of 130,000 dollars 
annually manufactured. La Vermont, 
the manufacture supplies the consump- 
tion. It is stated by the hatters of Phi- 
ladelphia, that 92,000 hats, worth five 
doliars each, are annually made there; in 
addition to which, 50,000 country hats, 
worth three dollars eac, are annuaily 
suld in the city. In various quarters, the 
scarcity of wool is complained et, as 
preventing the making of a sufficient 
quantity of cvarse hats. From all the 
information which has been received, i 
is believed that the value of all the hats 
annually made in the United States, is 
near ten millions of dollars. . 
( To be continued.) 
Sa 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
NDERSTAN DING that the very 
ample reply to Mr. H. B. Simart’s 
very round assertions im your last Maga- 
zine, which [. troubled you with at the 
beginning of the month, has by some 
accident been mislaid, and deeming it | 
not proper that the public sould suspect 
me of one hour’s ayoidable delay in re- | 
futing a statement, which, if true, must 
Impeach my veracity; I request you to 
let it be known, through the medium of 
your correspondence, that I have put 
mito your hands what appears to be a 
complete detection in the first place, of 
Mr. S.’s positive declaration, that * there 
is not a single pornon of his book thar is 
not founded on the authoiiy of Walker, 
Herries, Nares, Sheridan, aid Rice ;” 
and, in the second place, vf his very Cun 
sistent appendix to tbat declaration, 
wherein he lays claim to certain essential 
portions as having ** cume into bis head,” 
and been “derived from his Gwn expe- 
rience.” 
I hope, sir, that.the reply referred to, 
of which I have unfortunately no copy, 
will yet come to hand, and make i‘s ap- 
pearance in a future Number. in ihe 
mean tine, I will thank you to insert the 
following postscript, (though it will be 
putting the cart befure the horse), the 
substaace of which it was my Intention 
to have added to that communication: 
as 
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