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quare inftead of oblong, in order that they 
might with greater eafe be effectually 
fw-pt by machines. Upon this your 
Co nmittee appointed a fub-commit‘ee of 
its ~embers, to confer with architeéts up- 
on the more general adoption of this ftile 
of building. At a meeting of the fub- 
commit'ce. Mr. Lewis, of Powis-place, an 
eminent architect, attended, and was de- 
fired to ftate his opinion of the pratticabi- 
lity of conftruéting in future every de- 
{cription of chimmies fo as to he fwept by 
machines. Mr. Lewis in anfwer ttaied, 
thai the creat and almoft the only dificulty 
would be in outhoufes, where the flues are 
obliged to be carried through walls into 
general flues, and where they muit be 
nearly horizontal ; but even in thefe cafes, 
fuch chimnies might be {wept from the 
top by means of a ball of lead and a pro- 
per brufh. He added, that there were 
very few chimnies of this conftruction al- 
ready built, but what would admit of 
being {wept by thefe means; and he did 
not think that there were any entirely ho- 
rizontal, every builder being aware that 
the greater the flant, the better mutt be the 
draught, which is alfo much increafed by 
the corner of the angle being rounded off, 
He concluded with faying, that he had no 
doubt but that the Architeétural Society 
would be happy to grve every affiflance to 
the views of this Society. Ocher architeéts, 
who were referred to, confirmed this opi- 
nion; and your Committee have accord- 
ingly directed a letter to be written to the 
Archite€tural Socie:y, with a view to ob- 
tain their co-operation, and expect to be 
much benefited by it. It is alfo in the 
contemplation of fome individual members 
of both Houlfes of Parliament, in the event 
of a revifion by the legiflature of the pre- 
fent Building AQ&, to propofe the intro 
du&tion of fome claufes for enforcing the 
more uniform and fate conftruction of 
chimney flucs. 
Having thus far proceeded in forward- 
ing the main objeét of the Society, your 
Committee have not loft fight of one de- 
pendent u;on, though equally important 
witi it; namely, the protection and im- 
provement of the cond tion of the boys 
employed by chimney-iweepers. On this 
fubjeét they have little to add to what will 
be found in their firt Report. They have 
continued the {yftem of in{peétion, the re- 
fult of which bas contributed to confi:m 
the ftatemen’s made in that Report; the 
prions employed as infpectors, appear 
faitbful.y to have difcharged ther deties, 
and their labours have been highly uierul 
Report of Society for improving Chimney-[weeping.  fO&.1; 
in proving a check upon the conduét of 
the mafters, and in alieviating the condi- 
tion ot their boys. The engagement of 
the Infpectors ceafes at this period, and it 
will be for the general meeting to deter- 
mine on the expediency of continuing their 
fervices. 
Laftly, your Committee have been much 
occupied in preparing “* A Bill to be 
brought into Parliement, to explain and 
amend the A& of the twenty-eighth Year © 
of his prefent Majefty, for the betier Regu- 
lation of Chimney Sweepeis and their Ap- 
prentices, and for Making further Provi. 
fions for the like Purpole; ard to raifea 
Fund for the Education of the Appren- 
tices during their Servitude, and for Plac- 
ing them out to new Trades after their 
Apprenticefhips fhall have expired.”-— 
Leave has been given by the Houfe of 
Commons to bring in the Bill. . Your 
Committee have bettowed infinite pains in 
framing the various clautes of it; and it is 
now* before a Sub-Committee finally to 
fettle, previous to its introduétion into the 
Houte of Commons, wacre your Committee 
can fearcely anticipate an objection, from 
the pains they have taken to render it con- 
formable to precedent, and ufeful as a mea- 
fure of internal regulation and police, and 
from the circumfiance of its having been 
fubmitted to the Speaker, and movciled 
according to the plan which he had ithe 
goodnels to fuggelt. 
In puriuance of a.rule and order for 
that purpole, the accounts of your Trea- 
turer have been duly audited and pafied to 
the 1ft of Jenuary, 1804; at which period, 
the amoun: of {ubicriptions received ap- 
peared to have been rogol. 3s. and the 
difburfements amounted 15el. gs. leaving 
a balance in tavour of the Society, on that 
day, of 939. 14s. in the hands of the 
Treafur:r, the larger part of which ba- 
lance hes been by iim applied in the pur- 
chafe of exchequer-bills for the uft of the 
Society. . 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
INFORMATION refpediing the siTUA- 
TION of PERSONS EMIGRATING ?¢@ 
NORTH AMERICA. 
(Continued from p. 110, No. 119) 
HIS inattention, however, of the 
Americans to works of talte, may 
not be owing to their not entertaining a 
relifh for them, but rather to circum- 
{tances peculiar to a youthful government, 
1 cf parties, politics, do- 
n relations, refources, 
and 
and i¢ 
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