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London, England, 1819-03-12 00:00:00

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vis rommwatti annum HAS CEEN OTICHLATED AVOSfaill Tog
MEMSEISS OP THE noesr or 1.011.119,, AND WE CITE IT rask.lclTY
Al CONTAINER. A PLAIN STATEXIXT OP THE CAPRI
" !Mr Loaro-4our Lordship will shortly have it in your
power. to rediess a grievance of the most oppressive nature; anti
to efface a stale, not pnly on our laws, but our manners.
" Your support of the Bill for preventing Infants from clean-
! lug Chimnies. which is to ba read, for the second time, next
Monday, will most assuredly not be v.ithheld, if !root L 44144
will devote huff an hour to the perusal of the evidence given be-
fore the Committee of the fjoemof Co:n:nons, or the speeds of
'Pr. I.nshington on the subject. You will there find the get cf
obtaining children for th.• purpose of sweeping chimnios usually
begins with disobedience to :lea' tit:V --fraild, perjury, or piracy.
" It is illegal to apprentice bzys to thi trade under eighs
, years of ats;,.; but (hay are frequerifi;, apprenticed at file, ea,
5:11 seven ; :,3 ate tizies stolen for the purpose, and frequently
obtained by purchase; parents themselves, under the urselit
temptation of want, having been Ittwwn to 5...: their chikh en ;er
this dreadful trade.
" When ebtained, the child is forced np the ch?pmey h7e,ery
species of cruelty: to these crneldes several have fallen •.-tenths,
as the records of our Courts of Jestiee witness. If strong enough
Co survive tbcm, he is exposed to all the dangers of suffocation
by the very nature o(.his employment, is clad in rags, wretch.
edly fed, skeps on soot in a c...liar, is left destitute of instruct:tont
and, in SOME measure, out of the : ale of human sympathy,
" Not Inure than half these children outlive At bitter Wale(
ti'.ir apprender,hlp. lint when these years of misery are over,
hew IS tit,: boy rewarded fur pas; hardships? Ile is nsttailv ikti.
li:a:Ai, snore or less deformed, bears about hint the scars or
horns ieTeived in going up S 4 extiognish chimaies on fire, and is
subject to a pecosiar cancerous disease, unknown to any ether
ration or piofeksior. Ile is totally ignorant, ,ind unfit for az,y
ho est means of earning his bread; but so well acquainted with
time i::teriur of par houses, avid the, habits of our servants, tbst if
he does not become a pauper, he is qnalliied to be a felon ; r.m.l
thus, in (Taller way, to punish society for the injustice he his
suffered.

" This domestic Slave Trade !nee Lordship ntay now entirely
aboliiii. As foe the few chimnies, the small- frac-den, wlntil
cat:not by swept by the present machinery, English irgecaity
will soon find nteens to clean them, without the interveznion cf
apprentices. The Bill dues not forbid any man or boy to er4
ploy his strength or skill in iweeping a dangerous chimney. flat
were an arbitrary act ; it leaves labour as free as ever, ate only
restrains the eesprentionetp of children for the pulp se. t
" Some have said, 'you will thereby extinenish &trade.' Do
they imagine the Machines are self-impelled, and will sweep oar
chimnies without the intervention of man? No! the same em-
ployment will still be giyen ; but ,:ociety will not incur the guilt
of sanctioning cruelty, and the burden of supportir.g a dies,
who, for the most part, find a youth of the most oppressive
hardships, rewutded by a life of itepelees Pauperism anal ineue
eable disease.
" I speak from facts detailed in evidence before a Committee
of Inquiry, and of the state of boys under the care of the ma.
keit): set ;nesters, allowing that its this class there are many cc.
speetehle•receptions. 1 belie the hoanut to be, Ike."
core, OF A LETTP.2. PROM ate. castor Darts TO Tilt scirrevoae
az:Netter or PIE anacu or motes,
Steting the Result at Experiments made for the purpose of a.-
C,ll.Alilin the practicability of Superseding the here,..ity of
employing Citeehing Buys in the Sweeping of Chironics, by
seiteue, set the teneloymeet of Alichinery.
" Mire of WAILS, Jan. 11, 181%
" Ste—ln obedience to the instructions, at various thins Ir.
celved from you, on the subject of superseding Clinilene Boy)
by the use of Machines, I het eby t tidos.• the result of the ex-
periments made in conseenetice, with some obcervatiode end.
suggestions naturally preee :Meg themselves in the detail.
" It eepeare, that the wh.te of the flute at present in 13%
may be eueiriel in four el .'es; the first anti lona nemero es
are those v.itielt are carried up in a perpendicular staek, the
only bend in these flues being just sufficient to deer the cpeaffisg ~
of the flue above. The =pod, tar less numerous, are urge to
which the Ere -elace is in a wall not cnntinued higher then the
next floor, anti turning off ve;ile one heed (makire two angles
in the eleeetien) to a partition wall, in which the daft is coml-
toted to the top. The third, still less numernoi, ne theae ll
which the shaft is at some distance frorft the fireeplacie having
et Least one eel* cte the plan, and which of mete-lister forms two
bends Li ;he elevation. 'Fite fourth class, which forms a yery
email proportion cf the total number already conetrneted, ere
'those having nine thee one angle oa the plan, and being, far a
part of the le-get, entirtly horizontal. '
" For the firs: awe, the Mechines already in use are mete
eteiera ; they are silo competent to sweep part of they e ea.&
Mess; far the reminder of ei.. second class, the ball and Mesh
ie perfectly efficient, unless arty error in the eoretetiction hee
given the 'July bead in them. a dip the contras v way. In the
third class, where the ascent ;s at all preserved, the hall and
brush still acts effectually; as it will also do in the fourth dr :,
where there are no ts entirely level. The remainde; of tl:e
Worth class comp .
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eads those flues which have several b. ens,
and are frequently orizontal; and In these cases it is alike tee
cessery to let in miners or duars, whether they arc :.overt by
Days or Ma:likes, there being IV other zenith; fur it e netey
of the Boy.• than this measure; which, when dente, actually rrett
sent. the means of sweeping by a con men Mac sin.
" A; f..r as my ells: ienee has led me, 1 consider the peeper,'
don:: of the tilt :rent cleats Iltaly, as ender: out of ;,00.. ties,
LlO of the first elan; SO of.the second, eu of the third, and tO
of the Perth.
" Fur the firet and second elasses, the Machinery bas been
proved; at Kensington Palace, the Queen's Pelee*, the Mint,
the Speakers lieuse, Lord Liverpool's, Mr. Ileskisson's, Mr.
N fish's, and et the (Ms of Works; but a casettes occurred at
the Queen's Palace, where a title of the second tiass enstld nnt
be swept by .ice ball and brush, and upon examining the ester-
nal part of tt,e chimney, by going between the timbers of tee
ceiling and lead flat above, that part of the flue was out t.f a
level, the end nearest the shah being lower thee that next the
ere-etlace.
" I have not seen a Maclaine that will sweep many flues of
the third and fourth classes; but have succeeded with the lee!
and brush at the several palaces and places above enumenAd
and in the last week a chimney was swept at the Tower, with
:he :Alt ants brush, in half an hour, whites a bey was five hours
tints
sweeping s short tin since, and in width, II AM j' sansei, a
bay was once confined twenty-eight hours. '' '-' •; e 'et
" The receseity of putting doors in the reatialnieredicee
classes, hes been proved at the Speekees leetwerVnbere, ter
. want of them, they are obliged to eat oat tars 9r take dorm
part of the stone work every limethe +temente-hall chimney its
swept by a boy; as weii as at &manillas, Where they have
out doors in coomquehee el: accidents ixteurribg. Much has
been stated by the parties interestkinahest the injury done to
.the pursuing by the use of the Idacisinety and dm ball and
brush; but so far as the closest observation has enabled mete
fame= opinion, this is entirely without foundation ; for is dot
me of the common Meek* less compression is required than
I. ',tested by the boys to sustain their own weights and with
de ball and brush, unless there is a level, and, the ball is wan-
wetly thrown ;lowa, instead of being lowered carefully, there
ant* no injury done. In the course of my min experience, I
Imes never met with an instance of the necessity of employing
I climbing boy to repair the pargatlng of a chimney; and with
respect to the coring of new chimnies, it requires only a deter=
ntinittiou on the par; of the briadeyers to avoid the pieces.
lofty of it. .
" It will appear, that the result of my experiments is, that
all the really difficult ijues to clean, are met with in large mane
sons or peiblis office,. and that the middling and lower classes
of hoopy are entirely free from them, The doors introtlueed
in 'negate cap certainly be constructed to answer, by their toe
eality, -all the purposes of convenience, safety, and cleanliness,
~ The Machina I have seen used are Messrs. Senates, /hates
Watford's; Shipper's, Lee's, and the Path; feel thew us
nearly the sane in principle and effect. •
to Smart's bang most used its London, mimeos fait that
circiintstance advantagee the otber lave cwt; practice helms re-
quired to.give confidence (to the men employed.
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