The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

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Previous to Mr. Boulton's engagement to pup.
y Government with copper peace, in order to
ring his apparatus to perfection, he exercised it
coining silver money fpr Sierra Leone, and the
African Ctsinpany ; and copper for the East India
Company and Bermuda.
Various beautiful medals, of superior. work-
manship to any of the modern money of this coun-
try, of oue celebrated naval and other officers,
have, from time to time, bobs struck here by Mr.
Boulton, for the purpose of employing and en.
couraging ingenious artists to revive that branch
of sculpture.
Since the demise of the 'ate Empress Catharine,
Mr. Boulton presented her successor, the late E:n.
poor Paul I. with some of the curious articles of
his manufactory, and in return received a polite
letter of thanks and approbation, together with a
splendid collection of medals, minerals from Si.
brria, and specimens of all the modern money of
Bemis. Among the medals, which, fur elegance
of design and beauty of execution, have never
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been equalled in this or any other country,
massy one of gold, impressed with a striking
likeness, it is said, of that Monarch. Our read.
era will be surprised, when they are told that this
unrivalled piece was struck from a die engraved
,by present Devoe; Dowager, who has from
her youth. taken great delight its the art of en-
,
graving on steel.
With a view of still further improving and faci-
litating themunufactory of steam-engines, Messrs.
Boulton sod Watt have lately, in conjunction
witli thliii sons, established a foundry at Smetli-
wick, il • short distance from Suho. Here that
Otrwerful agent is employed, as it were, to multi-
' ply itself, add ill various pasts All fa' e icated and
adapted together with the same regularity, neat.
ness, and expedition, which distinguish all the
•operations of their manufactory. Those engines
are afterwards distributed in all parts of the king-
doms by the Birmingham canal, which communi-
cates with a wet dock belonging to the foundry.
In a national view, Mr. Boulton's undertakings
are highly valuable and important. By collect-
ing around him artists of various descriptions,
rive' talents have been called forth ; and, by suc-
cessive competition, have been multiplied to an
extent highly beneficial to the public. A barren
heath has been covered with plenty and popula-
tion; and these works, whirls in their infancy
were little known and attended to, now cover se-
veral acres, give employment to many more than
600 persons, and are Indubitably the first or their
kind in Europe.

No expence has been spared to render these
works uniform and handsome in architecture, as
well as neat and commodious. The same liberal
spirit and taste has the great and worthy proprietor
gradually exercised towards adjoining girdens and
pleasure groands, which, at the same time that
they form an agreeable separation from his own
residence, render Sohu a much admired scene of
picturesque beauty.
The house, which was before much too small
for the hospitablo purposes of its generous owner,
has lately been considerably enlarged.
To comment upon the private character of a
gentleman in Mr. lloulton's situation, would be a
useless task ; we shall therefore only observe, that
as his great and expanded mind formed and brought
to perfection the wonderful works we have briefly
endeavoured to describe, so be felt no greater fe.
!icily; than that of diffusing happiness to all around
him.

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Mr. Boohoo was not only a Fellow of the
Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, but
likewise of that which bears the Imperial title of
the Free and Economical at St. Petershiugh, and
many other foreign institutions of the highest cc.
lebrity in Europe.
Fur a• long time pre►ious to his decease, he had
been confined to hit room by illness, and his disco.
lotion daily expected. His memory will e►er re.
main dear to the British nation, whose glory was
ad►anced in proportion to his own fame.—While
'we commensurate those great men who ha►e sought
their country's honour in the fields of war, we
ought not to omit paying a just tribute of applause
to those who have promoted arts, industry, and
commerce, and ditinsed plenty and comfort through
the realm, by cniti►atiug science, and applying it
to the useful arts of peace.

PURILISSI EIT RAOR DI `%ARY.—On Wednesday a
battle took place between two of the fair sex, one
of them a retailer of covers, and the other a
dealer in apples, who daily take their stands near-
ly opposite Adant.street, in the Strand. The fair
fruiteress, it seems, was jealous of her neighbour,
and the husband being imprudent enough to go
and swallow down—not love from her eyes, but
oysters from the tub, of the object of his wife's
jealousy, even in her sight, the injured wife's ire
was milted, and she attacked the u)ster-wontau
with tongue and eels ; this attack was returned
with interest—caps, bonnets, and handkerchiefs
were soon reduced to tatters, and the visages of
the fair combatants were disfigured with copious
streams of blood; the battle raged with such
fury, that had not the standers.by interfered, se.
rious consugnences might have ensued ; the oyster
dealer, however, enraged at the imputation which
had been cast upon her virtue, sallied forth in all
the parapharnalia of woe, to Bow-street, to pro,
cure a warrant for her opponent.
CORONER'S INQUEST.— A. shocking accident hap,
posed at the house of Mrs. Springe, in Oxford,
road, on Sunday night last. A yotmg lady, of
the name of Noble, and an aged mother, owl-
pied the first Boor and garrets of the house. Soon
after twelve o'clock, Miss Noble was seen to fall
from the window of the front attic; and it is
needless to add, she was killed on the spot. This
awful catastrophe happened whilst the deceased
was walking in her sleep, which was so customary
with her that the act did not excite surprise, nor
did it awaken the mother. The deceased had gone
into the street two nights previously to this meta',
diely event..., The Jary brought io a verdict of
dcridentid Death.

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