The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-22 00:00:00

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erown-piece; and being agatn, as usual, annealed,
each piece was forced to pass through small rolls wit/
round grooves, which made the form of the substalci
nearly round. It was then passed through certait
apertures of near a dozen steel tools, of which the holm
peogresiively diminished ; and at length formed part
.owhat is called a Rin,r. of Wire, of the weight of
441111111:• slate _E was sent to Andeeion 'nil Co.'s
warehouse, at Beiges-for sale.
, Roogit•by Messrs.- Barratti and Cotacsiny,. this
*ire was sent to their pin-manufacture, at Warmley, 5
. miles from Bristol. .and there beieg made into smaller
rinfis, each of 41b. weight—it was steeped in vitriol
And water. sad, beat upon a atoms' till. from being
,nearly black, it became the reverse of some other arti-
else wbea beat.--it actually became bright. In this
, state it is teemed Bright 'flee. At this factory it also
. passed through various tools until it was reduced to
the dimwit,' of " a pin ;" and having been rendered
,straight,- 41 was cut into pieces about twelve incliet
, long. It was then placed against a revolving, round
Still File, which gave ,the point—and was next cur
iibe length of " a pia." The hod was formed
• tof Ober wire, which on being twice spun round. a
• Owl of the same kierd of substance 'ale& form, was
trert-alf 1.? and a child thrusting the• point through
ellitt. bold. after two or three gentle witrokea• of a
, treading anvil. with a block fixed en the same, nom-
, plated the article which I,now bold between my finger
;and thumb, and formed it into " a pin." It was sub-
. eminently whitened with tin, which came from its
native county, and with tits dregs of Portugal wine.
vitriol. and ether ingredients ; and, thus finished, ir
Ives delivered to a woman, who was engaged to stick
ir, with. others.'on proper paper, in such rows, and t
such order, as here. behold. She, however, not being
able to read. mistook PUOR RICHARD'S ALMANACS,
which her hothead had bought to learn by heart, for
the appropriate paper. of. Baaaavrt: and- Co, Pin-
*takers and Citizens of tondon. and so here these two
aeonotoical articles come bar accident to be joined toge-
ther in my hand.
"pad now very little to do to bring- key history of
the mrisin and.forwation of the article which I have in
my lasnd to what, as a printer, I might have called point,
or Hop. l must remark. however, that more tons of
brass are, weekly, used fur making pins than for all
the others ends to which brass is usnally applied ; and
that, while every other implement of the same comp°.
sitiou, from a brass cannon to a brass button, finds its
way back to the melting pot, and becomes renovated, in
some article of a like or other form; " a pin" is the
only one that never returns; it is the constant con-
sumer of the composition of which it consists. It is
therefore the greatest excitement that operates on all
the eliciting engines and processes, and chains of ma-
estfactures god commerce that I have been so long
describing. It is this trifle, and its species, that gives
employ and bread to the many thousands of your fellow
cre.atnres which I shall leave you to calculate ; and
yet, after all the elaborate machinery of a physical and
mental kind, that it is requisite to raise the materials
anal complete the fashion of " a pin,"—and after all
the vast expense of skill and money, time and labour,
that is bestowed en its formation, even after all—you
will fiud.if you inquire at any time, that you may bay
sack all 910 as this at siti-teisvot Twassim Iva A WAR-
TIMM
" Who can, after knowing this, say, in• a contemptu-
ens tone, of such an implement as I now exhibit,
"'TIN BUT A PIN."
At this point the phantom ceased his discourse
and before I possessed recollection sufficient to make a
rrply, a strung electric spark shook, to dissolution, the
structure of the Spectre of pins ; and the image of the
sage completely vanished, in a moment, from the per-
ception of the astounded PETift PINCUSIIION.
TaigolicO, Nov. '3l. 1321.