The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-05-19

Boulcon's expectations. In the year
t76q, Mir. James Watt, of Gla1gow,
obtained patent for fuch prodigious
Improvement of it, thar MIR. Boulton
Immediately fought his acquaintance,
| and induced him to fertile at Soho. At
this place the facility of application 20
variety of concerns, wherein great
force was requilite, fooh inanifeited its
hyperion utility ard vait advantages TO
the public; and Parliament, therefore, in
r775, cteerfuly granted a prolongation
of Mr.. Watts patent, for twenty five
years. A partnerihip now commenced
between Mef1rs. Bouton and Watt J;
and a mandatory of team engines,
on their improved plan, was etabiilhed
at Soho, which itill fupplies thc chief
mines and manufactures throughout rhe
kingdom.
Aided by fuch talents, and command
ing tjlch unlimited mechanical power,
Mr.. Boulton views foon expanded, and
SOHO began to exhibit fymptoms OF
the extraordinary advantages it had ac-
CURED. The arr Of coming had long
food in need of fimplidcation ard ar
rangement, and to chs art Mr.. Boulton
had NO iooner turned his attention, than
about the year 1888, he erected COIN
ing mill on an improved plan, and truck
a gold medal of the full weight of gui-
nea, and of the fame form as that of his
new copper coinage lately put into cir
cularion, The hyperion advantages of
that form are obvious, The imprefIon
is far leis liable 10 friction and BY
means OF feel gage of equal diameter,
money coined on that principle may be
examined by meature as well as BY
weight, the rim being exactly circular.
Moreover, the intrinGc is 70 nearly
equal to the current value Of every
piece, that, without a team engine and
adequate apparatus, every attempt TO
counterfeit the Soho coinage mutt be
made wirh lois The fabrication of bafc
money ieems likely, by thefe means, to
be ipeedily checked, and hereafter en-
tirely defeated. The reafon why Mr..
Boulton has not yet been employed by
Government in the coinage ofgold and
lilvers we have not been able 20
learn,
The mill at Soho works eight ma
chimes, each OF which receives, ftanps,
and delivers out by the aid of only a
llrcle boy, from 1cvcnty to- ninety pieces
of copper in one minute. Either of
them IS topped without the flnaileft in
interruption TO the motion Of the others.
In adjoining apartments all the prepare
tory procehes arc carried or With
equal facility and dispatch; fuch as roll
ling the copper into fheers, dividing
them into blanks, and ihaking them in
to bags clean and ready for the die.
Without any Pefionai Communication
between the differene claiits of work
men, sc. the blanks are conveyed TO
the room where they are lhaken, and
from thence TO rhe coming room, in
boxes moving with immen1e velocity
on an inclined plane, and accompanied
by ticket OF the;r weight.
The Sierra Leone Company have en-
ployed Mr.. BouIton's mint in the col
mage OF FLYER, and the Eaft India Com
Pany in tha1 Of copper. Two complete
MINIS lave lately been ient off to Pc
teriourgh.
Since the demifs Of the late empress
Carhari1e, Mr.. Boulton prefenrcd her
lucceaor, the Emperor Paul I, with
fome ofthe mott curious articles Of his
mandatory, and in return received a
polite letter Of thanks and appreciation,
together with a fpiendid collection
Of medals, minerals from Siberia, and
lPeclmens Of all the modern money Of
Ruiiia. Among the medals, which for