The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-19
NoRrnAMprox, (Mass.) Sept. 6.
INTERESTING.

He has addressed circular letter to the Post
Master of this town, requesting OF him to for
ward u statement of all the manufactures estab.
hshed III the vicinity of this place. 1t is Of the
highest Importance that accurate information
should bs procured, and that government should
know what is the present state OF manufactures in
this country.
With view to obtain this information, the fol-
lowing hints are suggested for the consideration
OF those patriotic citizens, who feel Interested in
promoting home manufactures:
Let a committee of three or more persons be
appointed in each town III this county, who will
undertake TO collect all the necessary facts, and
arrange their statements under the following
heads
1st. Manufactures of Wool
What number of carding machines are there
in the town of -
What quantity of wool is carded by each ma
chine in n year
How many clothiers' shops are there! What
quantity of cloth is dressed in EACH and the value
oft? 49,.
Cd. Manufactures of flax.
How many yards of linen and tow cloth are
itl
Manufactures of Leather. How much Lea
Their is made in the town of --. and the
value?
Manufactures of Iron, other than the common
blacksmith work.
Manufactures of Hats
In addition to the facts arranged under these
heads, it would be important to gain information
on the following points
LIST What is the quantity Of Flax and Hemp
raised in each town, and the price
ID Can the quantity of those articles already
raised, be much increased, and to what extent !
3D. If N can be, what encouragement is want
ing to induce Farmers to turn their attention
more to the cultivation ofthese articles,
In the present circumstances of the United
States, 1t is OF the first necessity that the resour.
ces OF this country should be known. We hope
therefore that our fellow-citizens of all parties
will cheerfully communicate such information as
they may possess. The manufactures of our
country are becoming every day of more impor-
lance to the people. We shall be driven to RELY
more and more upon manufactures, AS our fo.
| reign commerce labors under increasing embar-
easements. The enterprise of our citizens must
be directed to the improvement of the internal
resources OF the country, or we shall soon expc
| renee still greater evils, from depending too
| much upon the faithless politics of European
| Courts....Anti- d1oaarchist.
! An Apparatus of the utmost public utility, was
| lately liked in the school-room ofthe well known
| DIR. Wanostrocht, of Camberweu, in England -
| The main tube measures 50 inches round, and
| runs upwards to the ceiling of the school room
which is Ia feet high from thence it proceeds
to the middle ofthe ceiling, where ii joins a round
hollow box, teet over and ten inches deep =
which box has hollow tubes of feet long all a.
| round making in all 90 feet diameter, and poin
ting to every direction, in the school This draws
from thence to the stove, about 600 gallons of
foul airper minute. In common sized rooms. an
| ornamental aperture of 4 inches diameter is all
that is visible. Would not these be of the great
est Importance q, ships, churches, bathrooms
barracks, and every description of crowded as
nh icia
men of science in England say they would, and
| have granted the patentee, their certificate 10
that effect. They are called Merryman's Patent
Purifying Air Stoves.
N. b. They are likewise never falling cure
for the worst of smoky chimnies London Pa,
per-
A cause of an extraordinary nature, was de-
cided at the last term of the Hastings Court of
this Borough The case was this A French
privateer about three years since fell in with
vessel belonging to this port, in some part of the
Florida Gulph; carried her under the shore and
anchored plundered her of part of her cargo,
materials, and took out two negro slaves belong,
ing to the owner here afterwards the master of
the privateer Gas the master ofthe American YES
sci stated i'll his protest, but which was not be.
fore the courD compelled the American master
to draw ransom 6iHfor 1000 dollars on his own
err, which the latter did. The action was bro't
to recover the amount of this bill. The case was
reserved on points of law for he court, who we
understand unanimously decided in favor of the
defendant.
We were not present at the argument, but
wretched indeed must be the state of our COM
merce, if our ports were to countenance such ac.
tons. The pirates, for they little better, WHO
infest the seas, would make short work with US
what they could not safely carry of, they would
make us redeem by ransom bills.... .NoyfoH Led.
ger.
REMARKAsLE PHENoMgNoN IN EATURAL
HISTORY.
In sinking we'll at Mr. Anthony Holmead's
plantation, near this town, at the depth of ifty-
four feet, the workmen struck upon substance,
which, on examination, appears to be charcoal, in.
termixed with sulphur, & some metallic substance
,uhich piues IL a ginning annearance 1hc hn.i..