American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-07-07

We extract the following paragraph from one OF
Professor Carter's letters, dated al Birmin CHAM
England.
On the following morning our tour Of observation
was resumed by calling, in company with fouf
yankees, on Dr.. Church, native of Massachu
setts for the purpose OF examining his celebrated
printing machine. He politely invited Us into his
study the tables and shelves OF which were loaded
with diagrams and scientific public atoms In few
minutes we were invited to accompany him to the
building, where his invention is in the iull tide OF
successful experiment" Alter several years OF
severe study and labor he has fully succeeded in his
plans, the practical utility of which is reduced to
demonstration. Mr.. Perkins, OF London, remark
ed TO me, that it is the most perfect machine he
has ever seen; and lew men have had wider ex-
percnce 10 mechanics, or are better qualified to
Judge.
Dir, Church at first put his press in operation,
and directed perhaps hundred sheets to be struck
Off for our examination. He then took the whole
to pieces. and explained the various parts. Its
mo ion approaches nearer to those OF an intelligent
being than should think it possible any combina
ton OF inert matter could produce. 1t reaches out
its iron hand grasps the edge ot the sheet, draws
il under the form where it receives the impression,
returns it to the Top Of tine machine and there de
posites it in regular files. All this is done in an
instant without the least noise or confusion. Be
tween two and three thousand sheets struck off
in an hour, the paper being drawn alternately from
each side, and the form being almost constantly EN-
ployed in producing an impression 1t feeds Itself
with ink BY means OF rollers communicating with
a trough. Three persons required to work it
one 10 turn the crank and the other two to supply
the paper.
1 The Typography is beautiful, being uniform in
its complexion, and free from blurs. examined
numerous specimens, taking the sheets ndIscrm
inaely from .reams OF the ordinary work upon
which the men were employed 1t is designed
rather for printing books than newspapers. The
price Of press is loO0t. Many applications have
already been made from London, and one OF them
is about to be established in New York. DR..
Church is silent, modest man, who makes no
comments on the merits Of his own invention, but
merely exhibits the result, and leaves others to
Judge. He is now engaged in completing his new
method OF setting types. which is to be effected by
melting and re casting the metal at every mpres
sion. He remarked, that his greatest difficulty was
to prevent the loss Of material by frequent fusion ;
but this he has obviated by a chemical process,
which prevents the formation OF dross. He IS on
the whole very clever man, possessing much SCI
entiic research and mechanical skill, united with
inventive genius and natural acumen.
i 1t is amusing to see with what boldness and ulti'
mate success adventurers from our country encoun.
ter the preiudces of foreigners, and push their Tor
tunes in the principal towns of England. In one
of the mos, fashionable parts of Birmingham, a
portrait pane r from the woods OF Kentucky, has
opened his rooms and is we'll established in bis
profe ssional pursuits called to pay our re-
spects, but found him closetted with lady, who
was sitting for her likeness. Such an undertaking
requires more daring spirit of enterprise, than 10
subdue the forests Of the west, TO give chace TO
the whale, amidst the icebergs Of the poles.