The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-02

put on his tombstone. We think it lust as
natural that the British Government should not
have thought of raising JAMES WATT to the Peerage
in his life, that should have regretted not hav
ing done so after his death. The grand and simple
nature of the man neither required nor suggested
such oblation. With no absurd disposition to
underrate the honors and rewards at the disposal of
the British Crown, which are quite as ample as toe
ordinary limits of human ambition and desert, to
such man as WATT they seem to US to be singular
ly inadequate and inappropriate. He would rather
have measured the gift, than have been measured
By it, 1t possible to make WATT lord, but he
could not have been made one without first re-
ducing his natural dimensions.
1t is eminently gratifying to know that this mag
nifcently creative brain supplied from the
fountain of kind and true human heart WALTER
SCorT says of him:
This potent commander of the elements-this
whose cloudy machinery produced change in the worid
only now beginning to be fe-was only the pro-
and calculator Of numbers adopted practical
oe 't the H b oa a6 q ind o & P
eighty year. the alert kind benevolent old had
at every ones disposal'
An observing woman described him as
lone of the most complete specimens Of the meansho
leaning his in mae hs
and his chest falling in, his limbs lank and mmuscuar,
was magnificent comparison and cauSality immense with
large deaty and Individuality and enor
i patiently nyestgang or quietly contemplating his OBJ
low tome broad Scottish accent his manners gen.
3 and %hGTe he wa
the whole time in pursuing his medations But this
csv Knew p Gf In ot OF &c pr1
Of kn9EIedge When he
ladies' even ie clilqrsn ihronged around him
him. that rats Whskers make the most plant painting
brushes ladies would appeal to him the best means fde
houses and obtaining eolors speak from expert
ajewsharp"
We add touch from the exquisite pencil Of JB-E
FREY:
'No man could be more social in his spirit less as
sna S il ali T hm kind
rather E liked to alk.at least in his latter years
Though
to By q sos and him. gP R S
s Scp G Of an by the
opened Generally seemed nened 70 have mo- or
BUT allowed T his ea eF to be-
opened at any letter his associates might choose to turn
what might be best adapted to the OF his present hear
As to their capacity he s himself no trouble and
things plain, clear and - Ineligible, that scarcely
y m talk @R in his
ton had 10 resemblance to lecturing or solemn dis,
pleasantly He had certain quiet and grave humor which
oenay Which infinite aest and eject the eon
versed and inexhaustibe information which formed its
ected estiness and tone of pretended rebuke and
adGtiOn with which he used to address his
of his kindness and familiaand priced accordingly far
all the solemn compliments that proceeded from
the lips of authority.
We close with an extract from one of Watts own
letters to his partner, Mr.. Bourbon, presenting
not only sample of the peculiar humor referred
to by JEFFREY-but also of his shrewd estimate of
mankind Speaking of one of his first Engines in
Cornwall, he writes:
"The velocity, violence, magnitude and horrible noise Of
the engine gye satisfaction to all behodes heev
ITS stroke gently and make less noise but Mr.
engine man And hebye the convey great
ideas of power to the ignorant who to be taken
WIN modest merit IN an engine than man.
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