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MemoIR of the L1F E and CHARACTER of Mr, CARTWRIGHT,

E have been ſo fortunate, as to procure, forthe Embelliſh=-

ment of the preſent Number, a PoR TRAIT of that INGE=- NIOUs2nd Goop Man, of whoſe ME MoRIAL of his STUDIES and INVENTIONS, we gave, with great delight, a particular, ànd, as we ſhould humbly hope, not uninteréfting account, in our Cri- tical Catalogue for the laſt month.—The following addition, to the fa&ts which were, then, communicated concerning the cha- racer and invention of Mr. CARTWRIGHT,‘has been put into our hands by a very reſpetable and obliging friend, whoſe fa-‘ vours to us, the public have already ſhewn themſelves ſufficient Iy diſpoſed to value.|

IT is a‘very ſingular circumſtance, that the ſubje& of the pre- ſent Memoir; whole rank as an inventive mechanic no one needs be told of; ſhould neither have been bred to any profeſſion con- nected with-mechanics; nor even have paid any attention to that

* ſcience, till long after that period of life, at which the generality of men eaſe to engage in new ftudies'or purſuits. It was not till after he had attained his fortieth year, as we have been in- formed, that his talents in this line, diſtinguiſhed as they have been in others, had diſcovered themſelves. This diſcovery, as new at that time to himſelf as to the world, was owing to an ac- cidental converſation with ſome gentlemen of Mancheſter, whom he fell in company with, by chance, at a watering place.

One ofthe party remarking, that as ſoon as Sir Richard Ark- wright’s patent, which had then but a few years to run, was ex- pired, it would“ be impoſkible to find weavers to work up all the cotton that would be produced‘by the increaſed number of ſpin- ning mills, Mr, Cartwright obſerved, that ſome one muſt, in that caſe, invent a mill for weaving: This, he was told, would be impraticable, and arguments were adduced by ſeveral of the gentlemen preſent, who from the nature of a Manchefer educa- tion, were converſant with thé art of weaving, to prove-the im- pradticability of the attempt.

So little ſatisfied, however, was he with their arguments, and fo little difficulty did he ſce in the attempt, that he expreſſed his

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