1 Sept. 1801

Polit. Economy

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improvement would be the retaining the same quantity of hands employ'd in that

branch of manufacture, and thence doubling the quantity of cloth manufactured in

the time. But without an addition to the mass of his pecuniary capital which is

a circumstance accidental and not belonging to the case the retaining of the

same number of hands so employ'd would in no instance be possible: For the

production and keeping up of the machinery or other auxiliary means would always

require a considerable quantity of labour, the payment of which would be

attended with a proportionable mass of expence, by which a proportionable part

of his capital would be absorbed.

{ If the hands employ'd in the machinery were paid at the same rate /a rate no

higher/ as the hands employ'd in the manufacture, including those employ'd in

the importation of the[?] wood[?] if it be imported, as well as in the putting

together the wood and other materials to form the machinery the number of hands

employ'd by the given capital would be the same after the improvement as before:

so many hands less as were employ'd in the manufacture, so many more would be

employ'd in the machinery. But this supposition is in fact scarce ever realized:

not only millwrights, but even ordinary carpenters and joiners will require

greater wages than are given to spinners, weavers, and other hands}