EMOIR3 ok JAMES BRINDI
J \.ME". BRINDI
i i navi
*■■(!, in the parilh
. in, 171 C. IT.,
fecptca
d in rufti
c bound !
. The
abfent, t:
prenti
to fniilb pieecs of wo which
; received no info uct'ou, and '
return, :\ to fee
impro
niun o
, to the
. being
grow n
iferlf, and, i.
ontributed to fupport
in a com I
icr.
In | Brindley
mill Wright on his own account, and, by a
r of new a
i dnt branch of mci I
oourliood.
.in Lancafhire,
I >r the purpofe of drab coal mines.
'< [ere bis abilil i
I n I of work for wh rwards
i tunnel un-
I rod. ncai I
gth, by which water was brought Out
■ Jrwell i'or the purpofe of turning a
art!). In 175.a yed to
a filk mil!
tl, who
of th'
machii inted th'- whole
lan in a. ir
ible im-
lion of
time, too, the mill
StafFordfhire potte
ufeful improvi
ie undertook to i
' , upon a new plan,
ider-Line ; and lie was for a time very
' upon a variety of contrivam
dds ufeful piece ofmechanifm ;
ay to take the lead in
proved to be)
tional concern of capital importance, the
ting the fyftem of canal navig
vater, who had I
of carrying a canal from !■
at Word
hi of Mr. Brindley, I
fult him on the execution of it ; and hav
acity to perceive, and ft:
nd to confide in, the original and
oldies of thi; (elf
aiittcd to him the' m
ig. In the
'd' tliefe works, Mr.- Brindley,
from the very firft, adopted thofe I
ales which he ever after adhered to.
and in which h
To preferve a
, anil to avoid the mixture
and interference of all natural I'm
Which lie conftantly
To accompliffi . labour and cx.
tnedto
• them,
' raordi-
The ponfor
•od confounded ai
over naviga
deep vallie
I ibl a • Is; nor could they be
in the practicability of fome ed'tbel'e
iea till they faw them effected. In the
he followed were his
own ; and t! ft, as well a
>. 11, ol
'lamp of originality. Every man of
tlaft. Mi. Brindley was
Thuiiafi in favour of the fnperiority of canal
above, thofe of river-; ; and thii
. mm h
o 1 a / •
■•: preffi d in a ftri
nation I
comma
rivalry with che na •
on of the 1; •• bold
enterprise ol
common ad over the kingdom to
iccompanying with infillti lei the
of the navigable ri
r the fuccefsful c f the
nal to Mi
Mr. Brindley wa d in the 11
the Trent, through the counties of CI
ifTord. This undertakinj
eed in the year 1766, and from the
it opened to the mind of il
or, of a fcheme of inland navigation.
mould co irre& all the internal p iris
if England ith the
principal fea ports, by means of branches
from this main dream, be gave it the i m-
I nam- of the kv Gran 1 Trunk." In
ting this, lie was called lip-in to em
ploy all the refou invention,!
count of the inecji
ound to be • rh ; in particular
the bill of Harecaftle, which was only to
Iby a tunnel of gre it length, bore
ii ftrata of diffi >iency, and
if them mere quick-land, proved to be
a moft difficult as well asexpenfive 6b
whit h, however, be completely I.
While this was carrying on, a branch from
the Grind Trunk to join th , near
il tfe hismamgi
and was finifhed in 1772. ! '
1 from Droitwich to the Severn ; and
mi dthe Coventry canal, and for fome
time I'm ution, but on ac
n opinion he re
that office. The Chefterfield
I.ill undertaking of the kind whi< bhe
Conducted, but he only lived to finif]
f it. There was, however, fcarcely
i em foot in
I, during the la of his
was not donfulted, and the
. which he did not either |
1 improve-. A 1!
ate ; but as an il due!',
. it may lie mention
planning a canal from Liverpool tojoil
ofthe Duke of Bridge Rimcorn, it
i-t of his intentie n to carry it bj
■orofs the Merit v a;
■ '[>, a. place where a tile, form
rifingfourtepifeet,rufhes v. i
b a fudden contraction oft he cha
confulted on othei
to the draining of the I
entpartsof Lincoln/hire and the Ifle of li
ly, and t<> the (lean!'
• ai! from mud. He pointed out -a
I which has been Id'
fed, of builciin-; i',a wall-; without mortar ;j
he v of a very
improvi i machine fordrawin
ter out of n the contrivanci
bucket.
The inteniity of application which all his
an 1 cpmplicat
quired, fhortehed bis days, as the nt
in fome degree, im
-1 [c fell into a kind
of chronic fever, which, after continuing
years, with little intermilfion, at
• ame, and put a
od to his life, on September 27, 1772, in
ie died at Tti'rn-I
liurll in StafforcHbire, and was buried at
New Chapel in thi mnty.
In a]
acquirements, Mr. Brindley was a. mere
fpeech ; it
ifier for him to devil
c.iating adefign than to oommni
oncerning it to
nature for the pred'e-lfion he aflumed, i
atone tliat be- was in his proper eh -
ment ; and Co occupied was his mind
bufinefs that he was incapable of rel
in any of the common !' life',
had not the ideas of other men to af
(id him, whenever a point of difficult) in.
contrivance occurred, it was hi
retire to his bed, where, in pi rfe&folitude,
Id lie for one, two, or '
pondering the matter in bis mind, till the
requifite expedient hadprefented itfelf.
This is that true inl'piratiou which
ilmoft exclufively arrogated to thefn
feives, but which men of origin
every wall: ted by, when, from the
operation of the mind acting upon itfelf,
without iritnifion of foreign notions, they
Create and invent.
A remarkably retentive memory was on
idle)
ibleg i of; tin
with
nioil. Is or drawings, pro
d once accurately fettled the
■ plan in h
i. ulation of ma
, be followed a plan peculiar to liim
felf ; but, indeed, the only one he
follow without ii in the ml
art. lie would work the cjuc-fti ii
head, and
■a a mental
refult, and thus he
mark l
.-.>.", !- rful pow< i-s of
native genius, he was thus enal
mt of artificial methi
tain di no doubl
plicated, with accounts of variouskii
all forts to
nent, whit b a readinefs in tb
obviati
d to be the con
at dcfigli.
y and
ited ids im
■ utinp: them ;
,in formin
i<d with the
of which he •
liitageofbis employers wire un
hable. In line, the name of I
ley will ever keep a place among tlial
nuniber of mankind, who form xras in the
art or fcienee, to which they devote them
felves, and durable extcnl
their limits.
We have received a copy vf GOI'EKKOR Sf.
Claiu's Speech to the Council and
House of Repra of the
Territory N. W. of the Ohio. It is
tains much matter er.
:'. But the following extract
worthy of general no
tice.
" SiTUATEn, Gentlemen, as we are,
in a country bordering upen ma
with whom (the principles of
6n ai • flion) it is
our ml
at peace, it is cl i'o-y, that the
iade with them by t'■
contravened with in ofthe
inhabitants of th
proper that the general regulations',
I with refj
■ an1' 1 by municipal
. by the ordinal
■ territory, been made
; (peaking of tl it fays, " in
their property, rights, and liberty, the)
lhall never ber invaded or difturbed, unlets
in juft and lawful war-, authorifed b
grelV, but laws founded in juftice and
hity (hall from time to time be made for
preventing wrongs being done to them, and
for preferving peace and friendfhip with
them." Tuftice, gentleim iiuch a
duty of fo< f individuals, and our
holy religion cor hat whatever we
that others (liould do unto us, fo
(houldwedo unto them. Toa.t honeftly,
fairly, and juftly, and to perform our pro
-0 Indians with whom the nation is at
peace, is'as much a duty, or more fo, as to
■ ho are in the highefl (late of civiliza
nd it is within the fphere ofyour I.e
aalh.,i ' it. I' h
ile of all the date ,
, both as men and
bib they loudly com
plained of c very injury or w rot
from them, and impe rioufly demanded i\<
-0 them
and ai ii ure, for which 1 have not
that any perfon was ever brought to
unifhment, and all proceeding from
tin- fade principle, that, b V had
light of the gofpel, they
ited, robb
ed :r,\o] murdc reel at i md the per
not to fiilti-r for it.
VVhat kind of ( hriftianity is this, oi
found : Surely not in the
gofpel of JefttsChrift. And what an i bfta
brow in the wa) ol fuch ol
defirous to embrace that religi
on, the do which we profefs ti
believe to '. 1 in unerring wifdom.
■nd the ; v<
n they f.-e it (o
•i hy ns, with ivfpfa t to them. 1
hope we lhall be careful that np reproach of
this nal ■. But it would
be criminal to conceal from you, thai '}.-■'
unhappy people who have
>een killed fince the peace of Gi
iif this diabolical principle, is
alarm for
'o puni1 perfon who, wil
had !• iih-d two of 11
wounded two children, in Trumbull c< untv,
proved abortive. Thoue h the hoi
n, and that it was committed
trator was
r Inch cir< nmfti
ilized
'II remain [ 1 tve we
on to fear ofthe' Al
io looks with an ,n all
of the la
loofe to \ indicate his bro
mld be ta
to the Indians all lhe Drivilc*
are entitled to by treaty—to
afy to them—*
• do tin ir duties I y
d pains and p where die
religion fai cinq that
effecft.
IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS.
■ }<-'lV 1-
Dr. Dvi bring
i:> a bill "to compenfateeccleiiaftical per
on."—Lear.
Mr.
, the foil
1. That a Cum of I 1,4 11. d Is. I Id. be
>! to the Rig] , the
taker, to be by him applied I
fray th-.' c -menf- 'if form in tothe
fev< i al volumi s of th ,f the
journal'; of the Houfe of Commons, of
forming a General Index to the laid
Journal t, and of prin fame, and
alfothi of binding fix hundred
and nil lhe faid journals and In
-2., That bis majefly be enabled to - '
upon the c oiilblidated fund an i
', to be pa
• port of '.!
rank he holds in
earl ol and the li
amity of 1 2001.
id' an i dom in the thir
ty-lixl
4. That his i" nabled to cl arge
upon t! c confoiidated fund an annual Ii th
'01. net, to be paid to lord
Aylmer, to>
of this kingdom.
i 5. ThathisM enabled to charge
Upon the confoiidated fund an annual fum
not exceeding 12001. ret, to be paid tothe
Right Honourable John M ion, in
conlideration of his long and faithful fYrvi
o i crnmence upon his relignation of
Bice of one ofthe Commiilioners ol
bis Majefty's Treafury.
Cli V OF WASHINGTON.
I"'It SACK,
Lot A To.9, in Square 122.
THE above i» inferior to few lots in this city,
being but two fejiiares wcfl of the l'reficlenr's
Square, commanding an extenfive view of the
Potomac, it is a corner h>t, and fronts if5 feet
10 inches on 1 a Street, and 59 (>.et and an half
inch on loth Street. —An indisputable title will
be given en receiving th.c amount of the pur
chafe money, For terms apply to the fubferi
her a few doors eaft of the Little: Hotel.
JOHN KEARNEY.
N. B. I will alfo fell Lot No 4, in Squaw No.
.mi, fronting SS fee* 3 inches oh the Hennfyl
vania Avenue, arid extending hack 150 feet to
an alley of jo feet wHc, with the advantage of a
15 het alley along fide of it; and Lot No 24,
in Square No. 378, flouting 51 feet 5 incbes
»n Ninth flreet, and running back 107 feet t
indies 1 alley. Weft India goods will
m iii payment for a confidciable part of the
above propi ny.
I. K.
November 17, 1800.
BOARDING ash I,ODC,J
ITMVE orSix gentlemen cap be accommodated
with Genteel Board and Loelging, in a good
and comfortable Houfe, e>n New-Jerky Avenue,
it Mr. Lr.w's former rcfulcnce Alfo good
Stabling wherein twenty horfet can be accomeio
datco by,
SAMUEL BO&TES.
Nov. n6'h, 1800. 4 f-