died in the workhouse at Nottingham. A mob rose, and scoured the country round Bolton and Blackburn, demolishing the jennies, and with them all the carding-engines, waterframes, and every machine turned by water or horses. Little did they anticipate the approaching advent of the steamengine, which was to extend machinery farther than either. Not merely the working classes, but even the middle and upper classes, entertained a great and senseless dread of machinery; not perceiving the tendency of those inventions which improve and cheapen manufactures to cause such an increase of demand for products as far exceeded the facilities of supply, and consequently to give employment to more hands. While the ignorant operatives imagined that mechanical inventions would cut away the source of their earnings, those who ought to have known better were alarmed lest the poor-rates should be burdened by the necessity of supporting workmen thrown idle. They therefore connived at and actually joined in the opposition to machinery, and did all in their power to screen the rioters from punishment. One magistrate alone had the courage to stem the flood of general madness; D. Rasbotham, Esq., of Bolton, published a sensible address to the weavers and spinners, in which he endeavoured to convince them that it was their interest to encourage inventions for abridging labour. The first Peel was among the sufferers; his machinery at Altham was thrown into the river, and he was himself exposed to much personal danger. He retired in disgust to Burton-upon-Trent, where he built a large mill, and transferred thither the capital, enterprise, and employment, which had been expelled from Blackburn. It must be added, that the people of Blackburn suffered severely for their delusions; spinners and other capitalists quitted their neighbourhood to settle in the vicinity of Manchester, the growing prosperity of their town received a severe