"When we read in Mr. Arkwright's Case of "his inventions and his machinery " being pilfered from him by artful and designing individuals," we cannot help feeling sorry for him ; but when we find that " his inventions" were all pirated from others, and that one of them (the crank and comb) "was cruelly wrested "from poor Hargrave," or, in other words, stolen from the man whose hard case he so feelingly deplores, we see the true bent of Mr. Arkwright's "natural genius "and unbounded invention," and feel emotions of a very different description from those he wished to excite."
January 1, 1970