Are you aware of the circumstances relative to a subscription that was entered into?--Yes, in the year 1800 or 1801, a number of gentlemen, thinking Mr. Crompton had been neglected, agreed to solicit subscriptions, for the purpose of making him a liberal remuneration: I attended with those gentlemen, and applied amongst others to Mr. Arkwright; Mr. Arkwright’s answer was, that he would contribute to it cheerfully, candidly acknowledging the merit of the invention, and at the same time observing that Mr. Crompton had been his most bitter rival, for that he had superseded the Machine of his father’s invention, in the finer yarns; and he subscribed thirty guineas. We collected only about £400; we expected to have got a much greater sum; but in consequence of the distresses from the war breaking out, we found the result of our applications very inadequate to our expectations and his deserts. From the difficulty of collecting even what had been subscribed, and still more of obtaining any addition to it, we discontinued our applications. The money which was collected was paid to Mr. Crompton, not amounting in the whole to £500, I believe. Was that subscription commenced in consequence of any solicitation from Mr. Crompton?--No, it was spontaneous on our part, entirely from a sense of his just claim upon the public. MR. JAMES WATT, _of the House of Boulton, Watt & Company, of Birmingham; called in, and Examined_. Have you erected many Steam Engines for turning machinery upon Mr. Crompton’s principle?--A considerable number; I conceive about two-thirds of the power of steam engines we have erected for spinning cotton, has been applied to turning spindles upon Mr. Crompton’s construction. MR. THOMAS AINSWORTH, _of the House of Ainsworth & Company, of Bolton; called in, and Examined_. How long have you been conversant with the cotton trade in the county of Lancaster?--About thirty-seven years. Can you speak as to the extent of the cotton trade thirty years ago, compared with what it is at present?--I think it is increased in proportion as twenty to one. To what do you, in a great measure, attribute this rapid increase of the trade?--To the invention of machinery, and most particularly that used in spinning. To what invention in spinning-machinery do you most particularly allude?--The first kind of machine beyond the one-spindle wheel was what was called a Jenny; the next was Mr. Arkwright’s, for which he obtained a patent; and the next was Mr. Crompton’s. To which of those do you most particularly allude, as imputing to it the rapid increase of the trade; or do you impute it to them altogether?--There was a progressive increase; first by the Jenny, and then by Mr. Arkwright’s invention; but the great increase, and that which accomplished the main object, was Mr. Crompton’s.