will
not fill up, by one-fourth or one-third, the space that well-wrought
stones do, in a piece of jewelling work; of course, purchasers of such
are deprived of one-fourth or one-third of the show or appearance that
well-wrought stones would make, and of the beauty and lustre that
always accompany such; next, that the same effects attend stones of
larger sizes, made after the same manner.
N. B. The same ill effects also attend small or large rose diamonds, made in the same manner.
The
ends and purposes that are to be served by this manner of working,
naturally fall under consideration : the most that can be pretended,
is, that by the world being brought into a favourable notion of these
goods, on account of buying them at a lower price by weight than
well-wrought stones, trade has been increased, and more hands employed;
but it cannot mean the increase of England's trade, for that has been
declin-ng many years, and its hands unemployed, to the great
impoverishment of the whole >ody of workmen, and those known to be
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