Thomas Maguire

1839 'Salford Court Leet - Affeering.
Mr. Thomas Maguire having been presented on the previous Wednesday for a nuisance occasioned by his chemical manufactory, and fined 5s., with additional fine of £50, to be levied unless the nuisance should be abated in six months, appeared personally, and addressed the court, stating that the complaint was unfounded, inasmuch as the most offensive article he now manufactured, namely, aqua fortis, was made without smell, the vapour instead of being emitted into the atmosphere, as it originally was, being now condensed into jars. He assured the jury that he had already gone to great expense in apparatus to prevent the articles he manufactured from being offensive to the neighbourhood, and he could, if he thought it necessary, have brought many persons forward to prove that no offensive vapours were now emitted from his works. Mr. John Smith and Mr. Francis Wood were called on the other side to prove the existence of nuisance, the latter stating that a white vapour frequently ascended from the chimney of Mr. Maguire's works, which was very difficult to breathe, and was so destructive to vegetable life, that he could grow nothing his garden for it. Mr. Smith said the same vapour had the effect of destroying cloth being out to dry in the neighbourhood, and articles of silk and cotton, which he had put up to dry in the stove of his dyeworks, had frequently been stripped of their colours by it. The jury confirmed their former verdict.

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