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Show 18o CANADA PAMPIILET. el'tablilh in thofe countries, our hard-ware and woollen manufactures; but without fuccefs.--The reafons are various. A manufacture is part of a great fyftem of commerce, which takes in conve- niencies of various kinds ; methods of providing materials of all forts, machines for expediting and facilitating labour, all the channels of correfpondence for vending the wares, the credit and confidence necefiary to found and fupport this correfpondence, the mutual aid of different artizans, and a thoufand other particulars, which time and long experience have gradua/[y ef'tablifhed. A part of fuch a fyfiem cannot fupport itfelf without the whole; and before the whole can be obtained the part perilhes. Manufactures, where they are in per- fection, are carried on by a multiplicity of hands, each of which is expert only in his own part; no one ofthem a matter of the whole; and, if by any means fpirited away to a foreign country, he is bit without his fellows. Then it is a matter of the extremeft difficulty to perfuade a compleat fet of workmen, {killed in all parts of a manufaétory to leave their country together, and fettle in a foreign land. Some of the idle and drunken may be en- ticed away; but thefe only difappoint their em- ployers, and ferve to difcourage the undertaking. If by royal munificenee, and an expence that the profits of the trade alone would not bear, a compleat fet of good and {kilful hands are collected and carried over; they find {0 much of the fyltem imperfect, fo many things wanting to carry on the trade to advantage, f0 many difliculties to over- come, [A: B. T.] 7726 00191222: ufeful to G. Briim'n. 1 8 1 come, and the knot of hands to eatily broken by death, dilfatisfaétion and defcrtion ,- that they and their employers are difcouraged together, and the project vanilhes into fmoke.--Hence it happe ns, that ef‘tablifhed manufaétures are hardly ever loft, but by foreign conqueft, or by fomc emin ent interior fault in manners or government; a bad po- lice opprefling and difcouraging the workmen, or religious perfecutions driving the fober and induftrious out of the country. There is, in fhort, fcarce a fingle inf'tance in hif'tory ofthe contrarv, where manufactures have once taken firm root; They foxnetimes {tart up in a new place ; but are generally fupported like exotic plants, at more ex- pence than they are worth for any thing but curiofity; until thefe new feats become the refuge of the manufacturers driven from the old ones .--The conquef't of Conftantinople, and final redué tionof the Greek empzh, difperfed many curio us manufacturers into different parts of Chriftendo m. The former conquef'ts of its provinces, had éty‘h e done the fame. The lofs of liberty in Verona, Milan, Florence, Pifa, Piftoia, and other great cities of lItag'y; drove the manufacturers of wooll en cloth into Spain and Flam/err. The latter firtt loft their trade and manufactures to Antwerp and the cities of Braéam‘; from whence, by perfecution for reli~ gion, they were fent into Holland and Engl and : [While] the civil wars during the minority of Charles the firft ofS/Jaz'n, which ended in the lots of the liberty oftheir great towns,- ended too in the lofs |
