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cess, and with much greater/fi£talnty, than they will evei be effected by any legislative ifftarference, however well meant it may be, and however much it may promise.1 Whd$rd they, after all, that advocate the introduction of foreign silks, and petition so urgently io Government for a free trade ? Are they the marrafwtdrers or the workmen Neither.’ They are the wardioueemen;—the class of persona who *« neither toil nor spin;” who buy from the manufacturers and sell to the dealers—who, the more ex-* t ■tensive their assortment the greater their chance of purchasers—and who are therefore anxious to hare foreign siIks ill their warehouses, in common, with British, because, as tastes are 'various, all customers may be satisfied. Ifthis class of persons, who maintain no labour—who keep no looms—who pay no wages—4f their interests are to be consulted, to the exclusion of the^artiaans and the manufacturers-—(hen, though half a million of starving workmen ihould-Jje ca3t upon the world, anl the ten thousand looms which give them bread should be burnt for firewood—the introduction of the foreign fabric is no doubt the policy suited to the end. But if it is njsnt that the Silk Trade should be made to flourish, and the manufacturer be pro-tectcd—-these are ends to he accomplished by other means. The projected system leads, we :are satisfied, to very opposite results.This important subject opens itself to so wide an extent of observation, that we are obliged, by want of space, to defer our further remarks upon it fill Monday.y y —-—We are amnefised to state, that the particulars containedm the Times of Wednesday respecting the Mexican Company, and communicated in t letter signed tc A Merchant/' are wholly untrue. The names of the Directors of this Company stand too high to require that they shouldbe defended against any aspersion which this anonymous libeller would cast upon them. It'becomes still less necessary when the slanderous fabrication is found in a journal ih which any scribbler, af he does but attack individuals suffidentlydwUnguUbedgmay find a ready vehicle for his scurrility. Without descending detailed refutation ofjfchWfgtfdCd #rtttechaot,” we tvtif give * purfttte ftf sbowixig-tfe at it is--j: - —x . . ...a, j.w *-rZi *\4.in;f i ii in 11n 1 miigiiiiijp urn™Yfk;4#».im
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British Press
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Dec 17, 1825
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