The enmity against the En...
The enmity agaiiinst1tielsh manufacturers at Cha- renton, a populous village contiguous to Paris, does not decline; gor, if we were to speak our sentiments freely, do we wislh that it should dlecline. Whlenever an Englishman- particularly from the middle rank of life-seeks a home in anoiher country, we are neither surprised nor sorry that that home should prove less comfortable than the one which he has quitted in his native land. But, notwithstanding our (lislike of the cmigration of British mecianics, we much doubt whetlher the practice is injurious-nay, whether it is not at prn'ent beneficial to the mother-country of these artists. Rivalry is always useful up to the point at which one party begins to succumnb; and the rivalry of British manufacturers upon Frenchl soil is not greatly to be feared at home. Let the French endeavour to com- pete it with us in the production of those articles in which we have hitherto excelled; we shall beat them still, and the competition will but serve to render us more perfect. PoxraEy relied greatly upon the two legions wlichl he had stolen from CAESAR. and the defection of LABIENUS, (CASAK's Lieutenaut; but the man who had formed the legions, and ilnstructed the Lieutenant, was not to be overcome by his own instruments in the hand o! another. Ve are for free trade, wherever the necessary clemaratds of revenue will allow. If our own manufacturers can prodluce in France articles which we cannot equal in England, then let us admit the products of their skill, that we may copy the works of our own nupils: but if-which is more likely-they shall only in- crease in the French a taste for the compact sym- metry and high finish of British articles, we shall profit by the emigration. It is not UponI the subject of commerce, but upon that of national feeling, that we are speaking. Let commerce be free and unfettered as the wind. We are not therefore bound to esteem those wlo carry the arts of their country to a tbreign land; but we fear them nos.