The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-07-08 00:00:00

TO TIER Ethl3ll oi TIER BRlnsu PRESS.

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Stw,—Feom your Paper of the tiih n!I. 1 copied the
imiler•parsgraph, which was taken from the State Courant,
dated Hattie. the 1711. June:—
" The Slate Courant monism his Majesty's Decree lu.
She reciimacestwot of woollen twanufaritiri s of Orr kiliz
dum. • Hy this Decree, which cuistairs this oy three oritel.
till the military and anvil !Wier, at home and abroad, .:
*lee clothed in limb of the oedema wiasinfarture.
" Stich cloths are also to be used in all charitahle
Ills Slairsiy as.J all persiii:4
attached lu the Court, as well as his household. and
of the Prise..., shall use no woollen cloth. of sisals but
arch as are of our own Miniifaclure. The Gicat
of Stale, the Members, the Magistrates,
Sc. Pore!,
follow the noble example of the klieg; all the woollen iv .
factures of the kingdom are to Stave a many or Mal k 1.6
thentirate the origin." .
If. Mr. Editor, it tweets kui;r approbation, 1, as I c.e. .
trailer of your Paper. shall feel much by pi-.
merlin( the under remarks, Which. I hope, will meet thy ..)••
of his Majesty's Ministers. stud Hume who supportaif thew,
io laying 00 that impolitic sod unpin :lent tax of st. pre
mimed on foreign wool. It is well known that a cunsarrabi,
qu sillily of wool has,do ring the last four years, been on por!ril
from Holland. sod booths up herr at prices it hick enatili
the mauufattimers in Yoilishire gad Lancashire to iiii• it
with wool of English growth, sod so to make it into good.
imitable fur home as well as foreign coassimplitin ; She rye, i
which it fetched iu this country writ satisfactory in the in,
oasts in Holland, and rumbled them to take ~or loud, n.
Mum! which bas brew dune to • vet, esinsideraMseiariii.
161 hose which oar Cumeraostat must hate derifeil cleat ad-
eisoitior, by duties paid no the export amid wimilcos.
7. The tax of ed. per parotid MO Dutch wool may he cons.
,dead a prohibition N the article, !sift sonsethiag like 5 I
per cent. on its valve, and couotquestly cat. ow longer b.?
made toss of here.

This has gives eneouragensent to the Hatch Government,
sad has certainly caused the above Drum le have het ,e
passed, and in my opinion our Govetnenent will hoe s
greater 211.0111111 in duties by lb* loss of ear Dutch trade 11,
woollens, than it will ever realise by the tax so unailviDedty
laid upon the wool. Many are lbe evils that may arise (rum
this ingweident act, viz. the traesporting capital and latest
Guns this country to Holland, fur the purpose ..f estahloh
lug mane factories fur curwbiog, spinning, and weaving ut
woollens, eke. lee.; in order to avoid this, it would be wise
our Gove►nmaent immediately repealing the wool tax, whirl.,
I believe. has bitter/10 produced hide or nothing to the m-
. II a generally umiersisierel that it was imposed upon
this country to plea*e the agriculturists of Ibis cuumey.
They au doubt (viz. the agriculturists) suepecied it would
greatly enhance the value of Eughsh wool, but it has bitter r-
to had nu effect us the article ; our foreign trade fur the ex-
portation of "mulles goods has commute' to elirrear esec
since this tax ►as been imposed, mod should saber Pour's.
follow the IMOe example as Holland (viz. not receive or.,
woollen inasiefachmes), by and by English auuls may slut be
half their present value.
It ought to be the study of this Government to softy fo-
reign wools to be imported auto this imitate, distyfree;
and, by so doing, it would enable the enamifectuiers to
offer their goods at prices which would Command a wile on
the Continent, and then employment might be given t..
thousands of labourers who are um* ire the gre.itest state of
distress awl misery ; these are the Divisions of one alio is 3
Wrii.Mielltr to his country, and would wish to see it stand
prS eminent in its sanuraetuses.
London, July 3, 1810. J. I!.