The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-15 00:00:00

AllEttit:lN rit-AINUP:titftES:

(FRobtTiti eitiisraurott COURANT)
Tire following is an answer to two lettert scut
.03 :Phitallelphia and New York, for information
on the 'state of their Manufactures; we think it
worth the attention of our Readers :
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You seem to be much alarmed with the state. of the Ame-
14can ma.tinfactures, taken by order or Comcressi. 110 col-
lected and pnbliiibed by Tenth Coxe, bytheir orders Believe
lift, that as an intereuurse is now np.cned with Britain and
Europe, b' the peace, that statemeat will but prove a tomb-
stone. You lutist knOW,ttiat iti.making up that list of artielci
Manufactured in'thelinited Slates, every yard of cloth or
every pair of stockings Made by the housewife, and indeed
every article made in pritate fdtiliiies, is, included. Ilpon the
strictest inquiry, I find the Ameritan manufactures, not-
withstanding what is there pnblished, bear a very small pro-
portion to the wants of the United States, who are increasing
rapidly in numbers, and more rapidly in riches. Here the
fanner has no rent, taxes, or tithes to pay; and the wares Of
the lamming classes are high, while provisions are cheap :
hence they have a great that to lay out in clothing, &c.
Yet it must he acknowledged, that during the war great
progress was made in.beginoing to manufacture; and the
Congress, in need of immediate supplies to pay the interest
of the money borrowed, as well as ignorant of laying on
taxes, and that judicious plan followed m Britain, doubled
the taxes, year atter year, upon all goods imparted, the only
tax then in being; by toliiiwing which easy method, goads
that paid only 3 per cent. duty, and some 5 per cent. have
been raised up to '20,30, and 33 per cent. But a- these taxes
were to last only till twelve mouths after the ratification of
the Peace, they will expire lith February, 1816; though it
-ill probable the duties on goods imported will not be reduced
so low as betore the war.

It must also be observed, that in the States of New Eng-
laud, New York, and Pennsylvania, they'have made considers
able progress in manuiiteturing of coarse and low-priced li-
nens ; in particular some common stout co ton goods; several
articles in the vondlen branch; many in iron, coprr, tltc•
together with crockety and glas • ware, have been made, and
are exported to the southern States ; machinery, to go by
water and steant, is also erected fir spinning cotton, sheep-
wool, /Lc. The late Qrders its Council, restraining the trade
from supplying the British West India Islands, as before the
war, with provisions, must oblige the faraiers iv pay more at-
tention to encourage manufactures,. ruin raise less provisions.
Woollen cloth is manufactur d ta I IJy r farmers, in al the back
settlements, as well as by those on the rivers Ohio and Ken-
tucky, for the family use ; a few sheep skins, an two or three
row hides With(' for the use of the famiiy; this the Collec-
tors- appointed by Congress call a tannery; anti also mark
.down evciy pair of shoes they make for their own use. In
this way, Tench Cuxe's lists of the manufactures of the Unit-
ed Sfate‘ are swelled, and appears so conspicuous to the
people of Britain.
Though the Americans have, during the war, erected a few
zranufactorics, owing to the plenty of raw materials and
their numerous waterfalls, yet the high price of wages in a
.country where the day-labourer gets a dollar and a half in
mummy, And dollar in winter, per day—where land in time
new states and back settlements can be bought from one to
three dollars per acre--no man of common sense will ever
think of turning; Manufacturer; and already has the immense
importation of goods from Britain, ruined and stopped Many
of those begun during the war. Indeed, nine out of ten of
the tradesmen who emigrate from Enrope, after working a
year or two at their trades, having made as much as will pur-
chase so or ion acres of land, leave it, arid folio* the more
plea,ant and profitable exemcise of farming.
It is the opinion of several whom I have consulted here,
Ahat the following article; hate, amid will continue to he im-
sported from Britain, with profit, and pay even the present
duties ; indeed, no other nation germs to be able to compete
leith Britain in the markets of the United States : broad
cloths front 7s. to 16s. per yard, and narrow in proportion ;
.dannels and blankets ; you excel in all articles of woollen
and cotton manufacture, for vests and breeches, and far
%mitten'swear; also in iron, except heavy goods, for coaches,
ploughs, carts, spades, axes, &c.; in cotton, except plain and
twilled cotton cloth for linings, and plain fuslians; and linens,
from Is. fki. per yard and upwardi.
Almost the whole manufactures of Britain and Ireland
(these already mentitmed excepted) have nothing to fear, as
txtravagance and luxury are increasing so much in this coun-
try; for which, I may boldly say, New York and Charlestown,
:South Carolina, are not exceeded by any town in Britain, Lon-
don and Bath excepted.
You Will scarcely believe, but you may depend on the truth
of it, that Congress, to pay the interest of the money burrowed
in 1812, 181:1, aid 1814; had continued to double the taxes en
goods' imported ; and in November 1814, to pay the interest
of the money bOrrowed for 1815, actually laid taxes on sundry
article's- begun to be manufactured by themselves, viz. on
every cOttonattlill, paper-mill, every pound o: pig and bar
iron, &e..4lpc: So'mu for the wisdom of Congress.