The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-22

fsre called LondSius, of which there are eoa,f and
fas fort. The German cloths are hyperion to the
French, and have fuperceded them in the Levant, as
| the French fupereeded the Engliih in 1850 under
MaurePas, and kept the market till 1882 aud the
Germans Implanted them in 1885. But the Ger
man woolens which have been moa fuecefsful in
Greece and Turkey, are thole known by the name
of>Leiefe dape,y, becaue generally purchafed at the
LEIPZIG tair; they isrviceabe but fought
alter on account of their colours which gay and
fantaftieal, fuch fuit warm climates. Thefe are
not made sp in large bales but in pieces which rem
bss e05' manufactured at dix Ia C5aeeNe mo lon
ger part OF Germany but Of France y and at Cer-
mont.
As are on the article Of woollens, perhaps it
may be erviceabe to 60 through that branch of trade
as relates to the different ccunrres-and 70 of other
articles.
| The principal woollens of Italy were manufactured
and exported by the Penefians (no longer part of
Auitria orstaly--but part of federatve France
the ine of thefe called Says, in great demand on
account of its 6neneis and thicknefs and being inn
pervous to rain is ufed for cloak and Jenie5s or the
body coat Of the Greeks. The colours of cloths are
matters of the fri confederation in all eatern coun-
tries, and this paflion partially alto prevails in
Turkey and Greece; the woolens Of Venice are pre-
eminently beautiful their coquelicots inmitabe
the Venetians alto manufacture iuiatisn5 of the En-
glib cloths called in Greece Londrins, but were not
10 fucceisful the French; the Venetians however
fold annually of woolens of every kind to the value of
$4,000 dollars, the fales of Germany were about
100000.
! The principal export of woolens from France, was
through Marfeilles, which had indeed mott :niudi-
eous monopoly of the Levant trade, which mutt now
fnecelity ceafe, were the policy of France go
verned by men as blind the fuccelIors of Colbert &
Maurepas--Venice, Livorne, and Genoa, will be the
competitors of Marleilles. The woollen manufac-
| 0f midi he p,h. Ill.
ons OF Louis XIV. and XVI. like the whole fytem of
French economics, IN progrefive Gate of de-
cline The patton and vices of the court, oblite-
rated every call of national interet and pride. The
revolution only the criis of this difeafe, which
ended in the excion of the morbid members and the
renovation of the body polite.
The cloths of LEIPZIG the mott fuccefsful rivals
OF the cloths of Langu.dae-yet from Marfees there
were ihipped annually to Greece the value of about
! 100000 dollars.
| The woollen trade of Batavia confled of fpecies
of cloth fronger than the Londr;ns and finer than
the Lepfcs they were in much requef, the amour,
$4,000 dollars annually.
| The commerce of the Engh in the Levant BEING
like that of Marfeies in France and the India com.
merce OF England, monopoly, accounts for the cir
cumtances that after all her naval power and all her
commercial genius, The is only hyperion Batavia
in the amount of her commerce with the Levant.
The Englifh Levant or Turkey Company, was e.
| reCtcu uEuer tne pragnatC reign OF lanes l6O6.
The members fwear admiiiion they will-not lend
| either their name their adventure to any per(on
they engage by the fame oath receive only the
productions of Turkey in exchange for the value fur
niihed in productions of England-A fyitem 70 alb
iurd at once accounts for the langour of the Engh
Levant trade, and ihews that it is not 70 much due
knowledge of the actual riches of the Mediterranean
which actuates the political and military movements
OF England in the Mediterranean the iaserea and
influence OF another n7ouopsiy that is the Ea- India
cempany-but we are dilcufing the wooilen trade-of
| the Ievant.
The Englifh woollen trade hourilhed until the
year 1881, %hen MIays6a, who appears to have
caught ipark of the genius of Colbert, gave fprng
to the induary of Lanquedoc of CarcaGone, Nismes,
Abbevile and Chalons, and by feduous and fuccen-
iul imitation of the Engh cloths, and the care en-
Ployed in the manufacture of Serges and Chalons
cloths, the French commerce prevailed; the Engliih
aforments were at fri of the whole quantity aGort-
ed, In three colours an equal proportion of green,
blue, and red latterly the demand had been wholly
for the blues. Another defcriptiou of Engfh cloths
called in the Levant A1abouGs, which the fame
that call broad Cloths, in the greatet demand in
the Levant and all Turkey The high price of thele
upernes is the only obacle their universal ufe in
all Greece.-The French have contrived to rival the
Englihin thefe articles in the Ea Indies & by the inn
itation of the eadma,is of the Engb mauufa turers
to fell French fuperfnes Engii6. Much of thefe
French fuperfnes introduced into the United
States at preient, and fold in the fame zvay to
accommodate old prejudices--as Gtsyfne ExgiH.
| lew years ago Mr.. John Humphreys Englifh
merchant at Conitantinople, conceived the idea Of
manufacturing Shaoons for the Turkey market,
which would fupercede the French.
The Chalons Tor vugularly Shalloons) is an imta-
ton of what the French call Serge, manufactured o.
riginally Chalons fur Marine; in this article, the
Englh fairly fuperceded the French by the fuperori
ty of their manufacture their nenefs aud evennefs of
texture, and brlliancy of coour-in this article the
Englih traded TO the amount Of 10000 dollars and
Tor Londrins, it was computed about il 600 dollars
for fuperfines or D1aJOudJ at - 900 dollars; in ali
27o,ooe dollars. This is general view of the WOOL
len trade, in which the rival nations have oppofite
inerefs, and in which the acceiIisn of the woollen
| trade Of the Netherlands-of Genoa, of Venice, of
Batavia, mutt be now all thrown into the balance of
French commerce.
The de-ning reader requires than the prefen-
taon OF the indifputabe ja75 given in thefe paper,
to his underfanding--the mercantile men needs not
be told where at remote day the American COM
merce is to find tsbf mark.tif there are any 70 be-
fotted to fee to ihut their eye. again0 the
light of truth, and the inevitable progres of things
be their folly their chaitifement--the order of
providence will not be retarded--and whatever yani-
ty or iehhnefs may propole to deceive itlelf-com-
1 merce will find its own level, the common fenfe of
the world will prevail infatuation-aDd the imbe-
ciy which attempts retard the progrcfs OF the uni
verie by cunning deceit-will find that the yani-
y and the felhlhnels of human atoms, compe-
to reit the DEGREES to upprels the voice Of the
creator.