Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-10-25


reven1e department, Drought eonsidera-
pie cao,tai INTO c;rculatian, and resumed
new life and activity. 4
The old manufacsories recalled their
workmen, and new ones rose up as oy en-
chantment; the love of the useful became
the prevailing taste, the national feeling
and the mode: and France, growing In
prosperity, saw all parts of her extended
territory covered with establishments OF
spinning and weaving. stamping and
dyeing, which would soon suffice Tor her
internal consumption, and forever shut
out that great market from her jealous
rivals.
Societies were formed for the encour
agement of domestic industry, composed
Of all that France could boast; Of men
profoundly informed in the various bran
ches of industry and science; frlends to
their country, as ardent and generous as
they were learned and wise. And science
herself, promptly de- ending from the
heights of transcendant theories, entered
every workshop, simplified the old, In
vented new machines, and perfected ali
the instruments and implements OF art.
Chambers of commerce, created In all
parts of the empire, made known through
out the whole of it the wants, and the suc-
cesses of the industry over which they
watched. French cloths appeared again
in all the fairs; the silk looms resumed
their ancient activity, and increased in
number.
Soon, under the tutelary regards of the
First Consul. Lyons, the second star Of
France, rising from the ashes to which
civil dissentions had reduced her, reas-
sumed her station among the first manu-
featuring cities of the world; and, by new
processes, more ingenious machinery,
doubling her productions, she can at this
day suffice for that extensive expectation,
which renders strangers contributary to
that beautiful portion Of French industry.
In ali critical occasions, Napoleon was
ready to aid, by wise distribution Of
capital. the rising industry, or that inn
peded by momentary obstacles; and if the
largesses bestowed upon his courtiers,
both civil and military, have often yielded
to him nothing but ingratitude, the ad-
.
which were in most instances faithfully
rapid, procured him the grateful attach
ment of the manufacturing class while he
lived, even after he had ceased to reign,
and caused their tears of unfeigned sor-
( row to flow on the news ofhis de ath.
! Schools OF industry, special and gratui-
tous. were opened under the directions ct
/ the abest masters cannot say how many
other places. Drawing, descriptive geomn.
try, mechanics, and chemistry, mutually
aiding each other, gave general impulse
! to this new born industry, which advanced
| with rapid strides towards the highest pros
1 periiy The very choice of the situation
| where tw of these schools were established,
| is a Characteristic indie alton OF the genius OF
that man, whose aim was not only to do
good but 10 do IT we'll.
| In fixing the young pupils, tie hopes and
pledges of future industry aud prosperity, IN
The neig hboIhood OF Compeigne and Fon.
! taiDbie4u he clearly showed The interest he
took in them, and that he found no recrea.
ton, no amusement, so worthy Of himself as
the personal and paternal care with which
he visited, cherished, aud watched over this
precious source OF national prosperity. But
all these means which Napoleon Confined;
the custom house regulations, the societies
of encouragement; The chambers Of com.
merce the b:nks, special schools, reunion Of
The learHed; all these might have produced
| but transient success, and all this paternal
sclicitude for The advancement oil the nation
al industry, might have attained bui an
| pphemeral and dubious success. bad Napo-
leon net been seconded iD his patriotic ex-
ertions and enterprise By a most powerful
auxiiary-ENeLANp.
sit is truth well known in France, snd
known though not svOwed in England, that
the maritime blockade was the effective
cause OF that prosperity which industry al
| tanned in France. The blockade tIs whis-
! pered to France the secret Of her strength
| The pride OF the nation awoke; and the
national industry, born as ii were but yester.
day. has already reached an elevation from
which the Jealous rage OF TIE British Cab
| net can never disro>ssSs /. Tbs industry,
in growth OF twenty three years. improved
| by emulation aud experience, has struck its
| roots so deep, thot the storms ot civil dissen-
| ton cannot BOW uniasen them. Since that
| epoch all the special schools founded by
Napoleon. aud that celebrated poly ,echnt
| school, founded by hionge aud Prieur, have
every year enriched the arts. The com
mercial establishments, the laboratories, and
! the great factories, with all the pupils that
could be spared from the artillery, tie engi
| neers, marine. or the roads and bridges; this
| enlightened class, enCreastUg daily for %
years. taken possession OF, and cuitivating
the soil OF French industry, and entering in
TO every manufacture throughout France, has
| rendered the arts and sClences familiar and
| pODuiar la descriptive geometry. I'm draw.