Subflance of the Proclamation publish'd by the King of France in Corfica. I. AN Amnesty and Reftitution to Honours and Eftates, is promis'd to all that will accept of it. 2. Every Body to be difarm'd under Pain of Death. 3. All Impofts, Subfidies, and Taxes, not paid during the time of the Revolt, are to be forgiven, and not to be levied again till after the first of October-4. The Commiffary-General of the land shall not, as heretofore, have Power to fend People to the Galleys, but Criminals fhall be fent to Genoa, to be tried according to the Forms of Juftice. 5. The fupreme Tribunal of Corfica fhall confift of three Auditors, who fhall neither be Genoefe nor Corficans; but the inferior Judges fhall be Corficans, who fhall have Power to determine, without Appeal, all Caules not exceeding 500 Livres in Value, haveing before no Cognizance of any above 25 Livres.-6. Colleges fhall be erected for the Education of the Youth of Corfica, who shall be raised to the Epifcopal Dig. nity equally with the other Subjects of the Republick, which promises, in cafe of Vacancies, to propofe them to the Pope. 7. The Republick fhall nominate for five Years fucceffively, four Corfican Families every Year to be ennobled. Affaffins fhall be hereafter punish'd with Death, without Mercy. And the King and the Emperor will be Guarantees for the Execution of these Conditions. Lisbon. On the 2d Inftant N. S. arrived the Fleet from Rio Janeiro, richly laden with Diamonds and other Effects, great Part of which belongs to the English Merchants. Naples, The Baron de Neuhoff with two of his Relations were feiz'd on the 2d of this Month by the Officers of the Government, in the Houfe of the Dutch Confitl, and fent Prifoners to the Fortress of Gueta. Hogue. The States General have given France a remarkable Proof of their Readinefs to condescend to every thing the defires of them, in regard to the Affairs of Corfica; their High Mightinelles have turn'd out their Conful at Naples, for receiving at his Houfe the Baron de Nu hoff: the King of France being fuffici ently fatisfy'd with the Neutrality which the States Genaral intended to obferve in the Corfican Bulinefs, would content himfelf with the Demonftration their High Mightineffes had given of it, without the actual Difmiffion of their Confil. Da Troops to garrifon the fortified Places of the Palatinate, in the room of the Elector's own Forces, which he designs to fend into the Duchies of Juliers and Bergue, to protect thefe Territories from any Enterprizes of the King of Pruffia. In fhort, France has taken all the neceffary Steps for fecuring the entire Succef fion of the Elector Palatine to the Prince of Sultzbach: She has made fure of Sweden, is fecuring Denmark, and has it in her Power to bring feveral of the Electors of the Empire into her Interest. Relays too have been fettled every three Leagues between Manheim and Paris, ever fince the Indifpofition of the Elector. From Madrid. This Court at present feems principally engaged in making up its Misunderstandings with the Maritime Powers, with whom it appears fo far. from defiring to enter into freth Quarrels, that it endeavours, in earneft, to reconcile itself to thofe Powers. Conftantinople. 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Hyrnec Arech, Urg; proceeded thus, HE Gentlemen who were prefent when the Witneffes against the Bill were examined at the Bar of this Houfe, A may remember, that it appeared by fome of them who had weighed the Materials employed in covering a dozen of Needle-work Buttons with the fame Quantity of woven Buttons, that the latter exceeded the former in Weight; and that, after the woven Buttons were made, the Manufacturers were obliged to cut off fome Part of the Lift from each Button where it is fewed to the Coat, which Wafte ftill encreases the Confumption of the Materials. Nor, could the Evidences for the Bill, Sir, deny, that there was at least an equal Confumption of Materials in the one Manufacture as in the other. From hence, Sir, it is evident, that the carrying on this Manufacture by the Loom effectually anfwers the Intentions of the Acts paffed in its favour. As to the hon. Gentleman's other Argument, drawn from the number of Hands employed in the Needle work Manufacture, which was the fecond Point I propofed to fpeak to, it is, in my humble Opinion, a very good Arcument for difmiffine this Bill: be. B D caufe, as the Manufacture may be carried on by a much fewer number of Hands, with equal Advantage to our Trade in general, thofe who are employed in the Needle work way, are fo many Hands taken from other Arts and other Manufactures, in which they might be employed to much better purpose. I believe, Sir, it is not unknown to fome Gentlemen in this Houfe, that many of our Manufactures, very beneficial to the Empire, labour under great Difadvantages from the Dearness of Wages, occafioned by the Scarcity of Hands employed in them. But that Inconveniency would be foon removed, if the ufelefs People employed in this and other Manufactures were turned over to the Manufactures that abfolutely require them. Thus the hon. Gentleman's Objections arifing from his Tenderness for these poor People, deprived of this way of earning their Bread, will be removed to the Advantage both of the Empire, and perhaps of themselves. But to convince Gentlemen how unreasonable this very Argument is, I fhall beg leave to apply it to other Cafes, where a Manufacture or an Art has received farther Improvemen carrying it on with few There was a Time, S. the Learning of reft of Degulia nufcripts, the writing of which employed great numbers of Hands, and took up a vaft deal of Time in recopying. But, Sir, how ridiculous B C would it have been, if on the Discovery A Not only his Majelly and the general Approbation of the Empire gave a Sanction to a late Invention for improving one Branch of the Manufacture of Raw Silk, but this very House rewarded the ingenious Inventor with a Gratuity of 14,000 Sprugs. This excellent Invention enabled us to carry on the Manufacture with fewer Hands than it required before, and was therefore justly look'd upon as a publick Advantage. Now, Sir, I fhould be glad to know, if Gentlemen would not thought it a very ridiculous Step Former Manufacturers, if they ted a Petition to this Houfe, Engine invented by the Artist Tfahom Lebom, was not prohibited by the Senate, many Thousands of the Petitioners would be in danger of wanting Bread.' I believe, no Gentleman can fhew me wherein a Petition of this Kind is different from the Petitions that gave rise to the Bill now under our Confideration. Nor can I imagine that any Argument can be advanced in favour of this Bill, that does not equally serve against the Improvement, nay, the Invention of any Manufacture. The Longitude, Sir, is a Discovery that would confequently be a great Improvement of Navigation, by rendering it more fafe, and Voyages performed in a fhorter Time, and fo make lefs Employ for Mariners. Were an ingenious Man to discover the Longitude, would not our Sailors have as good Reafon to petition this House against that Improvement of their Art, as the Needle-workers have to petition us against the Improvement of theirs? and would they not have the fame Right to Redress? Having therefore, I hope, fhewn that this Argument drawn from the greater number of Hands employed in the one Manufacture than are employed in the other, is unreafonable in itself, and attended with the groffeft Abfurdities, I fhall now proceed to confider what Effect this Improvement can have upon our Exports. I believe, Sir, it cannot be difputed that the cheaper a Manufacture is carried on by a Nation, the greater Quantities of that Manufacture will that Nation be able to export. This Truth, I am afraid, appears but too plainly in the present State of the Lilliputian Manufactures; in which our Neighbours, the Blefufcadians, being able to furnish the fame Commodities at a cheaper Rate, underfell us at most of the Markets in Degulia. Therefore, I think, Sir, it is undeniable that every Improvement, which, by diminishing the number of Hands required in a Manufacture, reduces the H Price of the Commodity, ought to meet with Encouragement from this House. That the Method of weaving Buttons E F G ismore expeditious than that of Needle- Mohair and Raw Silk, yet when the working, has I think in effect been Mohair and Raw Silk of an equal owned by the honourable Gentleman, number of Buttons are weighed, the and the Counsel who have spoke for Materials employed in the Loom exthe Bill. Now, Sir, the more expe- A ceed thofe of the Needle-workers; ditious the Method, the greater is and the other Materials employed in the Reduction of Hands employed. Be- each Button, are not fo heavy as the cause, if a Man, who now deals to the Waste of the Raw Silk and Mohair Value of fix thousand Sprugs a Moon in which the Loom Manufacturers are Buttons, is obliged to employ eight obliged to make. But, Sir, befides Hands every Day, if four Hands, Sir, B this Answer drawn from a plain Fact, can do the fame Work that thefe eight that appeared at the Bar of your Hands can do; and in as short a Time, Houte; give me leave to say, that this he can difcharge four of his Hands, Objection against the Loom-Manufacand thereby fave half his Expences, ture is a very trong Reason that we and confequently he will be able to ought to fupport it; for, as the Inferve a foreign Market at a cheaper tention of thefe Acts was to encrease C Rate than he could before have done. the Confumption of our Commodities, The good Effect of the Reduction of therefore, whatever beft answers that Hands employed in this Manufacture Intention, beft deferves our Encourageappears from the Examination of the ment. Now, Sir, it appears that the Witneffes against the Bill: For it has Materials, befides thofe of Raw Silk been proved, Sir, that, notwithstanding and Mohair made ufe of by the Loomthe Obstructions they have met with D Manufacturers, are the Produce of this from the Petitioners for the Bill, the Kingdom; it appears, that their using Loom-Manufacturers have exported them does not diminish the Confumplarger Quantities, in proportion to the tion of the other Commodities; and number of Dealers, than the Needle- therefore it undeniably follows, that workers have ever yet done; and the Loom-Manufacture is beft calculathere is, Sir, an obvious Reafon for it, ted for answering the Intentions of the which is, that the Loom Manufactu- Legiflature. rers not only can afford their Commodities much cheaper than the Needleworkers can, but their Commodities are much better in their kind, much neater, and more lafting, as has been, fully proved at the Bar of this Houfe. There is, I think, only one Objection more, which I fhall beg leave to answer: The Petitioners for the Bill alleged, that in the Loom-Manufacture many Materials are ufed which are not Mohair, and that therefore the G Loom-workers in fome mea'ure elude the Intent of the Acts of Senate, made for encouraging the Confumption of that Commodity. This Allegation might have had fome Weight; but unfortunately, for the Petitioners, it is not grounded on Fact. For the Loom Manufacture does not elude the Intention of thefe Acts of Senate, becaufe, tho' the Manufacturers indeed make ufe of fome Materials befides We Having thus, Sir, I think, obviated the principal Arguments in favour of the Bill, I fhall now beg leave to put Gentlemen in mind that, by paffing it, we shall do a Thing which I am fure F every Member of a Lilliputian Senate would willingly avoid; we make an Encroachment, Sir, upon the private Property of our Fellow-Subjects. deprive them of the natural Right which every Man, in a Land of Liberty, ought to enjoy, of gaining Bread in an honeft and lawful Way. Nay more, Sir, we give a total Difcouragement to any future Improvement of Arts and Manufactures. How wil it found, to After-Times, that in a Reign remarkable for the Encouragement of all the Arts, efpecia ly thofe of Commerce, a Lilliputian Senate, by one Act, prevented ail future Improveme of any of thefe Arts? Leti draw upon us the Impit |