INJURIOUS MANUFACTORIES. \23d 



djecifions in a court of juftice, when fentence is to be pro- 

 nounced between the fate of a manufactory and the health of 

 our fellow-citizens. 



The folution is fo much (he more important, it is become fo 

 much the more necefTary, as the fate of the mod ufeful efta- 

 blifhments, I will lay more, the exigence of many arls, has 

 depended hitherto on fimple regulations of police; and that 

 fome, driven to a diftance from materials, from workmen, or , t 



from confumers, by prejudice, ignorance, or jealoufy, conti- 

 nue to maintain a difadvantageous ftruggle againft innumerable 

 obftacles, by which their growth is oppofed. 



Thus we have feen manufactories of acids, of fal ammoniac, Manufactories 

 of Pruffian blue, of beer, and of leather, fucceffively banith- ob J e<aed t0 « 

 ed from cities; and we daily fee appeals to authority againft 

 thefeeftabhmments made by troublefome neighbours or jealous 

 rivals. 



As long as the fate of thefe manufactories is infecure, as long Disadvantage of 

 as an arbitrary legiflation pofletfes aright to interrupt, fufpend, havin § n0 fixed 

 or fetter the hands of a manufacture; in a word, as long as a 

 Ample magiftrate of police has at his nod the fortune or ruin of 

 a manufacturer, how can we conceive, that he will be fo im- 

 prudent as to engage in undertakings of fuch a nature? How 

 could it be expected, that manufacturing induftry fhould efta- 

 blifh itfelf on fuch a frail bafisr This ftate of uncertainty, this 

 continual conteft between the manufacturer and his neighbours, 

 this perpetual doubt reflecting the fate of an eftablilhment, 

 paralyfe and confine the efforts of the manufacturer, and gra- 

 dually extinguifh both his courage and his powers. 



It is an object of primary neceflity therefore to the prof- 

 perity of the arts, that lines mould be drawn, fo as no longer 

 to leave any thing at the arbitrary will of the magiftrate; to 

 point out to the manufacturer the circle in which he may exert 

 his induftry with freedom and fecurity, and to allure the neigh- 

 bouring proprietor, that he has nothing to fear for his health, 

 or for the produce of his fields. 



To arrive at the folution of this important problem, it ap- 

 peared to us indifpenfable, that we mould take a view of eatfi- 

 of the arts, againft which the moft clamour has been raifed. 



With this view we mail divide them into two clafles. The Claflification 

 firft will comprifeall thofe, the procetTes of which allow aeri- jf ad c b J eftionaWe 

 form emanations to efcape from them into the atmofphere, either 



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