ance and therewith ample crops. That this has been the 

 constant result of the establishment of beet root sugar 

 manufactories in France the surrounding country clearly 

 shows, they not only confer a benefit on their neighbor- 

 hood by the capital expended there, but teach the inhabi- 

 tants liow they can employ this capital most usefully; the 

 consequence is that a sentiment almost amounting to en- 

 thusiasm is now felt in that kingdom in favor of these 

 new undertakings. Russia, Prussia, Germany, indeed the 

 whole continent of Europe has now awakened to the pri- 

 mary importance of indigenous sugar, even in England, 

 ■with all her immense sugar producing colonies in the East 

 and West Indies, a company has been formed with a capi- 

 tal of two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be em- 

 ployed for this purpose. With such examples before us 

 can it be for a moment admitted that our country, with all 

 its advantages of soil and climate, and a people inferior to 

 no other in enterprise and genius, should long remain be- 

 hind the rest of the civilized world in the pursuit of an ob- 

 ject so eminently important. T have no such fear, hut on 

 the contrary a firm belief that if she was not the first m 

 the race, she will not long lag behind ; be this as it may, 

 we shall never I am sure be disposed to contest the praise 

 due to those enlightened and persevering Frenchmen 

 who, under every discouragement have reared and pre- 

 served the precious boon, and must be now justly consid- 

 ered, not only amongst the benefactors of their own coun- 

 try, but of the civilized world. To disseminate the fruits 

 of their experience they spare no pains, gratuitously dis- 

 pensing them to whoever may ask ; such liberality and 

 disinterestedness is beyond all praise as it is almost with- 

 out example : Had these men yielded to popular preju- 

 dice, to the shafts of ridicule, to pecuniary considerations, 

 or even to the opinion of men of science, whose sentences 



