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SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



My friend, Mr. Lewis Sultzer, a very 

 intelligent German, with whom I went from 

 England, and resided in Mexico, is at the 

 head of the extensive mercantile establishment 

 of the Rhenish Company,, and has been ac- 

 quainted with the country for forty years. He 

 dined and spent a Sunday at one of these 

 places^ near the city, where woollens are made, 

 and on his return in the evening, his description 

 corroborated the account I had previously 

 heard. They have mass said for the wretched 

 inmates on the premises ; but high walls, 

 double doors, barred windows, and severe 

 corporeal punishments inflicted in these places 

 of forced industry, make them as bad as the 

 worst-conducted gaol in Europe. As the 

 people receive their ideas of manufactories 

 from such places, can we wonder at the detest- 

 ation in which they are held ? What must 

 their opinion of Europe be, which they are 

 taught to consider as the place from whence 



