1803.] 
greateft facility. Itis certainly fo advan- 
tageous, that it fully claims the attention 
of government. 
Immenfe is the quantity of gum pro- 
duced in the countries in the proximity of 
the Ifle of St, Louis, on the Senegal, and 
of the banks of that river. The five large 
foreits of Sahal, Aifatack, Elhiebar, Gua- 
rouf, and Galam, have already been men- 
tioned ; but, befide thofe forelts, prodigi- 
ous numbers of gum-trees are found on 
the banks of this river, and in its iflands, 
{cattered every where, and of which it 
were ealy to induce the Negroes to gather 
the gum: one or two hundred thoufand 
weight might be collected in this maner. 
In order to forward the gum.trade, 
and to preferve a good intelligence with 
the Moors who fell it, and induce them to 
bring the whole of. it to our factories on 
the Senegal, government ufed to make 
annual prefents, not only to the Moorith 
kings, but alfo to the chiefs and principal 
perfons, and tothe king’s interpreters and 
wives. As thefe prefents were yearly re- 
peated, they obtained the name of cuf- 
toms. They were firfi brought into ule 
by the old India Company, for the pur- 
pofes above {pecified. 
_ When the Englifh came to the pof- 
feffion of the. Senegal, in confequence 
at the events of the Seven Years’. War, 
they followed the precedents eitablifhed 
in the making of alliances with the 
princes of the country, as well as with 
he Moorifh chiefs. Asin the govern- 
hent of their various fettlements, every 
hing is judicioufly concerted, and con- 
digted with order and method; in each of 
thir factories on the Senegal, and on the 
Gumbia, a manufcript regifter:was kept, 
coltaining a circumflantia! detail of the 
-m<ives for paying, as well as a lift of 
thecuftoms annually paid to the chiefs of 
the: African tribes, of the times appointed 
for heir delivery, of obfervations relating 
to he refpeétive importance of thefe 
chies and nations, of inftruétions to be 
follaed in the difribution of thefe cuf- 
toms and of political confiderations on 
the tade of this part of Africa. 
Tis regifter was fent by the Englith 
minilly to the Governor of Senegal, with 
orderto aé& conformably to it. Another 
regilte of the fame kind was alfo fent to 
the Grernor of Fort James, in the river 
Gambi, The latter, though having a 
feparatigovernment, was, however to con- 
cert Mdures in conformity with thofe 
adopted Senegal, both places being un- 
der one pverning direction, called the ge- 
neral gonment of Sene-gambias 
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State of the Hofiery-Manufagiory of Lyons. 
$15. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
‘The HOSIERY MANUFACTURE Of LYONS}: 
the STATE of it iz 1789 3 its LOSSES 1” 
confequence of the SaCKiNG of that Ci- 
TY 72 the fecond YEAR of the REPUB= 
Lic; its, adual stvaTe.—(From the 
fame.) 
(7 HEN M. Deverninac was appointed 
Prefect of the Department of the. 
Rhone, his firft care was to draw up a 
ftatement cf the commerce, fabrications, 
and handicraft bufinefs of Lyons, compar- 
ed with what they were before the difaf 
ters that befell that city, formerly fo flou. 
rifhing. 
In the enumeration of the articles that 
formed this ftatement, the Hofiery Manu- 
facture was forgotten. But, before tak. 
ing charge of the employment which he 
now fills, M. Verninac tran{mitted to the 
Minifter of the Interior, an account of 
that manufature, which has been publifh- 
ed in the Statiftical Collection of Ms De 
Callois. 
The hofiery-manufaftory of Lyons” 
may be reputed to hold the fecond rank in 
the lit of its fabrications, whether we 
confider the number of hands it employs, 
or the fums ef money which it brings in; 
to France. This manufacture boafis the 
exclufive employment of materials entirely 
of national growth. The filks it ules, 
the frames and utenfils it works with, and 
which are perfectly adapted to their pur- 
pofes, the individuals to whom it gives oc- 
cupation, all belong to France, and to 
French induftry. . 
There were at Lyons, in 1789, 2500 
looms aétually at-work; they employed 
800 mafiers, and 4200 journeymen of all 
denominations, fuch as fimiths, needlee 
makers, dyers, binders, embroiderers, and 
others. Every loom yielded, upon anave- 
rage, yearly 300 pairs of flockings, at fe- 
ven livres mean price the pair, amounting 
altogether to about 6,000,000 of livres, 
The half of this fabrication was export 
ed.» : 
The conflagrations during the fiege de- 
ftreyed four hundred of thefe looms. 
They have fince been re-placed: and it is 
computed, that there are now as many as 
in 17893, but there are only 1800 in ac- 
tual employment: workmen are.wanting.; . 
and befides, the foreign confumption is 
diminifhed by one-half; and the ule of 
boots, now generally worn, has leffened 
the home-trade, Induftry, however, has 
opened a new channel : open-work tiflues 
are now wrought in imitation of lace, 
and which, either plain or embroidered, 
ee as are 
