England and Holland, of all other nations, owe
gratitude to the Protestants of France for the various branches of
industry introduced by them, and which have greatly contributed in
making their 'merchants princes,' and, their 'traffickers the honorable
of the earth.' We refer to these nations particularly, because they are
so intimately connected with the colonization of our own favored land.
The Huguenot refugees in England introduced the silk factories in
Spitalfields, using looms like those of Lyons and of Tours. They also
commenced the manufacture of fine linen, calicoes, sail-cloth,
tapestries, and paper, most of which had before been imported from
France. It has been estimated that these refugees thus brought into
Great Britain a trade which deprived France of an annual income of
nearly ten millions of dollars. Science, arms, jurisprudence and
literature, were also advanced by their arrival. The _first_ newspaper
in Ireland was published by the Pastor Droz, a refugee, who also founded
a library in Dublin. Thelluson (Lord Redlesham), a brave soldier in the
Peninsular war, General Ligonier, General Prevost of the British army,
Sir Samuel Romilly, Majendie, Bishop of Chester, Henry Layard, the
excavator of Nineveh, all are the descendants of the French Huguenots.
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