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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French policy invites returning Hugonots and foreigners with religious toleration, enlarging Marseilles for their reception to reverse emigration losses from Louis XIV's era and revive silk manufacture and arts.
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The French by a master-stroke of sound policy, are holding forth inducements to such as had hitherto quitted their country on account of their religion, to return to their native soil, where they may establish themselves under the tutelary shelter of toleration; foreigners are also invited under a similar function, and the city of Marseilles is to be enlarged for their reception. The Hugonots (a contemptuous appellation formerly given to those of the reformed religion in France) were ever admitted to understand the silk manufacture superior to any other people (as the information chiefly spread where that fabric was principally carried on) but by an arrest of Louis XIV. these useful manufacturers were in a great measure obliged to take shelter in England, and other countries, which proved a means of establishing that branch in the different places, and of course has been considered as an irreparable injury to the French dominions; numbers have since been constantly quitting that kingdom; but from the liberality and good sense of the present sovereign, this evil will be entirely obviated, and the arts flourish with renovated vigour.
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this evil will be entirely obviated, and the arts flourish with renovated vigour
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The French by a master-stroke of sound policy, are holding forth inducements to such as had hitherto quitted their country on account of their religion, to return to their native soil, where they may establish themselves under the tutelary shelter of toleration; foreigners are also invited under a similar function, and the city of Marseilles is to be enlarged for their reception. The Hugonots were ever admitted to understand the silk manufacture superior to any other people but by an arrest of Louis XIV. these useful manufacturers were in a great measure obliged to take shelter in England, and other countries, which proved a means of establishing that branch in the different places, and of course has been considered as an irreparable injury to the French dominions; numbers have since been constantly quitting that kingdom; but from the liberality and good sense of the present sovereign, this evil will be entirely obviated, and the arts flourish with renovated vigour.