our trade is not in danger ; and that he is not infallible, is already evi-dent by his remarks on sheep’s wool.

“As the spinners, by their letters, remarks, &c., seem tothink themselves able to bring forward so many, arguments in support ofthe policy of continuing to export twist,, they surely will not object toa parliamentary investigation of the business; which is all that is-wanted by

“ A MANCHESTER TRADESMAN.’”

“ April 29, 1800 ”

A third Address to tire Inhabitants of Manchester and'its Vicinity on the Exportation of Cotton Twist.

“ FRIENDS AND FELLOW TOWNSMEN,

“ My opponents multiply so fast, that they seem like the Hydraof old, to be ienewed : after every attack. No sooner has ‘ Candour ’been laid low, than a ‘ Mercator’ and a ‘ Cotton Spinner’ start forth,and as if all the powers on earth were not sufficient to support a totter-ing cause, ‘ Mercury ’ is called; from heaven to their assistance. Surelywe must be either very dull of apprehension, or these writers not veryhappy in their explanation of the subject, and yet they seem to thinkevery one who runs may read it.

“ Of the ‘ Cotton Spinner ’ I shall only observe, that his powers-appear not equal to the weight of machinery he attempts to move. Hiswords are multiplied without adding any force to his arguments.

“ The writer, who assumes the name of Mercury, the god ofthieves, did not, 1 hope, mean to reflect upon any, part of our trade.His only reason for taking this character must be, that he mightindulge himself in all the flights of fancy. One while talk of gold andgingerbread for the amusement of the ‘junior branches of families,’another personify Commerce, and shackle and physic her, to make theunlearned stare with astonishment. Such arts are well enough suitedto the character assumed, and while we hear only of gold gingerbread,we recal our boyish days, and relish the language ; but the other flightsof his imagination are so daring, that his arguments are all lost inclouds and smoke, and soar far above the ken ol vulgar eyes.

“ The writer most deserving of notice is ‘ Mercator,’ * who,,from the length of his observations, seems the most likely to make theworse appear the better part. But, however, my friends, let us not becarried away too hastily, and conclude a person infallible, because hehas gone over various parts of Europe, and says with Merrick’s traveller,in his fable of the Cameleon :

* A German, who is also supposed to have wrote, or dictated somepapers signed Candour. This gentleman has always been considered as thefounder of the Foreign Sovereign Junta in Manchester, of whom I shall here-after have occasion to speak freely.