th them the
arts by which they had enriched their own land, and abundantly repaid
the hospitality of those countries which afforded them that asylum
denied them in their own.

The influence which the Huguenot refugees especially exerted upon trade
and manufactures in those countries where they settled, was very
striking and lasting. 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.
Saurin secured the reputation of his powerful eloquence at the Hague;
but in the French Church, Threadneedle street, London, he reached the
summit of his splendid pulpit eloquence. Most of the Huguenots who fled
to England for an asylum were natives of Normandy, Brittany, Picardy,
and Guienne. Their numbers at the revocation may be calculated at eighty
thousand. Hume estimates them at fifty thousand, another writer at
seventy thousand, but we believe these calculations are too low. In
1676, the communicants of the Protestant French Church at Canterbury
reached not less than twenty-five hundred. Of all the services of the
Huguenots to England, none was more important than the energetic support
to the Prince of Orange against James II. The Prince employed no less
than seven hundred and thirty-six French officers, brave men who had