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222 in October 1793, at a few hours' notice, they were hurried off amid a line of soldiers to the Convent of the Poor Clares. Four days later both communities were crowded into a small boat, guarded by fifty soldiers, and were taken to the Poor Clares at Gravelines. But for charitable people they would have been starved. Two of the nuns died. The winter was severe, and the insufficiency of fuel obliged them to burn cupboards and wainscoting, and to cut down the trees in the garden. They all left for England in April 1795. English manufacturers, encouraged by the monarchy to settle in France, appear to have been in general unmolested. Potter at Chantilly, as we have seen, was no sooner arrested than liberated. Foxlowe, who had a cotton mill with 2000 hands at Orleans, the Duke of Orleans as sleeping partner finding six-sevenths of the capital, was allowed, after the Duke's death, to buy up his share from the State, under the right of pre-emption given by the deed of partnership. A cannon foundry managed by two Englishmen near Nantes, and a copper-sheathing factory for ships, near Louviers, also in English hands—both were visited by Arthur Young in 1789—were apparently undisturbed. Morgan and Massey, at Amiens, who in 1789 had a grant of 12,000 francs from the Government for inventing a jenny with 280 spindles; Lawrence Bennett, of Stockport, who had introduced spinning jennies at