Grand Inquest Of Mem. Castle COUNTY,


state of Dela,uars.
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The grand jury OF New Castle county
beg leave to represent--that they are
deeply impressed with the distressed and
calamitous situation Of the agricultural.
commercial, and manufacturing Interests
Of the state /; that in their opinion, these
evils have arisen from
l. A failure of crops.
2. An unfavourable balance Of trade.
the result of excessive importations Of
foreign goods, exceeding, TO an immense
amount, the value Of our exports;


3. Thus draining the state of its specie
and circulating medium;
A. Depressing the value of real estate
and


5. Increasing poverty and distress.
The only practicable remedies for these
evils, in the opinion Of the grand jury,
are,-


/. A regular and strict economy in the
expenses Of the people.


q. A retrenchment in the use Of i'm.
ported goods and foreign Injuries.


8. A steady attention to the improve.
ment of our agricultural products.


A. And the encouragement of market
at home, by fostering and protecting do
nestle manufactures.


To serious consideration Of this i'm.
portant subject, the grand jury would
most earnestly invite the attention of the
citizens, more especially of this county.


Unanimously agreed to, and ordered to
be printed.


ARCHD. ALEXANDER, Foreman.
Attest: S. I'll. BLACK, c. j.


". B. The failure OF crops, stated 10
the preceding document, has not prevailed
in other parts of the U. States-but the
distress is equally felt elsewhere,


Domestic Industry.-A writer in the
Washington City Gazette, on this subject,
remarks as follows -


We have fine climates, good soils, a
cheap government, industrious habits, and
more territorial wealth than the same
number of people on any other section
of the globe, and yet we are embarrassed !;
exhibiting daily more coercion for pay
ments and petty law suits than any l6,-
100000 of people on earth.


In Philadelphia, alone, 10000 persons
are daily begging the manufacturers for
work. The price paid there by the
Commissary General, for making pair Of
pantaloons, or a shirt for soldier is l2a
cents. Thus woman, to earn 81 DO a
week, must make two shirts, or two pair
Of pantaloons, each day. Iu New-York,
the same thing exists. / have seen 600
women at day light before counting
house, in Greenwich street, soliciting
work Of manufacturer. 1t is much the
same all over the country, from Pbiladel-
phia eastward, and yet we are told by
our infatuated southern planters that no
part of this nation is in state for manu-
featuring, though Connecticut alone pre-
sents nearly as dense population as Eng
land. and are more ingenious, frugal ana
industrious than any people in Europe.