sands of labourers dependant upon the
employments of Commerce for taeir
very existence are, in moment, IA the
most comEortless and craving season Of
the wear, deprived Of the means Of sub
sistence and exposed to penniless
poverty, and abject want, are seen wan
,dering through the streets begging for
work and for bread---the farmer, at the
term OF his market, the period when he
expected to turn his produce into NOR
ey, TO pay his rent or reimburse the ex-
penses of his harvest, in vain requires
the most reduced prices for his pro-
duce, and finds the fruits OF industry,
the staff of his hope, encumberiRg his
barn. The mills Of the country, but a
short time since, so cheerful and busy,
are now silent and deserted and ter
rifying stagnation prevails every where
HAVE WE NOT A RIGHT TO KNOW
THE REASON OF ALL THIS DISTRESS
The public mind may, and ought to
bear much calamity, when an adequate
cause is known TO exist for it but 10
suffer such extremities patiently, and
know not why or wherefore, is beyond
the torbearance of the most submissive
lis there man in this whole commu-
nifty out of the presidential closet, who
can assign any reason FOR this extraor-
dinary and calamitous state Of things
Do we know with certainty against
what enemy the measures which have
produced il, are directed Sometimes
we are told il j. France, then ii is Eng
land, and then both. Ask the merCh-
ant, lawyer, farmer, politician Ur whom
you may, if he knows Of any TIL 9 &c
warrant what has been done and is now
doing-an absolute and profound igno,
rance Is acknowledged by all--No des'
pot on earth, but Napoleon, would dare
thus TO distress and destroy people
and not condescend even to inform
them why.