Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-09-18


ideut cannotb b. paid Listen, Gentlsmen.
YOU whose dutyit is to- take care that the
Republic sustains no detrimcnt. lis en- to
the voice OF n Ssa'vng PEOPLE.
II. B. For the reasons have above stat
ed. Congress ought to be convened i.nme =
d.ateiy.
or These two Addresses 20 the Executive are
written by two Gentlemen in the Country.
Peace and PLENTY" were once said 10
be companions---but they are no longer so
in Engiand--There, Peace brings with her
not gaiety. bit gloom.-We have seen n
monthly report for several of her counties :;
which breathe an air Of poverty and of the
deepest detection In No tinghanshire, "the
weaveFs have resumed their practices of
frame ~brea slng-want of employment is
very generally felt by the working CLASSES"
From Lincolnshire, " several farmers,
who lately occupied about 1000 acres of
land, have EN- grated-with their curate'
In I4eicestershire, meetings have been
held by gentlemen in the hosiery businc SIS
to ascertain the number of persons out of
Sfd6ordShire !; (" not |, SIS than
$4,000 in Staff I'd and Salop have been dis
missed, in consequence of the falling eff Of
the iron trade" 'At Wolverhampton, zoo
men have been dismissed from the facto =
ries." In Birmingham, I" the number out
of employment is greater than ever was
known-"-Shropshre - many smelling
furnaces have been extingushed, and the
workmen turned adrift-in this and the
adjoining county Of Stafford. IS furnaces
have been stopped, each of which employ
ed from 200 to $50 men" --Hampshire !;
the distresses of the lower classes ere
powerfully affecting Portsea poor house is
filled and yet there are hundreds of half
fed. hsl.-clothed persons, who have not
applied for relief. "-NViitshire "a great
part of the cloIh-workers, owing TO there
being no foreign markets, are thrown cur
of employment This distress extenos
to Scott lnd--Is it any wonder that the poor
are flying TO America? Persecution and
requisition drive the unhappy from France
-Taxat;on and starvation from England,
Amcric. has the august Office ofbeirg ''th-
asylum of Of oppressed humanity Am
RIGA is become an object of great attention
and eager enquiry among the people of
Europs-The following note from that ex-
ceiient work, The London Monthly Ma
gazine," Of July last, is but one, out of a
million of evidences to this fact:
"SIn,-In the preseet unpro,lue,ive state Of all
"industry in England, it would b. acceptable to
may ofyour reaiers to learn the actual state OF
" society in the United States. AMI the pre p.rcts
" OF industry in that country, from any intelligent
English travellers recently returned to this side OF
'' the Atlantic. PUDLICOIA
Now, why ask the recent traveller for
informa,ion' Why ask m;nutir, when the
facts are SO broadly written in the very
grain of our societv. Our Society is in the
most progressive state, and population slou-
blcs in 90 or 25 ycars-tnere, qyages are
always high-We have immense tracts of
land 20 fill up-which, in some places, may
be bought from to 10 dolls. per hundred
acres.--No paupers, or poor RATES worth
speaking alb ut-Bread low, and wages are
Highland every man, fire chooses to WORK
may be landholder--Many of the me
chanic arts fourishing-and the wages nigh
Most of what we make is our owns a
very inconslderable part Of it goes to the go>
vernmrpt--The public debt & taxes com.
paratively smalI-No privileged orders, to
eat up our substance, and degrade us from
the rank Of nan. No kiass. princes, peers.
or priv legged priests. like ieeches. to suck
our blood, aed then trample us in the dust
Genius and skill have fair field 10
act on. and tn display thens ,ves--Evcry
man seeks what employment is most a
greesble to himself--There are NJ corpo
ration laws or statutes of apprenticeship.
Df OuiphS mOnOpOhSS, TO Crdmp hiS DOW
ers--After S years ne may become a citi-
zen and an officer-Anh to crown all, each
one IS free to seek God according TO the
dictates Of lis own Console nce-Are not
these enough Why pry into the minute
Of the actual state of sociaty, wien these
broad facts are exposed TO the Whole world ,
A man upon bed o! thorns might as well
wait 70 ask the actual sfate Of a ted of 70
ses.-Unhappy Europeans judge from
these general statements, whether you can
letter y0n1 sifuasion ia this land Of liberty
( The FRESH aitaneIifs height airf orac', nr sa-
tnrdsyrutt iRi By sfci,s 81. the one in
i6iffiayo's Bridge from lis its toll iue was
nearly under waterhnt part of II so, stsflf n.a,-
The Island. which iht fchouse saps was uearly COW
credaud that plrtOf he bridge, winc, springs from the
ISLAND 60 thc pls on the Nascirer shore conpri.ng
three cd piers and lrE ri 80 feet ears totally oar.
redawny. olt from he island he shore Is M prr.sit
the oy efuiieaoi for pasaen ald t'ie mil rfents
bridge las lst about $40 between 20 and 80 fst
lonei fresh las s1id. 20 ict pat oft pe.p
a5o,e fe Part 0 the y. corner OF Coifis ff
ing hDiise thrown 1lff no r-her damage AZ M
o. m Ills Gig r1rthy ~ cicatiou. NJ Audcson
Lofty hc bank re- C1gfai IS TIE torrent broke through
H. intws ~alts. end l-os,sl he uc3ar dam-On Mon
diy saitsau csfref the sii,eisf At the head oil
tl locke s ar 70 yiccs t00 cftc crew were drown
rif eilrd ei1ef aid 10 tie shore tie ear
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