Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-08

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and hapfazard. When came TO this
country, on the first day OF my arrival
in Philadelphia ! walked round among
correspondents whom | had before
known by name. was at home a.
mongst them; and would, without the
least hesitation, have sold them goods
to the amount of one hundred thousand
pounds. Now do not know the per-
sons doing business and there is not
one amongst them whose order would
take for 10000. What difference. A
long continuance of dstresscs in the
commercial world has bad effect on
the morality Of the country. Tbs vast
number of failures takes away their O.
dunn. Men fail in parties for conye-
nience; and the barriers OF honesty are
broken down by perpetual legislation
suited to the condition Of insolv ent
debtors. We have now no imprison-
ment for Debt. Credit is become very
rare, as you may we'll imagine. for We
have nothing to depend upon but a
mans honestly! Besides oar CONNER
ciaI distressps, we are suffering great
alarm in this city from incendiaries.
who have succeeded in setting fire to a
great number of buildings. On SIM
day evening, our Theatre was entirely
destroyed. 1t produced the greatest
fame ever saw. Nest fortunately a
heavy snow had fallen during the day,
| and the roofs OF the houses being cover
ed with it, were preserved from taking
| fire otherwise we should have had a
| most dreadful conaagration.'
.. During the former prosperous
times of this country, it was an oniver-
sal complaint that the expences Of living
were extragagantly high but it is now
discovered, that the place which is the
most expensive TO live in, is the best
place for making money, and living
with comfort. Houses which rented
for 1900 dollars, now rent for $50 dol.
lars, fuel which cost 10 dollars, now is
IL dollars, -four which was 10 and
IL dollars, is now l-e dollars beef
Is cents, now eight cents other things
in proportion. 1t is thus true we now
pay less for these necessariev, but we
can make no money. The farmer has
become as poor as rat !; the labour OF
his farm costs him more than the pro-
duce is worth. lie cannot pay the
store keeper, and the store keeper can.
not pay tie merchant. The economists
who write on the advantages Of keep.
ing down the prices of the necessaries
of life, are quite wrong; experience
proves that when the produce OF the
Ground bears high price, labour will
necessarily bear high price also, and
the abundance of money passing thro'
all ranks of society, enables visilant
and industrious man to possess himself
Of the ~ cans Of comfortable subsis-
tence.
Mail robberies and piracies are quite
the order of the day. Two men were
hung at Baltimore few months ago
for robbing the mail two more will ex-
perience the same fate in few days,
at the same place, for the same crimes
Two men are to be hung there, a week
hence, for piracy, and five others are
under sentence Of death. You perceive
that every description of vice prevails
here in its worst form, and it is the
more shocking. since it does not arise
from the pressure Of circumstances.
that men should turn villains; it is mere
dcprasity."
n This gentleman is quite mistaken.
A thousand females have interposed
and obtained remission Of the SEN
tenc d as to one robber and murderer.
and pious clergyman has just besan
to operate on the public mind in favor
IF The other villain. Ed. e. T.
The following very sensible remarks
on the ON the policy of the British
prohibitory and protecting dutiesa
pom foreign trade. are copied from
the London Courier of May Is. They
are not unworthy tie attention of the
American statesman.
/" The discussion which is appointed
for tomorrow week, npon the motion
Of the Marquis of Lansdown, for com.
mittee to enc ,iro into the practicability
of extending our foreign trade, will
probably be the most important and in
tercsting of amy one during the present
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