The New Hampshire Gazette

On the 25th of August, a meeting was held at Birmingham, of the merchants, manufacturers and traders of that town, the High Bailiff in the chair, to hear a report, and a petition to Parliament, on the public distress of the place. Nothing can exceed the picture of decline and misery which is drawn in the speeches made on this occasion. Among other Resolutions passed unanimously, was the following: "That the trade of this town is reduced to a most deplorable state, the manufacturers not being able to supply their workmen with more than three or four days work per week, and one fourth of the working classes being reduced to the necessity of supporting their existence by relief from the parish." When this condition of things is considered, in connexion with the cotemporary employment of Parliament in the trial of the Queen, and with the immense expense of that proceeding, accruing to foreigners, it cannot be a subject of surprise, should the whole political and social system fall ere long into a frightful chaos.—Nat. Gaz.