Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

FOR AUGUST, 1808. FOR AUGUST 1810. Flour $5 11 50 Wheat 2 20 Rye 1 13 Indian Corn 85 Rice 3 50 Tobacco 7 Tar 2 25 Turpentine 3 50 Whiskey 66 Ship building, nominal, at $20 per ton Seamen begging their bread.

FOR AUGUST 1808. FOR AUGUST 1810. Flour $5 11 50 Wheat 2 20 Rye 1 13 Indian Corn 85 Rice 3 50 Tobacco 7 Tar 2 25 Turpentine 3 50 Whiskey

HOW ARE WE RUINED!

Read, Americans, the subjoined comparative view of the prices which your products, your labor and your capital yielded in the years 1808 and 1810, and learn the disastrous consequences of abandoning the wise and magnanimous policy of the sage philosopher and statesman, the brave and the virtuous THOMAS JEFFERSON, whose lock up laws of embargo and non intercourse were contrived to vindicate the honor, promote the prosperity, and perpetuate the independence of the U. States, by taking them out of the society of nations, until the plans of "our king Napoleon" were completed in Europe, and ripened for the regeneration of "all the Americas."

Philadelphia Price Current

And all other articles of domestic produce, labor, &c. in the same proportion.

Let it be observed, also, that, as the prices of articles, the growth, produce and manufacture of our own country, are now nearly double what they were under the auspices of the Jeffersonian policy; the prices of articles imported from other countries, and consumed in the United States, are reduced in nearly the same ratio, giving to our citizens on their present cost, compared with that of 1808, a benefit of from 50 to 100. per. cent.

If, after such an exemplification of the consequences resulting from embargo and non intercourse systems, our farmers, planters merchants seamen laborers are not satisfied how much they have been injured by abandoning them, and immediately require them to be re enacted, then must they, in the language of the Aurora, be both "drunk and diseased."

"Equal And exact justice to all men."