The Virginia Gazette

A Gentleman just arrived from the north says, that in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the northern parts of Yorkshire, the distress of the manufacturers, owing to our disputes with America, is beyond all description. The poor, he says, are within one degree of starving; so that 10,000 men might have been enlisted in either county, at the late meeting of the militia, merely for the sake of a month's pay, and food for that time. He adds, that the poorest people envy the driver of a post chaise as a money-getting man.