Alarming Distress of the Country
... The shopkeepers and tradesmen of Leeds met on Wednes- day last, at the Court House, under the presidency of the chief magistrate, to make known to their Sovereign and the Legislature the deplorable circumstances ii which they are placed. A more respectable assembly of these important classes, or one more dispassionate in its temper, and more per- fectly unhanimous in its views on the subject ...