6. FOREIGN ASSOCIATION. opportunities, or providing against the impending scarcity, which the desertion of the rich increased almost to famine; in giving employment to the industrious, relief to the sick, and bread to the famished ; - instead of each- centinel re- maining at his providentially appointed watch, --- at this critical moment, a very large proportion of our nobles and gentry, an indefinite number, of our laity, and not a few of our clergy, that important part of the community, of which the situation is peculiarly local, - all these, as if simultaneously seized by that mania which, in fabulous history, is said to have sent onennfortunate object of divine per- secution. wandering through theworld, - all these important portions of our country at once abandoned. it. The only use they made of peace was to fly, with most unrighteous speed, to the authors of our calamities, and of such 'calamities as it might be thought could not at once have been forgotten, to visit a country which had filled our own with widows
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