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supposed feelings of the Jews are met, on the part 

 of the majority of the other inhabitants, by a degree 

 of contempt and degrading treatment, of the most 

 aggravating nature; a treatment so remote from 

 what is exercised towards that people in England, 

 Germany, France, and Holland, that it may have 

 perhaps mainly contributed to form the character 

 which they are accused of bearing. 



It will not appear surprising, on referring to the 

 changes that Poland has undergone, the ravages she 

 has suffered from wars, the demands for the per- 

 sonal services of her proprietors in the armies, of the 

 successive masters that have ruled the country, the 

 exclusion from all foreign trade, and, till of late, the 

 total absence of all manufactories, that there should 

 be now great individual distress, even whilst the 

 country, as a whole, may be advancing in prosperity. 



The individuals who most suffer are the Landed 

 Proprietors, and they have, with a few exceptions, 

 become dependent, in a greater or less degree, on the 

 more monied Jews. 



There is every reason to believe, that few Landed 

 Proprietors are wholly free from incumbrances, and 

 that many of them are involved to such an extent, 

 that they are compelled to deliver to their creditors 

 the whole surplus produce of their estates, as soon as 

 it can be prepared for removal. The Jews, by their 

 universal connection with others of their nation in 

 distant places, have far better opportunities of know- 

 ing what prices they are likely to obtain for Corn, 

 than the gentlemen who raise it ; and the latter, from 

 their situation, must take that as the price which 

 their creditors may determine. 



On the banks of the Vistula there are many ware- 

 houses well adapted for preserving Corn at the places 

 whence it is most convenient to embark it. The crops 

 are generally removed from the farms of the proprie- 

 tors as speedily as possible, and remain there in the 



