sion of the foreign trade, by the experimental action of the first Continental Congress, must have been as disastrous to the great body of the inliabitants -- those possessing small Estates as well as the Tradesmen and Mechanics and Workingmen, of every lowly class -- as that much writteu-of Port Bill, imposed by the retributive action of the King and the Parliament of Great Britain, had produced on the similar classes who had inhabited the Town of Boston, in the preceding year ; but the men of New York and their dependent families had endured whatever of hardships there had been in the suspension of their respective means of support, without those outcries, nominally of assumed distress among " the suffering inhabitants " -- more loudly uttered by demagogues, for other purposes, than by those who were really sufferers, praying for relief -- which had distinguished Boston, a few months previously, and which had induced the tenderhearted, the world over, to become politicians and to reprobate the Home Government by whom the Port Bill had been imposed ; to sympathize with those who were said to have been "suffering," although the latter could have found renuinerative laborelsewherethan in Boston ; and to contribute the means which were really expended, very largely, more for the benefit of the taxpayers than for that of the " suffering poor " of the Town. The suspension of their business, by the aristocracy of America, who could sustain the present strain in order to ensure the receipt of an ultimate advantage, was, we say, no less severe in New York than the similar suspension of her business, by the aristocracy of (treat Britain, had been in Boston; and thesufferngs of of the working classes were, undoubtedly, quite as keenly felt in the one case as in the other ; but, in the instance of New York, there was neither an api)eal for help nor an ostentatious display of "i)atriotic" sympathy, extending help ; and if the sufferings of the lowly victims, in New York, were noticed at all, by those "patriotic" aristocrats who had produced those distresses, it was only in those congratulatory remarks, not unfreciuently seen in the published correspondence of the not distant later period, that the necessities of the working-classes were compelling them to enlist in the Armies, in order to obtain even a portion of the food which was needed to keep their dependent wives and little ones from starvation, and that "for the " Rights of man and of Englishmen."