... drove them from their homes. Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings! The hunger, the nakedness, the cold, which they patiently endured! The severe labours of clearing their ... the lowest rank, is of more importance to the public, than all the property of all the rich men in the country. It is even of more consequence to the rich themselves, and totheir posterity The ... April, 1782. The Lords the States of Groningen and Ommelanden, having heard the report of the Lords the Commissionersfor the petitions of the Council of State and the Finances of the Province,...