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nels of glass, locks, iron utensils, and the like, until 

 watchmen were finally installed to prevent the carry- 

 ing-ofr" of the house itself. The state would be glad to 

 sell it, but there is nobody who thinks himself rich 

 enough to live in a brick house. The government of 

 North Carolina was at the outbreak of the war re- 

 moved to Brunswick, continuing there for some time; 

 during the war there was no fixed seat of government, 

 but at last the inland town of Hillsborough was 

 chosen, for the better convenience of the more popu- 

 lous back-country. 



The state of North Carolina, to remedy the oppres- 

 sive lack of hard money, was obliged to have recourse 

 again last year to paper-money, and by an Act of 

 Assembly 17th May, 1783, 100,000 Pd. was struck off. 

 Other states, doubtless, will soon be compelled to fol- 

 low the example of North Carolina, for the gold and 

 silver which was brought into the country during the 

 war by the British and French armies, and by the very 

 profitable West Indian flour-trade, seems to be rapidly 

 disappearing in trade w T ith Europe. In North Carolina 

 there is almost no hard money now to be had ; not that 

 it has all been sent out of the country, but because cf 

 the general dislike for the new paper-money, in con- 

 sequence of which everyone is disposed to keep what 

 coin he has as long as he can, and to get rid of the 

 paper he receives, or rather has forced upon him, as 

 quickly as possible, from the fear that this, by prece- 

 dent, will decline in value. Paper-money is every- 

 where taken squeamishly and unwillingly, and owes 

 any value it has to the extreme necessity. In the 

 middle parts of North Carolina, about Hallifax and on 

 the Roanoke, where the chief crop is tobacco which 



