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the clergy of the Episcopal or English church must 

 get their ordination in England. 



Of the quantity of merchandise, which since the 

 peace has over-stocked the American markets, there 

 was one article apparently which showed no rapid 

 falling off in vogue, that is to say, Irish Servants. 

 Within a brief space many hundreds, men, women, and 

 children, have been brought hither, where they looked 

 to make their sudden fortunes, and to have their cost 

 for passage and keep paid by the Americans. Most 

 of these people were by false and illusory pretenses 

 inveigled into emigrating,* and they find themselves 

 deceived no little when on their arrival in America 

 the skipper compels them to bind themselves out for 

 several years to any person soever, who, on their mak- 

 ing good the cost to him, will set them at liberty. This 

 sort of Irish adventurers were at the time being offered 

 for sale in the newspapers everywhere, and were being 

 dragged about from place to place with this in view. 

 It appeared however that nobody would willingly take 

 up with the Irish, it being known from long experience 

 that from indolence they leave one part of the world, 

 so as if possible to live yet more idly in another. Ger- 

 man servants f always found a readier purchase, being 



" of Virginia will be the third American bishop, so as to make 

 "complete the clerical organization of the Episcopal church 

 " of these states." 



* So with the German traffick. Vid Schlozer's Briefwechs. 

 IV, no. 40. However the Irish, from the greater intercourse 

 between the countries, should be better informed of what 

 they have to expect, and less gullible. 



t " Account of a German society established at Baltimore in 

 " 1783 by a Berliner, in the behoof of needy Germans who 

 " without due care have gone thither." In the Berlin. Monat- 



