MANNERS. 



extraordinary signs of these repulsive qualities, 

 I found good breeding, politeness, frank hos- 

 pitality, and every generous feeling prevailing 

 amongst them, in as great a degree and with 

 as few exceptions as at home. 



In the cities I saw none of the open dis- 

 plays of depravity, which disfigure our large 

 towns, and in all my journeying I never saw 

 the face of a policeman never met a beggar 

 or any one in the garb of mendicity never 

 heard uttered an oath or imprecation and 

 never witnessed an instance of intoxication but 

 one, and that I regret to say was furnished 

 by a Scotsman. I observed when at Albany, 

 that the Americans are attentive to their reli- 

 gious duties, and this opinion has been con- 

 firmed by a further acquaintance with them. 



One does not meet here with any preten- 

 sion to the high fashion bred in courts and 

 pervading their atmospheres, but exclude this 

 from the comparison, and, between the States 

 and England, there will be found in private so- 

 ciety, such a resemblance of manners as for 

 the moment makes a Briton forget he is not in 



