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England, and was quiet from beggars in 

 the night, I have told them that the family 

 were all in bed, and therefore requested 

 them to go away. They would frequently 

 be so importunate that I have been obliged 

 to get up, and drive them from the door, 

 sometimes to take a stick and beat them. 

 In the day time they beg victuals; in towns, 

 money, &c. : and if a man be charitably in- . 

 clined, there is greater reason to give alms 

 in America than in England, as in the 

 former country there is little or no provision 

 made for the poor. I am persuaded, that 

 those who say there are no beggars, live in 

 the midst of the woods, and seldom see any 

 one but their own family. 



From these and other causes, I do not 

 think a man's person and property so well 

 defended by the laws in America as by 

 those in England, either by day or, by 

 night. From what 1 see of liberty and 

 equality, if you do not submit to every 

 low and bad subject's insult, you will be 

 disliked in such countries by nineteen oat 



