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misery and despair which he has witness- 

 ed among the emigrant British subjects, 

 pierce his very heart. He says, he has 

 seen, on landing, husbands and wives dis- 

 posed of to different proprietors, and their 

 children to others. Their prayers and la- 

 mentations to remain together availed no- 

 thing. They separate, not seldom, never 

 to meet again, or if to meet, to bewail 

 their shame or folly, their dishonour or 

 ruin. He says, he heard many shocking 

 anecdotes hardly credible in civilised Eu- 

 rope, where the liberty and happiness of the 

 American citizens are so often the topics of 

 the praise of the discontented, of the envy of 

 the disaffected, and of the desire of the mis- 

 led. He says, he has heard of families of in- 

 dividuals, who sixteen years ago sold their 

 liberty for five years, and who continue still, 

 and probably will for life, in bondage, their 

 cruel masters taking advantage to keep them 

 in debt, either by giving them trifling sums 

 to support sickness, want, or extrava- 

 gance. He says, he has heard of others, 



