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protect the rights of the subject. Where he 

 recommends carrying their produce to 

 the manufacturers in preference to having 

 those markets at home, I will only ask the 

 English reader, what would be the case 

 were the manufactures all moved out of 

 England, and the people to receive all their 

 necessaries of life from a country three thou- 

 sand miles distant ? Therefore I must con- 

 clude with saying, the Americans are like 

 the fox in the fable, saying the grapes 

 were sour when he could not reach them. 



From the plausibility of liberty and 

 equality, according to the representations 

 of writers on America, many people not 

 conversant on the subject, or who have 

 not experienced the numerous incon- 

 veniences arising from such government, 

 may suppose the difficulties pointed out 

 by the author are surmountable ; but the 

 reader may judge. Let him observe any- 

 family where there are servants, and he 

 will find the diflSculty of managing them so 

 great, and their behaviour so unpleasant, as 



