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coming to Mr. Townshend's had been announced be- 

 forehand, several of the young men, >vho were babies 

 ■when I used to be there formerly, came to see " Billy 

 CoBBKTT," of whom they had heard and read so much. 

 WTien I saw them and heard them, " What a contrast," 

 said I to myself, " with the senseless, gaudy, upstart, 

 " hectoring, insolent, and cruel Yeomanry Cavalry in 

 " England, who, while they grind their labourers into 

 " the revolt of stanation, gallantly sally fordi with their 

 " sabres, to chop them down at the command of a Se- 

 " cretary of State; and, who, the next moment, creep 

 " and fawn like spaniels before their Boroughmonger 

 "Landlords! " At Mr. Townshexd's I saw a man, in 

 his sen ice, lately from Yorkshire, but an Irishman 

 by birth, lie Avished to have an opportunity to see me. 

 He had read many oi'my " little books." I shook him 

 by the hand, told him he Iiad now got a good house over 

 his head and a kind employer, and advised him not to 

 vwve for one year, and to saAe his wages during that 

 \ear. 



11. Same open weather. — I am now at Trenton, in 

 New Jersey, waiting for something to carry me on to- 

 wards New York. — Yesterday, Mr. Townshend sent 

 me on, under an escort of Quakers, to Mr. Anthony 

 Taylor's. He vvas formerly a merchant in Philadel- 

 phia, and now lives in his very pretty country-house, on 

 a very beautiful fann. He has some as fine and fat 

 oxen as we generally see at Sraithfield market in Lon- 

 don. I think they will weigh siity score each. Fine 

 farm yard. Every tiling belonging to the farm good, 

 but what a neglecttiil gardener ! Saw some u-hite thorns 

 here (brought from England) which, if I had wanted 

 any proof, would have clearly proved to me, that they 

 would, with less care, make as good hedges here as they 

 do at Farnham in Surrey. But in another Part, I 

 shall give full information upon this head. Here my es- 

 cort quitted me ; but, luckily, Mr. Newbold, who lives 

 about ten miles nearer Trenton than Mr. Taylor does, 

 brought me on to his house. He is a muc!i better gar- 

 dener, or, rather, to speak the truth, has succeeded a 

 better, whose example he has followed in part. But, 

 his farm yard and buildings ! This was a sight indeed ! 



