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to open or shut up a window. No insolent set of Com- 

 missioners send their order tor you to dance attendance 



•on tliem, to s/iew cause why they should not double-tax 



■ you; and, when you Iiave shewn cause, even on your 

 oath, make you pay the tax, laugh in your face, and 

 Jeave you an appeal from themselves to another set, 

 deriving tlicir authority from the same source, and having 

 a similar interest in oppressing you, and thus laying 



■•.your property prostrate beneath the hoof of an insolent 

 and remorseless tyranny. Free, wholly free, from this 

 tantalizing, this grinding, this odious curse, what need 

 you care about the petty plagues of Domestic Servants ? 

 341. However, as there are some men and some 

 women, wlio can never be at heart's ease, unless they 

 have the power of domineering over somebody or other, 

 and who will rather be slaves themselves than not have 

 it in their power to treat others as slaves, it becomes a 

 man of fortune, proposing to emigrate to America, to 

 consider soberly, whether he, or his wife, be of this 

 taste ; and, if the result of his consideration be in the 

 affirmative, his best way will be to continue to live under 



- the Boroughmongers, or, which I would rather recom- 



^mend, hang himself at once. 



