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off. So that, as frr as shooting goes, and that is the 

 sport which is the most general favourite, there never 

 M'as a more delighttul country than this Island. The 

 skv is so fair, the soil so dry, the cover so convenient, 

 the game so abundant, and the people, go where you 

 \»ill, so civil, hospitable, and kind. 



CHAP. xiir. 



PAUP£RS. 



389. It is a subject of great exultation in the hireling 

 newspapers of the Borough-villains, that " poverty and 



'■poor-rates \\a.\e found their waif to xlmerica." As to 

 the former it is literally true ; for the poverty that is 

 here has, almost the Avhole of it, come from Europe ; 

 but, the means of keeping the poor arise here upon the 

 spot. 



390. Great sums of money are raised in New York, 

 Philadelphia, Boston, and other great sea-ports, for the 

 maintenance of " the poor ;" and, the Boroughmongers 

 eagerly catch at the published accounts of this concern, 

 and produce them as proofs, that misery is as great in 

 America as it is under their iron rod. I will strip them 

 of this pretext in a few minutes. 



391. Let us take New York, for instance. Is is noto- 

 rious that, whatever may be the number of persons re- 

 lieved by poor rates, the greater part of them are 

 Europeans, who have come hither, at different periods 

 and under circumstances of distress, difierent, of course, 

 in degree. There is, besides, a class of persons here of 

 a description very peculiar ; namely ; the free negroes. 

 Wliatever may have been the motives, which led to their 

 emancipation, it is very certain, that it has saddled the 

 white people with a charge. These negroes are a dis- 

 orderly, improndent set of beings ; and, the paupers, 



