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English Koroughmonsfers, who have an undoubted claim 

 to precedence betbre the German and Italian bewars. 

 The Boroughmongers may easily add a legation of 

 mendicity to their Envoyships and Consulships, without 

 any great disgrace to the latter; and, since they can 

 get nothing out of America by bullying and attacking, 

 try what can be gained by canting and begging. The 

 chances are, however, that many of them will, before 

 they die, be beggars in their own proper persons and 

 for their owii use and behoof; and thus give a complete 

 rounding to their career ; plunderers in prosperity, and 

 beggars in adversity. 



396. As to the poor-rates, the real poor-rates, you 

 must look to the countnj. In England the poor-rates 

 equal in amount the rent of the land! Here, I pay, in 

 poor-rates, only serc»doll;irsupona rent of six hundred ! 

 And 1 pa\ my full share. In short, how is it possible, 

 that there should be paupers to any amount, where the 

 common average wages of a labourer are six dollars a 

 week ; that is to say, twentij-seven shiliimjs sterling, And 

 ■where the necessaries of life are, upon an average, of 

 half the price that they are in England ! How can a 

 man be a pauper, where he can earn ten pounds of 

 prime hog-meat a day, six days in every week I I was 

 at a horse-race, Mhere I saw at least five thousand men, 

 and not one man in shabby clothes. 



397. But, some f/o back after they come from Eng- 

 land ; and the Consul at New York has thousands of 

 applications from men who ivant to f/o to Canada : and 

 little bands of them go off to that^/ie country very often. 

 These are said to be disappointed people. Yes, they 

 expected the people at New York to come out in boats, 

 I suppose, carry them on shore, and give up their dinners 

 and beds to them! If they will ivork, they will soon 

 find beds and dinners : if they will not, they ought to 

 have none. "What, did they expect to find here the same 

 faces and the same posts and trees that they left behind 

 them ! Such foolish people are not worth notice. The 

 lazy, whether male or female, all hate a government, 

 under which every one enjoys his earnings, and no more. 

 Low, poor and miserable as theymaybe, their pr/ncip/e 

 is precisely the same as that of Boroughmongers, and 



