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advocate it with effect. He is a true lover of his 

 country, and no man that I have met with has a more 

 thorough knowledge of the detestable villa;iy of the 

 odious Boroughmongering government of England, 

 and, of course, it has his full share of hatred. 



544. Jahi 21sf. — Leave Chillicothe. A fine, healthy 

 country and very rich land all the Avay to New Lan- 

 caster, 34 miles from Chillicothe, and 38 from Zanes- 

 ville. Stop at the house of a German, where we slept, 

 but not in bed, preferring a soft board and something 

 clean for a pillow to a bed of down accompanied with 

 bugs. 



545. Nothing remarkable, that I can see, as to the 

 locality of this town of New Lancaster ; but, the name, 

 alas ! it brought to my recollection the horrid deeds 

 done at Old Lancaster, the county town of my native 



country! I thought of Colonel F r, and his 



conduct towards my poor, unfortunate townsman, Gal- 

 lant ! I thought of the poor, miserable creatures, men, 

 women, and children, who, in the bloody year of 1812, 

 were first instigated by spies to commit arson, and then 

 pursued into death by the dealers in human blood. 

 Amongst the sufferers, upon this particular occasion, 

 there was a boy, who was silly, and who would, at any 

 time, have jumped into a pit for a halfpenny : he 

 was not fourteen years old ; and when he was about to 

 be hanged, actually called out for his " mammy" to 

 come and save him ! AVho, that has a heart in his 

 bosom, can help feeling indignation against the cruel 

 monsters ! Who can help feeling a desire to see their 

 dreadful power destroyed ! The day must come, when 

 the whole of the bloody tragedies of Lancashire will 

 be exposed. In the mean while, here I am in safety 

 from the fangs of the monsters, who oppress and grind 

 my countrymen. The thought of these oppressions, 

 however, I carry about with me ; and I cannot help 

 its sometimes bursting forth into >vords. 



546. July 227id. — Arrive at Zanesville,* a place 



* For a more particular account of this place, as well, in- 

 deed, as of most of the other towns I have visited, see Mr. 

 MellisU's Travels, vol. ii. 



