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in my journal: — " A Mr. Feabov came this morning 

 " and had breakfast with us. Told us an odd story 

 " about having slept in a black woman's hut last night 

 " for sixpence, though there are excellent taverns at 

 " every two miles along the road. Told us a still odder 

 " story about his being an envoy from a host of families 

 " in London, to look out for a place of settlement in 

 " America ; but he took special care not to name any 

 " one of those families, though we asked him to do it. 

 " We took him, at first, for a sort of spij. William 

 " thinks he is a shopkeeper's clerk; I think he has 

 " been a tailor. I observed that he carried his elbow 

 " close to his sides, and his arms, below the elbow, in 

 " a horizontal position. It came out that he had been 

 " with BucHAXAx, Casllereagh's consul at New York ; 

 " but it is too ridiculous ; such a thing as this cannot 

 " be a spy ; he can get access nowhere but to taverns 

 " and boarding houses." 



6.t8. This note now stands in my journal or diary of 

 22d August 1817. I remember that he asked me some 

 very silly questions about the prices of land, cattle, and 

 other things, which I answered very shortly. He asked 

 my advice about the families emigrating, and the very 

 words I uttered in answer were these : — " Every thing 

 " 1 can say, in such a case, is to discourage the enter- 

 " prize, if Englishmen come here, let them come 

 " individually, and sit down amongst the natives : no 

 " other plan is rational." 



659. What 1 have heard of this man since, is, that he 

 spent his time, or great part of it, in New York, amongst 

 the idle and dissolute young Englishmen, whose laziness 

 and extravagance had put them in a state to make them 

 uneasy, and to make them unnoticed by respectable 

 people. That country must be bad, to be sure, which 

 would not give them ease and abundance without labour 

 or econoi/n/. 



660. Now, M-hat can such a man know of America? 

 He has not kept house ; he has had no being in any 

 neighbourhood ; he has never had any circle of acquaint- 

 ances amongst the people ; he has never been a c/uest 

 under any of their roofs ; he knows nothing of their 

 manners or their characters; and how can such a man 



