Amongst the many unpleasant things that 

 happen to the English emigrants, I met 

 withx>ne equal to any I ever heard of, a 

 few days before I left the country, I was 

 at Baltimore one day with Mr. Stump, a 

 gentleman who employs a merchant-mill 

 near Baltimore. While I was in the office^ 

 there came in a young man in decent, or 

 rather genteel, apparel, to ask for work. 

 Mr. Stump replied to the young man 

 " You do not look like a man of that 

 kind !" and showed, by his answer, that he 

 wished to get rid of him. The young man 

 was very pressing for employ, and said he 

 had been brought up in a mill, at Long- 

 Sutton, in the county of Lincoln. I, know- 

 ing the place, -asked him if he knew some 

 respectable people in and about that coun- 

 try - y which he did. From my knowing 

 the country whence he had come, Mr. 

 Stump gave some encouragement to the 

 young man ; and he related his case, which 

 was as follows : That his elder brother 

 and his wife and two children, and him- 



