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Watson always went away conqueror. 

 One evening, Mr. Collins being gone, I got 

 up and was going likewise. Mr. Watson 

 accosted me, saying, " What is your opi- 

 nion of England, Mr. Parkinson ? It never 

 will be able to pay the national debt/' In 

 reply, I paid Mr. Watson the compliment of 

 saying 4< I as an Englishman felt myself 

 much obliged to him during the even- 

 ing, and at several other times, for the 

 tenderness and fine feelings he had for the 

 honour, and sufferings he seemingly bore 

 for the sake of England ; but probably he 

 might be interested in the business ; he 

 might have some money funded in Eng- 

 land." " No," he said, " he had not." 

 I told him if he had, he might readily sell it 

 at the Stock Exchange ; and in answer to 

 his remark, that England could never pay 

 her debt, " whom will it injure if she never 

 does ? she borrows the money of her own 

 subjects ; therefore it will not injure you 

 gentlemen in America, or any other power. 

 The simile is this- It is the same as a man 



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