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men who .are not benefited by either party, 

 as the magistrates in England sit for the 

 sake of justice. It is an actual arbitration 

 betwixt the parish and the pauper. There 

 cannot be a real suffering subject in Eng- 

 land ; he is protected by law, and the price 

 of labour must rise according to the price 

 of provision: how this may affect manufac- 

 tories I do not know. There are not those 

 things in America." (From this conversa- 

 tion, as I am told by an English merchant 

 who was in the room, I got some credit with 

 the company present, when I was gone. I 

 had not the pleasure of knowing the gentle- 

 man at that time ; nor do I know that I 

 should have remembered the circumstance if 

 he had not repeated it to me since I returned 

 to Liverpool.) "Then again, Mr. Watson, 

 on Mr. Collins's mentioning the immense 

 debt due from the American merchants to 

 the British merchants, you observed in reply 

 they owe them nothing ; that England has 

 paid herself by taking yours and other 

 merchants' ships, which have been con-*- 



