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creature according to its nature a horse as 

 a horse, a negro as a negro. 



. The negroes are not an innocent race ; 

 as some suppose - y they commit theft as 

 daringly, and with as much cunning, as 

 any set of men. I will relate a robbery 

 done by one in my own knowledge 

 at Philadelphia, which equals any com- 

 mitted in London or any part of the 

 world. Mr. Boadley, being very in- 

 firm, his usual time of rising or coining 

 to the parlour is eleven o'clock. A black 

 fellow, who is a known thief, opened 

 the front door, betwixt nine and eleven 

 o'clock in the morning, w r ent up a pas- 

 sage, opened the door of the apart- 

 ment where Mr. Boadley sits during the 

 day, took thence a pair of plated sconces, 

 and went out of the house, unheard by 

 any of the family, although Mrs. Boadley 

 and her daughter were sitting in the room 

 adjoining, and many servants in the 

 kitchen below ; and this about the time of 

 the ladies being at breakfast, when ; the 



