162 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



The army of Russia numbers 675,000 men. 



Great Britain &quot; 135,000 &quot; 

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In the evening we called at the old lady s in Portsea, 

 and received from Susan some clothes, which she had under 

 taken to get washed for us, and a watch which my brother 

 had left in his bedroom. The kind old woman received us 

 cordially, apologized again for the prudence which had led her 

 to lock us in, and introduced us to some friends. Of their 

 simplicity and curiosity, as shown in their questioning of us, I 

 might, if I chose to report our conversations, give as amusing 

 a picture as English travellers enjoy to do, of that of those 

 they meet in American boarding-houses. Of fidgetty anxiety 

 lest we should not discover that every body and every thing 

 in the country is most astonishing and wonderfully superior to 

 any body arid any thing every where else in the world, which 

 so distresses visitors to the United States, I must confess that 

 we have seen but little in England. With the poorer class of 

 Englishmen, patriotism seems to have been starved out. 

 If they ever speak of , their country s greatness and prosperity, 

 it is as a servant speaks of his master s wealth ; they would 

 see it become a dependency of France or Russia with entire 

 indifference, certainly with exultation if it were promised 

 them that wages should be higher and bread cheaper for it. 

 Again, the Radicals and men of earnest religious faith, with 

 the strongest affection to their country, are in the habit of 

 looking much at what is wrong and shameful in her institutions 



