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The greatest part of the book entitled" Men and 

 Manners in Britain, is .composed of extracts from 

 the history of England and Scotland, the other part ia 

 filled up with frivolous stories and lies, dictated by 

 Grant and placed there by the writer: p. 71; he says, 

 the churchyards look like gardens ; in the month of Ja- 

 nuary, he says, I saw the lauristinus, the rose, the stock 

 and the wall-flower in full bloom. Well done Grant, 

 Thomas Paine said it is easier to tell a lie than to vr ork 

 a miracle, and a person wishing to tell a lie, should tell 

 a good big one at once : Grant's is a thumper, which 

 every body knows that is acquainted with the climate 

 of England and Scotland. Grant not being satisfied by 

 villifying Mr. Paine and others, but he must attack Miss 

 Fanny Wright, a Scotch woman, who he says was a 

 disgrace to our country: the truth is, Miss Wright was 

 not aided by thirty or forty infidels, neither was she at- 

 tended by a small rabble, but thousands of the first la- 

 dies and gentlemen in the city attended her Lectures ; 

 likewise many philosophers, and those who had the best 

 of education : never was there an orator that received 

 greater applause: she possessed a large fortune and 

 stood in need of no assistance. Will my old shopmate 

 never leave off telling and printing lies. It was not the 

 rabble or the ignorant multitude that she delivered lec- 

 tures to, or she might as well have delivered them to 

 Grant Thorburn and his monkey. 



Grant goes on and says, the Sabbath in New-York is 

 more respected than in London, Liverpool, or Edin- 

 burgh, and as a proof of this assertion, I will state that 

 there is a law of the city which gives each church the 

 privilege of stopping up the street opposite the plaee of 



