DEDICATION 



TO 

 MR. RICHARD HINXMAN 



OF CHILLING IN HAMPSHIRE. 



North Hempslead, Long Island, 

 15th Nov., 1818. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



THE following little volume will give you some account of my 

 agricultural proceedings in this fine and well-governed country ; 

 and, it will also enable you to see clearly how favourable an 

 absence of grinding taxation and tithes is to the farmer. You 

 have already paid to Fund-holders, Standing Armies, and Priests 

 more money than would make a decent fortune for two children , 

 and, if the present system were to continue to the end of your 

 national life, you would pay more to support the idle and the 

 worthless, than would maintain, during the same space of time, 

 ten labourers and their families. The profits of your capital, 

 care and skill are pawned by the Boroughmongers to pay the 

 interest of a Debt, which they have contracted for their own 

 purposes ; a Debt, which never can, by ages of toil and of 

 sufferings, on the part of the people, be either paid off or 

 diminished. But, I trust, that deliverance from this worse 

 than Egyptian bondage is now near at hand. The atrocious 

 tyranny does but stagger along. At every step it discovers fresh 

 proofs of impotence. It must come down ; and when it is down, 

 we shall not have to envy the farmers of America, or of any 

 country in the world. 



When you reflect on the blackguard conduct of the Parsons 

 at Winchester, on the day when I last had the pleasure to see you 

 imd our excellent friend Goldsmith, you will rejoice to find, that, 

 throughout the whole of this extensive country, there exists not 

 one single animal of that description ; so that we can here keep 

 as many cows, sows, ewes and hens as we please, with the cer 

 tainty, that no prying, greedy Parson will come to eat up a part 

 of the young ones. How long shall we Englishmen suffer our 



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