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&quot; happy state of England. The money that I have paid in taxes 

 &quot; here, would have kept me like a gentleman there. Why,&quot; added 

 he, &quot; if a labouring man here were seen having in his possession, 

 &quot; the fowls and other things that labourers in Philadelphia carry 

 &quot; home from market, he would be stepped in the street, and taken 

 &quot;up on suspicion of being a thief : upon the supposition of its 

 &quot; being impossible that he could have come honestly by them.&quot; I 

 told this story after I got home ; and we read in the news-papers, 

 not long afterwards, that a Scotch Porter, in London, who had had 

 a little tub of butter sent him up from his relations, and who was, 

 in the evening, carrying it from the vessel to his home, had actually 

 been seized by the Police, lodged in prison all night, brought 

 before the magistrate the next day, and not released until he had 

 produced witnesses to prove that he had not stolen a thing, which 

 teas thought far too valuable for such a man to come at by honest 

 means ! What a state of things must that be ? What ! A man 

 in England taken up as a thief and crammed into prison, merely 

 because he was in possession of 20 pounds of butter ! 



399. Mr. WAKEFORD is, I dare say, alive. He is a very worthy 

 man. He lives at CHICHESTER. I appeal to him for the truth of 

 the anecdote relating to him. As to the butter story, I cannot name 

 the precise date : but, I seriously declare the fact to have been as 

 I have related it. I told Mr. WAKEFORD, who is a very quiet man, 

 that, in order to make his lot in England as good as it was in 

 America, he must help us to destroy the Boroughmongers. He 

 left America, he told me, principally in consequence of the loss 

 of his daughter (an only child) at Philadelphia, where she, amongst 

 hundreds and hundreds of others, fell before the desolating 

 lancets of 1797, 1798 and 1799. 



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