^ JOURNEY TO LIVERPOOL. 



evident that this unprotected female and her innocent charge 

 had been imposed upon, and her escape from a second day s 

 detention was entirely owing to the little concession of my 

 friend and self in her favour. 



Breakfast was served at Penrith, and the party complained 

 loudly of the fare placed before them. The stage passengers 

 were joined by other travellers at Lancaster, where eighteen 

 in number dined together, carving for themselves, and several 

 partaking of hot punch, in the space of twenty minutes, which 

 was the whole delay at Lancaster. 



We reached Manchester a little after nightfall, where we 

 spent the evening ; and one of my friends not having sufficient 

 change to settle with the guard and driver of the coach, he 

 soon afterwards paid them in the coffeeroom. Next morning 

 two different individuals presented themselves, as deputed by 

 guard and driver to receive their allowance. My friend good- 

 humouredly rallied the impostors on the hopelessness of their 

 attempt, and they seemed to feel the force of his satire more 

 than they perhaps would have done a scolding. I have no 

 ticed the treatment of the lady and child at Carlisle, as well 

 as the impostors at Manchester, in consequence of a lecture 

 from a fellow-passenger on Yankee knavery, and a well-meant 

 advice to guard myself against American duplicity. Without 

 meaning to impeach the character of my fellow-countrymen, 

 I may remark that the natives of Britain need not illustrate 

 moral delinquency by examples from other countries. Man 

 kind seem to be, nationally as individually, sensible of the 

 faults of others, although, at the same time, they are blind to 

 their own. 



We travelled from Manchester to Liverpool by the railway, 

 on the morning of the 22d, and accomplished a distance of 

 thirty miles in an hour and a half. Several miles were per 

 formed in two minutes, according to my stop-watch. At the 

 request of a friend, I occupied a place on the outside of a way 

 coach, and was much annoyed by the current of air and coke 

 from the engine. My eyes did not recover the effects of the 

 coke for forty-eight hours afterwards. 



On the east coast of Scotland the season had proved to be 

 one of the wettest and latest on record. At the time of our de- 



