TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Journey to Liverpool Lady and Child Dine at Lancaster 

 Impostors at Manchester Railway Lateness of the season 

 Desecration of the Sabbath Agricultural Details Napoleon 

 packet-ship Cemetery Mr Huskisson. 



I LEFT Mungoswells on the 20th of April, 1833, and pro 

 ceeded from Haddington to Edinburgh by the Earl Grey 

 stage-coach, drawn by a pair of thoroughbred bays, in charge 

 of Quinten Campbell, a most excellent driver, who landed us 

 at the end of the journey, a distance of seventeen miles, in 

 less than an hour and a half, without an application of the 

 whip. 



After spending a few hours in Edinburgh, two friends, who 

 intended accompanying me on a transatlantic tour, and my 

 self, were seated in a Manchester coach, and we arrived at 

 Carlisle about five in the morning of the following day. 



During a few minutes delay which occurred in changing- 

 coaches at Carlisle, a waiter at the inn asked us to partake 

 of breakfast ; and resented our declining to do so, by saucily 

 refusing to exchange small silver-money for a half-crown 

 piece. My friend and I here agreed to take an outside place 

 alternately, to accommodate a lady and child with an inside 

 one. In course of the day I learned from the lady that she 

 was booked as a passenger from Dumfries to London, and had, 

 to her regret, been detained a whole day at Carlisle. It was 



