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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 suffer 

 ings, on the part of the people, be either paid 

 off or diminished. But, 1 trust, that deliver 

 ance 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 

 1 last had the pleasure to see you and our ex 

 cellent friend Goldsmith, you will rejoice to 

 find, that, throughout the whole of this exten 

 sive 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 certainty, that no prying, 

 greedy Parson will come to eat up a part of 

 the young ones. How long shall we English 

 men suffer our cow-stalls, our styes, our folds 

 and our hen-roosts to be the prey of this prowl 

 ing pest? 



In many parts of the following pages you 

 will trace the remarks and opinions back to 

 conversations that have passed between us, 

 many times in Hampshire. In the making of 



