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Ah ! by Old Nick, I see you are a Miser. 

 And off he went; not, however, before I had 

 had time to tell him to be sure to give my best 

 respects to the king of Sardinia, and to tell 

 His Majesty to keep his beggars at home. 



395. I afterwards found, that cases like this 

 are by no means rare; and that, in Pennsylvania, 

 in particular, they have accredited beggars 

 from all parts of the continent of Europe. This 

 may be no unuseful hint for the English Bo- 

 roughmongers, who have an undoubted claim 

 to precedence before the German and Italian 

 beggars. The Boroughmongers may easily 

 add a legation of mendicity to their Envoyships 

 and Consulships, without any great disgrace to 

 the latter; and, since they can get nothing out of 

 America by bullying and attacking, try what 

 can be gained by canting and begging. The 

 chances are, however, that many of them will, 

 before they die, be beggars in their own proper 

 persons and for their own use and behoof; and 

 thus give a complete rounding to their career ; 

 plunderers in prosperity, and beggars in ad 

 versity- 



396. As to the poor-rates, the real poor-rates, 

 you must look to the country. In England the 

 poor-rates equal in amount the rent of the land! 

 Here, I pay, in poor-rates, only seven dollars 

 upon a rent of six hundred! And I pay my 



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