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" state of England. The money that I have 

 " paid in taxes here, ivould have kept me like a 

 " gentleman there. Why," added he, " if a la- 

 " bouring man here were seen having in his 

 "possession, the fowls and other things that 

 " labourers in Philadelphia carry home from 

 " market, he would be stopped in the street, 

 " and taken up on suspicion of being a thief; upon 

 " the supposition of its being impossible that he 

 " could have come honestly by them." 1 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 be 

 fore the magistrate the next day, and not re 

 leased until he had produced witnesses to prove 

 that he had not stolen a thing, which was 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, 1 dare say, alive. 

 He is a very worthy man. He lives at CHI- 

 CHESTER. I appeal to him for the truth of the 

 anecdote relating to him. As to the butter 



