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story, I cannot name the precise date; but, I 

 seriously declare the fact to have been as 1 

 have related it. I told Mr. WAKEFORD, who 

 is a very quiet man, that, in order to make his 

 lot in England as good as it was in America, 

 he must help us to destroy the Boroughmongers. 

 He left America, he told me, principally in 

 consequence of the loss of his daughter (an only 

 child) at Philadelphia, where she, amongst 

 hundreds and hundreds of others, fell before 

 the desolating lancets of 1797, 1798 and 1799. 



