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believe, that Englishmen would submit to such 

 atrocious, such degrading tyranny. 



427. I have had living with me an English- 

 man y who smokes tobacco ; and he tells me, that 

 he can buy as much tobacco here for three cents; 

 that is, about three English half-pence, as he 



. could buy in England for three shillings. The 

 leather has no tax on it here ; so that, though the 

 shoe-maker is paid a high price for his labour, 

 the labouring man gets his shoes very cheap. In 

 short, there is no excise here; no property tax; 

 no assessed taxes. We have no such men here 

 as Chiddel and Billy Tovery to come and take 

 our money from us. No window peepers. No 

 spies to keep a look-out as to our carriages 

 and horses and dogs. Our dogs that came 

 from Botley now run about free from the spy 

 ing of tax-gatherers. We may wear hair-pow 

 der if we like without paying for it, and a boy 

 in our houses may whet our knives without 

 our paying two pounds a year for it. 



428. But, then, we have not the honour of 

 being covered over with the dust, kicked up 

 by the horses and raised by the carriage- wheels 

 of such men as Old GEORGE ROSE and OLD 

 GARNIER, each of whom has pocketted more 

 than three hundred thousand pounds of the pub 

 lic, that is to say, the people's, money. There 

 are no such men here. Those who receive 



