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never is there seen in the streets what is 

 called in England, a girl of the ioivn; and, 

 what is still more, never is there seen in those 

 streets a beggar. I wish yon, my old neigh 

 bours, could see this city of New York. Ports 

 mouth and Gosport, taken together, are mise 

 rable holes compared to it. Man's imagination 

 can fancy nothing so beautiful as its bay and 

 port, from which two immense rivers sweep up 

 on the sides of the point of land, on which the 

 city is. These rivers are continually covered 

 'with vessels of various sizes bringing the pro 

 duce of the land, while the bay is scarcely less 

 covered with ships going in and out from all 

 parts of the world. The city itself is a scene 

 of opulence and industry : riches without inso 

 lence, and labour without grudging. 



436. What Englishman can contemplate this 

 brilliant sight without feeling some little pride that 

 this city bears an English name? But, thoughts 

 of more importance ought to fill his mind. He 

 ought to contrast the ease, the happiness, the 

 absence of crime which prevail here with the 

 incessant anxieties, the miseries and murderous 

 works in England. In his search after causes 

 he will find them no where but in the govern 

 ment: and, as to an established church, if he 

 find no sound argument to prove it to be an 

 evil ; at the very least he must conclude, that 



