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as the American collier can, upon an average, 

 buy his flour for one third of the price that the 

 English collier pays for his flour, he receives 

 six times the quantity of flour for the same la 

 bour. Here is a country for the ingenious pau 

 pers of England to come to ! They find food 

 and materials, and nothing wanting but their 

 mouths and hands to consume and work them. 

 I should like to see the old toast of the Bo- 

 roughmongers brought out again; when they 

 were in the height of their impudence their 

 myrmidons used to din in our ears, " Old Eng- 

 " land for ever, and those that do not like her 

 " let them leave her." Let them renew this 

 swaggering toast, and I would very willingly 

 for my part, give another to the same effect for 

 the United States of America. But, no, no ! 

 they know better now. They know that they 

 would be taken at their word; and, like the 

 tyrants of Egypt, having got their slaves fast, 

 will (if they can) keep them so. Let them be 

 ware, lest something worse than the Red Sea 

 overwhelm them! Like Pharaoh and his Bo- 

 roughmongers they will not yield to the voice 

 of the people, and, surely, something like, or 

 worse than, their fate shall befall them ! 



956. They are building a steam-boat at Wheel 

 ing, which is to go, they say, 1800 miles up the 

 Missouri river. The wheels are made to work 



