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" as this cannot be a spy ; he can get access no 

 " where but to taverns and boarding houses." 



1058. This note now stands in my journal or 

 diary of 22d August, 1817. I remember that 

 he asked me some very silly questions about 

 the prices of land, cattle, and other things, 

 srhich 1 answered very shortly. He asked my 

 advice about the families emigrating, and the 

 very words I uttered in answer, were these: 

 " Every thing I can say, in such a case, is to 

 " discourage the enterprize. If Englishmen 

 " come here, let them come individually, and 

 " sit down amongst the natives : no other plan 

 " is rational." 



1059. What I have heard of this man since, 

 is, that he spent his time, or great part of it, 

 in New York, amongst the idle and dissolute 

 young Englishmen, whose laziness and extra 

 vagance had put them in a state to make them 

 uneasy, and to make them unnoticed by re 

 spectable people. That country must be bad, 

 to be sure, which would not give them ease 

 and abundance without labour or economy. 



1060. Now, what can such a man know of 

 America ? He has not kept house ; he has had 

 no being in any neighbourhood ; he has never 

 had any circle of acquaintances amongst the 

 people ; he has never been a guest under any of 

 their roofs ; he knows nothing of their manners 



