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niay judge of Whig and Tory by their own 

 mutual recriminations in the Senate House, I 

 should say, that poor Britannia is worse off for 

 bad masters than any young sweep in the land. 

 He may get redress, but she cannot ; for her 

 rulers, like the Hanoverian rat, have got pos- 

 session of the land ; and there is no chance of 

 driving them away, or of curbing their love of 

 plunder. 



I am not one of those who see much hardship 

 in the healthy profession of a chimney-sweep ; 

 I had rather be one than be a village tailor, or 

 a cloacina-man, or a tax-gatherer. When I 

 was a lad in the nursery, had I been allowed, I 

 should have liked no better fun, than to have 

 had an occasional spree with the little black 

 fellow up the chimney. 



Let us now look at the new Chimney -sweep- 

 ing Act in its immediate bearings upon society 

 at large. 



Young master sweep, no longer allowed by 

 law to follow up his wonted profession, is put 

 to his shifts,- in order to gain his daily bread. 

 He tries the factory ; there, he certainly ex- 

 changes his shining black face for a pale and 



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