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tained ; for in the more enlightened policy of 

 governments in fostering the rising liberties of 

 the world, all monopolies will cease. Free 

 labour will be brought into competition, and 

 found far more valuable than the labour of 

 slaves ; and a free market will be opened to a 

 fair competition in the sale of sugar, which will 

 gradually knock off every fetter, and enfran- 

 chise millions of our fellow men, who are now 

 enslaved under the guilt of cruelty and injustice. 



The city of New York is in north latitude, 

 about 40, and situated at the mouth of one 

 of the finest rivers in the world, called the 

 Hudson, which opens a free communication 

 with Albany, and many other inland towns 

 towards Canada, and the Lakes. The streets 

 are long and regular, and the houses good : and 

 it claims the pre-eminence of all other cities 

 in the United States, as the London of America, 

 from the extent of its population, excellent 

 markets, and yielding in tonnage and customs 

 to the Republic,, nearly one half of its revenue. 

 Except the City Hall, there are but few public 

 buildings worthy of particular notice. As a 

 favourite promenade, the Battery is deservedly 

 so, though wanting space for the numbers who 

 resort there on summer evenings. — A beautiful 

 Bay expands before it, presenting to the eye 



