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led them to prefer, regardlefs of the bonds 

 of nature, and affection ! The urgent appeals 

 of friendfhip and attachment were unheeded ; 

 fighs and tears made no impreffion ; and all 

 the imploring looks, and penetrating expref- 

 fions of grief were unavailing. Hungry com- 

 merce corroded even the golden chains of af- 

 fection ; and fordid intereft burft every tie of 

 nature afunder. The hufband was taken from 

 the wife, children feparated from their pa- 

 rents, and the lover torn from his miftrefs : — 

 the companion was bought away from his 

 friend, and the brother not fullered to accom- 

 pany the fitter. 



In one part of the building was feen a 

 wife clinging to her hufband, and befeeching, 

 in the ftrongeft eloquence of nature, not to 

 be left behind him. Here was a fifter hang- 

 ing upon the neck of her brother, and, with 

 tears, entreating to be led to the lame home 

 of captivity. There flood two brothers, en- 

 folded in each others arms, mutually bewail- 

 ing their threatened feparation. In other 

 parts were friends, relatives, and companions, 

 praying to be fold to the fame mafter — 

 ufing figns to fignify that they would be 



