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Fourth very suspicious of you as long as you retain possession of 



Journey. 



the West Indies, which are, as we may say, close to our 



door- steads. You must be very cautious how you inter- 

 fere with our politics ; for, if we find you meddling with 

 them, and by that means cause us to come to logger- 

 heads, we shall be obliged to send you back to your own 

 homes, three or four thousand miles across the Atlantic ; 

 and then, with that great ditch betwixt us, we may hope 

 we shall be good friends. He who casts his eye on the 

 East Indies, will there see quite a different state of things. 

 The conquered districts have merely changed one Euro- 

 pean master for another; and I believe there is no 

 instance of any portion of the East Indies throwing off 

 the yoke of the Europeans and establishing a government 

 of their own. 



Ye Avho are versed in politics, and study the rise and 

 fall of empires, and know what is good for civilized man, 

 and what is bad for him, or in other words what will 

 make him happy and what will make him miserable — tell 

 us how comes it that Europe has lost almost her last 

 acre in the boundless expanse of territory which she so 

 lately possessed in the west, and still contrives to 

 hold her vast property in the extensive regions of the 

 east ? 



But whither am I going? I find myself on a new and 

 dangerous path. Pardon, gentle reader, this sudden 

 deviation Methinks I hear thee saying to me, — 



