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manners; but the latter are fait wearing 
away, tikethelanguage; The Quakers, 
of . both, fexes, ftrongly refemble. their 
European brethren, and retain more of 
the-Enclifh neatnefs and activity than 
the reft of their fellow-citizens—the fame 
obfervation forcibly eceurred to me du- 
‘Ting my ftay in Philadelphia. One fifth 
of ‘the whole population of New-York 
is fuppofed te confilt of negroes and peo- 
ple Ah colour——an hideous-looking race, 
ie and faucy, ice and lazy 3 {uch an 
odious and wnngtural mixture of fociety 
is, in my opinion, the mott unpleaiant 
circumftance attending a refidence in the 
midlandand fouthern i eee of America— 
Would it not be founder policy to fend 
thele people into Georgia, and provide 
tue with lands and implements of huf- 
bandry, affording them protection, if 
necefiary, assaingt the attacks of the fa- 
vages and, Spaniards : ? The fetid efluvia 
of the negroes, i warm weather, {cents 
an apartment worfe than afafoetida; the 
menial fervants being chiefly of that de- 
f{cription, one can readily imagine the 
fragrant nolegay of an American dwell- 
ing, during an Egyptian fummer!—but 
the haliues: are ufedt to it, and heed it 
not. To obviate this, and other un- 
pleafant confiderations of greater import, 
tuch as the vicious inter ee between the - 
whites and blacks, might not the New 
Yorkers give encouragement to th 
poor Irifh and Scotch emigrants, of shat 
fexes, who annually vilt their hofpitable 
fhores—the modern refuge of the per ie- 
cuted and dittrefied, shes reftlefs and the 
~wandering!—and thus totally do away 
the mungo and the tawney breeds? the 
town and fuburbs fwarm with both. 
How inconfiftent with the American re- 
‘publican doétrines of liberty and equa- 
lity, :toebferve in the-papers, advertife- 
ments for the fale and purchafe of — 
negroes» and their children; like black 
Gattle, and with as little ceremony, trans- 
Sarveth trom hand to Rant how ditereriees 
fabus: fach. an. indecent practice, to the 
sacknowledged good fenf: ees etotitn 
of the Anglo- Americans !—however, Jet 
us look atchome, ere we cenfure them. 
13 Hie: police of thei capital is good, 
Jeats crimes ofa dangerous kind are fe 
domheard of, ‘and very rarely coromit 
~by the nativeswhites); nothere alone, & but 
-thidugiont the United States: yet the 
ynoraissof the poptiade, andthe “youth, 
as. miemalt cotacr- jenznorts, are vicious 
bam: thin eee mere. pa gititntes, pro- 
‘pably, abduadinecin NewsYork,\Phi- 
ieduiphiag and: Chariciowas, thas an@ay 
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»¢sanle and triendiy, 
New-YorksNegro-Servants....ddanners, Sc. 
towns. of the mother-country,_of sequal 
fize. The merchants are induttrious,. and. 
fedulcufl ly active and expert. in  theiz 
commercial tranfaétions, emulating their 
neighbours in wealth and {plendour, 
and extent of enterprize; and will, per- 
haps, ere long, outvie them all! for, 
New-York bids fair to become: the 
grand emporium of commerce, of the 
Federal Republic, notwithftanding the 
fanguine expectations of the new city of 
Waihington on the Pctomac. Their 
public amufements are fimilar to. ours 
in England, viz. plays, affemblies, con- 
certs, billiards, balls, &c. but. they 
have another, their favourite winter di- 
verfion, which we are firangers to, and 
that is fleighing, or riding on fledges—a 
kind. of car rae drawn fwiftly by one or 
more horfes along the: trozen farface of 
the fhow—the eafe and sD EY of the 
motion, the } joyous hilarity of the parties 
on thefe occafions, and the purity and 
ferenity of theair, can only be conceived 
by them who have experienced fuch a fin- 
gular and expeditious mode of travelling! 
in the feftive excurfions, the American 
fair throw of their ufual referve and 
fong-froid, evincing as much gaiety and 
vivacity as their lovers and admirers can 
pofiibly defre! Confumptions are much 
attributed to thefe “nocturnal frolics, 
from. the fudden expofure to the keen, 
frofty air, aiter the exceffive fatigue of 
fuch parties ufually ie aS : 
ing with a dance, and tea or coffee, at 
fome of the numerous houfes of pubiic 
entertaiment in the neighbourhood of 
the city. I fufpect, however, that Hy- 
‘men derives as many votaries from thefe 
mirthful Laponianjaunts, as Efculapius ! ! 
a warm fur drefs, on thefeoccafions, is 
a requifite precaution: it.is really amu~- 
fing, to obferve the extreme eagernels of 
he Americans for this darling exercile, 
wen how. anxioufly ey with for the long 
duration of froit and fnow. Ae 
Inland, at Hudfon and Albany, for 
infiance, the weather 1s lefs broken by 
fudden thaws than at New-York, .w-ere, 
from the vicinity of the fea, it is moifter 
and. more wariable. The New- Y orkers 
begin toenc ouragemudics, and the drama ; 
but the arts.and iciences:are ets attended 
te then aniong their more northern neigh- 
beurs:. at prefent,) t they appear totally 
abforbed im the puifuits of wealth and 
pleature. Take them in general they are 
. an acute, ihrewd, high- ipivited people ; 
fond of bufinefs and oi good cheer; warm 
ia (heir hempers 7 and prejudices, but {o- 
where their circum- 
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