298 Information re/peciing Emigration to North America. 
King of England, but I prayed that that 
might be difpenfed with. 
<¢ Saint Catherine has told me that I 
fhould be fuccoured. I do not Know 
whether this will be by de ivering me from 
prifon now, or whether it will be done in 
cafe I fhould be condemned; but I pre- 
fume that it will be one or the other. 
The two Saints have aflured me, many 
times, that I fhall be deiivered by a great 
victory ; they have commanded me to take 
all that happens with fubmiffion, and 
not to difturb mylfelf at my martyr- 
dom, for that I fthovld come at laft into 
the kingdom of Paradife; and this they 
have told me abfolutely and plainly. For 
myfelf, I underftand by my martyrdon, 
the pains and adverfities which I fuffer by 
confinement. I am ignorant whether I 
fhall fuffer greater punifhments, but I rely 
on God, ard I believe as firongly that I 
fhall be faved, as if it were aiready done, 
provided that I retain my vow of virgi- 
-Rity. 
*¢ Why do you afk me if I have been 
promifed that I fhould efcape from prifon? 
Would you wifh me to fpeak againft my- 
felf. I: has been told me that I fhould be 
delivered, and to put on a joyful counte- 
mancé: but I neither know the day or the 
hour. 
«© To conclude, I have never had any 
imtercourfe with evil {pirits, I am a good 
Chriftian. I leve God with all my heart, 
obey him in every thing, and hate the ce- 
vil fo fincerely, that although the Saints 
have Jed me to hope for my deliverance, 
yet, were it to be effe&ed by means of the 
devil, I would not leave my prifon. To 
this I affirm and {wear.”’ 
Such is the refult of the anfwers made 
by the accufed to a prodigious multitude 
of queftions, which fill three hundred 
pages ef manufcript. The interrogatories 
were made without order or connection, 
which renders the firft pait of the proceed- 
ings almoft unintelligible. In the preced- 
ing recital, there is net a word which is not 
contained in the interrogatories. Nothing 
is omitted but matters of no confequence, 
and it is a complete expelition of all that 
the proceedings con‘ain, with the excep- 
tion of three points, which will be attend- 
ed to in the fequel, and which it was 
thought beft torefeive. 1ft, The letter of 
Joan to the King of England, and to the 
Englifh who befieged Orleans. 2dly, 
What relates to the fecret fign of the 
truth of Joan’s miffion given to Charles 
the VIIth; and, 3dly, What relates to 
‘the fubmiffion due to the Church Mili 
[Nov. f, 
tant, the laft important part of the pro= 
ceedings. 
(To be continued.) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
INFORMATION refpecting the siTUATION 
of PERSONS who have lately EMi 
GRATED fo AMERICA. 
(Concluded from p. 218, No. 120.) 
hes agricultural fyftem of America 
is not fuited to the difpofition of 
fuch men, as would grafp the world and 
make hafty fortunes. A man may acquire 
great property, and may improve that 
property, but he will find it an almoft im-_ 
peflibility to fill his coffers with ready ca/b, 
or to difpofe of his property for it, in cafe 
he fhould wifh to leave the country, Cath 
is not plenty even in the commercial towns 
of the United States, and very {carce out 
of them. The greateft part of their in-. 
land traffic is done by way of exchange, 
and very little money paffes between them. 
If any fuperfluities from the country are. 
fent tothe fea-port towns, to be dilpofed 
of to the ftore-keepers there, it wil be a 
very dificult matter to get a ca/b pur- 
chafer, as well as very difadyantageous to 
the feller, who will make a treble advan- 
tage, by taking back fuch goods as ate 
moftly in demand, in the neighbourhood 
of the place where he lives. An agricul- 
turift may improve his farm and increafle 
it, and alfo his ftock, but for riches, (1 
mean gold and filver, improperly fo called} 
he will fearcely ever fee them, 
American agriculture is,, therefore, 
adapted only to that liberal-minded and 
quiet kind of men, who can be contemed 
to live always on the fame {pot, and whofe 
happinels is to fee it daily improving un- 
der theirhands. The extent of the United 
States, and plentiful produétions, bid defi- 
ance to monopoliits in the agricultural 
fyftem, who (more defirutive than Hef- 
fian flies) intercept the bounties of Provi- 
dence, in order to {well their enormous 
boards extraéted from human milery. 
As the American agriculturift receives 
little, {9 be has but little to pay. His la- 
bourers are clothed by hin, and beard with 
him ; fo do artificers, fueh as fhoe-makers, 
tailors, carpenters, mill-wrights, &c. 
whom he may have occafion to employ. — 
If they have tamil es, he lets them have 
flour, cyder, and other neceflaries. When 
the work is done, an account is drawn out, 
and the balance, which generally muft be 
trifling, is paid in produce. By thefe 
means, the want of cafh is l'ttle felt in 
the back country, end whilff the agricul- 
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