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London, England, 1804-09-21 00:00:00

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fetittre, and reverent the dangerous contegneneeil
that were likely to enfue horn executing,thcsr+Qula•
lion, ana stertlday the el real was revol, (LI! 41rhaltilicir-
cgsftfttneet: Liteel?-en4henta little infigtrt 'id (hit
tpitit of t)kpeopte,t. and tl.ky begin to fee that atks
cannot ow pU occatrons least them as they thought
they could. The rea("n why the Government wilforS
to e4ll in the money, is to coin as much as they et
of the prefirrt reign"

UPPER CANADA.

IstbISITREAL, AUGUST 1.
I have juft been upon a three months tone in the
United States of America. As it was for the firll
time I sifted this pre'ended land of liberty and libe-
rality, I knew it only from the detctiption which I
had read, and was of courfe mitch prejudiced in its
favour. Being acctifinmed to the civil behavinur,
even among the lower claffes of my own country Men,
the Canadians, the aft WA (truck me in the United
States, were the uncommon brutality or rudenefs I
experienced in converting with its citizens, from the
governors and magifirates, down to the lowell me-
chanics, or the moll petty farmers; except in the
large towns, even the fait fez teemed to want that
fishnets of temper, delicacy• of expreffions, and gen-
tlenefs of behaviour, which, in pleating, commancli
retpeft, and excites admiration. Every where I nb
ferved felfdlinets and avarice the predominant paffions
of one lex, and want of education and hypoctify the
faults of the other ; the men only calculating how to
accumulate. and the aornen only findying. not how
to pleafe, but how to rule, to be applauded as poli-
tical (+facies, or revered as religious faints. The po-
litical, as well as the religious fanaticifm prevails in
all the provinces of the United Stales, where leas
and parties are equally intolerant ; there being hardly
an example of a Federalift, or anti-Federalift, of a
Prefbyterian, or a Church of England man, sitting,
much lets permitting their families to intermarry.—
They are as much at variance as a Bonaparte and a
Louis XVIII. and more fo than Pius VII. and the
Archbifhep of Canterbury. The prefent Prefident,
Is FY teams, does not by his conduft evince or infpire
more liberal fentiments. He declares as openly his
partiality for France now, when it is enslaved by
NA rostoo the FOIL as he did ten years ago. when
Roassetteaa the Viva was her tyrant. All his fer:.
yantsare Frotchrnetvand his molt familiar affociates
and friends are of the fame nation. He prides him-
felf, however, upon the appellation of a friend pf
univerfal liberty, of religious toleration, and of pih
lanthropy. Moll of the perfons appointed to offices
by him are as great Gallo-men as himfelf, and do
every thing in tiyir power to humiliate, to harafs,
and to perfecute their oppofers. They are to much
the more obllinate in their vengeance, as, with few
exceptions, they are, generally very ignorant, con-
founding their own narrow and kWh notions with
the rights of their offices and the laws of their coun-
try. To travel, therefore, in a Republic governed
by fuels chiefs, and inhabited by fitch a people,
cannot but be very difagreeable to a foreigner of a
benevolent difpnfition, of an independent fortune,
and of generous principles. When this mull be the
cafe, what have not thnfe unfortunate emigrants from
England, Scotland, and Ireland to coffer, who land
in the American Republic, as indebted vagabonds,
and whole fief alts in this land of liberty are to fell
their perfons to pay their paffages ; to prefent them
fclves before upltart, and of condi infolent magi-
frates. to fubmit to fetters, and a transfer to oppref
five matters, who often treat them worfc than their
beafts of burden, and to whom the negrocs on our
Well India plantations are comparatively free men.
The numerous examples of mile, y and detpair which
I have witneffed among .theft emigrant Britith rub-
efts, pierce my very heart. I have teen, on their
landing, hufbands and wives difpofed of to different
proprietors, and their children to others. Their
prayers and lamentations to remain together avail
' nothing. They fepat ate, not feldnm, never to meet
again, or if to meet, to bewail their thame nr fol 4,
their difhonour or ruin. I heard'many Chocking atm-
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' dotes hardly credible in civilifed Europe, where the
liberty and happinefs of the American citizens are
fo often the topics of the prailes of the dircontented,
of the envy of the difaffefted, and of the detire of
the milled. I have heard of families and of indivi-
duals; who fisteen years ago fold their liberty for
five years, and who continue fill, and probably for
life, in bondage, their cruel matters taking advan-
tage to keep them in debt. either by giving them
stifling fumy to fupport licknefs, want. or extrava-
gance. I have heats' of others, who, in defpair, for
filch a worfe treatment, and not teeing an end to their
(Offerings, have committed the mo't tertible fiticides,
dcflrol ing at the fame time tbemf.:l.tes, their wives,
and children, Others have tun away, been taken,
flogged, nod winked in chains during the day; add
are (hut tip in chains dining the night, as the moll
culpable of criminals. Famine, befides, often forces
them to comet petty thefts, and when ditcovered.
to avoid publicity or chi:honour,- or to efcapt pundit-
ment, fubfcribe new bonds of flavery, and, for the
value of a dollar, condemn themfelses to hard labour
for years. They are univcrfally defpifed as ontcafts
of fociety, having renounced their privileges of Ari-
ta filbjefls without obtainime.she tights of American
cithecns. A hritiih Minister cannot liken to their
complaints and relieve their trilety, regarded by the
Ametican laws as the con:cquence of their vaterstary
tenimcirtion of their freedom. How very different
is Cie fit nation of thote emigrants who land in Ca•
mid I, or in Nova Scotia. If they have a paffage to
pay f. r, they work for it as creditors, r, tt as nAlreS,
bring r, MC:led by the fame paternal government
which sults the m ither country ; and, as hands are
fearce, and labour dear, a tort time clears them
horn debts, and, if fober and in luittioits, hut few
years ate requisite in be quietly and comfortal.ly fet-
tled. 01 two hundred and fifty Scotch ernigrams,
landed fifteen months ago at Quebec, molt are now
cultivating lands o I theii own ; or retying mallets of
their own choice ; not one has died ; abust in the
United States it is generally calculated, that of Eu-
ropean emigrants, twenty in a hundred die within
ta els 4. months af‘er their landing on the American
ittinent„ either from hardships or by broken heart•,
cottle,plence rat irictnediable difappointment. Be-
tides, in Britifb America. the climate is healtliier,
and the yellow or puttiJ fevers crtir,ly unknown.
and provilions of every elefctiption fell yo to Eo per
cent. cheaper than in the Unit..7d States