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 Yet he thinks 100 dollars here equal to 100l. sterling in England. Mrs. Stile, late of Sutton in the Isle, is ready to take the benefit of insolvency, but has disposed of her daughters in matrimony.

Mr. Gale,[18] a worthy, feeling, meritorious Englishman from Yorkshire, and once dandled on the poetic knee of Montgomery, but now at the head of the government organ, The National Intelligencer, says, that British emigrants possess habits and prejudices which render them unfit to mix with the natives down to the second generation. They, therefore, should not attempt to associate with North Americans, but should form distinct settlements like the Germans. Such a step would insure them success and happiness in a new country; on coming into which they should depute a confidential agent of their own to apply at the National Land Office at Washington, where Mr. Elliott and other Englishmen, forming a society to instruct and guide emigrants, would point out to them the best sections of land and climate, with {115} their local description, and that without the expense and labour of looking and wandering all over the empire to their ruin.

Mr. Cockin, an old experienced farmer from Lincolnshire, says, that on good land 50 bushels of Indian corn is raised at three quarters of a dollar, or one dollar per bushel; and that the English system, so far as is practi-*