SOME INFORMATION RESPECTING AMERICA, COLLECTED BY THOMAS COOPER, LATE OF MANCHESTER. THE SECOND EDITION, LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. M DCC XCV. 53a.99 PREFACE. N my return from America, I found myself preffed by fo many enquiries refpecting the state of Socie ty, the means of living, and the inducements to settle upon that continent, that I determined to reply in print to fuch questions as were most frequently put to me, and which feemed to be of the moft general importance. Hence the present publication; which I fhould not have ventured upon, if I were not fully fatisfied, that the information it contains (fmall as it is) would be very acceptable to a numerous class of readers in this country. I quitted England in August 1793, and embarked at New-York, for Europe, in February 1794. I left this kingdom exprefsly to determine whether America, and what part of it, was eligible for a person, like myself, with a small fortune, and a large family, to fettle in. During my refidence in Philadelphia, the Congress fat, and I had therefore the means of acquiring fatisfactory information refpecting every part of the continent which I had not a perfonal opportunity of vifiting, I had no other employment, while in America, than to make obfervations and enquiries to this purpose; I therefore made this my business, and having compleatly fatisfied my own mind upon this fubject, I left part of my family there, and have returned to this country (probably for the laft time) to take away the reft. I mention this, that the reader may be truly apprized of the degree of authority due to the remarks with which I prefent him. Such of them as are the refult of my own obfervation, I think may be safely relied on: so, indeed, in my opinion, may those which I have ven tured |