Emigrant (English)

,—one who, like Dr. Priestley or Thomas Cooper, is complelled to fly from persecution, and explore liberty in a far distant land, probably America, the states of Europe, for the most part, France excepted, being rank despotisms. The late dreadful punishments that have been inflicted under the sanction of a Government calling itself free; the restrictions imposed upon citizens, the intolerable and still increasing taxes, the foreign armies that have landed, and the military barracks erected throughout the country, have produced an extraordinary effort on the public mind, and threaten such an emigration as ought to create the most serious apprehensions. When Mr. P-tt was called into power, the death-warrant of Old England's remaining liberties, and, with them, of her greatness was signed. It were preposterous to suppose, whenever peace shall be established, that Industry and Labour will devote their services to an old, exhausted, worn-out system, working its own dissolution, and which is only preserved in its present rotten state by an immensity of impost, that robs the virtues by which alone it is kept from mortification; while new constitutions, untaxed, with every advantage of climate, and all the irresistable charms of Freedom, shall invite them to emigration. England, thy Sun is set.