Word: carmarthen
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...stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance...