This is in Dickens - Bleak House, I think, when he refers to all the under-taxed industrialists promising to 'pitch' their acumen into the Atlantic (i.e., move

This is in Dickens - Bleak House, I think, when he refers to all the under-taxed industrialists promising to 'pitch' their acumen into the Atlantic (i.e., move to the United States) if any government dares to restrict their income through increased taxation.