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glass, then broke it to pieces, and swallowed its fragments. He ex- 

 pired with the name of liberty and his country on his dying lips! 



If we rise with sorrow and disgust, from perusing the annals of the 

 diet of 1773, our mind is relieved by the admiration for the conduct 

 of such men as Reyton, and by the thought that he only begins the 

 long list of the martyrs, who for the last century suffered in their 

 country's cause, and that among them Poland hath many a worthier 

 son than he ! 



" A nation," says a modern writer, " may go down and be sub- 

 merged in the common tide of casualty. But the fame of her great 

 men stands up like the mountain-tops in the deluge ; the last retreat 

 of the national hope and virtue, the first point from which they re- 

 issue to possess and restore the land." 



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AND HINTS UPON THE FORMATION OF MILITARY SETTLEMENTS. 



" Ccelum uon ammura mutant qui trans man currunt." 



EMIGRATION having now become a topic of general interest, few 

 apologies on my part are necessary in communicating to the public 

 the ideas I entertain upon the subject. I must preface by saying 

 that I have seen the principal parts of our North American pro- 

 vinces, as well as a considerable portion of the United States. There- 

 fore, I have had an opportunity of witnessing, in all its stages, the 

 advances of civilization in the New World. A continent that, but 

 a couple of centuries ago, was the abode exclusively of the Indian 

 warrior, now teems with a population speaking the English lan- 

 guage, having transported to that hemisphere the habits and 

 luxuries of Europe. 



Cold, indeed, must be the heart which can contemplate the suc- 

 sessful result of the emigrant's industry, without feeling proud of 

 the nation that has sent him forth as one of the founders of an empire 

 that, in a future age, may equal the glory and prosperity of the 

 mother country ! 



It is gratifying to observe, after many years of comparative quies- 

 cence upon this subject, that the nation is at last turning its regards 

 to the advantages that emigration holds out to the mother country, 

 as a favourable means of providing for the redundant population 

 of the empire. Is it not then of the first importance that every 

 exertion should be made, in order that the industry and enterprise of 

 the emigrant should be well directed that he may not only benefit 

 himself and his adopted country, but become an immediate consumer 

 of the manufactures of Great Britain ? If, therefore, as I conceive, 

 emigration constitutes a prominent feature in the duties of a states- 

 man, if it be considered of paramount importance to this country, 

 no opportunity should be lost in obtaining every information upon 



