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rectional Tribunal of Pontarlier has just sentenced to four months' 

 imprisonment, as a vagabond, a rival of Henry V., who appeared in the 

 character of Louis XVII., having assumed that high rank after passing 

 in succession through the grades of dragoon, mason, and waiter at the 

 Bicetre. 



Yet this fellow is but the fourth or fifth who have within these few 

 years attempted to pass themselves to tlie throne as the unfortunate 

 Dauphin. Those knaves have been uniformly detected, and punished 

 in all unroyal ways ; yet the deception still goes on, and even the Mon- 

 sieur de la Bicclre, this turnkey, whose person must have been perfectly 

 known to all the police, contrived to find dupes, and doubtless made a 

 pleasant livelihood of his royalty, while it lasted. His crown has now 

 been rather rudely taken off. But he will find successors as long as 

 Prance will find credulity. 



The accounts from the South Sea colonies are all of a nature to cheer 

 the friends of emigration. They are all prospering, and some with 

 great rapidity. Even the most tardy have reached the point of support- 

 ing life, Avhich is, after all, the great object. They may complain of 

 not being able to make fortunes, of not possessing an extensive trade ; in 

 short, of not being able to do as men of solid capital and established 

 commerce in England have been able to do ; but it is to be remem- 

 bered that they have emigrated not for trade, but for existence ; not to 

 make fortunes by employing their capital on new speculations, but 

 because thej'^ had no capital whatever ; and the only alternative was the 

 English workhouse, and the remote colony. If in that remote colony 

 they are enabled to exist, they have undoubtedly attained an object 

 which they were hopeless of accomplishing at home ; and if they are 

 enabled to subsist in plenty, they have gained more than the object 

 which they could have fairly contemplated. If trade comes, and for- 

 tunes are to be made, so much the better ; but still those things are 

 pieces of good luck, beyond any fair calculation of the settlers, and 

 merely superadded to the gain of existence in a fine climate, in a pro- 

 ductive soil, and with the prospect of being able to rear families. To 

 those colonies too, we 'should look as one of the most fortunate, and 

 even providential resources for supplying the population of England 

 with an outlet for their numbers. 



In a recent letter from one of the oldest and most respectable of stock- 

 holders of New South Wales, to a friend in England, he says, " Would 

 that we had among us 20,00() of your redundant farming servants ! We 

 cannot obtain sufficient assistance to attend even the grazing of our 

 flocks ; and many hundred sheep have and will be lost this year for 

 want of due care." 



This statement is true, and it is echoed from every one of our colonies 

 in the Pacific. Send us labourers, and we will turn them into farmers ; 

 send us artizans, and we shall turn them into manufacturers. There is 

 room in New Soutli Wales for tlie settlement of millions. The colonies 

 demand women ; and even as a matter of speculation, the voyage which 

 would transplant a portion of that female population which now en- 

 cnmbers the streets and workhouses, would be highly productive — for 

 English wives are the only real want in the colonies. But why do not 

 the parishes contriljute to pay the expenses of such voyages ? Tiiey 

 are undone with poor-rates. Wliy not relieve themselves by the niode- 



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