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rate contract, wliicli would convey four or five hundred of their paupers 

 yearly to the Pacific ? The benefit to themselves would be immense ; 

 the benefit to the colonies of not less value ; and by a higher considera- 

 tion still, the benefit to the unfortunate victims of poverty and vice at 

 home would be incalculable. No fact in the history of manners is more 

 singular and more gratifying than the change wrought upon even the 

 convicts and profligates of both sexes, whom our laAvs send to New 

 South Wales. The men become industrious, and possessors of pro- 

 perty ; the women become decent, and mothers of families. The 

 poverty and idleness being removed, which almost drove those wretched 

 people into vice, the vice gives way to the fortunate change in their 

 situation ; character becomes of importance to them. The sense of affection 

 grows up, in hearts made hard only by rejection from society ; husbands 

 and wives feel a new tie to life, and the proprieties of life, by having 

 something to lose, and something to gain, by their conduct to their 

 neighbours. The sense of property produces a sense of its preservation ; 

 and by the most memorable example on record of good being brought 

 out of evil, the refuse of the English streets, workhouses, and jails, is 

 rapidly growing into an active and industrious, a principled and well- 

 ordered community. Why should not this evidence be followed up ? 

 Why should not a better population succeed, where a worse has thriven .'' 

 Why should not the willing, but unemployed, labourer, and the super- 

 fluous female peasantry, be allowed at least the choice of reaching those 

 settlements, and there laying the foundations of personal and public 

 prosperity ? We are persuaded that the enterprize might be easily 

 accomplished, and that it requires only to be begun. 



As it is among our duties to take care of our friends, we caution them 

 against a foreign importation from that land from which we have of late 

 had so much news, so many envoys, and such furious stock-jobbing. 

 We of course allude to Holland. Our Dutch neighbours know the 

 value of keeping up a " fluctuation," as well as any knave in the Stock 

 Exchange, and the vibrations of their worthy cabinet are making for- 

 tunes for Mynheer. But as an active trader cannot have too many trades 

 at once, the Dutch are quickening the operation by an import of gold, 

 against which we are called upon to set John Bull on his guard : — 



" An extensive importation of five guilder pieces has taken place within the 

 last ten days, and the sons and daughters of Israel have been most actively em- 

 ployed in giving celerity to their circulation, and substituting them for half 

 sovereigns, which they strongly resemble in size ; the head of William Koning, 

 of the Netherlands, not being so decidedly dissimilar as to be immediately dis- 

 tinguishable from that of George IV. The substituted coin (the five guilder 

 piece) is only worth Ss. Ad. English money, so that in all cases (which have 

 been very numerous) where the venders have been successful in passing them, 

 they have realised a profit of Is. 8d." 



Confound those Jews ! How does it happen that they are the agents 

 in every abomination ? from the dirtiest traffic to the boldest swindling, 

 those wretched creatures are the ready instruments. Money may be a 

 good, and it clearly gives power and luxury, but can we have a more 

 striking example of the intrinsic baseness of avarice than its effect on 

 this miserable people? The rage of money, the eternal money-dabbling, 

 the daily and nightly struggle to amass money, has absorbed this un- 

 fortunate class of mankind for the last two thousand vears, and its result 



