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of the power brought into the field of industry 

 by the British people for the purpose of im- 

 proving our colonies, and effecting the reduction 

 of our national debt. The power which we 

 would apply to this purpose would be more of 

 an artificial kind, than that now in operation. 

 We would abridge labour at all hands by 

 the application of machinery, as it is done in 

 this country. The abridgement of labour in 

 our colonies at present is very defective, and on 

 the lowest calculation a saving may be effected, 

 such as would bring up our strength to some- 

 thing equivalent to that of from 10,000,000 to 

 20,000,000 effective hands. 



It is with this extra power in the hands of 

 our colonial apprentices, that we would enable 

 them to establish industry on a more solid basis 

 than it is at present ; so that by the time they 

 were qualified for entering upon their own 

 responsibility, they would have property to the 

 value of their labour double and triple of what 

 they would have had, had they served their 

 apprenticeship in the mother country ; while at 

 the same time they would be able by well- 

 directed labour with machinery to create a large 

 amount of property, over and above what they 

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