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British industry evidently results from the 

 narrow-minded policy of our commercial in- 

 terest, alluded to at the commencement of this 

 essay, who have been pulling down their barns 

 and building larger ones, in order to harvest 

 the fruits of their ambition, and support as 

 they vainly imagined our rapidly increasing 

 millions, which now threaten to consume them ! 

 We would be actuated by very different mo- 

 tives. If we were able to purchase agricultural 

 produce on a foreign shore, we would send out 

 our own farmers' sons and labourers to grow it, 

 and our own commercial and manufacturing 

 classes to consume it. We would keep the 

 different branches of industry in perfect equi- 

 librium and wholly independent of the mother 

 country after they were finally settled on their 

 own account. We would not only do away 

 with the barbarous stage of agriculture, which 

 every settler at present so severely experiences, 

 and introduce a more civilised and scientific 

 system of husbandry, but also establish all the 

 other branches of industry on a scale, if possible, 

 superior to that of the same in this country. 

 It is only by giving our colonies these advan- 

 tages that success can attend the scheme which 



