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is not likely, I fear, to be well understood, or very 

 generally appreciated either here or in England. 



An office, however, has within the last few 

 months been created by the Secretary of State, 

 which is specially charged with the duty of examining 

 into the wants of the country, in regard to canals 

 and works of irrigation ; and I have been given to 

 understand that orders have been issued to stay 

 further action in the matter of the redemption of the 

 land revenue, or the general institution of a perma- 

 nent settlement. I have been induced, therefore, to 

 publish some extracts from my previous observations 

 on these subjects, in the hope that they will attract 

 more attention now than they did four years ago. 

 With the experience of the last few years, I might 

 perhaps have re-written my remarks with advantage ; 

 but I preferred to leave them as they before stood, 

 resting content with purely verbal corrections in the 

 text, and a few foot notes, to which I have appended 

 the date in which they were written. And my 

 reason for so doing, is that, however opposed to 

 received opinions in England, my views on some 

 portions of the very difficult subjects I have treated 

 may appear, I am convinced that the general policy 



