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law from the freedom of carrying* his labour where 

 he pleases, and foreign agents being* permitted to 

 come and lure him to a distant land byond Seas, 

 when he might obtain all that he requires in his own 

 country, within reasonable distance of his home, and 

 under the protective laws of his own Government. 

 If still anxious to reclaim the great wastes of India, 

 it will be for both Governments, in concert, to con- 

 sider what arrangements, if any, can be made that 

 will facilitate the removal of a labouring population 

 from over-crowded districts to those where European 

 Capitalists are ready to employ it. And when we 

 reflect that it has been satisfactorily established, 

 that some of those districts which are now unpopu- 

 lated, are admirably adapted for the growth of the 

 best descriptions of cotton, the want of which has 

 reduced so many huudred thousands, if not millions 

 of our own countrymen, to a state bordering on 

 starvation, the question is one that ought to have 

 special interest for the people of England. 



The physical obstacles in the way of establish- 

 ing a communication between the North Eastern 

 Frontier of India, and the territories of the King 

 of Burmah, are doubtless very great ; but if the 

 Burmese could march an army into the province, 

 devastate it, and drive before them into Burmah 

 30,000 captives, with their cattle and household 

 goods, to the British Government these obstacles can- 

 not be insurmountable. Now, moreover, since by 

 the late commercial treaty, political difficulties are 



