SECT. IV.] RESULTS OF THE INQUIRY. 



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SECTION IV. 



THE Commissioners, recurring to the evidence which had 

 been given respecting emigration, and the anxiety for 

 emigrating which so many of the Irish show, propose to 

 the Government to defray the expense of the voyage to 

 those who desire to emigrate to the colonies, in order to 

 make the market-labour in Ireland more scarce, and there- 

 fore more profitable. 



They conclude by observing, that they do not look to 

 emigration as an object to be permanently pursued upon 

 any extensive scale, nor by any means as the main relief 

 for the evils of Ireland ; but, for the present, as an auxili- 

 ary, essential to the commencement of a course of amelio- 

 ration. 



REMARKS. 



As soon as the government of the United States 

 of America found that the agents of the English 

 government seriously proposed to defray the cost 

 of getting rid of this excess of population, it raised 

 the duty from two to ten dollars. This mea- 

 sure is in fact a prohibition, and it is the more 

 wise, as the American government, not hav- 



