290 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



SECTION XXIII. 



WE propose that arrangements for carrying on emigration 

 shall be made between the Commissioners of Poor Laws 

 and the Colonial Office, and that all poor persons whose 

 circumstances shall require it shall be furnished with a 

 free passage, and with the means of settling themselves in 

 an approved British colony to which convicts are not sent. 

 We propose too, that the means of emigration shall be 

 provided for the destitute of every class and description 

 who are fit subjects for emigration ; that depots shall be 

 established, where all who desire to emigrate may be re- 

 ceived in the way we shall mention ; that those who are fit 

 for emigration be there selected for the purpose, and that 

 those who are not, shall be provided for under the direc- 

 tions of the Poor Law Commissioners. 



REMARKS. 



A false theory admits only of false means of 

 execution. The Commissioners, for the emigra- 

 tion they propose, here speak of depots forgetting 

 they have previously stated that not one exists in 

 Ireland, and that the money necessary to erect 

 them would be far better employed in cultivating 

 the land, and procuring better crops. 



