APPENDIX. 



Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Calcutta 

 interested in Foreign and Colonial Emigration. 



" I HAVE read, with much attention, the papers on 

 Colonial emigration you placed in my hands, and 

 though they have helped to perfect my knowledge 

 on many points, and show that much eare is taken, 

 to insure the comfort and well being of the emi- 

 grants, they have not induced me to alter the 

 opinions I previously entertained, regarding this 

 deeply interesting and highly important subject. 

 I would not in any way be understood to advocate 

 the imposition of any restrictions on the freedom 

 of labor. His labor is all the poor man has to bring 

 to Market, and any interference with his free and 

 unrestricted liberty to carry that, to where he can 

 dispose of it to the best advantage, while the wealthy 

 merchant may take his goods, without let or hin- 

 derance, to any market in the world, would not only 

 be economically a retrograde and, false step, at 

 variance with those sound principles which have 

 regulated the policy of the British Government 

 now for many years, but extremely despotic, if not 

 oppressive. At the same time, it must be borne 

 iu mind, that the labor of every country is its 

 most precious wealth, and I conceive, that while 



