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200 more ; but this he was never allowed to exceed, 

 and, in fact, it was in almost all cases enough, and was 

 never exceeded without a satisfactory explanation being 

 given. In no instance, as far as I can recall, has any 

 censure been passed on any of those Collectors. So well 

 does the serious mind of a Scotch education fit Scotsmen 

 to the habits of industry, attention, and frugality, that 

 they rarely abandon them at any time of life, and I 

 may say never while they are young." Sir Joseph then 

 proposes to give them 180, since money is much higher 

 in value than it was. Out of this they may be expected 

 to save 150 at the least, as 30 it is presumed will be 

 sufficient to furnish them with clothes and pocket-money. 

 A free passage in one of the King's ships is expected, 

 and mess with the warrant-officers. Governors in the 

 colonies are instructed to supply them with bullock- 

 wagons, etc., from the public stores. . . . " I am willing, 

 if Lord Liverpool thinks it would be advantageous to the 

 undertaking, to audit the accounts sent home by the 

 Collectors, and to certify them for the Treasury." He 

 proposes Allan Cunningham and James Bowie, who are 

 ready, and even anxious, to obtain the employment as 

 Collectors. As though warned by the adventures of 

 Mr. Caley, he says that the Collectors " must be directed 

 by their instructions not to take upon themselves the 

 character of gentlemen, but to establish themselves in 

 point of board and lodging as servants ought to do." 



After alluding to the commerce of Exotic plants, 

 already of some importance and promising to improve, 

 he says, " The Domestic trade in plants, supported far 

 above its natural level by the use of growing plants in all 

 expensive entertainments, maintains a race of sober, 

 healthy, and industrious people, daily on the increase. 

 This will also be increased by the introduction of beautiful 

 novelties. These considerations it is hoped will induce 

 His Majesty's Ministers to foster an establishment which 



