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layahs with British settlers, that he advocates a higher 

 rate of pension being awarded to such Government 

 servants as remain in the country on the expiration 

 of their term of service. 



This step, though involving an apparent increase of 

 expenditure, would, he considers, prove in the end a 

 great gain, as thus these Indian pensions would benefit 

 instead of helping to merely drain the country. 



To those (and the class is numerous in England) 

 who, possessing but a moderate sum of money, wish, 

 nevertheless, to maintain the position in life to which 

 they have been educated, to whom trade or the pro- 

 fessions are obnoxious, who, having no military tastes 

 or nautical tendencies, are still anxious to use that 

 energy and enterprise which are said to belong to the 

 British to such, tea planting offers peculiar induce- 

 ments. 



An employment in itself agreeable, entailing no hard 

 physical labour, but merely sufficient exercise for both 

 body and mind as is essential to their healthy preser- 

 vation, and eventually so lucrative as to amply repay 

 the anxieties incidental on the earlier years ; with a 

 property safe against the many ills that other crops are 

 liable to, and withal of such a nature, when in full 

 bear, as to give ample time for recreation, or even to 

 permit of a prolonged absence ; and, lastly, when it is 

 taken into consideration that the cultivation of tea 

 can only be carried on in those districts eminently 

 adapted for the European constitution, and that it does 

 not entail a shortening or deterioration of life, as a 



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