24 TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



in the mother country, filling her veins with the 

 bright fluid of pi-osperity, and infusing fi-esh 

 life throughout her entire system. 



This part of the subject cannot better be 

 concluded than by giving an extract from Mr. 

 Brodigan's dedication of hi.s book to His Most 

 Gracious Majesty (William IV.), and by com- 

 mending its spii'it, and the object therein 

 petitioned for, to those who ai-e at present in 

 power in the land, and likely to influence the 

 Government to look attentively and fairly into 

 a question of so much importance, involving, as 

 it does, the well-being of millions, and, pei-haps, 

 of the Empire itself : 



" . . . . Under the gi"acious and paternal 

 auspices of your Majesty we hope to witness a 

 inost beneficial amelioration in an abandonment 

 of the restrictive system so long preserved 

 with respect to the growth of tobacco in these 

 countries, and in a concession to the people of 

 the free exercise of their industry in the culti- 

 vation of their native soil. An amelioi-ation so 

 benevolent, and so advantageous to the best 

 interests of the United Kingdom, cannot fail to 

 give your Majesty new and lasting claims upon 

 the affections of your subjects. 



" To Ireland, whose welfare has been an early 



