92 TIMEHRI. 
been adopted, that slavery shall be put down in its 
strong hold, by rendering the nation independent of 
its present sources of supply for cotton and tobacco ; 
and the expense attending this great moral effort is 
viewed by its promoters only as a secondary considera- 
tion. The means, whether from public or private funds; 
will assuredly not be wanting, and I firmly believe that 
it remains only for Her Majesty’s Government to reap 
the glory of properly dire€ting this irresistible national 
feeling into the safest and surest channel through which 
the desired objeét can be most advantageously and 
economically accomplished. ; 
I have, &c., 
WILLIAM H. BURNLEY.” 
