•"iSS STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE 



The revenues necessary lor an increase of splendor arc not 

 considerable ; they might probably be found by selling the un- 

 iippropriated lands to new colonists for a quit-rent, subject to 

 be augmented a tenth every ten years, or in some other pro- 

 portion ; instead of selling them outright in lots, which require 

 a sudden and inconvenient advance of capital for the fee-sim- 

 ple. Window-taxes, and other such assessments on fixed pro- 

 perty, might, if necessary, be introduced. Money, which is 

 to be expended on the spot, is seldom grudged by the people. 

 But care should be taken that places, which require local 

 knowlege, be given to local experience ; and that those, who 

 acquit themselves well in a province, should have a chance 

 for advancement to metropolitan consequence. North Ame- 

 rica was lost, as much for want of opening a career of ascent to 

 her native talent, as from any popular benefit that was to ac- 

 crue by the assertion of independence. 



It is fortunate when, by a rare chance, the governor brings 

 with him a wife. Few married English women, of rank and 

 character, are at any time induced to make their appearance in 

 these distant edges of the world, to exhibit the fashions of do- 

 mestic elegance, and teach the graces of moral dignity. The 

 female servants and humble companions of such married ladies 

 very commonly attach themselves independently and advan- 

 tageously in the colonies; and produce, by their stay, a great 



