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quainted with this important subject, 
we feel a very earnest desire to ac- 
celerate so glorious an undertaking by 
every means in our poWer. The im- 
mediate consequence to be expected 
from the adoption of this measure is 
of no less importance than happily 
providing for a numerous and dis- 
tressed population, and at the same 
time laying the foundation of a com- 
merce with the parent state, which 
cannot, perhaps, be appreciated too 
highly. 
The countries northw^ard of the 
Cape, now proposed to be settled by 
emigrants from the united kingdom of 
Great-Britain and Ireland, have never 
been sufficiently explored, owing, in 
a great measure, to the jealousy 
of the Batavian government. The 
Dutch, who were lords of the soil 
