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are confidered, England will not be induced 
to plant colonies in Africa, as fuch a meaf- 
lire might lay the foundation of a future in- 
dependency formed on the principles of the 
reprefentative fyftem. I do not imagine. 
Sir, that any apprehenfion of this kind de- 
ferves, at prefent, a momicnt's conlideration. 
What may happen, in the revolution of 
centuries, it is imipoflible to foretel ; another 
Palmyra may be raifed in CafFraria, and the 
deferts, now the habitations of the lion and 
the rhinoceros, may, in future ages^ be the 
favorite feat of the mufes, and vie with the 
ancient Balbeck in the ma<:^nificence of her 
palaces. But, Sir, thefe are pofiibilities 
Vv hich even the telefcope of the mind can 
hardly diitinguiih. The fame objeftions 
might be ftarted againft the Britilh fettle- 
ments in new South Wales, and with inlin- 
itely greater weight, as they are contiguous 
to their provinces in India ; and, in time, 
may become one of the moft powerful na- 
tions of the earth. 
The Dutch colonifts, I have before obferv- 
ed, menaced the government of the Cape in 
more inftances than one, and have fliewn a 
difpofition to be freed from the Batavian 
yoke ; but thefe colonifts were, in the firft 
inftance, badly chofen, and afterwards as 
badly managed. Moft of them were con- 
victs from Holland, and when fent into the 
country bordering on the Cape, were in a 
great meafure left tq their own difcretion^ 
