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acquainted with the usages and advantages of Euro- 
pean civilization, which they might modify and assi- 
milate to good customs of native growth, which are 
not wanting. 
Thus, for instance, we should have a civil governor, 
a chaplain, with a certain number of catechists and 
schoolmasters; jurists, who, being acquainted with 
English law, should confer with the dignified Loho, 
chief judge of Iddah, and others, with a view to the 
improvement of their laws, rather than the exclusive 
introduction of ours; the military and naval com- 
manders, medical officers, &c., some merchants, arti- 
ficers in various ti’ades, with a sufficient number of 
agricultural and other labourers. 
A society so constituted, of men of colour, who 
are eligible to every grade, would have all the elements 
to command respect and imitation. 
As this is proposed to be a British colony, it 
should be under the strict superintendence of the 
Colonial Office, in order to prevent the dangerous 
anomalies which would creep in, by permitting on the 
one hand a premature independence ; or, on the other, 
the chances of their falling back into the barbarism 
of the surrounding nations : and by having constantly 
to report their proceedings to superior authorities, 
the officials would be restrained in any tendency to 
tyranny, and encouraged in setting the example of 
civilization. To this end, it is indispensable that the 
territory and colony be under the British sovereignty. 
