330 TlMEHRI. 
whatever laid in my power to stop it from going too far ; 
therefore I have writcen this paper in the hope that if 
negotiations between England and America do not 
eventuate as we all desire, and so many anticipate, we 
may as an alternative policy turn to a country under the 
same flag as ourselves, and which, if we managed to 
secure her markets, would not be ever likely to plough 
up her wheat fields and substitute beet as a rival industry 
to our own. 
