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Show 168 CANADA PAMPHLET. ‘ fufficient future protection; exprefs their-defines [Az B.T.] lVar 2'72Amer.7mfirColenics alone. 1 6:) ‘ that their people may be confined within the ‘ difobedience, and greater ability to iiipoort ‘ them I You have tufted too, the {\veets of‘i'i‘wo ‘ OR THREE MILLIONS Sterling perannum {pent ‘ mountains, left [if] they are futfered to fpread ‘ and extend themfelves in the fertile and pleafant ‘ country on the other fide, they fhould " increafe " infinitely from all caufes," " live wholly on " their own labour" and become independent; ‘ beg therefore that the French may be fuf'fered ‘ to remain in pofl‘eflion ofCanada, as their neigh‘ bourhood may be ufeful to prevent our increafe; ‘ among you by our fleets and forces, and you are ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ " unwilling to be without a pretence for kindling up another war, and thereby occalioning a re- petition of the fame delightful dofes! But, Gentlemen, allow us to underfland our interefi: a little likewife: We {hall remove theFrench from ‘ and the removing them may " in its confe- ‘ Canada, that you may live in peace, and we be " quences be even dangerous* :"--I fay, fhould ‘ no more drained by your quarrels. You {hall ‘ have land enough to cultivate, that you may ‘ have neither neceflity nor inclination to go into fuch an addrefs from the colonies make its appear- ance here, (though, according to the Remarker, it would be a mot'tjuft and reafonable one ;) would it not, might it notwith more juf'tice be anfwered; ‘-We underfiand you, Gentlemen, perfeétly well: ‘ manufactures; and we will manufacture for you, "and govern you.' ' ‘ you have only your own interef'c in View: you want to have the people confined within your prefent limits, that in a few years the lands you this writer would have us reftore Canada, on prin- .A reader of the Remarks may be apt to fay ; if c1ples of moderation; how can we, confident with are poifeffedof may increafe tenfold in value! you thofe principles, retain Guadaloz¢e, which he re- want to reduce the price of labour, by increafing prefents of [0 much greater value !--I will endeavour to explain this, becaufe by doing itI {hall have an opportunityoffhewing the truth and good fenfe of the anfwer to the interef'ted application I have Juft fuppofed: The author then is only apparently and not reallyinconfii'rent with himfelf.-~-lfwe can obtain the credit of moderation by ref‘roring Canada, It is well: but we Ihould, however, rei'core it numbers on the fame territory, that you may be able to fet up manufactures and vie with your mother country! you would have your people kept in a body, that you may be more able to difpute the commands of the crown, and obtain an independency. You would have the French ' left in Canada, to exercife your military virtue, ‘ and make you a warlike people, that you may ‘ have more confidence to embark in fehemes 0f at allevmtr; becaufe it would not only be of no ufe to us; but " the polfeflion of it (in his opinion) " may in its confequences be dangerous *1" As " Remarks, p. 50, 51. ‘ dif- " Remarks 1:. go 51. ' ' how .7 |