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Show 198 CANADA PAMPHLET. this principle; will not Britain be guilty of all the blood to be (bed, all the murders tribe committed in order to check this dreaded growth of our owii people? Will not this be telling the French in plain terms, that the horrid barbarities they perpetrate with their Indians on ‘our colonifls, are agreeable to us; and that they need not apprehend the refentment of a government, with whole views they to happily concur? Will not, the colonies View it in this light? .Wilfl they-'ihav‘e‘ reafon to eonfid'er themfelves any'lo'nger as' fi-‘xbjee'rs and children 3 when they find their and enemies hal- loo'd upon them by the country from‘wh‘ence they ‘ fprung ,3 the government that owes thein protec- .hm t10n, as It requires their obedience .P/ Is not- this it. .TmGK"??? "I" ] flu J}; l l l l l 1 r i l l, l; l‘ ll she" mof't likely 'means of driving-them ‘iitflothe arms of the French, who can inviteTthe-m-byan oficer of that feeurity,‘ their own govein'tnent-‘éhufes not to afford them PMI would not lb'ethought to infinuate that thelRemarker wants humanity. I lrnow how little many goodrnaturediperfons are affected by the dlftrefifes of people at a dil'rance, and whom they do not know. There are even thole, who, being prefent, can fym'pathize tin-cei‘ely with the grief of a lady on the fudden death of a favourite bird 3 and yet can read of the linking of a city in Syria with very: little concern.----Ifit'be after all, thought neceffary to check the gi‘ow'tlilofotii" colonies ; give me leave to prbpofe a methodlefs [A1 B.T.] T/JeFrench dwgerom irchznnzz'zr. 199 focicty has been for fome time enjoyed, afefls deeply the refpeétive turviving relations : but grief for the death of a childjuft born is fhort, and ealily fupported. The methodI mean is that which was dictated by the Egyptian policy, when the " infinite increafe " of the children of lfrael was apprehended as dangerous to the [late *. Let an aft of parliament then be made, enjoining the co- lony midwives to {title in the birth every third or fourth child. By this means you may keep the colonies to their prefent fize. And if they were un- der the hard alternative of fubmitting to one or the other of thefe fehemes for checking their growth, Idare anfwer for them, they would pre~ fer the latter. ‘ But all 117i: debate about the propriety or impro- .prz'ety (3f keeping or rcflorz'ng Canada, is pollibly too early. We have taken the capital indeed, but the country is yet far from being in our pof‘ feflion; and perhaps never will be: for if our -M-rs are perfuaded by fuch counfellors as the Remarker, that the French there are "not the " worft of neighbours," and that if we had conquered Canada, we ought for our own fakes to refiore it, as a check to the growth of our colonies; I am then afraid we {hall never take it. For there " And Pharoah {aid unto his people, behold the people of the children of Iii-ac] are more and mightier than we ; come on, let us deal \vilcly with them ; left they multiply; and it come to puts that when there falleth out any war, they join alfo unto our enemies cruel .‘ It is ‘a method of-whi‘ch-we have‘an exampllt and fight againlt us. and to get them up out ofthe land-And the Ill? fempture. The murder ofhufbands, ofwives, of brothers, filters, and children, whofe pleating fociety king fpake L0 lheHebrcw midwives, 8w. Exodus, chap. 1. 31‘ C |