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Show zoo Canada eaflly peopled. [Az B.T.] are many ways of avoiding the completion of the conqueft, that will be lefs exceptionable and lefs odious than the giving it up. 7. [ Canada ea/ily peopled, without draining Great Britain ofany ofiz‘t inlmliz‘antrj 5772a olijec‘iion I nave often beard, float if we lJad Canada, we could not people it, toilboaz‘ draining Britain of it: inhabitant: ; i: founded on ignorance (fine nature ofpopulation in new eozzntrier. When we firit began to colonize in America, it was ne-v cellary to fend people, and to fend feed-corn ,- but Gaadaloape overvalued. 201 8. [Tbe‘meriz‘r of Guadalonpe to Great Britain over-valued ; yet likely to be paid much dearer for, Man Canada.j In Guadalonpe the eafle it fimetwnal‘ dgflerem‘ ; and though I am far from thinking 1 we have fugar-land enough +, I cannot think Guadaloupe is {o defirable an increafe of it, as other objects the enemy would probably be infinitely more ready to part with.--A countryfully inbaoited by any nation, is no proper pofi‘eflion for another of different language, manners and religion. It is it is not now necelfary that we fhould furnilh, for a new colony, either one or the other. The hardly ever tenable at lefs expence than it is worth. annual increment alone of our prefent colonies, --But the ifle of Cayenne, and it: appendix, Equinofiial-Franee, having but very few inhabitants, without diminifhing their numbers, or requiring a man from hence; is fufficient in ten years to fill Canada with double the number of Englifh that it now has of French inhabitants *.-Thofe who are proteflants among the French, will probably choofe to remain under the Englifh government; many will choofe to remove, if they can be allowed to fell their lands, improvements and effeéts : the reft in that thin-fettled country, will in lefs than half a century, from the crowds of Englifh fettling round and among them, be 1blended and incorporated with our people both in language and manners. * In faé‘t, there has not gone from Britain [itfelf] to our colonies the new {ettlers are either the offspring of the old, or emigrants from there 20 years pafi, to fettle there, {0 many as to families a year; Germany, Jor the north of Ireland. 1761. [N . B. Written in 1760 or 8. [77.76 and thefe therefore eafily removed; would indeed be an acquifition every way fuitable to our fituation and defires. This would hold all that migrate from Barbadoes, the Leeward lflands, or Jamaica. It would certainly recall into an Englifh government (in which there would be room for millions) all who have before fettled or purchafed in Martinico, Guadaloupe, Santa-Cruz or St. John's; ex- cept fuch as know not the value of an Englith goI Remarks, p. 30, 334. Jr It is tften find we have plenty of fugar-land {till unemployed in Jamaica: but thofe who are well acquainted with that ifland, know, that the remaining vacant land in it is generally'fituated among mountains, rocks and gullies, that melee carriage imprac- ticable, {0 that no profitable r" can be made of it; unlcls the price offugars fhould {o greatly in_r;:.1e, as to enable the planter :0 make very expenfive roads, by blowing up rocks, urea-trig bridges, 85c. every 2 or 300 yards. [Our author was tbmewhat mrnnformed here. 13.] D d vernment, |
