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agency, the principles of which are calculated to wound, irritate, and annoy the best feelings of a large portion of Her Majesty's subjects. If the Commissioners will but cease to act as mere agents of a party, and convert their office into a National Crown Land Office, it will become the most popular department under the Crown, always provided that impartiality on the one side, and justice on the other balance the scales. Why should not a Government gain and hold the affections of a people the same as a parent does of his children? What has it to do but to fulfil the laws of God, and to act equitably towards its people? The one is the natural guardian of his offspring, the other the deputed one of those who form the commonwealth.
The evils connected with emigration which are now before the public, though they may be pretty familiar to those who are conversant with the system, shew the deep responsibilities which a Society like the one proposed will have to incur, and the great necessity that will exist for its devising every precautionary means to lessen, and if possible, entirely to do away with the abuses complained of. A Society such as that contemplated would commence its labours with many advantages over those which Her Majesty's Commissioners have enjoyed, or a mercantile House can command. The objects of such a Society's care are not deterred from emigrating by the mercenary and calculating consideration of age, or whether their families number many or few children; nor would the Society, like a mercantile firm, enter into any scheme of mere speculative emigration. A Society of this nature, if judiciously managed, may converge the moral force of the nation into its service, and engage the sympathy of every local committee, and every benevolent contributor. If an
