"10. Upon the male population amounting to, and upon undertaking to liquidate the colonial debt, the colony to be entitled to a local legislative assembly.
"11. Adequate provision to be made for the support of religion and education.
"When I had finished reading this paper, Lefevre said, 'I think that will do—it is a very important paper, and I should like to have it.' On talking about the mode of executing the plan, I remarked that commissioners must still be appointed to administer the emigration fund, and to raise money by the issue of bonds. To this Lefevre assented, and dictated the following words: 'It is obvious that commissioners must be appointed for the purpose of raising the money for the government of the colony, as well as for selecting and sending out emigrants; these commissioners, of course, will be appointed by the Crown.'
"In the course of conversation after this, he said he hoped that I should not be obliged to take my threatened journey to America, and that, even if this plan went on, that I should not leave the country. To this I replied that it was very uncertain, and could only be decided by circumstances which might arise at the time. He then said he thought I ought to belong to the Statistical Society, and that he should be very glad to propose me as a member. I answered that if I remained in England, I should be much obliged to him to do so.
"March 20th.— Edward Wakefield thinks I have lost sight of the principle of colonisation in allowing the introduction of any clause making the immigration fund applicable to any other purpose than the conveyance of labourers, under the contingencies mentioned in the 5th clause of the foregoing paper. I did not care about it, because I felt assured that the colony might be said to have failed, if no funds could be raised in it by taxes, and if no money could be borrowed upon that security.
