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section to the superabundant resources of the era.
:wire, to produce more we:tlth than is sufficient to
support a greatly intimated population. and to give
tb well-formed aed rational character to the people.
Is it, Sir, more a mark of wisdom to govern the
world by notions twisting from a diseased inasgina-
t:dtt, which olintr.stap produce, their promised
effects, or to govern it by principles in unison with
all the INilwtr lOWA of nature, and which, when pro-
•pyrly applied, will, with onerrnig certainty (4s they
now do in exact proportion as they are introduced),
eircolute the most beneficial result in practice?
;What, Sir, was the general distracter of the de.
;Nile oil: Sir William de Crespigny's motion?
Notwithstanding the usifavottridsle rod unfounded
cti.oeructlons of itidivitto:4l4. it appeared to me de.
it; favour of tium• vn,.:t.nre• whit li I recant-
All admitted the ex;•titig evils, arising
fqrsi the ',Teresa system of governing the world ;
cif all 'admitted the practical benefits which are
:!%e result of those principles, upon which I have
:nifortnly proceeded in the eaprritnent conducted
New LMtlaik. • Had these principles been carried
•itn practice by many tothrr‘, wilt, possess more arl-
I-midges than I possess, the results would have
teen •till snore favourable; and is it not by the
getirra I OM cis .a cosy pril,eirles that we are to judge
cf their value'and truth

If, however, the world is not yet solTicienily en-
-1 y,litened to act fully on a ciiinpleie sylstrin Of pre-
....ration of crimes, it is certainly prepared to adopt
101 a tondheation of it, as is not to the
isrejorlices of the times in which we live ; and such
Mlldll/Cilitol), lam ready to propose, as sb,ll nut
Interfere with the existing government or religion of
the country, or he tie riital to individuals of oily
sank or claws. This modification will leave to the
prevent Church Establishineut the a•centlancy it
now possesses, and to the Dissenters the rights of
conscience and foil religious Itberty. On this basis
%system may now be formed which might speedily
ielirve the country from pis pecuniary embarrass-
ments. and from the demoralization ...Inch is now
doily spreading over the empire. and which. if not
checked by other measures than coercive eosiet-
melds, most very soon involvt the country in far
greater difficulties than it hat yet expoienced. Uov
-leas arrangements shall he formed' to give effect to
the industry. skill, and capital of this country,
the present frame of society cannot be long held
together.
It is now evident that there valuable materiels of
nation's prosperity. are, by the existing system,
;:sralystil and rendered of little avail, when they
tin ht to he, and might be made efficient and pro-
itociive—vwlieis they might'be upplied to give belie.
besot occupsoion to all who are in waist of employ-
inent—to reduce, and gradually rendes umiecereary,
toe Poor Rates—to diminish the most pressing of
the public bunleils—and nut .of the increasing re.
venues of the kingdom, gradually to reduce the
public debt ; while, with these important results,
either arrangements would be combined, to secure,
ea principles of science. a superior characteito the
i-ierer closers. The effects of these measures would
Le to induce foreign powers, from motives of lute-
zc t, to open with us, and with one another, a free
oaf beneficial interchange of the advantages which
Cu.). could mutually import.
Stich, Sir, are the outlines of the advantages
which I base to offer to the Government mid po-
i:Amon of this country, whenever the prejudices
naturally arising from the localities by which they
ss-e eurronrided shall permit a (sir and honest in-
•;iry into toy proposals.
*:eriog how yon are enveloped with inextricable
d;ffienttie,, in every direction to which your present
iilisterqiniii extend, I await the time, which cannot
now be far distant, when the unavoidable necessity
fora change shall overcome those prejudices of lo-
calities which weaken the mind, and deprive it of
ttione clear, distinct, and strong powers of judg-
ment, which are now so requisite to enable the
world to derive benefit from past experience and
pfoVt Crle is
My request is nothing for myself, but that you
will impartially examine the arrangements which
may relieve you frosts difficulties which experience
will goon prove are insurmountable by any other
rooms that can be devised, and which, sooner or

14trr, the Government of this country, for its own
security and political interest, will find it necessary
IQ adopt.
It is true, some of the Members of the !louse of
cutmnon.. oho took part in the debate on Sir 11'il-
liam de Cirsp;gil's motion, applied the terms vi-
sionary or implacticable to part of the measures
which have to propose. These Gentlemen, how.
t.er, in jost.ce to themselves, should study these
sirraugeme:lts much more accurately and profoundly
thin they have yet done, before they inonounce a
judgmeht co a subject which is so far removed from
a!eir ordinary thought and reflection.
I have the I.ohour to be, most respectfully,
Your most obedient,
Lundoo, Jaecary 1, Mu. ROBERT OWF.N.