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teach them , in time , ( however slow they may be to learn , ) the means by which it rests with them to proportion labour to capital , —consumers to the means of subsistence . No method of location at home will permanently relieve our difficulties : and this may be so clearly proved , that it gives us great concern to see so many benevolent persons bent upon trying
the experiment of home colonies in preference to emigration Home colonies impose no check on population , but rather afford an encouragement to it ; a much less return to capital is obtained than in the colonies abroad ; and a much larger class becomes by their means engaged in the mere production of food , to the ultimate extensive degradation of the whole population . We go all lengths with Mr . Hill in oar horror of the pauper system as it at
present subsists ; but we are confident that its evils can be only temporarily relieved by such home locations as he recommends . The policy of a nation in an advanced state of civilization can never be to descend from improved to primitive methods of tillage , from an economy to a profuse expenditure of labour . Labour superabounds , it is true ; but instead of employing it where it requires a larger outlay of capital with a less return , let it be conveyed
where there is a less outlay of capital with a larger return . While there is an ample surface of rich land in Australia , which already yields more than can be consumed , let us not waste our capital and labour on such a soil as Dartmoor . Let the Quarterly Review be as correct as it will respecting the number of millions of acres that might be made productive within the bounds of Great Britain , —if we have more millions of acres of land of a far better
quality elsewhere , it is our best policy to devote to it what capital we can spare , especially if population goes on increasing all the time so as to forebode new calls upon the next generation , —calls which will be as welcome in Australia as burdensome at home . The Van Diemen's Land Company appears likely to flourish in proportion to its deserts , — which is saying a great deal . The account Mr . BischofF gives us of its proceedings and the
principles on which they are grounded is extremely interesting . Their directors seem to be harmonious , their proprietors satisfied , their servants prosperous and full of reciprocal gratulation , their bulls , rams , and horses , duly honoured throughout the colony , and their pastures such as to put us in mind of the twenty-third Psalm . The company engage their servants at low wages in com * parison with what are given in some parts of the island , and have
them bound for a term of years in order to the repayment of their passage out , and yet ' the farming men are generally in places at wages of from thirty to fifty guineas a-year with a maintenance ; the shepherds fifty to sixty pounds a-year ; the mechanics are chiefly at Launceston , and earning ten shillings per day and upwards : these latter have got town allotments , and are most of them building or about to build good brick cottages for them-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/17/
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