INTRODUCTION.
Some of the wisest and most benevolent of modern
Legislators, after careful and elaborate investigation, have recommended Emigration, as a happy
mode of relieving the country from the burthen of
an unemployed population. The relative position
of the British Islands, "inter se,"—the peculiar
consequences that have resulted from the application of different laws, to different parts of these
countries—countries united by legal enactments,
and, since the invention of steam navigation, connected, as it were, by flying bridges, have occasioned an undue, partial, and perilous pressure; one that must continue to increase, unless a safety pipe be provided for the reservoir, to carry off the surplus water introduced by the continual stream
of the feeder. The wealth and industry of England cannot sustain her against an inundation of the
