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1831 Aug. 5 Colonization Proposal
1831 Aug. 5

Colonization Proposal

§.1. Special Ends in v

§.1. Special Ends in view

1. Transferring individuals, in an unlimited multitude from a state

of indigence to a state of affluence

2. Affording to a great part of the remaining portion of the

population of the Mother Country, relief, from the pressure of a state of continually

encreasing indigence, from which they can not at present be relieved, but by a

continually encreasing tax imposed upon the people of all degrees above the lowest in the scale of opulence.

4. Affording to the relatively opulent such tax-paying portion of the

people of England, immediate relief, more or less

considerable, from this pressure

5. Affording to them a security against all future encrease of the

existing pressure: a security which will not terminate, till the Australasian

Continent contains a population as dense as the European.

6. Giving to the immigrants into Australasia not merely the means of

existence, as above, but through means of education, the means of well-being in all time to come, as well in respect of the

mind, as in respect of the mind.
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    4. Means of effectuation looked for at the hands of the proposed Company.

    5. Means of effectuation looked for at the hands of the Constituted Authorities.

    3. Inducements to successively acceding Colonists.

    Inducements to successively acceding Members.