1831 Aug. 9

Colonization Proposal

§.1. Special Ends in view

§.1. Special ends in view.

1. Transferring individuals in an unlimited multitude from a state of indigence to a state of affluence.

2. Relieving the remaining portion /a great part/ of the population of the Mother Country from the pressure of a continually increasing state of indigence from which they can not at present be relieved but by a continually increasing tax imposed upon the people of all degrees above the lowest in the scale of opulence.

4. Affording to the relatively opulent in the first instance a relief more or less considerable from the pressure.

5. Affording a security against all future increase of the existing pressure - a security which will not terminate till the Australian Continent contains a population as dense as the European.

6. Giving to the immigrants into Australia not merely the medium of existence as above but, through the medium of education the means of well-being in all time to come, as well in respect of the mind as in respect of the body