1821 Novr 11 or 12 Codification Offer '8. Foreigner best '.5.II. Intellectual

aptitude 5. Effects of Foreigners aptitude will not be destroyed by Legislation

Committee

To the aptitude of the supply from this quarter one moment may present an

objection, but another will dispell it.

By the supposition it may be said, these natives will be labouring under those

causes of inaptitude, those sinister interests and affections - (as well as

prejudices) by which their appropriate aptitude, as well in point of moral

aptitude as in point of appropriate judgment, is, according to you, placed so

much below that of the foreigner. True: but, by that same supposition, the

draught - the groundwork which they will have to work upon is a draught not

drawn by their own hands, or by those of any other native, but by the

foreigners: and by him it has been furnished with a rationale. In the outline

then of the drawing, with or without the instructions above spoken of - in the

outline of his drawing, with the bridle which it affords as well as the guide,

will they find a check to, and a security against the effective predominance of

those same sinister interests.