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of the wisest and most benevolent of modern Legislators, after careful and elaborate investigation, have recommended, 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