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30 the £600 would need no higher interest; but as it is desirable that all classes should take a share in this National Bank of Benevolence, I must follow these one-hundred girls further, and ask the loyalist to invest a small portion of his capital in it. It would be an act of national blindness to imagine that forced bachelorism can engender loyal feelings; it is preposterous to suppose, and the height of infatuation to expect men to be loyal subjects when the system of Government emigration pursued, has deprived them of the prospect of every domestic blessing. Give them help-mates, and you make murmuring, discontented servants, loyal and happy subjects of the State. I cannot leave these one-hundred couples without soliciting the commercial man to take a few shares in this bank, for these will now become good customers, and each at least consume £7 per annum of British manufacture. There is a monied class again about the Exchange that are so accustomed to compound interest, that I fear they will not be disposed to take shares, except I draw their attention in a more especial manner to the national economy of encouraging industry. The influence of these one-hundred wives in the Bush would soon be visible in the improved sympathy and feelings of their husbands; surrounded by every reasonable comfort, and blessed with children, they would in a more earnest manner remember their parents at home, and this Society would be used on a large scale as the blessed means of conveying aged parents from our poor-houses to the comfortable and well-supplied homes their children would have prepared for them in the Bush, while younger members of families would be likewise assisted and encouraged to emigrate. Following these one-hundred couples into the Bush, I can fearlessly ask the religious man also to take shares.