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having done me the honour to comply with my solicitation in becoming Members of the Committee of the Society which I have ventured to suggest with the view of carrying out a comprehensive and self-supporting system of Colonization, I feel myself called upon^ considering your position as public men, and the onerous and numerous duties you may have to attend to, to explain more fully to you and to the public at large the principle of the proposed Society, and how I think it may be worked in detail in the Australian Colonies. Although it is not yet three months since this plan was first submitted to the public, I have the pleasure to inform you that without any prominent move whatever having been made in the matter, that about 370 individuals have already enrolled themselves into groups, consisting of respectable families of the working classes, a few young men, and some friendless young women;, the whole party can contribute £.1200. towards their passage; some reside in London and its immediate vicinity, while others have sent in their names from the rural districts in England and Wales, and I have had several applications also from persons in Scotland and Ireland, anxious to join the Society, but who at present