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 default of payment in money, payment to be made in land as proposed.

"(6) If one particular form of worship is to be established, the unfairness to all those who do not agree with that particular creed or form of Church discipline, is apparent. While the promoters of this object agree in thinking that religious teaching and other instruction is most important, they feel convinced that those objects will be best promoted by leaving their execution to the colonists themselves, who will thus avoid a source of much contention.

"(7) It is considered particularly desirable that the proposed colony should not be subjected to an incorporation with any other colony, especially on the ground of assuring those who may contemplate settling in the colony, that it could not become a penal settlement; it is therefore suggested that its consolidation with any other colony should not take place unless it should fail in paying its own expenses.

More than a month elapsed without any reply whatever being received from Mr. Stanley in acknowledgment of the foregoing paper, and Mr. Gouger, therefore, addressed the following letter to Mr. Whitmore.

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October 9th, 1833.

"I begin to be very anxious to obtain a reply to the paper which Mr. Heathtfield forwarded to you on the 14th of last month with a view, if you approved of it, to its being sent to Mr. Stanley. This gentleman is at present in London, and as his time is now more devoted to the details of his office than it can be expected to be during the sitting of Parliament, this would