affirm that none _will ever_ be induced _to exchange_ the healthy, temperate climate of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, for the extreme colds or heats of Canada and Nova Scotia, or East and West Florida:--In short, it is not in the power of Government to give any encouragement, that can compensate for a desertion of friends and neighbours,--dissolution of family connexions, and abandoning a soil and climate infinitely superior to those of Canada, Nova Scotia, or the Floridas.--Will not therefore the inhabitants of the middle provinces, whose population is great beyond example[5], and who have already made some advances in manufactures, "by confining them to their present narrow limits," be necessarily compelled to convert their whole attention to that object? How then shall this, in the nature of things, be prevented, except, as the Lords Commissioners have justly remarked, "by opening an extent of territory proportioned _to their increase_?"--But _where_ shall a territory be found proper for "the _colonization_ of the inhabitants of the Middle Colonies?" We answer,--in the very country, which the Lords Commissioners have aid that the inhabitants of these colonies would have liberty to settle in;--a country which his Majesty has purchased from the Six Nations;--one, _where_ several thousands of his subjects are already settled;--and one, _where_ the Lords Commissioners have acknowledged, "a gradual extension might through the medium of a continued population, upon even the same extent of territory, _preserve a communication_ of mutual commercial benefits _between_ its _extremest parts_ and Great Britain."[6] [5] "Besides _staple_ commodities, there is another more material point to be considered in the colonies, which is their great and daily _increase_; and for which, unless we make provision in time, they can never subsist by a _dependance on Britain_. There are at present (in the year 1770) nigh _three_ millions of people in them, who may, in twenty or thirty years, _increase_ to _six_ millions, as many as there are in England." _Wynne's History of the British Empire in America, vol. ii. page 398._ [6] Thus the use the nation has for new settlements and acquisitions in North America is for the great increase of the people who are already there, and to enable them to subsist _by a dependance upon her_; which they can never do, _unless they extend their settlements_. _Wynne's History, vol. ii. p. 399._ "Unprejudiced men well know, that all the penal and prohibitory laws that ever were thought of, will not be sufficient to _prevent manufactures_ in a country whose inhabitants surpass the number that can subsist by the by the husbandry of it; and this will be the case _soon_, if our people remain confined within the mountains," _&c._