who wish the colonisation system to be tried, would advance sufficient funds for all Government purposes.
"I therefore submit for your consideration that Mr. Stanley should (following the example of Sir George Murray as to the Swan River) bring a Bill into Parliament to the following effect:
"Authorising the King
"To make laws and appoint officers for the colony.
"To appoint commissioners for disposing of the waste land and the money obtained by the sale thereof, according to the principles laid down as to land and emigration.
"To raise money, on the security of the colonial revenues, for the purposes of the colonial government.
"This would be a Crown colony; but as it would be founded and extended on the principles laid down as to land and emigration, I do believe that many of the most influential persons in our committee, and some who do not yet belong to it, would take great pains in collecting a respectable body of colonists, and in finding, by way of loan, the sum required for government expenses, but of course they would act merely as individuals, since by the proposed Act of Parliament every sort of power would be vested in the Colonial Secretary.
"To this plan it seems to me impossible that Mr. Stanley should have any objection whatever, if he have no objection to our trying the principles of mere colonisation.
"I earnestly beg of you to examine it, and trust that you may be able to give some private and merely verbal intimation of your opinion respecting it by Thursday at latest.
"I have written without reserve in order that I might not be mistaken, and I have shown, I trust, what I fear that you have not fully understood before, that my sole object is the principles of colonisation without regard to questions of government.
