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BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES.

'My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as iron.' EDMUND BURKE (1775).

'Much of the power and influence of this country depend upon its having large Colonial possessions in different parts of the world.'

EARL GREY (Col. Pol., 1852).

'The defence of Canada is a question which affects the position and character, the honour, the interests, and the duties of this great country.' VISCOUNT PALMERSTON (1865).

The profits to Great Britain from the trade of the Colonies carried you triumphantly through the last war. The estates that were at two thousand pounds a-year are now at three thousand. This is the price America pays you for her protection.' EARL CHATHAM (1766).

'Our own possessions are by far our best customers.'

MR. LAING (1864), late Finance Minister of India.

BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES.

BY

J. BEAUFORT HURLBURT, M.A., LL.D.

MEMBER OF THE CONVOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; FOR SOME TIME PROFESSOR
OF GREEK AND LATIN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA COLLEGE, COBOURG;
CANADIAN COMMISSIONER AND JUROR AT THE INTERNATIONAL

EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1862.

LONDON:

EDWARD STANFORD, 6, CHARING CROSS.
1865.

The right of translation is reserved,

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PREFACE.

QUESTIONS of colonial policy and of colonial empire have recently occupied the attention of public men in England more than at any previous time. This has been shown by discussions in Parliament and in the press, and by the Reports of Committees of the House of Commons.

Some of the topics brought most prominently into view have been the cost, defence, and advantages or disadvantages of colonies, the commercial policy of the chief dependencies of the Empire, as at variance with that of England, the relations which those great Commonwealths now sustain towards this country and towards each other, and what changes, if any, should be effected in such relations.

The interest so generally shown in questions of such importance to the various members of the Empire has suggested this treatise.

A brief sketch is given of the chief colonial Empires of ancient and modern times with reference to the civil and commercial policy of the parent States,

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