I had talked over just such a plan of emigration as this,

last summer, with Clarkson, who had shipt off two or three families to Canada at the parish expence, from his own parish – Playford near Ipswich. The parish were convinced that it was good economy to rid themselves by an immediate outlay of an increasing expence. This is a proof that the plan is practicable & likely to be an succeed. And in this case the parties went without any promise of land, to seek their own maintenance, where industry is sure to find it.

An outcry will be raised against it as a scheme for transporting the poor: but it is not likely to do much harm. Indeed xxx the principle views upon this subject which I mean to bring forward in my Dialogues are that while for age & infirmity more ought to be done than our poor laws ever have provided, – if the xxx country is compelled to feed able bodied paupers, it thereby acquires the right of xxxxding <transporting> them to any place where that can be done at the easiest rate, or when the necessity for doing it may be removed.

In the case of orphans & bastards this I think might be acted upon now, with good effect, both for the children, & the workhouses.

Your packet was dated on the wrong day. I congratulated myself that this was not the case with the Cambro Briton.

– Why is it that other public offices do not, like the Treasury, omit the date on their franks? It is perfectly useless where there is no limitation of numbers – x& there is no more reason why you xxxx xxx & then & M^r Freeling never uses it himself.

Read Elia if the book has not fallen in your way.

It is my old friend Charles Lamb. There are some things in it which will offend, & some which will pain you – as they do me, – but you will find in it a rich vein of pure gold.

I am glad to see that A.

leaves the Treasury & that Herries goes there, because I believe you will exchange a most xx inefficient person for a very fit one.

You will not find any person to accept your Bishopric

who has good hopes of advancement at home; nor easily a proper person, unless he has somewhat of a missionary spirit. I think Davison

will not xxxxxxxx <go> – & doubt whether his formal & frig <cold> manners would not unfit him for it. His very approach benumbs one like the touch of a torpedo.