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259.: THE NEW COLONY [1] EXAMINER, 29 JUNE, 1834, P. 403 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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259.

THE NEW COLONY [1]

EXAMINER, 29 JUNE, 1834, P. 403

This return to an old theme (see No. 88) is a leader in the “Political Examiner,” headed as title; see also Nos. 261, 263, and 271. The article is described in Mill’s bibliography as “An article headed ‘The New Colony’ in the Examiner of 29th June 1834.” In Mill’s copy of the Examiner in Somerville College, it is listed as title.

we have had great pleasure in learning that the enlightened views of Colonization, so long pressed upon the notice of the public by the author of England and America,1 by Mr. Gouger, and others, are about to be realized in the formation of a Colony at the mouth of the newly-discovered river in Southern Australia. The founders of the Colony are men of high public character, including a large proportion of the people’s best friends in the House of Commons. The names of Whitmore, Grote, Clay,2 and others, are a guarantee to the public of the honesty and patriotism of the undertaking, and many other names connected with it are a strong assurance of its probable success as an investment of capital.

The full concurrence and cordial aid of Government is extended to the enterprise, which will, however, be conducted at the sole charge of the projectors, without any expense to the State. Mr. Spring Rice has, we are informed, evinced throughout the affair a degree of intelligence, public spirit, and superiority to the influences of official routine, most honourably distinguishing him from those of his predecessors to whom the project had been previously submitted.3

A public meeting will be held to-morrow (Monday) at Exeter Hall, Mr. Whitmore in the chair, to explain the principles on which the Colony will be founded;4 and all should attend the meeting who would wish to hear a most instructive analysis of the causes of the success or failure of former colonizations, and the grounds on which the present may be expected not only to advance to prosperity with unexampled rapidity, but, for the first time in the history of colonization, to afford a sensible relief to the overcrowded labourers and capitalists of the mother country.

We shall discuss the subject at some length in our next paper.

[1 ]Wakefield had not yet acknowledged his authorship of England and America.

[2 ]George Grote (1794-1871), banker and intimate friend of James and J.S. Mill, M.P. 1832-41 for the City of London, later famed for his History of Greece; William Clay (1791-1869), M.P. for the Tower Hamlets 1832-57, author of pamphlets on banking and other economic questions.

[3 ]Thomas Spring-Rice (1790-1866), M.P. for Limerick 1820-32, and for Cambridge 1832-39 (when he became Baron Monteagle), had been Secretary of the Treasury 1830-34, and had just been appointed Secretary for War and the Colonies. His predecessors are identified at No. 261, n2.

[4 ]The Morning Chronicle reported on 1 July that 2500 people attended the meeting on 30 June.