down and overthrow, but which, I would fain hope, by hastening a change of both men and measures, may be preserved to us unchanged. "These novel theories and dangerous experiments with which our legislation now teems brings to my recollection a favourite toast of a very old and respected, but a too liberal friend of mine, now no more, Mr. Thomas Booth, a well-known merchant in Liverpool-his toast was, May the world be our country, and doing good our religion;' sentiments beautiful in the abstract, but totally incapable of application to the conduct and habits of mankind in their relations with each other. But, in the proposed mode of re-casting and liberalising our Navigation Laws, I think I see an attempt to introduce and act upon such impracticable doctrines. God, in his wisdom, instilled into the breast of man, self-preservation as the first law in his nature; but, our rulers, in the present day, seem disposed to give it only the second place. Once lay open our colonial possessions and coasting trade to the shipping and seamen of other powers, and, I ask, where is your boasted nursery that has hitherto manned your navy and protected your shores? If they are to be laid open, and passed into the hands of foreigners, who, in place of being our friends, may prove to be our inveterate enemies, and if we shall thus be cultivating and promoting the means and engines for our future destruction, what then is to become of your justly-boasted wooden walls? "You are aware that I am at present confined by indisposition, and that I dictate this letter from my bed by the pen of a third party. 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