Excerpt from Considerations on Colonial Policy: With Relation to the Renewal of the East India Company's Charter The progress of colonies in all the artsof civil society, as well as in gradual advances towards independence, is natural, and per haps unavoidable particularly instances where the inhabitants original language, and live under, the same laws, observe the same customs, and have been trained up in a participation ofthe same ideas of civil liberty which prevail in the mother-country. Colonies have their state of infancy and pupillage; after a while, they attain maturity, imbibe no tions of independence, and become uneasy under those restraints which guarded their infantile state. In this we may distinguish a marked similarity between the natural and the political world. After a certain period, those establishments begin to make attetnpts at procuring independence; and fatal experience has proved, from what has already taken place in the western hemisphere, that these attempts are at last crowned with success. From the very commencement of jealousies and animo sities, the parent state derives a diminish ing benefit from her settlements, in exact proportion as they less require her aid, and give less employment to her manufacturers in furnishing the articles which the colonists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.