16 CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING EMIGRATION. No. 1. LOWER CANADA. Report on Emigration. 12 Dec. 1835. that optional with their masters according to their sense of their merit at the expiration of their apprenticeship. There is a very great demand at present for the childi'en at home, but they are chiefly taken off" by manufacturers, it is believed, in whose employment their morals are much cor- rupted, and they had few or no opportunities of bettering their ultimate condition. This state of matter alone it is that induces the anxiety of the managers of the institution to promote emigration to Canada. The girls, it is true, are at first better off, but it is found that they too often are meeting with disappointments, or not obtaining places, fall back for refuge to the ranks of the degraded and prostitute of their sex; many honourable exceptions have occurred, but this at least is common enough to suffer to excite sympathy in their condition. The managers will be glad if you will inspect them when at Quebec, and, if you think they deserve it, to express your good opinion for their encouragement, as well as to forward their views by your recommendation when you think it proper. Again thanking you in the name of the managers for your attention and your willingness to aid in promoting the scheme, so far as it depends on you. J have, & c. To A. C. Buchanan, Esq. ( signed) W. Gray. His Majesty's Chief Agent for Quebec. Week ending 27 June. COPIES of LETTERS from Magistrates and Landed Proprietors, and others, in the County of Norfolk, and other parts of the United Kingdom, respecting Emigrants from that part of England. Sir, Beachamwell Hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk, 15 April 1835. YOUR official and personally kind intervention in protecting and assisting the expedition up to Lake Ontario of the emigrants sent in 1832 to the St. Lawrence, by the parish of Swaffham, gives one confidence that a party who I now assist in their desire to emigrate from this parish, of which I am the proprietor, will not appeal to your official authority or to your benevolent kindness with less success. My people carry with them a letter from the firm of Mr. E. W. Chapman, merchant, of London, to Messrs. Wm. Patton, merchants, of Quebec, to provide you with funds to forward the party to Port Hope, Upper Canada ; also with funds to cause to be paid to each individual, on arrival at Port Hope, a sum in coin of two pounds sterling. I have given to Captain Allan, of the Shannon, a further sum in half sovereigns, whereof one is to be given in hand to each of the party as soon as they are fully at sea. These people, who are all young and healthy, as well as willing emigrants, will, I hope, do well; and I believe they will land in America as well provided as is in general found to be the case with agricultural labourers. I perceive from a letter from you to the parish officers of Swaffham, that you have arranged that money received by you, and intended for emigrants on arrival at their desti- nation, will be transmitted by you to the King's receiver- general for distribution. If this first attempt from here in trying to benefit the labouring classes emigrating to the western world should succeed, I dare say I shall hereafter have many applications for the assistance which I have afforded this party. I have, & c. To A. C. Buchanan, Esq., ( signed) John Matteaux. the King's Agent for directing and superintending emigration in Canada. Sir, Lynn, Norfolk, 16 April 1835. As a magistrate of the county of Norfolk, much interested in the emigration of poor people from my vicinity, in consequence of the effect the new poor laws will have on this country in our populous parishes, I beg to recommend to your consideration and protection the party, of which the bearer hereof is the head. They are honest, good sort of people, personally known to me. As far as I am concerned I will not, as a magistrate, promote the emigration of any who do not, by good conduct, promise success on their arrival in Canada. I have, & c. ( signed) William Masson. Sir, North Runcton, near Lynn, Norfolk, 14 April 1835. HAVING been instrumental in sending many emigrants to Canada from this neigbourhood, I feel greatly interested that they should prosper in their undertaking, and therefore venture to trouble you with this letter, requesting your care over them, and best advice as to the course they should pursue. This part of England has become so overstocked with labourers, that it becomes a matter of great moment for the comfort of those who stay in England, and of those who emigrate, that the latter should be located in Canada to the best advantage, and with the view of rendering it desirable for others to follow their example. I shall be very glad to receive from you an acknowledgment of the receipt of this letter, as I certainly am very much" alive to the responsibility of having promoted emigration amongst niy neighbourhood, and should be most happy to hear of their having arrived in Canada in a good state. I am, Sir, 8tc. ( signed) Daniel Gurney. A