442 REMARKS 0N EMIGRATION.

of dissatisfaction natural to them. Of this last un- fortunate description, I have discovered numbers in all the provinces. They at first fix on a farm in one place, and as they do not find that their ardent ex- pectations are realized in a year or two, they attri- bute their bad fortune to the ill-fated spot they have chosen, Which they leave for another where no better success attends them. In this manner, roaming about from place to place, the chances inevitably are, that they wear out their constitutions, and waste their labour to no good purpose.

Immediately after the last war, a crisis in the affairs of men necessarily occurred. The peace threw thou- sands either altogether, or in a great measure, out of employment. The articles which labour produced, were many of them not further required; and the demand for, and the price of the remainder, were re- duced by the death of the war monopoly, and the great reduction in the naval and military departments. Agriculture and commerce continued for some time to languish, while the spirits of the farmers began to droop, and those of the manufacturers to ferment. In the minds of some men, evils, under the impression of misfortunes, produced discontent ; with others, the transition from their former artificial affluence, to a condition Which made them feel their real position, broke out into invectives against the measures of government, and into a declared indifference to their country.

The labouring classes, when out of employment, generally find relief if they emigrate to America : and