[Emigration]

First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 8 March 1828, pp. 348–9. Reprinted Tave, pp. 325–7 (with attribution, pp. 327–8). The article continues the subject of ‘redundant population’, and the ‘insanity’ of any ‘scheme for cultivating … waste lands’, from articles of five months before (see above, pp. 98–105). Its persective is Imperial (rather than Scottish) and Ricardian in economic matters. The italicization of ‘that’, the sentence beginning ‘Important it is’, and the use of a series, ‘1st’, ‘2d.’, ‘3d’, all sound extremely De Quinceyan, as do the remarks about ‘those who know any thing of economic theory’.