_Wynne's History of the British Empire in America, vol. ii. page
398._

[6] Thus the use the nation has for new settlements and
acquisitions in North America is for the great increase of the
people who are already there, and to enable them to subsist _by a
dependance upon her_; which they can never do, _unless they
extend their settlements_.

_Wynne's History, vol. ii. p. 399._

"Unprejudiced men well know, that all the penal and prohibitory
laws that ever were thought of, will not be sufficient to
_prevent manufactures_ in a country whose inhabitants surpass the
number that can subsist by the by the husbandry of it; and this
will be the case _soon_, if our people remain confined within the
mountains," _&c._

_The Interest of Great Britain considered with regard to the
Colonies, page 17. Published in 1767._

VII. This paragraph is introduced, by referring to the extract of a
letter from the Commander in chief of his Majesty's forces in North
America, laid by the Earl of Hillsborough before the Lords
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations;--but as their Lordships have
_not_ mentioned either the general's name, or the time _when_ the
letter was written, or what occasioned his delivering his opinion upon
the subject of _colonization in general_, in the "_remote countries_"--we
can only conjecture, that General Gage was the writer of the letter,
and that it was wrote about the year 1768,--_when_, the plan of the
_three new governments_ was under the consideration of the then Lords
Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and _before_ the lands on the
Ohio were bought from, and the boundary line established with the Six
Nations.--Indeed, we think it clear, That the General had _no_ other
lands, at that time, under his consideration, than what he calls
"_remote countries_," such as the _Detroit_, _Illinois_, and the
_lower_ parts of the Ohio;--for he speaks of "_foreign countries_,"
from which it "would be _too far_ to transport some kind of naval
stores," and for the same reason could _not_, he says, supply the sugar
islands "_with_ lumber and provisions." He mentions also, planting
colonies at _so vast a distance_, that the _very long transportation_
[of silk, wine, &c.] must probably make them too dear for any market,"
and _where_ "the inhabitants could _not_ have _any commodities_ to
barter for manufactures, except _skins and