r patience a moment, while I consider this
matter in a more extensive point of view, and go a little further in
declaring my sentiments and opinion, with respect to the granting of
large bodies of land, in the back parts of the province of Georgia, or
in any other of his Majesty's Northern colonies, at a distance from the
sea-coast, or from such parts of any province as are already settled
and inhabited.

"And this matter, my Lords, appears to me, in a very serious and
alarming light; and I humbly conceive may be attended with the greatest
and worst of consequences; for, my Lords, if a vast territory be
granted to any set of gentlemen, who really mean to people it, and
actually do so, it must draw and carry out a great number of people
from Great Britain; and I apprehend they will soon become a kind of
separate and independent people, and who will set up for themselves;
that they will soon have manufactures of their own; that they will
neither take supplies from the mother country, or from the provinces,
at the back of which they are settled; that being at a distance from
the seat of government, courts, magistrates, &c. &c. they will be out
of the reach and controul of law and government; that it will become a
receptacle and kind of asylum for offenders, who will fly from justice
to such new country or colony; and therefore crimes and offences will
be committed, not only by the inhabitants of such new settlements, but
elsewhere, and pass with impunity; and that in process of time (and
perhaps at no great distance) they will become formidable enough, to
oppose his Majesty's authority, disturb government, and even give law
to the other or first settled part of the country, and throw every
thing into confusion.

"My Lords, I hope I shall not be thought impertinent, when I give my
opinion freely, in a matter of so great consequence, as I conceive this
to be; and, my Lords, I apprehend, that in all the American colonies,
great care should be taken, that the lands on the sea-coast, should be
thick settled with inhabitants, and well cultivated and improved; and
that the settlements should be gradually extended back into the
province, and as much connected as possible, to keep the people
together in as narrow a compass _as the nature of the lands, and state
of things will admit of_; and by which means there would probably
become only one general view and interest amongst them, and the power
of government and law would of cour