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astray, so as to trample upon that genuine liberty which is the boast of a British subject.
On considering the increase of the inhabitants, and the great thirst for emigrating from the mother country, and the number of years that have elapsed since the commencement of the colony, it is necessary that several regulations should take place, and that its government should be more restrained in order that the voice of what little independence it can muster, should not be overawed by power, but on the contrary be protected by justice. The time is now arrived that it stands in need of a well educated man, in each of the following professions, viz. physic, law, and gospel. I have not yet found (nor neither do I think there is in the colony) a person, that knows any farther of chymistry than the common business of a shop; and I cannot think otherwise, that any person can have so clear an idea of the nature of diseases, as one that is well acquainted with both anatomy and chymistry; and upon similar grounds or heads, I should view all other professions. Men of the above description might probably employ their leisure hours in knowing the natural productions of the country, and whose communications might prove highly interesting and of importance to the public. Issuing