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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Lord Gower, President of the Council, advocates for improving British territories on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, arguing that new good settlements are needed to channel emigrants into planting rather than manufacturing in existing colonies.
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Lord Gower, the President of the Council, is a warm advocate for the improvement of our territories on the Mississippi, as well as upon the Ohio. His Lordship acknowledges that we have already too many colonies, but the number of bad ones, he judiciously observes, is the very reason why we should endeavour to encrease our good ones, because the discontinuance of the intended settlements will not check the spirit of emigration to America, and because, in the settlements proposed, the emigrants will become planters, whereas in the established provinces they will unavoidably commence manufacturers.