n_ 1819: "How do you propose that the
priests should be paid?" _Answer_: "By a grant from this country or from
Ireland." _Question_ 1820: "Do you mean simply the expense of their
emigration, not as a permanent endowment in the colony?" _Answer_: "I
never entered so exactly into the detail as to say in what manner I
thought the endowment might be best effected, and, consequently, I do
not consider myself as committed to any particular plan of endowment.
The probability is, that the most effective way of endowing them would
be, to a certain extent, in money, and to a certain extent by land in
Canada; but that is a part of the plan which I did not consider
necessary to draw out in detail." The following question and answer
explains what Mr. Godley meant by "aids to location:"--_Question_ 1848:
"What is the practical mode in which you would set about the
establishment of a colony?" _Answer_: "I would open the country by means
of roads and bridges, build mills, endow a clergyman, and build a
school. Those are the leading features of a social settlement to which I
think a company, or any body that wanted to establish a settlement,
ought to attend first."

The memorial to Lord John Russell, praying that the Government would
give its sanction and support to Mr. Godley's scheme of colonization,
was signed by one archbishop, four marquises, seven earls, three
viscounts, thirteen barons, nine baronets, eighteen members of
parliament, some honourables, and several deputy-lieutenants. The
memorialists were, in all, eighty--that is, eighty of the leading peers,
members of parliament, and landowners approached the First Minister, to
beg that he would aid them in sending two millions of Irish Catholics to
Canada, to reclaim the land in that colony. Everybody knows that the
statement of Sir Robert Kane is accepted as a truth, that there are in
Ireland four and a-half millions of barren acres, the greater portion of
which would richly, and promptly, repay for their reclamation. Yet the
Government Bill for beginning that reclamation was withdrawn by the
Prime Minister, and no single voice was raised in favour of going on
with it; moreover, he said his reason for withdrawing it was, the
opposition which the House of Lords offered to it. Yes; they would have
no reclamation of Irish lands, but they would submit to bear increased
taxation in order to send the Celtic race by the million to delve in
Canada!--yet, even for that it became the Iri