those who had been the assistants, and perhaps able assistants of the latter, will keep aloof, as much out of respect to the gentleman whom they had last served, as from that fear of obtrusion, that feeling of diffidence, which is inherent in persons of real merit and probity; so that it is ten to one but he falls into the hands of the faction who had been the enemies of his predecessor, only perhaps because he had too much honour and integrity to promote their selfish views, at the expence of the public weal.  Scarcely, therefore, will this gentleman have quitted the colony, before the whole of the superstructure which he had been rearing will have been pulled down, and another of a different description commenced in its stead.  Such has almost invariably been, and such will continue to be the conduct of the actual government; nothing judicious or permanent can ever be expected to proceed from it.  How then, it may be asked, can prosperity be expected to flow from sources so precarious and inconstant?  Are they calculated to supply that regular equal stream of security and confidence which has been found essential to the progress of improvement?  But were the existing system of government essentially conservative in its nature, instead of being virtually destructive, it would still prove inadequate and inefficient.  The circumstances and wants of this colony will vary every year, and consequently require either such partial modifications or entire alterations of policy as may be suited to each progressive stage of advancement.  Its government, therefore, ought to be so constituted, as not only to possess the power of revising old laws, but also of framing new ones.  It ought, in fact, to involve in itself a creative as well as a conservative faculty; a faculty which might enable it to accommodate its measures to every change of situation, and provide an instant remedy for every unforeseen and prejudicial contingency.  Nothing short of this will suffice to inspire that confidence which alone can be productive of permanent prosperity.  The government of an individual, however respectable he may be, will always engender distrust and cramp exertion.  Man is distinguished from the rest of the creation by his circumspection and providence.  There must exist a moral probability of reaping before he will venture to sow.  This cautious calculating disposition too, is most predominant in those who are in the most easy circumstances:  where the liability to incur loss is greatest, the spirit of enterprize is generally most restrained.  But this class, which contains the great capitalists of all countries, are precisely those whose means, if they could be enticed into activity, would be productive of the most beneficial results.  No soil is so barren, no climate so forbidding, as not to present facilities more or less favourable for the absorption of capital, and the extension of industry.  Wherever the tide of improvement is at its height, and a reflux ensues, it is to the