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Newcastle chaldrons annually, making about1,000,000 London chaldrons. An exportationof this extent from our coal district will re-quire an immense supply to continue for manygenerations; and as the increase of populationin London or the country will increase thequantity necessary for consumption, it is re-quisite for the future welfare and happiness ofsociety, as well as for the protection of ourcommercial interest, to place the mines underthe best possible regulation. The duration ofthe supply is doubtful, and at all events theresources ought to be administered withcaution and public economy.

To show the necessity of this, and improvethe condition of miners, has been my principalobject, and I submit the information I havecollected to the examination of a discerningpublic, and more particularly to those whohave the administration of National affairs, andto the Patrons, Vice-Patrons, and Members ofthe Society for preventing Accidents in CoalMines, in the hope that my endeavours willbe justly appreciated, and that the subject willreceive that attention to which it is so emi-nently entitled.

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