Representation to Her Majesty's government from the London Highland Destitution Relief Committee, urging the necessity of the immediate adoption of a systematic plan of emigration by whole families for the relief of the destitute population of the highlands and islands of Scotland and for the prevention of the recurrence, year after year, of the same degree of appalling distress and suffering to which the highland peasantry have of late been subjected : submitted by a deputation from the London Committee to the head of the Queen's government, June 26th, 1839