XL] CONCLUSION. 



eight years, and who has gratitude that will not 

 quit his bosom while he has breath in his body, 

 might, in answer to the grinding caitiff, say, "And 

 *' why should not Cobbett ^et a devil and all of 

 *^ money by his corn ? He asks no remuneration 

 '^ out of the taxes^ no villanous profits upon a loan ; 

 " he goes not to the law to protect him in plunder- 

 ^^ ing ; he resorts not to the more than half frauds 

 '^ committed under the name of paper-money and 

 '' discounts ; he seeks not to gain by any means 

 '' not at once fair, free from all oppression of any 

 *' body, and free from ail those arts of delusion in 

 ^^ which the foolish and credulous become the vic- 

 " tims of cunning knaves." 



180. To this might be added, that when Mr. 

 ToLLET, at Be'itley, near Newcastle-under-Line, 

 in Staffordshire, introduced the Winter Bean, 

 he sold his first crop at two shillings the quart. It 

 requires three bushels of these beans to plant an 

 acre ; so that Mr. Tollet sold his seed, at nine 

 pounds twelve shillings for seed sufficient to plant 

 an acre. Mr. Tollet was and is a magistrate of 

 the county, a considerable landowner, and one 

 who must necessarily profit largely from every 

 means made use of to add to the general produce 

 of the soil. It is hardly necessary for me to say, 

 that, while I by no means envy Mr. Tollet, or 

 deem him to have made unjustifiable profit, I 

 have full as great a right, moral as well as legal, 

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