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proprietors who can bear almost any reduction of 

 rent, but if you come to look at the fictitious state 

 of things which has existed for the last eighteen 

 years, during which much land has repeatedly 

 changed hands, whether by will or contract, 

 charged with certain outgoings, it is perfectly clear 

 and manifest that those persons subject to those 

 charges must suffer the greatest inconvenience, and 

 many of them be ruined. I know estates now 

 which produce scarcely any rent at all, and which 

 estates are so circumstanced that they cannot be 

 sold without the jianction of a particular Act of 

 Parliament/' 



I have introduced this evidence of Mr. Sanders 

 to strengthen the opinions I have offered and to 

 corroborate the declarations I have made, that sup- 

 posing we do not receive an increased supply of 

 cheaper corn from our Colonies the future prices 

 of corn under the existing protection, and which 

 too I have supposed may be higher, for the reasons 

 I have given, than Mr. Sanders anticipates, will 

 considerably reduce the incomes of landed pro- 

 prietors, even if a reduction of 10 per cent take 

 place in the other outgoings of the tenantry. 

 This distress Mr. Sanders admits would take place 

 under the present Corn Laws, but if there be not a 

 free trade with nations independent of us but 

 such an approximation to it as would still leave 

 a duty of 10,9. a quarter, " we should see an ave 

 rage price then of 36$. to 38s. a quarter/' such 



