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knows better than this. Such assertions are mere 

 popular baits to draw all parties against the land- 

 lords, and thereby to acquire numerical strength 

 in favour of the cause they advocate, and to gain 

 their object by clamour and importunity. Lord 

 Fitzwilliam may afford to make such sacrifices, 

 but very few can, and he may think the popularity 

 he has gained by the course he has taken, an ade- 

 quate compensation. In my opinion, his lordship 

 has, in his address to the landowners, been as un- 

 successful in showing that the Corn Laws of 1815 

 were injurious to the occupiers of land, as he has 

 been in showing that they brought suffering upon 

 the labourers in husbandry, and reduced them 

 from a condition of comfort, to a state of destitute 

 poverty. Though it is clear the Corn Law of 1815 

 did not produce these evils, I admit that it did not 

 accomplish the purposes of its enactment. Par- 

 liament feeling this to be the case, repealed the 

 law in 1828, and passed another which is now in 

 operation ; the object of which was to afford a 

 moderate and regular protecting price to the 

 grower, and a moderate and regular price to the 

 consumer, and it has accomplished the purposes 

 of its enactment. Lord Fitzwilliam uses the terms 

 dear bread as applied to the price of wheat at the 

 time he published his address : these terms when 

 so applied could only be used as catch terms to 

 inflame the passions, and excite the prejudices of 

 the multitude ; and surely it would excite surprise 

 that a person of Lord Fitzwilliam's rank, station, 



