CONTENTS. V 



PART THE SECOND. 



Page. 



As the present Corn Laws, which the landed interests do 

 not seek to have altered, admit the introduction of corn 

 from our colonies at a very low duty, with improvements 

 in the art of colonization, which will take place, corn 

 will be sold in our markets at so low a price as would 

 have the most disastrous effects on every class of the land- 

 ed interest, if such cheap corn were not produced from 

 the fertile field of our own colonies by the united means of 

 British and Irish capital and labour. But as this cheap 

 corn would be- produced by the employment of British 

 and Irish capital and labour, the effects on the different 

 classes of the landed interest would be infinitely less inju- 

 rious than if corn were made cheap by the competition of 

 corn the growth of foreign independent countries produ- 

 ced by the means of foreign capital and labour. The 

 present Corn Laws do not interfere with " the raising of 

 cheaper corn than ever yet has been raised," nor with the 

 people of this country obtaining it from a market not 

 likely to be closed against us from national jealousy, from 

 the caprice of a government, or from the " whim of a 

 tyrant." The present Corn Laws do not retard or in- 

 terfere with the most extensive commerce that ever existed 

 in the world. Under a wise government, with the present 

 protection afforded to agriculture, all classes of His Ma- 

 jesty's subjects at home and in our colonies may flourish 95 



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