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manufacturers of Lancashire and Cheshire live 

 as well as ever they did ; that the manufacturer 

 with a moderate capital has his country house and 

 horse and gig if he likes." The present protecting 

 price ought not to be reduced. This protecting 

 price, under any revision of the Corn Laws, ought 

 to be secured. The Corn Laws ought to protect 

 the farmer in unpropitious seasons, with a deficient 

 crop ; for the average price of average seasons 

 only admits a moderate profit upon his capital, and 

 scarcely enables him to accumulate anything for 

 the requirements of his family, and for the neces- 

 sities of declining years. If, then, he is prevented 

 obtaining, by the want of protection from foreign 

 competition, a higher price when he most needs 

 it, when his produce fails, he must sustain a con- 

 siderable loss ; a loss probably equal to the small 

 gains of former years ; and if three or four un- 

 favourable seasons happen, he may not only lose 

 his accumulations, but he may be obliged to 

 entrench upon his capital. Thus, the agricultural- 

 ists might be prevented, by the liberal policy of 

 political speculators, by the selfish requirements, 

 and by the ignorant clamour of a portion of the 

 public, not merely from gaining anything, while 

 other interests are acquiring wealth, but kept in a 

 state of jeopardy lest the profit of one year should 

 be destroyed by the next. If the agriculture of our 

 own country, and the increased produce of our own 

 territories occasion a reduction in the price of corn, 

 every person ought to say, with Mr. Huskisson, 



