is speedily broken up, and in the spectacle of glutted 

 markets, both at home and abroad, may we learn 

 that there is a limit to the extension of foreign trade, 

 which no country can overpass. * " It is conceivable, 

 that there might be a demand in a foreign country, 

 and, but for the obstacle we now insist upon, (the 

 extension of agriculture,) effective demand too, for 

 British exports ; the preparation of which would re- 

 quire the industry of a million of people, over and 

 above the numbers already subsisted by the agricul- 

 tural produce of the island. And could the agricul- 

 ture be so enlarged as to afford this additional sub- 

 sistence, there would be no difficulty in meeting this 

 demand from abroad. For the larger imports neces- 

 sary to meet the larger exports, could then be all 

 absorbed. Let the maintenance be stretched out to 

 the support of an additional million of human beings, 

 and the wealth of the holders of this maintenance is 

 thereby stretched out to a capacity for purchasing, 

 either the immediate products of their industry, or the 

 equivalents given in exchange for these products. 

 The additional maintenance given in return for the 

 new imports, goes to the support of the people, who 

 labour in preparing the new or additional exports. It 

 is thus that in every stretch in the agriculture of a 

 country, there is room for a corresponding stretch in 

 the foreign trade. But should the population of that 

 country have access to no other agricultural produce 

 than that which is raised within our own territory, 

 then, with the difficulty, or impossibility of extending 

 * Dr. Chalmers, page 19J>, and 200. 

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