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limited by the means of customers at home to pur- 

 chase." " Home and foreign trade are promoted, 

 encouraged, and influenced, by the wealth of cus- 

 tomers at home." What then, are we to do, have 

 we nearly arrived at the limit of our resources, is 

 there no untried, and unexhausted field for the em- 

 ployment of capital and labour ? Yes, there is room 

 for its employment in improving the agriculture of 

 England, and extending it over the half cultivated 

 territory of Ireland, and thus enabling our own 

 Islands to supply abundantly, at a moderate price, 

 the wants of an enlarged population. There is room, 

 too, now for extending our trade in the eastern 

 hemisphere, and thereby furnishing means for the 

 profitable employment of additional capital and 

 labour in trade and commerce without taking corn in 

 exchange for the articles thus supplied. The trade 

 with the vast empire of China, which, from the evi- 

 dence delivered before the House of Commons, in 

 reference to the affairs of the East India Company, 

 appears accessible, and will not depend at all upon a 

 free corn trade. We shall receive from the Chinese 

 in exchange for our commodities such articles as may 

 be disposed of at home, or we shall receive silver 

 with which we may purchase such articles. 



It is true that the manufacturing capitalist and the 

 manufacturing labourer would be benefited by having 

 a free trade in corn, or a trade less restricted, if the 

 field of employment for their capital and labour were 

 extended abroad, much beyond what the home field 

 would be reduced. And it so happens, that it can be 



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