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to the fire side of every man, it would have a more 

 extensive influence on the concerns and conduct of 

 men, and we should speedily witness a great improve- 

 ment in the moral and physical condition of the 

 people, Without the application of these moral and 

 religious restoratives no internal changes will do more 

 than insure a temporary benefit. " The whole 

 effect," says Dr. Chalmers, " of other expedients 

 when once put in operation will speedily be exhausted. 

 The favourable opportunity which they afford last but 

 for a season only. They are opportunities which 

 cannot be recalled ; and if not improved, they will 

 leave the state of the population more irrecoverable 



than before." 



Having considered the present state of the different 



classes of the landed interest ; the causes of the dis- 

 tress which exists among the farmers and labourers ; 

 the means by which this distress may be relieved and 

 removed ; the effects which a free trade in corn, or a 

 near approach to it with other countries not de- 

 pendent upon our own, would produce on the diffe- 

 rent classes of the landed interest. We will now 

 consider the effects which a trade in corn with our 

 own colonies a trade which, under the existing Corn 

 Laws, is all but free, the duty being so low, may have 

 upon the different classes of the landed interest. 



In the work entitled " England and America," but 

 which would have been more property entitled free 

 trade and colonization ; a work in which, though it 

 abounds in truth, information, and talent, there is 

 mixed up democratical opinions and doctrines, an 



