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Country, might help to supply that Mother Country 

 with cheap corn ; and by the means of the cheapness 

 of land which is an attribute of colonies." 



Now all this commerce, " the most extensive 

 which ever existed in the world may be commenced 

 and carried on with service to these four different 

 nations without any alteration whatever in the Corn 

 Laws ^nay^witE^mjich greater advantage to our own 

 country and our Canadian Colony than if the Corn 

 Laws were repealed, and the trade in corn were 

 universally free. The effects of this freedom on the 

 landed interest of Britain and Ireland have been de- 

 scribed, and the effects with respect to our Canadian 

 possessions we will consider. The author, of England 

 and America, says at the commencement of the first 

 paragraph, that the market of Poland is not the most 

 fit to provide cheap corn, it would be insecure and 

 uncertain and Cf liable to be shut up by the whim of a 

 tyrant." However, it is very probable, if the English 

 market were open to receive corn from all countries 

 without any restriction, that Poland, from her 

 circumstances and position, would be able to sell her 

 corn in it at a lower price than the United States and 

 Canada; if so, she would command the English 

 market, and the circumstance of the English market 

 being open to the United States and Canada would 

 not induce the employment of additional capital and 

 labour in the production of corn in the United States 

 and Canada if the Americans and Canadians found 

 they should be undersold by Poland, or any other 

 country. But as supplies from Poland, or any 



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