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country in a similar condition, would be insecure, and 

 might be stopped by the " whim of a tyrant," we 

 might be placed in jeopardy, and it would not, there- 

 fore, be our interest to be supplied from Poland, or 

 any other country in such a condition, even if we 

 could obtain such supplies a fraction cheaper. Yet, 

 though the supplies from the United States would be 

 more certain and secure, and the demand for English 

 goods greater, we could not, with any propriety and 

 consistency, make exceptions in favour of any country 

 independent of us. The only countries in favour of 

 which we could, with consistency and propriety make 

 exceptions, are those dependent upon us our own 

 colonies. But suppose corn could not be purchased 

 as cheap in the ports of the Baltic, and the Mediter- 

 ranean, as in the United States and Canada, and 

 from which it could be purchased on equal terms, and 

 the demand divided between them, divided over so 

 large a surface that it would be too limited to encou- 

 rage any extensive and combined employment of 

 agricultural capital and labour in our Canadian 

 Colonies. The more limited our demand for Cana- 

 dian corn, the more limited the demand of the Cana- 

 dians for English manufactures, or for the tea and 

 silver of China, and the slower will be the advance 

 of this colony to wealth and prosperity. Of all our 

 colonial possessions Canada is the most fit, from its 

 position, to supply the Mother Country with the corn 

 which she may want. '* In a colony planted with 

 Englishmen," says the author of England and 

 America " in the passage before introduced, civilized 



