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the case, if the corn trade were open to nations 

 independent of us ; for though it would affect the 

 rent of arable land generally, still, in a very pros- 

 perous state of things the revenue may be so much 

 increased as to afford Government the means of 

 removing and reducing the heavy expenses which 

 the law imposes on landed property ; and in a 

 very prosperous state of things, with a new and 

 extensive field open for the employment of British 

 capital and labour, for the full development of 

 British energy, enterprise, and skill, within our 

 own territories at home and abroad, there will be a 

 greater demand for land in certain situations for 

 the purposes of accommodation, which would of 

 course increase its selling and letting value ; and 

 there would be a greater demand for animal food, 

 cheese, butter, &c., therefore the rental value of 

 grass land would, probably, not be reduced, but 

 most likely not increased, because such arable 

 land as is suitable for conversion into permanent 

 pasture, and to the growth of vegetables for the 

 food of cattle, would produce an increased supply 

 of animal food, cheese, butter, &c., to meet the 

 increased demand for these articles, and the rent 

 of the arable land, adapted to these productions, 

 would not be reduced. But the rent of the land 

 not naturally adapted to these productions would be 

 greatly reduced, until there were such an increase 

 of population as to require a much larger supply, 

 and therefore the appropriation of more land for 

 the growth of these articles. But to suppose, as 



