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give, but in exchange for our merchandize we 

 should receive such commodities as would be in 

 demand at home, or we should receive silver, with 

 which we could purchase them. 



That in improving the cultivation of the land of 

 Britain, and in improving the agriculture of the 

 cultivated parts of Ireland, and extending it over 

 the wild bogs of that country, there is a wide field 

 for the profitable employment of capital and 

 labour, from which we might have abundant sup- 

 plies of corn, at a moderate price ; and therefore 

 there is no necessity for making ourselves depen- 

 dent on foreign independent countries for support. 



That such dependence is a " fearful element of 

 insecurity and weakness." 



That as the present Corn Laws, which the 

 landed interest do not seek to have altered, admit 

 the introduction of corn from our colonies at a very 

 low duty, with improvements in the art of coloni- 

 zation, which will take place, corn will be sold in 

 pur market at a price so low as would have the 

 most disastrous effects upon every class of the 

 landed interest, if such cheap corn were not pro- 

 duced from the fertile field of our own colonies by 

 the united means of British and Irish capital and 

 labour. But, as this cheap corn would be pro- 

 duced by the employment of British and Irish 

 capital and labour, the effects on the different 

 classes of the landed interest would be infinitely 

 less injurious than if corn were made cheap by the 

 competition of corn the growth of foreign inde- 



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