which each of them deals ; for, in such a Currency, com- 

 modities would rise to their fair price a price which 

 would include the cost of production, and the proportion 

 of taxes paid by each as a producer. The manufacturer 

 would also have a good home market for his goods, and 

 the farmer a good home market for his corn and cattle. 

 The farmer would obtain a better and more certain 

 average price for his produce than he has ever obtained 

 since the passing of the Act of 1819. Tn 1822 and 1823, 

 corn fell to 45s. and 50s. a quarter, (5s. 7d. and 6s. 3d. 

 a bushel) ; and in 1834 and 1835, to 40s. and 45s. a 

 quarter, (5s. and 5s. 7d. a bushel) ;* but under the pro- 

 posed alteration of the Currency Laws, corn would, in 

 common with every other commodity, rise to a good 

 remunerative price. And what is more, the country, 

 with rising markets and extending commerce, would 

 cheerfully pay this price. With returning prosperity, the 

 revenue would also improve, and taxes might be certainly 

 and gradually removed, in the best of all possible ways, 

 Viz. by the payment of a considerable portion of the 

 debt, and the consequent reduction of the amount of 

 interest annually drawn from the nation. 



Nothing can save a country from ruin which persists 

 in an unsound financial system. A period has arrived, 

 when we must either advance to the highest position of 

 national greatness, or retrograde into a declining state : 

 and the issue will depend on the measures now adopted 

 with respect to the great Monetary and Financial Question 

 of the time THE CURRENCY QUESTION. 



* The low price of corn at any particular period is not, of course, 

 a sufficient evidence of the depression of the Agricultural interest, as an 

 abundant crop yields a good profit at a low price. The Petitions pre- 

 sented from every part of the kingdom, and the Committees repeatedly 

 appointed by Parliament to etiquire into the causes of the Agricultural 

 distress, since the passing of the Act of 1819, prove how severe that 

 distress has been. 



METCALFE, PRINTER, MARKET-PLACE, RETFQRD. 



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