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solv^ed by question and answer. By submitting my letters to 

 public criticism, before they re- appear in the form of a 

 pamphlet, opportunity will be afforded for objections to be 

 made and removed. Thus, a work of permanent value would 

 be produced, which the landlord, the tenant, and the labourer 

 would see it their best interest to support. 



Two objections only have reached me, for which I am much 

 obliged — one through the 'Chronicle' of last week, "under 

 the sanction," it is said, ''of the Hon. W. R. Rous," President 

 of the Norfolk Flax Society ; to which I beg to reply, that I 

 write, not for the locality of North Walsham, but for the king- 

 dom at large. — The other, from a respected correspondent, who 

 has erred in not perceiving that I used the word " demagogue" 

 in the plural number with reference to the present state of the 

 united kingdom, and not as a term of " personal abuse to the 

 Anti-Corn-Law League." Nor do I consider the word 

 "demagogue" by any means abusive. In the pages of 

 Universal History it is always applied to parties similar to 

 those whom I venture to oppose. Look at Wales and Ireland, 

 as well as England ! Are not itinerant demagogues vigorously 

 engaged in taking advantage of the prevailing distress among-st 

 the working classes in order to carry out their revolutionary 

 designs ? 



Already I have in some measure foretold that the "cannon's 

 mouth might be required to calm our fears ; such an expedient 

 is now in force ; but, unless work is provided for the people, I 

 repeat that it can only last for a time, because the tide of an 

 unemployed population must eventually overwhelm all." 



Can the destruction of Toll-bars, and the non-payment of 

 Tithes, find employment for the people in Wales ? Would the 

 Repeal of the Union, and the abolition of the Protestant Church 

 in Ireland, find employment for the starving population of that 

 country ? Could a Free Trade in Corn, that would throw out 

 of cultivation half the land in England, find employment for 

 our redundant population ? — It would be absurd to suppose 

 so. Yet the promoters of those agitations, and the leaders 

 whom I designate demagogues, allure their followers into the 

 persuasion that tb.e protective duties — the union between Eng- 

 land and Ireland — and the security which the laws afford to 



