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! Wheat, the produce of the United States, was to bo deemed 



as the produce of Canada. Lord Stanley also stated that 

 . in the 18th Geo. 3, (1778) it had been decided in the 



j Exchequer that ostrich feathers dressed in France were 



! to be deemed French [produce for the purpose of duty. 



' There has been no other legal decision on this important 



: question. 



' It is much to be regretted that the Agricultural Members 



I did not make a stand upon that point, especially as their 



' attention was called to it by Lord Stanley in a way that 



I might be considered an invitation to debate it. His Lord- 



ship observed, that it had been questioned whether the 

 ' declaration above alluded to applied to corn. If in the 



I Canada Act the plain common sense interpretation had been 



I put on the words, and it had been declared that no Flour 



•j Sent here from Canada should be deemed Canadian produce, 



unless made from Canadian Wheat, the British Farmer 

 would have had at least the consolation of knowing that 

 J without fraud no United States' Wheat could be brought 



into the United Kingdom at u duty of 4s., unless the price 

 ! of Wheat in this conntry was 70s. 



» The object of the preceding pages has been not so much 



• to give an individual opinion as to state facts, leaving 



I persons therefrom to draw their own conclusions. In the 



j approaching Session of Parliament the question will and 



must be fully discussed, and if it should be ascertained that 

 the fears of the British Farmers are well founded, and that 

 a great Legislative error has been committed, an endeavour 

 ou^* t to be made to correct it, but the correction of that 

 frr'or will be a matter of considerable difliculty, requiring the 

 utmost deliberation and prudence. The pledge of the British 

 Government to the Canadians has been redeemed by the 

 British Legislature, and retraction would now be viewed 

 by the Province with an angry feeling that might lead 

 to most unhappy consequences. 



THE END. 



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