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home service, and to spare many to go abroad and instruct 
others to follow in our footsteps, without shrinking from a 
free competition with other peoples. This proves “the ex- 
pansive force of freedom” thus to protect itself and diffuse 
its spirit among others without impairing its native force. 
Besides, we have many natural advantages tending to pro- 
long our fair ascendancy in many branches of national 
industry which I would not here attempt to point out. 
Wherefore we may safely conclude that the onward progress 
of the wealth and power and the stability of England’s true 
greatness, along with the freedom and happiness of the 
British People of all classes , will depend upon the wisdom 
and firmness of her rulers, in justly appreciating and firmly 
protecting the wealth* producing classes. 
The reading of Mr. Dyer’s paper was followed by an 
interesting and animated discussion, in which Mr. Pochin, 
M.P., Mr. Hunt, Mr. Binney, F.R.S., the Bev. Brooke Her- 
ford, Mr. Nelson, Dr. Smith, F.B.S., Mr. Spence, &c., took 
part. 
