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    would be a mad prank of the fioothian Parliament ; nor is it much better here . " You will say , this is an extreme case ; and so it is . But will anybody show me , how the same effects shall not arise in due proportion , in a situation where the circumstances shall be less extreme ? Do the

    landlords about Hull , for instance , really think that it is for their interest that Hull should be cut off from all the trade and commerce that would arise out of a free trade in corn ? Suppose they grew less corn ;—would not gardening do for them as well ; and does not this change always take place in the neighbourhood of large and flourishing towns , and

    nobody complain ? Sift this ; try to work it out . Some of your farmers told me at the last election , that their state was really so bad , that they had a mind to try whether the removal of the corn-laws might not make it better . Invite them to consider , whether the Boothian farmers would not come to exactly the same conclusion . "—P . 35 .

    Abolish the corn-laws , that is , reduce the price of food , and all manufactures become cheaper , and the comforts of life proportionately increased to the community . Granting that a whole nation was benefitted at the expense , or partial ruin , of a fraction of its capitalists , would it not be justice as well as wisdom , to let that exception take its course ? MoreoveF , let

    us ask if the agriculturists are so very nice and delicate about ruining , partially or wholly , any section of the commercial interests , when they can put the cause of such ruin into their own coffers ? Witness the cool way in which the Self-Representatives proposed on the 18 th of last March to increase the duty on Foreign Tallow from 31 . 10 s . per ton to 10 / . — " and by

    this they were to put 300 , 000 / . into the pockets of the agriculturists , or , as was farther explained , a sheep was to be increased in ralue by 2 s . 8 d ., and an ox by 19 s . ; " thus deliberately stranding a large portion of the shipping interest , and p itching overboard a corresponding quantity of British Merchandise , to be got up and sold by auction with the wrecks , for the benefit of the coast whereon the disaster occurred .

    But no such thing as ruin would accrue . Good land would still be good for other produce , ( and very fine land still good for corn on the reduced scale , ) and would gradually come to be worked with more honest , if not equal advantage to the owners ; since the land-holders , according to M'Culloch , only get , after all , less than one fifth of the nineteen ] or twenty millions lost to the nation each year by the present system of corn-laws . In brief , as the matter stands now , and as it has stood these last

    two-and-twenty years , the case between the agriculturists and the manufacturers may be concisely stated in the following request of the former to the latter— " Give us sixty shillingsworth of manufactures for our corn per quarter ( instead of thirty or forty , which would be the price if the tax on foreign

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/6/