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It is evident that the abolition of the corn-laws would induce foreigners to adopt a liberal policy towards the commerce of this country . —Our shipping interest would be benefited . —Indeed we might as well raise a tax on the community
equivalent to the over-charge we pay on our bread , and hand it over to the landed interest , as a bribe for the privilege of obtaining cheap bread from abroad , as continue in our present anomalous state . Nay , we had better pay the tax to them in a tangible and nnquestiouable shape , for the price of the loaf would be in statu quo ; we should have better customers
for our manufactures , and employ our shipping into the bargain . The unprejudiced mind of the politician , of the political economist , and of the philosopher , must arrive at tne same conclusion on this subject . We are pre-eminent as a mercantile nation , as such we must stand or fall . We are losing in our productive capacity by the operation of these restrictive laws on our commerce . And shall we look to the heavens for direction , or mark the indicating ringer of Providence on the surface of the earth ?—Shall we contemplate the angle of the world ' s axis , and the phenomena of the seasons , with all
the beautiful varieties of climate and soil , and not see in the whole a provision of an all-bountiful God for the dependence of one nation upon another for their respective peculiar productions \ And if wars and chivalry have been the instruments in the hands of the " Parent of good Almighty , " ought we not to rejoice , that commerce is superseding them , and
that a circulation of humanity is to be kept up by its agency ? No , it is unjust to protect the landed interest of this country by a duty on the importation of foreign corn . The politician gees in it the first moulderings of a great nation ; the economist demonstrates its injurious tendency , and the philosopher deems it opposed to the obvious decrees of Providence .
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SONGS FOlt THE BEES .
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Song * for the Beet . ili
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BY THE AUTHOR OF M CORN LAW aUYHBt . " No . XIV . Ye wintry flowers whose pensive dyet Wuke , where the summer ' s lily ftleeps ! Ye are like orphans in whose eyes Their low-laid mother ' s beauty weep * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/23/
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