Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.