Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

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

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

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

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.