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.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

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.

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

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

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

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.