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which he meant to moose, was from an oppreheo•
pion that if lie embarked in a wide view of the
groeral 'object, end that their Lordships appointed
a Committee to enter spa, so coospeelseosive an in.
quiry, the result would be thet the Committee weld
have to wade through every opecies of them", to se.
coned', or attetnpt to reconcile jarring interests, each
with • partial or miscoriceival view of its'owri
cuter benefit; so that in the end.it would be idiot',
impossible for the Committee to cuine to soy prac-
tic.il conclusion, or make any report uniiicombered
with discordant propositions, and the crude and in-
conclusive theories of clashing interest., He guard..
ed himself nt the nuteet against the dificulties. the
insurmountable difficulties oittendaut upon such a
course of proceeding, and confined Ins inquiry
particularly to shot- branch of the invi-stiganoo
which comprehended the foreign trade of this
country ; and he also guarded himself against this
inquiry, should it be entered into, being considered
as concluding any other which their Lordships may
Aim it proper to @stet opal, catmeeted with the ,
general state of the toilette,: The raison he se.s
looted the state of foreign treats as a fit subject fee
immediate investigatiou, was, because it was
question less likely -than soy other to call forth
the strong feelings of large classes of the coin.;
enmity, and one which iu. fact involved, more
than any other, the general interests of the whole.
In looking at this important subject he aware
that their Lordehips could not for a moment coun-
tenance any opinion su impolitic, as that the special
interests of any class in the community were to be
cousidered as separated from that of any other body
of the people in the present general distreas which
prevailed, or that the ioterest of the one could be
upheld by any special and exclusive privilege for
the other. If ever such an idea prevailed it never
could be realised—it was impracticable—for so in.
'operably interwoven were the laws of Providence
with the real interests of mankind, and so certainly
operative were they beyond all human statutes and
regulations, that the wants of men would ever be
found to renulate their acts end to govern their
destinita. The moment that by human agency it.
was attempted to raise tip any barrier to separate
particular interests from the general mass, the fully
of the error would soon be apparent, fur it would
soon be found that the interest so attempted to lao.
propped, would not only be lost iu the common
interest of the whole, but would in the end
sutler with accumulated mischief the -parti-
cular evil whicb it had hoped to ward off.—
He hoped that epos this point the experience of the
last ten years would not be lost upon the country.
Who that looked with an attentive eye upon the
events of 1815, when the landed interest culled
for special protectiou to put them on a par with the
manufacturing ioterest—who that again sow the
manufacturing interest seeking special fatour, and
looked at the result of both expectations, that did
not see boo entirely the priociplu.radod of protect-
-iwg either by ffteNfilfOG eacliseiwely their sass, sod
,did not find that the whole community partook of
.the general distress ? It was nothing short of folly
or madness to think of countenancing separate
interests in society, or to imagine that either prob.
pertly or depression could affect soy particular
class without the same rise or fall not affecting the
whole frame of the couttnunity.--(Heer, Vear.)—
Looking. for instance, at the principle of the Corn
Laws, see how unfounded appeared the opinion,
that the great object of this country should be
to render its population independent of the
growth of foreign cora. Suppose that such an
independence could be achieved, would they
reflect un what would be the result in the
event of an abundant harvest at, home. The clock
of the agriculturist would be um his hands at the
high price to which lie had- raided it—that is.
such portion as remained unsold after the imam-
dude public demand was satisfied. The manufac-
turing interests would be affected by the weal ut
that demand which the interchange of foreign
trade, by the importation of foreign corn, would
supply. while the home grower would, by his
own undisposed stock. be • loser by the very
principle of his own protection, as it %vas term-
ed. Uuiversal calamity sod distress must be the
attendant upon such a meters, mod every class
in society would he alike sufferers. He knew
that this was to put an entreat case, bat it
was one within the scope of the operation of a
partial measure, such as that be hod alluded to.
and might fairly be used in argument. It wee
therefore impossible with any effect to coo-idea the
present state of the country without slomuirdieg
from their minds the prejudice of partial or donne"
interests, and looking trees the part to the abate, "
on the broad grotto(' of the general awl Aeospee..
bensive effect of the combination of Cis cuitiateeisas.
He knew that there were speculative individuals,
who urged that England would &lariat, mete
if she were not a commercial, if she were mot
a manufacturing country. These men two-
' tended that sine ought alone to be an agncol-
tend . nation, and that her restores" eispoiti
be entirely agricultural. But the time was gime
by for considering what the gauntry ought to be.—
the must be taken. as she is—and then he would
sak. what but the commerce and unanufactttresuf
this country made her what she was —sibs; but
commerce and manufactures could retain her in that
situation, nr what else could sustain her future hopes?
It was an silica) in commercial. regulations. the
truth of which no law could alter. that the buyer
would crime a demean m that. market where tee
article to be bought could be grown cheapest. Thin
was the principle of a free contmetcial geckos'',
which the more umlialtled it ressifued. the mote
cooducore it would be found to human hippisiese:—
' It was essentially by the operation of that principle
that this country bed grown to be what she. was;
and she cuuid not now pursue a partial view &flier
interests without coutenqr4stiug a redaction of her
pupuletioa, which must cud in the moss wide..
opreadiog adassitieu The-greet object of all most
mow be to cultivate. the .reetiaress of--the teasurys
is viticulture', mestsflegbana Mali 111.111/New This