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THE CORN-LAWS.

TO THE RIGHT HON.7IIY LORD WESTERN.

MY LORD,-I have read with great attention your
pamphlet on the Corn-laws. It does credit to your heart.
And your disinterestedness in passing by the loss to the
landowner, relieves me from the only difficulty that ever
presented itself to my mind. But lam still convinced
they are both impolitic and unjust. Your Lordship
states that "the object of the Corn-laws," and your
"object in supporting them, is " plenty." Till now I had
thought they were passed and supported with the view
of benefiting and protecting the landowner. The term
"plenty" is not very explicit ; but I may make it to mean
plenty of cheap provisions and plenty of work for the
labouring poor, I must own that my object in opposing
them, and your object in supporting them are identical ;
and I contend that they have not accomplished this
object, and are not adapted to do so. Your Lordship
states that " for sixty years" (some century and a-half
ago) " the price of wheat was generally lower than on
the Continent—that our exports of wheat exceeded,
for many years, the imports, to the extent of .500,000
quarters annually ;" and further that your Lordship
firmly believes we possess the means to double or triple
the present growth of corn, and other articles of food,
for the sustenance of man. lam not going to deny the
abstract truth of this proposition ; but I deny the prac-
tical application of it. At the period referred to, our
population was not half what itis now ; and ourgood lands
only were cultivated. But as our population increased.
the consumption of food also increased, and brought
into cultivation land of inferior quality, and as the cost
of production per quarter is nearly double what it is
on rich land, the produce of both good and poor land
fetched prices sufficient to remunerate the grower on
poor land ; the difference of price between the cost of
production on the good land, and the amount it sold
for, went to the landowner as rent. This rise in the
price of agricultural produce yonet Lordship aicribes ti
the growing-wealth of the country. But if your Lord-
ship will bestow a little more attention to this point,
you will perceive this was not the cause of the rise, but
it enabled us to bear it. The causes were, the neces-
sity of cultivating poor lands and the cost pf pro-
duction thereon. To maintain to high' pii6tg,
it became necessary to impose restrictive laws,
to prevent the foreign from competing with the
home grower. This view of the case I will endeavour to
make more plain. Although a practical man myself, I
am not vain enough to suppose I can inform your Lord-
ship on any matters connected with agriculture. Your
Lordship is aware that the coat of cultivating poor
land is equal to that of good ; that poor land requires
more seed, and yields only half the crop, which makes
the cost of production per quarter double what it is on
good land. You are 8159 aware that we have no rich
land uncultivated—that the average price wheat has
sold for the last twenty years, does not more than cover
the cost of production on moat of the poor land now
under cultivation ; that the land which now remains
uncultivated would require a great outlay of capital
to make it productive in a moderate degree ; and
as no one is foolish enough to spend capital,
without a prospect of a return, it is vain to ex-
pect a larger home growth of corn, till the price is
considerably advanced, to effect which we must impose
greater restrictions on the importations of foreign grain.
I do not charge your Lordship with advocating this ;
but I maintain we cannot extend our home growth
without it.

Your Lordship says that our Corn-laws have secured
to " the people of this country the most abundant and
regular supply of corn possible." This, my Lord, is
begging the question. The result of my observation,
which has been very extensive and varied, is, that at
the relative price of wages and provisions for the last
twenty years, the bulk of the industrious and frugal poor
have not been able to obtain a necessary subsistence. But
my testimony to this fact is not wanted ; you have evidence
of it in the thousands of petitions for relief presented to
the two Houses of Parliament—you have it from the
tens of thousands of emigrants who have been forced
from all the endearing ties of home, to seek in a foreign
clime a release from its rigors—you have it in the ag-
gregate amount of the poors'-rate for that period. It
will not do, my Lord, to compare the condition of our
poor with that of the poor in the uncivilized countries
you refer to. You admit, that our poor are superior in
industry, and of course their condition ought to be su-
perior. And if civilization be a blessing, if the disco-
veries in arts and science, and the introduction and pro-
gressive improvement in machinery are advantages,
(and who can deny it ?) ought not those advantages
to be participated in by the poor? And they would
participate in them mote than they do, were it
not for the Corn-laws, which divert the beneficial result
from their natural channels, to the pockets of the
landowners.

Are you, my Lord, quite certain that the low price
of corn, in 1822, was occasioned try the " operation of
the Act of '1819.7 Were not prices as low in 1835,
as in 1822, and yet this could not be occasioned by the
cause you assign ? Rather, may we not ascribe both
effects to the same cause, or the operation of the baneful
system of the Corn-laws. And yet, my Lord, you
would endeavour to scare us from a free trade in corn,
unless it should possibly produce effects similar to those
we have experienced, at least under, if not absolutely
and entirely created, by the restrictive system. But,
my Lord, to talk of " a flood of corn bringing down
prices 50 per cent." is, to say the least of it, extravagant
Where is the flood to come from ? And should it come,
are our merchants so poor as not to be able to hold it
over one year, and by ceasing to import the next, relieve
the market? But I ask again, where is this flood of corn to
come from ? Foreigners will not imitate the kind frolics
of nature in 1820 and 1834, which gave us an extra
supply of corn, and required no other return than the
homage of a grateful heart. This return, my Lord, will
not suit the foreigner, he will require a more substantial
one. We will suppose he will be contented with our
manufactured goods, but it would take our surplus po-
pulation years to manufacture to this extent. But
your Lordship supposes that they will not take our
manufactures : so much the better for the landed inte-
rest, we should then have first to manufacture,

hen to
_hawk it all over the world, to exchange

for specie to pay the foreign grower, and this
would furnish a protection to our landowner fulty equal
to the burden of the tithes and land-tax, which they talk
so much about. Your Lordship will recollect that our
currency (thanks to Sir Robert Peel) is now based on
a foundation, which, though perhaps not quite perfect,
will discourage all wild and visionary speculations.
Your Lordship seems to have an instinctive dread
of our being at all dependent on foreign countries, and
paints a gloomy picture of the horrors to be appre-
hended from such a state of things. In the fore-ground
are " the elements conspiring to discomfit a fleet of
corn ships on their way to our relief." Are we then vo-
luntarily to submit to a certain, a constant, and
an increasing evil, for fear of being visited with one un-
certain as to its occurrence, temporary in its duration,
and trifling in extent ? In the back-ground you have
Boreas " prematurely sending his frosts to lock up the
seas whence .some of our corn is to come." Your Lord-
ship, with your usual candour and fairness, has well
said, " some of our corn is to come." This evil, then,
is to be only partial and trifling, and the frosts not be-
ing of long duration, will only delay, not lessen our
supply ; and as our merchants will have the whole year
for their operations, their own interests will prompt
them to ship early, to avoid the expense of being frost-
bound. It is, my Lord, the spectre of the present
system that haunts your imagination ; under it our
merchants are utterly at a lost to know what to do,
till they ascertain the extent of the deficient harvest ;
this they cannot learn till late in the autumn, and are
consequently cramped for time. Your Lordship re-
marks that "Governments may interfere occasionally
to stop exports." They may do so—one, or even two,
may simultaneously do so—but it makes too large a de-
mand on our credulity to believe that all countries
would conspire to act the suicide to injure us. But
are we not already dependent on foreign countries for
half the comforts (I may almost call them the neces-
saries) of life. Is it not now in the power of the Ame-
ricans to produce results quite as disastrious as any you o
much dread ? May they not stop the export of cotton, and
at once deprive upwards of a million of our population
by stop-
of the means of subsistence as effectually as
ping our supply of corn? But they cannot do this without
inflicting as great an injury on themselves ; therefore
we feel assured they will not do so. The same reasoning
will apply to the corn trade : if the exports of a
country be small their stopping it cannot materially in-
jure us ; but should they be very extensive, and an
effort be made by a despot to stop it, his head would
be the penalty of his rashness. Your Lordship very
,
I
truly remarks, that " the idea of bringing down the
price of corn and the rate of wages to that of the
Continent, is perfectly visionary."perfectly agree
with you. And, with regard to wages, I
am assured
a free trade in corn will havt a tendency to raise them.
And till our merchants are willing to embark their
capital without a prospect of a return, and our ship-
owners, sailors, acc. are willing to work without wages,
we expect that wheat in this country will fetch 20s.
a quarter more than it sells for in the markets of export-
ing countries. I am, my Lord,
A `YELL-WISHER TO
BRITISH AGRICULTURE,

The Emperor of Russia, convinced of the mis-
ehievious effects of the lottery on the poor and indus-
trious peasantry of Poland, has published a decree or-
daining that the lottery shall be abolished in the king-
dom of Poland on the Ist of January, 1840.—Le
Commerce.

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