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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1810.

ence of machinery, to competition, or to a grasping I
desire for gain on the part of the capitalists, so much as
to an unrighteous system of legislation, which legalized
robbery on the part of a class, a were section of the
community, at the expense of the comforts and happi-
ness of the labouring millions of this country.—(Loud
and continued cheering.) He believed that unjust
taxation, unfair representation, and the existence of ras-
cally restrictions upon our trade and commerce, was the ,
chief cause of the destitution and suffering existing in
the country, and until these were removed, it was vain
to hope for permanent or even temporary relief to the
great mass of our comparatively unemployed population.
Talk of the influence of machinery ! give us free trade
—a repeal of the Corn-law—a reduction of taxation,
and he cared not although their productive powers, as
a manufacturing nation, were greatly increased,. With
her mineral and other resources, her persevering
and ingenious artisans, Great Britain did not
need to fear competition with any nation in the
world.—(Renewed cheering.)
He was not disposed to combat the statements respect-
ing the beauties and advantages of a residence in New
Zealand—read by Mr. Crawford—and more particularly
those which alluded to the probability of their being
devoured by the cannibal inhabitants, but would ac-
knowledge the truth of the sentiment, that there were
cannibals enough amongst our oppressors at home—
(Laughter)—who, although they did not swallow up
their bodies in the same hasty way as the New Zea-
landers did, as surely and effectually took from them their
means and substance.—(Cheers.) A cannibal aristocracy
devoured the produce of their labour—a cannibal priest-
hood made away with their means and substance—and
a host of useless non-producers and pensioners ate up
the remainder. But was it a cure to send a few of
the most useful of their artisans out of the country ?
No such thing. The merchants and manufacturers
declared that so long as the present Corn-law and
other restrictions upon commerce existed, it was
impossible they could compete with the.foreign untaxed
merchant, and that they would ere long be compelled to
' shut up their factories and workshops. If this were the
case, what was the use to them of sending a number of
the operatives out of the country, and thereby raisii g
the price of labour Emigration in their case was a re-
medy that merely hastened the disease it pretended to
cure.—(Haar, hesr.) If any class or party of men
above another should be sent out of the country, it was
the fat Bishops, the non-producing pensioners, and the
other bloated adjuncts of the present system.—(Roars
of laughter and cheers.) Let these characters leave
this, country, and have their fat corporations brought
down by tilting the land in the Colonies, and the indus-
trious masses would speedily place themselves in that
position which, as tax payers and British citizens, they
were entitled to occupy, and Britain would then assume
her former proud position as the envy and admiration of
surrounding nations.—(Cheers.)
It is impossible to gag the people, even if a police-
man were to watch every operative. They will find
means to utter sentiments like these to one another,
which will thus become ,as they are repeated and
renewed, as much a por 1. of the creed, or the
minds of the operatives, as " t instinctive belief that
the sun will rise to-mar )% as it has risen to-day,
With such a creed, re 30( t for the Government,
respect for the Legislatu,o r espect for the priest-
hood, is wholly incompati ; aid as it extends
and strengthens—as exten l :1 i strengthen it will
—it may be possible to extl ale these men, but
to rule them by the present rn will be impos-
sible.

With respEct to emigration, at which, as a re-
medy for our national evils, we have always looked
with distrust and aversion, Mr. MALcoutt made