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make up this deficiency from Cuba, the Brazils, and: The CHAIRMAN then introduced to the meeting 1 that night, had it not been for—The vearniafclesire
the markets of South America; so that our refusing, i Mr. Turner, one of those tenant-farmers who had ,of his brother farmers, who . had_ requested him
to take sugar, the produce of those countries, would attended at the agricultural meeting lately held in to speak his and their sentiments before the citizens
not at all diminish the production of sugar in the Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, at which a resolution of London. All that he was anxious for -was to elicit
slave States of South America. The effect would be in favour of a total repeal of the corn-laws was passed, the truth, and when the truth was elicited, to see it
this, that sugar, the produce of slave-labour, which Mr. Turner, a farmer holding between 300 and 400 acted upon. The truth must out. There was no
was not allowed to be consumed in England,' would acres of land, being one of the most intelligent of his neutral ground to stand upon, for there must be either
be shipped for Holland and Germany from the order, seconding the resolution.—(Cheers.) free traders or anti-free traders.—(Cheers.) There
Brazils and Cuba in English ships, would be paid for MI:. TURNER then came forward, and was received I could be no doubt that lengthened tenure would be
in English goods—would be even imported into with loud cheering. He thought an apology was due beneficial to the farmer, and lengthened
England to be refined here, and re-exported, from him, for venturing to address so magnificent an tenure was what free trade would give.
and -yet the English consumer -would not be per- audience as that, which he then saw before him. He What they required was security for the investment
mitted to use it. But he contended that by carrying thought he might, however, ask for some indulgence iof capital in land. He had lately been at some pro-
it in English ships and paying for it in English pro- and forbearance, seeing that, with the exception of
tection meetings, and the speakers there most cau-
duce, we should be just as much encouraging slave having proposed a vote of thanks to the Anti-Corn- tiously shunned the discussion of that subject—the
labour as if we consumed it in England.—(Cheers.) law League, at a county meeting, that was the first instability of the present corn-law. He had been to
The West Indian planters had been paid a compensa- time he had ever attempted to address a public meet- one of those protection meetings, where the talking
tion of twenty millions for the abolition of slavery. ing on any subject whatever. He could assure them was all on one side—on the side of protection, of
The protection which was still continued to them that he was a bona fide tenant-farmer.—(Cheers.) He course, for they refused to allow any discussion whatever
was considered small in comparison with that which I was one of those whose every farthing was invested I as to the benefits of free trade. The Morning Post had, in
they had hitherto enjoyed, but still it was enormous. lin the cultivation of the soil, and it, therefore, might one of its recent articles commented in very sarcastic
Twenty millions had been granted them as compen- be easily imagined that in advocating free trade prin- terms upon the ungrammatical language used by the
sation for the abolition of slavery. Now, the pro- ciples he did not wish to injure the tenant-farmers of tenant-farmers who spoke at the meetings of the
tection which was granted to them on their sugar I the country. He must acknowledge that he was Anti-Corn-law League. Why, it was not to be won-
amounted to three millions and a half more per annum. , placed in some difficulty in having to follow such dered at, if these men were deficient in learning,
'.lhey had received infinitely more than the amount i eloquent speakers as those who had that evening pre- considering the slight opportunities of improving
granted to them as compensation in the shape of pro- i ceded him, but he came forward on that occasion in themselves which they possessed, and the manner in
tection—and it would have been cheaper to have ' the hope, that by his example others of his which they were ground clown and oppressed by
granted the one hundred millions at once than to have order would be induced to come forward in support their landlords. information woner was that they ever
continued these protective duties.—(Cheers.) They of the principle he was there to advocate.—(Cheers.) possessed so much as they did.—(flear.)
would have been already several millions in pocket if There was a great difficulty in finding anything novel It was a matter of great doubt to him whether, if the
they had adopted such a course.—(Cheers.) He upon this subject. The preceding speakers had re-, present corn-laws were persevered in, the farmer
would now briefly allude to a question which had re- marked upon this ; and how much more should he would be able to give his children any education at
cently occupied a great deal of the public mind—he feel a difficulty. There was one great objection to all. The Anti-Corn-law League had very much en-
meant the currency question. He would only make the corn-laws, that. they prevented those improve- lightened the tenant-farmers in his neighbourhood,
a few brief remarks on the subject, and that only as ments being made which would undoubtedly take and their tracts were .eagerly sought after by the
far as it was connected with the subject more imme- place under a lengthened tenure:- In the present un_ farmers of Somersetshire. They were anxious to be
diately before the meeting. He did not intend to certain state of the law farmers were unwilling to informed on a subject which had been so much dis-
discuss the currency question ; but inasmuch as the take leases at the existing high rents, even if land- cussed, and upon which their interests so much de-
question of the currency was intimately connected lords were disposed to make them.—(Hear, hear.) pended. The farm labourers were at present in a
with the question of free trade, and the abolition of But landlords were not so disposed, and why ? They most depressed condition, and many of them threw
the corn-laws, he thought it not inappropriate to must be aware of the reason—to advance political the blame upon the farmers ; but upon a perusal of
make a few remarks on the subject.—(Cheers.) purposes. The circumstance of being compelled to these well-digested pamphlets, they would see that it
A great deal had been said by the Prime Minister on pay high rents induced the farmer to regard the was not the fault of the farmers that their wages
the subject of the important question of the currency; price of the article more than the produce of the land. were so low, and their condition so had, but
and whether the theory of the Prime Minister was To illustrate what he meant, he would suppose an era- of the landlords, who kept up high rents.
correct or not, there could be no doubt but the ble farm which averaged 20 bushels of wheat per acre. These poor labourers would see that the wages which
subject occupied the attention of the public mind at The wheat sold under present prices at Bs. per bushel. should go into their pockets went into the coffers of the
the present moment. He would endeavour to follow Now if the produce of that farm could be increased landlords ; but if the farmers would stand forward,
the example of the Prime Minister in treating this to 40 bushels per acre, would it not be better for the and, in a bold and independent manner, avow their
subject, and to treat it in a popular manner. Now farmer to sell the grain at 6s. a bushel? Why the opinions, anti their determination to act upon them,
during the last ten years the Bank of England had thing was manifest. Notwithstanding what was
the landlords would cease to exercise the tyranny they
possessed the power of regulating the currency. called the low price, he would be a gainer of 2s. a at present practised. Another very erroneous opinion
They professed to contract the currency when the bushel. Now this appeared to him so convincing a prevailed among these farmers, that the inanufac-
demand for bullion from abroad compelled the export fact, that he wondered the landlords and tenant- turers were their enemies. He was disposed to look
of bullion, and to expand it when the importation of farmers had not before perceived it. They were all upon no man as his enemy, but he regarded the
bullion enabled them to do so. Thus, when aware that the corn-laws had a tendency to create manufacturers as his best friends, because they were
there was a disposition for bullion to Low out fluctuations in price, so that, as he had before re- working out that for them which they could not
they contracted the currency so as to induce bullion marked, even where the landlords were disposed to accomplish for themselves.—(Cheers.) Without the
to flow back again into their coffers, and by contract- grant a lease of seven years, the farmers were manufacturing population, it was impossible for the
ing the issues they lowered the price of cotton, of in many instances afraid to accept it. He (Mr. T.) farmer to thrive. They were the home consumers,
calicoes, of all articles of manufactures and produce, was one of those who held a farm on a seven years that furnished the best market for agricultural pro-
so as to induce foreigners to send back the bullion to tenure, and he knew well that the . landlords were duce. They were, in short, their best friends. He
this country, by giving a greater amount of produce afraid of parting with the least portion of the power thanked the meeting heartily for the kindness with
for it than they bad previously been enabled to pro- they now possessed over their tenantry, and which which they had heard him and, as the advocate of
cure. This was what the Bank had professed to do, they so disreputably employed.—(Loud cries of Hear, truth, would conclude in the words of the poet :
but which it had not been enabled altogether to ac- hear.) Thesgentleman who had just preceded him "To seize on truth, where'er 'cis round,
coinplish. It had not been sufficiently powerful to had so indisputably demonstrated that the corn laws Among our friends, among our foes—
accomplish this object, and what the Government restricted trade, that they were injurious to commerce On Christian or on Heathen ground—
now intended to do was this : it was intended to and manufactures, that the one could not thrive where A flower divine, where'er it grows."
create a body that should be powerful enough to the other did not prosper, nor the one be depressed The Rev. Mr. BURNETT then came forward, and
carry out this principle to the most rigid extent. So but at the expense of the other, that it was was received with great cheering. He said that it
that, whenever the exchanges turned against us, as they altogether needless for him to recapitulate was exceedingly gratifying to the free traders of
London to see such numbers of the tenant-farmers
would immediately—if they lost a million of' bullion those arguments. Now, it must also be admitted,
—they would immediately take two millions of notes that fluctuation in price prevented what was so de- come forward to advocate the "principles of common
away to contract the currency. Now it was almost sirable—an adjustment of rent; so that the old pro- sense." The landlords said the repeal of the corn-
laws would be ruinous to the farmers. The farmers
impossible that they could ever have any very lm- verb of " Live and let live" could not well be car said it would be serviceable to them. Now which
portant derangement of the currency for any length ried into operation.—(Loud cheers.) Suppose that
were they to believe, the landlords or the farmers—
of time, except from a deficient harvest. The reason the land agent calculated on an average of the prices
those who felt or those who spoke ? Were they to
'
of this was that the necessity for bread was greater of wheat for six years, in order to fix a rent, which
believe those who had no exp
neat deal of ex-
erience whatever in
than the necessity for any other article, and in order the tenant should pay for an arable farm. Did not reference to those who had a
to obtain it, every sacrifice must be made. If the that seem fair and equitable ?—(Hear, hear.) Yet it
p
perience ? "Oh ! but," said the landlords, " the
exchanges were to turn against this country, in con- was not so. And why? Because in nine cases out
sequence of too great an importation of silk, or wool, of ten the crops of the tenant-farmer did not reach farmers are ignorant men." Then why should
or cotton, or other such articles, it would be very the average price. The generality of farmers, he was they blame them for being ignorant when
easy to contract our consumption, and by that means sorry to say, were needy. They had nothing to fall the pressure of high rents was the -cause ? The
the evil would very soon become rectified. But, if back upon. They must sell at all risks to meet pre- gentleman who had just sat down had, with great
bad harvests should come, a great amount of the sent emergencies. In short, the corn must be sold propriety and feeling, alluded to the mode by which
.bullion would of necessity go out of the country, and as soon as thrashed. The consequence of this gene- the landlords contrived to extend their political influ-
a coresponding sacrifice in the exchanges and upon ral necessity, was, that between Michaelmas and ence, not only at the expense of the farmer's pocket,
other commodities would ensue. Therefore, he con- Christmas there was a glut of corn in the market. but of his conscience also. Why should the British
farmer be the slave of the British landlord ?—(Loud
tended that, if there was a tendency upon the part of In these three months the prices were lowered; then
the exchanges to turn against us, it must, of neces- in the six months which intervened between cries of "Hear, hear.") Was he not a freeman, and
sity, arise from bad harvests, for there were no means Christmas and the period at which the harvest should he not possess the dearest privilege of a
of guarding against such calamities. He was sup. arrived at maturity, only those farmers who had freeman—voting according to his conscience ? But
ported in this opinion by all experience, for there had capital enough to meet the pressing emergencies of at present he was obliged to act like a slave. The
fiequently been similar derangements. In 1838 there the harvest season were enabled to keep their corn farmer, like a mercantile man, entered into a contract
was a deficient harvest, succeeded by another deficient over for high prices.—(Hear, hear.) There were with the landlord for a certain number of acres at a
harvest in 1839. In 1839 the Bank had 9,000,0001. some farmers in the neighbourhood in which he re- certain rent, and when he fulfilled that contract, the
of bullion in its coffers. During the whole of that sided (but they were not numerous) whose means landlord should have n 3 further claim upon him. He
year they were obliged to import corn. They had no enabled them to keep the wheat produce of their could not conceive a more degraded position than that
alternative ; they were compelled, necessitated to do farms over from one year to the other. of a landlord who forced a tenant to vote against
so; and before the end of the year not a particle But these men had assured him that such was the his conscience in support of a system which
of bullion was left in the coffers of the Bank, uncertainty and fluctuation of the corn market, was injurious to botear, hear, and cheers.)
and they found themselves in a position that somehow or another they had been generally He cared not whether they wore a ducal coronet ,
Hof being obliged to borrow 2,500,0001. from the Bank losers, and fared worse than those who had been any other badge of high distinction. An accident
of France.—(Cheers.) Regulations in the currency, obliged to sell their corn within the year. The po- might have thrown that coronet in his way, or he
therefore, he contended, depended upon the necessity sition of the landlords was by_ no means enviable. It might have been born to it, and, therefore, have not
of importing corn when they had a deficient harvest. was the natural desire of mankind to maintain a cre- gained it by any merit of his own—(Cheers)—or it
Now, the measure which Sir R. Peel proposed was Bitable character with their fellow-creatures, but he might happen that amongst his ancestry there might
this, that upon a turn in the exchanges, the currency was sorry to say the proceedings of this body did not have been sycophants who courted Royal favour by
should immediately be contracted, to suspend the entitle them to be regarded in a very favourable bowing and cringing, or, perhaps, by deeds of their
,efflux of bullion, in order to make goods go out in- point of view, and the day would come when they own they might have shown that high talent which
stead. Now, by this arrangement, the commercial would look back upon their conduct with feelings of elevated their family, and with honour ; but
community would have to sacrifice their interests just shame.—(Loud cries of " Hear.") Again, he felt then they hurled themselves one and all from
as much as under the old system. Let it be under- bound to say, and he said it with equal regret and this high pinnacle the moment they attempted to
stood that he was not complaining of the measure of sincerity, that the corn-laws had been productive, of fetter the minds, opinions, and convictions of the peo.
Sir R. Peel. It proceeded on a just principle, as far most calamitous results.—(Hear.) At the present mo- ple.—(Cheers.) It had en shown that the land-
au it went ; but _what he said was, it did not go to the meat the great bulk of the farmers were paying lords were deeply interested bent he maintenance of the
root of the evil, which it pretended to cure. Now rack-rents. Those who had capital were paying those present system. It was possible that reasons might
be (Mr. Wilson) wished to call the attention of the rents out of it, and those who had not, were in a de- be adduced to prove that it Would be against their in-
merchant and the broker of Liverpool at this particu- plorable condition. These were facts that might be terest if this country were to became a manufacturing
ear moment, and the merchant in London, the menu- relied upon. His knowledge of them was derived community; and that reason was, the aristocracy and
facturer, shopkeeper, and trader of every class—the from sad experience. Those farmers who had not the squirearchy could not wield the franchise of the manu-
farmer, the landlords themselves, and the labouring command of capital were, as had been told them, by fa,cturers as they did that of the farmers; they could
population above all, to what must be the conse- Mr. Summers, in a condition bordering upon insol- not drive the former to the poll, as they did the
quences of this law, if stringently carried into effect vency. Mr. Summers' speech had been received with latter. Neither had they that threat to hold over them
in the case of a deficient harvest.- Now, suppose a astonishment in the neighbourhood from where he in terrorem of granting no leases, serving ejectment.,
deficient harvest was to take place, as in the year (Mr. Turner) came, but he now came forward to cor- or driving them from their houses if they opposed them
1838—as no one could say that it would not—sup- roborate the statement of Mr. Summers.--(Hear.) at an election. If the landlords could just ash,
well
pose they were obliged to import a quantity of foreign The farm labourers, too, were in a most depressed drive one class to the hustings as the other, he
corn, so as to cause the exchanges to turn against this condition ; they were in the most abject misery that doubted much whether they would set themselves so
country, the Bank of England would be called upon it was possible for man to conceive. To picture to strongly against the manufacturers, or retain their at-
for a million of bullion, and then would arise a neces- them faithfully and truly the condition of these men, tachrnent so exclusively in favour of the farmers. The
sity for contracting the currency by two millions of would be a task as gainful to his own feelings as it manufacturers were rather an unwieldy political
notes. The Bank would cease to discount bills ; they would be harrowing to the feelings of those material, and the country gentlemen, well knowing
would sell out their securities until they got in the who heard them. He was sure those who this fact, were unwilling to run the risk of letting go
two millions of notes ; and the consequence of that listened to him, notwithstanding all that had their political grasp upon the. farmers, because they and
measure would be, that the commercial portion of the been said about he national dislike entertained by the monopolists well knew that they could not regain
community would be anxious to effect sales of their artisans towards agricultural labourers, would sym- it upon the manufacturers.—(Lowl cheers.) The
variouec9mModitfe's,. and no buyers would be found. pathise deeply in the condition of those unhappy men. landlords were interested in this change, but not -
There woold bean immediate, rapid, and sudden de- He had been frequently asked by his brother farmers withstanding the system could', not go on. They
preciation in the,value of property. There would be if free trade would benefit them, and if there was any all had seen many changes during the last century.
a sudden depreei4ion. in the value of all the manufac- probability of free trade benefiting their condition. They had also seen some changes within the last two
ture,s of ,the country, and a sudden depreciation in the He had always told them that he believed free trade or three years, during which they found certain gen-
value 4 raw materials. Ruin, in consequence, would would benefit their condition ; and he felt convinced tlemen—Tories, and Ministers, too—coming forward
come :upon the merchant, who, expecting a cargo of that it would do so. These men were now suffering to plead the cause of the poor black man, whom the
cotton from America, had accepted bills to the full under severe privations, and he could not conceive people of England set free in spite of th,tio in-
value and amount of the cargo. What would how, by any possibility, they could be placed in a veigh against the system of Slayery. tin.
general.
be the situation of the merchant connected worse condition than they were.—(Hear, hear.) The Those charitable gentlemen sand if you; - set the
with the East Indies, who, expecting a cargo fact was, these tenant-farmers were, for the most part, slaves free the consequence will be'that they all'ximst
from Bombay, had accepted bills to the full uneducated men. They had been unaccustomed to perish. No person could have any- idee •-bf the inis;
amount, when he found that the cargo, on its arrival, habits of thinking, and looked only to present chief which would be likely,-to. ensue -if - the slaves:
was-depreciated. in value upwards of 25 per cent.? circumstances and their immediate results.— were to be emancipated. ANT therefore those gen-.
A„depreciation in Se .value of manufactures also must -(Hear, hear.) But the Anti-Corn-law League tlenien at that time resisted 'every attempt to set
of necessity ensue, and that depreciation in value had done much towards disseminating knowledge the slaves free. Now, they were still connected-
w ould ultimately reach agricultural produce. ,He did among them, and through the tracts circulated by that by the most kindly feeling towards theta' 'and-
not mean to say that this would be the immediate useful body, they now began to believe that they anxious that nothing should occur which would be.
effect of the measure which had been brought forward were in a position to compete with any of the corn likely to improve them, and consequently they took.
by Sir Robert Peel. lie would, however, say this, growers of any other country in the world.--(Hear, them up, as they had m,
up the farmers, and would
allow no sugar to come in, except that rowan by free
he hiped would cure fluctuations—a measure which; whether there were more mouths to eat than there was blacks.—(Laughter.) Query—was this kindness at
he hoped, would secure the interests of trade, manu- corn to be had in this country ? Whether the pro- all manifested on account of the West Indian inte-
factures, and the working population—which would duce of this country was equal to the consumption of rests ?—(Cheers.) Well then, after the voice of the
prevent a sudden depression and a sudden crisis— its inhabitants? It was apparent that such was not the country and humanity had been elevated so often and
how a Minister of this country could propose a mea- case. Then was it not necessary to import corn from loudly against the vile system of slavery, those
sure of that kind with such an object, and retain abroad? How was the surplus to be produced? philanthropic gentlemen became at length convinced
the sliding-scale, and the corn-law at the bottom Must it not come from foreign countries? Some of that it was the voice of God and natur4, and they
of all, he could not imagine.—(Loud cheers.) the farmers who opposed the repeal of the corn-laws ceded the freedom of the slave—by purchase. After
The country could never be in a prosperous state thought that if there were a free trade in corn it would yielding to all those circumstances—circumstances
while there was no regular trade in corn.—(Cheers.) flow into this country like, water in the river, forced upon them—they have found those very same
It was because they had not a regular and uniform without obstruction, and ' superabundant. These gentlemen coming forward to take up the part of the
trade in corn that frequent derangements of the cur- people seemed to forget that, in this country atleast, freemen. But what were they to say to such hypo-
rency occurred. The greatest amount of corn that there was an expense of 6/. or 71. in cultivating an crisy as thii ? After -the Niger expedition, at a
had ever been at one time in stock in this country acre of wheat. They did not calculate that it would. public meeting he chanced to be sitting next to Sir
was six hundredquarters It. Peel—a strange • •
only, about sufficient for cost anything at all abroad. They appeared to be- comcidence—(Laughter)—but
eight days' ,consumption. The dealers in other corn- litre that corn grew in foreign countries spouts- still no secrets passed between them—(Renewed
modifies could not carry on their business unless they neously, and that it could be picked up on the banks laughter)—so therefore he had no ministerial secrets
bad sufficient fa- ten to reveal to the ireetin
or twelve months' consumption of the rivers, without cultivation. If these men read . • g. But the Right Hon. Ba-
in their warehouses.—(H
earhear.) A•ow, he had and considered for themselves, they would soon think ronet got up upon that occasion ; and to show that a
no doubt that in the first Week that the measure of differently. In the report made by Mr. Meek, in sense ofb shame was sometimes
it
in all
Sir R. Peel came into operation—he meant the first 1841, as to the capacities of the different corn-growing minds, egan by saying that it was incumbent
week in which its operation would be felt—which countries, the only country in which the cultivation who were not '
upon those
would be, probably, in two years time , when ane of the soil was particularly, cheap, and from which to come forward and speak on behalf of the injured
arise for African.. There must have been a twitch of conscience
cessity should a counteraction df the cur • competition might be most dreaded, was Polish Prussia, i
rency—he had not the least doubt that in and in Polish Prussia there were bad roads, no canals, . which affected the Right Hon. Gentleman. Now he
that first week the merchants of . London railroads, Rev. Mr Burnett) believed that if there was any
and no and, in short, the expenses of carriage, (the •
ex-
Liverpool would lose more largely than the and the freight and other expenses of transmission to one monopolising interest concerned in this Niger
A •
huge sum which the Anti-Corn-law League ' this country, would leave the English farmer little to pedition, it would have kept that wily gentleman
had this year collected, for the purpose of doing away ' dread.. Now in the Channel Islands, free trade prin- away from speaking one word in favour of the African.
with the nuisance of the corn-laws.— (Cheers.) It . ciples had been tested. In these places corn had been He would tell the meeting, therefore, to take comfort
would' be well for the merchant to look to this—aye, I imported free of duty, yet home-grown corn had from this : they had one who, was sensible to the in-
it would be well for the landlords themselves to look I averaged 475. per quarter for the last seven years, 1 fluence of shame, and who, although steeled against
to it. The Duke of Richmond had complained of his i which ' -
circumstance clearly proved that corn would - many things, was not yet made of steel, and this
That not
losing 2,000/. a year on his salmon fisheries. i descend to so low a price as had been anticipated. showed they, by perseverance, would be crowned with
Noble Duke attributed the loss to the, tariff.. It,l Then there was another great argument in favour of success. What did the aristocracy mean by pressing
arose from no such cause, but from the diminished free trade principles—reciprocity of dealings, mutual
their opposition so long? Did they intend to set the
under the , intercourse, and extended
'people, for,
connexion—he would not different classes of society at vari
powers of consumption in the ance with each
tariff, about 2001bs. only of foreign salmon had been . say with
foreigners, he disliked the word "foreigners," other, and tell them that if one prospered the other
imported. Why did they hear of fifteen and.twenty ! but with their neighbours abroad.—(Loud and - pro must necessarily decay? Did they mean' to tell
cent. having been returned last year upon the I.traded cheering.) lie felt perfectly convinced that their respected Chairman, that if he succeeded, Mr.
arm-rents a The simple reason was, that the! if We imported their corn, they would import our mer- Turner, who favoured them with his enlightened
In fact, Mr. Gladstone
power of consumption in the people had chandise. _ . had already ad- views upon the operation of the corn-laws that even-
diminished. This was not, therefore, a merchant's ! mitted so much in the debate upon the tariff, ing, must be reduced to poverty ? Did those pro-
question only. It was a landowner's question as well When the question of importation of cattle was in- phets mean to asser that if the one class were to
a merchant's question, for the two interests were troduced, the answer to that proposition by the succeed the other should d 9 Such
go own .an asser-
bound • d* 1 b
m isso u l together. And he had no doubt , country gentlemen was that an exceeding loss would
tion was most ridiculous. If those persons meant to
that if the landlordsthe farmers. Now he (Mr. Turner)
themselves were to consider,
the ,be inflicted upon say that manufactures were to go down, he
question calmly,and without said that, if we were to import cattle from abroad, (the
prejudice that the . Rev. Mr. Burnett) would tell them that he
would sea that' the labours • v y we should export manufactures in proportion. This would rather see
ors the Anti-Corn-lawthe Whole face of England
League were oil directed established, an admitted covered with
y towards the general in- I appeared to him to be an manufacturing shops, without an
terests of the whole - _ communit
y---(Cheers.) • fact. He would not bare appeared among them acre of tillage,
.and England supplying the world