ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proceeds by dividing the subject into the following distinct propositions: first, that the present Corn Laws, the reader well as those which existed from 1815 to 1828, have been productive of consequences most prejudicial to all classes of the community, but more especially so to the landed and agricultural interest generally; in the course of which the author propose to show in what manner they have been injurious to each separate interest, and to the country at large. Many will be apt to think that, if fluctuation is the only result, the evil of the Corn Laws must have been most extravagantly exaggerated; for they may think that the high and low years may make a fair average both to consumer and producer, and what is lost by either party at one period is made up by the reverse period.
