502 CURSORY THOUGHTS

ral particulars that I confider as of great import- ance, have been in a great meafure overlooked by thefe gentlemen; yet as the conclufions they draw nearly coincide, as far as they go, with my own, Iam well pleafed to abandon the fubjeét for the prefent, hoping the public will beftow fo much attention to the forcible arguments founded on undeniable facts, brought forward by them, as to pave the way for the obfervations of other men who may at a future period puth their in- veftigations a little farther than they have, per- haps wifely, chofen to do on the prefent occa- fion.

Referring then to that treatife for reafons that will fatisfy moft men, I fhall here, with a view not to leave the treatife incompleat in one of it’s moft effential articles, barely ftate the conclufions I fhould have been forced to draw on this fub- ject; viz. hat the corn laws of Great Britain, as they at prefent{tand, are extremely inadequate for the purpofes intended by them: that the prin- ciple of them, if any confiftent principle can be fairly recognized, is erroneous: that as they at prefent ftand, they neither are, nor have been, nor can be executed: that they are calculated td give rife to jobs, chicancery, and frauds innumer- able: that they unneceflarily interrupt the inter- nal commerce of grain, fo as to diftrefs the peo-