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corn laws began to be fufpended, and frequently thereafter, till 1773, when the old fyftem was in a great meafure abandoned, the manufactures of this country being cherifhed, advanced into the moft flourifhing{ftate, while it’s agriculture re- ceived fo fevere acheck, that the production of corn has been thereby diminifhed to fuch.a degree, as to force us now to rely on foreign nations fora confiderable part of the neceffaries of life; and thus the prices have been gradually enhanced. But it was not till the year 1791, when the new regulating fyftem was adopted to it’s full extent, that the coup de grace. was given to our corn laws. It is fince that time only, that the perni- cious confequences of that fvftem have been fully experienced.

It appears, from the tables exhibited in the work refefred to, that the average importation and exportation of corn to and from Great Bri- tain for forty years; viz. from the year 1710 to 1750, inclufive, when the original bounty Jaws were in force, compared with the fame average for twenty years, from 1773 to 1793, when the alterations blamed were adopted, were as fol-

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