"Show them how much I have done to promote
the revival of trade. First of all in making provisions
cheaper; cutting off at one blow half the protection on corn,
as for example at this moment under the old law the duty on
foreign wheat would have been twenty-seven shillings a
quarter; under the new law it is thirteen. To be sure no
wheat could come in at either price, but that does not alter
the principle. Then as to live cattle, show how I have
entirely opened the trade with the continent in live cattle.
Enlarge upon this, the subject is speculative and admits of
expensive estimates. If there be any dissenters on the
deputation who having freed the negroes have no subject left
for their foreign sympathies, hint at the tortures of the
bullfight and the immense consideration to humanity that
instead of being speared at Seville, the Andalusian Toro will
probably in future be cut up at Smithfield. This cheapness of
provisions will permit them to compete with the foreigner in
all neutral markets, in time beat them in their own. It is a
complete compensation too for the property tax, which impress
upon them is a great experiment and entirely for their
interests. Ring the changes on great measures and great
experiments till it is time to go down and make a house.
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