Mr. W. Cox, of Scotsgrove, Bucks, said:—
"A great part of the farmers have failed; and more than half the rest, if they were to reckon, would be insolvent."
Mr. John Rolfe, Beaconsfield, Bucks, was examined:—
"Do you mean to say that one half of the tenantry in your district are insolvent?—Yes, I do."
Mr. William Thurnall, Daxford, Cambridge, says:—
"The condition of the tenantry is I think verging on insolvency, not only in Cambridge, but in a great part of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex."
Mr. Charles Howard, East Riding, Yorkshire, when asked—
"Are the present wages of labourers paid out of the profits of the farmer or out of his capital?" said—"Out of his capital."
Mr. J. G. Cooper, Blythburgh, Suffolk:—
"What is the state of the farmer?—The condition of the farmer I consider to be bordering on ruin."[1]
In a former page I have quoted some words of a Whig Minister, which are remarkable for several things; but passing over those words that are intended to convey the ministerial sense of the
- ↑ Villiers's Free Trade Speeches, vol. ii., pp. 55, 56.
