the Editor of The Mercury. 22d March, J845. Sir,—The letter on the Corn Laws reprinted from the Worcester ..
... paper to-day, though commencing with pretensions to unusual candour, contains assumptions aa extravagant and unfounded as any which have been made on that oft-debated question. Some one has said that arithmetical figures may be made prove any thing and really on locking at the later referred to am disposed to admit the truth the remark, with the simple appendage, to those who are incompetent ...