ON THE

ANTI-CORN LAW STRUGGLE.

BY

ANDREW BISSET.

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE,

14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON ;
AND 20, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH.

1884.

INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

WAS THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS THE EFFECT OF

ORATORY?

CHAPTER II.

THOMAS PERRONET THOMPSON

PAGE

1

NOTES ON THE ANTI-CORN LAW

STRUGGLE.

INTRODUCTION.

IN revising my MS. of "Notes on the AntiCorn Law Struggle," I am struck with the fact that one-third or more of the book is the work of him who was throughout the whole of the Struggle the advocate in Parliament of the Repeal of the Corn Laws; and is now the only survivor of a group of contemporaries among whom "si mea fama in obscuro sit, nobilitate ac magnitudine eorum, meo qui nomini afficient, me consoler."

I will state shortly what led me to become one of the labourers in the work of repealing the Corn Laws. On the 17th of January, 1842, I received a note signed Adam Scott, stating that the writer had been requested to communicate with me on