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 ¬which the usurer should forfeit his character and his money. — Whilst this subterfuge is tole- rated, proprietors of land must continue to be exposed to the greatest difficulties, and in its present depressed condition a greater relief is wanting than even the abolition of this destruc- tive imposition. Your government, in some ivay 07^ other, should contrive facilities for loans upon estates, until the storm that now desolates them has passed away. ¬"On the subject of your manufactures I have nothing further to add — their prosperity depends upon the unfettered ingenuity of your matchless people; but you ought to remember that their condition is not the same as when you mono- polized the commerce of your world, and that at an enormous expense which leans most heavily upon them, you have set up foreign markets to rival them. The details of this mighty concern is the office of your statesmen, and I trust will be wisely considered. You have ¬said ¬