Excerpt from A Selection From the Speeches and Writings of the Late Lord King: With a Short Introductory Memoir When all questions of commercial policy, and par tioularly the Corn Laws, form so prominent a topic of public discussion, we are naturally led to recur to the opinions of those who, in past times, directed their attention to such subjects; and it is presumed that the supporters of free trade at this period of its advancement in popular favour, may regard with some interest the Views developed by one of its earlier champions in less prosperous times; whilst the friends and admirers of the late Lord King will feel an honest pride in the homage now so generally paid to those great political truths which, when advanced by him nearly thirty years ago, were ridiculed as Visionary or denounced as dangerous, not only by overwhelming majorities of both branches of the legislature, but by the great bulk of all the higher classes throughout the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.