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extreme difficulty of effecting a beneficial change in favor
of more liberal views.

Against these prejudices, and against interests stronger
even than these prejudices, our Commission has had to continue
and we trust that the results at which we have arrived, will
be viewed, not so much in reference to their immediate as to their final ultimate effect
as to upon the state of opinion but as to and of legislation in France. For
thirty years, nearly every law passed on Custom House matters
has been intended to invigorate either to establish or to consolidate the system of protection and
prohibition. Under the encouragement of the Legislature,
much Capital has been laid out for invested in the establishment and
extension of protected manufactures, whose now tottering
and uncertain position (the natural & necessary consequence of the system itself) has
naturally made their proprietors most feelingly alive to
any change which might affect them. In the ratio of their
insecurity, their alarm must naturally would of course be excited. But
while, on the one hand, we have desired to treat every subject
which touched on the state of things existing legislation of interests in France, with all
that deference and attention, which existing interests demand
we have not at any time hesitated to express our own opinion
without backwardness or reservation. A like sense of unreserved
sincerity has guided us in our communication of the views which we now
submit to the consideration of Your Lordships, under the certainty that
such a course would fulfill Your Lordships wishes, and best consist
with believing that the important objects of our Mission will be so best

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Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	406	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f84
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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