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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 125, 27 July 1844, Page 83

Free Traders. — No doubt much was said to them about being independent of foreigners for supplies; but surely the squire was not consistent when he exclaimed against foreign supplies. A French cook dressed his dinner, and a Swiss valet dressed him for his dinner. [A laugh.] The lady he handed from the drawingroom wore pearls which never grew within the shell of a British oyster; the feathers which nodded in her plume had never belonged to a barn-door fowl; the wines the squire drank were foreign, they came from Germany or France; his conservatory bloomed with plants from South America; his horse was Arabian, his favourite dog was of the St. Bernard breed, his gallery was filled with foreign pictures, Italian singers delighted him with German music, and the Opera was followed by a French ballet. If he rose to noble or judicial rank the ermine which decorated his shoulders had never before been on the back of a British beast. [••Hear," and laughter.] His mind was not English; it was a pic-nic from all countries. His iiterature and poetry he obtained from Rome and Greece, his geometry from Alexandria, his arithmetic from Arabia, and his religion from Palestine. The coral which amused his infancy came from a southern ocean, and the sculptured marble which adorned his tomb was dug out of the quarries of Carrara. By all means let every man enjoy those foreign luxuries who could afford them, but let him not talk of being independent of foreigners. — From a speech of Mr. W. J. Fox, at a meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as U unworthy of him. — , Bacon.