A particular examination of the nature of the corn trade, and of the principal British laws which relate to it, will sufficiently demonstrate the truth of this assertion.

对谷物贸易的性质以及与之相关的主要英国法律的具体考察， 将充分证明这一论断的真实性。

The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine.

谷物贸易的自由几乎到处都或多或少地受到限制， 在许多国家， 这种荒谬的规定常常使不可避免的饥荒灾难恶化为饥荒的可怕灾难。