text:  Mr Huskisson as it is well known introduced full twenty years ago the system of free trade and repealed the navigation laws in the hope of making the Northern Powers of Europe more favourable to the admission of British manufactures and materially reduced the duties on French silks watches wines and jewellery in the hope that the Government of that country would see the expedience of making a corresponding reduction in the duties levied on our staple manufactures in the French harbours