text:  with a starving and therefore an agitating and rebellious population? A fixed duty under all times and circumstances is a glaring impossibility; and besides is it not certain that the period for the issue of an order in council will be a grand object of speculation to the corn importer; and that he will hoard and create distress merely to force out that order? And the issuing of that order would depend entirely on the strength or the necessity of the Minister: on his "Squeezableness"--his anxiety for popularity