Note 103 — Chapter XVIII
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Thus coming events cast their shadows before. Peel says: 'I had adopted at an early period of my public life, without, I fear, much serious reflexion, the opinions generally prevalent at this time among men of all parties as to the justice and necessity of protection to British agriculture....'—Memoirs, p. 98. 'Between the passing of the Corn Bill in 1842 and the close of the Session in 1845 the opinions I had previously entertained had undergone a great change.'...(101).