duftry become languid. The poor man has no- 

 thing to look up to : — No motive for a laudable 

 pride — no incentive to fuperior induftry. The 

 parifh poor are his aflbciates ; and he obferves that, 

 when age or want overtakes them, the diffolute and 

 the worthlefs are indifcriminately, and equally, re- 

 li eevdwith the worthy and the induftrious. — He 

 therefore literally takes no thought for the morrow. 

 —The produce of his labour is fpent without re* 

 ferve; and his wretched family entailed on the 

 parifh: — the land becomes loaded with enormous 

 poor-rates, and its owner, after all his fchemes of 

 aggrandizement, wonders to find its value decreafed. 

 Such are the evils which prudence would have fore- 

 feen; and a humane attention to the rights and 

 interefts of mankind fhould have prevented. But 



to return. On the moft mature confideration, 



I am fully convinced of the impracticability of fix- 

 ing a general and equitable commutation of tithes for 

 land throughout the kingdom, 



COMPOSITIONS. 



The flu&uating value of money, and the very 

 fmall proportion which moduffes, or real compofi- 

 tions, made previous to the difabling ftatute 13 

 Elizabeth now bear to the value of tithes then 

 compounded for, are convincing proofs that no pe- 

 cuniary 



