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rights, the man so suspected of an unlawful determination to the popu- 

 lar cause, as to be, by the witty author of the Rejected Addresses, chosen, 

 along with the Pope, and the Beastly Corsican Fiend, to embody the 

 essence of all that was odious to that courtly journal, the Morning Post ; 

 this man, impossible though it would seem for impudence to go so far, 

 did actually declare, forgetful of the notorious profits of his own brewery, 

 that " more human misery was caused by overpayment of labourers, than 

 by underpayment " that " large wages led to idleness, extravagance, 

 and dissipation ;" meaning no doubt especially drunkenness, without due 

 encouragement to which, his beer-making would not have been the 

 trade to satisfy so thorough a tradesman as himself. 



Whatever Mr. Whitbread may have almost supposed he meant, the 

 writer of this, in common, he presumes, with all men of plain under- 

 standing, knows, that he meant to this purport : " I have a large 

 capital invested in land already, and I mean to invest more, as I con- 

 tinue accumulating from my brewery. I know, that if high wages are 

 paid to labourers, the rent will soon be very much lowered indeed, and 

 at last, perhaps, entirely consumed by that greedy and dissipated set of 

 men ! I am not such a fool as to care more for the public good than 

 my own, however if answers my purpose in parliament, sometimes to 

 say so. I am therefore for making landlords rich, and will support a 

 < Corn Bill/ 



' Quid non mortalia pectora cogis 

 Auri sacra fames !' " 



15. The Corn Bill of 1815, has thus been referred to, not as the 

 origin of all the mischief, which has accrued to our country through 

 rent; (this mischief indeed, has been accumulating ever since violence 

 and conquest first succeeded, on a large scale, in overpowering the 

 natural rights of mankind,) but in order to make, if possible, clearer 

 that, which was as clear as light before ; to make assurance doubly 

 sure, that there is a grovelling, dirty, vulgar, unrighteous, contemptible 

 spirit of mammon at the foundation of the arguments, by which the 

 exclusive interests of the landed proprietors are upheld. 



16. The following is an extract from returns made by farmers in 

 different parts of the kingdom, to inquiries from the Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



In the year 1790, the demands of rent and tithe on 100 acres of land, 

 were, for 109. 0*. 5|c?., in these proportions : 



Rent 88 6 3|>. lnQ n R1 

 Tithe 20 14 If S 



leaving an amount of profit to rent above tithe, of 67. 12*. \%d. Thus, 

 48 years ago, rent was quadruple that of tithe, and 5. 9*. S^d. besides, 

 on the cultivation of 100 acres. 



In 1803, the corresponding gross amount being 147. 10*. 1\d. the 

 proportions were, 



Rent 121 2 7i> U7 10 73 

 Tithe 26 8 0| 5 ~ l4 ' 



leaving an excess in favour of rent, of 94. 14*. 71^. Rent was, there- 

 fore, at this period also quadruple of tithe, and 15. 10*. 6%d. besides. 

 Again, in 1813, the amount of the two was 198.9*. lid., thus: 

 Rent 161 12 7H _*ian Q n 

 Tithe 36 17 3$f s 

 This last amount of rent above tithe, was 124. 15*. 4d., that is, 



