So Rcvitucrs Revicived. Teht 



the greater part of the leafe, and cannot poflibly diverge till 

 ])erhaps \^ilhin the laft three years, when alone reftridions are 

 neceilar^ to lecure the intereli of the landlord. 



Various other dlfciifTions, of fubjecls equally Important, are 

 to be fouird in this work. A?, however, it is not ^my deilgn 

 to prefent a review, but only to direft the public attention to 

 it, as not at all of mere local, but of mofl extenfive and ge- 

 neral intereti, I cannot pretend to enter into the extent of his 

 general reafonings. I fhall, at prefent, only further remark, 

 that the author feems moil fuccefsful in combating thofe uni- 

 verfal and deep rooted prejudices which have hitherto fo often 

 tended to embarrafs tlie free courfe of agricultural indullry. 

 He lias, for intfanc-% evinced, in a maflerly manner, the futility 

 of all agrarian laws, cramping the exertions of indudry, in pre- 

 tending to regulate the extent of poffeflion of land, to be held ei^ 

 ther in property, or upon leafe. In the courfe of this difcuf- 

 iion, he derails, at length, a moft intelligible and conhllent theo- 

 ry of the priiiciples, which' (if the matter is left to regulate it- 

 leU, as in other bargains, by an enlightened fenfe of felf-inte- 

 red in the contracting parties) mu(l invariably tend to dilate 

 farms to the fize of their molt produilive and profitable occu- 

 pancy ; and muft, as necelTarily, hem them in within chat pro- 

 fitable and productive fize ; fo as to render the appreheniion of 

 the monopoly of farms a mere chimera of a diflurbed imagina- 

 tion.^ His expofure of the impolTibility of the exigence of the 

 fancied crimes of inojicpoly., furestalling, and re grating of corn , 

 in regard to which the deep rooted prejudices, both of the high 

 vulgar, and the low, have fo often expofed agricultural property 

 to deflrutlion, and thrown a damp upon its Indudry, by ren- 

 dering precarious the free property and unlimited right of dif- 

 pofal of its fruits, muft be familiar to all the readers of your 

 ]\lagazlne, ftom the extra(5l you publilhed, and which I have 

 already alluded to. 



INIr Findlater's reasonings upon these ancf such other general 

 topics, ha;ve appeared to me to be satisfactory and convincing. 

 As they however constitute subjects of universal and most im- 

 portant interest, I could have wished to have seen them meet 

 with the most full and ample discussion : For this purpose, I 

 have, since the time of his publication, been anxiously waiting 

 to see the subitcl taken up in a masterly manner, in some of our 

 reviews, by some critic capable of enrcring into, and of appre- 

 tiatingthe force of comprehensive general re asoning ; who might 

 be qualified, upon satisfying grounds, either to confirm or re- 

 fute Mr Findlater's general conclusions. — I long waited in 

 vain : Unhappily it would se^m, the supposed local nature of 

 the work had prevented general reusoners from searching In it 



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