^2^ Ohfefvafions on the Lelcefler^ Ko-^* 



as all parochial and parliamentary taxes are payable by the te- 

 nantry. This diflercncc of fyilem would necelTarily occafion 

 the farmers in the different countries to be rated upon different 

 principles, even fuppofing their incomes to be cxaclly the lame, 

 and would introduce a molt invidious diflin^tion. 



Your Memorialilts bc^ leave to repeat, that they have no ob- 

 je£lions againlt the tax upon income, providing their incomes 

 are to be afcertaiped in the fame manner as thofe of other 

 people, that is to fay, by their abilities to pay the tax ; other- 

 "wKe it would affume a different form than a tax upon their 

 incomes. They believe it will be much eafier to afcertain the 

 real income of the farmer, whofe concerns are all winded up 

 within the year, than thofe of the merchant and manufacturer 5 

 and they, with fubmiffion, claim that their proportion of the 

 tax fhould be afcertained in the fame way as- the incomes of 

 every other clafs. They prefume, that the real principle of the 

 adt: now before the Houfe is, that every man (liall pay one tenth 

 of his income towards the fupport of Government : Therefore, 

 in making this claim^ they requeft no exemption. 



Tour Memorialifts truft you will take this bufinefs under 

 ferious confideration ; and, from your known attention 

 to the public welfare, that they will, through your in- 

 terpofition, experience that relief in the premifes whicli 

 juitice requires. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 



Epicurus, //; Reply u the Breeder of Coalheavers' Mutton,. 

 and F.'j" Ohfervat'ions ofi Houfe I.amb ; imih Remarks on th'e 

 proper mode of ofcerta'mhig the real value of the Neiu-LeiceflerSy 

 by a comparative Tt-ial lulth the other Breeds of Sheep in the 

 Ifland, 



Sir, 



It has given me pleafure to obferve, that the flricture 

 "which I made on the paragraph inferted in the Edinburgh newf- 

 papers, holding up Mr Brodie as the perfon who firlt introduced 

 the feeding of houfe Iamb into Scotland, and to whom the 

 butcher markets of the city of Edinburgh have often ftood in- 

 debted, has been the means of introducing into your ufeful 

 Work a difcuffion concerning the various fpecies of Sheep at 

 J^refent reared in Britain 



I, hope the cliampions of the ditTerent breeds will come for- 

 ward, and argue the merits of their particular favourites : For 



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