taken on an average of years, principally ftamps the 
value of money, and of every produétion of human 
induftry. It may here be queftioned, whether, the 
wages of the indigent labourer have, in faa, ad- 
vanced in due proportion to this article; if. not, 
what is the reafon? The hind, who tills his native 
foil, is perliaps more. attached to the place which gave 
him birth, than men of more liberal and enlarged 
notions. From his needy circumftances, and depen- 
dant fituation, he is lefs capable of obtaining the 
proper value of his labour; efpecially when dealing 
with men whom he looks up to for relief in diftrefs. 
His parents, perhaps, have been fupported by the 
fame parifh, where he has gained a fettlement by 
birth or fervitude. He forms an early attachment, 
and marries; his attachments, and the laws of fettle- 
ment, fix him to che {pot where he is forced to accept 
of the fame wages, or nearly fo, as his father received 
before him. In thofe countries where the. farmer 
feeds his labourers, as a part of their hire, or fells 
them corn, when dear, at a reduced price, there is 
indeed lefs reafon for an advance. In {carce or in- 
clement feafons, benevolent fubfcriptions alfo, in this 
country; are always ready to aid poverty in diftrefs. 
Where the labourer has not thefe advantages, he 
generally refts fatisfied that the parifh muft aflift him 
in bringing up his family; and it is a matter of in- 
_difference whether he receives part of his wages 
from the poor’s-rates, or from thofe whom he ferves. 
| Hence 
