f nete 2] 
It feems to be allowed, even by the manufac- 
turers themfelves, that although the nation derives 
an ineftimable advantage from manufacture, in a 
general and commercial point of view, and though 
the landholders throughout the kingdom have been 
able to advance the rents of their lands very con- 
fiderably, in confequence of an increafed confump- 
tion of its produce, yet the manufactures are not 
always bleflings tothe landed intereft of the county 
where they are zmmediately fituated. 
The advantage arifing to the landed intereft in 
the immediate neighbourhood of large manufac-, 
tories, is an increafed demand, and, of courfe, an 
increafed price for the produce of the land. But 
this extends only to a few articles of daily indifpen- 
fable confumption, fuch as milk, butter, poultry, 
hay, ftraw, &c. In the heavy neceffaries of life, 
fuch as wheat, barley, oats, cheefe, butcher’s meat, 
&c. the advantages are fhared by the landholders 
at a diftance. 
The difadvantage to the landholders on the fpot, 
is an increafed population, and that of the moft 
undefirable kind, viz. * labouring poor;” who, in 
‘times of a quick trade, raife the price of labour 
almoft beyond the reach of a farmer, and when 
trade in general, or that fingle branch to which 
they have been brought up, fails, fall a burden on 
the poor rates, greater than the land is well able to 
bear. In the woollen manufa@ories of this diftriat, 
this 
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