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this dormant treafure to the community, as the low 

 indigent man, who is interefted in no other eftate, and 

 has confequently more reafon to be tenacious of 

 thofe little common-rights veiled in him. 



Yet, though the fubjeft is complicated, the advan- 

 tages to be derived are fo ineftimable to the ftate, 

 and to the individual, that, I truft, the wifdom of 

 parliament will think fit to confider of, and eftablifli 

 fome well-digefted plans to refcue this long-neglefted 

 part of the kingdom from the difgraceful fituation 

 it at prefent exhibits. 



Liberality towards the cottager, in allotting him a 

 full allowance for his few prefcriptive rights, would, 

 I am convinced, tend materially to prevent his op- 

 pofition, which has at all times been confidered the 

 mod infurmountable barrier to the improvement of 

 waftes. The gentleman of landed property, if he 

 duly weighs his intereft, and fums up the advantages 

 he muft derive from an increafe of produce and po- 

 pulation, cannot furely hefitate a moment in giving 

 up a greater proportion of this uncultivated land 

 (from which he receives no benefit) than the law 

 at prefent obliges him; when he has the pleafing 

 profpeft in view, of not only increafing his own pro- 

 perty, but of feeing a creation of comfort, popula- 

 tion, and induftry, arife to the ftate, from a fpot be- 

 fore unproductive and unfightly to his refidence. 



In a national point of view, it matters not by 

 whom the land is cultivated, fo as the produce is 



brought 



