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clergyman may be forced to become hi« own farmer , 

 for fubfiftence. But by the fame parity of reafoning 

 it {hould be remarked, a gentleman of large landed 

 property may be alfo obliged to cultivate his own j 

 eflate: circumflances not very likely to happen in j 

 this populous and wealthy kingdom. j 



In fliort, any meafure that tends to an alteration ! 

 in the fyflem of paying tithes in kind, mufl be pro- j 

 duftive of fignal improvement to agriculture; parti- ' 

 cularly when it is reflefted, how often they are the j 

 caufe of dilTentions and acrimony between a clergy- ; 

 man and his parifliioners; for, however juft and equi- \ 

 table his demands may be, if an advance takes place, j 

 a kind of irreverence is often created and cheriflied, , 

 fubverfive of all good order, and certainly very de- : 

 trimental to the peace and happinefs of the (late, \ 



Survey or Carmarthenshire, p. 52, 



Among the obftacles to improvement in this 

 county, may be flated the local prejudices of the com- 

 mon farmers, and the prefent mode of paying tithes 

 in kind. 



Should the Board of Agriculture be enabled, thro' 

 its united wifdom and influence, to procure the adop- 

 tion of fome eligible plan for commuting the payment 

 of tithes; I do not know of any one meafure that 

 would be produflive of fo much good to the country 



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