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homage they pay, and the gratitude they fliovv to their 

 benefactors ! , 



Many proi;rietors, again, thinking it an hardfliip to 

 be so long divested, as it were, by long leases, of their 

 property, and observing that many disagreeable cir- 

 cumstances, in the course of these leases, occur, 

 which, at their commencement were not foreseen : 

 for instance, that by the rapid and unexpected improve- 

 ments in hufbandry, the tenant often enjoys an undue 

 advantage, in which the proprietor has no fliare ; and 

 that however worthy a man the original tenant may 

 be, he is sometimes succeeded by a son or heir, of a 

 very different character, a man disgusting to his su-. 

 perior, and a pest among his neighbours; and yet, 

 because he pays his r^nt, and keeps without the 

 reach of the law, cannot be removed : determined 

 by such circumstances as these, they have adopted an- 

 other mode of letting theirlands ; that is, upon fhort 

 leases of nineteen years, some longer, and many 

 Ihorter. In the case of fliort leases, the proprietor 

 must build houses and improve the lands, expecting 

 to be reimbursed by a rise of rent in proportion ; oc 

 if the tenant build and improve, he must be allowed a< 

 deductiouof rent j, atd this requires. on both sides duet 

 consideration. 



Long leases appear to be best calculated for unit=- 

 ing, more effectually, the different ranks of society;; 

 and for promoting, as 1 have mentioned above, the 

 general happinefs. Short leases and high rents natu- 

 rally produce the opposite effects.. Here the contention 

 is who Ihall have the greatest advantage ; here, as 

 there is no generosity nor humanity on the one side,. 



