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personages in the land violating the very principle 

 they profess to uphold. Thus, no one can travel 

 very far over the continent of Europe, without 

 running against Royal Manufactories of all sorts 

 manufactories for clocks, watches, porcelain, glass, 

 tapestry, &c. ; and workshops for every description 

 of material on the excellence of which may depend 

 the efficiency of the public service. Much may be 

 said, it is true, on the comparative merits of different 

 systems in regard to the latter ; but at present we 

 will not interrupt the course of our illustration, but 

 continue to accompany the progress of our worthy 

 friend Jones in his praiseworthy exertions for the 

 improvement of his estate. 



But, if Jones would have no scruples about under- 

 taking business transactions, on the score of dignity, 

 it is more than probable that he would desire to 

 refrain, as much as possible, from interfering in 

 these transactions, from a well-grounded belief that 

 such a course would have a tendency to dwarf the 

 intellects, and paralyse the energies of his tenantry, 

 the tbews and sinews from which he hoped to 

 derive his strength the main source of all his 

 wealth. If Jones, then, were a man of sound 

 judgment, he would abandon any short-sighted 

 notions he might have had, of looking ultimately 

 to large profits derived from these sources, as a 

 legitimate mecins of recruiting his own finances, or 

 of improving his estate, His object would rather 

 be to hold such property in trust until the intellects 



