66 CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. [PART I. 



1818. 



Feb. 16. as they are called, to contain a mi 

 serable labourer, who ought to have 

 been a farmer, as his grandfather 

 was. Five or six farms are there 

 now levelled into one, in defiance of 

 the law ; for, there is a law to pre 

 vent it. The farmer has, indeed, a 



fine house; but, what a life do his 

 labourers lead ! The cause of this 

 sad change is to be found in the 

 crushing taxes ; and the cause of 

 them, in the Borough usurpation, 

 which has robbed the people of their 

 best right, and, indeed, without 

 which right, they can enjoy no other. 

 They talk of the augmented popula 

 tion of England ; and, when it suits 

 the purposes of the tyrants, they 

 boast of this fact, as they are 

 pleased to call it, as a proof of 

 the fostering nature of their go 

 vernment; though, just now, they 

 are preaching up the vile and foolish 

 doctrine of PARSON MALTHUS, who 

 thinks, that there are too many 

 people, and that they ought (those 

 who labour, at least) to be restrained 



from breeding so fast. But, as to 

 the fact, I do not believe it. There 



