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or fourteen years, or twenty-one years, upon an 

 assumption that the average price of wheat 

 would be 80s. the tenant must necessarily have 

 derived such advantages from the tenure, in 

 consequence of the prices which have been ob- 

 tained in excess of that price, that he has, or 

 might have had, an aggregate of profit in hand, 

 which would enable him to afford to pay at this 

 time a rent proportional to the difference be- 

 tween 80s. the former assumed price, and 54s. 

 the present actual price. For, an impartial exa- 

 mination of the average prices during those 

 periods, combined with a candid consideration 

 of the circumstances of the case, will at least 

 manifest some uncertainty in the conclusion, 

 that he ever could have realized such profits, 

 and also an improbability that he has to this time 

 retained them in his possession, if ever he did 

 possess them. 



The following are the average prices, taken 

 from the returns of all England and Wales, 

 during this period of twenty-one years, ascend- 

 ing from 1821 to 1801. 

 s. d. 



1821 56 6 



1820 66 3 



1819 72 5 



1818 84 



1817 94 



1816 75 , 



1815 64 s. d. s. d. 



.. 7) 512 2 73 2 



