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In truth, the contemplation of a change of 

 times, and of a reverse of his prosperity, was 

 not likely to occupy the mind of the tenant any 

 more than that of the landlord ; who with the 

 increase of his rental generally enlarged the 

 scale of his expenditure, and seldom appro- 

 priated the unexpected accession of income he 

 was enjoying as a provision for the inconve- 

 niences of its future reduction ; and thus the 

 tenant's continuance to make the enlarged pay- 

 ments is in general opposed by the insurmount- 

 able obstacle, that his present means deny him 

 the power of making them, and that his former 

 profits have long ceased to exist in any shape 

 applicable to present use; so that we appear 

 to arrive at this inevitable conclusion, that 

 prudence and liberality, and perhaps strict 

 justice, concur in disposing the landlord to ac- 

 cept, at this time, a rent computed upon the 

 present price of wheat, and thus, as it may 

 happen, to consent to an abatement of rent, as 

 in the instances which have been given by way 

 of examples, of 321. Ws. from 100/., or 130/. 

 from 400/. ; reducing the former to 671. 10.9. 

 and the latter to 270/. 



Secondly, as to tithes. The usual modes in 

 which this payment is made being either by the 

 tenth of the produce actually set out, or by a 

 composition beaiing relation to the value of that 



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