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ment of 600/. in farming business in 1821. 

 would effect as much as 1000/. effected in 1814. 

 This capital of 600/. at 7 per cent, would 

 produce only 461. and the assumed income in the 

 case before us is 44/. 2s. 



And if it be still contended, that this sum 

 will not provide a maintenance for this occupier 

 of the lower class and his family, though it 

 must be acknowledged that the maintenance is 

 likely to be a scanty one, yet to this sum we 

 must not omit to add the value of his own la- 

 bour as contributory. 



Let us, however, further examine the compa- 

 rative adequacy of the means to the ends in 

 1814, and in 1821. The principal article of 

 consumption and charge in the family is cer- 

 tainly bread-corn, and in that we have already 

 seen that there has been a reduction of 32^ per 

 cent. The consumption, and charge for fresh 

 meat, pickled pork r cheese, and butter, may 

 perhaps collectively cause disbursements equal 

 to the charge for bread-corn. In all of these 

 he finds a similar reduction of price, viz. from 

 30 to 35 per cent. In malt and hops also he 

 finds an equal reduction. In soap and candles, 

 in sugar, and in many articles of clothing, an 

 abatement has been experienced, if not of a simi- 

 lar amount, yet at a rate of not less than 

 from 12 to 15 per cent. It is true, that in 



