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Individuals of all classes have of late been, 

 as it were, inflated above their natural size, and 

 beyond their just magnitude. Let this unna- 

 tural growth be reduced. Let them resume 

 their proper places and appearances, and the 

 quantum of substantial enjoyment, of real com- 

 fort, and of real happiness in the world, will not 

 be found impaired or lessened. Luxuries are as 

 often displayed for distinction's sake, as for any 

 innate gratification they have the power of con- 

 veying. If the several classes and grades in so- 

 ciety are, as it were, let down together, the same 

 distances will be found to be observed between 

 the several orders after their depression as sub- 

 sisted between them before. The relative de- 



nant agree that the landlord shall have a fourth part, or its 

 value, he will in this case have of wheat 15 quarters, of bar- 

 ley 22 quarters, or their value ; and if this value be esti- 

 mated quarterly by the average price in England and Wales 

 on the quarter-day, no material advantage to one party 

 over the other can be derived from the fluctuations in prices. 

 If the land be of a staple to grow a second crop of white- 

 strawed grain in succession, or an intermediate crop of peas 

 or beans, the fourth part of the estimated produce, or its 

 value, will of course be added to the landlord's apportion- 

 ment. The 20 acres of pasture land may properly be esti- 

 mated, field by field, at a rent per acre only equal to the 

 price which this result will show to be the reasonable rent 

 per acre of the 80 acres of arable land, if the pasture land 

 be poor land ; but at an increase of one quarter if its qua- 

 lity be good, or an increase of one half if its quality be more 

 than ordinarily good. 



