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gradation will be none, and the enjoyments 

 abandoned will be found to be few, and of little 

 real importance; and the necessaries, the com- 

 forts, and the conveniences properly appertain- 

 ing to the several stations in life will, with some 

 exceptions, still be ultimately found accessible, 

 and placed as completely within reach as ever 

 of the less amount of income, when the reduc- 

 tion of prices, at present partial, shall have be- 

 come general. 



But it may be asked, Are all the evils 

 arising from the present agricultural distress to 

 be borne in patient silence? Are the three 

 classes whose present sufferings immediately re- 

 sult from it, and who in wealth, talent, pa- 

 triotism, energy, and numbers, collectively 

 equal, if they do not excel, all the other classes 

 of the state, viz. the proprietors of land, the 

 occupiers of land, and those who labour in its 

 cultivation, to be abandoned without assistance 

 in their struggles, and without commiseration 

 in their fall? 



Upon themselves they must undoubtedly in 

 chief part rely; and it has been attempted to be 

 shown, that this reliance need not be placed 

 in vain. There are, however, measures of relief, 

 which Parliament may, if it shall think proper, 

 dispense ; and which, in part at least, we now 



