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ditors forbear to demand their just dues, he may 

 linger for a while, but the use of legal coercion to 

 effect their payment must immediately consign 

 him to prison, and his family to the workhouse. 



It may, however, perhaps be thought that the 

 instance which has been taken, has been drawn 

 from a class of farmers, who with their slender 

 means ought never to have engaged in the occu- 

 pation, and that in the higher walks of practical 

 agriculture there has been no exposure to the same 

 distress ; and that even if inconveniences and 

 difficulties have been there encountered, they 

 need not be at all regarded by others ; because 

 they are to be sustained by persons who can bear 

 them, and ought not to complain ; who, when they 

 found they had a good bargain, never thought of 

 proposing to their landlords to accept more rent, 

 and are now only called upon to draw out of the 

 stores of previously acquired unreasonable gains. 



Let us then take the instance of a person farm- 

 ing at a rent of 400/. per annum, estimated in 

 the same manner as the rent of 100Z. has been 

 before estimated. The estimate of the gross re- 

 turns upon this farm will then be quadrupled, 

 and amount to 1600/., and the reduction in 

 the price of wheat from 80s. to 54s. will of 

 course quadruple the reduction ; thus operating 

 as a subtraction of 520/., and rendering that 



