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monage, yielding an annual produce of 

 only 765!. tythc included, will not make it 

 408. an acre. Now, I have been fince in- 

 formed, that fuch land, in the open fields 

 in England, and under a fimilar manage- 

 ment, refpefting the arrangement of crops, 

 would yield 3!. per acre : and, in the in- 

 clofed counties, 5!. an acre, by having a 

 part in grafles. What 'a prodigious lofs to 

 the kingdom, therefore, is 3!. an acre from, 

 ill circumftances. We may well fuppofe the 

 Prince might take, without oppreflion, 

 more than he does now ; but, in the confe- 

 quences of fuch an increafe of national 

 wealth, he would take much more , for all 

 the taxes of the ftate would be amazingly 

 more productive. But this is a doctrine 

 which Princes will not underftand, or at 

 kaft every day act as if they did not. 

 Would they but confider, that their own 

 revenue depends abfolutely on the wealth of 

 their fubjects, and that, in proportion as 

 the latter increafes, the former muft increafe 

 likewife, one would think they would be 

 a little more tender of thofe riches, from 

 which their own arife. My friend, the 

 farmer, who gave me the above informa- 

 tion. 



