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 well off -as few as poffible are employed, 



and they poorly paid. Here population 

 muft fuffer infinitely, as the number of the 

 poor muft always depend on the quantity 

 of the employment. In the next place we 

 will take the King's revenue ; though the 

 taille, capitation, and other taxes, are very 

 heavy, and vigorouily levied, yet their pro- 

 duce is abfolutely contemptible, in com- 

 panion of what would be raifed, if all thefe 

 clafles made a due profit by their bufmefs ; 

 for, if people have not money, it is very 

 clear they cannot pay it; but there is, 

 farther, an effect which operates over the 

 whole kingdom, and to all the clafTes in it, 

 which is, the deficiency of circulation j the 

 more money is raifed from the earth, circu- 

 lates into every channel throughout the na- 

 tion, from which all are enriched - t and the 

 agregate of the people able to live, is in every 

 refpecl: better, and to pay confequently 

 greater taxes. 



Here I muft make an obfervation upon 

 this account, which is interefting to a Bri- 

 tifh reader. When we fpread a map of 

 France before us, coniider the admirable 

 tuation of that kingdom, upon both feas, 



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