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And if goodnefs of foil made up for this 

 fine climate, and the landlord had 305. an 

 acre, ftill the contribution to the King 

 would be but 6s. and the tenant would have 

 6L 5&.. What an amazing difference is here 

 foe all the clafs of landlords and tenants ! 

 If the farmer in France is proprietor of his 

 awn farm, he gets, in 3!. as. yd, or*ly 

 il. 43. 3d. which is not a third of it. In 

 England, the fame perfon, out of 81. 35. 9<L 

 would get 7!. 178. which is eight parts out 

 jf nine.. What an amazing encouragement 

 is, this for the profecution of hufbandry, and 

 improvements of all forts ; what wealth 

 may be expended in the continual increafe 

 cf fertility,, where the tenant is fo rich, 

 flow little can be fpared in France where hs 

 is fb poor ! I have heard many perfons in 

 England fpeak in the moft violent manner 

 agakift the licentioufnefs of Liberty in Eng- 

 land ; but what comparifon can there be 

 between the excefs of Liberty in one coun- 

 try y and that of Slavery in the other ! Did 

 but fuch perfons confider Well the inordinacy 

 of arbitrary fway in France, as it falls upon 

 the agriculture and eftates of that kingdom, 

 they would rather be pleafed with the riots 



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