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Justice and impartiality compel me to remark, that the woolkn 

 manufacture, in almost all its branches, has been for some years 

 past, and is noma rapidly decreasing in its heretofore most fertile 

 source of national benefit ; namely, in furnishing labor adapted to 

 the different periods and stages of life. Machinery must and nuill 

 be universally introduced, otherwise the districts, where it is mi 

 used, must be sacrificed to those where it is. Would the legislature 

 interfere to suspend its operations, or limit its progress ? This 

 would be incompatible with its wisdom and justice. To allow 

 only its partial establishment would be oppressive ; to admit of none, 

 would be ruinous ; because, such machinery, with its appendant 

 branches of manufacture, and a few individuals allotted to each, is 

 not only susceptible of, but it is presumed will shortly be, in a state 

 of migration. In Yorkshire, where it has received a degree of 

 perfection, and an extent of establishment beyond that of any other 

 part of the kingdom, I have been informed from indisputable au- 

 thority, that before the present war, the great demand for the 

 produce of the manufactures, left but fenxi in comparison to resort 

 to agriculture for support. What the present situation, may be in 

 this momentous relation to national profperity, I am not able cir- 

 cumstantially to describe, but general rumor states it as a melan- 

 choly reverse. 



The sixth objection supposes a diminution of the rental value of 

 estates to which commons are appurtenant. 



In theory this may appear in some degree specious, because an in- 

 creased produce without an increased consumption, would more or 

 less countenance such an inference. 



But admitting the premises, it induces the necessity of investi- 

 gating the relative operation of the cause presumed. Let us sup- 

 pose a farm with common appurtenant to be worth 100I. per year, 

 and that by a deprivation of the common, its value be reduced 5I. 

 per year. If the common inclosed be worth 10I. per year, the ob- 

 jection must give way. 



This statement however bestows a degree of importance on the 

 objection, which it scarce deserves ; for in fact, the inclosing both 

 of the low and uplands, has been uniformly accompanied with an 

 increased produce from both; and it is no less true, that scarce an 



instance 



