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«' would be createJ, different from any that at prefent 

 *' exifts. They would be inferior in point of rank to that 

 •' clafs of men who are called gentlemen, and fuperior in 

 '* point of wealth and energy, not only to the prefent order 

 *< oi farmer Sy but even to that clafs of men who are called 

 " yeo?jien. The peculiar political advantage attached to 

 «' this order of fociety would be, that while their exertions 

 «* would always infure influence, that influence never could 

 •• become fuch as to permit them, by imitating the life 

 *• of the higher orders, to negleft their own proper con- 

 •• cerns ; for the moment they did fo, their exertions in 

 ** bufinefs would become flackened, in confequence of 

 •• which, they could not afford fuch a rent as others around 

 " them would be willing to give, and fo they muft quit 

 *« their leafe. 



•♦ Here we are led to perceive the moft effential difference 

 " between fhus granting what may almoft be called a per- 

 << petual leafe, and every other long leafe that ever yet has 

 " been tried; for in all other long leafes, if the rent fl:ipu- 

 *' lated at firfl: fliall prove to be at la(t inadequate, and the 

 " holder of the leafe be reduced to poverty, by dillipatioa 

 *« or otherwife, he may neither Jiimfelf be able to cultivate 

 '• the ground properly, nor can another be permitted to do 

 «' fo ; and by this means the proprietor may not only be, 

 «* for a long period of years, deprived of an ade<|uate value 

 " for his land ; but that land alfo being locked up from 

 ** improvement, may be doomed long to remain in a degree 

 " of comparative flerility. Nothing of that kind could 

 " here happen. It differs alfo very much from that fort 

 'V of tenure which is called yeomanry, in which their fmall 

 '< capital, which if properly applied, would have been juft' 

 ** fufficient to give fcope for agricultural exertions, by be- 

 *• ing locked up on the original purchafe of the land, de- 

 «* prives the poffeffer of the only funds he had in his 



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