RENTAL. ii 



11,042,642 plantation acres, giving the rent of 5,293,312!. 

 is at the rate of 95. yd. per acre. The average of all the mi- 

 nutes made it i6s. 6d. trom hence there is reafon to imagine, 

 that the line travelled was better than the medium of the king- 

 dom ; or on the contrary, that the fuppofitions of the rents per 

 county are under the truth, the real rent of the kingdom, if it 

 could be afcertained, would probably be found rather to ex- 

 ceed than fall fhort of fix millions. Efpecially as the rents 

 upon which thefe particulars are drawn, were not thofe paid 

 by the occupying tenant, but a general average of all te- 

 nures ; whereas the object one would afcertain is the fum paid 

 by the occupier, including confequently, not only the land- 

 lords rent?, but the profit of the middle men. 



But farther, as the computation that makes the total of 

 i 1,042,642 acres is profefledly erroneous above a feventh, be- 

 ing drawn from geographic rmies, there fhould be added above 

 700,000!. to this rental on that account. 



The difference of money and meafure included 35*. Infli 

 makes juft 2os. Englilh. Suppole therefore the rental of ^re- 

 land 95. yd. per acre, it makes $s. 6. Englilh. 



If Ireland is IDS. it would be 55. gd. Engliih. 



Suppofe it us. or the total of fix millions, it is per Englifh 

 acre 6s. 4d. 



It is a curious difquifirion to compare the rent of land in dif- 

 ferent countries, apd to mark the various circumftances to 

 which the fuperiority may be attributed. The rental of Eng- 

 land has been pretty accurately afcertained to be 135. an acre*. 

 Poor rates in the fame is. iod. in the pound, or is. 2$d. per 

 acre. II The information I received in Ireland concerning the 

 amount of the money raifed for preferments throughout the 

 kingdom, made the total 140,000!. or 3d. an acre. 



Landlords rent of Ireland, 

 Roads, 



Rent of England, 

 Ratc-s 



Irifh. acre and money makes < o 



Which for an Englifti acre and Englilh money is o 



* Eaftern Tour through England. l r ol. iv. p. 229. 



|| The average of the Eaftern and Northern Tours which make * 

 total of i,926,666/. By the returns laid before parliament it ap- 

 peared to bt tiflually 1,720,3167. 14*. -,d ; but that return ivas 



