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fliience over it, to correal the prefertt' 

 grievance, and to fet a better example. 

 Such gentlemen £hould confider them- 

 felves as guardians of the poor, and attend 

 to their accommodation^ and happinefs : 

 It is their particular buiinefs, becaufe 

 they, and their families, have a lading 

 intereft in the profperity of the pariih j 

 the farmers only a temporary one. If a 

 gentleman's fortune be fo large, that he 

 cannot attend to objeifls of this fort, he 

 jChould, at leaft, recommend the cottagers 

 to the attention of his agent ; and give 

 him ftrid inflrudions, to ad: as their 

 friend and protestor ; for unlefs fome 

 fuch check be put upon great farmers, 

 they are very apt to contribute to the 

 demolition, inftead of the protedion of 

 cottages, and when the neft is deflroyed, 

 the bird muft emigrate into fome other 

 parifh. A cottager, in this cafe, has no 

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