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parties ultimately derive no advantage 

 from it. 



The great increafe in the Poor-rates 

 may be accounted for in a few words. 

 The rife upon land and its produce to- 

 gether is at leaft fixty per cent, the rife 

 upon labour not above 'twenty. The 

 difference is, of courfe, againft the 

 working hands ; and when their earn* 

 ings are infufficient for the abfolute ne- 

 celfaries of life, they mull inevitably 

 fall upon the parKh -, which is bound, 

 in that cafe, to make up the deficiency* 

 So that if we confider this matter pro- 

 perly, we muft difcover a great want of 

 policy in beating down the value of la- 

 bour, not to mention the inhumanity of 

 fuch an adion. For it is much better 

 for a farmer to give an induflrious man, 

 who has a large family, half-a-crown a 

 week more than is generally given, being, 

 only 6/. 10 J. a year, than to load a farm 



with 



