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hard market for many of the tenant farmers of Eng 

 laxicr. Yet, a^ the interests of the landlord and tenant run in paral- 

 lel liivfv\ ^t ?s etair that rents must be modified accordingly. Upon 

 this ectLb, this hao bean done most wisely and judiciously. The 

 good und^r^tacitliTijT that ernts between both parties is therefore very 

 great ; as a proof of which, 1 will mention that the Earl gives a din- 

 ner twice a year, to which al^ his tenants are invited. At the last 

 festival of this sort, hs too\: Ovvusion to speak publicly of the low 

 prices of bread-stuffs, and the com plaint so frequently made of the 

 high rents at which farms art stiH lield. To meet the state of the 

 times, he added, that he had, fimt. t ; ine to time, altered the scale 

 of his rents ; and had now resoNad to make a still further reduction 

 of a certain number of shillings per ac r o to all who would apply for 

 the same after that day. Ho now rrttttioned to me, that although 

 nearly two months had now elapaed, rot a single application had 

 been made ; and this, perhaps, soJel 7 lec.'uibe the tenants appreci- 

 ated the justice and liberality with wjbiol' the estate had been man- 

 aged, and knew the free trade policy, whore this is the case, falls as 

 heavily on the landlords as on themselves. 



Nothing can well be more complete, of lU) kind, than this highest 

 kind of country life in England. I leave out of the question now, 

 of course, all republican reflections touching the social or political 

 bearing upon other classes. Taken by itself, it has been perfected 

 here by the long enjoyment of hereditary light, united to high cul- 

 tivation and great natural taste for rural and home pleasures, till it 

 is difficult to imagine any thing (except, perhaps, a little more sun- 

 shine out of doors) that would add to the picture. In the first 

 place, an Englishman's park, on one of these great estates, is a spe- 

 cies of kingdom by itself a vast territorial domain, created solely 

 for his own enjoyment, and within the bounds of which his family 

 and guests may ride, drive, walk, or indulge their tastes, without in 

 the least interfering with any one, or being interfered with, by the 

 presence of any of the rest of the world. In the next place, the cli- 

 mate not only favors the production of the finest lawns and pleasure- 

 grounds in the world, but promotes the out-of-door interest in, and 

 enjoyment of them. Next, these great domestic establishments (sc 

 immense and complete that we have nothing in America with which 



