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character, ought never to be encouraged, be 

 his offers what they will. Such a persbn will 

 be a perpetual, thorn in the side of his master, 

 a disgrace to the tenantry, and a constant nui- 

 sance to the whcle neighbourhood. 



Attention ought also to be paid to the cir- 

 cumstances of the incoming tenant. Without 

 a capital, in some degree, adequate to the size 

 and situation of the farm he proposes to take,, 

 he cannot be expected to prosper and do well. 

 If he attempts to do justice to his farm, by la- 

 bour and manure, the expences necessarily in- 

 curred by this may disable him for a regular 

 payment of rent. Or, if he endeavours to keep 

 even with his master, the improvement of his 

 farm must stand still ; and sequestration and 

 bankruptcy, in a few years, will be the proba- 

 ble consequence. The proprietor, if he has 

 been indulgent, becomes a loser, and the land 

 is, perhaps, m a worse condition than at the 

 commencement of the lease, 



In the choice of a tenant, too, the landlord 

 should be satisfied as to his industry and profes- 

 sional abilities. Without these qualifications, 

 his capital, however sufficient^ may be soon 

 squandered away, by negligence or misapplica- 

 tion, and the proprietor reduced to the neces- 

 sity of removing him ; a circumstance neither 

 pleasing nor creditable, and of letting his farm 

 again, in a reduced state, perhaps, and conse- 

 quently in circumstances more unfavourable 

 than before. 



2^/, The mode of letting farms is also a mat- 

 ter of no small importance, and merits conside- 

 ration. Sometimes land is let by public roup : 



