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felf, at the expence of his landlord. And 

 although, while he is doing this, he may 

 be enriching the Public ; yet proprietors, 

 confidered as fuch, have an undoubted 

 right to guard their property. But let 

 them not, by an ill judged and narrow- 

 minded policy, injure, at once, the Pub-^ 

 lie, their tenants, and themfelves. It 

 may be prudent to reftridt tenants, in cer- 

 tain cafes, from the ufe of this practice ; 

 but to debar them from it, in ail cafes,. 

 would be equally impolitic, as to refl:ri(5t 

 them from the ufe of calcareous earths ; 

 or, as IS too often the cafe, to debar them 

 from the ufe of the plow, where the 

 application of it would be beneficial to 

 themfelves, to their tenants, and to the 

 community. Thir, is, in truth, laying up 

 their talents in napkins. 



In every case, in which a land-* 

 lord gives up special advantages 

 to a tenant, he ought to be paid 

 down a reasonable consideration 

 for such advantages ', or the te-» 

 nant should bind himself to pay, 

 during a suitable term, an equj^ 

 valent rent. 



