,o» I N C L O S U R E S. 5. 



tercfl fliould be of one mind. Therefore, 

 without /ow^ exertion of legal authority, un- 

 ftinted commons in general muft continue 

 to lie open. 



But it does not follow that, becaufe fome 

 is nccefiary, much fliould be ufed. It may 

 be received as a found pofition, that in cafes 

 Vvfhere an Inclofure would be highly beneficial 

 to a townlhip at large, a great majority of 

 the individuals concerned would forward a 

 meafure evidently calculated to promote 

 their own intereft ; provided they could ob- 

 tain it by fome certain and known means. It 

 is the idea of giving up a certainty for an //;;. 

 certainty, of entering the lift of contending 

 interefts, and of being outwitted or over- 

 powered by their neighbours, which deter 

 men, whofe fortunes are not defperate, and 

 vi'hole difpofitions are peaceable, from enga- 

 ging in contejis about Inclofures. 



At prefent, a notice of a petition to Parlia- 

 ment, for the appropriation of unftinted 

 commons, implies the watchword havoc k : 

 — he is the beft fellow who gets the moft 

 plunder. And, until fom.e general law 

 OF IN CLOSURE, be eftab ilhed, ihh uncivilized 



mode 



