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Suppofe that flock yields a profit to the 

 owners of ^percent, their annual income 

 then amounts to£. 19,080,000. 

 At i\ per cent, it comes to^. 22,260,000* 

 At ^per cent, it amounts to £. 25,440,000. 

 It certainly muft be a matter of vaft con- 

 fequence to keep the property of the king- 

 dom on the increafe ; which I take to be 

 the fureft mark of a flourifhing people : 

 Now it is vilible, from this table, that agri- 

 culture forms one of the grand pillars of the 

 riches of the ftate 3 improvements in it in- 

 creafe property, and confequently income, 

 and ought therefore to receive from politi- 

 cians, and the Great, all poffible encou- 

 ragement. The rife of rent of 1 s. per acre 

 increafes the rental of the lands of England 

 £. 1,600,000 a year. Nor mould it be 

 confidered as a transfer of income from the 

 farmer to the landlord, but as a creation of 

 frefli income. There is fcarcely a track of 

 country in the kingdom in which a rife of 

 rent to a certain pitch, (which, by the way, 

 is much higher than generally believed,) is 

 not attended with a correfponding increafe of 

 product, but much beyond the proportion. 

 Inftances are every where innumerable of 

 farms low rented that have been occupied 

 by none but flovenly, poor, and ruined te- 

 nants ; whereas the fame farms doubled, or 

 trebled in the rent, become the fortunes of 

 Z 4 fucceed- 



