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a profitable trade -, every day fhews them 

 fome improvement that would repay the 

 expence with good intereft, befides that 

 univerfal, though unfeen one, of a general 

 improved culture, from money being al- 

 ways in the cultivator's pocket. 



But expences admit of another view : 

 The coniumption of Britijh manufactures 

 is the confumption of national induflry, 

 and much more beneficial than confuming 

 the induftry of, that is, maintaining indu- 

 ftrious Frenchmen and Italians. Make an 

 addition to a landlord's income, and it will 

 be fpent in an enlargement of his former 

 expences ; he will drink fo much more 

 Burgundy and Claret, and import the more 

 filk, velvet, and fpices. The farmer's pa- 

 rallel expences are very different ; they 

 fcarcely, in any inftance, rife above the 

 manufactures and products of his own 

 country : and where he does exceed, as in 

 tea and fugar, &c. the excefs bears no 

 proportion to the clafs of landlords. 



But if thefe particulars were not, in the 

 detail, fufficient to prove the fuperiority, 

 yet the fingle point of the one clafs being 

 idle, and the other induflrious, mould be 

 alone decilive. An addition of income had 

 certainly better be thrown into the latter 

 than the former. And thus much in an- 



fwer 



