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able to fupport the additions to them, which 

 future events may render neceffary. I am 

 very far from pretending to be a politi- 

 cian, but I think it may be of fome ufe to 

 examine if the rural part of political ceco- 

 nomy carries any appearance of fuch a de- 

 cay, and unhappy iituation. 



The whole amount of the taxes paid by 

 Great Britain (including Wales) amounts, 

 according to the lateft accounts, to ten mil- 

 lions ; and if the charge of collecting is 

 reckoned, at an average, at fix per cent, the 

 total will be about 10,600,000/. Suppofing 

 England pays of this 8,000,000/. this fum 

 is but thirteen per cent, upon the fifty four 

 millions, the income of landlords, tenants, 

 the clergy, and that part of the poor main- 

 tained by agriculture. 



I will not aiTert that income ought to be 

 taxed thirteen per cent, but I may venture 

 to conclude, that this kingdom, in pofTeffion 

 of fuch amazing branches of income, un- 

 connected with the prefent enquiry, cannot 

 be in any defperate fituation, while the 

 taxes exceed not thirteen per cent, of part of 

 the income of agriculture alone. 



The eighty three millions, the product of 

 the husbandry (except as before excepted) 

 we found to be expended as under : 

 Rent, - 16,000,000 



Tythe and rates - - 6,566,666 



Labour., 



