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provement ; and that caufes the languor 111 

 agriculture, wherever it is found. The total 

 of products had much better pay twelve mil- 

 lion^ to the government by taxes on con- 

 fumption, than five to the clergy in tythes. 

 — This tax is the taille of England. 



The article draught cattle amounts to near 

 eight millions ; that is, it is equal to the 

 aggregate of Eng/ifo taxes. This being an 

 abiblute barren expence is, no companion, 

 more burthenfome than the taxes which are 

 a productive expence. The reader will ex- 

 cufe my fuppoling all taxes paid by the foil 

 alone. 



But the burthen of taxes, fay others, does 

 not lie upon our trade and manufactures only 

 to their own amount. The evil extends to 

 the advances made by every hand that pays 

 a tax, until the accumulated weight of all 

 falls upon the confumer. But what then ? 

 This addition to taxes is not the annihila- 

 tion of fo much income ; it is rather a crea- 

 tion of new : It takes money out of the 

 pockets of coniumers. But what is done 

 with it ? Why, it is put into the purfes of 

 the induftrious, who will create frefh in- 

 come with it. Where is the harm of this? 

 Too much cannot flow into thofe coffers 

 that are emptied for the advancement and 

 increafe of induftry. 



I have 



