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LETTER IV. 



TT has not been an uncommon pra6lice, 

 when a landlord has deteimmed to 

 raife his eflate, to give notice to all the 

 tenants at once, that on fuch a day their 

 rents will be augmented in a fpecified pro- 

 portion ; and that all who do not chufe to 

 agree to the proportion, muft then quit. 

 There are a thoufand objections to this 

 method — too many indeed to infert them 

 all at prefent, but I fliall touch upon a few 

 of the mod glaring. 



The bufmefs is done by halves, for with- 

 out real improvements being made, the 

 new tenants will certainly pay no more 

 than the value of the farms, in the flovenly 

 condition they find them : now any rife of 

 rent to that point only, is by no means the 

 objedl a landlord has in view, who adls 

 upon the principles which I have explained. 



Secondly, A gentleman ties his hands in 

 this method, before they have half done 

 his bufmefs. After turning out the old 

 tenants at a word, he may be afTured the 



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