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tage without more than ordinary labour? ‘Does not this 
neceflarily require an additional number of labourers? To 
all thefe queftions = anfwers muft certainly be in the 
affirmative. It t may e admitted, that the — of a 
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in canfequence of ‘its being inclofed ; yet - does abe follow 
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roper fize, it is equally ob- 
vious, that anew fet of people mult beintroduced ; rae as 
hedgers, ditchers, road-makers, and labourers of every fort. 
‘This may therefore be called an alteration in the defcription 
of the ieee a Shifting of population from one parifh 
to another, rat ion, or a decreafe of the 
den was the confequence of 
pecugs a pati it will Ns found that that depo pulatio does 
not ‘arHfe from the circumftance of the rarith be 
be at leaft equal, if not ace 
of the nha at roel period while it 
commen 0 n-field ita 
n be urged in — of the public, or of 
the ather individuals cancerned. But 
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commonage in thi were co 
land, vetted odcinally in the proprietors of the aja 
tillage lands ; and that ‘the new claimants of rights of com- 
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kingdom, and that the ce) r 
lands, arifiag from the caufe now affigned, ¢ negligence will 
not be denied. But they are rights ; and § urfed be he 
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the inclination of thofe who have thus cceatea rights that 
they fhould do fo; far lefs does it follow, that, whether 
thefe Cth have been acquired through legal indifputable 
vane s derived by the cottagers, in virtue of thefe rights, 
‘fer the moft part, merely ideal: -yet, if ever a divifion 
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of the aided ? England takes place, it will, for the 
reafons mentioned above, become 
of the fee ara acting in 
cottager, and to give him an adequate allowance of pro- 
perty land for his prefcriptive rights. mamiffioners fo 
acting ought to confider, that in a national » whether A, 
a ae re ge of co may be foon 
diffipa rights of pafturage, or ran in property, 
are Fands more pean in their nat WwW 
nage, which i 
for the iappor rt of his family, are, as . were, fet a and 
it ‘is a thoufand to one if they again fettle on any friendly 
fhore. Itc » be too often repeated, that 
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family fo beneficial, as land in property. Another objedtion 
to inclofing parithes, or toa pe: of open fields, lands, 
or commons, is the expence of a necefa 
fary to carry either of thefe nen ae into effet ; and, when 
— to ma arrangement u he 
sen It j is oo mortifying to a proprietor that he 
can coy ee plan for improving his eftate, with- 
itigious people, whe 
the tomar tuna ae nation, Pay 
the official people diGate ; but let ee application 
for the pie olon of the lepiflative authority to fanétion 
meafures calculated to promote the profperity and im- 
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weight of ¢ ad of holy 
cious and intelligent muft be convinced, that 
‘merce of Britain keeps on in a progreflive rr te, there is no 
extent of fuperabundant produce that can be raifed in the 
ifland which leg not meet a ready fale in fome foreign 
market or ot 
the commons, and the incl 
outhes in this part of the ifland, although they are nume- 
rous, the moft important of them are only mentioned. It . 
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