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any change takes place in the mode of pay- ' 
ing the clergy for their spiritual labours, we 
must give them an equivalent, and wlien that 
is properly estimated and allowed, the landed 
interciit will not gain any thing by th.e change. 
It' you give them less than an equivalent the, 
cliange will be uni list, tlieir titles beina: as sood 
as any other to landed property. Any inno- 
vation, therefore, wliich shakes the one, will 
not fail soon afterwards to destroy the other. 
^ Landed property has descended, and has 
been bought and sold tor a vast series oi years, . 
subject to that outgoing. In the hands of 
the laiety, tythes in kind are paid without 
gi ambling ; but whenever a parson takes 
the lull measure to which he is entitled, 
both the land-owner and the farmer conspire 
against him. The reason appears to us to be, 
that the clergy rarely get their dues; and, 
therefore, whenever any one looks sharp 
after his interest, his condudl excites clamour 
and ill- blood. 
kite dishonourable mode of disposing of 
livings under simoniacal contracls, or under- 
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