riz 
that which is committed to their care, 
what are they in the eye of &riét and 
impartial mete: ? 
The right of the Church to the objeét 
in queftion, is to the full as ancient, and 
imprefcriptible too, as the oldett land- 
owner in this kingdom. “This right, is 
not, indeed; jure divine, neither is the 
Mofaic or Melechifedechian order a ne- 
ceflary us of government in Chriftian. 
countries; but the clergy have ancther 
and a aon more folid ground of fupport 
to their claim, and that is in the national 
Jaw ; I do not_mean any particular acts 
of parliament, but in the very primary 
principles of the Englith law, and which 
fecure to him who has a proprietorfhip 
in land, from-time immemorial, an in- 
violate pofteffion. It may be deemed 
* very prefumptuous to fay, but it is never- 
thelefs true, that the parliament has no 
authority to compel men to feil their 
property, and efpecially that of which 
the holders are only tenants for life. 
This plan appears clearly te have the 
tendency, I will not fay the defen, of 
reducing the clergy to a Capricious and 
dependent mode of fubfitence. Ther 
muft, necefiarily, upon its adoption, be 
a public fund, out of which the minifters 
are to be ae Who are to have charge 
of this fund ?>—Laymen, no doubt. What 3 
will be the confequence, but the erecting 
anew infitution, which will require a 
very liberal fupport, fo that a confider- 
able part of the property of the church 
will go to pay treafurer , fecretaries, and 
a numerous ef cetera of oficers? Then 
a divine will have to dance attendance 
upon thefe men in power, who will lock 
for perquifites and fees, without which, 
his falary will not be very regularly 
paid. 
I confefs, the mere fuppofition of 
bumbling the ecclefiaftical body to fucha 
forry Eoneene makes me lock on the 
plan with difguft, although no one is 
more fenfible of the neceflity of a reform 
in this cafe, than, Your’s, &e. 
F26..6, 1797s Te AW. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
a following comparifon between 
great and finsl ! farms is the refult of 
a aifCatfion on the fubject, in a conver- 
fation among real farmers, and is at the 
fervice of your ] Magazine, if you think 
it worthy of infertion : 
A parifh divided into large farms will 
require fewer horfes to till it, by one 
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Argumints relative to Large and Small Farms. 
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FFebs 
third, than the fame parifh ‘divided into” 
{mall farms.—A horfe confumes as much 
as would comfortabiy fupport three hu- 
man Creatures. 
‘Two-thirds of the labourers will ga- 
ther ina harveft of a parifh if in large 
farms, of thofe whom it would requiré 
to get in the harveft of the fame parith, 
if divided into fmiall farms. 
load it, then back into the fieldto load 
it, which muft be the cafe’ on- {malt 
farms, is great wafte Of time, or unpro-= 
ductive labour, and at a feafon when la- 
bour is doubly valuable. At other fea- 
fons of the year, too, wafte of time ona 
{mall farm is nécefiarily very great; one 
man will fow for all the ploughs ona 
large farm; and on a {mall one, a man 
will do nothing befides, fuppofing there 
are only two. The fame cale applies to 
the fhepherd, for there requires one to 
attend the flock, if any is kept, on the 
fmall farm (be the fheep ever fo fewy 
where any part of the farm 18 common 
field (except where the cuftom of the 
parifh is to keep feveral fmall parcels to- 
gether, called. town-flocks, a practice. 
almoft every farmer complains of, who 
is concerned in them); and on a large 
farm, one man is fufficient.- Yet the 
parifh laid into large farms, employs 
nearly as many lchaane as if it was di- 
vided into {mall ones. The large farmer 
hoes his corn, and performs feveral other 
Operations in ‘hufbandry, little praétifed 
by {mall farmers. 
Sheep are moftly bred, reared, and 
atted by the large farmer; I refer to 
thofe reared on farms chiefly arable. To 
him we are indebted for moft of our 
mutton, and ovr wool; and the utility 
of this ‘att article, in a naticnal view, 
almoft exceeds calculation. The expence 
of the fhepherd, if the farm #%s common 
field, and the want of room if enclofed, 
prevents the {mail farmer from profiting 
by fheep. 
It is atledged againft large farms, that 
they do not breed the poultry and e288; 
nor make the butter, which fmall farms 
do: which.may be a faé&. But before 
it is proved that {mali farms are advan- 
tageous to the community from this cir= 
cumftance, it mutt be proved, that breed- 
ing of poultry and eggs, and meking of _ 
butter, is fo. If all the produce of the 
lands. throughout the kingdom were con= 
verted into “poultry, or were confumed. 
at the fame wafte, as that is which’ As. 
eaten in turkies, fowls, geefe, &c.» ite 
Men walk- 
ing with the cart from the field to-une - 
ee 
would not fupport half the inhabitants a 
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