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confequently the exifting taxes, the moft 
productive of which are thoie on. articles 
which are the principal objects of this ex- 
penditure, muit fall fhort of their prefent 
amount. Indeed, in the preient ftate of 
things, it feems hardly poflible to devite 
a tax of confiderable amount which would 
not materially affect fome of thofe already 
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The principal motives that have in- 
duced fo many perfons of re{pectability 
to. evade either wholly or partially, the 
late increafed rate of the affefied taxes, 
have been either a difapprobation of the 
caufe for which the money is raifed, or a 
conviétion of the abfolute neceflity of 
endeavouring to reftrain the increafing 
amount of their taxes within the limits of 
fuch a portion of their income as will not 
compel them to relinquifh the comforts to 
which they have been accuftomed; andwith 
refpeé to the tax juit mentioned, I believe 
the latter motive has been by tar the molt 
general. If then fuch perfons, and in 
general, all who live nearly to the extent 
of their income, are compelled to give up 
a tenth part of it for the ufe of govern- 
ment, they have no other choice, but to 
find fome method of diminifhing the tax¢s 
they before paid, or to fubmit to the hu- 
miliation of placing theméelves a degree 
lower in the {cale of fociety. 
Whether a upon inceme is, or is 
not, under our prefent circumitances, 
likely to be productive to the apount 
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tax 
eftimated, nothing can be more obvious _ 
than the partiality of taking the fame 
proportion from different amounts of in- - 
come. Atenth of the income cf a man 
who has a family to fupport with 200]. a 
year, muft deprive him, if not of fome of 
the aétual neceffaries of life, at leaft of 
thofe things which cuftom and opinion 
have rendered almof as important to him; 
while a tenth taken from aman poffefiing 
10,000l* per annuns, cannot poflibly m- 
trench in the leatt degree upon the necef- 
faries of ‘life, nor probably upon. any _of- 
his enjoyments, except the gratifications 
of avarice or vanity. It feems, indeed, 
that the poor contribute to the very ut- 
moit extent of their ability in the taxes on 
articles of coniumiption ; and the prefent 
meafure will, in general, bring the middle 
clafs to the fame point: there will then 
remain no other mode of ‘increafing the 
imternal revenue than by compelling the 
rich to contribute their juft.propoition, 
by a rate increafing with the amount of 
their income. The reafons why the latter 
have been hitherto favoured, and which 
ha-¢ thus prevented the adoption of an 
Culture of Colewort....The three Witneffes. 
equitable fyftem of taxation, are too no-. 
torious to need mention. 
Dec. $, 1798. 1isk&: 
oa 
To the Editor of the Monihly Magazine. 
SER y : 
LLOW me to avail myfelf of your 
Magazine, to folicit fome informa- 
tion relative to the culture of the CoLe- 
WORT, as Lam led to believe it may (as 
well as the colejeed) be found very bene- 
ficial on wet dirty land, where it is not 
poffible to cultivate the turnip to any ad- 
vantage. I fhould be glad to know where 
to procure the feed—the beft time for — 
fowing-—-its management when up—and 
the proper time of ufing it. 
tioned in the ‘* Mid Lothian Report,” as 
requiring ‘*but little manure, and lefs 
attention than cabbages ; not fo lable to 
be hart by froft; and cattle are very fond 
of them.’ By cattle, is it meant only 
great ftock, or either /heep or cattle? I 
fhall be glad alfo to have the fame queries 
anfwered re{peéting rape, alfo noticed 
(indeed very highly fpoken of) in the- 
fame report. 
Your correfpondent, I. E. page 259, 
in the Magazine for Oftober, notices the 
creat effect of fea-weed-laid on ground 
immediately after mowing, im a crude * 
fate. Ihave noticed at Yarmouth, im- 
mediately after a violent eaft wind, that a 
fimilar «ffect has been produced by the fand 
drifted up from the fea fhore on the grails. 
I am, Sir, your cbedient fervant, 
Bedford, Nov. 1798. G. A. 
ee 
To the Editor af the Monthly Magazine. 
sIRGi Cy. 
am informed, that a public preacher 
before the univerfity of Cambridge, 
lately afferted that the celebrated paffage 
relative to the three witneffes had been re- 
cently demonfirated to be genuine. If 
this affertion proceeded neither from folly, - 
impudence, nor ignorance, fer the fake of 
truth, I cail upon him to fhew where the 
boafted demonftration may be found. 
That this verfe was a miferable forgery, 
it is underftood the great Bentley fatis-_ 
ractorily evinced, in his clerum delivered 
from the fame pulpit, on taking his doc- 
tor’s degree. What Porfon, Papelbaum, 
and Marfh have written on this fubject, 
fhould confign it for ever to its own place; 
and what Bifhop Lowth thought of any 
one who fhould fet himfelf to defend it, 
before either of the laft three had written, 
the annexed citation will fhew: . a 
It is men-. 
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