remote Parts of England, Wales, and Scotland? What is this Difference in the Rent owing to, but the fuperior Number of Inhabitants? And that these diftant Lands pay any Rent at all, is it not owing to the carrying the Produce of them to distant populous Places?

II. If the City of Bristol could be removed forty Miles off, would not all the Estates now around it fink in Value?

III. IF a Peftilence was to fweep away 100,000 People in the North or Weft of England, and none from other Parts permitted to come in to fupply this Lofs, would not the Rents of Lands immediately fall in those Counties? On the contrary, if 100,000 Foreigners, of various Employments, were to be naturalized, and increafe the Confumptions of the Produce of the neighbouring Lands, would there not be a proportionable Rife in its Value?

IV. How can Tenants pay their Rents, if they cannot find a Market? And what is a Market, but a Collection of Inhabitants?

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SECTION X.

The Improvements of Lands depend upon the Increafe of People.

1.

W

moft?

HETHER the Lands of Great Britain are improved to the ut-And what is the Reason that one Acre of Land near a large Town, fhall produce ten times the Crop that an Acre of unimproved Land (though in itself of equal Goodnefs) generally yields in a diftant Country. Place? If the Soil of the Town is the Caufe of this Fertility, what occafions fuch a Quantity of Soil or Compoft? Is it not the Number of Inhabitants?

II. ARE there not Millions of Acres in private Hands (befides Commons, Marshes, Fens, Heaths, and Forefts) which might produce ten Times the Quantity of Herbage or Provifions they now do, were they properly cultivated, and a Demand for the Produce?

III. WHAT Encouragement hath a Gentleman to cultivate and improve his Lands, if his Gains thereby are not Expence he may be at? can his Gains arife in an

at least equal to the And from whence inland County, but

from

from an Increase of Inhabitants to confume the Increase of Produce?

IV. Is the present Complaint a just one, That Country People are too fond of breeding up their Children to eafy handicraft Trades, rather than to the laborious Bufinefs of Hufbandry? And will the keeping out of Foreigners mend that Matter?

V. Ir the Country is the great Source of Recruits for Trades and Services, whether thofe Foreigners, who now come over as Journeymen and Footmen, do not eventually prevent the taking great Numbers from the Plough? -Suppose these Foreigners were all expelled, would not their Places be filled up, for the most Part, with Perfons who muft otherwife have been bred up to Country Business?

VI. ARE there no Improvements yet to be learned from other Nations in point of Agriculture? And are we fure that Foreigners, from whom we have received fo many ufeful Discoveries in fowing of Graffes, in Gardening, and other Parts of Hufbandry, can teach us nothing more?

VII. WAS a Country thinly inhabited ever well cultivated? Which Parts of England are the best improved? Thofe which have the

feweft,

feweft, or those which have the greatest Number of Inhabitants?

VIII. Is it Policy and good Prudence to leave so many vaft Wilds and Commons near the Metropolis of a Kingdom? What are they now but a Rendezvous for Highway-Men, a Scene for the Commiffion of Robberies, and a Means of efcaping? Could all this have been, if thefe Places were well cultivated, and properly enclofed, and better inhabited?

SECTION XI.

The Landed and the Commercial Interefts of the Kingdom center in the fame Point.

1.

WHA

HAT is the true Landed Interest? Can any Scheme advantageous. to our National Commerce be repugnant to the Interest of the Land-holders?

II. IF Commerce is depreffed, if our Rivals get our Trade, if Houses are forfaken, Merchants remove, and Manufacturers forced to Ay away, what then becomes of Farms and Dairies? How will the Tenant pay his Rent? How will the Landed Gentleman be able to support his Rank and Station, and allow for Taxes and Repairs? E

III. IF

III. IF Commerce be encouraged, and Merchants and Manufacturers grow more numerous, if all Fetters and Shackles upon Trade are taken off, if there be a brifker Circulation, and a furer Market, where will these Advantages terminate but upon the Landed Intereft ?

IV. WHEN Landed Gentlemen are perfwaded to exclude Foreigners, and to lay Restraints upon Trade, do they not act against their own Intereft? And are they not the Dupes of those monopolizing Tradefmen, who have fet up a low, perfonal Intereft of their own in Oppofition to that of the Publick?

SECTION XII.

The Cafe of Foreigners who have Money in the Publick Funds, and of rich Merchants and Tradefmen in fome foreign Countries.

I. F Labour be the Riches of a Country, what Sort of Inhabitants create moft Labour?-Those that can afford to purchase a few of the Conveniencies and Ornaments of Life? Or those who are able to pay for a great many? If the latter, whether it is not the Intereft of the Nation to INVITE all the Foreigners, who have Money in our publick Funds, to come over, and fpend it among Us?

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