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of . ? e £ t | £€ k WfMd be foliovye 4 by a r ^ pi < J diflURUtlflU of ; 3 g * fK * 3 ffl c ^ Ls e ^ . for 43 i w t |^ ting tie turbulent ^ 4 wre tc ^ ^ jftffBm ^ the l > n £ li $ h pe $$ a& £ ry , just pre ^ pus to the j ^^^ < Wjffl ^ i of Elizabeth , with that whicli followed tl ^ op ^ mqdn >/ ^^ fi |^ The importance of securing the opinion pf the iati ^ lqiw ^ f t favour p , f a poor law , Is duly estimated by Mr Revaqs . I ^ e take * much pains to show them—and we think does so 8 ucce 8 sftiUv * TT f
that they would not only not lose b y such a law , but greatly , gjuij thereby ; and he remarks justly , that the portion of the real which is only nominal , which is never received , and neverdJto be paid , answers but one purpose , —the destruction ( of atf norte * and energy in the tenant . Hence , lie is always hopelessly in defrk and therefore the application of further labour u ^ ulo *
so far . us . he is concerned , be profitless . , " The rent which the peasantry will bid , after the e ^ tabljahn ^ s ^ of houses of refuge , will be regulated by the probability of iU Uavinr to themselves and their families a subsistence as good , or ne 8 fty . a good , as the public provision . If the public provision be bi ) ry ^| UW to that which they have hitherto been allowed to retain out bf ttl € produce of their farms , then they will bid a rent aboul ttqtial' ttfttf ^ amount which they have in most vears paid ; making the ftilt ' ¬tMMft
for th « absertee of capital and skill on tbe part of the Irish p £ * ifttiffy } they would easily meet their payments , were they fixed at the awrt + tlt annually paid by them on an average of the last five year ** - ¦¦ - ••' " Though the check given to the competition for Uud by ^ p ^ Uid provision for the destitute , will not diminish in the slightest degiWfke paymtiHts hitherto made by the peasantry , it will cause their , C ^ U tf * payments to be greatly increased . The superior interest . which tfl ey
will feel in the production , when they feel that all beyond * , f ^ ii . tjun will rejmain to them , will quickly lead them to ascertain tow their crops may b $ increased , and will stimulate them to personal e ^ etUotl in aid of their increased knowledge . The hardy manner In V ? &ft they have been reared will enable them , out of comparatiVely ^ Htoidl means , to accumulate , and thus gradually to obtain imprOf ^ tfittK ? t , and implements of agriculture , in aid of a further increase hi fffbditelion . These expectations are not chimerical ; they have beeto fntlMtiti in those oases in which , by lowering the nominal rent , hope hfcs iNMii
increased in the peasantry , even when leases have not been gfM £ M , provided the peasantry have felt able to depend upon U * 3 popd JflUh of their land lords * With every increase of capital aad skill * . and . tl ) frir attendant increase of production , the landlord wiU not . n ^ fre ] jyMre an inoreaaed . ftocurity for the rent which liis tenant ha ^ co ^ M ^ acte 4 to pavy but -afairer pro a pec t that tbose renU which are n ^ w byt ^ fyi ^ H ^ l will ^ oe da ¥ ^ be realized . His tenantry will ilten M , 4 Lhp § l ^ ffAt * comparatively light which they now deem , and whicj ^ }^ WtJ M ^"^ yond thei * power t ^ pay , and from which they shrink , in , a ^ # ^ nr- ^ The fttodte " -of t * Hef for Iceland , jtnrt ; now ptopo ^ # Wifcqpe wtp have thejiowfer pf effecting ^ hut theV d « OT 6 , ' lippvm l * « ke emigr ^ tioB- Mr Revaw et » to , " ( bat durmg tho ]* & * & $ * $ <*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/55/
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