Dissertation, sect. IX

10. Thouyhts and Détails on Scarcity, originally presented to the right hon. William Pitt, 1795 (Works, vol. VII, pp. 325 stjq).

17. Letters, addressed to a mcmlw of the présent Partiament, on the proposais for peacc with the reyinde directory of France, 1796, letter III, on the Itiiptiuv of Négociations ; the Ternis of Peaee proposed ; and the ltcsouree* of the Couutry for the Continuanee of the War. (Works, vol. VIII, pp. 195 sqq.)

Itf. Vol. VII, p. 334: What is doing, supposes or prétends that the fariner and the labourer ha\c op|M»site iiiteresl* ; — that the fa rmer oppresses the labourer; ami that a gentleman ealled a justice of peace, is the protector of the laller, and a eoutroul and restraint on the former... Butin the case of the fariner and the labourer, the iuteivsts are alwavs the saine, and it is ab>olutel\ im|N)ssiblc that their free contracta can be onerous to

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either party. It is tho interest of the farmer, that lus work should be done with effect and céleri ty ; and that cannot be, unless thc labourer is well fed. — pp. 336-337 :It is, therefore, the first and fondamental interest ot the labourer, that the fariner should hâve a full incoming profit on the product of his labour. The pro]>osition is self-evident, and nolhing but ihe malignity, i>erverseness, and ill governed passions of inankind, and particularly the envy they bear to each others prosperity, could prevent their seeing and acknowledgiug it, with thankfulness to the benign and wise Disposer of ail things, who obliges men, whether they willor not, in pursuing their own sclfish interests, to connect the gênerai good with their own individual success.

21. Burke écrit comme (iodwin avait fait : « The rich are the pensioners of the |K>or, and are maintained by their superftuity. They are under an absolute, hereditary, and indefeasible dependence on those who labour « ; mais c'est pour ajouter aussitôt : « and are miscalled the poor », et il continue : « The labouring people are only poor, because they are numenms. Nuinbers in their nature imply poverty. In a fair distribution among a vast multitude, none canhavemuch. That classof dépendent pensioners called the rieh, is so extremely small, that if ail their tliroats were eut, and a distribution made of ail they consume in a year, it would not give a bit of bread and eheese for one night's supper to those who labour, and who in reality fecd both the pensioners and themselves. » Thottghts and Détails, vol. Vil, p. 328.

22. Thoughls and Détails, vol. VII, pp. 328-329; Letlers on a régicide peace; vol. VIII, pp. 299-300. — Cf. W. of N., vol. I, pp. 80, 82, 85.