Dissertation, scct. VII

l'i. Dissertation, svi[. VIII.

lô. Dissertation^ sect. IX.

16. Thoui/hts and Détails on Scarcily. ov'igimdly presented to liic righl lion. William Fitt, 1795 i Works, vol. VII, pp. 325 sqq).

17. Leilers, addressed to a memher of the présent Partiament, on Ihe proposais for peace with the régicide direetory o/ France, 1796. Irtler III, on Ihe lUiplure of Négociations ; the Terms of Peace proposed ; and the Resources of the Country Ibr the Continuancc of the W'ar. iWorks, vol. VIII, pp. 195 sqq.}

lS.Vol.\'Il, p. 334:What is doiiig, siipjjoses or prétends that the farmeiand tlie lalwurer bave opposite interesls ; — tlnil the farnier oppresses the labourer; and that a gentleman called a justice of peace, is the protector of the latter, and a controul and restraint on the former... Butin the case of the fariner and the labourer, the interests are always the same, and it is absolutely impossible that their free conlracts can be onerous to

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either party. It is tlie interest of tlie farnier, tliat liis work slioiild bu done witli effect and celerity ; and lliat cannot be, unless the labourer is well fed. — pp. 336-337: It is, therefore, the first and fundamen.tal interest of tlie labourer, that the farmer should hâve a full incoining profit on the product of his labour. The projiosition is sclf-evidcnt, and notliing but the malignitv, perverseness, and ill governed passions of mankind, and particularly the envy they bear to ea< li others prosperity, could prevont tlieir secing and acknowledging it, with thankfulness to the benign and Avise Disposer of ail things, who obliges men, whether they willor not, in pursuing their own sellîsh interests, lo connect the gênerai good witli their own individual sueeess.

21. Burke écrit coninae Godwin avait fait : <• The rich are the pensioners of the [loor, and are maintained by their superfluity. They are under an absolut(', iiereditary, and indefeasible dependence on those who labour » ; mais c'est pour ajouter aussitôt : « and are miscalled the poor v, et il continue : « The labouring people are only poor, because they are nunierous. Xumbers in their nature iniply poverty. In a fair distribution aniong a vast multitude, none canhave much. Thatelassof dépendent pensioners called the rich, is so extremely small, that if ail their throats were eut, and a distribution made of ail they consume in a year, it would not give a bit of bread and chcese for one niglit's supper to those who labour, and who in reality feed both the pensioners and tliemselves. » Thoughtx und Détails, vol. VII, p. 328.

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