Dissertation, sect. IX

16. Thoughts and Détails on Scarçily, originally presented to the right hon. William Pitt, 1795 (Works, vol. VII, pp. 325 sqq).

17. Letlers, addressed to a member of the présent Partiament, on the proposais for peace with the régicide directory of France, 1796, letter 111, on the Rupture of Négociations ; the Terms of Peace proposed ; and the Resources of the Country for the Continuance of the War. (Works, vol. VIII, pp. 195 sqq.)

18. Vol. Vil, p. 334: What is doing, supposes or prétends that the farmer and the labourer hâve opposite interests ; — that the farmer oppresses the labourer; and that a gentleman called a justice of peace, is the protector of the latter, and a controul and restreint on the former. . . But in the case of the farmer and the labourer, the interests are always the same, and it is absolutely impossible that their free contracts can be onerous to

either party. It is the interest of the farmer, that his work should be doae with effect and celerity ; and that cannot be, anless the labourer is well fed . — pp. 336-337 : It is, therefore, the firet and fondamental interest of the labourer, that the farmer should bave a full incoming proût on the product of his labour. The proposition is self-evident, and nothing but the malignity, perverseness, and ill governed passions of mankind, and particularly the envy they bear to each others prosperity, could prevent their seeing and acknowledging it, with thankfùlness to the benign and wise Disposer of ail things, who obliges men, whether they willor not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the gênerai good with their own individual success.

21. Burke écrit comme Godwin avait fait : « The rich are the pensioners of the poor, and are maintained by their superfluity. 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 numerous. Numbers in their nature imply poverty. In a fair distribution among a vast multitude, none canhave much. That classof 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 cheese for one night's supper to those who labour, and who in reality feed both the pensioners and themselves. » Thoughts and Détails, vol. VII, p. 328.

22. Thoughts and Détails, vol. VII, pp. 328-329; Letters on a régicide peace\ vol. VIII, pp. 299-300. — Cf. W. ofN. f vol. I, pp. 80, 82, 85.