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4| länd, have lulled the leaſeholders into à careleſs indólerce, an 8 avérſión' to enterprize, which havé been produttive'of much ill he| to themſelves and their conneétions; and, above‘all, to the puby D lic; much ill has accrued tothe leaſeholders from the power of n borrowing money upon’ this’ ideal ſpecies of property.— Theſe de obſervations hold good tothe cuſtom’ of half rez and half fie, N Upon ſuch: tenures the immediate landlord can have no induce=- * ment: to ádvance money for the amelioration of his éftate, and  but little intereſt and leſs power either to prevent! his! land

zd being exhauſted by wretched huſbandry, or to oblige his te- nants to keep upon their farms a due proportion of ſtock. Whoever will take the trouble of examining the eſtates of this

county held upon three lives, will find the arable worn out by n a perpetual ſucceſſion of exhauſting‘crops, and the graf little j more“ than a colledtion of ruſhes and beggary, the whole un-

Fl ditched, undrained, and unmanured. Landlords have at length ftr become ſenſible to their own intereſts, and are ſuffering their E leaſes to run out, which, though a wiſe policy, is deſtrudtive in de its immediate effeds: in fact, the country is at this time ſuf- rit fering extremely in conſequence.

Modern leaſes upon land in high condition are from ſeven to “9 ud eleven years;¡—upon improveable land fourteen to twenty-one: ing but= But landlords in this county will never adopt the ſyſtem of 26 granting long leaſes free from all reſtrictions, ſuch as are te- on luc

commended by the ſurveyors*for the Weſt Riding of York.— ittle t0e To recommend ſuch a ſ yſtem to a manufacturing county would of run- be- abſurd.

not be- The firſt purchaſerof leaſeholds’ is generally a ſenſible in- 1d, duſtrious man, who underſtands his buſineſs, and attends to it. es 15 be- His ſuccéſlors:- are: often both ignorant and idle, but their te- 13{NU nure is ſecure, and they cánnot be diſturbed in their poſſeſſions | naturally by any thing but their own folly; this often induces them fa how- eithèt to haraſs their eſtate themſelves, or let them of at rack cient lakes' rent to ſome poor devil, without any capital or means of pra=- ate of cule Curing one

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