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not abolisfied 999years ago.<-Arrestabliched ministry mußt be fed." But is there no other way of feeding them than by their taking a tentli part of the produce of the earth? As the care of religion is placed in their bands, it behoves them to do every thing in their power to promote it. When a clergymau first comes into PosSe5510N of a living, his first object ought to be, to live upon peaceable terms with his Parishioners. Butwhilst the right of taking tythes in Kind, or com- pounding for the same from year to year, exists, it 15 impossible---ths farmer must always'be liable to be raised-=-he can never be at any cer- tainty. Hence arise disputes; the parson and farmers always live in open warfare---the latter never attend divine worship in cone quence, and thusgeligion, falls into contempt. Nor have ide lay im« propriators Seldom any Share in it. The landlord would probabiy add to rent a Sum equivalent to the tythe, but the tenant world hire it for aterm of years, and it would then become as. part of his rent; and; however great his crop, owing to a more expensive mode of agricul- ture, he wonld be exon&tated from tbe fuctnating claims of the parson, and no longer Subject to a tythe upon his Auctuating expences.

I am now in posSession of 400 acres of pasture, and, however unwisely I may act in the eyes of the cdlergy, in not converting the Same into arable land, I must remain,

Febr t, 1805. A GRAZIER..

To the Same. StR,

I was much pleased with the lively parody of your facetiotis Corres2 pondent, the Honect Män, as well as with the Sensible and temperate (on tlie Same Side) from your Sf/olk Y'icar. If you are not tired of the Subject, I Should be glad, through the medium of your very can- did publication; to Say a word or two farther üpon itz; in the Krst place, if tithes are Such a check upon agriculture as the farmer would have us believe, how happens it, I would ask bim, that Such extensive lays have, of late years, been conyerted to tillage? That Such im- meuze quantities of timber, which pays no fithe at ull, Should have fallen to Ihe axe, 10 make room for corn which pays a tithe 50 griev- ously complained of? that the farmers of modern times have arrived at Süch unprecedented opulence, that they have been able to purchase Such-considerable estates; and that the price and rent of land, has of late years, 50 exorbitantly inereased? As for the wish, the farmer expres5es““ That all tithes Were taken in kind," for which, with more malice than judgment, he assigns as a rea50n, his conviction,“ that that they would not last aryear," bow then, I would ask, Supposing him to be right, are we to account for land which 15 tithe Free, not being in a higher, generally in a lower State of cultivation, than Jand of the ame quality, contiguous to It, Subject to tithes 3; which, if he is a farmer of any observation, he must know to be the fact.

In the next place, whereas the farmer expresses his chagrin, that tbe minister does not lay violent hands on the tithes; I much wonder he does not 5ce what a dangerous precedent he votes against himself. Property is property, by Whomsoever posses5ed; and whenever the day arrives that a parish minister, or tyrannical government, dares touch a zahilliug of the ecclesiastical revenue; from that moment all