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property is inzecure. But the farmer talks as if tithes were the pro- perty of. the public. Let bim be told, that the clergy are beholden to 10 6nFfor them, that they have the ame title to their tithes as the landlord to bis estate; that theirs is as much private property, as the other, and that neither of them can be disturbed, but in the event of arevolution, which would be the ruin of both; if the farmer Supposes a case where the united laity are to compel the clergy to Surrender their property, he certainly is at liberty, if he please; but he must Sce that this is a case of robbery, for which on a Smaller Scale, a man would be hanged. In Short the tithes do not belong to the pub- lic, nor do the public pay them; They were a'free and voluntary donation which the piety of our ancestors alienated tor the purpose of religion. The landlord purchases, and the farmer hires, Subject to Such a rent charge, It either öf them Seek afterwards, to appro- priate that, for which eäch has been thus allowed, in the terms of his agreement, What are we to think of his

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