PREFACE, Xx1it the use of his terms through a long train of rea- soning, while the whole of his conclusions may be vitiated by an unperceived transition from one meaning to another in the original adjust- ment of his premises, or in the first steps of his argument. Besides Mr. Ricardo, the only writerson whom there are any strictures worthy of notice in the following work, are Mr. Malthus, Mr. Mill, and the author of the Templars’ Dialogues on Political Economy, published in the London Magazine; of whom the two latter may be considered as having adopted the doctrines of Mr. Ricardo with little variation. Mr. Malthus and Mr. Mill are too well known to the students of political economy, to render it necessary to say any thing in this Place as to their general merits, and it can ex- cite no surprise that the writings of either should be subjects of examination in a treatise