LAISSEZ FAIRE 
on is impossible,” said Sir J. Sinclair, “to suppose that the 
Poor should be injured by that circumstance, which secures 
bo them a good market for their labour (in which the real 
in the belizf riches of a Cottager consists) which will furnish them with 
hat the 1 the means of constant employment, and by which the Farmer 
vopulation wil] be enabled to pay them better wages than before. Ifa 
encfited, general Bill for the improvement of Waste Lands were to be 
passed, every possible attention to the rights of the Commoners 
would necessarily be paid; and as inclosures, it is to be 
noped, will, in future, be conducted on less expensive principles 
than heretofore, the Poor evidently stand a better chance 
than ever of having their full share, undiminished. Some 
regulations also must be inserted in the Bill, to secure the 
accommodations they may have occasion for, by inlarging, 
where circumstances will admit it, the gardens annexed to 
their respective cottages, giving them a decided preference 
with respect to locality over the larger rights; throwing the 
burden of ring fences upon the larger Commoners, and 
allotting, where it is necessary, a certain portion of the 
Common for the special purpose of providing them with fuel; 
and thus the smallest proprietor will in one respect be 
obviously benefited, for any portion of ground, however incon- 
siderable, planted with furze or quick growing wood, and 
dedicated to that purpose solely, would, under proper regula- 
sons, be as productive of fuel, as ten times the space where 
no order or regularity is observed. If by such means the 
interests of the Cottagers are properly attended to, if their 
rights are preserved, or an ample compensation given for 
them ; if their situation is in every respect to be ameliorated, 
it is hoped that the legislature will judge it proper and 
expedient, to take such measures as may be the best calculated 
for bringing into culture so large a portion of its territory, 
though it may not accord with the prejudices of any particular 
description of persons, whose objections evidently originate 
from the apprehension, rather than the certainty of injury, 
and who will consider it as the greatest favour that can be 
conferred upon them, when the measure is thoroughly under- 
stood L” 
lL Reports. Ix. p. 204