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'g^j^yLETTER OF ADVICETO THEFARMERS, LAND-LABOURERS, ANDCOUNTRY TRADESMENIN SCOTLAND,Concerning Roups of growing Corn, and fif Tach.My dear Friends and Countrymen,T MAK£ no doubt butyou have a painful feeling ofthe difcouragements you lie under, and the Rraiten-^ng circumllances to which you are reduced. Withrefpefl to many of you, your diflrefs is vifible in yourfaces, your habits, and your dwellings : Many fromamong you have, by the hardfiiips they fufFered, beendriven in ihoals to foreign lands ; and many of youwho hitherto remain in this poor country, are piningaway your days in fore labour, indigence, and mifiry.Your mifery is occafioned partly by your ov/n fol*ly, and partly by the rapacioufnefs of the landed gentlemen.Thefe gentlemen arefubtle, and wife in their generation ;many of them experienced,many of you arethoughtlefs, imprudent, and, though frequently -dverreachcdjnot aware of the artifices they employ to keepyou in poverty, or reduce you to it.Indeed, when I confider the traps that are artfullylaid for you, I think it no wonder though yod fallinto them : You are like young unwary people, whoventure to game with old, cunning, and experiencc'j^fliarpers.