The following tract contains the substance of some notes on
rent, which, with others on different subjects relating to
political economy, I have collected in the course of my
professional duties at the East India College. It has been my
intention, at some time or other, to put them in a form for
publication; and the very near connection of the subject of the
present inquiry, with the topics immediately under discussion,
has induced me to hasten its appearance at the present moment. It
is the duty of those who have any means of contributing to the
public stock of knowledge, not only to do so, but to do it at the
time when it is most likely to be useful. If the nature of the
disquisition should appear to the reader hardly to suit the form
of a pamphlet, my apology must be, that it was not originally
intended for so ephemeral a shape.






RENT, &c.