They fall indifferently upon every species of revenue, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, and the rent of land; but it is not true, that taxes upon necessaries so far as they affect the labouring poor are finally paid partly by landlords in the diminished rent of their lands, and partly by rich consumers, whether landlords or others, in the advanced price of manufactured goods; for so far as these taxes affect the labouring poor they will be almost wholly paid by the diminished profits of stock, a small part only being paid by the labourers themselves in the diminished demand for labour, which taxation of every kind has a tendency to produce.