Pièce 40 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

RJ received WW's papers - 'I assure you this proof of your zealous kindness did me a great deal more good than Mac's [J. R. McCulloch, 'Review of An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation By the Rev. Richard Jones', Edinburgh Review, 1831] dose has done me harm'. RJ has been 'looking back at Cato a train of reasoning recurred to me which I had forgotten but which led me long ago to reject the received opinion of the commentators that the Politor [or Polita] was an occupying tenant and a metayer - and I convinced myself that he was a laborer hired to do the harvest work and paid in produce'.