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though bowed down under grievous burdens and evil laws, they had a shelter and acres from which they could not be evicted. The saddest defect in English life was the absence of a class of small freeholders, the class which constituted the Chap. IV.} 1778. May. strength of France, of the most enlightened parts of Germany, and of the states which Great Britain had formed by colonization. In England and Scotland and Ireland, though the property by feudal law was strictly in the tenant, Hallam's Middle Ages, i. 316, ed. 1872. the feudal chiefs had taken to themselves in absolute ownership nearly all the ground; the landless people, dependent in the rural districts on their lords, were never certain of their to-morrow; and the government was controlled by an aristocracy which had no political check but in the crown. On the fourth of May the treaties of commerce 4. and alliance with Louis the Sixteenth were unanimously ratified by congress, with grateful acknowledgments of his m