It is let out altogether; the principal tenants divide it into small lots, and sublet these to the peasants.

The fate of the latter depends entirely upon the disposition of the principal tenant.

He determines the amount of rent, and frequently demands the money at a time when the crops are not harvested, and the peasant cannot pay; the poor people are then obliged to sell the unripe crops for half their worth, and their landlord generally contrives to buy it himself in the name of another person.

The unfortunate peasant frequently has scarcely a sufficiency left to keep life in himself and his family.
Laws and judges there certainly are in the country, and, as everywhere else, the laws are good and the magistrates just; but it is another question whether the poor ever receive justice.

The districts are so extensive, that the peasant cannot undertake a journey of seventy or eighty miles; and even when he lives near, he cannot always reach the presence of the magistrate.