this country, who create the crime, in order to have the gratification
of punishing it, and of wreaking a legal vengeance upon the unfortunate
being who has been guilty of it, in order that they may recommend
themselves as loyal men to the government of the day. If this be so, how
can the country be peaceable? If it be peaceable, such men can have
no opportunity of testing their loyalty, and if they do not test their
loyalty, they can have no claim upon the government, and having no claim
upon the government, they will get nothing from it. The day will come, I
hope, when the very existence of men like these, and of the system which
encouraged; them, will be looked upon with disgust and wonder--when the
government of our country will make no invidious distinctions of creed
or party, and will not base the administration of its principles upon
the encouragement of hatred between man and man.

"Hickman, the former agent, was the first to whom I presented Lord
Cumber's letter. He is a gentleman by birth, education, and property; a
man of a large and a liberal mind, well stored with information and has
the character of being highly, if not punctiliously honorable. His age
is about fifty-five, but owing to his regular and temperate habits of
life, and in this country temperance is a virtue indeed, he scarcely,
looks beyond forty. Indeed, I may observe by the way, that in this
blessed year of ----, the after-dinner indulgences of the Irish
squirearchy, who are the only class that remain in the country, resemble
the drunken orgies of Silenus and his satyrs, more than anything else to
which I can compare them. The conversation is in general licentious,
and the drinking beastly; and I don't know after all, but the Irish are
greater losers by their example than they would be by their absence.

"On making inquiries into the state and management of this property,
I found Hickman actuated by that fine spirit of gentlemanly delicacy,
which every one, rich and poor, attribute to him. M'Clutchy having
succeeded him, he very politely declined to enter into the subject
at any length, but told me that I could be at no loss in receiving
authentic information on a subject so much and so painfully canvassed.
I find it is a custom in this country for agents to lend money to their
employers, especially when they happen to be in a state of considerable
embarrassment, by which means the unfortunate landlord is seldom able
to discharge or change h