is agent, should he misconduct himself; and is
consequently saddled with a vampire probably for life, or while there is
any blood to be got out of him. Hickman, who has other agencies, makes
it a point of principle, never to lend money to a landlord, by which
means he avoids those imputations which are so frequently and justly
brought against those who trade upon the embarrassments of their
employers, in order to get them into their power.

"May 13.--There are two newspapers in the town of Castle Cumber,
conducted upon opposite principles: one of them is called _The Castle
Cumber True Blue_, and is the organ of the Orange Tory party, and the
High Church portion of the Establishment. The other advocates the cause
of the Presbyterians, Dissenters, and gives an occasional lift to the
Catholics. There is also a small party here, which, however, is gaining
ground every day, called the Evangelical, an epithet adopted for the
purpose of distinguishing them from the mere worldly and political High
Churchmen, who, together with all the loyalty and wealth, have
certainly all the indifference to religion, and most of the secular and
ecclesiastical corruptions that have disgraced the Church, and left it
little better than a large mass of bribes in the hands of the English
minister. In such a state of things, you may judge how that rare grace,
piety, is rewarded. There is, besides, no such thing to be found in
this country as an Irish bishop, nor, is a bishop ever appointed for his
learning or his piety; on the contrary, the unerring principle of their
elevation to the mitre, is either political, or family influence, or
both. I wish I could stop here but I cannot; there are, unfortunately,
still more flagitious motives for their appointment. English ministers
have been found who were so strongly influenced by respect for the
religion and Church Establishment of the Irish, that they have not
blushed to promote men, who were the convenient instruments of their
own profligacy, to some of the richest sees in the kingdom. But I am
travelling out of my record; so to return. The name of the second paper
is the _Genuine Patriot, and Castle Cumber Equivocal_; this last journal
is, indeed, sorely distressed between the Catholic and Evangelical
parties. The fact is, that the Evangelicals entertain such a horror of
Popery, as a spiritual abomination, that they feel highly offended that
their advocates should also be the advocate of Old Broadbott