Many a time, indeed, my excellent and worthy friend, Mr.Hickman, has made the same observation, and I felt it gratifying in the highest degree to hear this from a man who is truth itself, and whose only fault is--if it be one--that his heart is too kind, and rather easily imposed on by those who deal in fraud and cunning.

A man like him, who, if he cannot speak well of an absent friend, will be silent, is a jewel in this life which ought to be worn in the very core of the heart.
"With respect to the Ballyracket estate, of which I shall speak first, I cannot report so favorably as I could wish.

The task, in fact, is to me, personally, a very painful one; especially with reference to that well meaning and estimable gentleman, Mr.Hickman.In the first place, my Lord, the tenantry are not at all in arrears, a circumstance which is by no means in favor of the landlord, especially an Irish one.

Every one knows that an Irish landlord has other demands upon his tenantry besides the payment of their rents.

Is there no stress, for instance, to be laid upon his political influence, which cannot be exerted unless through their agency?
Now a tenant not in arrears to his landlord is comparatively independent, but it is not with an independent tenantry that a landlord can work his wishes.