No, my Lord; the safe principle is to keep the tenant two or three gales behind, and if he fails in submission, or turns restiff, and becomes openly contumacious, then you have the means of rectifying the errors of his judgment in your own hands, and it can be done with the color of both law and justice, behind which any man may stand without the imputation of harsh motives, or an excessive love of subordination.

I am sorry that Mr.Hickman should differ with me on this point, for he is a man whose opinions are very valuable on many things, with the exception of his amiable and kind-hearted obstinacy.
"The next disadvantage to your interests, my Lord, is another error--I am sorry to be forced to say it--of Mr.Hickman.That gentleman is an advocate for education and the spread of knowledge.

Now if an agent were as much devoted to the interests of the people as he is and ought to be to those of the landlord, this principle might pass; but as I take it, that the sole duty of an agent is to extend the interest of his employer exclusively, so am I opposed to any plan or practice by which the people may be taught to think too clearly.

For let me ask, my Lord, what class of persons, at the approach of an election, for instance, or during its continuance, are most available for our interests?
Who are driven without reluctance, without thought, or without reason, in blind and infatuated multitudes, to the hustings?
Certainly not those who have been educated, or taught to think and act for themselves; but the poor and the ignorant.

And, my Lord, is not the vote of an ignorant man as valid in law as one who is enlightened?
For these reasons, then, I do not approve of the new schools which Mr.Hickman has established; and I was pleased to hear that your lordship was sufficiently awake to your own interests, to decline granting them any support.