you colonel b as a gentleman of honour and humanity will investigate the conduct of your agent and see justice done to an honest man who must have been oppressed in your name and under colour of your authority ii my agent has dared to be unjust to fc fc the poor scholar tenant said the colonel in order to provide for his by my sacred honour he shall cease to be an agent of mine i admit certainly that from some circumstances which a few years ago i have reason to suspect his integrity that to be sure was only so far as he and i were concerned but on the other hand during one or two visits i made to the estate which he i heard the tenants thank and praise him with much gratitude and all that sort of thing there was thank your honour � long may you reign over us sir � and oh colonel youve a mighty good man to your agent and so forth i do not think mr o that he has acted so harshly or that he would dare to do it upon my honour i heard those warm expressions of gratitude from the lips of the tenants themselves if you knew the people in general colonel so well as i do replied the you would admit that such expressions are often either or the result of fear you will always find sir that the independent portion of the people have least of this forced among them a and agent has in his own hands the power of and the under him the class most hateful to the people are those low wretches who spring up from nothing into wealth accumulated by and they are proud and jealous even to of the least want of respect it is to such that the poorer classes are most civil but it is also such persons whom they most hate and they them to their faces tis true even to but they seldom spare them in their absence of this very class i believe is your agent yellow sam so that any favourable expressions you may heard from your towards him were most probably the result of and fear besides sir here is a from m s parish priest in which his the poor scholar is spoken of as an honest moral and man if what you say mr o be correct observed he colonel you know the irish much than do decidedly i have always thought hem in conversation exceedingly candid and sincere respect to from priests to n behalf of their tenants upon my honour i am sick f them i actually received about four years ago an excellent character of two tenants as induced ne to suppose them worthy of encouragement but was the fact why sir they were two of the greatest on my estate and put both me and ny agent to great trouble and expense no sir i wouldn t give a curse for a priest s upon an occasion these fellows were subsequently convicted of on the evidence and well sir i grant that you may have been n that instance however from what i ve observed he two great faults of irish are these � in he first place they suffer themselves to remain ignorant of their so much so indeed that they deny them access and when the x or people are anxious to them with their for it is usual with to refer hem to those very agents against whose cruelty and they are appealing this is a a the agent to upon them if he pleases in ihe next place irish too frequently employ ignorant and men to manage their estates men who have no character no property or standing in society beyond the reputation of being keen shrewd and active these persons sir make fortunes and what means can they have of wealth except by either the landlord or his tenants or both a history of their conduct would be a black catalogue of oppression and treachery respectable men resident on or near the state possessing both character and the poor scholar always be selected for this important above all things the curse of a agent he and drives and o without consideration either of market or pr order that his may be ample and income large why o you appear to be better ac with all this sort of thing than i who am i proprietor by the by sir without meaning you respect it is the of ireland who about the great mass of its inhabitants and also add about its history its literature the of the people their customs and their pr the know this and too often their ignorance there is a landlord s sadly wanted in ireland colonel ah very good o very good we certainly inquire into this case and if i fi yellow sam has been playing tne goes i am now able to manage him which not readily do before for by the by he on my property i would take it colonel as a personal ii you would investigate the transaction i ha undoubtedly i shall and that very about this outrage committed against the boy we had better take his and fellow certainly i think that is the best way conduct to the poor youth has been detestable we must put him out of this country call the lad in in this case i shall myself although that assisted by the entered th and the humane colonel desired him as he a ill to sit down the poor scholar at is your name t asked the colonel les m he replied i m the son sir in who was once a tenant of yours and pray how did he cease to be a tenant of y sir your agent sam put him out of n when my poor mother was on her 