secured the affections of those who had before detested him and diffused peace and amongst family upon his estate from he watched the of hie tenants and soon found that in their welfare and them in their duties he was more bis own benefactor d by the poor scholar theirs before many years had his property was wonderfully he was called the lucky landlord said the people ever since he spoke to an advised his tenants we find that it s to to live him the people has heart to work a that won t grind them sm so sign s on it every one upon his land an my bnt i believe a rotten stick nd grow on it set in case it was in his popularity became but it is probable that not even his and humanity contributed so much to this as the vigor with which he his suit against sam whom he compelled to the fruits of his heartless this worthy agent died soon after his disgrace without any legitimate issue and his property which amounted to about fifty pounds is now inherited by a gentleman of the honor and integrity to this day his memory is detested by the people who with that bitterness by which they a villain have erected him into a standard of if a man become remarkable for want of principle they d by il usually � he s as great a rogue as sam or he is the greatest that ever was in the country sam we now dismiss bim and request our readers at the same time not to suppose that we have held him up as a portrait of irish agents in ou the contrary we believe that they constitute a most respectable class of men who have certainly very difficult duties to perform the irish we are happy to say taught by experience have for the moat part both seen and felt the necessity of gentlemen of property to so very important and which require so much patience consideration and humanity in those who fill them we trust they will in this plan but we can assure them that all the virtues of the best agent can never in the opinion of the people for neglect in the head landlord one visit or act even of kindness from will at any time produce more attachment and gratitude among them than a whole life spent in � thia tale written twelve years but the author tliat the have to the notice taken of them in the d by the scholar good offices bj an like s french beggar tliey would prefer a pinch of snuff from the one to a from the other the agent only renders them a favor but the head landlord does them an honor colonel b immediately after his return sent for mr o who waited on him with a greater degree of curiosity than perhaps he had ever felt before the colonel smiled as he extended his hand to him mr o said he i knew you would feel anxious to hear the result of my visit to the estate which this man with the managed for me sir did you say managed i spoke in the past time o he is out then your story was correct sir true to a o there is something extraordinary in that otherwise how could it happen that a sickly miserable looking creature absolutely in could have impressed us both so strongly with a sense of the injustice done ten years ago to his father it is remarkable the colonel deeply felt that act of d by thk scholar aad the expression of it came home to the heart i restored his father however the poor man and his family are once more happy i liave their old farm for them in fact they now enjoy comfort and independence i am sir that you have done them justice that act alone will go far to redeem your character from the which the conduct of your agent was calculated to throw upon it there is not probably in ireland a landlord so popular as i am this moment � at least among my tenants on that property restoring m however is but a part of what i have done s were incredible he was a rack of the first water a person named had paid him twenty guineas as a � in other words as a bribe � for a lease for him yet after having received the money he kept the poor man dangling after him and at length told him that he was offered a larger sum by another in some cases he kept back the and made the poor people pay twice which was still more then sir he would not take bank d by the poor scholar notes ia payment no he was so and so in my as he told them on the subject that nothing would pass in payment but gold this d sir they were compelled to receive from himself at a most oppressive bo that he actually them under my name in every conceivable manner and form of he ia a too and i am told worth forty or fifty thousand pounds but thank he is no longer an agent of mine it gives me sincere pleasure sir that you have at length got correct habits of thinking upon your duties as an irish landlord for believe me colonel b as a subject a great portion of national happiness or national misery it is entitled to the deepest and most serious consideration not only of the class to you belong but of the something should be done sir to improve the condition of the poorer classes a rich country and poor inhabitants is an and whatever is done should be prompt and effectual if the irish looked directly the state of their and set themselves vigorously tf d by 