The Sun. — 1823-10-18 (London, England)

LMORNING HERALD.] We have heard, that in Ireland it is a generally received opinion, that Middle-men, as they are called, are injurious to the community. By Middle men, leaseholders of land are under. stood. Those who take a lease of a hundred, or a thousand acres of land; at as low a price us they can obtain it, in order to let it at as high a price as they can get. We will imagine an Irish Nobleman, possessing an entailed estate worth 10,0001. a year, provided he lived in Ireland, collected his own rents, and got the utmost worth of them, but who chose to reside in England, in preference to living in a country where comparatively the lower orders of society set law at defiance; where murders of the most  horrible nature are 'regularly committing ; country of Mountains and of bogs ; a— country which, in the interior parts, is in the rudest state of civilization, and the tenants, for the most part, are, or appear to be, in the utmost state of poverty,:and to whom most men, posiessing a tract of land of the nature we have described, would rather give something every quarter-day than take any thing from them. We say, that a Nobleman or a Gentleman coming into the possession of a large. estate under such circumstances, if he, has been in England, would not chuse to live in the country parts of Ireland, and be his own letter of landto, and collector of rents from, such tenants as we have'described ; he would prefer to  live in England, where he could comparatively live in peaceand in the highest slate of luxury,and where lie would be in the way of the Court, the fountain of honours and of lucrative employments for  himself and family. But what must a Noble'man or a gentleman -do, in case he should resolve on living in England, In preference to living in Ireland ? Must he not have . recourse to either a middle-man or a steward ? Some prefer one, but more the' other. Certainly an honest steward would probably best answer the rich landholder's purpose ; as an men are fond of obtaining from their possessions as great an income as possible. As a steward, therefore, appears better of the two, we will suppose that most men would, in the first instance, chuse the steward, who, by the bye, would, for his stewardship, by hook or by crook, contrive to get 1,0001. a year out of the 10,0001., which would reduce the absentees income to 9,0001., but the thing not being the steward's own, and his' employer living at so great a distance, and as it might be irksome or inconvenient to him to go even once a year to his estatee, we will further imagine, that after the lapse of a year or two, the absentee does not regularly get his 9,0001. a year, his steward informing him that, from one cause or another, he cannot send him the full amount of his rent. Does he not get dissatisfied with his system of employing a steward ? Suppose, instead of his getting 9,0001. a year, the sum he contemplated having in Eng-, land to spend, he only gets 5 or 7,000/, s year, will not this very circumstance cause him to think of some other mode of securing, if he possibly can, a certain instead of all uncertain income ?  for probably he finds that though his income has been uncertain, his expenditure has been certain ; and the latter will be the case if.he be married, and 'has told his partner, either before or after their union, that he was worth 10,0001. a year.— At this point the necessity for the middle-man necessarily arrives, and it is in the course of things that one will rise up, or if not, the absentee will either visit his estates for the purpose of letting them on lease at a certain term to people known to be wealthy and able to pay him the rent regularly, or, as is very fregnently the case, he will offer his steward, who. in the course of a few years, may 'have realised a small property out of the 1,000/;:a'year, to becoMe his'tenint on lease for' the whole of the estate. Most things end in this way. The steward knows the 'real value better than any one else, and will kobably give more money per annum than any one else.