ENGLISH AGENT TO ESTATES IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH OF IRELAND.

HALLIDIE LIBRA Property has its duties as well as its rights."

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

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LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

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LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFACE.

THIS Essay is the matured result of my annual visits to Ireland, on Land Agency business, during a period of above thirty years. These visits have afforded me much insight into the character of the people of that country, and thus I have acquired a high, if not enthusiastic, degree of admiration for many points of that character, appearing through the physical privations and the moral "clouds and darkness" which "settle round their heads." On a journey of two months, during the last autumn, to both the North and South of Ireland, I perceived a crisis approaching of the utmost importance to that portion of the Irish community amongst whom has chiefly been my intercourse, viz. the landlords and tenants, both very important classes, and both alike engaging my solicitude, because I believe the prosperity of the one

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