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Jewish. Since my return from America, I 

 happened, in Ireland, to spend an evening 

 with a gentleman whose brother was exe- 

 cuted for treason, and he was said to have 

 imbibed the same principles at that time. 

 He afterwards left. Ireland, and came to 

 England, where he took a farm, and re- 

 mained a few years : he had then returned 

 to Ireland, and bought an estate for the 

 purpose of farming. From the conversa- 

 tion I had with him that evening, he ap- 

 peared to me to have totally altered his 

 ideas : and he made this observation 

 " If you take a bad man into a country 

 where the people are good, it will make 

 him better; take a good man into a country 

 where the mass of the people is bad, and 

 he will gradually change for the worse." 

 This reasoning struck me very forcibly. 



As I have been in different countries to 

 carry on the business of a farmer, I know, 

 from my own experience, it requires great 

 resolution and strength of mind in a man of 

 lhat profession to get his work done in a 



