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relation which exists between them and their 

 landlords. They occupy the same sphere and 

 position in society, and perform the same duties 

 to the state, as the farm servants of this country; 

 and it is in the relation which here subsists 

 between them as subjects of their landlords 

 and the state, while acting in the capacity of 

 labourers, where all those evils have originated, 

 which have brought upon them their present 

 calamities. 



In England, the large farmer stands between 

 the landlord and the labourer. In Ireland, 

 there is a w r ant of this golden mean between 

 the two extremes of poverty and wealth, which 

 has been the stay of England. To the English 

 farmer belongs the merit of the industrious 

 and laborious habits of his labourer, and not to 

 landlords. English landlords are generally 

 Irish landlords, and Highland lairds also; and 

 much more liberal towards their Irish and 

 Highland tenants, than they are towards their 

 English ones. They have for the most part 

 availed themselves of the services of English 



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and Scotch land-stewards and gardeners in im- 

 proving their properties, and affording an ex- 

 ample to tenants as tenants ; but, unfortunately 



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