6 Objects in visiting Ireland. 



mentation of comfort, with independence of 

 character. If I have not succeeded to the ut- 

 most of my wishes, I trust I have not wholly 

 failed. 



What an inexpressible pleasure should I par- 

 take how lasting would be the gratification, 

 should any suggestion of mine be the fortunate 

 means of conferring on the Irish peasant the 

 luxury of one comfort, or in any way to im- 

 prove the abject state of this generous, brave, 

 and feeling people ! 



I offended, or at least afforded a pretence for 

 offence, to some of the good citizens of Car- 

 lisle, and an excuse for their conduct towards 

 me, by the active part which I had taken in 

 defeating a bill levelled against this unprotected 

 people. This bill furnished overseers of the 

 poor in England with powers to remove all Irish 

 persons who might be deemed likely to become 

 chargeable to the parishes in which they re- 

 sided. No length of time, no period of a labo- 

 rious life, not even fidelity irreproachable, were 

 sufficient to entitle these poor wretches to main- 

 tenance from those in whose services, and for 

 whose benefit, their best days had been spent. 

 In consequence of the assistance I gave in 

 strangling this babe of wanton barbarity, I was 



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