8 Objects in visiting Ireland. 



The pursuit of amusement alone could not 

 have tempted me, at this interesting season, to 

 quit all my agricultural pursuits. I am not, 

 however, willing to be supposed so wholly de- 

 voted to rural ceconomics as to become insen- 

 sensible to the beauties of nature or the perfec- 

 tion of art to the prosperity or indigence the 

 happiness or wretchedness, of so large a portion 

 of our fellow-creatures suffering under the pe- 

 culiar circumstances which have so long afflicted 

 the lower orders in Ireland. I expect to derive 

 much gratification from the contemplation of 

 the two former, much information, though little 

 satisfaction, from an examination into the latter. 



Accustomed as I have been to have my time 

 and attention directed to useful pursuits, I 

 should be quite out of my element pn a tour 

 exclusively devoted to pleasurable objects. No 

 time would I not dedicate no labour would I 

 not cheerfully endure, in promoting rational 

 improvements, or in removing established pre- 

 judices, injurious to any class of society ; but 

 more especially to a community in which there 

 are to be found so few competent to advocate 

 the cause of their misery in a court of humanity. 



You have here an unvarnished prospectus of 

 my future correspondence. A daily journal of 

 such matters does not, I fear, promise you much 



