206 Conduct of Higher to the Lower Orders. 



mulating to industry by liberally rewarding pro- 

 ductive labor, with consideration and kindness 

 from the higher, would inspire respect and 

 attachment in the lower orders. As a general 

 wish seems to pervade the upper ranks that the 

 situation of their dependants should be im- 

 proved, and as a want of kind-heartedness can 

 on no occasion be imputed to the Irish, the 

 attempt once made with sincerity, and con- 

 tinued with activity, could not fail of producing 

 the happy effects so important to the national 



prosperity. 



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Trifling as may appear the circumstance, and 

 unimportant as from habit it may seem, yet 

 the customary address of superiors to their 

 inferiors should be made more agreeable to 

 their feelings ; for while it assumes an air of 

 kindness, it is sometimes uttered in a style so * 

 contemptuous as to shock the feelings of Eng- 

 lishmen. A people without weight or con- 

 sideration in national opinion may yet be not 

 insensible of their individual pretensions, or 

 disinclined to attempt the resumption of their 

 rights, whenever a fit opportunity for the em- 

 ployment of their physical force may occur. 

 Jn their present state, like flies on the lower 

 portion of the periphery of a wheel, any impulse 



