at the end of it the property will be likely 
to be plundered, because he will have little 
encouragement to pursue measures of rational 
and permanent improvement to the soil under 
a Lessee, who, to obtain any advantage to 
hiiiiself, must bear very hard upon him in 
point of rent. It is needless to enumerate to 
your Lordship all the particular, disagreeable, 
and distressing circumstances that occur 
under this head. 
It is precisely this mode of leasing land 
which has rendered the agriculture of Ireland 
so much in point of improvement below that 
of England, and it has been one of the chief 
soul ces of the miseries of- the lower classes 
of that people, and in no small degree of that 
tumult and confusion, which has so recently 
and unfortunately pervaded that distradled 
country. 
