TE!,,ttyntiGini . tis [TO TIM EDITOR OF TfIE SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In an article'
upon Ireland, in your last „number, you speak of that sort of Tenaiiis'r;eiht Which is " incgaputably;fair,,, lust," aSiiiitinStied fkioin that which ie1,4perly m*ttayoats and monstrouPrL" Tenanl-fight, in the mitt9f a rigl3i,g,the outgoing tenant to remuneration for all :nnexti.austedapaproyes meuts in:fa-hie which his entlyailinal. 'labour have conferred:upon the Iftid;"'Ouglit to be .,aXslose her-all/ n
conceded ad-carefully secured to hitn." '° . •
Being ;thyself both i is Wi.nilar, ej,tijt,•4 OA, te. Inp.t.d to inquire--(1) How, in any ,siuV Case, yonyrortose to determine what are and what are not timprovements ; " and (2) whether the tenant's "claim is to extend, to improvements executed . not only without the landlord'S daisetion, but even in defiance of his express prohibition? If you answer the latter question in the affirmative, I confess I cannot consider the peltion you have advanced an "indisputable" ode.. If in the negatiVe, your Tenant:right resolves itself into a mere matter of contract, to be governedilayffihl laws which govern other:6Mitracts.
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You tell us that we Irish suffer from "-..:ansn" n3te1 destitution of logic." I own it Nay, I admit that Englialulae? are not only qualified by nature to understand the affetra, of other countries better than the inhabitants of ..those countri„eshe,t4,1that they are also cha.ir4ffi withanat el 46stolic miesss *ili'part to those leis fortunate Communities the ,overflowiugs,pf ..#154Fdorn and knowledge. It is theretore that I crave On this important Irish question of Teuant-right a deeper investigation and more logical exposition than you have Yet thought fit to give us...=Xonrs
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