nd the Hibernian Vernacular, with an inceptive
Initiation into the Rudiments of Greek, as far as the Gospel of St. John
the Divine; attended with copious Disquisitions on the relative Merits
of moral and physical Philosophy, as contrasted with the pusillanimous
Lectures of that Ignoramus of the first Water, Phadrick M'Swagger,
falsely calling himself Philomath--_cum multis aliis quos enumerare
longum est_:

"Humbly Sheweth--

"That Cornelius Dalton, late of Cargah, gentleman agriculturist, held
a farm of sixty-six Irish acres, under the Right Honorable (the reverse
could be proved with sound and legitimate logic) Lord Mollyborough, an
absentee nobleman, and proprietor of the Tullystretchem estate. That the
said Cornelius Dalton entered upon the farm of Cargah, with a handsome
capital and abundant stock, as became a man bent on improving it, for
both the intrinsic and external edification and comfort of himself and
family. That the rent was originally very high; and, upon complaint of
this, several well indited remonstrances, urged with most persuasive
and enthusiastic eloquence, as the inditer hereof can testify, were
most insignificantly and superciliously disregarded. That the said
Mr. Cornelius Dalton persisted notwithstanding this great act of
contemptuosity and discouragement to his creditable and industrious
endeavors, to expend, upon the aforesaid farm, in solid and valuable
improvements, a sum of seven hundred pounds and upwards, in building,
draining, enclosing, and manuring--all of which improvements
transcendantly elevated the value of the farm in question, as the whole
rational population of the country could depose to--_me ipso teste
quoque_. That when this now highly emendated tenement was brought to the
best condition of excellence of which it was susceptible, the middleman
landlord--_va miseris agricolis!_--called upon him for an elevation
of rent, which was reluctantly complied with, under the tyrannical
alternative of threatened ejection, incarceration of cattle, &c, &c,
and many other proceedings equally inhuman and iniquitous. That this
rack-rent, being now more than the land could pay, began to paralyze the
efforts, and deteriorate the condition of the said Mr. Cornelius Dalton;
and which, being concatenated with successive failures in his crops,
and mortality among his cattle, occasioned him, as it were, to retrogade
from his former state; and in the course of a few calamitous years, to
decline,