m with many other
sufferers I have not yet spoken, the landlord resolved on an
ejectment; but Bushe owing no rent, he could only proceed as he had
done against Pat Ring, or by some other process of a like kind. He
took a shorter one. It so happened that, though Bushe had paid his
rent in order to keep the house above his head--a very good house
it was, to judge from the size and worth of the substantial walls
which, in most parts, were still standing when I was there--he had
not paid every man in the county to whom he was indebted. He owed
one person, residing at a distance, a sum of money more, as it soon
appeared, than he could pay at once. This man the landlord found
out, through some of his agents appointed for such purposes, and
purchased from him the debt which Bushe owed him. This account
being legally conveyed to the landlord, he at once proceeded
against his tenant the debtor, threw him into prison, and as soon
as he got him there, went and took the roof off his house, turning
out his wife and six young children upon the open highway. There
they remained without shelter and without food, until some of the
people of the adjoining village assisted them. The father was in
prison, and could neither resist the spoliation of the house which
he himself had built nor could he do any thing, by work or
otherwise, for his family's subsistence. In every respect, the
proceeding was illegal on the part of the landlord, but, though the
lawyers urged Bushe to prosecute, and assured him of ultimate
success, he was too far gone to listen to them. He was heartbroken.
He had no confidence in any redress the law might give: he had seen
a rich man set the law at defiance; and the ruin of his roofless
house--_every piece of timber from which, and every handful of
thatch, as also the doors and windows, had been carried away by
orders of the landlord, and b the assistance of the constabulary,
who are located on the estate at the express request of the
landlord, and by sanction of the government_."

Here we have it asserted that an undoubted and most audacious felony has
been committed, and that the police force not only protected the
aggressors, _but actually assisted_ in the perpetration of the crime.
Surely this is a case in which immediate punishment must have followed,
if an appe