'SELFISH IGNORANT COLD-BLOODED ECONOMISTS' [CORK 1846] An interesting A.L.S. from a land agent named Carnegie to Edward Wilmot Chetwoode Esq. of Portarlington, 3 Oct. 1846, 4 pp, with related...

'SELFISH IGNORANT COLD-BLOODED ECONOMISTS' [CORK 1846] An interesting A.L.S. from a land agent named Carnegie to Edward Wilmot Chetwoode Esq. of Portarlington, 3 Oct. 1846, 4 pp, with related envelope bearing seal, saying rents due up to first of May last should be paid in full, for rents due in September an allowance of 10-20% depending on circumstances should be allowed. 'You cannot deal with all alike, you must act differently with every case, treat it on its merits .. The Irish landlords as a class are most unjustly and unfairly treated by the English and their Press, and the Government .. have done all that selfish ignorant cold blooded theoretical political economists can do to destroy the landed interest in this ill-fated country. Was there ever any thing like this infamous road-jobbing, Danl O'Connell the Devil and John Russell could not have devised a more effectual plan of oppressing both the Landlords and tenants, effectually destroying their property ..' With a manuscript Lease on vellum of lands at Ballydalea in the great Island and County of Corke, 1758, Sarah Betterworth, Rev. Cotterell, Austen etc., signed and sealed. (2)

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